uptake
uptake
Definition
up·take (up′tāk′)
noun
- the act of taking up; a drawing up, absorbing, etc.
- a pipe carrying smoke and gases from a furnace to its chimney
- a ventilating shaft or pipe
quick (or slow) on the uptake
☆Informal quick (or slow) to understand or comprehend
uptake
Usage Examples
Preposition: of
- immunization: Most recently he has done research on reasons for the low uptake of childhood immunisations among rural communities in Transkei, South Africa.
- nongroup: The public dental of the safety uptake of nongroup.
- glucose: The margin of the persisting mass showed increased uptake of glucose.
- screening: East Cheshire is already among the best areas in the country for the uptake of breast screening.
Converse of object
- inhibit: However, despite strong interest in their usage, a lack of fundamental test data and verified structural design guidance is inhibiting uptake.
- accelerate: STARTS main objectives are to accelerate the uptake of best software engineering practice and methods.
- stimulate: They reduce hepatic and intestinal glucose output, and stimulate glucose uptake by muscle.
Adjective modifier
- maximal: Professor Peter Raven of Fort Worth had noted that COHb diminishes maximal oxygen uptake linearly.
- nutrient: Maintaining a pH level of 5.5 to 6.5 contributes to optimal nutrient uptake.
- neuronal: Therefore, the transport protein responsible for neuronal uptake of NE has been extensively investigated in the past decade.
- cellular: It promotes cellular uptake of glucose and amino acids and inhibits protein degradation ( 11 ).
- rapid: Use water soluble forms of magnesium where rapid plant uptake is required.
- intestinal: Intestinal uptake of zinc is impaired by oestrogens ( found in beer!
Modifies a noun
- kinetics: The effect of exercise intensity on oxygen uptake kinetics in healthy young women.
Noun used with modifier
- oxygen: The effect of exercise intensity on oxygen uptake kinetics in healthy young women.
- glucose: The hormone insulin, secreted by the pancreas gland within the abdomen, controls this action of cell glucose uptake.
- immunization: It might stimulate research in how to make immunization uptake higher.
- serotonin: In the 1990s research for new antidepressant medications focussed on serotonin uptake inhibitors to rival Prozac's phenomenal success.
- iodine: We want to improve iodine uptake from soils into crops and then into human food.
- creatine: Creatine supplementation: A comparison of loading and maintenance protocols on creatine uptake by human skeletal muscle.
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