(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.
Prominent
Definition:
(a.) Standing out, or projecting, beyond the line surface of something; jutting; protuberant; in high relief; as, a prominent figure on a vase.
(a.) Hence; Distinctly manifest; likely to attract attention from its size or position; conspicuous; as, a prominent feature of the face; a prominent building.
(a.) Eminent; distinguished above others; as, a prominent character.
Example Sentences:
(1) These studies led to the following conclusions: (a) all the prominent NHP which remain bound to DNA are also present in somewhat similar proportions in the saline-EDTA, Tris, and 0.35 M NaCl washes of nuclei; (b) a protein comigrating with actin is prominent in the first saline-EDTA wash of nuclei, but present as only a minor band in the subsequent washes and on washed chromatin; (c) the presence of nuclear matrix proteins in all the nuclear washes and cytosol indicates that these proteins are distributed throughout the cell; (d) a histone-binding protein (J2) analogous to the HMG1 protein of K. V. Shooter, G.H.
(2) Findings on plain X-ray of the abdomen, using the usual parameters of psoas and kidney shadows in the Nigerian, indicate that the two communities studied are similar but urinary calculi and urinary tract distortion are significantly more prominent in the community with the higher endemicity of urinary schistosomiasis.
(3) In some experiments heart rate and minute ventilation (central vactors) appear to be the dominant cues for rated perceived exertion, while in others, local factors such as blood lactate concentration and muscular discomfort seem to be the prominent cues.
(4) These findings may not indicate a redistribution of renal blood flow through resistance changes in specific parts of the renal vasculature but may represent the consequences of focal cortical ischaemia, most prominent in the outer cortex.
(5) Phospholipid changes occurring at later stages in the lytic cycle of infected bacteria are more prominent than those at earlier time intervals.
(6) Although the brain AP50 is prominently phosphorylated by an endogenous protein kinase in isolated coated vesicle preparations, the neuronal AP50 was not detectably phosphorylated in intact cells as assessed by two-dimensional non-equilibrium pH gradient gel electrophoresis of labeled cells dissolved directly in SDS-containing buffers.
(7) T-cell lymphopenia with B-cell lymphocytosis was a prominent feature.
(8) We treated a 62-year-old man with intermittent polyarthritis whose neck pain was prominent.
(9) Evidence is presented which suggests that these plasmid-mediated, temperature-inducible surface fibrillae are responsible for autoagglutination and are related to production of one prominent, Sarkosyl-insoluble polypeptide of ca.
(10) ERGs of high amplitude and of normal wave form were recordable with prominent oscillatory potentials.
(11) Moreover, a prominent reduction in serum Apo A-1 was found in dialysed diabetic patients.
(12) Can somebody who is not a billionaire, who stands for working families, actually win an election into which billionaires are pouring millions of dollars?” Naming prominent and controversial rightwing donors, he said: “It is not just Hillary, it is the Koch brothers, it is Sheldon Adelson.” Stephanopoulos seized the moment, asking: “Are you lumping her in with them?” Choosing to refer to the 2010 supreme court decision that removed limits on corporate political donations, rather than address the question directly, Sanders replied: “What I am saying is that I get very frightened about the future of American democracy when this becomes a battle between billionaires.
(13) Urinary urate crystalluria was prominent in each infant in the first few days after the onset of diuresis, during which normal serum urate concentrations and normal renal function were established.
(14) Prominent use-dependent depression of Vmax was noted.
(15) The gastrocolic response of monkeys to feeding is most prominent in the right and transverse colon in both duration and frequency of contractions.
(16) "I know the man, and I know he betrays everyone who gets close to him," said one prominent Lebanese politician.
(17) (A later mayor rose to prominence as one of her prosecutors: Rudy Giuliani.)
(18) All the iodinated proteins except the very prominently labeled high molecular weight protein (greater than 200,000 daltons) were located in a fraction identified enzymically and compositionally as plasma membrane.
(19) The inhibitory effect on the PHA response, however, was less prominent.
(20) The terminal web was prominent and the lateral plasma membranes were highly interdigitated.