Meanings
- not comparableActing as or being a precursor.
The presence of these precursorial forms of the hormones was initially demonstrated by gel filtration chromatography and radioimmunoassay of glandular tissue extracts.
2013, C. E. Finch, Parkinson’s Disease—II: Aging and Neuroendocrine Relationships, page 613 more examples
Because no precursorial shock wave is present, because of a center focal point for the shockwave, and because of the lower pressure of shock wave in this machine, the patient feels no pain and it is possible to treat without any kind of anesthesia, including IV sedation.
2013, Joseph W. Segura, David E. Patterson, Andrew J. LeRoy, “Wolf Piezoelectric Lithotripsy”, in James Lingeman, editor, Shock Wave Lithotripsy: State of the Art, page 279Later the thick filaments acquired a more compact, regular arrangement to form interrupted series of structural units (sarcomeres), on which precursorial M-lines and H-bands could then be noted.
2013, Lawrence Dillon, The Inconstant Gene, page 194He claimed that the seeming 'precursorial' colonies of fossils were the result of younger rocks having been faulted into older strata ( Notebook IV, 3 July 1879), as shown in Figure 5.1.
2002, David Roger Oldroyd, Earth, Water, Ice and Fire, page 60
Origin
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