(Superl.) Only this, and nothing else; such, and no more; simple; bare; as, a mere boy; a mere form.
Example Sentences:
(1) Interphase death thus involves a discrete, abrupt transition from the normal state and is not merely the consequence of progressive and degenerative changes.
(2) By way of major complications, merely one perforation occurred.
(3) Indeed, the nationalist and religious right bloc merely held steady , gaining just one seat.
(4) A brief review of the last decade or so of developments in health politics, policy and law suggests that health is no longer a field of mere "dynamics without change."
(5) The view that testes found lateral to the external ring and which could be pushed some way into the scrotum were merely retractile was questioned.
(6) In these three patients, laxity of the knee in flexion was so severe that posterior instability could not be corrected merely by patellar relocation.
(7) It has so far returned a mere $6m (£3.6m) of its relatively meagre $28m (£17.1m) budget, according to Forbes, a percentage of just 21%.
(8) In the literature this disease is presented merely as a metastasis.
(9) The plasmid-encoded activity does not merely replace the RecBCD enzyme failure but differs in several significant ways.
(10) Furthermore, changes between merely perceived identical parts can result in apparent depth.
(11) Thus, the long stalks of Sk1 or phosphate-starved caulobacters are not merely a function of their longer doubling times.
(12) Exogenous macromolecular DNA was able to repair, to an important degree the radiotoxic effect of 3H-thymidine on V79 cells by a mechanism other than the mere reduction of specific activity of 3H-thymidine.
(13) Multiple contacts between the gamma-subunit and calmodulin (delta-subunit), as indicated by our data, may help to explain why strongly denaturing conditions are required to dissociate these two subunits, whereas complexes of calmodulin with most other target enzymes can be readily dissociated by merely lowering Ca2+ to submicromolar concentrations.
(14) Scott insisted he was an abstract painter in the way he felt Chardin was too: the pans and fruit were uninteresting in themselves; they were merely "the means of making a picture", which was a study in space, form and colour.
(15) The charity Bite the Ballot , which persuaded hundreds of thousands to register before the last general election, is to set up “democracy cafes” in Starbucks branches, laying on experts to explain how to register and vote, and what the referendum is all about (Bite the Ballot does not take sides but merely encourages participation).
(16) These outcomes further supported the conclusion that the contextual stimuli exerted true conditional control over conditional relations in the equivalence classes and were not merely elements of compound stimuli.
(17) A mere glance at the time courses shows what reaction schemes are inapplicable.
(18) Since the discovery of the antidepressant effects of interventions in the sleep-wake cycle, a number of hypotheses have emerged according to which disturbances in sleep physiology are not merely expressions but essential components of the pathophysiology of depression.
(19) In a Facebook post , the songwriter and activist claims that Swift has merely chosen sides in the battle between Google and Spotify, saying that the singer was trying to “sell this corporate power play to us as some sort of altruistic gesture in solidarity with struggling music makers”.
(20) It is assumed that one function of grooming behaviour may be a merely cleansing one.
Merle
Definition:
(n.) The European blackbird. See Blackbird.
Example Sentences:
(1) The cases of ununited fracture of the femoral neck, treated by a technique described by Brackett (1927) and modified by Merle d'Aubigné (1968) are reported.
(2) The scores of clinical results according to the Merle d'Aubigené and Postel scale were as follows: pain 4.48, walk 3.99, movements 4.02.
(3) At an average follow-up of four years, assessment by the Merle d'Aubigńe score showed 83% excellent or good results.
(4) Rats moving freely in their cages were injected into substantia nigra with bidistilled water, with NaCl solutions of various concentrations or with a multionic Merle's solution.
(5) Fifteen patients with 17 hips have been operated and followed-up and by using the Merle d'Aubigné evaluation there was an improvement of some 3--4 points in pain, walking, and total motion.
(6) The modified Merle d'Aubigne and Postel score averaged 5.3 for pain, 3.7 for walking ability, and 4.0 for range of motion (ROM) in patients with healed infections.
(7) Between October and December 1987, a total of 232 of these patients were examined and the results rated according to Merl d'Aubigne's classification: 166 (71%) were classified as very good or good, 49 (21%) as satisfactory, and 17 (7%) as unsatisfactory.
(8) These findings are interpreted as obvious gene dosis effects of the incompletely dominant merle gene which is used to produce a characteric harlequin dappling in many breeds of dogs.
(9) In January 1960, he played the first of his celebrated prison shows at San Quentin, where one of the inmates yelling him on was Merle Haggard, locked up on a burglary charge.
(10) So-called physiological saline solution (0-9% NaCl) was found to be most toxic and the multionic Merle's solution most suitable among the control fluids tested.
(11) Based on the well known surgical techniques of Juvara, Merle d'Aubigné and J.Böhler, a precedure was presented which has been clinically tested for 6 years.
(12) Luckily for Cash, he had already met June Carter (Obituary May 17 2003), who had co-written Ring Of Fire with Merle Kilgore.
(13) Note from Dr. Merle A. Sande--We have recently come to appreciate the fact that successful chemotherapy of opportunistic infections in patients with AIDS is akin to treatment of certain malignancies: In both instances, induction, followed by maintenance, therapy is required.
(14) Ike had grown up in Muhlenberg County, Kentucky, and was a gifted guitar-picker whose playing helped to shape the playing of such country greats as Merle Travis and Chet Atkins.
(15) Radiographic and clinical assessment before and after surgery according to Ficat, Arlet and Merle D'Aubigné.
(16) Of the 77 patients in whom follow-up was possible, 76 had results falling in the very good or good categories according to the Merle d'Aubigné scheme.
(17) In 44 dachshunds of both sexes, reared and held under identical conditions in order to investigate the effects of the merle gene, ophthalmologic examinations were performed.
(18) Of the 30 hips available for functional assessment using the Merle d'Aubigné scale, 16 were excellent, 10 good, 2 fair, 1 poor and 1 bad.
(19) Most of them improved one step higher in the evaluation scheme according to Merle d'Aubigne.
(20) The syndrome may have arisen in conjunction with instability of the merle locus.