(a.) Confined within limits; narrow; circumscribed; restricted; as, our views of nature are very limited.
Example Sentences:
(1) Serum levels of both dihydralazine and metabolites were very low and particularly below the detection limit.
(2) This should not be a serious limitation to the application of the RIA in the detection of venous thrombosis.
(3) The rise of malaria despite of control measures involves several factors: the house spraying is no more accepted by a large percentage of house holders and the alternative larviciding has only a limited efficacy; the houses of American Indians have no walls to be sprayed; there is a continuous introduction of parasites by migrants.
(4) Increased infusion flow rate did not increase the limiting frequency.
(5) The extent of the infectious process was limited, however, because the life span of the cultures was not significantly shortened, the yields of infectious virus per immunofluorescent cell were at all times low, and most infected cells contained only a few well-delineated small masses of antigen, suggestive of an abortive infection.
(6) Limited biopsic retroperitoneal lymphnode dissection subsequently extended following the result of the frozen section histology.
(7) In addition, the fact that microheterogeneity may occur without limit in the mannans of the strains suggests that antibodies with unlimited diverse specificities are produced directed against these antigenic varieties as well.
(8) The specific limited trypsinolysis of bacteriophage T7 RNA polymerase (T7RP) was performed in the presence of various components of the polymerase reaction and some GTP-analogs--irreversible inhibitors of the enzyme.
(9) This postulate is supported by a limited study of the serovars present among the isolates.
(10) Breast reconstruction should not be limited to the requiring patients, but should represent, in selected cases with favourable prognosis, an integrative and complementary procedure of the treatment.
(11) As increases to the Isa allowance are based on the CPI inflation figure for the year to the previous September, the new data suggests the current Isa limit of £15,240 will remain unchanged next year.
(12) Conditions for limited digestion of the heterodimer by subtilisin, removing only the carboxyl terminus, were determined.
(13) Furthermore the limit between hearing aid fitting an cochlear implantation is discussed.
(14) Comprehensive regulations are being developed to limit human exposure to contamination in drinking water by the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) under the authority of the Safe Drinking Water Act (SDWA).
(15) Direct limiting effects of hypothermia on tissue O2 delivery and muscle oxidative metabolism as well as vasoconstriction and arteriovenous shunting associated with CPB procedures are likely to be involved in the above mentioned alterations of cell metabolism.
(16) Their disadvantages - the expensive equipment and the time-consuming procedure respectively - limit their widespread use.
(17) The lower limit (LL) of CBF autoregulation was calculated by a computerized program and tested for different factors for correction of the PaCO2-induced changes in CBF.
(18) Immunochemical techniques, in particular ELISA are available for only a very limited number of NM (e.g.
(19) Only one E. coli strain, containing two plasmids that encode endo-pectate lyases, exo-pectate lyase, and endo-polygalacturonase, caused limited maceration.
(20) Initiation of the alternative pathway by the cryptococcal capsule is characterized by a lag in C3 accumulation and the appearance of a limited number of focal initiation sites which resemble those observed when the alternative pathway is activated by zymosan and nonencapsulated cryptococci.
Unconstrained
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) A method is presented for testing the equality of some or all (constrained or unconstrained) optima in a response surface analysis.
(2) In a series of analyses guided by intuitive hypotheses, the Smith and Ellsworth theoretical approach, and a relatively unconstrained, open-ended exploration of the data, the situations were found to vary with respect to the emotions of pride, jealousy or envy, pride in the other, boredom, and happiness.
(3) Many tasks (e.g., solving algebraic equations and running errands) require the execution of several component processes in an unconstrained order.
(4) The tetracaine-sensitive component of charge was well fitted with an unconstrained Boltzmann distribution which gave: Qmax = 7.5 nC microF-1, V = -46.5 mV, k = 5.5 mV.
(5) We observe that the effect of osmotic shock is an elevation of superhelical tension; quantitative comparison with changes in plasmid linking number indicates that the alteration in DNA topology is all unconstrained.
(6) These results emphasise that in order to obtain accurate flexibility results for isolated loads, the foot must be unconstrained by the loading apparatus.
(7) Advantages of the design include: congruity of the articulating surfaces; unconstrained tibiofemoral movement; preservation of all the ligaments with facility to tension them accurately from a range of bearing thicknesses; minimal bone excision; applicability to unicondylar use.
(8) The "blue" in "Blue Labour" comes from a conservative conviction that market forces, unconstrained, play havoc with the fabric of people's lives.
(9) An analysis of 93 unconstrained totalcondylar knee prostheses showed good to excellent results.
(10) However, we cannot rule out the possibility that unconstrained supercoils exist in addition to these constrained supercoils in the transcription complex in the cell.
(11) The sizing and dimensioning of a new unconstrained elbow prosthesis makes use of a geometric axis for humeral articulating surface definition, an axis which is precisely positioned with respect to extra-articular anatomical landmarks.
(12) In contrast, the prevalence of infection in dogs was not abnormally high, although the canine population was large and unconstrained compared to that in industrial countries.
(13) Thirty-three patients had thirty-four consecutive primary arthroplasties, with use of the Souter-Strathclyde cemented unconstrained prosthesis, for severe rheumatoid arthritis of the elbow.
(14) One of several characteristics of this transformation that indicates its adaptational nature is its gradual reversibility under conditions of unconstrained growth.
(15) Comparison of the analog structure with that of the Clostridium pasteurianum rubredoxin active site shows that the former is substantially less distorted from idealized tetrahedral symmetry, and is considered to represent an essentially unconstrained structural model of the latter.
(16) Estimates obtained by this method for myoglobin, lysozyme, lactate dehydrogenase, papain, and ribonuclease are not substantively different from those obtained using unconstrained linear least squares.
(17) The transit time spectrum, measured by differentiation of the computed retention function, was found to be of no practical value with use of the unconstrained matrix method.
(18) Using this approach, early and late stability allows the use of unconstrained knee implants, including those with mobile-bearing elements.
(19) Many institutions, especially in London, went flat out for overseas students whose fees were unconstrained.
(20) This study was designed to test the ability of the ligaments to restore rotational stability to the knee after rotationally unconstrained anterior cruciate-sacrificing total knee arthroplasty (TKA).