Sentence examples for taking over the function of from inspiring English sources
With Frazier's continuous flow design for an entirely artificial heart, a severely damaged heart is removed and replaced with two rotor-based pumps that continually cycle blood through the body, completely taking over the function of the heart.
All kinds of biomaterials used as implants are produced with the aim of replacing and taking over the function of natural biological tissues which have been damaged or removed.
The new paradigm of web computing, namely the web browser taking over the function of operating system itself, accompanied by fast progress in performance of JavaScript engines, encourages development of scientific applications running entirely within web browsers.
As we have concluded previously, redundant action by other MADS domain proteins may be taking over the function of GRCD1 in disc flowers [ 41].
Since a relatively minor modification (a concerted change in the amino-acid-binding site and the anticodon loop) would switch the specificity of the proto-tRNA, a sweep by a single proto-tRNA species, taking over the function of other, unrelated and unevolved, T RNAs one by one, seems to be plausible.
In Icelandic and Faroese old duals have taken over the function of plurals (Icelandic við 'we,' þið 'you'; Faroese vit 'we,' tit 'you').
These changes may result in compensation (where preserved areas take over the function of declining regions), or might perhaps indicate a shift in the way older people perform some cognitive tasks.
Doctors said the ECMO machine, similar to a heart-lung machine used in cardiac surgery, takes over the function of her lungs and was used to "buy time" while her lungs recovered.
It is also possible that the plantaris tendon takes over the function of the Achilles tendon completely, subsequently causing hypertrophy at the point of insertion.
The wafer-thin, 3mm square microelectronic chip has 1,500 light-sensitive pixels which take over the function of the photoreceptor rods and cones.
Subsequently, B. nothofagi takes over the function of the root hair and directs water and soil nutrients to the tree.
