(v. t.) To try or to ascertain by an experiment, or by a test or standard; to test; as, to prove the strength of gunpowder or of ordnance; to prove the contents of a vessel by a standard measure.
(v. t.) To evince, establish, or ascertain, as truth, reality, or fact, by argument, testimony, or other evidence.
(v. t.) To ascertain or establish the genuineness or validity of; to verify; as, to prove a will.
(v. t.) To gain experience of the good or evil of; to know by trial; to experience; to suffer.
(v. t.) To test, evince, ascertain, or verify, as the correctness of any operation or result; thus, in subtraction, if the difference between two numbers, added to the lesser number, makes a sum equal to the greater, the correctness of the subtraction is proved.
(v. t.) To take a trial impression of; to take a proof of; as, to prove a page.
(v. i.) To make trial; to essay.
(v. i.) To be found by experience, trial, or result; to turn out to be; as, a medicine proves salutary; the report proves false.
(v. i.) To succeed; to turn out as expected.
Example Sentences:
(1) During the performance of propulsive waves of the oesophagus the implanted vagus nerve caused clonic to tetanic contractions of the sternohyoid muscle, thus proving the oesophagomotor genesis of the reinnervating nerve fibres.
(2) Treatment termination due to lack of efficacy or combined insufficient therapeutic response and toxicity proved to be influenced by the initial disease activity and by the rank order of prescription.
(3) "The Samaras government has proved to be dangerous; it cannot continue handling the country's fate."
(4) 119 representatives of this population were checked in their sexual contacts; of these, 13 persons proved to be infected with HIV.
(5) Basing the prediction of student performance in medical school on intellective-cognitive abilities alone has proved to be more pertinent to academic achievement than to clinical practice.
(6) Well tolerated from the clinical and laboratory points of view, it proved remarkably effective.
(7) It arguably became too comfortable for Rodgers' team, with complacency and slack defending proving a dangerous brew.
(8) She was organised, good with people, very grown up and quickly proved herself to be indispensable.
(9) Proving that not all teens are content with being part of a purely digital community, Adele Mayr attended a YouTube meet-up in London’s Hyde Park.
(10) Gamma-irradiated splenic homogenates of armadillos infected with M. leprae proved sterile by conventional tests and media.
(11) None of the compounds proved active against the replication of retroviruses (human immunodeficiency virus, murine sarcoma virus) at concentrations that were not toxic to the host cells.
(12) A polypotent mechanism of the stimulating effect of fibronectin instillations during all the stages of the reparative process in the corneal tissue was proved.
(13) Platelet survival time in patients with Crohn's disease proved to be significantly shortened (p less than 0.001), whereas platelet turnover appeared augmented.
(14) The data obtained from all groups proved to be consistent.
(15) A newborn presenting with persistent umbilical stump bleeding should be screened for factor XIII deficiency when routine coagulation tests prove normal.
(16) Treatment was monitored by simple measurements, and it's toxicity proved to be scanty.
(17) The resistance proved to be directly dependent upon the specific antisense RNA and to be inversely proportional to the multiplicity of infecting polyoma.
(18) Accordingly, LPA proved an extremely stable characteristic which did not show any substantial variations in the course of five years.
(19) The obtained protein fraction proved to be a glycoprotein according to the positive staining with periodic acid Schiff.
(20) The consequences of proved hypersensitivity in patients with metal-to-plastic prostheses, either present prior to insertion of the prosthesis or evoked by the implant material, are not known.
Viable
Definition:
(a.) Capable of living; born alive and with such form and development of organs as to be capable of living; -- said of a newborn, or a prematurely born, infant.
Example Sentences:
(1) Confined placental chorionic mosaicism is reported in 2% of viable pregnancies cytogenetically analyzed on chorionic villi samplings (CVS) at 9-12 weeks of gestation.
(2) These authors, therefore, conclude that this modified surgical approach is a viable alternative to the previously described procedures for resistant metatarsus adductus.
(3) It has been shown by LM and transmission electron microscopy that cells with blebs are viable and capable of mitotic activity.
(4) But that's just it - they need to be viable in the long term.
(5) The reproducibility of the killing-curve method suggests that at least two different concentrations should be used and that a decrease in viable counts below 2 log10 after 24 hours does not exclude a synergistic action.
(6) After either 5 or 10 days of culture with both cytokines, intense immunofluorescent staining for Ia could be identified on the surface of greater than 80-90% of the viable islet cells.
(7) This light microscopic comparison of viable FDA- and nonviable PI-stained cysts of G. muris demonstrates that 2 types of cysts can be distinguished and implies that structural differences can be used to identify these subpopulations of cysts.
(8) However, in GF rats and in rats monoassociated with viable P. acnes, parenteral injection of killed P. acnes antigen inhibited the plaque-forming cell response to sheep erythrocytes.
(9) Interaction of viable macrophages with cationic particles at 37 degrees C resulted in their "internalization" within vesicles and coated pits and a closer apposition between many segments of plasmalemma than with neutral or anionic substances.
(10) In addition, a redistribution of cellular controls of the host reaction to parasites may act as a complementary mechanism for establishment of the viable equilibrium between host and parasite.
(11) Prior sublethal challenge with viable HC did not cause prolonged illness or increased mortality in the setting of emphysema.
(12) However, Pearson is understood to have believed an offer from News Corporation to buy Penguin outright would not have been financially viable.
(13) Additionally, the data demonstrate that hamster sperm can remain viable for several hours after becoming immotile, and that many of the immotile sperm are capable of being reactivated.
(14) We believe our technique is a potentially viable alternative for selected heart-lung transplant patients.
(15) Intravenous injection of PPD or viable H37Ra organisms into H37Ra mice resulted in MIF production in vitro by splenic lymphocytes without further antigenic stimulation.
(16) Potassium and K analogs (Tl, Rb, Cs) are avidly taken up into viable tumor cells whose Na+, K+-ATPase activity is elevated.
(17) Twenty-three Nectomys squamipes and 9 Akodon arviculoides with a schistosomal infection rate of 56.5% and 22.2% respectively eliminated a great majority of viable eggs.
(18) Bringing the Prince of Wales into service “will involve very considerable additional costs, additional manpower, extra aircraft and the considerable amount of support and protection needed to make it viable”, say the MPs.
(19) Because of potential complications that can develop for chronically ill geriatric patients, a hospital setting for respite can be a viable respite alternative.
(20) The mechanisms that protect female viable yellow mice from hyperglycemia are not known.