(v. i.) To belong; to have connection with, or dependence on, something, as an appurtenance, attribute, etc.; to appertain; as, saltness pertains to the ocean; flowers pertain to plant life.
(v. i.) To have relation or reference to something.
Example Sentences:
(1) 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.
(2) testosterone, fentanyl, nicotine) may ultimately be administered in this way, important questions pertaining to pharmacology (tolerance), toxicity (irritation, sensitisation) and dose sufficiency (penetration enhancement) remain.
(3) Intoxications arising from therapeutic activities pertaining to this cult are of the same kind as those encountered in the practice of Modern Medicine.
(4) We conclude that the procedure used in this study is a non-intrusive intervention that is an extension of the current literature pertaining to sensory extinction.
(5) Utilizing standardized instruments, family and demographic predictors of general and problem-solving knowledge pertaining to diabetes were identified in 53 newly diagnosed children.
(6) This paper reviews the epidemiologic studies of petroleum workers published in the English language, focusing on research pertaining to the petroleum industry, rather than the broader petrochemical industry.
(7) We have attempted to provide an overview of the Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act as it pertains to animal drugs and feed additives.
(8) While RT is regarded as a major treatment innovation in psychiatry, nonpsychiatrists are reluctant or unaware of the uses of antipsychotic medication as it pertains to RT.
(9) The specific problems addressed pertain to the storage and retrieval of historical information, physical signs and diagnosis.
(10) Little information is available pertaining to infectious morbidity in women with genital malignancy.
(11) Also, it is proposed that the latent content of the personal myth pertains to traumatic experiences and conflictual wishes related to either or both the oedipal and the pre-oedipal phase of development.
(12) Therefore, the plantar forces acting under the metatarsal heads of the 1st, 2nd and 5th rays and under the pads of the 1st and 2nd toes were measured during walking, so that with the aid of anthropometric information pertaining to the forefoot, reaction forces in the flexor tendons and in the joints could be estimated.
(13) This paper challenges the present policy on two grounds: consent from adults who donate kidneys is generally not informed, and therefore it is inconsistent to use the consent requirement as a justification for excluding children; and renal donation by adults can be seen as a procedure done for the benefit of the donor (as well as the recipient), and the appropriate rules for using children as donors should therefore be those pertaining to beneficial intrusions on nonconsenting subjects.
(14) The basic principles needed for understanding these syndromes are the same as those that pertain to adults; however, the etiologic factors are quite different.
(15) Rauschia gen. nov. (type species: R. triangularis) is created for species previously pertaining to Nematodirus parasite of Lagomorpha, and in which the synlophe, very complex, differs from the synlophe of the parasite of Ruminants.
(16) It has been argued that linguistic usage pertaining to female sexuality generally is the product of a patriarchal value structure and, as such, reflects patriarchal prejudices about female sexuality.
(17) In both non-aligned and head-aligned modes, subject instructions pertaining to the second target light concerned only gaze; there was no requisite head position.
(18) A systematic study including morphologic, histologic, pathologic aspects of dens evaginatus was carried out and data were compared with those given in previous reports pertaining to dens evaginatus in other Asian countries.
(19) Population demographics and data pertaining to visits to other emergency departments were obtained.
(20) The averaged anesthetized alignment pertained to the whole group of 6.2 prism diopters of esotropia, which correlated poorly with the preoperative deviation.
Vestigial
Definition:
(a.) Of or pertaining to a vestige or remnant; like a vestige.
Example Sentences:
(1) We describe herein, a new unstable mutant of the vestigial locus, isolated from a French natural population.
(2) The ischiocavernosus and bulbospongiosus muscles are vestigial in the female rat.
(3) Anal transitional epithelium is not highly specialized and incorporates features of both urothelium and squamous epithelium; slight urothelial differentiation is considered vestigial.
(4) The 17-DOS, while a vestigial pathway, may still cause disease, and provide clues to central organization of the adreno-cortical response to injury, stress, and disease.
(5) This leg was connected with two sets of coxae by a irregular-shaped bone considered the vestigial vertebrae and ribs.
(6) Two cases of idiopathic soft tissue calcification occurring in the vestigial fingers of infants with congenital brachydactyly are reported.
(7) The DNA-containing nucleomorph of cryptomonad algae appears to be the vestigial nucleus of such an algal endosymbiont.
(8) The short cysteine-containing motif represented the only evidence of a possible vestigial relationship between SP-40,40 and other complement components.
(9) The protamine-mRNA-coding region is flanked by AACA... TGTT sequences, which might represent vestigial traces of past recombination events and whose presence supports the notion that the protamine gene sequence was of foreign origin.
(10) We present a cyst arising from vestigial thymic remnants in the neck.
(11) The dorsal ommatidia have only four full-length typical cells, and one distal and three vestigial full-length cells.
(12) This is in spite of the lack of flight ability in both mutants, the reduced enzyme activity levels in the alpha-glycerophosphate mutant, and in the case of the vestigial flies, of reduced life-span.
(13) A third type characterized by its vestigial callus was found only in histologic sections.
(14) One patient had a vestigial radial artery that ended as muscular branches in the forearm.
(15) Vestigial mutants however, present several alterations including the absence of the ovoid projection, a fact consistent with the existence of very few marginal bristles.
(16) These data, together with the sequence homologies and identical cofactors and substrates, led us to propose that the AHAS enzymes are descended from pyruvate oxidase (or a similar protein) and, thus, that the flavin requirement of the AHAS enzymes is a vestigial remnant, which may have been conserved to play a structural rather than a chemical function.
(17) Goats with dependent ear types were infested more commonly than those with erect ears; no goats with vestigial ears were found to harbor mites.
(18) The hypothesis predicts that if IL-3 is a significant in vivo regulator of megakaryocyte formation and development, receptor for IL-3 should be present on megakaryocytes and may be vestigially on platelets.
(19) Urogenital cysts are retroperitoneal or mesenteric cysts that are derived from vestigial remnants of the embryonic urogenital apparatus.
(20) The absence of the lower portion of the orbicularis oris muscle, the death of tissue in the infralabial region, as well as the presence of only a vestigial lower lip has hitherto not been reported in the literature.