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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.

Whence


Definition:

  • (adv.) From what place; hence, from what or which source, origin, antecedent, premise, or the like; how; -- used interrogatively.
  • (adv.) From what or which place, source, material, cause, etc.; the place, source, etc., from which; -- used relatively.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) During the rest of life the destructive process predominates, whence a physiological osteopenia, which affects man as well as woman, but which accelerates in the latter during the postmenopausal years.
  • (2) Physiologic therapy demands the return of this fluid to the plasma volume from whence it arose.
  • (3) These results suggest that MCMV does not infect early embryos and that infection first occurs in the placenta of postimplantation embryos, whence it extends through the blood cells to the endothelial and mesodermal cells of different embryonic regions, eventually extending to the neuroectoderm.
  • (4) The earliest atoxyl induced changes in the cochlea appeared in the upper and medial parts of the 4th coil, whence the changes spread progressively downwards towards the round window, the extent of the changes depending on the amount of atoxyl administered and the duration of the treatment.
  • (5) Just as both teams looked content with a point, Dean Moxey sent Gayle down the inside-left channel from whence he cut inside Fabien Delph and curled his right-footed shot into the far top corner.
  • (6) These loud orthographic markers, in turn, echo the profound divide that separates the Afghans' traditional society from the liberal markets from whence secondhand cars make their journey across continents, sometimes complete with dangerously loaded but misunderstood ornamental accessories.
  • (7) Leaving aside the question of from whence these so-called "good citizens" will be sourced, how they will be trained to deal with complex child-neglect cases, and what they would be paid (workfare, jobcentre, sod all, probs), I confess that the idea of Ofsted having its own secret breakfast police in the form of a milk-monitoring Stasi snooper squad does not fill me with reassurance.
  • (8) Villa continued to compete with spirit and no little skill, playing with good width, and the game was in the balance until the 73rd minute, when Shelvey's cross from the right enabled Pablo Hernández to step inside two would-be tacklers before rifling a shot back whence it came, into Guzan's left-hand corner.
  • (9) Whence, the sequence of permeabilities for the two types of potassium channels is: PK greater than PRb greater than PNH4 greater than PNa = PCS.
  • (10) Money was the key instrument, with the leaders pledging millions for the transit countries, the international aid agencies, and up to €1bn (£730m) for Turkey, home to up to 2 million Syrian refugees and whence, via Greece, most people are moving to the EU.
  • (11) The findings suggest that the abnormal material arises in the pericorneal conjunctival connective tissue from whence it diffuses into, and deposits in, the superficial corneal stroma.
  • (12) This was Arabicized, by pre-Islamic Arabs trading in silk with China, as Kimiya, whence arose Al-Kimiya and finally Al-chemy.
  • (13) This transplant is constructed and modeled in accordance with its intended use, around the preselected vascular pedicle, whence the term prefabricated.
  • (14) Our results are not conclusive, but do suggest that kallikrein is located in these granules whence it is secreted into the lumen of the duct.2.
  • (15) REMOVING ONE OF THE KNIVES IN HIS BACK AND RETURNING IT FROM WHENCE IT CAME It's been a whole day since Manchester United became the first professional football club in All History to sack its manager.
  • (16) caused either by rupture of myofibres, whence the abjunctional stump lost its contact with the neuromuscular junction on the adjunctional stump, or by necrosis of the segment of the ruptured myofibre lying underneath the neuromuscular junction.
  • (17) Under the Norwegian novice, Cardiff have taken only eight points from his first 13 matches and – six points adrift of a safe position with five games left – they are set for an early return whence they came, after their promotion as champions last season.
  • (18) It’s taken by Beardsley and half-cleared to the edge of the box, where Gascoigne hooks the bouncing ball back whence it came with his left foot.
  • (19) Most of the blood products transfused into these hemophiliacs were imported from abroad, whence the source of HTLV-III infection presumably originated.
  • (20) Best biographies of 2012 Read more She was born in 1930 in Tuamgraney, County Clare, to parents from backgrounds so different that she wrote: “I sometimes attribute my two conflicting selves to my contrasting grandparents, the one a lady, the other a peasant.” Her mother – from a poor family that had crossed from the west of Ireland – had worked in America, whence gifts and visitors would occasionally arrive.