(n.) An organized being; a living body, either vegetable or animal, compozed of different organs or parts with functions which are separate, but mutually dependent, and essential to the life of the individual.
Example Sentences:
(1) The high amino acid levels in the cells suggest that these cells act as inter-organ transporters and reservoirs of amino acids, they have a different role in their handling and metabolism from those of mammals.
(2) These organic compounds were found to be stable on the sorbent tubes for at least seven days.
(3) The main clinical features pertaining to the concept of the "psycho-organic syndrome" (POS) were investigated in a sample of children who suffered from severe craniocerebral trauma.
(4) After 3 and 6 months, blood collected by cardiocentesis using ether anesthesia and then sacrificed to remove CNS and internal organs.
(5) Addition of phospholipase A2 from Vipera russelli venom led to a significant increase in the activity of guanylate cyclase in various rat organs.
(6) For the first time it was organized on the basis of population.
(7) Acceptance of less than ideal donors is ill-advised even though rejection of such donors conflicts with the current shortage of organs.
(8) There is no evidence that health-maintenance organizations reduce admissions in discretionary or "unnecessary" categories; instead, the data suggest lower admission rates across the board.
(9) We conclude that chloramphenicol resistance encoded by Tn1696 is due to a permeability barrier and hypothesize that the gene from P. aeruginosa may share a common ancestral origin with these genes from other gram-negative organisms.
(10) Recovery of CV-3988 from plasma averaged 81.7% for the column procedure and 40% for the organic extraction.
(11) One of the main users is coastal planning organizations and conservation organizations that are working on coral reefs.
(12) Infection with opportunistic organisms, either singly or in combination, is known to occur in immunocompromised patients.
(13) The causative organisms included viruses, fungi, and bacteria of both high and low pathogenicity.
(14) A chronic cannulation procedure is described which allows for sampling vomeronasal organ (VNO) contents repeatedly in freely moving conscious subjects.
(15) Neither Brucella organisms, nor increased numbers of neutrophils could be found in semen samples collected from the experimental animals.
(16) The lineage and clonality of Hodgkin's disease (HD) were investigated by analyzing the organization of the immunoglobulin and T-cell receptor beta-chain (T beta) gene loci in 18 cases of HD, and for comparison, in a panel of 103 cases of B- and T-cell non-Hodgkin's lymphomas (NHLs) and lymphoid leukemias (LLs).
(17) A review is made from literature and an inventory of psychological and organic factors implicated in this pathology.
(18) The authors conclude that H. pylori alone causes little or no effect on an intact gastric mucosa in the rat, that either intact organisms or bacteria-free filtrates cause similar prolongation and delayed healing of pre-existing ulcers with active chronic inflammation, and that the presence of predisposing factors leading to disruption of gastric mucosal integrity may be required for the H. pylori enhancement of inflammation and tissue damage in the stomach.
(19) Data is available to support the early influences of enamel organ epithelium upon a responding mesenchyme in the determination of dental morphogenetic fields (Dryburg, 1967; Miller, 1969).
(20) The four deaths were not related to the injuries of parenchymatous organs.
Procreation
Definition:
(n.) The act of begetting; generation and production of young.
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.