(a.) Not to be discerned; imperceptible; not discoverable or visible.
Example Sentences:
(1) When tumor overlaps adjacent bone structures, the bone margins can be indiscernible on a regular bone scan.
(2) An associated displaced malleolar fracture in tibial shaft fractures, sometimes even indiscernible in the anteroposterior view, may be overlooked unless roentgenograms are focused on the ankle joint.
(3) We have examined whether the thick (50-70 nm) fibrous lamina of human synovial cells from patients suffering from rheumatoid arthritis indeed contains the lamins found in the indiscernible lamina structures present in most normal cells.
(4) By higher positioning of the transducer, the diastolic slope became slower or upward and the 'a' wave became indiscernible, giving the pattern of pulmonary hypertension even in the normotensives.
(5) 5) A technique for locating the SSC when the arcuate eminence is indiscernible is presented.
(6) However, it remains indiscernible whether the pineal stress reaction signals a general activation of the gland or a change in it's temporal activity patterns.
(7) At high degrees of stretch, the M line became fainter or indiscernible.
(8) But they hope the facsimile, which is indiscernible from the original, will give visitors a better understanding of the tomb.
(9) The CT appearance of E. alveolaris lesions may be indiscernible from malignant tumors.
(10) The shape of the cells became sludgy and almost indiscernible by strong accessibility of parasites only for an hour of mid-S phase.
(11) An intense reaction of HRP also appeared in the distal extracellular spaces beyond the distal junctional complexes of ameloblasts cultured without colchicine, whereas it became almost indiscernible in the tooth germs cultured with colchicine.
(12) Horizontal trabeculae in Plane A became indiscernible and the ring pattern in Planes B widened more significantly.
(13) The two species were indiscernable in all aspects of their behavior.
(14) The existence of thousands of fixed combinations makes the drug market indiscernible and useless.
(15) Surface--volume parameters of intercellular spaces and basal infolded channels were unexpectedly higher than the relation to active ion transport as well as indiscernible permeability of the distal tubular basement membrane.
(16) Crystal-free steroid cell tumors located in the hilus are in most cases true leydigoma of the ovary whose features are indiscernible from LBCT's.
(17) Whereas, decrease of the surviving fractions was almost indiscernible in both FR cells and FRtk- cells at the whole ranges of drug-concentrations tested.
(18) In most patients, during exposure of one forearm to warmth the skin temperature of the contralateral forearm remained unchanged or decreased slightly, whereas exposure to cold induced either a slight rise in skin temperature or an almost indiscernible decrease.
(19) However, the subepithelial elastic system fibers of the OMF were composed of relatively thin elastic fibers with a few microfibrils, and elaunin and oxytalan fibers which were almost indiscernible.
(20) The temptation to extrapolate the results of licitly pure drug lots administered at precisely measured doses to represent the pharmacodynamics of illegally prepared drug lots administered at indiscernible doses must be avoided in drug educational resources.
Insensible
Definition:
(a.) Destitute of the power of feeling or perceiving; wanting bodily sensibility.
(a.) Not susceptible of emotion or passion; void of feeling; apathetic; unconcerned; indifferent; as, insensible to danger, fear, love, etc.; -- often used with of or to.
(a.) Incapable of being perceived by the senses; imperceptible. Hence: Progressing by imperceptible degrees; slow; gradual; as, insensible motion.
(a.) Not sensible or reasonable; meaningless.
Example Sentences:
(1) Two sets of equations have been proposed to estimate the convective or sensible (WCV) and the evaporative or insensible (WEV) respiratory heat exchanges.
(2) The rapid insensible loss of water in tropical areas was reflected in the rise in serum urea while homeostatic mechanisms maintained a slower fall in sodium and chloride by renal conservation.
(3) The authors conclude that laminectomy on a chronic paralytic through the insensate area should be coupled with fusion and instrumentation even if the facet joints and capsules are preserved during the laminectomy.
(4) The losses included Ca and Na in exfoliated skin cells as well as in insensible perspiration.
(5) Anti-heparin activity of the paraprotein was suggested by insensibility of the patient's plasma to heparin in heparin-thrombin clotting time.
(6) The cutaneous insensible perspiration of adult healthy volunteers was measured by a new method based on estimation of the vapour pressure gradient in the air layer immediately adjacent to skin.
(7) There were a few instances of hypernatraemia in the first week caused by high insensible water loss.
(8) The infants were treated in incubators with high air humidity in order to minimize insensible water loss and total fluid intake was restricted.
(9) It is shown that the water flow density through SC controlling the evaporation rate from the skin surface in the process of insensible perspiration depends upon the skin capillary pressure.
(10) A method is described for determining the concentration of volatile substances that are excreted through the skin via insensible perspiration.
(11) During the first 12 days there were 54.2% urinary and 10.6% insensible losses.
(12) Higher strengths of Nestogen which obligate greater urinary fluid are probably unsafe in a hot climate which induces considerable insensible losses of water.
(13) Five commercially available body-support systems used in the prevention of decubitus heel ulcers were objectively compared for their capacity to dissipate or decrease pressure concentration at the most prominent posterior aspect of the heel in bedridden, insensate patients.
(14) Soft-tissue coverage was the most frequent (56.3%) indication, followed by unstable wound, extensive bone loss, chronic osteomyelitis, insensate scar, loss of specialized tissue, and contour deformity.
(15) Insensible water loss (IWL) was measured in five premature infants, 1 to 4 days old, by multiple weighings on an electronic balance inside an incubator.
(16) Fluid intake was restricted and air humidity in the incubator was high in order to minimize insensible water loss.
(17) In a population having a biologic distribution of repellent protection period against mosquitoes, an inverse linear correlation was observed between repellent duration and insensible water loss.
(18) The numerous factors that influence insensible water loss make calculation of fluid management in the high risk infant even more challenging.
(19) With in 7 years he developed a progressive paralysis of the upper and lower motor neuron type and an insensibility of the inferior extremities.
(20) This insensibility was already acting in the third month of intrauterine life of the fetus.