(v. t.) To bring forward; to lead forth; to offer to view or notice; to exhibit; to show; as, to produce a witness or evidence in court.
(v. t.) To bring forth, as young, or as a natural product or growth; to give birth to; to bear; to generate; to propagate; to yield; to furnish; as, the earth produces grass; trees produce fruit; the clouds produce rain.
(v. t.) To cause to be or to happen; to originate, as an effect or result; to bring about; as, disease produces pain; vice produces misery.
(v. t.) To give being or form to; to manufacture; to make; as, a manufacturer produces excellent wares.
(v. t.) To yield or furnish; to gain; as, money at interest produces an income; capital produces profit.
(v. t.) To draw out; to extend; to lengthen; to prolong; as, to produce a man's life to threescore.
(v. t.) To extend; -- applied to a line, surface, or solid; as, to produce a side of a triangle.
(v. i.) To yield or furnish appropriate offspring, crops, effects, consequences, or results.
(n.) That which is produced, brought forth, or yielded; product; yield; proceeds; result of labor, especially of agricultural labors
(n.) agricultural products.
Example Sentences:
(1) Combinations of maximum amounts of glucagon and the cyclic nucleotide did not produce a greater effect than either agent alone.
(2) This suggested that the chemical effects produced by shock waves were either absent or attenuated in the cells, or were inherently less toxic than those of ionizing irradiation.
(3) The liver metastasis was produced by intrasplenic injection of the fluid containing of KATOIII in nude mouse and new cell line was established using the cells of metastatic site.
(4) In contrast, resting cells of strain CHA750 produced five times less IAA in a buffer (pH 6.0) containing 1 mM-L-tryptophan than did resting cells of the wild-type, illustrating the major contribution of TSO to IAA synthesis under these conditions.
(5) We have investigated the effect of methimazole (MMI) on cell-mediated immunity and ascertained the mechanisms of immunosuppression produced by the drug.
(6) If ascorbic acid was omitted from the culture medium, the extensive new connective tissue matrix was not produced.
(7) All of the strains examined were motile and hemolytic and produced lipase and liquid gelatin.
(8) We conclude that chronic emphysema produced in dogs by aerosol administration of papain results in elevated pulmonary artery pressure, which is characterized pathologically by medial hypertrophy of small pulmonary arteries.
(9) Ethanol and L-ethionine induce acute steatosis without necrosis, whereas azaserine, carbon tetrachloride, and D-galactosamine are known to produce steatosis with varying degrees of hepatic necrosis.
(10) Whereas strain Ga-1 was practically avirulent for mice, strain KL-1 produced death by 21 days in 50% of the mice inoculated.
(11) The promoters of the adenovirus 2 major late gene, the mouse beta-globin gene, the mouse immunoglobulin VH gene and the LTR of the human T-lymphotropic retrovirus type I were tested for their transcription activities in cell-free extracts of four cell lines; HeLa, CESS (Epstein-Barr virus-transformed human B cell line), MT-1 (HTLV-I-infected human T cell line without viral protein synthesis), and MT-2 (HTLV-I-infected human T cell line producing viral proteins).
(12) Attempts are now being made to use this increased understanding to produce effective killed vaccines that produce immune responses in the lung.
(13) It was also found that lipocortin I and ONO-RS-082, but not neomycin, facilitated the generation of GIF-producing T cells.
(14) The origins of aging of higher forms of life, particularly humans, is presented as the consequence of an evolved balance between 4 specific kinds of dysfunction-producing events and 4 kinds of evolved counteracting effects in long-lived forms.
(15) First, it has diverted grain away from food for fuel, with over a third of US corn now used to produce ethanol and about half of vegetable oils in the EU going towards the production of biodiesel.
(16) [Ca2+]i exhibited a sigmoidal dependence on [Na+]o. Mg2+, a competitive inhibitor of Na2+-Ca2+ antiport in these cells, antagonized the increase in [Ca2+]i produced by lowering [Na+]o.
(17) Although lorazepam and haloperidol produced an equivalent mean decrease in aggression, significantly more subjects who received lorazepam had a greater decrease in aggression ratings than haloperidol recipients; this effect was independent of sedation.
