(a.) Lower in place, rank, excellence, etc.; less important or valuable; subordinate; underneath; beneath.
(a.) Poor or mediocre; as, an inferior quality of goods.
(a.) Nearer the sun than the earth is; as, the inferior or interior planets; an inferior conjunction of Mercury or Venus.
(a.) Below the horizon; as, the inferior part of a meridian.
(a.) Situated below some other organ; -- said of a calyx when free from the ovary, and therefore below it, or of an ovary with an adherent and therefore inferior calyx.
(a.) On the side of a flower which is next the bract; anterior.
(a.) Junior or subordinate in rank; as, an inferior officer.
(n.) A person lower in station, rank, intellect, etc., than another.
Example Sentences:
(1) The dose response effect in this tumor is steep and combinations which compromise the dose of adriamycin too greatly are showing inferior results.
(2) For obstruction of greater than or equal to 50% of the pulmonary vascular cross-sectional area and pulmonary hypertension thrombolytic therapy should be given and insertion of an inferior caval filter can be considered.
(3) Three animals received unilateral lesions which included both the inferior parietal lobule and a portion of adjacent dorsal prestriate cortex (IPL-PS).
(4) A series of hierarchical multiple regressions revealed the effects of Surgency, Agreeableness, Conscientiousness, Emotional Stability, and Intellect on evoking upset in spouses through condescension (e.g., treating spouse as stupid or inferior), possessiveness (demanding too much time and attention), abuse (slapping spouse), unfaithfulness (having sex with others), inconsiderateness (leaving toilet seat up), moodiness (crying a lot), alcohol abuse (drinking too much alcohol), emotional constriction (hiding emotions to act tough), and self-centeredness (acting selfishly).
(5) Hypertrophy is restricted to subdivisions of the inferior olive included in recurrent cerebello-mesencephalic-olivary circuits.
(6) These views are very practical for inferior synovial cavity arthrograms performed in the dental operatory since panoramic radiographic machines have become common in modern dental practices.
(7) All of the above patients had an acute inferior myocardial infarction, and in 10 of the 12 patients with supraventricular arrhythmias and in four of five with sinus dysrhythmias, the origin of the sinus node artery started just after an occluded right coronary or left circumflex artery or was involved in the occlusion.
(8) The results obtained were compared with the data of electron microscopic study of the inferior geniculate body, as they are subcortical formations belonging to the same auditory system but differentiating in their functions.
(9) Significant circumflex coronary artery disease (greater than or equal to 75% stenosis) was more prevalent in patients with posterior or inferoposterior infarction (17 of 21) than in those with isolated inferior infarction (11 of 23) (p less than 0.02).
(10) Imagining faces was also the only condition that led to an increase of activity in the left inferior occipital region which has been suggested by previous studies as being a crucial area for visual imagery.
(11) The concentration of HA in renal veins was significantly below that of the pulmonary artery and inferior vena cava (P less than 0.05).
(12) It was found that within the dorsal part of the well known pressor area there is a narrow strip, 2.5 mm lateral from the mid line, starting ventral to the inferior colliculus and ending in the medulla close to the floor of the IV ventricle, from which vasodilatation in skeletal muscles is selectively obtained.
(13) Immersion-fixed tissue was found to be inferior to perfusion-fixed tissue for immunocytochemical staining of this serum protein.
(14) Intramuscular administration of rCD4-IgG appears to be inferior to intravenous dosing from a pharmacokinetic standpoint, with lower peak concentrations and variable absorption.
(15) A 33-year-old man was diagnosed as having Budd-Chiari syndrome with a membranous obstruction of the inferior vena cava (IVC) and right hepatic vein and short segmental obstruction of the left hepatic vein.
(16) The occurrence of paresis or paralysis in ischemic processes strictly situated in the thalamus, however, is discussed: the deficit may be limited to parts of limbs; most often, it is not associated with pyramidal symptomatology; recovery is observed in the hand before the inferior limb.
(17) Fixation is more difficult to achieve after revision for infection because of the inferior quality of the bone.
(18) Additionally, in a group of bats, HRP was injected into various functionally (i.e., BF) identified regions of the central nucleus of the inferior coliculus (IC) to clarify the type and location of CN projecting neurons.
