(v. t.) To separate, as one from another; to cut off from something; to divide; to part in any way, especially by violence, as by cutting, rending, etc.; as, to sever the head from the body.
(v. t.) To cut or break open or apart; to divide into parts; to cut through; to disjoin; as, to sever the arm or leg.
(v. t.) To keep distinct or apart; to except; to exempt.
(v. t.) To disunite; to disconnect; to terminate; as, to sever an estate in joint tenancy.
(v. i.) To suffer disjunction; to be parted, or rent asunder; to be separated; to part; to separate.
(v. i.) To make a separation or distinction; to distinguish.
Example Sentences:
(1) We used the polymerase chain reaction (PCR) to amplify the breakpoint area of alpha-thalassemia-1 of Southeast Asia type and several parts of the alpha-globin gene cluster to make a differential diagnosis between alpha-thalassemia-1 and Hb Bart's hydrops fetalis.
(2) The newborn with critical AS typically presents with severe cardiac failure and the infant with moderate failure, whereas children may be asymptomatic.
(3) The low affinity of several N1-alkylpyrroleethylamines suggests that the benzene portion of the alpha-methyltryptamines is necessary for significant affinity.
(4) The main clinical features pertaining to the concept of the "psycho-organic syndrome" (POS) were investigated in a sample of children who suffered from severe craniocerebral trauma.
(5) The rise of malaria despite of control measures involves several factors: the house spraying is no more accepted by a large percentage of house holders and the alternative larviciding has only a limited efficacy; the houses of American Indians have no walls to be sprayed; there is a continuous introduction of parasites by migrants.
(6) Collins said she asked Sullivan several questions, including who the women were.
(7) Single-case experimental designs are presented and discussed from several points of view: Historical antecedents, assessment of the dependent variable, internal and external validity and pre-experimental vs experimental single-case designs.
(8) During and after the infusion of 5HTP, none of the patients showed an increase in anxiety or depressive symptoms, despite the presence of severe side effects.
(9) Histological studies showed that the resulting pancreatitis was usually mild to moderate, being severe only in association with sepsis.
(10) An “out” vote would severely disrupt our lives, in an economic sense and a private sense.
(11) No consistent relationship could be found between the time interval from SAH to operation and the severity of vasospasm.
(12) Also we found that the lipid deposition in the glomeruli of patients with Alagille syndrome is related to an abnormal lipid metabolism, which is the consequence of severe cholestasis.
(13) Sixteen patients in whom schizophrenia was initially diagnosed and who were treated with fluphenazine enanthate or decanoate developed severe depression for a short period after the injection.
(14) Concentrations of several gastrointestinal hormonal peptides were measured in lymph from the cisterna chyli and in arterial plasma; in healthy, conscious pigs during ingestion of a meal.
(15) In addition to the changes associated with blood group A, we also found a decrease in sugar content, alterations in other antigens, and changes in the levels of several glycosyltransferases in cancerous tissues.
(16) Based on several previous studies, which demonstrated that sorbitol accumulation in human red blood cells (RBCs) was a function of ambient glucose concentrations, either in vitro or in vivo, our investigations were conducted to determine if RBC sorbitol accumulation would correlate with sorbitol accumulation in lens and nerve tissue of diabetic rats; the effect of sorbinil in reducing sorbitol levels in lens and nerve tissue of diabetic rats would be reflected by changes in RBC sorbitol; and sorbinil would reduce RBC sorbitol in diabetic man.
(17) The severity and site of hypertrophy is important in determining the clinical picture and the natural history of hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM).
(18) After a discussion of the therapeutic relationship, several coping strategies which have been used successfully by many women are described and therapeutic applications are offered.
(19) To clarify the functional roles of His40, Glu58, and His92, we analyzed the consequences of several amino acid substitutions (His40Ala, His40Lys, His40Asp, Glu58Ala, Glu58Gln, and His92Gln) on the kinetics of GpC transesterification.
(20) Moreover, in DCVC-treated cells the mitochondria could not be stained with rhodamine-123, indicating severe mitochondrial damage and loss of membrane potential.
