(a.) Incapable of being reduced, or brought into a different state; incapable of restoration to its proper or normal condition; as, an irreducible hernia.
(a.) Incapable of being reduced to a simpler form of expression; as, an irreducible formula.
Example Sentences:
(1) This, in principle, is similar to creating an irreducible hernia.
(2) Three infants presented with acute scrotal swelling, erythema, and a tender irreducible firm mass within the scrotum.
(3) IVP in both the cases of irreducible prolapse and retention of urine revealed hydroureter and hydronephrosis bilaterally.
(4) Among the problems that have arisen in testing for pregnancy by hCG determination are the interference of proteinuria with urine pregnancy tests, an irreducible level of technical error, the tendency of certain drugs to produce a false-positive result, and quality control.
(5) The authors present a case report of a 65-year-old male with a two-day history of a painful irreducible right inguinal mass; he denied abdominal pain, nausea, vomiting, fever, or chills.
(6) This severe spasticity was associated with irreducible flexion contracture in 49 cases and hyperextension in 3 others.
(7) An exact understanding of the damaged structures and causes of irreducibility frequently makes this an injury often requiring open reduction and selective repair of damaged soft tissue structures.
(8) The case is different from the classic picture in that it is revealed late, by its cardiac manifestations which dominate the clinical picture and lead to an irreducible cardiac insufficiency requiring a heart transplant.
(9) This essay argues that gender is an irreducible category of clinical observation and theorizing, as crucial to the family therapy paradigm as the concept of "generation."
(10) A case of irreducible complete dorsoulnar dislocation of the proximal phalanx of the thumb is presented.
(11) In the paper, the errors in diagnosis of strangulated irreducible hernias are analysed.
(12) The second neurovascular glaucoma, an irreducible complication of the ischemic capillaropathy was for 22% of the studied cases.
(13) Operation was reserved, in general, for patients with irreducible dislocations and incomplete neurological lesions, open reduction and internal fixation being the commonest procedure.
(14) An irreducible sacroiliac dislocation of the pelvic ring with resultant caudal displacement of the injured hemipelvis occurred in a 15-year-old female.
(15) These lesions progress slowly and may eventually result in complete and irreducible trismus.
(16) Of the 50 joints assessed, arthrography demonstrated 39 (78%) with irreducible meniscal displacement and 11 (22%) with reducible displacement.
(17) Irreducible intussusceptions were created in eight adult mongrel dogs.
(18) We report a case of an irreducible volar dislocation of the distal radioulnar joint following open anatomic reduction of the radius.
(19) Four patients in the enteric group had resection; one for neoplasm and three for irreducibility.
(20) As far as irreducible tinnitus are concerned, as anxiety is the most pejorative parameter, not discouraging the patient is very important.
Representation
Definition:
(n.) The act of representing, in any sense of the verb.
(n.) That which represents.
(n.) A likeness, a picture, or a model; as, a representation of the human face, or figure, and the like.
(n.) A dramatic performance; as, a theatrical representation; a representation of Hamlet.
(n.) A description or statement; as, the representation of an historian, of a witness, or an advocate.
(n.) The body of those who act as representatives of a community or society; as, the representation of a State in Congress.
(n.) Any collateral statement of fact, made orally or in writing, by which an estimate of the risk is affected, or either party is influenced.
(n.) The state of being represented.
Example Sentences:
(1) A spokesman for the Greens said that the party was “disappointed” with the decision and would be making representations to both the BBC and BBC Trust .
(2) Enhanced sensitivity to ITDs should translate to better-defined azimuthal receptive fields, and therefore may be a step toward achieving an optimal representation of azimuth within the auditory pathway.
(3) Two mechanisms are evident in chicks' spatial representations: a metric frame for encoding the spatial arrangement of surfaces as surfaces and a cue-guidance system for encoding conspicuous landmarks near the target.
(4) This paper reports two experiments concerned with verbal representation in the test stage of recognition memory for naturalistic sounds.
(5) The predominant specific aberrations in gliomas were an over-representation of chromosome 7 (13 cases) and an under-representation of chromosome 10 (16 cases).
(6) The Fink-Heimer techniques were used to determine the neostriatal projections from cortical M1 and S1 physiologically identified representations of the forepaw.
(7) Electrophysiological methods were used to determine changes in the neural representation of the binocular visual field at the paired midbrain optic tecta and in the tectal projection of pairs of corresponding retinal loci at various developmental points between these ages.
(8) Additional research: Suzie Worroll, James Browning, Grace Nzita and Nicolas Niarchos How do you feel about the representation of women in British public life?
(9) Neurons with receptive fields confined to the maxillary division of the trigeminal innervation field are found within a ring of cortex which a) completely surrounds the representation of the ophthalmic field, and b) includes parts of cytoarchitectural area 2, 1, 3, and 3a.
(10) Unlike SI, which possesses a disproportionately large representation of the rostrum, SII has no specialized representation of the rostrum.
(11) The correlation is likely to reflect language representation.
(12) A second pattern of representation of body movements, the supplementary motor area (SMA), adjoined the rostromedial border of M-I.
(13) The shock death of the 65-year-old designer in Miami on Thursday has brought renewed focus on the chronic lack of female representation in the profession’s upper ranks in the UK.
(14) We compared only patterns of labeling resulting from injections into similar parts of the frequency representation in different fields to insure that observed differences in patterns of labeling did not simply reflect differences in the frequency representation at the injection sites.
(15) We'd talked to them about proportional representation, and Andrew Adonis was leading our approach with David Laws for the Lib Dems, and we'd worked out our policy on all these things.
(16) Furthermore, the approach provides a nice graphical representation of the relationships between the PK-PD parameters and covariates.
(17) This white child had as his alter-ego, really as part of his self-representation, a black half of the self, personified as a black boy whom he fantasized to be his twin.
(18) Among the theoretical proposals put forward to account for the observed disorders, those relating to a disturbance of the action planning process and to that of the internal representation of context are compatible with the observed memory disorders.
(19) They also suggest that both the migration of cortical neurons on glia and the refinement of the mapping between the peripheral whisker field and its cortical representation may depend upon the distribution of substrate adhesion molecules.
(20) From the patients' performance we make the following theoretical claims: that some arithmetic facts are stored in the form of individual fact representations (e.g., 9 x 4 = 36), whereas other facts are stored in the form of a general rule (e.g., 0 x N = 0); that arithmetic fact retrieval is mediated by abstract internal representations that are independent of the form in which problems are presented or responses are given; that arithmetic facts and calculation procedures are functionally independent; and that calculation algorithms may include special-case procedures that function to increase the speed or efficiency of problem solving.