(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.
Syncopate
Definition:
(v. t.) To contract, as a word, by taking one or more letters or syllables from the middle; as, "Gloster" is a syncopated form of "Gloucester."
(v. t.) To commence, as a tone, on an unaccented part of a measure, and continue it into the following accented part, so that the accent is driven back upon the weak part and the rhythm drags.
Example Sentences:
(1) Other risk factors that have been identified in patients with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy include nonsustained ventricular tachycardia on ambulatory electrocardiogram, a strong family history of sudden death, and prior occurrence of syncope (or cardiac arrest).
(2) The decrease of left ventricle outflow gradient as well as of subjective complaints inclusively cerebral syncopes were remarkable.
(3) He was admitted with dyspnea on exertion, syncope, and severe cyanosis.
(4) Waiting for surgery the patient suffered a syncope that was diagnosed of embolic origin and the left atrial thrombus has disappeared.
(5) Of the 48 patients, 36 (75%) had symptoms--congestive heart failure in 24, angina in 19, and syncope in 7.
(6) A history of syncope associated with some event capable of stimulating the carotid sinus was also helpful in selecting patients for pacemaker treatment.
(7) The upright-tilting test was considered positive if syncope developed in association with hypotension or bradycardia, or both.
(8) It thus appears that paroxysmal, vagally mediated complete AV block should be seriously considered in patients with unexplained syncope.
(9) Orthostatic intolerance, with feeling sick, instability and sometimes syncope, is characteristically observed after the return to earth due to a remarkable fluid shift in the lower part of the body and an acute reduction in blood flow to the brain.
(10) The patient with recurrent malignant ventricular arrhythmias (ventricular fibrillation or ventricular tachycardia with syncope) presents a complex therapeutic problem.
(11) Syncope and sudden death occurs in certain purebred Pug dogs which have been found to have intermittent sinus pauses and paroxysmal second degree heart block on electrocardiographic (ECG) study.
(12) A diagnostic approach to syncope in head and neck cancer is proposed.
(13) Carotid sinus hypersensitivity (CSH) is a common cause of syncope, and permanent pacemarker is unequivocally indicated in such patients.
(14) The cause of brief syncopes is discovered in only two-thirds of the cases at most.
(15) TLS is an attractive clinical term, easy to remember, and with pathophysiologic relevance to the clinician confronting the patient with a history of syncope and whose EEG discloses temporal lobe paroxysmal activity.
(16) In another 38 patients with neither syncope nor an intraventricular conduction defect, the mean HV interval lengthened by 5.3 ms and in two cases by 20-25 ms.
(17) To determine if anodal excitation during bipolar stimulation facilitates the initiation of sustained monomorphic ventricular tachycardia, nonsustained polymorphic ventricular tachycardia, or repetitive ventricular responses, both bipolar and cathodal unipolar programmed ventricular stimulation with one to three extrastimuli delivered during ventricular pacing at two rates from the right ventricular apex were performed in 28 patients evaluated for spontaneous sustained ventricular tachycardia or ventricular fibrillation (11 patients), nonsustained tachycardia (eight patients), or syncope (nine patients).
(18) No correlation was established between HV interval and age, aortic valve gradient, left ventricular peak systolic pressure, syncope, and coronary artery disease.
(19) Pacing was required because of syncopal attacks in eight patients, three of whom had congestive heart failure or low cardiac output on physiologic studies.
(20) In this case, the metastatic tumor around the carotid sinus seemed to be related to the syncope and the hemodynamic collapse.