(v. i.) To come in collision; to be in opposition; to clash; as, interfering claims, or commands.
(v. i.) To enter into, or take a part in, the concerns of others; to intermeddle; to interpose.
(v. i.) To strike one foot against the opposite foot or ankle in using the legs; -- sometimes said of a human being, but usually of a horse; as, the horse interferes.
(v. i.) To act reciprocally, so as to augment, diminish, or otherwise affect one another; -- said of waves, rays of light, heat, etc. See Interference, 2.
(v. i.) To cover the same ground; to claim the same invention.
Example Sentences:
(1) Four cytotoxic antibiotics, bikaverin, duclauxine, PSX-1 and vermiculine, were examined with respect to their interference with glycolysis and respiration and their possible ionophoric or cytolytic activity.
(2) A similar interference colour appeared after incubating sections of rat skin with chymase.
(3) With this system, a brain region loaded with fura-2 was illuminated by a rotating disc bearing three different interference filters of 340, 360 and 380 nm at a rate of 600 rpm.
(4) These results indicate that both racemic and L-baclofen inhibit trigeminal transmission in man, probably because they interfere with excitatory transmission through the interneurons of the lateral reticular formation.
(5) An operant delayed-matching task was used to assess the role of proactive interference (PI) effects on short-term memory capacity of rats.
(6) The last time Vince Cable had a seat in the business department, it was during a high noon of industrial action and state interference in the economy.
(7) Electromagnetic interference presented as inhibition and resetting of the demand circuitry of a ventricular-inhibited temporary external pacemaker in a 70-year-old man undergoing surgical implantation of a permanent bipolar pacemaker generator and lead.
(8) We tested the hypothesis that furosemide interferes with energy generation in the cochlea, and determined its effect on CO2 formation from glucose and glyceroaldehyde-3-phosphate dehydrogenase (GAPDH) activity by examining biochemical and histochemical changes in the cochlea, the kidney, and the liver.
(9) Agents that lower total plasma or LDL cholesterol in hypercholesterolaemic patients by interfering with cholesterol reabsorption from the gut (cholestyramine, cholestipol) or reduction of hepatic VLDL release (fibrates) do not appear to interfere with platelet hyperreactivity and do not change platelet-derived thromboxane formation.
(10) Blockade of beta-adrenoceptors interferes with haemodynamic and metabolic adaptations and ion balance during dynamic exercise.
(11) For each theory, a constraint on preformance is proposed based on interference between the "analytic" and "synthetic" pitch perception modes.
(12) It is important for this commission to get to the truth of what happened and it's able to carry on without interference and disruption.
(13) Treatment of bacterial cells with inhibitors of gyrase at high concentration leads to relaxation of DNA supercoils, presumably through interference with the supercoiling activity of gyrase.
(14) Although the general guiding principle of pharmacotherapy for anxiety disorders--the lowest effective dose for the shortest possible time--remains, this rule should not interfere with the judicious use of medications as long as the benefits justify it.
(15) 3H-phorbol ester binding experiments reveal that inhibition by BP may be due to its interference with the phorbol ester binding site and consequently diacylglycerol binding.
(16) Both types of interference can be eliminated by selectively precipitating protein with deoxycholate and trichloroacetic acid (A. Bensadoun and D. Weinstein (1976) Anal.
(17) We conclude that cigarette smoking does interfere with the treatment of hypertension in general, and especially with reduction of blood pressure by propranolol in black patients.
(18) Glutathion and ascorbic acid interfere with the test strip method but this error is neglectable because of physiological low concentrations of these substances.
(19) I called it following the Star Trek Non-Interference Directive.
(20) The absence of uniform definitions prevents meaningful intersystem comparisons, prohibits explorations of hypotheses about effective interventions, and interferes with the efforts of quality assurance.
Interpose
Definition:
(v. t.) To place between; as, to interpose a screen between the eye and the light.
(v. t.) To thrust; to intrude; to between, either for aid or for troubling.
(v. t.) To introduce or inject between the parts of a conversation or argument.
(v. i.) To be or come between.
(v. i.) To step in between parties at variance; to mediate; as, the prince interposed and made peace.
(v. i.) To utter a sentiment by way of interruption.
(n.) Interposition.
Example Sentences:
(1) The interposed nuclei projected mainly to the paravermis-medial hemispheric zone of the cerebellar cortex.
(2) Ciliated cells are interposed between proximal tubule cells, decreasing in number toward the end of this part.
(3) Nucleocortical fibers from the posterior interposed nucleus projected principally to the paramedian lobule, to the medial hemispheric area of Crus I and the lobus simplex, and to the flocculus and paraflocculus.
(4) Soft tissue forming a noose, or interposed in the joint, is implicated.
(5) During a follow-up of 30 months, exacerbations of hyperkalemia were observed, interposed with a return to the previous baseline.
(6) In group 1 animals, the interposed bladder showed epithelial changes towards ileum and also a change in its in-vitro contractile responses towards that of ileum.
(7) After 70 days, the animals were reoperated and the interposed and the distal colon were isolated and tied.
(8) This complication may be prevented by interposing the omentum between the liver and the duodenum at the time of any operation on the biliary system and the duodenum.
(9) It was frequently seen interposed between the electron-dense layer and the hydroxyapatite.
(10) On the basis of results subsequently obtained from patch tests carried out with pieces of glove interposed between the skin and the allergens (methyl methacrylate and products employed), we advised our patients still to use latex gloves during work.
(11) Transfer fractions obtained using this method were also compared to the fractions determined by a previously described technique, deconvolution analysis, for a hydraulic model in which a third, inaccessible pool was interposed between the two accessible pools.
(12) The purpose of this study was to compare the efficacy of standard cardiopulmonary resuscitation and cardiopulmonary resuscitation with interposed abdominal compression for restoration of spontaneous circulation in an asphyxial and fibrillatory arrest model.
(13) Surgical correction was performed by the direct transposition of the anomalous left coronary artery from the pulmonary artery to the ascending aorta, without interposed graft.
(14) The contingency between responding and stimulus change on a chain variable-interval 33-s, variable-interval 33-s, variable-interval 33-s schedule was weakened by interposing 3-s delays between either the first and second or the second and third links.
(15) For reconstitution of gastrointestinal continuity in 22 cases we interposed a single jejunal loop between the esophagus and duodenum, in 15 patients we performed an esophagojejunostomy with a long enteroanastomosis between the afferent and efferent loop.
(16) A split barium column at the pyloric canal results in an interposed pseudo-defect which must not be confused with tumor mass.
(17) Thus this chamber had an excellent capability of epicardium will yield more physiological benefits to patients with an agenetic or hypoplastic right ventricle than do the current surgical procedures, in which a conduit is interposed between the right atrium and the main pulmonary artery.
(18) Each curved plate has a marginal swelling and an interposing strip of material is present between the margins of adjacent plates.
(19) This shift may be attributed to resorption of interposed soft tissue, creep, or loosening of the graft.
(20) The reasons for post-traumatic contracture of the elbow could be intrinsic such as interposed fragments, intra-articular adhesions, incongruity of the articular surfaces--or extrinsic--like contractures of the capsule and ligaments, adhesions of different layers, ectopic bone formations.