The special contagion, inappreciable to the senses and acting in exceedingly minute quantities, by which a disease is introduced into the organism and maintained there.
Defn: The almost inappreciable time which elapses between the systole and the diastole of the heart.
The invention of printing was a severe blow to Catholicism, which had, previously, enjoyed the inappreciable advantage of a monopoly of intercommunication.
James Maskill, watching her, thought she hesitated there for an almost inappreciable moment, as though she had detected her fingers in blundering, and expected to see her transfer the letter from her own pile to his.
And again, with titanic intention, and the merest inappreciable flattening of his diaphragm, he launched his pitiable mew.
The delicate shades, which ought to separate regularity from irregularity, are often so inappreciable that it is almost impossible to say where one begins and the other ends.
By an inappreciable daily quantity, it rises, at the end of the year, to 50".
And it becomes inappreciable if the average number is fifteen.
If they visit ten on a trip, it will be diminished about one-hundredth, and the diminution is inappreciable if they visit fifteen on a trip.
These effects may be observed on a small scale in the case of a steamship advancing up a river, or into a harbour with a narrow channel, but are inappreciable in deep water, or along a precipitous open coast.
It is by self-sacrifice that we acquire the inappreciable gift of being useful to our fellow-men.
The church conquered for the workmen two inappreciable things—liberty and dignity; and, for so many benefits, she too often receives but ingratitude and forgetfulness.
We may connect an insulated line to a source of such currents, we may pass an inappreciable current over the line, and on any point of the same we are able to obtain a heavy current, capable of fusing a thick copper wire.
Hence we may look with some confidence to a secure future of equallyinappreciable length.
It is certain that he can largely influence the character of a breed by selecting, in each successive generation, individual differences so slight as to be quite inappreciable by an uneducated eye.
It cannot be objected that there has not been time sufficient for any amount of organic change; for the lapse of time has been so great as to be utterly inappreciable by the human intellect.
Most of the stars are a million times as remote as the sun, and consequently their attraction is so slight as to be absolutely inappreciable in the discussion of this question.
The same oblivion of past and inappreciable services, when they were no longer required, pursued the illustrious general in his declining years, on the part of his own countrymen.
Alike to those who seem to be above it as to those who are evidently below, such work must remain always inappreciable and inexplicable.
With care inappreciable and invaluable fidelity has the editing throughout been done.
The car would have a tendency to draw us back again by its attraction, but this tendency would be very slight, and practically inappreciable at a distance.
We are, therefore, driven to the conclusion, that causes generally quite inappreciable by us determine whether a given species shall be abundant or scanty in numbers.
This calcareous and velluted house is spiral, which the animal has the inappreciable advantage of transporting without fatigue.
The almost inappreciable time which elapses between the systole and the diastole of the heart.
These effects are quite inappreciable for bodies anything like the size of the earth, but for small bodies of the order of one centimetre diameter or less the effects would be quite large.
After A the repulsion bends the path of the particle round until B is reached, and after B the repulsion becomes inappreciable again.
An argument good in itself may be inappreciable to one in a certain mental state, or may be highly exasperating.
We learn from the phenomena of the senses that the nerves are very much under the influence of mechanical impulses of all kinds, and particularly minute and inappreciable impulses of this description.
Gneiss, he thinks, resulted from the detritus of granitic rocks, by means of an inappreciable cement, and formed in a way analogous to that of the porphyries.
