(1) This is a report of changes in reflex excitability of flexor motoneurons in response to innocuous mechanical stimuli following initiation of an acute experimental inflammation of the knee joint in the chloralose-anaesthetized cat spinalized at level T12.
(2) Thus the innocuousness and ubiquitous availability of dextromethorphan render it attractive for worldwide pharmacogenetic investigations in man.
(3) For the many students who amble past it every day, it’s easily missed; placed rather innocuously next to the bridge that joins Scholar’s Piece to the rest of the college.
(4) Although often innocuous initially, human and animal bites can cause serious local and systemic infections as well as other complications.
(5) Phototherapy innocuousness, largely demonstrated, fosters its profilactic use at beginning and not only for those babies with serum bilirrubin over 10 mg % in the first day of life.
(6) One common element in these other nonequilibrium procedures is that, before the temperature has dropped to a level that permits intracellular ice formation, the embryo water content is reduced to the point at which the subsequent rapid nonequilibrium cooling results in either the formation of small innocuous intracellular ice crystals or the conversion of the intracellular solution into a glass.
(7) Stimuli used to activate the cells orthodromically were graded innocuous and noxious mechanical stimuli, including sinusoidal vibration and thermal pulses.
(8) Sodium butyrate appears to have properties of a good chemotherapeutic agent for neuroblastoma tumors because the treatment of neuroblastoma cells in culture causes cell death and "differentiation"; however, it is either innocuous or produces reversible morphological and biochemical alterations in other cell types.
(9) Taking into account that CT Scan is innocuous, the proposed method of sedation must be devoid of any risk.
(10) Mohan also said it amounted to an "innocuous British institution", a phrase that inadvertently emphasised its anachronistic nature.
(11) It is important, then, to prescribe oral contraception for its efficacy and its short- and long-term innocuousness.
(12) But it's outside the comfort zone of the more uncontroversial forms of predistribution, and shows that the politics of predistribution cannot be an innocuous or uncontroversial.
(13) Ultrasonography is the most innocuous and noninvasive procedure, ideally suited for screening patients suspected of having cerebrovascular insufficiency.
(14) CT is the most innocuous diagnostic procedure which obtains a maximum of data on the portal system morphology.
(15) TNB makes it possible to avoid surgery and mediastinoscopy in patients with unresectable malignant neoplasms and in many patients with innocuous benign mediastinal lesions.
(16) The metalloporphyrins, however, are not innocuous and cause major disruptions in cellular metabolism.
(17) Effects on attentional, motivational, and motoric aspects of the monkeys' behavior were assessed by having them detect innocuous cooling and visual stimuli in tasks of similar difficulty.
(18) Inasmuch as nicotine, vitamin D or dietary cholesterol in the amounts used were innocuous when used alone, the interactions between the effects of at least these three factors need to be known in individual animals before the pathogenesis of the calcific atheroarteriosclerotic lesions with thrombosis can eventually be understood.
(19) A few cells (n = 4) were weakly excited in these 4 nuclei; none responded to innocuous mechanical stimulation of the skin.
(20) Excessive proliferation of the peripelvic fat of the kidney (EPPF) is a benign process with an innocuous effect on the patient.
Inoffensive
Definition:
(a.) Giving no offense, or provocation; causing no uneasiness, annoyance, or disturbance; as, an inoffensive man, answer, appearance.
(a.) Harmless; doing no injury or mischief.
(a.) Not obstructing; presenting no interruption bindrance.
Example Sentences:
(1) Associated Newspapers argued that they were entirely innocuous and inoffensive images taken in public places and that the Wellers had previously chosen to open up their private family life to public gaze to a significant degree.
(2) Just wide expanses of inoffensive pleasantness so strong that if any of the bloody really jolly nice people on the show were to drop their grins, their overexerted jowls would fall straight into their cake mix.
(3) Microphlebography is an inoffensive examination which is easy to perform and useful in treating telangiectasia using this personal technique of micro-coagulo-surgery.
(4) He should have said: “We don’t want to be like Belgium, but the press should calm down and recognise that the Queen’s government goes on normally while we take the necessary days to consider how best to form the programme for a new government.” Nick Clegg – the inoffensive ordinary guy who could have been great Read more 3 As party leader, Clegg puzzled us all by ignoring the more senior members of his Commons team including Campbell, Alan Beith, Malcolm Bruce, Simon Hughes and Kennedy.
(5) For some of Facebook’s algorithmic tweaks, their goal is clear, articulated, and inoffensive: it has managed to increase the number of organ donors ; it’s managed to boost turnout at US , Indian and Brazilian elections; and, obviously, it’s managed to make a few billion dollars from advertising.
(6) They also wanted to make a show that was warm and gentle but not inoffensive and dull.
(7) Suárez has been mostly inoffensive year: no charges of racism, no gnawing on opponents' arms.
(8) All intelligence reformers have felt strongly this data collection is not an inoffensive activity,” Wyden said.
(9) The secret science bill would require the EPA to release the data it uses to devise regulations – an aim seemingly inoffensive enough, except that the EPA often relies on confidential medical records whose release could land it in court.
(10) Both wear a British approximation of a Riviera look – chinos, light blazers, inoffensive shirts and soft shoes, and are in deep discussion about how best to seduce young Italian women.
(11) In order to ensure a certain diagnosis and to avoid exploratory surgery as far as possible, the authors propose systematic needle puncture of the inververtebral disk--a technique that is simple and inoffensive to carry out in all disks below T4, and that, in a series of 18 cases, gave a success rate of 2 out of 3 (11 positive results).
(12) In sum, free speech is not intended to protect benign, uncontroversial, or inoffensive ideas.
(13) The word sounds so inoffensive, a synonym for "brush" or "caress".
(14) Even I, as an inoffensive left-leaning (and, incidentally, anti-bombing) academic historian, have been subjected to this kind of thing, in comments below the line of articles or blogs I’ve published.
(15) The movies that do get official approval and release tend to be inoffensive comedies and historical action movies catering to a youth audience.
(16) TICAs may enlarge in time and, seemingly inoffensive, may rupture and lead to death.
(17) The term "waste stabilization pond" in its simplest form is applied to a body of water, artificial or natural, employed with the intention of retaining sewage or organic waste waters until the wastes are rendered stable and inoffensive for discharge into receiving waters or on land, through physical, chemical and biological processes commonly referred to as "self-purification" and involving the symbiotic action of algae and bacteria under the influence of sunlight and air.
(18) Femen aren't subtle, they aren't inoffensive, and they certainly aren't sorry.
(19) For intensive pig units on limited land close to houses, the NIAE has evolved a new system of slurry treatment which can convert all the slurry from a fattening piggery into inoffensive solids.
(20) The regulator took into account the BBC’s argument that the use of the term was intended as “an inoffensive, humorous play on words”.