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Example sentences for "undergoes"

Lexicographically close words:
undergarment; undergarments; underglaze; undergo; undergoe; undergoing; undergone; undergraduate; undergraduates; underground
  1. Palpitation follows palpitation, through all the sexual area; the mouth of the womb opens and closes convulsively, the vagina dilates and contracts again and again, and the vulva undergoes similar actions.

  2. The Womb is nothing more than the receptacle in which the impregnated egg is placed, and in which it undergoes all the wonderful changes by which it eventually is developed into a perfect human being.

  3. The Os Tincæ, or mouth of the Womb, also undergoes considerable change from the same cause.

  4. The human being however, undergoes a remarkable change, and remains in the womb for a period longer than that already past, in order to become more perfected.

  5. When Jupiter is observed for some hours, the appearance of the belts undergoes certain changes.

  6. Not only do comets present great varieties in appearance, but even the aspect of a single object undergoes great change.

  7. It is also useful to study the changes which the form of the ellipse undergoes when one of the pins is altered, while the length of the loop remains unchanged.

  8. This light is already much reduced in intensity, but it undergoes as much further reduction as we please by an ingenious contrivance.

  9. Beyond, however, the fact that Mercury is a crescent, and that it undergoes varying phases in correspondence with the changes in its relative position to the earth and the sun, we cannot see much of the planet.

  10. When the ancient records of the appearance of great Leonid showers were examined, it was found that the date of their occurrence undergoes a gradual and continuous change, which Professor Newton fixed at one day in seventy years.

  11. In the course of a year it is found that the difference in declination undergoes a periodic change, and from that change the parallactic ellipse can be computed.

  12. We have now come to the end of the smelting process; and have left ourselves no room to describe the transformation into sheets, bars, bolts, and boilerplates which the metal undergoes in the next department of the works.

  13. The double epsilon is especially interesting on account of an alleged change of color from blue to red which the smaller star undergoes coincidently with a variation of brightness.

  14. In other words, once in every two days twenty hours and forty-nine minutes Algol, as seen from the earth, undergoes a partial eclipse.

  15. Accordingly, when the optical density of the air changes as a result of its varying content of moisture, the colour-phenomenon undergoes an opposite change in each of the two cases.

  16. While progressing from leaf to flower the plant undergoes a decisive ebb in its vitality.

  17. At the same time it undergoes a process similar to contraction whereby it becomes discernible to itself as an entity distinguished from the surrounding world.

  18. It is surrounded by a very dense, thick atmosphere, which undergoes more extensive variations than could be produced by the Sun at such a distance.

  19. But there are many others the intrinsic light of which undergoes actual variations.

  20. Hessian crucible, by which it undergoes semi-vitrification.

  21. It is then detached, and carried to the 'annealing oven,' where it undergoes slow and gradual cooling during many hours.

  22. Pure yeast when kept in pure air undergoes no change, even at summer temperature.

  23. Before being submitted to the rolling-press for reduction to thin plates it undergoes the operation of annealing.

  24. While floating on water it undergoes a curious rotatory movement.

  25. A sheet of caoutchouc immersed in melted sulphur absorbs a portion of it, and at the same time undergoes important changes in many of its leading characteristics.

  26. The yolk undergoes segmentation, and ultimately develops an embryo with six hooks at the anterior extremity, cased in a mantle studded with vibratory cilia, and the lid of the capsule then opens up; and the embryo escapes.

  27. The only preparation which the puzzolene undergoes is that of pounding and sifting.

  28. The plastic nature undergoes an alteration correspondent to the new state of existence.

  29. The belief that it is the function of the spermatozoa to communicate life to the ovule seems a strange one, seeing that the unimpregnated ovule is already alive and generally undergoes a certain amount of independent development.

  30. If the crime has been only of the minor degree the culprit undergoes the plank-walk, a punishment tiresome enough, but not too harsh for Coreans.

  31. It is matter alone that undergoes movement, for the forming power is in no way moved.

  32. Then, as if wearied of struggling against things to which he desired to offer resistance, he betakes himself to the place that is suitable to him, and thus by a voluntary movement undergoes involuntary suffering.

  33. It is the body which undergoes passion; but it is the sense-potentiality of the soul which perceives the passion by its relation with the organs; it is she to which all the sensations ultimately report themselves.

  34. What need would it have of a matter that might be either cold or hot, since matter, when subjected to form, either possesses these qualities, or receives them, or rather undergoes the action of reason before having any qualities.

  35. He wishes to convince us that in being endued with these figures, matter undergoes neither affection nor alteration.

  36. The first occurs when the soul, already dwelling in a body, undergoes a transmigration; that is, passes from an aerial or igneous body into a terrestrial body.

  37. By the mere fact that it feels by means of the entire body, every sense-power undergoes division.

  38. Indeed, what applies to the immutable necessarily undergoes some change in respect to it, because it does not always remain applied to it.

