Meanings
- uncountableExcessive simplicity.
All these arguments, which were to become part of the canon of dialectical materialism in Russia, are evidence of the shallowness of Plekhanov's philosophical education and the oversimplicity of his thought.
1978 [1976], Leszek Kołakowski, translated by P[aul] S[teven] Falla, Main Currents of Marxism, volume II: The Golden Age, Oxford: Clarendon Press, translation of Główne nurty marksizmu: rozwój (in Polish), →ISBN, →OCLC, page 3411 more example
By introducing the element of phenotype of primary cancer cells at earlier in vitro stages of drug development, PDX cell-screening allows us to find drugs that are active against real cancers in vivo and bridges the gap between the oversimplicity of conventional cell line-based screening and the intractable complexity of clinical studies.
2015 August 17, Keiki Sugimoto et al., “Discovery of a drug targeting microenvironmental support for lymphoma cells by screening using patient-derived xenograft cells”, in Scientific Reports, volume 5, →DOI
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