There cannot be the slightest doubt that especially against all sorts of foreign albumens the reaction is as strictly specific as possible; but there are some typical cases of specificity in the production of antitoxins also.
Except so far as the “elements” of chemistry come into account, the experimenter in the inorganic fields of nature is not hampered by the specificity of composite objects: he makes all the combinations he wants.
The specificity of the form as a whole is contingent also according to Lamarckism.
Besides that there were cases in which a real specificity of special parts of the germ existed, a relation of these special parts to special organs: but this sort of specification also was shown to belong to the protoplasm.
The biologist is dependent on the specificity of living objects as they occur in nature.
The Differentiation and Specificityof Corresponding Proteins and other Vital Substances in Relation to Biological Classification and Organic Evolution.
The fact of specificity is supported by the fact of constancy of forms.
There are a few statements in the literature to the effect that the specificity of organisms might be due to other substances than proteins.
If this were the case we might say that blood reactions as well as hemoglobin crystals indicate that differences in the constitution of proteins determine the species specificity and, perhaps, also species heredity.
These experiments were made at a time when the nature and bearing of the problem of specificity was not yet fully recognized.
We should then say that the specificity in the process of fertilization consists in a peculiarity of the surface of the egg and spermatozoon which in the case of S.
The Bordet reaction was not only useful in indicating the specificity and blood relationship for animals but also among plants.
This term gains by specificity what it loses through awkwardness.
Except for this point, the specific constitutional guarantees exceed in number and specificity those of almost any other modern constitution.
The segmentation-cells into which these cytoplasmic substances are thus segregated show a marked specificity of development, giving rise, even when isolated, to definite organs of the embryo.
This specificity of embryos was affirmed with even greater confidence by Sedgwick in a paper critical of von Baer's law.
The muscles of the alimentary canal are accordingly in all probability developed in the investing part of the vessel layer.
The following comments can be made concerning the specificity and geographic ranges of several species of mites: Liponyssus occidentalis Ewing was found only on Cryptotis parva.
It was this defect which gave to the advocates of the specificity of puerperal fever their real importance.
While Klebs and Koch maintain the definite specificity of each minute microphytic organism, Nægeli and Billroth assert their mutual convertibility.
This inconvertibility of yellow fever with other diseases is absolute, and affords irrefrangible evidence of the specificity of that germ or poisonous principle which produces it.
Over the next months, we believe further steps should be taken to refine Rapid Dominance and to develop "paper" systems and force designs that will add crucial specificity to this concept.
These "absorption tests" furnish another means of determiningspecificity of serum, or rather of determining the "chief agglutinin" present.
The dynamic result is the same the principal difference being the greater suddenness and the absolute specificity of the pain stimuli as compared with the more complex and less peremptory stimuli of the emotions.
Not only is this specificity thus universally present among the different forms of life, but it manifests itself in respect of the most diverse characteristics which living things display.
In the enthusiasm with which evolutionary ideas were received the specificity of living things was almost forgotten.
The failure of this result to always follow the absence of the "A" type in the diet has led some to question the specificity of this disease.
Soon after their publication Funk became interested and coming to the same conclusions as to specificity devised a centrifugating method for measuring the yeast growth.
Men who are unable to give the smallest specificity to their dislike of him feel that they add to their stature by detracting from his accomplishments and defaming him.
As he failed to solve the problem of the specificity of the cholera vibrio on animals, he resolved to experiment upon himself and consumed a culture of cholera vibriones.
The same mechanism explains the specificity of the serums of vaccinated animals.
He did not contract cholera, which made him doubt the specificity of the vibrio, and therefore he consented to repeat the experiment on one of his workers (M.
Fortunately the patient recovered, and this terrifying experiment proved indisputably the specificity of the cholera vibrio.
It could be given them by pure cultures of Eberth's bacillus, which definitely confirmed the specificity of that microbe.
In the meanwhile (1892) cholera had made its appearance in France; the specificity of the cholera vibrio was not finally established at that time.
Beyond doubt the nature of the material is of greater import in the specificity of the outcome than are the external forces brought to play on it.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "specificity" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
