(v. t.) To serve in subordination or instrumentally; to be subservient to; to help forward; to promote.
(v. i.) To be subservient or subordinate; to serve in an inferior capacity.
Example Sentences:
(1) Previous experiments using natural stimuli have provided evidence that the VOR is subserved by parallel pathways, including some that are modified during learning and some that are not.
(2) We searched for neurons in the segmental nervous system that subserved shortening behavior, expecting to find at least one interneuron in each segment that was involved in shortening behavior exclusively.
(3) Subpopulations of DRG neurones that subserve distinct sensory modalities project to discrete regions in the dorsal horn.
(4) In this study of the young chick we examine the effects of unilateral or bilateral eye enucleation on the number of axons in the supraoptic decussation, a major interhemispheric tract subserving visual function.
(5) Dietary restriction reduces circulating gonadotropin and testosterone levels in male rats, an effect thought to be mediated through reduced gonadotropin-releasing hormone (GnRH) secretion; however, the cellular mechanisms subserving this response are still unknown.
(6) We wondered whether a chemical substance which has the ability to block Ca2+ channels, neurotransmitter release, intracellular Ca2+ release and the NMDA-glutamate receptor channel, viz., Mg2+, might block the PCP receptor which subserves cerebral contractile events and thereby prevent rupture of microvessels.
(7) A set of vocalization was used to calculate the kernels of the transformation, and these kernels subserved to predict the responses of the cell to a different set of vocalizations.
(8) B1 and B2 receptors appear to present in endothelium (B2) and in smooth muscles (B2, B1) of a variety of isolated vessels of the dog and the rabbit, where they subserve both stimulatory and inhibitory effects.
(9) The thalamic nuclei that were activated by rostral raphé stimulation included those that subserve the processing of somesthetic, accessory visual and limbic information.
(10) Testing indicates impairment of a variety of functions normally subserved by the right cerebral hemisphere.
(11) These data suggest that the renal vasodilator response to bradykinin is subserved by arachidonic acid metabolites as well as nitric oxide, the former accounting for up to 70% of the vasodilator effect of bradykinin.
(12) These data demonstrate that a small number of base changes between hGH and hCS promoter sequences subserve a number of mechanisms which may differentially modulate the expression of hGH and hCS genes.
(13) The neural substrates for the ingestive responses that subserve independent ingestion are only minimally present in infant mice or are somehow inhibited.
(14) Nevertheless, composition of the motor cortex units involved in subserving the behaviour changed because of recruitment [correction of recrutation] of one cells (from V-VI layers of the cortex) in this process and exclusion of other ones (from II-IV layers).
(15) The quantitative and topographical differences in the origin of mossy fibers suggest that these lobules may subserve slightly different functions.
(16) Lastly, the basis common to neurologic factors subserving learning disability and emotional dysfunction is explored.
(17) Different brain pathways have been shown to subserve the therapeutic effects of neuroleptics and their extrapyramidal side effects.
(18) Despite the existence of numerous investigative attempts, a precise understanding of the hormonal events subserving this process has proved elusive.
(19) The tertiary zones of the right parietal cortex appear to be the structural system most likely to subserve complex positive affects.
(20) Since such Na+ reabsorption is subserved by sodium-potassium adenosine triphosphatase (Na-K ATPase), the current study compared the acute effects of hydrocortisone (H), cyclosporine, and FK506 on cultured LLC-PK1 cell viability and on Na-K ATPase activity.
Subservient
Definition:
(a.) Fitted or disposed to subserve; useful in an inferior capacity; serving to promote some end; subordinate; hence, servile, truckling.
Example Sentences:
(1) The classic Jedi response to subservience can be seen in the contrast between Luke’s first meeting with C-3PO – “I see, Sir”; “You can call me Luke”; “I see, Sir Luke,”; “No, just Luke” – and Qui-Gon Jinn meeting Jar Jar Binks: “Mesa your humble servant”; “That won’t be necessary”.
(2) It was concluded that meal-associated rhythms are associated with an endogenous oscillator distinct from the SCN and that it may not entirely subservient to the SCN-based oscillator in intact rats.
(3) With just three days in which to form a government that could fill the power vacuum that has emerged in Athens, Tsipras said he would begin by approaching other leftwing forces in an attempt to "end the agreements of subservience".
(4) The supreme leader wants a subservient and disciplined sidekick but he also needs a president to solve some very delicate problems.
(5) Everything else is subservient to that.” Rather grandly, he says he will have nothing to do with either of them.
(6) Choe also accused the European Union and Japan, the resolution’s co-sponsors, of “subservience and sycophancy” to the United States, and he promised “unpredictable and serious consequences” if the resolution went forward.
(7) It may be entirely unsurprising in Whitehall that our subservience has been institutionalised in this way, but everyone else is entitled to ask whether that makes it healthy or right.
(8) While it is fashionable to charge Mugabe with destroying Zimbabwe in its prime, little regard is given to the fact that the average African country has been granted nominal political independence amid economic subservience.
(9) There was a particular teacher who was bent on casting people of colour in very subservient roles.
(10) Race, gender, and socioeconomic status place poor women of color in triple jeopardy for subservience.
(11) It was evidence of the establishment’s “extraordinary subservience” to foreign royals, he added.
(12) During the first week or two of his leadership he will be faced with the allegation – promoted by cynical Tory newspapers and garrulous Labour ancients – that he wants to take Labour back to the days of wholesale public ownership and subservience to the trade unions.
(13) In 50 years, will a paper be uncovered detailing a shady scheme to keep British subjects subservient with cakes and vintage-style pluck?
(14) Ahmed Wali Karzai , who was gunned down in his home in Kandahar by a bodyguard, was in many ways the personification of modern-day Afghanistan – corrupt, treacherous, lawless, paradoxical, subservient and charming.
(15) Evidence is discussed to show that so-called L- and P-type dyslexia result from deviations in the development of hemispheric subservience in learning to read.
(16) Bluntly, one race is cast in a supporting and therefore subservient role to the other, and this is oppressive in a way that all the representation in the world couldn’t address.
(17) A strike, even if it was supported by only a small number of junior doctors, would – somewhat paradoxically – run the risk of helping the government in its determination to replace an independent medical profession with a subservient workforce of doctors who are only motivated by financial self-interest, and managed by economically efficient managers.
(18) Health programs can also change the attitudes of men toward women, including attitudes that are detrimental to women's health such as the belief that women are weak and that good women are quiet, subservient, and bear many children.
(19) "There are many different factions here, and all are cooperating now but we fear that they [Isis] will impose there control, and they start treating everyone as subservient to them," he said.
(20) She flamboyantly overcame the patriarchal restrictions of Arab society where women are traditionally subservient to their husbands, by taking an equal fighting role with men, by getting divorced and remarried, having children in her late 30s, and rejecting vanity by having her face reconstructed for her cause.