(19) Blood flow changes in the dental pulp of lower canine teeth of mature cats and incisors of mature rats were investigated with simultaneous laser Doppler flowmetry and local 125I-clearance (wash-out) during electrical sympathetic stimulation, efferent stimulation of n. alveolaris inferior (IAN) (cats) and i.a.
(20) Pre and post infusion blood samples were drawn from a catheter lying at the lower inferior vena cava and analyzed for prostaglandin E and F, and progesterone.
Subordinate
Definition:
(a.) Placed in a lower order, class, or rank; holding a lower or inferior position.
(a.) Inferior in order, nature, dignity, power, importance, or the like.
(n.) One who stands in order or rank below another; -- distinguished from a principal.
(v. t.) To place in a lower order or class; to make or consider as of less value or importance; as, to subordinate one creature to another.
(v. t.) To make subject; to subject or subdue; as, to subordinate the passions to reason.
Example Sentences:
(1) There were no significant effects of chlordiazepoxide treatment on the behaviour of subordinate rats.
(2) Here we show that the subsequent survival and reproductive success of subordinate female red deer is depressed more by rearing sons than by rearing daughters, whereas the subsequent fitness of dominant females is unaffected by the sex of their present offspring.
(3) Compared to socially dominant females, socially subordinate females had fewer ovulatory menstrual cycles, more cycles with deficient luteal phase plasma progesterone concentrations, increased adrenal weights and increased heart weights.
(4) In none of the constructs were TG sequences folded in a positioned nucleosome, demonstrating that the rotational setting played a subordinate role in the rough positioning in vivo.
(5) Allogrooming was more frequent among subordinates than among dominants and subordinates.
(6) The clashes between the moralistic Levin and his friend Oblonsky, sometimes affectionate, sometimes angry, and Levin's linkage of modernity to Oblonsky's attitudes – that social mores are to be worked around and subordinated to pleasure, that families are base camps for off-base nooky – undermine one possible reading of Anna Karenina , in which Anna is a martyr in the struggle for the modern sexual freedoms that we take for granted, taken down by the hypocritical conservative elite to which she, her lover and her husband belong.
(7) When mice were isolated, no differences were found between the behavior of those that later became alphas and those that became subordinates.
(8) Plasma epinephrine and norepinephrine samples obtained from anesthetized subjects did not differ between dominant and subordinate males.
(9) Existing services and underutilized because of illiteracy, the most important factor, cultural practices, religious practices, and the subordinate status of women.
(10) In the proposed model medicine of catastrophes should consist of organization-methodological centres, regional organs of management and various functional elements, possessed of flexible structure of coordination and subordination.
(11) Results of these studies allow the conclusion, that hypertrophy is a reaction of arterial smooth muscle cells to an increased mechanical load in hypertension which, in turn, is responsible for the thickening of arterial with Hyperplasia - increase in smooth muscle cells' number in the media - played a subordinate role.
(12) Also analogues seem to be the producing of the so-called instinctives as mam(m)a and papa by somewhat older babies which are able to pass over from the babbling into permanent words of the adults' speech in which they persist if used without shifting of sounds since they are produced de novo generation by generation, but they are subordinate to shifting and possible extinction if used in the form of derivatives in the standard language, and some phenomena of the phylogenesis as the survival of less differentiated species contrary to the relatively quick extinction of the highly specialized ones.
(13) The article describes the following results: 1) The majority of those who responded, particularly workers in subordinate positions, were of the opinion that firms, management and co-workers were rather unwilling to accept the physically disabled as competitive and equal employees and colleagues.
(14) Specialty interests cover the whole range of medicine but in most instances are subordinate to the claims of general medicine.
(15) These observations are interpreted in light of behavioral data suggesting that these subordinate males are under sustained social stress.
(16) These data show nonspecific protection against tumor recurrence because of alloimmunization but clearly demonstrate the subordination of any beneficial colon cancer TSA immunotherapeutic effect by contained histocompatibility antigens.
(17) The older mother-adult child relationship may be characterized by a power differential, such that some older mothers feel subordinate to their adult children.
(18) The dominant male in FFF groups displaced subordinates less frequently than did the dominant older male in AFF groups early in the season, but equally frequently later.
(19) In addition to understanding one's subordinates and peers, the effective manager understands the organizational forces that exist in the workplace.
(20) Historically, social work in hospitals has been subordinate to the medical profession.