What's the difference between indirect and undirect?
Indirect
Definition:
(a.) Not direct; not straight or rectilinear; deviating from a direct line or course; circuitous; as, an indirect road.
(a.) Not tending to an aim, purpose, or result by the plainest course, or by obvious means, but obliquely or consequentially; by remote means; as, an indirect accusation, attack, answer, or proposal.
(a.) Not straightforward or upright; unfair; dishonest; tending to mislead or deceive.
(a.) Not resulting directly from an act or cause, but more or less remotely connected with or growing out of it; as, indirect results, damages, or claims.
(a.) Not reaching the end aimed at by the most plain and direct method; as, an indirect proof, demonstration, etc.
Example Sentences:
(1) Thus, human bronchial epithelial cells can express the IL-8 gene, with expression in response to the inflammatory mediator TNF regulated mainly at the transcriptional level, and with elements within the 5'-flanking region of the gene that are directly or indirectly modulated by the TNF signal.
(2) The sensitivity of an indirect fluorescent antibody (IFA) test (screening test) for the detection of antibodies to cytomegalovirus (CMV) was examined by using 128 serum specimens and quaternary aminoethyl (QAE)-Sephadex A50 column chromatography to separate IgM from IgG class antibodies.
(3) In the present study, the expression of type IV collagen associated with the basal membrane (BM) was studied histochemically (indirect immunoperoxidase-antiperoxidase) in cervical human papillomavirus (HPV) lesions (diagnosed using in situ DNA hybridization) of different grades.
(4) Noradrenaline (NA) was released from sympathetic nerve endings in the tissue by electrical stimulation of the mesenteric nerves or by the indirect sympathomimetic agent tyramine.
(5) The base materials caused more pulpal inflammation than the control material, Kalzinol, although by an indirect mechanism.
(6) They were visualized by indirect immunoperoxidase techniques.
(7) Because of these different direct and indirect actions, a sudden cessation of sinus node activity or sudden AV block may result in the diseased heart in a prolonged and even fatal cardiac standstill, especially if the tolerance to ischemia of other organs (notably the brain) is decreased.
(8) More needs to be known about the direct and indirect modulation of cytokine production by cyclosporin A in connective tissues, in order to understand its potential value in clinical disorders.
(9) Possible explanations of the clinical gains include 1) psychological encouragement, 2) improvements of mechanical efficiency, 3) restoration of cardiovascular fitness, thus breaking a vicous circle of dyspnoea, inactivity and worsening dyspnoea, 4) strengthening of the body musculature, thus reducing the proportion of anaerobic work, 5) biochemical adaptations reducing glycolysis in the active tissues, and 6) indirect responses to such factors as group support, with advice on smoking habits, breathing patterns and bronchial hygiene.
(10) Indirect methods to evaluate left ventricular function included the use of the Swan-Ganz catheter for pulmonary capillary wedge pressure measurement, systolic time intervals, and cardiac output.
(11) Third, an indirect activation of protein kinase C may occur via an increase in the rate of phosphoinositide breakdown.
(12) A highly significant correlation was observed between neutralization of indirect hemolysis and neutralization of lethal activity.
(13) By indirect immunofluorescence one antibody population can be shown to react with modified red cells.
(14) The aim of this study was clarify the physiopathological mechanisms underlying atrial pauses as well as to evaluate the sensitivity of sinoatrial conduction time (SACT) directly measured on SNE and of SACT estimated with the indirect Strauss method with respect to the detection of SSS.
(15) MHC expression was assessed in a radiolabeled mAb binding assay and by indirect immunoperoxidase staining of tissue sections.
(16) Detection of the noncarboxylated forms allows an indirect and specific measure of the vitamin K deficiency found in early, classic, and late hemorrhagic disease of the newborn (HDN), malabsorption syndromes, and drug related (warfarin, anticonvulsants, and antibiotics) states.
(17) Our data suggest that verapamil affects lymphocyte beta-receptors in vitro and with long-term administration regulates lymphocyte beta-receptor function either directly or indirectly via a reduction in plasma catecholamine levels.
