(n.) The first existence or beginning of anything; the birth.
(n.) That from which anything primarily proceeds; the fountain; the spring; the cause; the occasion.
(n.) The point of attachment or end of a muscle which is fixed during contraction; -- in contradistinction to insertion.
Example Sentences:
(1) Our results suggest that the peripheral sensitivity to hypoxia declined more than that to CO2, implying a peripheral chemoreceptor origin for hypoxic ventilatory decline.
(2) These immunocytochemical studies clearly demonstrated that cells encountered within the fibrous intimal thickening in the vein graft were inevitably smooth muscle cell in origin.
(3) The nuclear origin of the Ha antigen was confirmed by the speckled nuclear immunofluorescence staining pattern given by purified antibody to Ha obtained from a specific immune precipitate.
(4) The origin of the aorta and pulmonary artery from the right ventricle is a complicated and little studied congenital cardiac malformation.
(5) The origins of aging of higher forms of life, particularly humans, is presented as the consequence of an evolved balance between 4 specific kinds of dysfunction-producing events and 4 kinds of evolved counteracting effects in long-lived forms.
(6) These cells contained organelles characteristic of the maturation stage ameloblast and often extended to the enamel surface, suggesting a possible origin from the ameloblast layer.
(7) 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.
(8) Typological and archaeological investigations indicate that the church building represents originally the hospital facility for the lay brothers of the monastery, which according to the chronicle of the monastery was built in the beginning of the 14th century.
(9) Plasma NPY correlated better with plasma norepinephrine than with epinephrine, indicating its origin from sympathetic nerve terminals.
(10) Interadjudicator agreement was stronger on 'originality' than on 'aesthetic pleasingness'.
(11) One rare case of blind-ending branch originating in the upper third of the ureter are described.
(12) It is my desperate hope that we close out of town.” In the book, God publishes his own 'It Getteth Better' video and clarifies his original writings on homosexuality: I remember dictating these lines to Moses; and afterward looking up to find him staring at me in wide-eyed astonishment, and saying, "Thou do knowest that when the Israelites read this, they're going to lose their fucking shit, right?"
(13) As the requirements to store and display these images increase, the following questions become important: (a) What methods can be used to ensure that information given to the physician represents the originally acquired data?
(14) The condition is compared to extrahepatic and intrahepatic biliary atresia of man and evidence is presented for regarding this case to be one of extrahepatic origin.
(15) The position of the cyst supports the theory that branchial cysts are congenital in origin.
(16) heterografts of GW-39, a CEA-producing colonic tumor of human origin, was demonstrated in radioimmunoassay using radioiodinated CEA purified from GW-39.
(17) The committee reviewed the history, original intent, current purpose, and effectiveness of meetings held on the unit; when problems were identified, suggestions for change were formulated.
(18) The relative strength of the progressions varies with excitation wavelength and this, together with the absence of a common origin, indicates the existence of two independent emitting states with 0-0' levels separated by either 300 or 1000 cm-1.
(19) Sickle and normal discocytes both showed membrane elasticity with reversion to original cell shape following release of the cell from its aspirated position at the pipette tip.
(20) 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.
Thereof
Definition:
(adv.) Of that or this.
Example Sentences:
(1) These findings explain many differences in previous conflicting reports concerning the metabolic behavior of uric acid, and place future investigation thereof on a more promising basis in normal and abnormal pregnancy.
(2) Despite its similarity to proteasomal enzyme activity, protein analysis and immunoblotting experiments demonstrate that neither the intact proteasome nor subunits thereof are components of the '26 S' proteinase complex.
(3) GNM reserves the right at any time and from time to time to modify or discontinue, temporarily or permanently, the Awards or any feature thereof with or without prior notice due to reasons outside its control (including, without limitation, in the case of anticipated, suspected, or actual fraud).
(4) This report attempts to address the issue of the fetus' right to life and the legal aspects thereof according to the laws of different countries.
(5) The results are interpreted as showing that attention can be allocated to sensory modalities and that the implied selective process is concerned with modality "identification," though not in a way consistent with a channel-switching model thereof.
(6) The Gambian government has not officially confirmed reports but a statement issued late on Friday said: "All persons on death row have been tried by the Gambian courts of competent jurisdiction and thereof convicted and sentenced to death in accordance with the law.
(7) ApoB-100 contains 13 binding sites for heparin, a known inhibitor of T4 binding to the major T4 carrier plasma proteins; however, heparin failed to inhibit T4 binding to apoB-100 and fragments thereof.
(8) It seems expedient to carry out further screening of different reagents and combinations thereof capable of significantly increasing HIV virus reproduction in cell cultures which would serve as the antigen for diagnostic systems.
(9) The time course of the blood and bile lipids and the relationship thereof reflect the depression of cholesterol hydroxylation processes and reduction with age of cholic and deoxycholic acids synthesis and conjugation intensities in the patients with cholelithiasis, as well as a reduction of deoxycholic acid synthesis in normal subjects.
(10) The estimate of the regenerative potency of the thymus most adequately reflects the cellular events leading to regeneration thereof.
(11) This procedure should significantly reduce the late closure of bypass grafts and the complications thereof, including the need for reoperation.
(12) These results suggest that 1,25-dihydroxycholecalciferol, or a further metabolite thereof, is the metabolically active form of vitamin D in the intestine, that it functions by a process not involving transcription of DNA, and that the step sensitive to actinomycin D in the action of vitamin D on the intestine does not occur in the intestine, but is the conversion of 25-hydroxycholecalciferol to 1,25-dihydroxycholecalciferol in the kidney.
(13) The results indicated that cleavage of PTH or fragments thereof occurred at the 23-24, 27-28, and 33-34 peptide bonds.
(14) Whereof one cannot speak thereof we must pass over in silence and all that.
(15) Group 1 (seasonal effects) and group 2 (daily effects) comprise abiotic parameters and include daylength, temperature, relative humidity, and interactions thereof.
(16) About 80% was solubilized by micellar concentrations of Triton X-100 and sedimented as a tetrameric 10 S species in the presence of detergent but formed aggregates in the absence thereof.
(17) We conclude that there is no role for the beta-subunit in catalysis and that the alpha-peptide is organized as an alpha 2-dimer in the membrane with each alpha-subunit being able to perform complete catalytic cycles (and probably also active transport), provided that it is stabilized by an adjacent alpha-peptide or a sufficiently large fragment thereof.
(18) We also show that specific interactions between complementary CK polypeptides take place during the incubation steps of immunoblotting procedures as polypeptides, or fragments thereof, that detach from the substrate can bind to complementary polypeptides attached to the substratum, which may result in false assignments of antibody reactivities.
(19) A combination of cell bank characterization and product characterization (peptide mapping or amino acid sequencing, or a combination thereof) will also demonstrate the stability of the production process.
(20) When elevated, dAT binding, like KB binding, varied with disease activity and might thus be useful as a parameter thereof.