(a.) Capable of being passed, traveled, navigated, traversed, penetrated, or the like; as, the roads are not passable; the stream is passablein boats.
(a.) Capable of being freely circulated or disseminated; acceptable; generally receivable; current.
(a.) Such as may be allowed to pass without serious objection; tolerable; admissable; moderate; mediocre.
Example Sentences:
(1) These results were compared with perceptual judgments of "passability" under static and moving viewing conditions.
(2) After computing admission rates by district per 1000 population, these were plotted against distance from the hospital by the only passable roads.
(3) In 40.9% the therapeutic results are satisfactory with normalization of blood pressure, whereas in 27.1%, are only passable.
(4) Of 28 renal units 25 (89%) were rendered free of stones or had passable calculi of less than 3 mm.
(5) Out of the root canals which were apically not passable and coronally closed the first traces of the instilled 5% hydrogen peroxide appeared after 14 min 45 sec on the root surface.
(6) Failures were due to upward dislodgement of the stone in 5 cases, to grasp or disintegrate the stone in 2, perforation of the ureter in 2, bleeding from the ureteral wall in 2 cases, to reintroduce guidewire in the ureter and to non-passable stricture below the stone in 1 case each.
(7) Out of the patients who underwent EPCN before SWL 13% were stone free and without drainage at discharge, 77% had passable stone fragments at discharge and drainage has been taken out at 15-30 days check up, 10% had unbroken stone and underwent with drainage to ureterolithotripsy.
(8) Even presented with a more than passable opportunity to snatch a point at the death, when Daniel Sturridge played a pass over the Southampton defence to allow Raheem Sterling to run clear on goal, the substitute came up with a wretched first touch to practically pass the ball to Artur Boruc.
(9) Photograph: PR company handout Creatively, it’s all a bit uninspiring, but there are passable moments.
(10) At the second hearing, the stern judge who had been doing a passable impression of Anne Robinson for much of the hearing appeared visibly troubled by Harris's emotional plea to be set free.She told the translator to tell Harris to "be calm", and asked if she would like a break in proceedings to compose herself.
(11) The cumulative analysis within 10 years after operations have shown 27% of endarectomized arteries to remain passable.
(12) With this form of pathology 68% of arteries are found to be passable within 10 postoperative years.
(13) In addition, the CSA was filtratable (0.45 mu), dialyzable, and passable through an Amicon PM10 filter, which indicated a molecular weight less than 10,000.
(14) Seventy percent of the patients with renal stones and 95% of those with ureteral stones were stone-free over the one-month follow-up, while about 15% had small and asymptomatic fragments believed to be passable spontaneously.
(15) At more increasing mean temperature rises 0.49 degrees C and 0.58 degrees C, increasing pyrogenic and decreasing 'passable' qualifications were obtained.
(16) The Howards method of anastomosis was used with prolene thread under fourfold magnification along with a spermiogram and a test of passability of the sperm duct.
(17) We have five special engineering trains out checking that lines are passable, and in the Highlands we have a helicopter out inspecting lines.
(18) The relatively well documented transcellular route is passable for compounds with a low molecular mass (up to about 2000 Da) and sufficient lipid as well as water solubility.
(19) Being a good dad and being a passable, decent husband is something that weighs on me."
(20) France has long claimed Rwanda as part of its francophone fold even though there is only one language common to all citizens of the tiny central African nation — the indigenous Kinyarwanda — and only a minority of the population speak passable French.
Passible
Definition:
(a.) Susceptible of feeling or suffering, or of impressions from external agents.
Example Sentences:
(1) The degree of the filling up and the dilation of the gall bladder, its functional state as well as the passibility of d. cysticus are evaluated by ultrasound examination and computer determination of the surface and dimensions of the gall bladder.
(2) Gemeprost treatment increased free passibility (the size of the largest dilator which could be passed without encountering resistance) (P < 0.01), reduced the forces required to dilate the cervix (P < 0.01) reduced blood loss (P < 0.05), reduced the collagen concentration (P < 0.01) and was associated with a modest neutrophil influx (P < 0.02) as compared to placebo.
(3) Such finding is assessed, and the possibility that the diarrhea frequently found in animals infested by such parasites may be caused by the action of their own prostaglandins on the intestinal smooth musculature of the animals, as well as the passibility that the agents inhibitory of the prostaglandin synthesis may be used in the treatment of such parasitosis are expressed.
(4) The test allows the assessment of the functional state of the gall bladder, the passibility of d. cysticus, the degree and mechanism of the filling up of the gall bladder and the bile ducts with bile.