(a.) Not operative; not active; producing no effects; as, laws renderd inoperative by neglect; inoperative remedies or processes.
Example Sentences:
(1) Subjects were 56 therapies for HCCs in 48 cases, who were diagnosed as inoperative HCCs, and were performed chemotherapy, transcatheter hepatic arterial embolization (TAE) and percutaneous ethanol injection therapy (PEIT).
(2) Filamentation continued in dif mutants in which SOS-associated division inhibitors were inoperative, which showed that induction of these inhibitors was not the primary cause of filamentation.
(3) If this pressure persisted until the start of the expansion, it would make the opercular suction pump inoperative, because it would blow away the flexible opercular flap which, as a passive valve, seals the widening opercular slit during abduction.
(4) We investigated the incidence and endoscopic features of gastroduodenal lesions which appeared after transcatheter arterial chemo-embolization (TACE), performed 29 times in 25 patients with inoperative hepatocellular carcinoma.
(5) We suggest macrophages may absorb, and thus render inoperative, factors which are necessary for lymphocyte cooperation.
(6) The competitive pattern of this inhibition leads to its being inoperative in ornithine-grown cells, where the intracellular concentration of ornithine is high.
(7) For example, in excised patches of vertebrate rod outer segment plasma membrane, the cGMP-activated cation channels have traditionally been studied in room light because the enzyme cascade linking photon absorption to channel closure was assumed to be inoperative.
(8) Negative feedback of gonadal steroids seems to be inoperative.
(9) Duck erythrocytes treated with norepinephrine in a solution containing 15 mM K+ swell to a new stable cell volume after 60 min, during which time cotransport becomes inoperative.
(10) Such results, obtained from birds in which testosterone feedback was inoperative, indicate that the gonadostimulatory effect of long daylengths in intact males must be mediated, at least in part, by an androgen feedback-independent mechanism.
(11) Induction of recA or polA1 cells by nalidixic acid does not result in the appearance of pol I*, but lexA or recA mutants that are constitutive for SOS functions constitutively express pol I* and mutants which lack functional recA protein produce pol I* when they carry a lexA mutation which renders the lexA repressor inoperative.
(12) Indication of this therapy has been fundamentally limited to the inoperative cases in which patient performance status has deteriorated.
(13) Hence, regulatory mechanisms, inoperative in vitro, probably function in vivo to prevent immune activation of self-recognizing lymphocytes and autoimmunity.
(14) We suggest as an explanation that the majority of daughter strand gap-filling is error free and that mutations arise through a minor error-prone repair pathway which is inoperative under these conditions.
(15) Previous studies demonstrated that hen erythrocytes have an inoperative, latent sphingomyelinase which is activated when the cells are hemolyzed in a hypotonic medium.
(16) It is concluded that the epsilon proofreading subunit of DNA polymerase III holoenzyme is excluded, inhibited, or inoperative during misincorporation and mutagenesis after UV.
(17) One-hundred and eleven species and three species varieties belonging to 39 genera were collected from 50 dust samples on the five media used at 28 degrees C. Using the hair-baiting technique with horse hair, 10 species of Chrysosporium were isolated: C. asperatum, C. state of Arthroderma tuberculatum, C. indicum, C. inops, C. keratinophilum, C. merdarium, C. pannorum, C. queenslandicum, C. tropicum and C. xerophilum.
(18) In such cells the PGK step presumably was inoperative due to total lack of substrate; 2,3-diphosphoglycerate (2,3-DPG) then became the sole substrate source for remaining steps in glycolysis.
(19) This is due to two mutations, one inactivating ATP-driven sodium transport and a second rendering NaH-antiport inoperative.
(20) First, as with the measurements of pulmonary function (Chapter 12), the initial lack of training in adequate maintenance was responsible for inoperative instruments.
Working
Definition:
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Work
() a & n. from Work.
Example Sentences:
(1) A group of interested medical personnel has been identified which has begun to work together.
(2) This may have significant consequences for people’s health.” However, Prof Peter Weissberg, medical director of the British Heart Foundation, which funded the work, said medical journals could no longer be relied on to be unbiased.
(3) Van Persie's knee injury meant that Mata could work in tandem with the delightfully nimble Kagawa, starting for the first time since 22 January.
(4) PMS is more prevalent among women working outside the home, alcoholics, women of high parity, and women with toxemic tendency; it probably runs in families.
(5) The issue of the Schizophrenia Bulletin is devoted to articles representing this full range of conceptual and empirical work on first-episode psychosis.
(6) Until his return to Brazil in 1985, Niemeyer worked in Israel, France and north Africa, designing among other buildings the University of Haifa on Mount Carmel; the campus of Constantine University in Algeria (now known as Mentouri University); the offices of the French Communist party and their newspaper l'Humanité in Paris; and the ministry of external relations and the cathedral in Brasilia.
(7) I'm not sure Tolstoy ever worked out how he actually felt about love and desire, or how he should feel about it.
(8) Not only do they give employers no reason to turn them into proper jobs, but mini-jobs offer workers little incentive to work more because then they would have to pay tax.
(9) Work on humoral responses has focused on lysozyme, the hemagglutinins (especially in the oyster), and the clearance of certain antigens.
(10) His son, Karim Makarius, opened the gallery to display some of the legacy bequeathed to him by his father in 2009, as well as the work of other Argentine photographers and artists – currently images by contemporary photographer Facundo de Zuviria are also on show.
(11) However, the groups often paused less and responded faster than individual rats working under identical conditions.
(12) They spend about 4.3 minutes of each working hour on a smoking break, the study shows.
(13) One of the main users is coastal planning organizations and conservation organizations that are working on coral reefs.
(14) DI James Faulkner of Great Manchester police said: “The men and women working in the factory have told us that they were subjected to physical and verbal assaults at the hands of their employers and forced to work more than 80-hours before ending up with around £25 for their week’s work.
(15) Diagnostic work-up and management of intracranial arachnoid cysts are still controversial.
(16) The very young history of clinical Psychology is demonstrating the value of clinical Psychologist in the socialistic healthy work and the international important positions of special education to psychological specialist of medicine.
(17) Descriptive features of the syndrome in children, adults and adolescents are given based on the respective work of Pine, Masterson and Kernberg.
(18) We report a case of a sudden death in a SCUBA diver working at a water treatment facility.
(19) Of the five committees asked to develop bills, four have completed their work, and the Senate Finance Committee announced today that it will move forward next week.
(20) On the other hand, as a cross-reference experiment, we developed a paper work test to do in the same way as on the VDT.