(conj.) In so far as; in the capacity or character of; as.
Example Sentences:
(1) Doctors may plausibly make special claims qua doctors when they are treating disease.
(2) Beta cell deficiency is a sine qua non of Type 2 diabetes.
(3) Second, the evidence about the sensitivity of the brain during the first three years to early environmental input is now beyond dispute, making this the period sine qua non, in terms of investing limited resources to optimise outcomes, particularly for the disadvantaged children exposed to multiple risks.
(4) All you really need to know right now is this: over the last decade I've rounded up a few skills that can be applied to my new life qua organisational leader.
(5) The specialized instruments are the sine qua non of the procedure.
(6) Still, I like to believe that these small-scale ventures, too, make some contribution to a conversation without limits or proscriptions; the sine qua non of the sort of society that knows to keep the solemn and the pious at bay.
(7) Suspicion may be lacking because of absence of the upper mediastinal hematoma considered to be the sine qua non for the diagnosis of aortic rupture.
(8) Establishment and maintenance of correct partitioning of proteins and RNA molecules between nucleus and cytoplasm in a sine qua non of the viability of eukaryotic cells.
(9) An intensive co-operation with all medical departments is a conditio sine qua non.
(10) This suggests that supersaturation of hepatic bile with cholesterol is not the sine qua non for the production of cholesterol gallstones.
(11) This supports the influence of competition qua competition on performance, a point further bolstered by other findings of of behavioral contrast presented here.
(12) Pressure is the sine qua non in the etiology of pressure sores; however, ischemia, denervation, edema, and infection also have been implicated.
(13) Conditio sine qua non is a precise diagnose without any lost of time.
(14) Cosmetic and functional restoration of the fractured mandible in the great majority of cases is the sine qua non of therapeutic success.
(15) The presence, on the one hand, of a chronic hepatitis among the patients who cleared their HBsAg and, on the other hand, its absence in some of the HBsAg carriers suggest that HBsAg persistence is not a sine qua non condition for the development of the chronic liver disease.
(16) The basic pattern of preparatory (TA and QUA) and executional (TS) activity was preserved in most patients with Parkinson's disease.
(17) Atherosclerosis has been considered a disease primarily concerned with lipid metabolism by regarding the intramural caseous material of atheromatous arteries as the sine qua non of the disease.
(18) Some of our recent cases provide evidence of the need for precise dissection, a condition sine qua non to avoid surgical failures.
(19) On the whole, our observations indicate that the cell-extracellular matrix junction is a sine qua non for graviperception in statolith-free Chara internodal cells and we suggest that the gravireceptor is located in this region.
(20) If Cameron's apparent enthusiasm for integration is to mean anything, merging of commissioning budgets for NHS and social care provision at local level is the sine qua non.
Quat
Definition:
(n.) A pustule.
(n.) An annoying, worthless person.
(v. t.) To satiate; to satisfy.
Example Sentences:
(1) The results show sustained brain levels of E2-Quat and prolonged half-life in brain compared to six peripheral tissues measured.
(2) The quaternaries present in organoclays (e.g., BENTONE type products) can also be identified by prior destruction of the silicate with hydrofluoric acid followed by chromatography of the residual quat fluorides.
(3) A reversed-phase high-performance liquid chromatographic (HPLC) method is presented for the analysis of E2-CDS and its oxidized quaternary metabolite (E2-Quat) in biological fluids or tissues.
(4) This surface complexation reaction was studied in detail by using a spin-labelled quat of intermediate allergenicity.
(5) The only exception was a Quat which did not disinfect fully even after 18 hours application.
(6) Two of the quats tested were found to be strong allergens which was due to stable association with membrane lipids at the surface of epidermal cells.
(7) A homologous series of eight quaternary ammonium salts (quats) were used as complex cations in a survey of contact hypersensitivity in guinea pigs.
(8) Mixtures of aliphatic and aromatic "quats" can be qualitatively identified in a one step chromatographic run.
(9) The effects of 26 different cosmetic ingredients (e.g., permanent wave and hair dye compounds, emulsifiers, resins, and detergents such as quats) were assessed by four end points indicative for qualitatively and quantitatively different cytotoxicity: (1) neutral red uptake reduction after 24 h of treatment (NR-90 and NR-50); (2) cell detachment from culture dish after 4 h of treatment (CD-25); (3) growth inhibition after 48 h of treatment (GI-50); and (4) membrane permeability measured by fluorescent dye retention (fluorescence shift FS-25) and dye exclusion (viability ratio VR-25).
(10) Previous work has indicated that a modified Quate-Lemons scanning acoustic microscope (SAM) is capable of measuring the acoustic propagation properties of sections of biological tissue.
(11) As the tiny ferry pushed through the waves and mist, marketing officer Amanda Anderson was busy on the phone to Raymond Blanc's Le Manoir aux Quat'Saisons , which has added it to its daily breakfast menu.