(18) These findings suggest that clonidine transdermal disks lower blood pressure in hypertensive patients, but produce local skin lesions and general side effects.
(19) Dilutional studies comparing the mechanism of inhibition of monoamine oxidase produced by Gerovital H3 and by ipronizid demonstrated that Gerovital H3 was a reversible inhibitor of monoamine oxidase.
(20) The AL plus EA produced significantly greater adverse effects than with SFO plus EA.
Quotient
Definition:
(n.) The number resulting from the division of one number by another, and showing how often a less number is contained in a greater; thus, the quotient of twelve divided by four is three.
(n.) The result of any process inverse to multiplication. See the Note under Multiplication.
Example Sentences:
(1) Heart rate (HR), pulmonary ventilation (V), oxygen consumption (VO2), carbon dioxide production (VCO2), and respiratory quotient (RQ) were measured.
(2) In the present study, respirometric quotients, the ratio of oral air volume expended to total volume expended, were obtained using separate but simultaneous productions of oral and nasal airflow.
(3) The IgG index (formula: see text) corrects for the influence of serum protein abnormalities as well as a bloodbrain barrier damage and is, therefore, a better measure for the presence of an IgG elevation in CSF due to IgG synthesis, when compared with other IgG quotients commonly used.
(4) Median developmental quotient (Griffiths scales) was 100 in the treated group and 95 in the control group (P = 0.053).
(5) Normal scores in psychomotor tests and normal intelligence quotients (I.Q.)
(6) Specific formulas of TPN for COPD patients, using lipids for calories and limiting glucose, lower the respiratory quotient.
(7) Intelligence quotients (IQs) improved in all seven children tested (mean improvement of 17.7%, p less than 0.01) and correlated significantly with reductions in CSF protein concentration (r = -0.85, p = 0.003).
(8) The induction of irreversible renal damage by 6 weeks of obstruction was associated with (i) a nearly total absence of alpha-ketoglutarate utilization; (ii) a markedly decreased amount of oxygen utilization and carbon dioxide production; (iii) a normal respiratory quotient; and (iv) a nearly total absence of citrate production.
(9) Physical growth and psychoeducational and school performance test scores were similar for the three bronchopulmonary dysplasia study groups with the exception of lower intelligence quotient for those receiving supplemental oxygen for the longest time.
(10) Following recovery, the receptivity expressed as the lordosis quotient was controlled in the presence of a sexually active male.
(11) Carbohydrate loading in excess of the patient's calorie need, as indicated by the respiratory quotient (RQ) greater than 1.0, results in fat synthesis and other energy-costing processes.
(12) The intelligence quotients showed declining trends with time.
(13) Moreover, resting metabolic rate and respiratory quotient were also identical in android and gynoid obese women, indicating that there was no intergroup difference in the absolute level of lipid oxidation.
(14) Ultrasonographic and scintigraphic measurements of the spleen, platelet counts, transfusion quotient and 51 Cr-labelled red cell survival were used to evaluate the effects of these two methods.
(15) is not to be considered as a disease but rather as a psychic handicap in the domains of the intellect, action and affect, which psychosocial expression is determined by the importance of the disorder, the environment, the intelligence quotient, the tolerance of the relative and peers, and the personal history.
(16) O2 consumption, CO2 production, respiratory quotient, minute ventilation, and PaCO2 were the same for the three protein regimens.
(17) No significant relation between the treatment group and Mose rating (p greater than 0.05), epiphyseal quotient (p greater than 0.05), or healing rate (p greater than 0.05) was found.
(18) Resistances of coronary arteries, microvessels, and veins were calculated from the quotients of the pressure gradient across each vascular compartment and myocardial perfusion (radioactive microspheres).
(19) Plasma levels of total, free and acylcarnitine, as well as oxygen consumption and respiratory quotient were determined in premature infants maintained at neutral temperature.
(20) Exchange of gas was markedly restricted under aggressive respiration (FiO2 = 1.0, PEEP = 10 mmHg, breathing time quotient = 0.5, respiratory minute volume = 16 litres; gas exchange values: PaO2 = 67 mmHg, PaCO2 = 45 mmHg, PA-aO2 = 461 mmHg).