(a.) Leading or drawing; persuasive; tempting; -- usually followed by to.
(a.) Tending to induce or cause.
(a.) Leading to inferences; proceeding by, derived from, or using, induction; as, inductive reasoning.
(a.) Operating by induction; as, an inductive electrical machine.
(a.) Facilitating induction; susceptible of being acted upon by induction; as certain substances have a great inductive capacity.
Example Sentences:
(1) All rats were examined in the conscious, unrestrained state 12 wk after induction of diabetes or acidified saline (pH 4.5) injection.
(2) The influence of the various concepts for the induction of lateral structure formation in lipid membranes on integral functional units like ionophores is demonstrated by analysing the single channel current fluctuations of gramicidin in bimolecular lipid membranes.
(3) Cellulase regulation appears to depend upon a complex relationship involving catabolite repression, inhibition, and induction.
(4) Injection of resistant mice with Salmonella typhimurium did not result in the induction of a population of macrophages that expressed I-A continuously.
(5) This induction is sensitive to actinomycin D but not to protein synthesis inhibitor puromycin, indicating an effect of estradiol at the transcriptional level, possibly mediated by the estrogen receptor.
(6) Here we show that this induction of AP-2 mRNA is at the level of transcription and is transient, reaching a peak 48-72 hr after the addition of RA and declining thereafter, even in the continuous presence of RA.
(7) Induction of labor, based upon only (1) a finding of meconium in the amniocentesis group or (2) a positive test in the OCT group, was nearly three times more frequent in the amniocentesis group.
(8) The effects of phenoxyacetic acid herbicides were investigated on the induction of chromosome aberrations in human peripheral lymphocyte cultures in vitro and in lymphocytes of exposed workers in vivo.
(9) During the 1st h after induction of the sporulation process, the rate of protein synthesis increased to two times the initial value.
(10) This activation demonstrated in humans confirms the pharmacological results of the interferon induction obtained with SL04 in vivo in mice and in vitro in human cell cultures.
(11) The induction of cells with two Y chromosomes by nitrogen mustard (NM) was examined.
(12) The influence of the inhibitors on the transferase induction was dose and time-dependent.
(13) Addition in the cultures of 4-deoxypyridoxine, a potent antagonist of vitamin B6 coenzymes, concurrently with the mitogen, inhibits the induction of serine hydroxymethyltransferase.
(14) Here we report direct measurements of protein kinase C (PKC) activity in uninduced ectoderm, and in neuroectoderm shortly after induction by the involuting mesoderm, in Xenopus laevis embryos.
(15) Glucocorticoids have been shown in in vitro systems to inhibit the release of arachidonic acid metabolites, namely prostaglandins (PGs) and leukotrienes, apparently, via the induction of a phospholipase A2 inhibitory protein, called lipocortin.
(16) The EEG became isoelectric within 20 s after induction of ischaemia.
(17) Our findings demonstrate that interleukin-2 (IL-2), but not interferon-gamma (IFN-gamma) or interleukin-1 (IL-1), is able to inhibit the induction of T-cell unresponsiveness in a dose-dependent fashion.
(18) Characerization of further parameters such as relative susceptibility to tolerance induction and relative degree of specificity was not possible with the use of KLH as the antigen.
(19) When Zn injection was preceded by a Cd injection, induction as measured by MT-1 mRNA and MT concentrations were approximately additive in liver.
(20) We conclude that plasma LAP measurements have little value in monitoring ovulation induction therapy.
Preparatory
Definition:
(a.) Preparing the way for anything by previous measures of adaptation; antecedent and adapted to what follows; introductory; preparative; as, a preparatory school; a preparatory condition.
Example Sentences:
(1) Chapter three Administration of the camps The preparatory camp is the first home and school of the mujahid in which his military and jihadi training sessions take place and he undergoes sufficient education in matters of his religion, life and jihad.
(2) Our patients were severely impaired in their school career: Although their average IQ was 112 only 6 out of 59 had completed a college-preparatory program (Abitur), all of them from middle-class families with well-educated parents.
(3) The few preparatory set cells in FEF tested with both auditory and visual stimuli tended to respond preferentially to the visual targets, whereas, in contrast, most set cells in SEF were bimodal.
(4) In order to determine the presence of dermatophytes and saprophytes in healthy toe and finger nails, 120 students (60 male and 60 female) from preparatory schools at Sohag Governorate (Upper Egypt) were studied.
(5) The rationale of this preparatory cytoreduction is discussed critically.
(6) There is great lability of the endocardial surface in response to a classic "holding solution" widely used in preparatory techniques.
(7) Repetitive dysfluencies of speech were elicited by mechanical perturbation of the thalamus in a patient, preparatory to therapeutic lesion placement for chronic pain.
(8) In the area of Tripoli, measles haemagglutination-inhibiting (HI) antibodies were found at a titre of greater than or equal to 1:10 in 97% of the adult population, and in 78%, 100% and 97.1% of schoolchildren of primary, preparatory and secondary schools respectively.
(9) The SMA contained a higher proportion of limb-dependent preparatory cells (40%) than either MC (15%) or putamen (9%).
(10) Nothing in the process of picture-making can be certain, but it would be reasonable to assume that she sees a young man aged 23 or 24 standing a few feet away with a brush in his hand (such a delicate implement compared with a knife fit for cabbage stalks) and dabbing at a piece of canvas or board which is the picture's preparatory sketch.
(11) The intrauterine source can effect pendulous displacements in linear or non-linear patterns without preparatory dilatation.
(12) It is assumed that the preparatory set for response movements is organized in an order, resulting in the differentiation of RT.
(13) Partial advance information was sufficient to trigger preparatory activities specific for the revealed dimension of the ensuing movement.
(14) Preparatory methods for CSF examination are discussed and normal and reactive conditions involving CSF, lymphoma, leukemia, meningeal carcinomatosis and the subarachnoid spread of primary brain tumors are described and illustrated.
(15) Analysis showed that the order of the preparatory sequence was correctly produced after 4 trials under all conditions.
(16) During the preparatory period (PP), either CNV was monitored from 8 scalp leads, or elbow stretch reflexes were tested at selected times using mechanical torque steps as stimuli.
(17) It did not, however, alter the preparatory increase in motoneuronal excitability.
(18) The students were examined during two consecutive periods, each consisting of one preparatory (during which active tooth cleaning measures were carefully practiced) and one main test period (during which mouth rinsings were the only plaque control measure).
(19) Sitting at a long table in a conference room at the whitewashed Nato headquarters, Sārts cannot see the logic of Russia invading Latvia in the near future, as it did Georgia and Ukraine, but he will not beat around the bush: “It is not at all impossible.” Last week the centre of excellence in Riga unveiled the results of research into what it claims is a “ preparatory information war ” in Latvia but with, it emerges, much wider repercussions.
(20) This is consistent with the psychometric findings of higher error scores in target counts and d2-test, and significantly prolonged reaction times after regular preparatory intervals (PIs) in the high-risks.