(n.) The act of signifying; a making known by signs or other means.
(n.) That which is signified or made known; that meaning which a sign, character, or token is intended to convey; as, the signification of words.
Example Sentences:
(1) Insulin requirement in the treated groups was significantly lower than in control group at 6 months, this difference was no longer significative at 12 months.
(2) The intrinsic viscosity of hyaluronic acid in synovial fluid decreases significatively in mild and severe arthritis (24% and 37% respectively).
(3) Statistical analysis of regression lines obtained in both groups of patients showed significative differences between slopes and elevations.
(4) It was found that the nurses' knowledge of AIDS was limited: they do not understand the signification of seropositivity and they had little knowledge of the epidemiological dimensions of the illness.
(5) Fractional excretion of potassium did not change in the control group after nephrectomy while the ethanol-fed group displayed a significative decrease at days 7 and 14.
(6) At the end of the tests the development of the most significative symptomatologic parameters has been analysed according to the Wilcoxon test: quantity, kind and characteristics of nasal secretions, nasal obstruction, phlogosis of the nasal and pharyngeal mucosa, hoarseness, difficulty in catarrhal expectoration, hypoacusia, retraction of the tympanic membrane.
(7) In spite of a significative descent of arterial pressure, we did not find any significative change in the fetal heart rate, accelerations, variability, or in the fetal motility.
(8) The bentazepam treatment cut down significatively the score mean in Hamilton scale for the anxiety after 10-15 days of treatment.
(9) The percentage of reactors increased from 30% among healthy subjects to 45,9% among the those attending the day hospital and to 60% among those admitted to wards; this is statistically significative.
(10) Thus, the signification and influence of religious, metaphysical, legal, socioeconomical and certain technical factors of the autopsy practice are briefly described, followed by a synopsis of the situation of the pathologist facing the demands of medicine, science, education, and administration.
(11) not any other parameter had significative relation with the neurotransmitters variations.
(12) On 122 validated cases out of 188 analyzed patients, the study demonstrates a significative effect on the mortality and severe morbidity related to vasospasm: the reduction of the risk is appreciated to 72%.
(13) The author points out the transport proteins whose biological roles are not completely known and ascertains that the free hormone concept has not at the present time a biological signification well defined.
(14) Excepted a statistical trend to significativity of SD versus satisfactory sedation: RS 0.311 (threshold value for 20 patients: 0.377), no relation was found between SD and data recorded.
(15) Results indicate that concentrations of the trans-isomer are significatively higher.
(16) we found a significative difference (P > 0.05) between HVA and the other etiologic groups.
(17) A significative difference between male and female values and a decrease of CrU levels with age increasing have been evidenced in both groups.
(18) Three patients died from the septicemia and the overall prognosis of the intensive care patients looks significatively worsened.
(19) Based on observations up to 20 years, after incomplete removal postoperative irradiation significally prolonged useful life and may have lead to permanent control in some.
(20) A variance analysis was made and the differences were considered to be significative at p less than 0.05.
Signifying
Definition:
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Signify
Example Sentences:
(1) These steps signify a willingness for engagement not seen before, but they have been overshadowed by the "nuclear crisis" triggered in October 2002 when Pyongyang admitted to having the "know-how", but not the technology, for a highly enriched uranium route to nuclear weapons.
(2) Differences in reactivity of various electrogenic membrane components to tetrodotoxin are discussed as signifying differences in chemical structures.
(3) These results are interpreted to signify that (1) inspiratory inhibitory inputs are more susceptible to depression by PB than inspiratory drive mechanisms; (2) the breathing pattern of apneusis results when summed inspiratory inhibition is reduced below a critical minimum level; (3) vagal and pneumotaxic center inhibitions on inspiration are equally weighted at apneusis, but not at apnea.
(4) 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.
(5) These collective findings may signify an interesting difference in the release process in such diverse systems or denote a dissimilarity in the transport or processing of the toxin when applied into intact neurones or cells permeabilised by detergent or streptolysin.
(6) This signifies the presence of different immunogenic components on SRBC No.
(7) Spanish football fans’ habit of waving white hankies tends to be derisive, signifying that they wish a hapless manager to be put out of their club’s misery.
(8) Neutropenia in the presence of respiratory distress in the first 72 hours had an 84% likelihood of signifying bacterial disease, whereas neutropenia in the presence of asphyxia had a 68% likelihood of signifying bacterial disease.
(9) From Bantry Bay to Bucharest, European ceilings today bear witness to a mass hanging signifying the end of the incandescent bulb.
(10) On deeper examination, such requests may signify staff dysfunction caused by arousal of conflictual feelings about the behavior of illness of the patient.
(11) A silent protester cries while wearing a sticker over her mouth signifying the loss in wages from the right-to-work law in Lansing, Michigan, on 12 December 2012.
(12) Generation of plasmin activity in the first hour was signified by an 11-fold rise in D-dimer levels (p less than 0.0001); inhibition of plasmin was reflected by a 36-fold rise in plasmin-alpha 2 antiplasmin complexes (p less than 0.0001), as well as by a transient 16% decrease in alpha 2-antiplasmin activity (p less than 0.01).
(13) The main symptom "incoordination" (ataxia, asynergy, paresis, paralysis) is used by us more precisely only in case of impairment of nervous system by neoplastic infiltrations and does not signify as possible symptoms of general physical weakness, for example faltering, staggering, tumbling or lameness.
(14) This suggests that isolation of EBV from HD tissue does not always signify a pathogenetic role for the virus.
(15) This will signify ‘ringing the changes’ in their chosen campaign.
(16) This activation may signify a specific genetic response to ischemia affecting tolerance to ischemia and ultimate cell survival.
(17) The remaining question was whether or not this necessarily signified pervasive tissue hypoxia.
(18) About 1 mol of ATP was hydrolyzed per mol of Ca2+ transported, signifying that the ATPase activity was relevant to the Ca2+ transport system of the membranes.
(19) 10(-3), signifying that coproferrihaem shows the least tendency to dimerize of any ferrihaem so far investigated.
(20) Forrest (1965, 1969, 1973, 1976) has attacked the contention of many cognitive psychologists that schizophrenic behavior is best signified by deviations in language and aberrancies of thought.