(v. t.) To pronounce with an accent or with accents.
(v. t.) To bring out distinctly; to make prominent; to emphasize.
(v. t.) To mark with the written accent.
Example Sentences:
(1) Synapse loss was accentuated, however, within immature and mature plaques.
(2) Congenital defect of a cervical pedicle produces a rare clinical syndrome with a characteristic X-ray picture associated with vague clinical signs often accentuated after trauma.
(3) Regardless of the habitual diet, a test meal accentuated the rate of triacylglycerol appearance in whole plasma and in the very low density lipoproteins of Triton WR-1339-treated monkeys, and the rate of increase of the protein component after feeding was slightly higher.
(4) The high rate of H pylori ammonia production in uraemic patients should accentuate any ammonia induced effects.
(5) Removal of carbohydrate by trifluoromethane sulfonic acid hydrolysis accentuated the tendency to aggregation during reoxidation.
(6) Magnesium (Mg) deficiency, nicotine, and high dietary cholesterol are contributing factors that accentuate adverse effects of vitamin D.
(7) Thus, the interaction of stimulated alveolar macrophages and epithelial cells alters the eicosanoid profile produced by each cell type alone in a manner that would tend to accentuate inflammatory processes within the alveolus.
(8) Animals with medial prefrontal cortex or parietal cortex lesions and sham-operated and non-operated controls were tested for the acquisition of an adjacent arm task that accentuated the importance of egocentric spatial localization and a cheese board task that accentuated the importance of allocentric spatial localization.
(9) This paper accentuates some of the common objectives of doctors of optometry and health education specialists.
(10) S-100 protein was diffusely present in tumour cells with focal accentuation.
(11) accentuated the angiotensin II-induced falls in glomerular filtration rate, renal blood flow and urine flow rate.
(12) The smaller dose of scopolamine accentuated these effects.
(13) The results indicate that impaired exercise performance in African hypertensives occurs with the onset of ventricular hypertrophy, and that this is accentuated by the neuroendocrine response in congestive heart failure.
(14) Hypertension may be either accentuated or caused by hyperinsulinemia secondary to insulin resistance.
(15) While adrenalectomy performed before noradrenaline administration reduced the degree of pulmonary edema, a prior dose of hexamethonium accentuated this effect.
(16) Similar results were obtained when BEC were exposed to radiation, and the effects of radiation treatment was accentuated when both yeast and BEC were irradiated simultaneously.
(17) In this case report the rarity of the causing agent, Candida parapsilosis, and its endothrix growth is accentuated.
(18) With the cuff method, gain is determined by a nonlinear interaction involving the arterial and nonarterial baroreceptors, which accentuates the response.
(19) Radiography failed to reveal distal displacement of P3 in 8 animals, but the remaining 4 animals had an accentuation of the dorsal proximal hoof wall and cavitation of the coronary band visible on lateral radiographs.
(20) Microvillus formation was not observed when cell volume was increased by incubation of tissue in half-normal amphibian Ringer's solution for 30 min, or with exposure to acetylcholine, which caused accentuation of the convexity of the apical surface of the granular cell similar to that observed with VP-induced osmotic water flow.
Exacerbate
Definition:
(v. t.) To render more violent or bitter; to irriate; to exasperate; to imbitter, as passions or disease.
Example Sentences:
(1) Circuit weight training does not exacerbate resting or exercise blood pressure and may have beneficial effects.
(2) In patients with acute exacerbations of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, although either sympathomimetic or anticholinergic therapy provides bronchodilatation, no further benefit could be demonstrated from combination therapy.
(3) We report a case of chronic recurrent polymyositis associated with increasing antibody titers of coxsackievirus A9 in serum during clinical exacerbations.
(4) The data indicate that activated helper T cells are required and sufficient to give rise to the inflammatory infiltrates that are characteristic of the inflammations and exacerbations in human rheumatoid arthritis.
(5) The development of renal insufficiency during enalapril therapy may be exacerbated by concomitant diuretic therapy and should raise the suspicion of underlying transplant renal-artery stenosis.
(6) A lysosomal membrane labilizer, vitamin A, exacerbated the cartilage pathology, whereas a stabilizer, cortisone, retarded it.
(7) The utility of a life charting approach is emphasized in delineating past and present course of illness, considering the relevance of cycling pattern and past treatment efficacy in selection of present pharmacological interventions, and helping to formulate a multifactorial concept of the interplay of biological and psychosocial factors in the evolution or exacerbation of mood disorders.
(8) Endotoxins in plasma were monitored during treatment in 18 patients hospitalised for acute exacerbation of Crohn's disease: systemic endotoxaemia was found on admission in all but one.
(9) Exacerbation of inflammation due to repeated traumatization of the oesophagus wall was accompanied by proliferation of the epithelial layers.
(10) Pyoderma gangrenosum is a poorly understood disease characterized by exacerbations and remissions of morphologically unique skin ulcers.
(11) A complex scheme of prophylaxis of exacerbation and progression of chronic bronchopulmonary diseases in children was developed.
(12) The clinical aspects with remission and exacerbation are discussed.
(13) We designed the present study to evaluate the efficacy and safety of cefaclor in the treatment of acute exacerbations of chronic bronchitis in cigarette smokers.
(14) It was demonstrated that neither enflurane nor halothane exacerbates a pre-existing susceptibility to seizure activity and that both these inhalation anaesthetics are suitable for cases suffering from cerebral convulsive disorders.
(15) We conclude that myoglobinuria, of a degree insufficient to cause renal failure itself, can interact with renal ischemia to significantly exacerbate the renal damage produced.
(16) These lymph node reactions could have likely been a part of the so called early exacerbation.
(17) Hyperglycemia exacerbates neurologic damage in clinical and experimental central nervous system ischemia.
(18) Anticoagulation may exacerbate possible tendencies for an ischemic infarction to become hemorrhagic.
(19) (4) Symptoms are exacerbated by a research ward that is disruptive to the community.
(20) This injury was exacerbated to grade 4 (p less than 0.05) following reperfusion but was almost completely healed 24 h later.