(a.) Of or pertaining to transition; involving or denoting transition; as, transitional changes; transitional stage.
Example Sentences:
(1) Clinical signs of disease developed as early as 15 days after transition to the experimental diets and included impaired vision, decreased response to external stimuli, and abnormal gait.
(2) We conclude that first-transit and blood-pool techniques are equally accurate methods for determining EF when the time-activity method of analysis is employed.
(3) The high transition enthalpy for kerasin is ascribed to a lesser accommodation of gauche conformers in the hydrocarbon chains just below the transition temperature.
(4) Local embolism, vertebral distal-stump embolism, the dynamics of hemorrhagic infarction and embolus-in-transit are briefly described.
(5) Each profile is described by a simple sequence of band transitions (BT-sequence).
(6) These two types of transfer functions are appropriate to explain the transition to anaerobic metabolism (anaerobic threshold), with a hyperbolic transfer characteristic representing a graded transition; and a sigmoid transfer characteristic representing an abrupt transition.
(7) In addition to the phase diagrams reported here for these two binary mixtures, a brief theoretical discussion is given of other possible phase diagrams that may be appropriate to other lipid mixtures with particular consideration given to the problem of crystalline phases of different structures and the possible occurrence of second-order phase transitions in these mixtures.
(8) Biotin-avidin immunoperoxidase analysis for hCG was performed on all paraffin blocks containing carcinoma-in-situ, grade I, grade II, and grade III transitional cell carcinoma.
(9) The growth of transitional epithelial cells with different growth media and growth supports was examined.
(10) Subthreshold concentrations of the drug to induce complete blockade (5 x 10(-8)M) allowed to observe a greater depression of bioelectric cell characteristics in primary than in transitional fibres.
(11) The B cell epitopes included regions of transition between the more hydropathic (including the N-terminal end of the F1 and F2 protein) and hydrophilic sequences.
(12) There was no correlation between disturbed gastric clearance, impaired gall bladder contraction, and prolonged colonic transit time in the patients with cardiovascular autonomic neuropathy nor was there a correlation between any disturbed motor function and age or duration of diabetes.
(13) In addition, transitional macrophages with both positive granules and positive RER, nuclear envelope, negative Golgi apparatus (as in exudate- resident macrophages in vivo), and mature macrophages with peroxidatic activity only in the RER and nuclear envelope (as in resident macrophages in vivo) were found.
(14) Interphase death thus involves a discrete, abrupt transition from the normal state and is not merely the consequence of progressive and degenerative changes.
(15) Sialosyl-Tn antigen expression also was observed in intestinal metaplasia of the stomach and in transitional mucosa adjacent to the colorectal carcinoma, which are considered to be cancer-related lesions.
(16) Refolding was observed by injection of denatured protein into columns having isocratic concentrations in the transition and native base-line zones.
(17) The mutant ribosomes prepared from the transition-phase cells have much lower activity (below 60%) for poly(U)-directed polyphenylalanine synthesis than those in exponentially growing or resting stationary-phase cells.
(18) Aside from typical nuclear spheroids, irregularly shaped nuclei were frequently seen, associated with increased nuclear folds, transitional stages between nuclear folds and nuclear spheroids were also present.
(19) The surface film transition is especially noted in the pressure-area curve of the surfactant and approximates in two dimensions the broad thermotropic phase transition of the bulk phase surfactant.
(20) Stool weights, defecation frequencies, and transit times in this group are much closer to those of westernized whites than to rural blacks.
Transitionary
Definition:
(a.) Transitional.
Example Sentences:
(1) "We are going through a large transitionary period," he says.
(2) Theakston, Bacon, and some 'transitionary' numbers Jamie Theakston spent just 10 weeks of the three months assessed in today's figures in charge of Heart's breakfast show and, after Jono Coleman put on a massive 28% in his final quarter last time, Theakston had a lot to live up to.
(3) Meanwhile Phil Riley, the chief executive of Chrysalis Radio, called the poor set of figures for Heart "transitionary" saying the quarter accounted for a move between the "old" Heart and the "new".
(4) The evolution of the phenotypic expression in vitro of unpigmented human metastatic melanocytes is accompanied by the transitionary disappearance of specific morphological structures, a variation in the mode and ploidy of the cells and a modification in their tumorigenicity.
(5) This classification is still accepted today but it needs to be refined to include the transitionary forms, and solitary bone granulomas whose long terme evolutive nature it is impossible to measure clinically, biologically, or histologically.
(6) "The Pakistanis, in my mind, didn't shape him in any way but made this transitionary period of his life comfortable for him, as he was still learning what it was to be African American.
(7) They believe it is inconceivable an independent Scotland would be forced out: the Commission would introduce a transitionary process and continue to allow Scotland the same rights and place until the precise terms of its membership could be negotiated.
(8) Their cases are discussed 1. as partial phenomenon of the Morgagni's syndrome; 2. as independent alteration, showing no other symptoms; 3. as transitionary forms inserted between the two groups mentioned above.
(9) The intensity of the staining of these acid mucopolysaccharides varied in a transitionary process from a precartilaginous to a pseudocartilaginous intercellular matrix to mature hyaline cartilage.