(a.) According to an established norm, rule, or principle; conformed to a type, standard, or regular form; performing the proper functions; not abnormal; regular; natural; analogical.
(a.) According to a square or rule; perpendicular; forming a right angle. Specifically: Of or pertaining to a normal.
(a.) Standard; original; exact; typical.
(a.) Denoting a solution of such strength that every cubic centimeter contains the same number of milligrams of the element in question as the number of its molecular weight.
(a.) Denoting certain hypothetical compounds, as acids from which the real acids are obtained by dehydration; thus, normal sulphuric acid and normal nitric acid are respectively S(OH)6, and N(OH)5.
(a.) Denoting that series of hydrocarbons in which no carbon atom is united with more than two other carbon atoms; as, normal pentane, hexane, etc. Cf. Iso-.
(a.) Any perpendicular.
(a.) A straight line or plane drawn from any point of a curve or surface so as to be perpendicular to the curve or surface at that point.
Example Sentences:
(1) Patients with normal echocardiogram and ECG on admission do not require intensive care monitoring.
(2) Homozygotes have sparse greasy fur and lower viability and fertility than normal littermates.
(3) Of the patients 73% demonstrated clinically normal sensibility test results within 23 days after operation.
(4) One hour after direct mechanical cardiomassage (DMCM) a moderately pronounced edema of the intercellular spaces in the basal compartment of the seminiferous epithelium, normal content of lactate and succinate dehydrogenases, and a certain decrease in the activity of glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenases and NAD- and NADP-diaphorases were noted.
(5) Electronmicroscopical investigations have revealed that, under normal conditions, a minor vesicular transfer of intravenously injected peroxidase occurs across the endothelium in segments of arterioles, capillaries and venules, especially in arterioles with a diameter about 15-30 mu.
(6) Of 19 patients with coronary artery disease and "normal" omnicardiograms, only 8 (42%) had normal ventricular angiography.
(7) Tests showed the cells survive and function normally in animals and reverse movement problems caused by Parkinson's in monkeys.
(8) The goals in control patients were to attain normal values for all hemodynamic measurements.
(9) The main finding of this study is that diabetic adolescents with a high erythrocyte Na,Li countertransport rate have an arterial pressure significantly higher than patients with normal Na,Li countertransport fluxes.
(10) The 14C-aminopyrine breath test was used to measure liver function in 14 normal subjects, 16 patients with alcoholic cirrhosis, 14 alcoholics without cirrhosis, and 29 patients taking a variety of drugs.
(11) In the past, the interpretation of the medical findings was hampered by a lack of knowledge of normal anatomy and genital flora in the nonabused prepubertal child.
(12) A 66-year-old woman with acute idiopathic polyneuritis (Landry-Guillain-Barré [LGB] syndrome) had normal extraocular movements, but her pupils did not react to light or accommodation.
(13) Despite their absence, photoreceptors maintained a normal rate of OS assembly.
(14) Early stabilisation may not ensure normal development but even early splinting carries a small risk of avascular necrosis.
(15) Other haematological parameters remained normal, with the exception of the absolute number of lymphocytes, which initially fell sharply but soon returned to, and even exceeded, control levels.
(16) It was the purpose of the present study to describe the normal pattern of the growth sites of the nasal septum according to age and sex by histological and microradiographical examination of human autopsy material.
(17) In addition, KM231 could detect a small amount of the antigen ganglioside in human gastric normal and cancerous mucosa and in gastric cancer cell lines by HPTLC-immunostaining.
(18) The results indicate that OA-bearing macrophages primed T cells and generated helper T cells, whereas the culture of normal lymphocytes with soluble OA in the absence of macrophages generated suppressor T cells.
(19) In hypophysectomized rats the activity of alanine aminotransferase was increased, but its normal zonation (predominance in the periportal zone) was preserved.
(20) Five of the nine normal livers had peribiliary glands that showed HLA-DR.
Unnatural
Definition:
(a.) Not natural; contrary, or not conforming, to the order of nature; being without natural traits; as, unnatural crimes.
Example Sentences:
(1) Those searching for structural effects and those searching for meaning are potentially natural partners, a relationship much superior to being unnatural antagonists.
(2) Last week, Jindal told a conference that corporate America has fashioned an “unnatural alliance with the radical left” by opposing so-called religious freedom bills that gay rights activists fear would give businesses a license to discriminate.
(3) These findings suggest that the neural circuits underlying auditory spatial sensitivity of IC neurons of the monaurally plugged juvenile bats have undergone modifications to compensate for the unnatural binaural disparity during postnatal development.
(4) Yet many Africans who are at risk of infection reject condoms as "unnatural."
(5) In unnatural death cases the BAC under 0.05% was found in 64% of the suicides, 62% of the accidents, 54% of the homicides and 51% of the drug intoxications.
(6) A quarter (71) of the deaths reported were unnatural, verdicts of suicide or accidental death or open verdicts having been recorded.
(7) These results suggest the possibility that stuttering treatments that employ strategies like gentle voicing onset and prolonged speech may result in somewhat slower posttherapy speech patterns characterized by prolonged VOTs that could influence listeners to judge the speech as more unnatural than the speech of nonstutterers.
(8) Thus only pathologists are allowed to certify unnatural causes of death.
(9) 5: 423-429, 1973), appears to restrict blood flow by placing unnatural tension on the retractor muscle and by requiring an incision in the tip of the pouch.
(10) Inhibitory action is potentiated both in vitro and in vivo by the addition of leucovorin (LV; either the natural [6S] isomer or the mixture of the unnatural and natural [6R,S] isomers).
(11) 5) With respect to the facial aesthetics of the case presented as one of reference, 42.7, 15.9 and 13.3% pointed out mandibular deviation, ocular prostheses and condition of contact of the maxillofacial prostheses with the skin, respectively, to be unnatural.
(12) Forest ecologists say it is no coincidence the Rim fire exploded through areas which had seen few or no blazes in almost a century – an unnatural absence since California's mountain flora evolved to burn .
(13) Methylation of PE and random acyl chain migration across different phospholipid classes were marginal, but the exchange of PC for PE, apparently mediated by the action of phospholipase, was indicated after uptake of the unnatural PC( delta 9-27:1, delta 9-26:1).
(14) Three-hundred-and-thirty cases of unnatural death, leading to 110 open verdicts, 110 verdicts of suicide and 110 of accident, from the Inner West London Coroner's District have been examined to see if particular coroner's officers or pathologists were associated with disproportionate numbers of suicide verdicts.
(15) During this phase, the head might be subjected to unnatural position which is maintained for a certain period.
(16) A number of unnatural amino acids and amino acid analogs with modified backbone structures were substituted for alanine-82 in T4 lysozyme.
(17) Heavier drinkers were at greater risk for death from noncardiovascular causes (relative risk at greater than or equal to 6 drinks per day compared with no alcohol = 1.6, 95% Cl, 1.3 to 2.0) especially cirrhosis, unnatural death, and tobacco-related cancers.
(18) Cyanogen bromide catalyzes the formation not only of phosphodiester, but also of unnatural phosphoramide and pyrophosphate interoligomer bonds.
(19) On Tuesday the Israeli general Benny Gantz was quoted as telling a parliamentary panel that 2012 would be a "critical year" for Iran, in part because of "things that happen to it unnaturally".
(20) According to definitions of medical malpractice and of unnatural death it is established that medical measures under criminal principles of causality come into consideration as causes of death even without proof of guilt.