(a.) Accompanying as a subordinate; aiding in a secondary way; additional; connected as an incident or subordinate to a principal; contributing or contributory; said of persons and things, and, when of persons, usually in a bad sense; as, he was accessory to the riot; accessory sounds in music.
(n.) That which belongs to something else deemed the principal; something additional and subordinate.
(n.) Same as Accessary, n.
(n.) Anything that enters into a work of art without being indispensably necessary, as mere ornamental parts.
Example Sentences:
(1) During electrophysiologic study, the effect of propafenone on the effective refractory period of the accessory pathway was determined, as well as its effect during orthodromic atrioventricular (AV) reentrant tachycardia and atrial fibrillation.
(2) These results are interpreted in terms of the accessory binding site theory of Ariëns, and suggest the existence of different accessory binding sites on the Ascaris GABA receptor.
(3) While the heaviest anterogradely labeled ascending projections were observed to the contralateral ventral posterolateral nucleus of the thalamus, pars oralis (VPLo), efferent projections were also observed to the contralateral ventrolateral thalamic nucleus (VLc) and central lateral (CL) nucleus of the thalamic intralaminar complex, magnocellular (and to a lesser extent parvicellular) red nucleus, nucleus of Darkschewitsch, zona incerta, nucleus of the posterior commissure, lateral intermediate layer and deep layer of the superior colliculus, dorsolateral periaqueductal gray, contralateral nucleus reticularis tegmenti pontis and basilar pontine nuclei (especially dorsal and peduncular), and dorsal (DAO) and medial (MAO) accessory olivary nuclei, ipsilateral lateral (external) cuneate nucleus (LCN) and lateral reticular nucleus (LRN), and to a lesser extent the caudal medial vestibular nucleus (MVN) and caudal nucleus prepositus hypoglossi (NPH), and dorsal medullary raphe.
(4) This quantitative characterization of the properties of conduction and refractoriness of both the accessory pathway and ventriculoatrial conduction system and the relation between these characteristics and the accessory pathway location in ART patients provides additional insight into the prerequisites for the initiation and maintenance of this rhythm disturbance.
(5) To augment the in vitro expansion of LAK cells, we added highly purified human recombinant interleukin-2, phytohemagglutinin and accessory cells (Uc cells) to the LAK culture system, with which huge number of LAK cells (LAK-L) were generated from originally small number of peripheral blood lymphocytes of cancer patients.
(6) So we concluded that duplications and accessories should be thought to have similar meanings with the ordinary branching patterns of MCA in the occurrence of aneurysms.
(7) A microdissection of the orbital nerves of the cat was made paying particular attention to the accessory ciliary ganglion.
(8) Amiodarone was able to suppress the premature ventricular beats, depress conduction and prolong refractoriness in both, the AV node and accessory pathway to prevent recurrences of atrioventricular reentry.
(9) The electrophysiologic effects of intravenous propafenone were studied in 15 consecutive patients with accessory pathways.
(10) Postoperative examination revealed division of accessory pathway and no regurgitation of mitral prosthesis.
(11) Accessory gland atrophy was restodred following the treatment with insulin and much improved with insulin plus hCG.
(12) ELS (or accessory lungs) is a rare congenital abnormality defined as a lung segment outside a normal lung, usually localized in the left lower thorax.
(13) The first spinal nerve and the spinal accessory nerve (XI) have no sensory projections, but the second spinal nerve has typical projections along the dorsal funiculus of the spinal cord.
(14) The electrophysiologic properties of bepridil, a calcium channel blocker with additional effects on fast response tissues, were investigated in 10 patients with atrioventricular accessory pathways.
(15) The antiarrhythmic effects observed are related to the slowing of the conduction velocity and to the prolongation of the refractoriness in the AV node and accessory pathways preventing the reentrance mechanism.
(16) After a brief review of the range of monitoring accessories, the author considers the problem of their hospital standardization (various needs of the different hospital units, diversity of the monitors, existence of central purchasing departments, pressure from the treasurer's office).
(17) Small extensions from the distopalmar outpouchings were seen and extended axially into the fibers of the suspensory ligament or between the suspensory ligament and the distal accessory ligament of the deep digital flexor tendon.
(18) Treatment with the analog significantly increased serum luteinizing hormone and follicle-stimulating hormone levels, but suppressed accessory sex organ weights.
