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Then


Definition:

  • (adv.) At that time (referring to a time specified, either past or future).
  • (adv.) Soon afterward, or immediately; next; afterward.
  • (adv.) At another time; later; again.
  • (conj.) Than.
  • (conj.) In that case; in consequence; as a consequence; therefore; for this reason.

Example Sentences:

Thence


Definition:

  • (adv.) From that place.
  • (adv.) From that time; thenceforth; thereafter.
  • (adv.) For that reason; therefore.
  • (adv.) Not there; elsewhere; absent.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) This observation is relevant to splenic colonies from cells that had received their antigenic stimulation in the gut wall and thence had seeded out in the body.
  • (2) The upper of these two calculi finally found its way into the bladder after ulcerating into the sigmoid colon and thence into the bladder.
  • (3) Thence the PR8 virus infection initially induces a decrease of STA levels and secondly a impairment of thymus-derived immune functions.
  • (4) The probable pathway is via projections from the nucleus of the solitary tract to the reticular formation and thence by diffuse projections to the cortex and other areas.
  • (5) Most of the cells are involved in sensory transduction or in local signal processing to relay signals via a few interneurons to motoneurons and thence to body muscles.
  • (6) Carbon particles entering the subarachnoid space over the vertex of the cerebral hemispheres drained along selected paravascular and subfrontal pathways in the subarachnoid space to the cribriform plate and thence into nasal lymphatics and cervical lymph nodes.
  • (7) Information defining the renin-angiotensin-aldosterone axis as a control system concurrently regulating salt balance and blood pressure has been applied to examine the role of renin in the causation of experimental and clinical forms of renovascular and renal hypertension and thence to develop criteria for differentiating these entities.
  • (8) In 1836-1837, influenza diffusion was largely north to south, and in 1847-1848 the disease swept through the Mediterranean to southern France and thence elsewhere in Western Europe.
  • (9) The results suggest that treatments which stimulate cell multiplication also activate those enzymatic pathways which convert amino acids to pyruvic and thence to lactic acid.
  • (10) The fact that so little progress has been made in the specific area of female sexuality is partly because of divisions within feminism – many of the boldest voices see the Slut business as a post-modern stunt, where sexual violence is used as a stalking horse to co-opt young women into hot pants and thence into the raunch culture that oppresses them further.
  • (11) Accordingly a number of valentines, which had been sent this year to country postmasters, at a distance from the place where they were written, with a request that they might be posted at those remote offices, have been sent to the Dead-letter office , and thence to the parties for whom they were destined, accompanied with a statement showing where the valentines were written, and the means that had been taken to elude detection.
  • (12) The non-actinomycete class A beta-lactamase phylogenetic tree suggests a spread of these beta-lactamases by horizontal transfer from the Streptomyces into the non-actinomycete gram-positive bacteria and thence into the gram-negative bacteria.
  • (13) When the inferior vena cava is obstructed, collateral veins enlarge, connecting with the inferior (accessory) right hepatic vein (IRHV) and thence through various hepatic veins to the right atrium.
  • (14) This appears to reflect a system of growth amplification, with preferential differentiation of CFU-S into CFU-C and thence into the pathway of white cell development.
  • (15) This method (called the Flux Method) consists in writing down the flux in successive steps of the reaction, and calculating the relative concentration of enzyme forms and thence the turnover time.
  • (16) Urine specimens were sampled from toluene exposed persons (2 painters, 2 plasterers and 1 addict of organic solvent), who were admitted to the critical care center of our medical school and the urinary hippuric acid (HA; the metabolite of toluene) was monitored every one hour after admission for 10-12 hours and thence-forth every 4 hours for more than 40 hours.
  • (17) Evidence is presented which indicates that blood leaving side branches of an internal mammary artery implanted into the anterior wall of the right ventricle flows from the tunnel in which it lies through myocardial sinusoidal spaces of the anterior right ventricular wall across the midline to fill corresponding spaces in the anterior wall of the left ventricle and thence is carried to the left coronary sinus.
  • (18) The Authors report the results over a four year-period of their protocol for the detection of blood donors at risk of harboring Plasmodium Falciparum and thence transmitting post-transfusional malaria.
  • (19) A kinetic model of RNA synthesis in HeLa cells is described in which equilibration of label occurs first into the acid soluble pool (evidence is given that this pool feeds RNA synthesis) and thence in nuclear and cytoplasmic molecules.
  • (20) Embryonic elongation was associated with the sudden release of these vesicles into the glandular lumen and thence into the uterine lumen.