(a.) Originating in, or derived from, the constitution of the intellect, as opposed to acquired from experience; as, innate ideas. See A priori, Intuitive.
(a.) Joined by the base to the very tip of a filament; as, an innate anther.
(v. t.) To cause to exit; to call into being.
Example Sentences:
(1) A sequence of seven pairings of chili-flavored diet with prompt recovery from thiamine deficiency did significantly attenuate the innate aversion and may have induced a chili preference in at least one case.
(2) The model also lends itself to studies of the immunologic interrelationships between innate and acquired resistance to infection with schistosomes, as well as the mechanisms by which these parasites evade the host immune response.
(3) In a speech to Atlantic Bridge members in New York in November 2002, Fox warned "the natural desire to avoid conflict has been reinforced by an innate pacificism in many sections of western society, especially in continental Europe".
(4) Does he really think, like those daft gender essentialists, that women are innately gentle and men are big brutes out for a ruck?
(5) It is concluded that there is an increased activity of Na-K pump in the cultured MC from SHR, and that this abnormality may be innate to SHR cells.
(6) The choice of a trainee in surgery should be based at least partially on his innate abilities, and his training should be begun at an appropriate level.
(7) He is an innately optimistic character as well as a clever one, and a man who needs to persuade his party not to despair.
(8) X-irradiation apparently did not affect the innate susceptibility cr resistance of hamsters and mice to worms.
(9) But he does have an innate sense of what London needs.
(10) In an effort to assess the innate capacity of the central visual system to specify corticocortical connectivity in the absence of retinal afferents, we examined the tangential distribution of callosal cells and terminations in posterior neocortex of congenitally anophthalmic rats.
(11) It was suggested that the influence of strong timing constraints was greater on the auxiliary function than on the innate function of the biceps (elbow flexor).
(12) The combination of interferons was effective in suppressing glioblastoma growth both in cultures displaying relative sensitivity and those exhibiting innate resistance to either or both types of interferon when employed alone.
(13) Such a mechanism could play a key role in coordinating the humoral, cell-mediated, and innate responses of the immune system.
(14) 1, 2, 3, 6) would be attained at an earlier age and no plateau would be observed in contrast to Israeli non-clinical school children whose right-left reading-writing habits are in a direction opposite to the assumed innate drawing tendency, were confirmed at significant levels of confidence.
(15) Microcirculatory vascular bed was sampled from dura mater of children under 1 year (healthy and with intracranial hypertension due to innate hydrocephalus) and stained with hematoxylin-eosin.
(16) Trematode diseases have remained the same, but the tools (1) to exploit the innate ability of cells to replicate and produce biological products upon demand, (2) to manipulate the genetic makeup of an organism, (3) and to biologically or synthetically manufacture peptides have provided scientists with new reagents for diagnosing, treating, preventing and controlling trematode diseases.
(17) The correlation coefficient (Spearman's) for EC50 versus potency at the frog neuromuscular junction was -0.73, indicating innate differences between Torpedo and frog receptors.
(18) It is provisionally suggested that enhancement of the perseveration represents an innate response to stressful stimuli, but as animals learn mastery over the response contingencies, the persistence in adopting such a response strategy wanes.
(19) The neurobehavioral characteristics of the Tokai High-Avoider (THA) rats, which had an innate high-avoidance ability, were clarified by comparing with the Wistar rats from which the THA rat strain had been derived.
(20) The purpose of this assay was to assess the innate proliferative potential and microenvironmental influences on the ability to repopulate.
Prenatal
Definition:
(a.) Being or happening before birth.
Example Sentences:
(1) The prenatal risk determined by smoking pregnant woman was studied by a fetal electrocardiogram at different gestational ages.
(2) Although chronologic age may not be a good predictor of pregnancy outcome, adolescents remain a high-risk group due to factors which are more common among them such as biologic immaturity, inadequate prenatal care, poverty, minority status, and low prepregnancy weight, and because factors associated with an early adolescent pregnancy, such as low gynecologic age, may continue to influence the outcome of subsequent pregnancies.
(3) Further improvements in the prognosis of low birthweight infants will depend to a large extent on prenatal prevention of disease.
(4) Cloning of the A-T allele(s) will assist in the early or prenatal diagnosis of A-T and provide a firm basis for determining who, in the general population, carries this gene and is therefore at a high risk of cancer.
(5) Governmental officials as well as medical scientists in Taiwan have worked hard in recent years to develop and to implement various measures, such as prenatal diagnosis and neonatal screening, to lower the incidence of hereditary diseases and mental retardation in the population.
(6) The relationship between certain prenatal and background variables and maternal confidence also was assessed.
(7) Results of the present study show that epithelial cells of ciliated columnar type covering vocal cords change remarkably to nonciliated squamous cells between prenatal and postnatal stages.
(8) Women who had little or no prenatal care were oversampled, so this study is not representative of the New York City population.
(9) The first is that the supposed exaggerated winter birthrate among process schizophrenics actually represents a reduction in spring-fall births caused by prenatal exposure to infectious diseases during the preceding winter--i.e., a high prenatal death rate in process preschizophrenic fetuses.
(10) Tay-Sachs disease was diagnosed prenatally on the basis of enzyme assays and the electrophoretic pattern of extracts made from cultured amniotic fluid cells.
(11) These impairments were seen in animals of both sexes, a finding which challenges the view that only females prenatally treated with nicotine show deficits in maze learning.
(12) structural malformations, all congenital defects, and all disorders or abnormalities with possible prenatal etiology.
(13) It is concluded that prenatal sensitization to the immunogenic preparation used is unlikely to have occurred.
(14) In particular, recent work has shown a relationship between early (prenatal) exposure to lead and delayed cognitive development.
(15) Thermostability of placental catalase increases with prenatal development, while the enzyme from fetal liver remains moderately heat-stable throughout the gestation.
(16) The births were categorized by maternal age, the presence or absence of four putative risk factors, and the provision or nonprovision of early prenatal care.
(17) The 27 women who were interviewed had sought prenatal care early, late or not at all.
(18) A case of low atresia of the ileum, diagnosed prenatally by real-time ultrasound scanning, is presented.
(19) Abnormal prenatal findings included maternal pre-eclampsia, fetal growth retardation, and progressive intracranial sonolucency of the trisomic fetus.
(20) Prenatal causes of sensorineural hearing loss in children may be genetic or nongenetic, the deafness occurs alone or with other abnormalities.