Sunder
Definition:
(v. t.) To disunite in almost any manner, either by rending, cutting, or breaking; to part; to put or keep apart; to separate; to divide; to sever; as, to sunder a rope; to sunder a limb; to sunder friends.
(v. i.) To part; to separate.
(v. t.) A separation into parts; a division or severance.
(v. t.) To expose to the sun and wind.
Example Sentences:
(1) Sunder Katwala, director of British Future, said the British public had been consistently keen for Afghan translators, many of whom had taken significant risks to help British soldiers, to be offered security and protection.
(2) Sunder Katwala of the thinktank British Future believes a generational change has occurred: he hails a "Jessica Ennis generation", one that barely notices race at all.
(3) Unless the NUS changes radically at its national conference in April, there is a risk that it may become terminally sundered from that movement.
(4) On an anecdotal level, politics seems to be sundering friendships on social media platforms such as Facebook as well as in real life.
(5) Which leaves Labour still seeking what the Fabian Society's Sunder Katwala calls its "hand grenade", an idea big enough to capture the public imagination once again.
(6) The last century was extremely tough for Korea: it was brutally occupied by Japan, then sundered in 1945 by its liberators.
(7) Over at the New Statesman website, Sunder Katwala, a director of Future, a thinktank which focuses on issues of identity and integration, wrote an article also critical of the coverage by some British newspapers but singling out this paper: "Perhaps surprisingly, it is the Guardian's front page which comes uncomfortably close to being the poster front which the murderer might have designed for himself."
(8) Even more brilliantly, the lie-dream invocation in the trope of flagwaving global unity emerging from feuding multiplicity sunders the ideologically freighted hyperreal construction of a sporting simulacrum that will be familiar to readers of philosopher Jean Baudrillard.
(9) Back in 2012, Sunder Katwala of the thinktank British Future (talking of the pre-Olympic opening ceremony whinging), said that for those nay-saying: “their cynicism is a performative act of Britishness.” In a country that prefaces a litany of complaints with “mustn’t grumble”, we don’t need gene science to tell us how much we take pleasure in our role.
(10) It was organised by the left-leaning Institute for Public Policy Research and British Future , whose director, Sunder Katwala, is former head of the Fabians.
(11) There are also the ethnic, confessional and cultural divisions that sunder Ukraine, between the Catholic and nationalist west and the Orthodox and often pro-Russian east, also recalling Yugoslavia.
(12) More can always be done, but the campaigner Sunder Katwala was right to note that while in the past football probably introduced many to racism, it has arguably done more than any other part of British society to publicly repudiate racists and fascists in recent years.
(13) The first concerns feminism's purported sundering of the nuclear family and responsibility for a demographic collapse that opens Europe to Muslim colonisation.
(14) Sunder Katwala, director of British Future, said the survey highlighted a national anxiety about immigration to which national politicians needed to respond.
(15) 9.10am: In an interview on the Today programme, George Osborne acknowledged Sunder Katwala's point (see 9.02am) about a couple who earn £40,000 each still getting child benefit, while a family with one person earning £50,000 would lose it.
(16) This one may assume to be due to a mesencephalic parasympathicotonic reaction as the basis for the occurrence of perioral and acro-syndroms after Fischer-Brügge and Sunder-plassmann.
(17) Photograph: Suki Dhanda for the Observer Nevertheless, Sunder Katwala, director of British Future, said the results gave reason to hope that the country was becoming a more tolerant place.
(18) Sunder Katwala of the thinktank British Future draws our attention to an interesting phenomenon which he dubs "the Farage Paradox".
(19) Sunder Katwala, founder of the thinktank British Future and a cheerful enthusiast for the Games, is not worried by the naysayers' grumbling: "Their cynicism is a performative act of Britishness," he says.
(20) The last century was very tough for Korea: it was brutally occupied by Japan, then sundered in 1945 by its liberators Kim is probably right to bet that China’s strategic calculus will not soon change.