(v. t.) To increase in number; to make more numerous; to add quantity to.
(v. t.) To add (any given number or quantity) to itself a certain number of times; to find the product of by multiplication; thus 7 multiplied by 8 produces the number 56; to multiply two numbers. See the Note under Multiplication.
(v. t.) To increase (the amount of gold or silver) by the arts of alchemy.
(v. i.) To become greater in number; to become numerous.
(v. i.) To increase in extent and influence; to spread.
(v. i.) To increase amount of gold or silver by the arts of alchemy.
Example Sentences:
(1) If tracer is introduced into the carotid artery after osmotic treatment, brain uptake is increased by a net factor of 50 (a factor of 70 due to elevation of PA, multiplied by 7 due to infusion by the carotid route) as compared to uptake by normal, untreated brain with infusion into a peripheral vein.
(2) Furthermore, high-density catalase-positive--but not catalase-negative--E. coli can survive and multiply in the presence of competitive, peroxide-generating streptococci.
(3) But the company's problems appear to be multiplying, with rumours that suppliers are demanding earlier payment than before, putting pressure on HTC's cash position.
(4) ); and 3) those that multiply and produce large numbers of vegetative cells in the food, then release an active enterotoxin when they sporulate in the gut.
(5) These data demonstrate that membrane vesicles from multiply drug-resistant cells bind increased amounts of vinblastine.
(6) This ability may be associated with virulence, because an attenuated strain of L. pneumophila fails to multiply within this protozoan, whereas a virulent strain increases 10,000-fold in number when coincubated with T. pyriformis.
(7) The endogenous basal appearance rates of BCAA, estimated by the basal concentrations multiplied by the plasma clearances, were lower in cirrhotics (P less than 0.025).
(8) Urine specimens from 93 selected subjects were run by fluorescence polarization immunoassay on the Abbott TDx; by enzyme multiplied immunoassay with two Syva EMIT assays; and by thin-layer chromatography with the TOXI-LAB system (Marion Laboratories).
(9) The cells displayed an epithelial pattern and multiplied rapidly.
(10) When a supercoiled substrate bearing two FLP target sequences in inverse orientation is treated with FLP, the products are multiply knotted structures that arise as a result of random entrapment of interdomainal supercoils.
(11) Two fish rhabdoviruses, spring viraemia of Carp virus (SVC) and Pike fry rhabdovirus (PFR), have been shown to multiply in Drosophila melanogaster.
(12) Comparisons of homogeneous enzyme multiplied immunoassay technique (EMIT) and high pressure liquid chromatography (HPLC) revealed that the EMIT slightly over-estimated plasma carbamazepine levels due to immunochemical cross reactivity with the epoxide metabolite.
(13) Like the S strains of Brucella, the R strains are able to multiply in the mouse spleen.
(14) Twenty-two parent (multiplier) breeder flocks became infected.
(15) From inocula of 100-350 organisms all 21 strains multiplied following immediate incubation, and 20 of 21 when incubation was delayed for 3 days.
(16) To study important epitopes on glycoprotein E2 of Sindbis virus, eight variants selected to be singly or multiply resistant to six neutralizing monoclonal antibodies reactive against E2, as well as four revertants which had regained sensitivity to neutralization, were sequenced throughout the E2 region.
(17) Mutations in the hrpC locus, although preventing the bacteria from eliciting a hypersensitive reaction on tobacco, allowed the bacteria to produce delayed and attenuated symptoms in Red Kidney bean leaves and to multiply to a level 10(2)- to 10(3)-fold lower than that of the wild-type strain.
(18) infection of mice, the lymphocytic choriomeningitis virus multiplied in this organ.
(19) The authors studied retrospectively the formation of clinically significant red cell (RBC) alloantibodies in 958 HLA-typed, multiply transfused patients receiving kidney (603 patients) or liver (263 patients) transplants or plateletpheresis transfusions (92 patients).
(20) Four of the foster grandchildren, all profoundly retarded and multiply handicapped, demonstrated progress throughout the study.
Procreate
Definition:
(v. t.) To generate and produce; to beget; to engender.
Example Sentences:
(1) The relation between genetic counseling and the procreation sphere among the studied families is presented.
(2) Four children have sickle-cell anaemia, two sickle-cell haemoglobin C disease, one has sickle-cell thalassaemia, and one is asymptomatic haemoglobin C thalassaemia.It is emphasized that the contribution that adult sickle-cell disease patients make, through procreation, to the persistence of the S gene may be greater than is normally supposed, and that this contribution may soon outstrip that made by balanced polymorphism through falciparum malaria.
(3) (Like humans, they have sex for pleasure as well as for procreation.)
(4) The traditional philosophy that all sexual intercourse should serve potential procreation is fading.
(5) Separation themes, however, were more frequent during the CR than the EN period, suggesting that concerns over separation from siblings reflect a developmental process which might be related to bonding with the family of procreation.
(6) In a retrospective study, we analysed nine hundred and twenty-two pregnancies obtained using medically assisted procreation between May 1982 and May 1990.
(7) Faced with a rapidly ageing society, skyrocketing housing prices, low birth rates and a population that works the longest hours in the world, this country of 5.3 million people has made various attempts over the years to encourage its citizens to marry and procreate, from government-funded speed-dating schemes to educational flyers on how to flirt.
(8) "Marriage is the only union enabling procreation," Croatian cardinal Josip Bozanic said in his message to followers.
(9) But only half of the women do not keep this special method of procreation secret.
(10) The right time for medically assisted procreation is obvious in patients with tubal obstruction but in the others it varies according to age, duration of infertility and previous treatments.
(11) Also, because the dosage required is comparatively low, patients over procreative age could be included in the program of treatment with immunosuppressants.
(12) The position is mainly based on the importance of procreation for individuals.
(13) After stating that abortion is not to be considered a contraceptive method, and that, on the other hand, responsible procreation is to be encouraged, and information and services of contraception obtained in maternal-infant health centers, the law states the modalities for voluntary interruption of pregnancy.
(14) The contractual view of procreative freedom perpetuates and assumes a traditional patriarchal family model.
(15) The law would not give automatic joint parenting rights to gay couples who had a child together, nor would it allow medically assisted procreation or IVF.
(16) Evaluation of the boys included testicular biopsy, semen analyses and the ability to procreate.
(17) A number of psychological determinants are important for the possibility of genetic investigations in the affected families, and the decision about procreation may be influenced by a number of determinants other than the result of genetic counsel.
(18) Then she cites--and briefly comments upon--some court cases brought by parents of genetically defective children against their physicians for allegedly failing to predict or to diagnose genetic defects in those children in time for the parents to exercise any procreative options such as sterilization, contraception, or abortion.
(19) Whereas the prophylaxis has been a centralized social-hygienic request, the eugenics has been orientated on the transfer of the principle of selection and the regulations of the human procreation.
(20) On the basis of 300 andrological expertises made over the last 40 years to answer the question as to procreative capacity and other andrological problems, a position is taken up towards the expertise in general and to a number of characteristic data.