(v. i.) A setting of the mind or thoughts upon a subject; hence, application of mind to books, arts, or science, or to any subject, for the purpose of acquiring knowledge.
(v. i.) Mental occupation; absorbed or thoughtful attention; meditation; contemplation.
(v. i.) Any particular branch of learning that is studied; any object of attentive consideration.
(v. i.) A building or apartment devoted to study or to literary work.
(v. i.) A representation or rendering of any object or scene intended, not for exhibition as an original work of art, but for the information, instruction, or assistance of the maker; as, a study of heads or of hands for a figure picture.
(v. i.) A piece for special practice. See Etude.
(n.) To fix the mind closely upon a subject; to dwell upon anything in thought; to muse; to ponder.
(n.) To apply the mind to books or learning.
(n.) To endeavor diligently; to be zealous.
(v. t.) To apply the mind to; to read and examine for the purpose of learning and understanding; as, to study law or theology; to study languages.
(v. t.) To consider attentively; to examine closely; as, to study the work of nature.
(v. t.) To form or arrange by previous thought; to con over, as in committing to memory; as, to study a speech.
(v. t.) To make an object of study; to aim at sedulously; to devote one's thoughts to; as, to study the welfare of others; to study variety in composition.
Example Sentences:
(1) The findings are more consistent with those in studies of panic disorder.
(2) We studied further the serum with the highest titer.
(3) In studies of calcium metabolism in 13 unselected patients with untreated sarcoidosis all were normocalcaemic but five had hypercalcuria.
(4) These variants may serve as useful gene markers in alcohol research involving animal model studies with inbred strains in mice.
(5) Thirty-two patients (10 male, 22 female; age 37-82 years) undergoing maintenance haemodialysis or haemofiltration were studied by means of Holter device capable of simultaneously analysing rhythm and ST-changes in three leads.
(6) The effect of insulin-like growth factor I (IGF-I) on growth of small cell lung cancer (SCLC) cell lines was studied.
(7) Arterial compliance of great vessels can be studied through the Doppler evaluation of pulsed wave velocity along the arterial tree.
(8) Isotope competition studies indicated that the pathway was regulated by isoleucine.
(9) This study was undertaken to determine whether the survival of Hispanic patients with squamous cell carcinoma of the head and neck was different from that of Anglo-American patients.
(10) A study revealed that the percentage of active sperm in semen 30 seconds after ejaculation was 10.3% when a nonoxynol 9 latex condom was used as opposed to 55.9% in a nonspermicidal condom.
(11) The prenatal risk determined by smoking pregnant woman was studied by a fetal electrocardiogram at different gestational ages.
(12) In this study of ten consecutive patients sustaining molten metal injuries to the lower extremity who were treated with excision and grafting, treatment with compression Unna paste boot was compared with that with conventional dressing.
(13) Biochemical, immunocytochemical and histochemical methods were used to study the effect of chronic acetazolamide treatment on carbonic anhydrase (CA) isoenzymes in the rat kidney.
(14) This study compares the mortality of U.S. white males with that of Swedish males who have had the highest reported male life expectancies in the world since the early 1960s.
(15) The telencephalic proliferative response has been studied in adult newts after lesion on the central nervous system.
(16) These immunocytochemical studies clearly demonstrated that cells encountered within the fibrous intimal thickening in the vein graft were inevitably smooth muscle cell in origin.
(17) Theophylline kinetics, as an in vivo probe for the potentially toxic cytochrome P-450I pathway of drug metabolism, were studied in 11 healthy volunteers and 11 patients with calcific chronic pancreatitis at Madras, South India.
(18) A study of factors influencing genetic counseling attendance rate has been conducted in the Bouches-du-Rhône area, in the south of France.
(19) These studies led to the following conclusions: (a) all the prominent NHP which remain bound to DNA are also present in somewhat similar proportions in the saline-EDTA, Tris, and 0.35 M NaCl washes of nuclei; (b) a protein comigrating with actin is prominent in the first saline-EDTA wash of nuclei, but present as only a minor band in the subsequent washes and on washed chromatin; (c) the presence of nuclear matrix proteins in all the nuclear washes and cytosol indicates that these proteins are distributed throughout the cell; (d) a histone-binding protein (J2) analogous to the HMG1 protein of K. V. Shooter, G.H.
