(v. t.) To make or set right; to correct from a wrong, erroneous, or false state; to amend; as, to rectify errors, mistakes, or abuses; to rectify the will, the judgment, opinions; to rectify disorders.
(v. t.) To refine or purify by repeated distillation or sublimation, by which the fine parts of a substance are separated from the grosser; as, to rectify spirit of wine.
(v. t.) To produce ( as factitious gin or brandy) by redistilling low wines or ardent spirits (whisky, rum, etc.), flavoring substances, etc., being added.
Example Sentences:
(1) A sample of 154 randomly selected, full-wave rectified and filtered electromyographic recordings was evaluated using a test-retest paradigm.
(2) At low concentrations, the current-voltage relations are inwardly rectifying, but they become more ohmic if a small amount of divalent cations is added externally.
(3) A voltage-sensitive K+ channel with characteristics of the delayed rectifier was studied in NG108-15 cells using the cell-attached patch-clamp technique.
(4) -57 mV) induced a large voltage-dependent inward current which has been identified as the K current through the anomalous rectifier (Ianomal.).
(5) Single atrial myocytes were enzymatically isolated from the bull-frog as previously described (Hume & Giles, 1981), and patch-clamp techniques were used in an attempt to identify and separate two inwardly rectifying K+ channels in this tissue.
(6) Neither a steady-state component (Is-s) nor a slowly activated component (Irise) of inward rectifier currents were observed in fibres of P0 and P4 mice.
(7) Opioid activation of the inward rectifying conductance resulted in small outward potassium currents at resting membrane potentials and increased inward currents at hyperpolarized potentials.
(8) The dependence of the current activation and inactivation on the membrane potential was consistent with that of a delayed K+ rectifier.
(9) If such errors are to be rectified systematically to provide a sustainable improvement in field placement accuracy over a course of treatment, the origins of the errors require unambiguous identification.
(10) Therapy depends upon determining the precise etiology for the fall and rectifying contributing factors.
(11) A channel exhibiting fast, voltage-dependent transitions between different conductance states may behave as an intrinsic rectifier.
(12) These results showed that some of the organic compounds released by cells during regulatory volume decrease could diffuse through this outwardly rectifying anionic channel.
(13) Treatment with recombinant human TNF-alpha (rhTNF) for 24 to 72 hr produces (i) process retraction in some but not all OLGs, (ii) a reduction in the resting membrane potential with no significant change in membrane capacitance or input resistance over control cells and (iii) a decrease in the expression of both the inwardly rectifying and outward K+ current.
(14) "And charging citizens to hold power to account is not the way to rectify an existing imbalance or promote a more meaningful democracy."
(15) Edi was recorded by an esophageal electrode, rectified, and then integrated, and peak values during inspiration were measured.
(16) Nothing I can say will rectify that,” said Reid, who worked for the Metropolitan police service’s specialist search unit for 26 years, before retiring in 2011.
(17) To rectify the situation, we adapted the anchored polymerase chain reaction to clone and analyze rapidly the expressed V genes for three anti-virus IgG antibodies.
(18) Retailers work very quickly to rectify these mistakes whenever they are found."
(19) The inward rectifier in lens has the necessary properties to be involved in setting resting voltage.
(20) The effects of intracellular pH on an inwardly rectifying K+ channel ("Kin channel") in opossum kidney (OK) cells were examined using the patch-clamp technique.
Reinstate
Definition:
(v. t.) To place again in possession, or in a former state; to restore to a state from which one had been removed; to instate again; as, to reinstate a king in the possession of the kingdom.
Example Sentences:
(1) The results may be due to stronger social reinstatement tendencies in females than in males: Higher levels of social motivation facilitate behavioral performance when the task is easy (straight runway) and inhibit it when the task is difficult (V-shaped runway).
(2) Adrenocorticotropic hormone administered either 15 minutes or 24 hours prior to test, as well as noncontingent footshock delivered 24 hours (but not 15 minutes) prior to test, served as effective reinstatement agents.
(3) The best way to help out low earners would be to reinstate the 10p tax band, but that would cost about £7bn.
(4) This was unacceptable to everyone since it gave the UK a veto over reinstating the arms ban.
(5) However, on Monday, during his first workday in office, he reinstated the global gag order, an executive order that bans international not-for-profit organizations from providing abortion services or offering information about abortions if they receive US funding.
(6) However, following the management turmoil that engulfed the BBC in the autumn as it struggled to deal with the Savile scandal, there have been calls for the role to be reinstated.
(7) And across the board Turkey’s multifarious print and broadcast commentators are asking whether the government will reinstate capital punishment and, if so, why, and why now.
(8) The Nobel prize-winning author's novel Song of Solomon, which traces the life of Macon "Milkman" Dead, was suspended from and then reinstated to the curriculum at a school in Shelby, Michigan in May following complaints from parents about sexual and violent content.
(9) In addition, the government is offering help for small groups involved in tourism, reinstating the favourable tax rules for furnished holiday lettings.
(10) "It has become apparent that the company's continued refusal to reinstate staff travel concessions for striking members and its vindictive disciplinary measures against Unite members raises new items of dispute," said Woodley and Simpson.
(11) These results suggest that foodshock stress caused increases in NA release and this activation of NA neurons appears to be reinstated simply by re-exposure to the environment previously associated with shock.
(12) Southern said on Tuesday it would reinstate travel passes for staff and allow them to swap shifts, reversing two contentious moves following strike action.
(13) Approved: Nebraska voters passed an unusual ballot measure to reinstate the death penalty after state lawmakers repealed it in 2015.
(14) It was partially reinstated following an outcry, but £65m to pay for the release of secondary teachers to primary schools one or two days a week runs out at the end of this academic year.
(15) Not that apartheid has been reinstated in South Africa.
(16) For instance, from the right, Policy Exchange has floated a number of options for reinstating a link between contributions and benefit receipt: stronger conditionality for those without a contribution record; higher benefit levels for those who have made contributions; and personal welfare accounts in place of collective and redistributive national insurance.
(17) His account was then reinstated with the first name on his passport, Ahmed, instead of the name he writes under.
(18) Acetylcholinesterase histochemistry and retrograde axonal transport of Fluorogold demonstrated that some afferent and efferent fibre projections to and from the septal nucleus could be reinstated.
(19) Three experiments are reported that suggest that reinstatement is mediated by conditioning to contextual stimuli that are present during both US presentation and testing.
(20) Trump travel ban: US supreme court partially lifts block on order Read more Q: Which countries does this partially reinstated ban affect?