(a.) Not sensitive; wanting sense or perception; not easily affected.
Example Sentences:
(1) Fifteen female pigs of a third line, consisting of heterozygotes and halothane-nonsensitive homozygotes, were also available.
(2) Primary irritant contact dermatitis was induced in the skin of nonsensitized Beagle pups by 1%, 5%, and 10% solutions of DNCB.
(3) On the other hand the growth rate of calcitonin-nonsensitive KH-39 cells was unaltered.
(4) By contrast, sarcoma P7 was not significantly less susceptible to BCG-induced regression in non-sensitized immunosuppressed rats than in nonsensitized normal rats; and sarcoma P8 similarly failed to reveal any significant differences in susceptibility to BCG affecting primary or secondary tumour development.
(5) The cause for nonsensitization to DNCB was not clear.
(6) It was shown that the endogenous interferon level as well as degree of degranulation of lung mast cells were higher in sensitized and influenza virus-infected mice than in infected and nonsensitized ones.
(7) Nonsensitized guinea pigs and animals sensitized with emulsion of 1 mg or 100 microgram of peptidoglycan with complete or incomplete FREUND's adjuvant exhibited distinct immediate skin hypersensitivity.
(8) Between the best and worst HLA-A,B,DR match there was a 19% difference in one-year graft survival for nonsensitized patients, and a 26% difference in patients sensitized to more than 50% of the panel.
(9) Adrenaline slightly inhibited incorporation of H-thymidine in cultures of sensitized lymphocytes in absence of antigen in cultures of nonsensitized lymphocytes.
(10) To evaluate possible causes of the false-positive cross-match test for clinical renal transplantation, the incidence of serum autoleukocytotoxic activity and its relationship to allogeneic sensitization to HLA antigens (the positive cross-match) were determined in 234 sera from 28 sensitized and eight nonsensitized chronic renal failure patients.
(11) In vitro differentiation of uterine stroma isolated from Day 4 pregnant rats, sensitized to respond to a decidual stimulus, was compared to that in nonsensitized immature, castrated or cycling rats.
(12) The purpose of this study is to compare the relative radiosensitivity of sensitized and nonsensitized lymphocytes utilizing an in vitro test system.
(13) When challenged with mecholyl, 7 of 10 "sensitive" but only 1 of 10 "nonsensitive" individuals showed a greater than 20% decrease in FEV1.
(14) Tracheal strips from actively sensitized guinea pigs exhibited an enhanced responsiveness (greater maximal effects; Emax) and sensitivity (smaller effective concentration 50%; pD2) to CaCl2 (in K(+)-depolarized tissues), KCl and histamine compared with that of strips from nonsensitized animals.
(15) This ratio appears to act as a relatively nonsensitive index of hepatocellular dysfunction rather than an index of alcoholism.
(16) In addition, supernatant fluids obtained from sensitive alveolar cells incubated with H37Ra were capable of inducing giant cell formation when incubated with nonsensitized alveolar cells.
(17) To the time of papillomas appearance sensitized animals showed immunosuppression being more significant than in nonsensitized mice.
(18) The distribution of 3H-labeled 2,4-dinitrofluorobenzene (DNFB) has been autoradiographically investigated in buccal mucosa after topical application to sensitized or nonsensitized rats.
(19) Dosages of antigen and duration of incubation were varied to determine the dose and incubation time that would allow a clear distinction between sensitized and nonsensitized dogs.
(20) In an apparently tumor-specific immunotherapy model, 32 guinea pigs were cured by the injection into the tumor area, five or seven days after tumor challenge, of syngeneic or xenogeneic RNA extracts obtained from lymphoid tissues of line 10-immune strain 2 guinea pigs or rhesus monkeys, as part of a total regimen which included syngeneic nonsensitive peritoneal exudate cells injected prior to, and tumor-specific antigen injected after, the RNA.
Perception
Definition:
(n.) The act of perceiving; cognizance by the senses or intellect; apperhension by the bodily organs, or by the mind, of what is presented to them; discernment; apperhension; cognition.
(n.) The faculty of perceiving; the faculty, or peculiar part, of man's constitution by which he has knowledge through the medium or instrumentality of the bodily organs; the act of apperhending material objects or qualities through the senses; -- distinguished from conception.
(n.) The quality, state, or capability, of being affected by something external; sensation; sensibility.
(n.) An idea; a notion.
Example Sentences:
(1) However, the relationships between sociometric status and social perception varied as a function of task.
(2) Variables included an ego-delay measure obtained from temporal estimations, perceptions of temporal dominance and relatedness obtained from Cottle's Circles Test, Ss' ages, and a measure of long-term posthospital adjustment.
(3) With respect to family environment, a history of sexual abuse was associated with perceptions that families of origin had less cohesion, more conflict, less emphasis on moral-religious matters, less emphasis on achievement, and less of an orientation towards intellectual, cultural, and recreational pursuits.
(4) This study examined the effects of cultural factors on perception of 15 boys and 21 girls in Nigeria.
(5) Subtle differences between Chicago urban and Grand Forks rural climates are reflected in arthritic subjects' degree of pain and their perception of pain-related stress.
(6) Instead, he handed over the opening to reporter Molly Line, who said, “Racial profiling is in the eye of the beholder,” before citing differing perceptions of the phenomenon between white and black people, which is like reading the headline “Rapist, Victim Differ on Consent”.
(7) The current study explored the temporal course of the perception of vowel duration.
(8) Subjects with high ocular-dominance scores (right- or left-dominant subjects) showed for the green stimulus asymmetric behavior, while subjects with low ocular-dominance scores showed a tendency toward symmetry in perception.
(9) For each theory, a constraint on preformance is proposed based on interference between the "analytic" and "synthetic" pitch perception modes.
(10) While research into the cause of altered pain perception in psychotic patients is continuing, clinicians should maintain a high index of suspicion of serious medical illness when evaluating such patients.
(11) The image of any radiology facility is a direct result of perceptions gathered by the consumer of their services.
(12) Three experiments in person perception were conducted to investigate the conditions under which naive observers label an actor as aggressive and to ascertain how this label affects the reactions of the observers to the actor.
(13) The purpose of the present study was to investigate the effects of listening experience on the perception of intraphonemic differences in the absence of specific training with the synthetic speech sounds being tested.
(14) Auditory sensory perception was operationalized as number of tones heard on audiometric examination.
(15) It has been shown that adequate brain provision of this process is based in adults both on the functional topographic differentiation and specialization of separate perceptive operations and on the possibility of controlling generalized and local activating influences according to task requirements.
(16) Quantitative analysis of pain demonstrated an 87% improvement in their perception of pain in the remaining 19 patients, with an average follow-up of 8.5 years.
(17) The reverberation times were 2.1 and 1.6 s. In quiet conditions at normal speech level (60 dBA), the perception was better without earmuffs than with them.
(18) The author differentiates between two modes of perception, one is the "expressive" mode, stabilizing and aiming at constancy, the other is the "impressive" mode, penetrating the self and aiming at identification with the percept.
(19) Lack of transparency about the nature of the relationship between police and media also led to speculation and perceptions, whatever the facts, that caused "serious harm".
(20) The tonic influences were expressed in an increase in the amplitude parameters of the responses of the visual cortex in conditions of the formation in the posterolateral nucleus of the thalamus of a focus of heightened excitability (anode polarization), and their perceptible diminution with potassium depression in this nucleus.