(a.) Less; requiring to be subtracted; negative; as, a minus quantity.
Example Sentences:
(1) Both strong-stop DNAs are made early during in vitro reactions and decline in concentration later, consistent with postulated roles as initiators of long minus- and plus-strand DNA.
(2) The open probability is weakly voltage dependent, large at zero and positive potentials (cytoplasm minus SR lumen), and decreasing at negative potentials.
(3) A linear increase in heart rate per 10-fold increase of either drug was observed, (-)-isoprenaline: 25 beats - min-1-; (plus or minus)-salbutamol: 14 beats - min-1-.
(4) However, corrected CMTT (CCMTT), i.e., CMTT minus AMTT, may have been prolonged in five subjects either on the left or right, or in both homologous regions.
(5) at -35 degrees C and as long as 10 hours at -5 degrees C. However, C. bovis died within 72-96 hours in muscles of cattle carcasses subjected to the activity of the temperatures minus 18-19 degrees C at a relative humidity of 86-90% under conditions of an industrial cold storage plant.
(6) Stringent (rel+) as well as relaxed (rel minus) strains were able to rapidly curtail their accumulation of ribonculeic acid (RNA) after a downshift imposed by decreasing glucose transport into the cell.
(7) Statistical analysis has shown the following: a) the growth inhibition, which is especially distinct in autumn-spring generation, takes place in the Ist instar larvae 1.76-2.20 mm long inhabiting the walls of the nasal cavity and concha (their average body length at hatching is 1.08 plus or minus 0.004 mm); the inhibition is associated with interpopulation relations and apparently does not depend on the date of its beginning and can last from 6 to 7 months; c) after the growth resumption the development continues uninterruptedly up to the moulting; the inhibition is also possible at the beginning of the 2nd instar and then the development proceeds without any intervals up to the complete maturation of larvae.
(8) This was in contrast to cells expressing a tail-minus variant of Fc gamma RII (hFc gamma RIItail-).
(9) The difference (reduced minus oxidized) spectrum of the purified enzyme possessed alpha,beta, and gamma bands at 550, 523, and 416 nm, respectively.
(10) The increase in cyclic AMP, but not the inhibition of mechanical activity, was blocked by propranolol 3.4 X 10-MINUS 6 M. 4.
(11) For each patient, the BSM and the QRS integral map before, during, and after the inflation was compared by subtraction of recordings "during-minus-before" inflation and "before-minus-after" inflation.
(12) We have isolated and characterized revertants of ts24, a member of the A complementation group of Sindbis HR mutants, that we had demonstrated previously to have a temperature-sensitive defect in the regulation of minus-strand synthesis.
(13) In Nannizzia fulva (M. fulvum), plus-mating-type strains were elastase-positive and minus-mating-type strains elastase-negative.
(14) plus or minus 4.7) mug per g dry wt (p vs controls equals greater than 0.01).
(15) In four additional patients studied serially, the cell-mediated immunity was significantly increased during the recrudescence of herpetic infection, with a mean specific immune release value of 51.7 plus or minus 27.8%, compared to 8.7 plus or minus 1.5% during the convalescent period 2 to 10 weeks later (P is less than 0.05).
(16) A truncated anchor-minus form of the G2 glycoprotein was found to be secreted into the culture medium, but was retained in the Golgi complex when coexpressed with the G1 glycoprotein.
(17) The 6alpha- and 6beta-testosterone derivatives were attached to BSA via a mixed anhydride coupling employing tributylamine and i minus-butylchlorocarbonate.
(18) Each forward pack was tested under the following scrummaging combinations: front-row only; front-row plus second-row; full scrum minus side-row, and full scrum.
(19) Cl minus uptake was a saturatable function of the external Cl minus concentration, and apparent Km values of 6.4 times 10-6 M and 10-4 M were calculated.
(20) Sound velocities, breaking strengths calculated from velocities adjusted for estimated soft tissue cover, measured bone mediolateral diameters and cannon diameters minus estimated soft tissue increased as quadratic functions of chronologic age (r greater than .840; P less than .0001).
Subtract
Definition:
(v. t.) To withdraw, or take away, as a part from the whole; to deduct; as, subtract 5 from 9, and the remainder is 4.
Example Sentences:
(1) Thus, 10 degrees should be subtracted from the ultrasound values in order to obtain the real AV angles.
(2) The signals were processed digitally using three different algorithms: 1) simple linear regression (LR); 2) linear regression with drift correction achieved by adding to, or subtracting from the plethysmographic signal a term proportional to time (LRC); 3) Fourier analysis (FFT).
(3) During bilateral displacements, the activity induced by the respective contralateral leg is linearly summed or subtracted, depending on whether the legs are displaced in the same or in opposite directions.
(4) All MR images were compared with findings of chest X-ray, CT and IVDSA (intravenous digital subtraction angiography) as appropriate.
(5) Binaural difference waves (BDWs), obtained by subtracting the sum of two monaural BAEPs from a binaural BAEP, were obtained in 16- to 20-day-old jaundiced Gunn rats before and after injection of sulfadimethoxine, which produces bilirubin neurotoxicity by promoting net transfer of bilirubin out of the circulation into brain tissue.
(6) Aggressive responding was maintained by contingent presentation of periods free of point subtractions, i.e., provocations.
(7) The diagnosis of this rare anomaly was facilitated by the use of digital subtraction aortography and allowed selective angiography of the artery with an appropriately shaped catheter.
(8) Intraarterial digital subtraction angiography (DSA) was performed to evaluate graft patency in 45 patients undergoing coronary artery bypass grafting with the use of internal mammary artery (IMA).
(9) We studied how much blue, green, or red light had to be added to or subtracted from white to obtain veridical hue perception (blue, green, red, or their complementary colours) at various locations in the temporal visual field.
(10) For each patient, the BSM and the QRS integral map before, during, and after the inflation was compared by subtraction of recordings "during-minus-before" inflation and "before-minus-after" inflation.
(11) Aneurysm of the hepatic artery, causing obstruction of the common bile duct, was definitely diagnosed preoperatively by subtraction angiography, combined with percutaneous transhepatic cholangiography.
(12) One problem required addition; the other subtraction.
(13) Eight complementary DNA (cDNA) clones highly expressed in fetal rat stomach but not in normal adult rat stomach were isolated after screening 2 x 10(4) independent recombinants from a subtracted cDNA library.
(14) In nine cases, MR angiographic findings were verified with digital subtraction angiography or conventional angiography.
(15) The various definitions of "efficiency" and "economy" are considered at the whole body and the isolated muscle level, and a discussion of baseline subtraction is presented.
(16) The voltage-dependent Na+, K+ and Ca2+ currents (INa, IK and ICa) were separated by the use of ion subtraction and pharmacological treatments.
(17) They could be improved by subtraction of the vascular images obtained after injection of 99m-technetium serum albumin.
(18) Single digital subtraction angiography showed bilateral occlusion, predominantly on the left side of the supraclinoid portion of the interna carotid arteries with formation of collateral circulation in the diencephalic territory.
(19) In this pilot study, a blood pool subtraction technique, which makes it possible to visualize MI 6 h postinjection, is validated.
(20) To determine the optimal time for recording left ventricular angiograms during atrial pacing stress tests, digital subtraction left ventriculograms were obtained using 12 ml of contrast material in 40 patients at rest and at peak pacing.