Example sentences for: passive

How can you use “passive” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • recently demonstrated that strong IgG1 responses can be induced in NOD mice that have been immunized subcutaneously with insulin B chain peptides administered in physiological saline [ 15 ] . However, both studies showed that anaphylaxis can be induced in such mice upon subsequent re-challenge with preparations of the peptides used for immunization [ 15 ] . Moreover, the anaphylactic reactions in mice that had been immunized and challenged with G7 peptides were severe, with reductions in body temperature that were very similar to those observed in mice exhibiting IgE-dependent passive systemic anaphylaxis and with a very high fatality rate (12/14 mice, or 86%).

  • Ah, well: There is nothing intrinsically wrong with the passive voice, and the active voice sometimes sounds stilted.

  • Δ p SSP/RVSP = pressure gradient between systolic systemic pressure and right ventricular systolic pressure; Δ p DSP/mRVDP = pressure gradient between diastolic systemic pressure and the mean right ventricular diastolic pressure (the mean value between diastolic and end diastolic right ventricular pressures); PLE = passive leg elevation; RVEDVI = right ventricular end diastolic volume index; RVED V/P = right ventricular end diastolic volume/pressure ratio; RVEF = right ventricular ejection fraction; RVESVI = right ventricular end systolic volume index.

  • Clinical decision support takes many forms - including passive display of information such as the last digoxin level and potassium in a patient receiving digoxin; reminders - for example, that a mammogram is due; alerts - that the hematocrit is falling rapidly or that the patient has an allergy to the prescribed drug; and guidelines - suggestions about orders in a patient with a suspected myocardial infarction.

  • , the HHS web site for its administrative simplification initiative), but were much less common than passive systems.


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