  39. But when the soul contains some of those false opinions which are the principal cause of vice, must we not acknowledge that something positive occurs in her, and that one of her parts undergoes an alteration?

  40. In either case, the soul undergoes no alteration, nor is affected.

  41. It is not experience when a child merely sticks his finger into a flame; it is experience when the movement is connected with the pain which he undergoes in consequence.

  42. Habit means that an individual undergoes a modification through an experience, which modification forms a predisposition to easier and more effective action in a like direction in the future.

  43. As a matter of fact, industry at the present time undergoes rapid and abrupt changes through the evolution of new inventions.

  44. In some cases, the initiative in activity is on the side of the environment; the human being undergoes or suffers certain checkings and deflections of endeavors.

  45. At ordinary temperatures knallgas undergoes practically no change, and it might be supposed that the two gases, oxygen and hydrogen, have no affinity for each other.

  46. It has its special laws and the value of the pieces undergoes a considerable change.

  47. It sometimes happens, that a man undergoes such changes, that I should hardly call him the same.

  48. But I would here remark that I consider that a body undergoes death, when the proportion of motion and rest which obtained mutually among its several parts is changed.

  49. The phenomenal universe is what appears to the human mind, and in case our mental constitution undergoes change, it would be completely otherwise.

  50. Wood, when exposed to moisture, also undergoes the putrid fermentation and becomes rotten.

  51. It is the wax only that undergoes a real alteration in the body of the bee, and is thence converted into an animal substance.

  52. When simply exposed to the atmosphere, phosphorus undergoes a kind of slow combustion at any temperature above zero.

  53. The sugar obtained by this process is a coarse brown powder, commonly called raw or moist sugar; it undergoes another operation to be refined and converted into loaf sugar.

  54. This gas dissolves small particles of phosphorus, which being thus minutely divided and diffused in the atmospherical air, combines with the oxygen, and undergoes this slow combustion.

  55. But if bread undergoes the acetous fermentation, why is it not sour?

  56. This may be seen after amputations, where the stump of bone which is left from the amputation slowly undergoes lacunar resorption and sometimes a marked diminution in size.

  57. The action of the threads is to convert the cyst wall into granulation tissue, which undergoes the usual conversion into scar tissue.

  58. A central gumma may eat away the surrounding bone to such an extent that the shaft undergoes pathological fracture.

  59. The trabecular framework of the bone undergoes erosion and absorption--rarefying ostitis--and either disappears altogether or only irregular fragments or sequestra of microscopic dimensions remain in the area affected.

  60. The aneurysm is of slow growth, and occasionally undergoes spontaneous cure.

  61. In course of time this tissue becomes consolidated, and the cicatrix undergoes a certain amount of contraction--cicatricial contraction.

  62. The elements of the vessel wall are destroyed by suppuration, and the thrombus in its lumen becomes infected with pyogenic bacteria and undergoes softening.

  63. Following on the destruction of the cartilage, the articular surface of the bone undergoes disintegration, a condition spoken of as caries of the articular surface.

  64. In hallux valgus, the metatarso-phalangeal joint of the great toe undergoes changes characteristic of arthritis deformans.

  65. A rarer variety is the ossifying chondro-sarcoma, which undergoes ossification to such an extent as to be visible in skiagrams.

  66. The hyaline cartilage composing the tumour frequently undergoes myxomatous degeneration, resulting in the formation of a glairy, semi-fluid jelly, and if this change takes place throughout the tumour it comes to resemble a cyst.

  67. It would appear that the rupture is brought about not so much by the contraction of the muscle concerned, as by the contraction of the antagonistic muscles taking place before that of the muscle which undergoes rupture is completed.

  68. The peripheral end undergoes complete degeneration in from six weeks to two months.

  69. Here the new aliment becomes mixed with certain animal fluids, and undergoes a chemical process, termed digestion; which however chemistry has not yet learnt to imitate out of the bodies of living animals or vegetables.

  70. For the circle around the insertion is seen to increase, and to inflame; and I believe, undergoes a kind of diurnal paroxysm of torpor and paleness with a succeeding increase of action and colour, like a topical fever-fit.

  71. The vibrations of the air stimulate the auditory nerve into animal action; while it is probable that the tympanum of the ear at the same time undergoes a mechanical vibration.

  72. All this primordial mass of pleasurable activities enumerated above, undergoes profound modifications as the result of growth and education.

  73. Now all the vegetable world undergoes a similar process.

  74. Chyme, the result of the first process which food undergoes in the stomach, previously to its being converted into chyle.

  75. The noun undergoes no change to denote number, gender, or case.

  76. Wool undergoes a numerous succession of processes before it is complete in its manufacture.


  77. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "undergoes" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.