(a.) Not significant; void of signification, sense, or import; meaningless; as, insignificant words.
(a.) Having no weight or effect; answering no purpose; unimportant; valueless; futile.
(a.) Without weight of character or social standing; mean; contemptible; as, an insignificant person.
Example Sentences:
(1) Regression curves indicate that although all three types of pulmonary edema can be characterized by slightly different slopes, the differences are statistically insignificant.
(2) TR was classified as follows: severe (massive systolic opacification and persistence of the microbubbles in the IVC for at least 20 seconds); moderate (moderate systolic opacification lasting less than 20 seconds); mild (slight systolic opacification lasting less than 10 seconds); insignificant TR (sporadic appearance of the contrast medium into the IVC).
(3) The method of preparative isotachophoresis in acrylamide gel ensuring a high yield of IgD and IgE with insignificant admixtures of IgG, etc.
(4) The regional distribution of the receptor showed insignificant species differences.
(5) Differences between mean durations of dust exposure of workers with radiographic signs of lung fibrosis and those without such signs were statistically insignificant.
(6) There was found an insignificant prevalance of the antibody avidity in the patients with the forms of the disease of moderate severity and severe.
(7) Injection of albumin-colloidal gold conjugates resulted in an insignificant uptake.
(8) The cardiac output decreased slightly in the low affinity group, and increased slightly but insignificantly in the high affinity group.
(9) Since cholinergic transmission is probably insignificant in the cerebellar cortex, the esterase itself might serve as a transmitter or modulator.
(10) The evaluation of our data showed insignificant complications up to a total activity of 28 mCi, slight or medium complications between 28 and 35 mCi, and severe complications between 35 and 40 mCi.
(11) The results showed a significant rise in arterial free fatty acids concentration and an insignificant increase in adipose-tissue free fatty acids.
(12) No effect of components of human diploid cells homogenate and an insignificant effect of blood serum components on kinetic constants of LDG isoenzymes is registered.
(13) Whole body tilt from supine to 45 degrees head-up was associated with increased heart rate and an insignificant rise in MABP in both groups, although a rise in plasma AVP occurred in control subjects only.
(14) Mann-Whitney U-tests showed that during the 7 years of highest wine consumption the highest rates for breast cancer occurred for females aged 30--59 years, but for women over 60 years of age the result was insignificant.
(15) Recent clinical studies on secretion of atenolol, propranolol, propoxyphene, phenytoin, carbamazepine, and valproic acid in breast milk showed that the infant ingested dose was insignificant.
(16) When the combination of symptoms were introduced into the regression model, the effect of wheezing became insignificant.
(17) By assuming that repopulation of late-responding tissues is insignificant during normal treatment regimes it is possible to use the method to assess the broader implications for treatment strategies in terms of the behaviour of the Extrapolated Response Dose (ERD).
(18) The protein efficacy of the krill meat slightly decreases in the course of canned food sterilization, However, their biological value remains high, being inferior to casein but insignificantly.
(19) The results showed that 1) IL-1 beta induced a significant increase in PGE2 levels in the OVLT and the medial part of the MPOA in the first 20 min, which is more rapid and to a greater extent than that in PVN, HPC, and LV; 2) inclusion of indomethacin in the perfusate abolished the IL-1 beta-induced PGE2 response in the OVLT, but a suppressive effect in the PVN was insignificant.
(20) Distal (5th finger - wrist) and proximal (wrist - elbow) sensory nerve conduction showed an insignificant increase as hyperglycemia was induced.
Undistinguished
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) The background rhythmic burst activity was undistinguishable in both states.
(2) A former defender who packed in a fairly undistinguished playing career to become a fitness coach, Menezes's stints in charge of Gremio and Corinthians were his most high profile management gigs prior to getting the Brazil job.
(3) Before his speeches on race, he was an obedient, relatively undistinguished servant of the state.
(4) Antisera prepared against axonal preparations isolated from bovine white matter only stained astroglia and were thus undistinguishable from anti-GFA sera in this respect.
(5) For a while Manchester United briefly threatened to add their name to what had hitherto been an undistinguished week for English teams in Europe’s premier club competition.
(6) Thin-section immunoelectron microscopy showed accumulation of viruslike particles undistinguished from immature HIV-1 virions in the culture medium of the cells infected with vC5.
(7) The midfield diamond, with Raheem Sterling at its front tip, was instrumental in making this one of the better performances of the Hodgson era and the level of opposition in Group E is so undistinguished it would need an extraordinary kind of meltdown now for England not to reach the tournament.
(8) Effects of Neurotropin, an analgesic and antiallergic drug, have been compared to those of an inert, undistinguishable placebo in a double-blind study on twelve experienced Sabena (Belgian national airline) Boeing-737 captains who were requested to operate in unexpected scenarios of emergency and ILS instrument approaches in a flight simulator of their company.
(9) These molecules were undistinguishable by gel electrophoresis analysis at six different acrylamide concentrations.
(10) But the trust, composed of 12 mostly undistinguished individuals, must acknowledge how wrong it was in selecting George Entwistle, an untried man who had risen without leaving much trace at the BBC.
(11) On the other hand, inhibition of 80% (average) of the proteinase activity by means of previous incubation of the trophozoites with human a2M gave way to minimal inflammatory lesions almost undistinguishable from the controls which were injected with PBS-A.
(12) The homogeneous enzyme appears to be undistinguishable from the corresponding enzyme derived from sheep lactating mammary gland, as judged by acrylamide gel electrophoresis in the presence of sodium dodecyl sulfate and by titration with antibodies raised against the enzyme purified from liver.
(13) Once back at school, he was a lonely child who suffered from dyslexia and had an undistinguished academic career.
(14) Delays in binding were not caused by different enzymatic activities, since 218 R1 and 218 R2 produce, in similar amounts, beta-lactamases undistinguishable in isoelectric point and Km of cephaloridine.
(15) On the contrary, in the late stages of renal amyloidosis, when pathologic changes lead to progressive nephrosclerosis, US findings appear aspecific, since they are undistinguishable from the patterns observed in other renal medical disorders.
(16) The SLE vacuolar myopathy is a pathological entity clinically undistinguishable from SLE myositis.
(17) Furthermore, the symptomatology they induce is undistinguishable from that induced by cardiotoxins.
(18) The BUDR-treated cultures were undistinguishable from the untreated mother cultures after 2 to 3 passages.
(19) To look at, it is a distinctly undistinguished and desolate-looking piece of utilitarian 1940s architecture.
(20) Klebocin with homologous activity on K. pneumoniae seemed to be undistinguishable from the compound with heterologous action on Staphylococci in the aspects that were characterized in this work; both were heat labile to the same degree; optimum pH was 7, acidity decreased klebocin activity more intensely than alkaline pH.