(a.) Having the quality of generating; producing young or fruit; generative; fruitful; productive; -- applied to plants producing fruit, animals producing young, etc.; -- usually with the implied idea of frequent or numerous production; as, a prolific tree, female, and the like.
(a.) Serving to produce; fruitful of results; active; as, a prolific brain; a controversy prolific of evil.
(a.) Proliferous.
Example Sentences:
(1) The telencephalic proliferative response has been studied in adult newts after lesion on the central nervous system.
(2) Research efforts in the Swedish schools are of high quality and are remarkably prolific.
(3) The effect of mycobacterial phenolic glycolipids from Mycobacterium leprae, M. bovis BCG, and M. kansasii on in vitro proliferative responses by human blood mononuclear cells from healthy BCG vaccinees was investigated.
(4) In the fimbria a significantly higher concentration (P less than 0.01) was observed in the proliferative phase.
(5) Confirming a low proliferative activity in CN and a high activity in melanomas (MIS, IM, MM), the results showed that dysplastic nevi (NAA, NCAA) had a proliferative activity intermediate between common nevi and melanomas.
(6) The mixed leukocyte reaction proliferative response against the B7 transfectant is inhibited by either anti-CD28 or B7 mAb.
(7) Following BHT administration, the alveolar stem cells (type II pneumocytes) proliferate and differentiate according to a biphasic pattern, with proliferative peaks at d 3 and 7.
(8) At autopsy, this DOCA-hypertensive rat was found to have a form of hepatitis associated with proliferative activity, i.e., cellular unrest, mitotic figures and oval cell hyperplasia.
(9) There was no significant difference in sialic acid concentration in the uterus during the proliferative and luteal phases of the menstrual cycle.
(10) To find out whether the deeper inhibition of replicative activity in ventricular myocytes influences fibroblasts and endothelial cells from ventricles, the proliferative activity of non-muscle cells was studied.
(11) We infer from these results that endotoxin ameliorates the cyclical changes in blood cell counts by regulating hematopoietic proliferative activity at the stem cell level.
(12) In diabetic patients with proliferative retinopathy, K was lower (P less than 0.05) than in diabetic patients without retinopathy.
(13) We suggest that radiation-induced specific chromosome 2 rearrangement associated with IL-1 beta deregulation may initiate murine leukemogenesis through the uncoupling of normal proliferative control mechanisms in multipotential hemopoietic cells.
(14) However, cytophotometric DNA analysis disclosed that significant increases in proliferative activity of mucosa had occurred 4 weeks before the appearance of histopathological dysplasia, and 8 weeks prior to development of grossly visible tumors.
(15) Proliferative responses to env were seen in 9% of control children compared with 27% of infected children (p less than 0.02).
(16) The relationship between interphase cytogenetics and tumor grade, stage, and proliferative activity was investigated in 27 transitional cell carcinomas of the urinary bladder.
(17) Although T cells exposed to antigen in B-depleted LN of mu sm and irradiated mice gave negligible T proliferative responses in vitro, low but significant levels of primed T helper function were detected in a sensitive T helper assay in vivo.
(18) These results suggest that HGF may act as a proliferative factor during fetal liver growth.
(19) Proliferative and cytollytical activity of lymphocytes was compared in lymphocyte alloimmunization of the spleen and intact thymus.
(20) The high proteolytic activity of BCC demonstrated in this study may be an important factor in the proliferative, invasive and destructive behaviour of this tumour.
Unfruitful
Definition:
(a.) Not producing fruit or offspring; unproductive; infertile; barren; sterile; as, an unfruitful tree or animal; unfruitful soil; an unfruitful life or effort.
Example Sentences:
(1) Such critics are at liberty to count up the faults, if it gives them pleasure, but are certainly pursuing an unfruitful occupation in enumerating these rather than the excellences.
(2) The Swiss only narrowly voted to restrict immigration in the original 2014 referendum, with 50.3% in favour, and have been in unfruitful talks to implement the measure with the EU ever since.
(3) Although diagnostic in some cases, extensive serologic testing proved relatively unfruitful.
(4) We have the unfruitful spectacle of some of the most leftwing commentators in Britain wondering if they are being leftwing enough, or if their background even gives them the right to make an argument.
(5) Blood cultures and serological examination for infections were unfruitful.
(6) The unfruitful pursuit of a judicial remedy for the ethical and social problems that arise with relocation of the elderly continues, in part, because of a misguided belief that this distressing social phenomenon is best remedied by the courts.
(7) Among the 503 patients 491 were cured (curative rate 97.61%), however, 12 patients were unfruitful (unfruitful rate 2.39%).
(8) Mediationism is the basic tenet of those who seek the substrate of memory; for students of memory per se it is merely a metaphor, and moreover an unfruitful one, for it cannot be penetrated by the methods of psychology.
(9) In this sense, the vows cannot end up being caricatures; otherwise, for example, community life becomes hell, and chastity becomes a way of life for unfruitful bachelors.
(10) Investigation into possible infection, biochemical abnormalities and dietary indiscretion (alcohol, colza oil), were unfruitful.