(19) Removal of accessory cells adherent to nylon wool column abolished MAS reactivity, whereas it has little effect on lymphoproliferation induced by phytohaemagglutinin (PHA).
(20) Enlargement of the jugulodigastric node is most often associated with tonsillitis, and the spinal accessory group of nodes with adenoiditis.
Contributory
Definition:
(a.) Contributing to the same stock or purpose; promoting the same end; bringing assistance to some joint design, or increase to some common stock; contributive.
(n.) One who contributes, or is liable to be called upon to contribute, as toward the discharge of a common indebtedness.
Example Sentences:
(1) We attribute this in part to early diagnosis by computed tomography (CT), but a contributory factor may be earlier referrals from country centres to a paediatric trauma centre and rapid transfer, by air or road, by medical retrieval teams.
(2) It is suggested that reduced immunocompetence is the likely mechanism in this case and may also be a contributory factor in those cases which have been ascribed to the use of alkylating agents or radiation.
(3) Each is a failure by the state to protect the young people concerned, made all the greater because the same criticisms have occurred time and time again.” Harris said his review found that understaffing was a contributory issue.
(4) Nine factors have been isolated whose varying combinations were most contributory to the risk of the development of CS in the studied population: cardiac diseases, transient disorder of the cerebral circulation, arterial hypertension, atherosclerosis, aggravated heredity for cardiovascular diseases, intermittent claudication, diabetes mellitus, systematic alcohol abuse, and hypodynamia.
(5) This case implies the significance of detecting diabetes mellitus as a contributory factor for labial adhesions.
(6) The adaptation to the increased activities of the survived muscles and motoneurons might be contributory to the transformation, which is already known to occur in normal subjects during the endurance training.
(7) We have shown that the major contributory factor to the inhibitory effect of sera from patients with Hodgkin's disease (HD) could be the soluble form of Interleukin-2 receptors (sIL-2R).
(8) In addition, it proposes a modification of the standard dural closure that may reduce the incidence of contributory adhesive arachnoiditis by the creation of a capacious cerebrospinal fluid space about the neural plaque.
(9) Indeed, the largest single welfare savings measure so far introduced by this government was the time-limiting of contributory employment and support allowance, which will save £2bn per year and in effect means the end of the largest remaining part of the working-age benefit system that could meaningfully be described as contributions-based.
(10) The differences in left ventricular remodeling and changes in function between patients with aortic stenosis and aortic regurgitation in the early postoperative period most probably relates to the major difference in intraoperative reduction in afterload, although a contributory role may have been played by the preoperative left ventricular dysfunction in those with aortic regurgitation that was underestimated by measurement of ejection fraction.
(11) This is the first study to demonstrate an effector T cell response to CT. A role for T cell reactions in the intestinal mucosa must now be examined as a potential contributory mechanism in the prevention of choleraic diarrhoea.
(12) The former soldiers we spoke to, and their families, fear a report that will understate combat-related PTSD as a contributory factor.
(13) Differences in thrombogenicity between cuprophane and silicone rubber as well as different flow characteristics in the two situations were probably contributory.
(14) Although the patient had had previous abdominal surgery, she had no adhesions that were considered contributory to the obstructive process at surgery; the deflated bubble did not deflate enough to traverse the distal ileum.
(15) A contributory role of the 10.5-kb allele in genetic IDDM susceptibility was supported by the sibpair analysis, in which all were TNF-beta identical.
(16) We hypothesized that bingeing and vomiting behavior could be contributory because food consumption in healthy volunteers increases plasma cortisol and prolactin secretion and suppresses growth hormone secretion.
(17) Furthermore, these data might implicate increased local bowel blood flow as a contributory factor to the poorer long-term prognosis found in patients with large-bowel cancer presenting with intestinal obstruction.
(18) Although these differences remained after adjustment for a number of important variables, it is possible that factors not measured in the present study, e.g., economic status and occupation, played a contributory role.
(19) If the tested diuretics were subdivided into two groups according to their different modes of action, where furosemide, ethacrynic acid and amiloride represent sodium transport inhibitors, and acetazolamide, hydrochlorothiazide and chlorthalidone (contributory action of the two latter) are inhibitors of carbanhydrase, the highest correlation coefficient (r = 0.96) between reduction of shell thickness and egg production was found for sodium transport inhibitors.
(20) Thus, while consistent with VIP being a contributory agent to the secretion of pancreatic cholera, the data do not support the notion that pancreatic polypeptide might be a causative agent in this syndrome.