(20) The taxonomic relationship of strains H4-14 and 25a with previously described Xanthobacter strains was studied by numerical classification.
Teleology
Definition:
(n.) The doctrine of the final causes of things
(n.) the doctrine of design, which assumes that the phenomena of organic life, particularly those of evolution, are explicable only by purposive causes, and that they in no way admit of a mechanical explanation or one based entirely on biological science; the doctrine of adaptation to purpose.
Example Sentences:
(1) The presence of a preformed pool of TNF mRNA may teleologically be viewed as a mechanism to increase the rapidity of the host's response to sepsis.
(2) Glucose regulation thus becomes of secondary importance to the maintenance of basal insulin secretion, which is teleologically needed for the "anabolic" requirements of cell growth.
(3) By this he has done the step from the cyclical conception of life, essential for early humanity and childhood, towards the causal and teleological thinking of modern man.
(4) This may represent a teleologically appropriate response to prevent catastrophic losses of fluid that would occur, if the normally high rates of glomerular filtration continued, in the face of reduced tubular reabsorptive capacity.
(5) The teleological significance of the neutral cotransport of two Cl- with one Na+ and one K+ is that it enables transporting epithelia like the rectal gland, cornea, salivary gland, and thick ascending limb of Henle's loop to double the efficiency of their Na-K-ATPase pump.
(6) The objectives of this study were to determine 1) the relative degrees to which students' notions of physiological functions are teleologic or mechanistic in nature, 2) whether these notions differ between students in elementary and advanced-level physiology courses, and 3) whether the degree of teleologic vs. mechanistic thinking can be modified by direct discussion of this topic.
(7) The present result extends the variational, teleological formulations found a decade ago by the author to the more-than-two species case.
(8) Teleologically then, it makes sense that in oncogenesis this growth regulating network is utilized by the production of proteins which mimic growth factors, the activated form of their receptors or, the messengers themselves.
(9) While hairy cells have the capacity for immunoglobulin production, we were unable to demonstrate a teleological link between these cells and the renal lesion.
(10) Since this reaction of the organism can barely be influenced and it appears to be teleologically purposeful, many authors have repeatedly attempted to achieve a utilization of nutrients as high and economic as possible using an infusion regimen adapted to these conditions.
(11) Many of these patterns, which are at least partly inherited, can be understood teleologically on the basis of preservation of the internal environmental and natural selection in evolution.
(12) These "teleological" aspects represent the foundation of the phisiopathology of adaptation in advanced age and the key for a correct interpretation of it and therefore for a correct preventive and curative program.
(13) To a certain extent, these changes are teleologically beneficial, as they are able to partially protect the failing heart from potentially toxic adrenergic stimuli.
(14) The author reviews the conceptual, diagnostic, and teleological dimensions of this addition to diagnostic nomenclature.
(15) A questionnaire that determined whether students thought about body functions in a teleologic (why) or mechanistic (how) manner was administered to the following categories of students: 1) a class of high school biology students, 2) classes of students taking elementary college-level physiology courses, and 3) college students in advanced physiology courses.
(16) On teleological grounds alone, it would appear that ocular versions and rotations take place, in many cases, along geodesics of least energy and that paths of higher energy are only taken for reasons of binocular near vision.
(17) The teleological significance of these two pathways remains to be established, particularly since mitochondria are capable of transporting CoA from the cytosol.
(18) This is an attempt to find a teleological rationale for the involution of the thymus with aging.
(19) With this posture, and with the general obstruction of constructive dialogue between evolution and the physical sciences it fosters, come the perennial accusations that Darwinism deals in adaptational teleology but not mechanisms.
(20) Teleologically, however, the role of the HLA system may be viewed as vital for survival of the species and the individual by providing the host with a recognition system of and defenses against viruses, microorganisms, parasites, plant antigens, neoplastic cells, and others.