(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.
Whether
Definition:
(pron.) Which (of two); which one (of two); -- used interrogatively and relatively.
(conj.) In case; if; -- used to introduce the first or two or more alternative clauses, the other or others being connected by or, or by or whether. When the second of two alternatives is the simple negative of the first it is sometimes only indicated by the particle not or no after the correlative, and sometimes it is omitted entirely as being distinctly implied in the whether of the first.
Example Sentences:
(1) Here we have asked whether protection from blood-borne antigens afforded by the blood-brain barrier is related to the lack of MHC expression.
(2) This study was undertaken to determine whether the survival of Hispanic patients with squamous cell carcinoma of the head and neck was different from that of Anglo-American patients.
(3) We determined whether serological investigations can assist to distinguish between chronic idiopathic autoimmune thrombocytopenia (cAITP) and immune-mediated thrombocytopenia in patients at risk to develop systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE); 82 patients were seen in this institution for the evaluation of immune thrombocytopenia.
(4) Whether hen's egg yolk can be used as a sperm motility stimulant in the treatment of such conditions as asthenospermia and oligospermia is subjected for further study.
(5) The present study examined whether the lack of chronic hemodynamic effects of ANP in control rats was due to changes in vascular reactivity to the peptide.
(6) Because many wnt genes are also expressed in the lung, we have examined whether the wnt family member wnt-2 (irp) plays a role in lung development.
(7) A remarkable deterioration of prognosis with increasing age rises the question whether treatment with cytotoxic drugs should be tried in patients more than 60 years old.
(8) We investigated whether these peptides also affect the sleep EEG in humans when given intravenously by comparing polysomnographically the effects of four boluses of (1) placebo, (2) 50 micrograms GHRH or (3) 50 micrograms SRIF administered at 22.00, 23.00, 24.00 and 1.00 h to 7 male controls.
(9) In experiments performed to determine whether PtdIns(4,5)P2 hydrolysis induced by TRH may have been caused by the elevation of [Ca2+]i, the following results were obtained: the effect of TRH to decrease the level of PtdIns(4,5)P2 was not reproduced by the calcium ionophore A23187 or by membrane depolarization with 50 mM K+; the calcium antagonist TMB-8 did not inhibit the TRH-induced decrease in PtdIns(4,5)P2; and, most importantly, inhibition by EGTA of the elevation of [Ca2+]i did not inhibit the TRH-induced decrease in PtdIns(4,5)P2.
(10) To determine whether or not the glycan moieties in hTPO play a role in the disease-associated epitopes in Hashimoto's thyroiditis, radiolabeled recombinant hTPO was immunoprecipitated after digestion with N-glycanase.
(11) Many problems at the macroscopic level require clarification of how an animal uses a compartment of suite of muscles and whether morphological differences reflect functional ones.
(12) Friend erythroleukemia cells were induced to differentiate by dimethyl sulfoxide (DMSO) and hexamethylene-bis-acetamide (HBMA) in order to investigate whether their lipid characteristics, common to other systems of transformed cells, revert to a normal differentiation pattern.
(13) When you have been out for a month you need to prepare properly before you come back.” Pellegrini will make his own assessment of Kompany’s fitness before deciding whether to play him in the Bournemouth game, which he is careful to stress may not be the foregone conclusion the league table might suggest.
(14) The Hamilton-Wentworth regional health department was asked by one of its municipalities to determine whether the present water supply and sewage disposal methods used in a community without piped water and regional sewage disposal posed a threat to the health of its residents.
(15) We investigated the incidence of skin cancer among patients who received high doses of PUVA to see whether such incidence increased.
(16) There is, however, conflicting evidence as to whether squamous cell NPCs are also EBV-associated.
(17) One of the most interesting aspects of the shadow cabinet elections, not always readily interpreted because of the bizarre process of alliances of convenience, is whether his colleagues are ready to forgive and forget his long years as Brown's representative on earth.
(18) The authors describe the special medical expertise of the psychiatrist and define 11 indicators, such as a patient's need for new psychotropic medication or the presence of symptoms requiring medical or laboratory procedures, that can be used to determine whether psychiatric expertise is needed.
(19) It was not clear whether Mn2+ acted at the presynaptic membrane, the postsynaptic membrane or both.
(20) Thus it is unclear how a language learner determines whether German even has a regular plural, and if so what form it takes.