(18) Doctors, who once treated human body as an entity, are so specialized that none seems to know any more that the head bone is still indirectly connected to the great toe.
(19) Serology represents the primary method, using the techniques of complement fixation, indirect immunofluorescence, and enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA).
(20) By its actions, this musculature effects many phases of dentistry, directly or indirectly; and orthodontics is affected most of all.
Undirect
Definition:
(v. t.) To misdirect; to mislead.
(a.) Indirect.
Example Sentences:
(1) To demonstrate the feasibility of the approach tRNA was represented as a simple undirected graph containing all relevant information represented in the usual cloverleaf secondary structure and nine base-base tertiary interactions.
(2) All three agonist stimulated release of the secretory protein lactoperoxidase, but only carbachol significantly accelerated Na+ undirectional influx.
(3) She went straight into the theatre, where she earned a reputation for being headstrong and undirectable.
(4) In vitro, exposure of the mucosal side of the isolated canine gastric mucosa to 5, 10, and 20 mM aspirin (pH 3.0) for 1 h or of 1 mM aspirin (pH 3.0) for longer than 1 h resulted in marked permeability changes, i.e., increases in the undirectional fluxes of Na+ and Cl-, as well as inhibition of net ion fluxes.
(5) More than 25% of undirected percutaneous liver needle biopsies that are performed in search of metastatic neoplasms yield false negative specimens.
(6) The data obtained suggest the possibility of reflex activation of the anticoagulating system by beta-thrombin or undirectly by alpha-thrombin generated by beta-thrombin activation at early stages of blood coagulation.
(7) The role of both SFFV- and F-MuLV-specific antigens in the neutralization of SFFV suggests that this defective virus could be an antigenic mosaic and that viruses in the FV complex may participate in a undirectional form of phenotypic mixing.
(8) Studies of the undirectional influxes of Na andCl indicate that acetazolamide inhibits the neutral, coupled NaCl influx process at the mucosal membranes.
(9) ENG was found to be abnormal in 49 (39%) of the patients: 19 with unilateral vestibular hyporeactivity, eight with directional preponderance, 12 with spontaneous or undirectional positional nystagmus, eight with abnormal smooth pursuit, and 13 with other abnormalities.
(10) By a rapid, undirectional, unfiltered and yet non-injurious process, plasma exudates cross the mucosal lining to appear on the airway surface at the site of challenge.
(11) Creatine-phosphorylcreatine system operates as a undirectional shuttle for approximately P and as a control system regulating energy production according to demand.
(12) The drainage is strictly undirectional: ventralward by the anterior, middle and posterior ventromedial, the posteromedial and posterolateral hypothalamic veins, all ending in the basal vein.
(13) Addition of 0.5 mM NH4+ to the basolateral side when the mucosal side was bathed in mock urine (2 mM NaCl) significantly increased undirectional mucosal-to-serosal Na+ flux, and the increase was blocked by mucosally added amiloride.
(14) These behaviors in a thermal gradient represent true thermokinetic responses for an organism with undirectional locomotion.
(15) As there was no apparent cell membrane leakage or rupture of duct lumina, it is concluded that the acinar cells adjacent to fat necrosis release their granules by undirected basolateral extrusion.
(16) This characteristic caused introduction of a high frequency of undirectional transversions, A-T leads to -CG, into the DNA of the strain harboring it.
(17) PEGG inhibited undirectional MLR by acting on the stimulating cells.
(18) They have received relatively little attention in the context of subjective awareness of a undirectional dimension of time, and then mainly in relation to nonhuman sensorimotor rhythms and hippocampal theta waves.
(19) The undirectional movement of sodium and water into the lumen of the colon also increased but to a lesser extent.
(20) Use of the most recessive genotype as a reference point causes all of the contributions of single loci to be undirectional and positive, and all the allelic and nonallelic interactions to be unidirectional and negative, in accord with our Model 2.2.