(a.) Capable of being recovered or regained; capable of being brought back to a former condition, as from sickness, misfortune, etc.; obtainable from a debtor or possessor; as, the debt is recoverable; goods lost or sunk in the ocean are not recoverable.
Example Sentences:
(1) Their incidence cannot be estimated--only the possibility of recoverable renal function in an unknown number of involved patients.
(2) Additional evaluation of the recoverability of H ovis and A seminis from the preputial cavity of rams from birth to 1 year of age indicated that the isolation rate from rams and predominance of the organisms in the preputial cavity differed greatly over this age period.
(3) That the various leukotriene components of SRS-A have unique receptors on responding tissues and are recoverable from airway surfaces in several inflammatory lung diseases and that several resident and infiltrating cell types have significant potential for leukotriene biosynthesis lend further support to their postulated pathobiologic roles.
(4) This effect is both diminished and recoverable by the addition of plasma, and by GSH in concentrations found in plasma.
(5) Vacuuming of carpets showed only a slight reduction in the number of recoverable microorganisms.
(6) On day 3 postinoculation (PI), most chickens were shedding virus recoverable by oral swabs and detectable in harvests from TEC prepared on that day.
(7) Additionally, it was shown that the mutant strain expresses significant increases in the total number of recoverable peritoneal leukocytes in response to other phlogistic stimuli.
(8) The US Geological Survey estimated the waters in the Arctic contain about 90bn barrels of recoverable oil.
(9) In uterine flushings, total recoverable protein (p less than 0.05), uteroferrin (p less than 0.01), leucine aminopeptidase (p less than 0.05), calcium (p less than 0.03), sodium (p less than 0.01), and potassium (p less than 0.05) increased between 12 and 24 h following EV treatment.
(10) The use of immobilized enzymes makes these reagents recoverable and re-usable, and in most cases increases their stability and catalytic activity.
(11) However, these compounds were not recoverable using the alumina column method, so no comparisons between the two methods were possible.
(12) Animals' teeth were swabbed for recovery of 6715-13WT and total recoverable flora.
(13) In contrast, in cells not stimulated with zymosan, ethanol increased the recoverable PAF.
(14) The only time a virulent L. pneumophila culture was recoverable from an avirulent culture was when the avirulent culture was derived from a saline suspension of a virulent culture which had been passaged only five times on SMH agar.
(15) The number of recoverable bacteria from the hand was greatly reduced by a single treatment with a surgical scrub preparation containing hexachlorophene.
(16) We conclude that aflatoxin is not regularly recoverable from cases of Reye's Syndrome at a high rate, and question the proposed etiologic relationship.
(17) Although virus was fully recoverable from sludge, its infectivity decreased in proportion to the time and temperature of incubation.
(18) Reduced hepatic icterus, serum oxalic acid transaminase, serum glutamic pyruvic acid transaminase, and recoverable virus titers from livers and sera of infected mice were also seen as a result of ribamidine treatment.
(19) Both of these costs should no longer be recoverable from an unsuccessful defendant, he said.
(20) For both subunits we identify the proteins which dissociate (split proteins) or are recoverable in a ribonucleoprotein particle (core proteins) under the action of 6 M urea in a buffer of moderate ionic strength.
Regain
Definition:
(v. t.) To gain anew; to get again; to recover, as what has escaped or been lost; to reach again.
Example Sentences:
(1) A key way of regaining public trust will be reforming the system of remuneration as agreed by the G20.
(2) The patient presented in coma but regained full consciousness over the next six hours with supportive therapy.
(3) In Experiment 1 (summer), hens regained body weight more rapidly, returned to production faster, and had larger egg weights (Weeks 1 to 4) when fed the 16 or 13% CP molt diets than when fed the 10% CP molt diet.
(4) There are a few seats, such as South Dorset and Braintree, where the Liberal Democrats are in third place and a third party revival would help the Conservatives to regain the seats lost to Labour but they are outnumbered by vulnerable Tory marginals.
(5) Changes in mean portal venous and aortic blood glucose and lactate concentrations after an intragastric infusion of d-glucose to chronically catheterized rats (after regaining preoperative weight) were compared to those of acutely catheterized rats (1 h after catheter placement).
(6) These cells regained responsiveness to PDGF after an additional incubation period in PDGF-free medium.
(7) Obese women who regained weight after successful weight reduction (relapsers, n = 44); formerly obese, average-weight women who maintained weight loss (maintainers, n = 30); and women who had always remained at the same average, nonobese weight (control subjects, n = 34) were interviewed.
(8) Those around him assumed he was dead and he was put in a coffin, only to regain consciousness at the last moment.
(9) Microbial lipases exhibit a total cutoff in activity with as low a pressure as 2 MPa and a remarkable activity regain with depressurization.
(10) To study important epitopes on glycoprotein E2 of Sindbis virus, eight variants selected to be singly or multiply resistant to six neutralizing monoclonal antibodies reactive against E2, as well as four revertants which had regained sensitivity to neutralization, were sequenced throughout the E2 region.
(11) Doctors hope that injecting stem cells directly into the spine will help repair damaged nerve cells enough for paralysed people to regain some movement, but such treatments have yet to be tested in humans.
(12) The patient regained good movement at the interphalangeal joint of the thumb.
(13) One patient regained thermoregulatory sweat function and no patient's condition progressed to generalized autonomic failure.
(14) The process of recovery has three stages, in the first the patient is unconscious, in the second he or she regains full consciousness signified by the end of the period of post traumatic amnesia and continues to show evidence of rapid improvement in basic physical and mental functions.
(15) Upon dialysis to remove DTT from the reduced UK mixture, the disulfides reformed and enzymatic activity was regained.
(16) Despite intensive nutritional rehabilitation, patient did not regain the use of his lower limbs.
(17) A unique pattern for a carbohydrate antigen is displayed by cells of the primitive streak; antigenicity is lost with de-epithelialisation and ingression, but is regained in a pericellular distribution on the mesoderm cells that emerge from the primitive streak.
(18) Out of 10 patients, eight treated by early mobilization regained full shoulder function within 1 year.
(19) The aged erythrocytes incubated in a mixture of adenine and inosine markedly regained their ATP levels, and also showed a marked transformation from spiked spherocytes to normal discocytes.
(20) She wanted the department to give her reporters better access to Helmand province, where British troops were fighting and dying as they battled to regain control.