(a.) Not essential; not of prime importance; not indispensable; unimportant.
(a.) Void of essence, or real being.
(n.) Something not constituting essence, or something which is not of absolute necessity; as, forms are among the unessentials of religion.
Example Sentences:
(1) These data indicate that the adrenal medulla is unessential for normal endurance exercise as long as liver glycogen is available.
(2) On the basis of these results, limbic regions of the cat's brain might be considered unessential for intact learning and mnemonic functions.
(3) Because the mutant can successfully infect nonpermissive cells, phage-induced deoxynucleoside monophosphate kinase appears to be an unessential function for phage production.
(4) Trp-155 in bovine DNase A (EC 3.1.4.5) appeared to be unessential for the enzymatic activity for the following reasons: (1) A unique peptide which suggests the environmental difference of Trp-155 was obtained from porcine pancreatic DNase A.
(5) Two of 13 histidyl residues were modified irreversibly due to Bamberger's cleavage reaction, but these two residues were found to be unessential for RNA polymerase activity.
(6) Although cyclic AMP has been shown to be unessential for growth of E. coli under optimal laboratory conditions in glucose-containing medium, it undoubtedly can play a role in survival.
(7) This can be either the consequence or cause of the unessential loss of body weight well before death.
(8) A genetic map of the prophage was established using defective, heat-induced lysates of int- lysogens both in vegetative crosses with sus mutants of essential genes and in transduction of the four unessential genes to lysogenic recipients.
(9) The abrasion is minimal, the tissue reaction to abrasion products is unessential.
(10) For complex formation, the isoprenoid side chain and hydroxy group of alpha-tocopherol are unessential and, rather, the methyl groups attached to the aromatic ring of the chromanol moiety seems to be responsible.
(11) The phenomenon is also an important part of the mechanisms whereby those unessential factors pathologize making various kinds of 'itis'.
(12) The interpeak--intervals only unessentially differ from the standard group.
(13) One transformant contained a plasmid that encoded an unessential gene, STP1, that in multiple copies enhanced the suppression of SUP4(G37) and caused increased production of mature SUP4(G37) product.
(14) This analysis has permitted a functional map of the protein to be drawn and classifies five segments of the protein, which together contain 48% of the sequence, as unessential to the biological activity of the protein.
(15) The unessential genes lI, iny, cII and, at least to some extent, even the integrase gene int are not subject to negative control by the repressor, the product of gene cIII.
(16) The bacteriophage T4 unf gene, known to be involved in the arrest of transcription from cytosine-containing DNA, is unessential except in Escherichia coli strains containing plasmid pR386.
(17) Thus, Lys-50 and Lys-82 are unessential for enzymatic activity while Lys-60 may play a minor role.
(18) We conclude that chemotactin-induced aggregation is similar to the other chemotactin-induced PMN functions in the requirements for proper temperature and intact glycolytic pathways; in contrast, however, and intact cytoskeletal microtubular system appears unessential for this response.
(19) Nor have you been afraid to divest whatever is unessential in order to regain the authority and trust which is demanded of ministers of Christ and rightly expected by the faithful,” he said.
(20) After blocking the unessential thiol groups with NEM, the essential cysteine was labeled with N-(4-dimethylamino-3,5-dinitrophenyl)maleimide (DDPM).
Unimportant
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) The amount of EB or progesterone injected seemed unimportant but, in either case, had to be given within a limited diurnal period of sensitivity.
(2) For example, we hypothesize that competition can be unimportant even if it is very intense: no such hypothesis is possible unless importance is distinguished from intensity.
(3) A comparison of the time course of this time-locked response with that of the kernel prediction indicated that nonlinear temporal effects of order higher than two are unimportant.
(4) Nucleotide pyrophosphatases seem to play an unimportant role in guanylyl imidodiphosphate conversion, while alkaline phosphatase is possibly of more importance.
(5) Moreover, M1-muscarinic receptors appear to be relatively unimportant in mediating the effects of carbachol on short circuit current (ISC).
(6) Cl measured with each method exceeded Crs (p less than .05), but the magnitude was clinically unimportant.
(7) According to these results the acetylator phenotype seems to be an unimportant factor in therapy with dihydralazine.
(8) Snoring usually is trivial and unimportant, but it can turn into a social or medical problem.
(9) Analysis of this time delay as a function of the factor Xa concentration indicates that the gain of the feedback loop of factor V activation by thrombin is so high that the contribution of factor V activation by factor Xa is relatively unimportant for factor Xa concentrations in the nanomolar range.
(10) This is unusual, although clinically unimportant muscle involvement in trypanosomiasis has been described.
(11) But he is warm and sharp, and the punchlines begin to feel unimportant when the journey there is so much fun.
(12) Since this phenomenon is associated with high concentrations of contrast media in nonflowing blood, the high shear rate in arteries and arterioles make it unimportant in the in vivo situation.
(13) Didn't they realise how unimportant it all was, compared with what we'd been through?"
(14) The contribution made by cytotoxicity to the overall antiviral effect (measured by 24 h yield) was negligible in Flow 2002 cells, and was relatively unimportant in BHK cells.
(15) Safety was very satisfactory: patients complained only rarely of trivial and clinically unimportant side effects; no variations in laboratory tests were noted.
(16) Our results suggest that the osmotic and free-radical scavenging properties of hexoses are relatively unimportant in relation to their antiarrhythmic effects.
(17) Items loading on the first three factors were thought to be generally important, and those on the last three relatively unimportant.
(18) The basis of the program is a valid 'partial' statistical description of the EEG; that description is then used to produce a digital representation of a signal which, if plotted sequentially, might or might not by chance resemble an EEG, that is unimportant.
(19) The involvement of General Practitioners in the care of epilepsy was found to be small, but not unimportant.
(20) Pocket elimination by the use of surgical procedures (gingivectomy, flap operation with bone surgery) may be preferred in regions of the mouth where the aesthetic result is unimportant and where the removal of alveolar bone does not jeopardize the periodontal support of neighbouring teeth.