(a.) Capable of existing or occurring, or of being conceived or thought of; able to happen; capable of being done; not contrary to the nature of things; -- sometimes used to express extreme improbability; barely able to be, or to come to pass; as, possibly he is honest, as it is possible that Judas meant no wrong.
Example Sentences:
(1) However, as other patients who lived at the periphery of the Valserine valley do not appear to be related to any patients living in the valley, and because there has been considerable immigration into the valley, a number of hypotheses to explain the distribution of the disease in the region remain possible.
(2) Standardization is possible after correction by the protein content of each individual section.
(3) The significance of minor increases in the serum creatinine level must be recognized, so that modifications of drug therapy can be made and correction of possibly life-threatening electrolyte imbalances can be undertaken.
(4) The possibility that the ventral nerve photoreceptor cells serve a neurosecretory function in the adult Limulus is discussed.
(5) In Patient 2 they were at first paroxysmal and unformed, with more prolonged metamorphopsia; later there appeared to be palinoptic formed images, possibly postictal in nature.
(6) However, medicines have an important part to play, and it is now generally agreed that for the very poor populations medicines should be restricted to those on an 'essential drugs list' and should be made available as cheaply as possible.
(7) The various evocational changes appear to form sets of interconnected systems and this complex network seems to embody some plasticity since it has been possible to suppress experimentally some of the most universal evocational events or alter their temporal order without impairing evocation itself.
(8) Coronary arteritis has to be considered as a possible etiology of ischemic symptoms also in subjects who appear affected by typical atherosclerotic ischemic heart disease.
(9) This induction is sensitive to actinomycin D but not to protein synthesis inhibitor puromycin, indicating an effect of estradiol at the transcriptional level, possibly mediated by the estrogen receptor.
(10) This new observation offers good possibilities to study the metabolism of tryptophan at the cellular level.
(11) From these data it is possible to predict theoretically the apparent temperature difference as seen by an infrared scanner or radiometer with a detector of which the spectral detectivity, D (lambda), is known.
(12) This is a fascinating possibility for solving the skin shortage problem especially in burn cases.
(13) Since 1987, it has become possible to obtain immature ova from the living animal and to let them mature, fertilize and develop into embryos capable of transplantation outside the body.
(14) 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.
(15) Four cytotoxic antibiotics, bikaverin, duclauxine, PSX-1 and vermiculine, were examined with respect to their interference with glycolysis and respiration and their possible ionophoric or cytolytic activity.
(16) These results are discussed in relation to the possible existence of enzyme-bound intermediates of nitrogen fixation.
(17) For viewers in the US, you get the worst possible in-game managerial interview in Mike Matheny, one that's so bad, it's actually great!
(18) A possible role for mitochondria in myocardial adenosine production is discussed.
(19) Together these observations suggest that cytotactin is an endogenous cell surface modulatory protein and provide a possible mechanism whereby cytotactin may contribute to pattern formation during development, regeneration, tumorigenesis, and wound healing.
(20) Results suggest that Cd-MT is reabsorbed and broken down by kidney tubule cells in a physiological manner with possible subsequent release of the toxic cadmium ion.
Thinkable
Definition:
(a.) Capable of being thought or conceived; cogitable.
Example Sentences:
(1) But it would be also thinkable that it is an accidental combination of diseases, the number of which increases at growing age.
(2) These ultrastructural findings might be interpreted to the effect that an angioblastically determined mesenchymal cell, a so-called endothelioblast, was thinkable and was discussed as the precursor cell of atypical vascular and spindle cell proliferation in Kaposi's sarcoma.
(3) Casting is the most delicate, secret part of movie production: once a decision has been made, it is in everyone's interests to pretend that this was destiny, and no other actor would be thinkable.
(4) A further focal point of the international development are systems for the replacement of functions and organs, in which case new biomaterials considerably enlarge the volume of thinkable implantable solutions.
(5) Possibly only patients with cellular immunologic defects are susceptible of a favourable response, moreover it is thinkable that the quality of Transfer Factor and the dosage administered must play a role.
(6) Indeed, her indictment of Eichmann reached beyond the man to the historical world in which true thinking was vanishing and, as a result, crimes against humanity became increasingly "thinkable".
(7) According to German media reports, such drastic action had previously only been thinkable when dealing with "pariah states like North Korea or Iran".
(8) It is thinkable that this behaviour is related to the different roles of the determined parameters in fat and energy metabolism.
(9) The idea of restoring it struck Limon while he was doing his PhD thesis in the late 70s, but it wasn't until the fall of communism that the idea of digging for the old theatre – and raising a new one – became thinkable.
(10) "It was not even thinkable that the pope would come to an Island like this one," resident Andrea Pavia, who came out with his tearful wife and daughter to watch the pope drive by, told the Associated Press.
(11) Normally so competent in policing the borders of the sayable and the thinkable, the process is largely accepted as a realistic containment of "common sense" within "acceptable" limits.
(12) When the UK is leaving the European Union it is not thinkable that at the end the whole euro business is managed in London.
(13) A third thinkable pair with no optical activity, but different sum concentrations in both cells, does not exist in this special circuitry, but can be obtained in a slightly changed arrangement.
(14) Only by thinking the unthinkable can we define what's thinkable.
(15) They are helping ensure that previously unthinkable conversations become thinkable.
(16) We have carried out the first study in Italy on the cognitive remediation by a new computerized system developed by IBM and called THINKable.
(17) With the development of the concept of retinal correspondence and the fusion of the retinal images in the brain (Huygens 1667, Newton 1704) a cerebral mechanism of disparity detection became thinkable.