(a.) Admitting passage; capable of being penetrated by another body or substance; permeable; as, a pervious soil.
(a.) Capable of being penetrated, or seen through, by physical or mental vision.
(a.) Capable of penetrating or pervading.
(a.) Open; -- used synonymously with perforate, as applied to the nostrils or birds.
Example Sentences:
(1) In this latter group two of 29 (7%) had ECG evidence of infarction while four of 28 (14%) had positive scintigrams, compared to the pervious incidence of 31%.
(2) Three antigens designated B1, B2, and B3 (perviously B, C, and D) were detected in our outbred colony and also found to be present in a wide variety of guinea pig strains.
(3) Isopycnic sucrose density (discontinuous) gradient centrifugation of vesicles from adrenal glands of control cats, and of cats given reserpine 1 or 2 days perviously, indicated that new vesicles or vesicles depleted of CA by reserpine had a lower equilibrium density than the original population of vesicles.
(4) Considering the type, localization and perviousness of the lesion, similar conclusions were drawn, and did not affect the results, except that there were more false-negatives in both exams when the lesions were impervious.
(5) The purpose was to quantitate and characterize uterine activity in a group of multiparous patients with normal labor using our present on-line method and to evaluate our method against pervious work done on uterine activity.
(6) The contractility indices (VCF: mean speed, and VCF max: maximum shortening speed of the equatorial diameter of the left ventricle (% delta theta) were unmodified in the group (I) of fourteen patients with at least one pervious by-pass.
(7) Conditioning under a steam-proof and gas pervious (O2-CO2) film.
(8) A case of pheochromocytoma of the urinary bladder is reported, and 35 perviously reported cases are analyzed.
(9) Using epithelial monolayers of HCA-7 cells, derived from a primary human colonic adenocarcinoma and grown on pervious supports, it is shown that responses to lysylbradykinin can be elicited from either side.
(10) Oral apparatuses also purified by a modification of a pervious method.
(11) The sudden withdrawal of LSD produced a fall in avoidance rate, which was dependent on the pervious training dosage; as with delta 9-THC state-dependent learning can also be assumed for LSD.
(12) Comparison of the serum time-concentration curves to pervious analgesic and toxicity trials was made, and minimum serum levels for induction of analgesia and production of side effects are discussed.
(13) The percent yield of purified hyaluronidase calculated on the basis of total activity was ten times higher than by any pervious method [Yang, C.H.
(14) Clinical manifestations, including recurrent urinary tract infection and cuff abscess, followed vaginal hysterectomy performed three years perviously.
(15) The new policy amounts to an effective U-turn on pervious, ground-breaking legislation passed by Gerhard Schröder's Social Democrat and Green government, which would have seen nuclear power phased out in just over a decade's time.
(16) Spontaneously occurring surface wrinkling retinopathy occurreed in 17 eyes of 16 patients and was not related to pervious surgery, retinal vascular disease, or obvious ocular inflammation.
(17) Previously it has been thought that such a perviousness of the mucosal barrier would be bidirectional in nature.
(18) We consider this clinical entity to be much more common than perviously reported.
(19) However, although the specificity and intracellular localization of these enzymes in different tissues have been described perviously, there are only a few reports about their localization in the salivary gland, and the functional role of arylsulphatases in the physiological function of the salivary glands.
(20) When compared with pervious data (1) it is suggested that alcohol is differentiated from pentobarbital and diazepam on the basis of their interactional effects with bemegride.
Previous
Definition:
(a.) Going before in time; being or happening before something else; antecedent; prior; as, previous arrangements; a previous illness.
Example Sentences:
(1) Previous use of the drug is found in more than 50 per cent of the patients, and it was often followed by a neglected side-effect.
(2) A series of human cDNA clones of various sizes and relative localizations to the mRNA molecule were isolated by using the human p53-H14 (2.35-kilobase) cDNA probe which we previously cloned.
(3) Since fingernail creatinine (Ncr) reflects serum creatinine (Scr) at the time of nail formation, it has been suggested that Ncr level might represent that of Scr around 4 months previously.
(4) The authors have presented in two previous articles the graphic solutions resembling Tscherning ellipses, for spherical as well as for aspherical ophthalmic lenses free of astigmatism or power error.
(5) Seventeen patients (Group 1) had had no previous surgery, while 13 (Group 2) had had multiple previous operations.
(6) Clinical and roentgenographic criteria could not discriminate between patients with and without pneumonia, confirming the findings of previous investigations.
(7) Previous attempts to purify this enzyme from the liquid endosperm of kernels of Zea mays (sweet corn) were not entirely successful owing to the lability of partially purified preparations during column chromatography.
(8) The taxonomic relationship of strains H4-14 and 25a with previously described Xanthobacter strains was studied by numerical classification.
(9) Using monoclonal antibodies directed against the plasma membrane of Madin-Darby canine kidney (MDCK) cells, we demonstrated previously that a glycoprotein with an Mr = 23,000 (gp23) had a non-polarized cell surface distribution and was observed on both the apical and basolateral membranes (Ojakian, G. K., Romain, R. E., and Herz, R. E. (1987) Am.
(10) Because cystine in medium was converted rapidly to cysteine and cysteinyl-NAC in the presence of NAC and given that cysteine has a higher affinity for uptake by EC than cystine, we conclude that the enhanced uptake of radioactivity was in the form of cysteine and at least part of the stimulatory effect of NAC on EC glutathione was due to a formation of cysteine by a mixed disulfide reaction of NAC with cystine similar to that previously reported for Chinese hamster ovarian cells (R. D. Issels et al.
(11) We have previously shown that serotonin is present in secretory granules of frog adrenochromaffin cells; concurrently, we have demonstrated that serotonin is a potent stimulator of corticosterone and aldosterone secretion by adrenocortical cells.
(12) As the percentage of rabbit feed is very small compared to the bulk of animal feeds, there is a fair chance that rabbit feed will be contaminated with constituents (additives) of batches previously prepared for other animals.
(13) In contrast to previous reports, these tumours were more malignant than osteosarcomas and showed a five-year survival rate of only 4-2 per cent.
(14) The data from this experience as well as others previously reported can yield prognostic indicators of survival in cases of accidental hypothermia.
(15) The previous year, he claimed £1,415 for two new sofas, made two separate claims of £230 and £108 for new bed linen, charged £86 for a new kettle and kitchen utensils and made two separate claims, of £65 and £186, for replacement glasses and crockery.
(16) Some S-100 reactive cells previously interpreted as tumour cells were refound in a few tumours.
(17) The results of our microscopic model confirm that the continuum hypothesis used in our previous macroscopic model is reasonable.
(18) Male sex, age under 19 or over 45, few social supports, and a history of previous suicide attempts are all factors associated with increased suicide rates.
(19) We present these cases and review the previously reported cases.
(20) These data indicate that RNA faithfully transfers "suppressive" as well as "positive" types of immune responses that have been reported previously for lymphocytes obtained directly from tumour-bearing and tumour-immune animals.