to subserve

Examples

• All

• Now, the part of our brain that subserves being filtered is something called our frontal lobe.

  DoctorRamani

• To the extent that IDD conditions implicate the brain and cognitive systems subserving learning, we can expect new theories to emerge, with implications for novel intervention strategies focused not just on what children know, but how learning itself unfolds.

  Academic text (2018)

• The effects of brain trauma often relate to functions subserved by the specific area of brain damage.

  Academic text (2003)

• Different types of sodium channels subserve different functions within spinal sensory neurons.

  Academic text (2000)

• During body motion, the various sensors subserving the balance function contribute conflicting information to the central nervous system.

  Academic text (1999)

• Some important issues concerning the mechanism that subserves reality modeling are broached by Proust (1999).

  Academic text (1999)

• One would expect the fundamental capacity for affective contact to be integrated with other deep-rooted physiological functions subserving social connectedness.

  Academic text (1997)

• When deterioration in the function of one or more systems subserving the balance function is progressive, balance remains unaffected as long as the central nervous system is able to adapt and compensate for these functional changes.

  Academic text (1999)

• The great overlap that exists between the different systems that subserve the balance function renders the interpretation of measurements of the vestibulo-ocular and the vestibulospinal reflexes difficult.

  Academic text (1999)

• Sports often subserve community bonding by bringing people together through shared interests.

Synonyms

S

to serve

vsto subserve

∞ 1.8

To be used for a specific purpose or to help achieve something

helps actively promote a purpose rather than only fulfilling a function

Antonyms

H

to hinder

75 3.6

To make it difficult for people or things to do something

I

to impede

35 6.5

To slow the progress or movement of people and things

How Helpful

to promote

566 3.2

to support

753 1.4

to subserve

• Formal

1 9.9

to assist

605 1.0

to facilitate

• Formal

187 4.9

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology