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ARTIFICIALLY
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I. (adverb)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Not according to nature; not by natural means
Example:
artificially induced conditions
Synonyms:
artificially; by artificial means; unnaturally
Classified under:
Antonym:
naturally (according to nature; by natural means; without artificial help)
Pertainym:
artificial (contrived by art rather than nature)
Context examples:
A study published Wednesday in the journal Science Advances, finds the Earth’s artificially lit outdoor areas grew by 2.2 percent per year from 2012 to 2016.
(Study: Earth’s Night Skies Getting Brighter, VOA)
With a half-life of 60 days, iodine 125 occurs naturally and can be produced artificially.
(Iodine I-125, NCI Thesaurus)
A cataract that has been produced artificially or by induction, e.g. as a result of device use, medication, trauma, tears, falls, accidental injury, etc.
(Induced Cataract, NCI Thesaurus)
IP3 releases calcium from intracellular stores into the cytoplasm where calcium alters many cellular activities, including activating protein kinase C. DAG also activates protein kinase C. Biologists often study signaling by artificially manipulating pathways using molecules like ionomycin and phorbol esters as research tools.
(Ion Channel and Phorbal Esters Signaling Pathway, NCI Thesaurus/BIOCARTA)
Daily consumption of sugary drinks (sugar sweetened beverages and 100% fruit juices) and artificially sweetened (diet) beverages were calculated and first cases of cancer reported by participants were validated by medical records and linked with health insurance national databases.
(Possible link found between sugary drinks, cancer, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)
I returned home, and consulting with the sorrel nag, we went into a copse at some distance, where I with my knife, and he with a sharp flint, fastened very artificially after their manner, to a wooden handle, cut down several oak wattles, about the thickness of a walking-staff, and some larger pieces.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
Consuming a daily artificially sweetened beverage appeared to offer no advantages over consuming a daily sugar-sweetened beverage.
(Drinking diet beverages during pregnancy linked to child obesity, NIH)
Researchers used this approach to label memory cells during a fear-conditioning event that involved a mild electric shock to the mouse and then used light to artificially reactivate memories at different times.
(New Study Challenges Assumptions about How Memories Are Made, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)
I fixed in the stumps so artificially, scraping and sloping them with my knife toward the points, that I made a very tolerable comb; which was a seasonable supply, my own being so much broken in the teeth, that it was almost useless: neither did I know any artist in that country so nice and exact, as would undertake to make me another.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
So a team of researchers based in France set out to assess the associations between the consumption of sugary drinks (sugar sweetened beverages and 100% fruit juices), artificially sweetened (diet) beverages, and risk of overall cancer, as well as breast, prostate, and bowel (colorectal) cancers.
(Possible link found between sugary drinks, cancer, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)
