(a.) Assumed without proof; as, a postulated inference.
Example Sentences:
(1) We postulate that FAA may affect the human peripheral and mucosal immune system.
(2) This postulate is supported by a limited study of the serovars present among the isolates.
(3) Protein kinase C (PKC) is activated rapidly and transiently following ionizing radiation exposure and is postulated to activate downstream nuclear signal transducers.
(4) A new theory for the peculiar site selection of cholesteatomas of the external auditory canal is postulated.
(5) Both strong-stop DNAs are made early during in vitro reactions and decline in concentration later, consistent with postulated roles as initiators of long minus- and plus-strand DNA.
(6) Based on these findings and those described before, an overall degradation scheme is postulated.
(7) Their speech patterns, specifically pronoun use, were analyzed and support the postulate that a high frequency of self-references indicates memory loss and paucity of present experience.
(8) It has been postulated that the peroxisomal fatty acid-oxidizing system [Lazarow & de Duve (1976) Proc.
(9) The paper postulates that 'anal or sphincter defensiveness' is one of the precursors of the repression barrier.
(10) We postulate that an abnormality in retinal dopaminergic neurons, which are known to reduce light responsiveness of horizontal and ganglion cells, is the underlying pathophysiology of this clinical finding.
(11) We conclude, therefore, that a direct deacylation of the acyl groups at the primary alcohol level of the glycerol probably does not occur, but postulate that transacylations may occur to account for the removal of the acyl moiety.
(12) In addition, the postulated personality for PD may predispose to hard work, perspiration, and increased exposure to putative trace elements in the water supply.
(13) A regulatory role for GABA in the reproductive tract is postulated.
(14) A pathogenetic mechanism is postulated to explain the subacute evolution of fluid collection with diffusion of proteolytic enzymes between the splenic capsule and parenchyma.
(15) Therefore, it is not necessary to postulate a preponderant extraerythropoietic source to explain the amount of fecal excretion.
(16) The reason we have postulated that one-electron oxidation plays an important role in the activation of PAH derives from certain common characteristics of the radical cation chemistry of the most potent carcinogenic PAH.
(17) The postulated deficit is contrasted to the hypothesis of impairment to the lexical-semantic component, required to explain performance by brain-damaged subjects described elsewhere who make seemingly identical types of oral production errors to those of RGB and HW, but, in addition, make comparable errors in writing and comprehension tasks.
(18) The expression of keratin and differentiation markers was identical to that of normal keratinocytes, suggesting that psoriatic epidermal differentiation is not truncated in vitro as has been postulated to be the case in vivo.
(19) It is postulated that in case vasopressin affects retrieval processes the site of action is located in the amygdala and the dentate gyrus of the hippocampal complex with dopamine and serotonin as the respective neurotransmitter systems involved.
(20) More than 20 years ago Olney and his colleagues described the 'Excitotoxic Hypothesis' which postulates that, in addition to its normal function in the healthy brain, glutamate can kill neurons by prolonged, receptor-mediated depolarization resulting in irreversible disturbances in ion homeostasis.
Pustulated
Definition:
(a.) Covered with pustulelike prominences; pustular; pustulous; as, a pustulate leaf; a pustulate shell or coral.
Example Sentences:
(1) Preliminary the statistical data are reported about human malignant pustule denounced in Italy in different Districts, in Lombardia and in Province of Milan.
(2) This study indicates that small pustules underwent the consecutive changes related to the generalized polymorphous exanthem in KD.
(3) In this patient's farm, the disease was present for the first time and affected only 2-month old lambs in the form of numerous papulo-pustules located on the lips and later covered by hard and thick scabs.
(4) The morphological changes of the epidermis depented on the place examined and were most evident near fully developed pustules in the upper layers.
(5) The microscopic pathology of the abscesses revealed penetration of the epidermis by Candida pseudohyphae; the tips of the hyphal processes were seen within the pustules when sections were stained by the periodic acid-Schiff method.
(6) Seven patients are described, who had generalized toxic erythema with sterile pustules.
(7) All attachment sites showed acute inflammatory lesions, and sites of both tick species on high resistance cattle showed delayed hypersensitive reactions with intra-epidermal pustulation and significant increases in the numbers of granulocytes.
(8) Histology was not very specific, except for the presence of necrotic areas in the stratum germinativum, sometimes associated with small subcorneal pustules containing altered polymorphonuclears.
(9) Involvement of the face, neck, scalp, palms, and soles is a consistent finding, as is the tendency for these lesions to form pustules early in the course of the infestation.
(10) Histological findings were otherwise uniform and typical: intra-epidermal, unilocular, well-delineated pustules.
(11) The presence of subcorneal pustules in a solitary, indolent, crusted plaque, or in erythema annulare-like lesions with a trailing scale, is evidence of atypical psoriasis.
(12) Homogenized tissue specimens from lesional skin with and without pustules, and from perilesional, normal-looking skin of PPP and PP were analysed for the presence of chemoattractant(s) for PMN.
(13) This favors the proliferation of Propionibacterium acnes which may initiate inflammation in microcomedos and lead to formation of pustules, papules or nodules.
(14) These lesions subsequently progressed, with superimposed blistering and pustulation.
(15) The reduction in number of papules and pustules was not statistically significant on either treatment.
(16) Dilution of tissue fluids causes formation of some of the mediators of inflammation including those responsible for intraepidermal pustule formation.
(17) erythematous patches studded with crops of small pustules, and isolated large pustules with a red halo.
(18) A 27-year-old woman with a serologically documented human parvovirus infection who presented with a hemorrhagic exanthem and enanthem with areas of pustules and pseudo-pustules is described.
(19) The vesicles progress to pustules, then to crusts that eventually are lost.
(20) In 2 patients leukocytes from pustules were tested by the iodination reaction.