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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.

Thither


Definition:

  • (adv.) To that place; -- opposed to hither.
  • (adv.) To that point, end, or result; as, the argument tended thither.
  • (a.) Being on the farther side from the person speaking; farther; -- a correlative of hither; as, on the thither side of the water.
  • (a.) Applied to time: On the thither side of, older than; of more years than. See Hither, a.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) A long throw is hoiked in towards Huth, who flings himself through the air and barges into various defenders, sending them scattering hither and thither, before Shawcross prods the ball home from the resulting carnage.
  • (2) Step forward, then, Charlotte Lucas, you magnificently clear-eyed, steel‑spined, iron-willed creature who, while everyone else is mooning over dance partners, parsing glances and bobbing curls hither and thither, is taking a cold, hard, dispassionate look at her situation and making a reckoning of the fates to come.
  • (3) The organisers of the Fifa World Cup condemn these acts of violence and we will communicate further information and measures to be taken.” After the initial shock there was an air of farce as the fans, having run past the escalators that would have gained them entry to the stands, ran hither and thither seeking a way in, chased by security.
  • (4) If past experience is a guide, migrants resent being sent hither and thither, and quickly find ways to go to the places they wanted to go to in the first instance – places where they think conditions are better, where they feel more welcome, or where there are established communities from their countries of origin.
  • (5) The ferries are operated by men of a certain age who leap hither and thither, offering twinkly chivalrous winks to the ladies aboard.
  • (6) Spiralling galaxies of ignorance roll majestically against a backdrop of what looks like dark prejudice, dotted hither and thither with winking stars of snide innuendo.

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