(n.) A repetition of the last word or any prominent word in a sentence or clause, at the beginning of the next, with an adjunct idea; as, "He retained his virtues amidst all his misfortunes -- misfortunes which no prudence could foresee or prevent."
Example Sentences:
Reduplication
Definition:
(n.) The act of doubling, or the state of being doubled.
(n.) A figure in which the first word of a verse is the same as the last word of the preceding verse.
(n.) The doubling of a stem or syllable (more or less modified), with the effect of changing the time expressed, intensifying the meaning, or making the word more imitative; also, the syllable thus added; as, L. tetuli; poposci.
Example Sentences:
(1) In these small vessels reduplication of the IEL at the luminal margin of the thickened intima appeared to offer an effective new barrier to the diffusion of albumin from the lumen.
(2) Reduplication of basal lamina was detected in breast tissue removed at all stages of the menstrual cycle, looping was not and could not be related to any particular phase of the menstrual cycle.
(3) There was also electron microscopical evidence of vascular basal lamina reduplication and the deposition of a fine fibrillar material in and around these vessels.
(4) The incidence of reduplicative paramnesia was sampled with a structured interview in 50 consecutive alcoholic inpatients.
(5) Of 36 mutant clones that showed deletion of the selected HLA-A allele, 8 had resulted from a simple gene deletion, whereas 28 had resulted from a more complex mutational event involving reduplication of the nonselected HLA-A allele as indicated by hybridization intensity on Southern blots.
(6) Therefore, the mechanism of nondisjunction and reduplication in the development of homozygosity for a mutant chromosome 3 in renal tumors remains questionable.
(7) Prominent myoepithelial cells and basal lamina reduplication were both conspicuous features of sclerosing adenosis that appeared to be absent in tubular carcinoma.
(8) Variable mesangial proliferation was also observed, with interposition, with focal irregular reduplication of the basement membranes and rare clusters of spherical particles, probably representing viral particles in the deposits.
(9) There was a reduplication of the basal layer of dermal capillaries and increased pinocytosis of endothelial cells, age and dose related also.
(10) Basal lamina deposition was invariably found; basal lamina reduplication was extremely frequent.
(11) Quantitative densitometry showed that each of the 10 deletions resulted in hemizygosity (no reduplication) of the remaining allele in tumor tissue.
(12) Characteristically, they consist of diffuse widening, focal thickening with vesicular and granular inclusions, circumscribed dissolution, or reduplication of this structure.
(13) The equations are elaborated for the whole curve with the periods of the single phases as parameter, for the positions of the maxima and the minimum and for the quotient of the arguments of the maxima ("rhythm of reduplication") as a function of the duration of the single phases.
(14) The ultrastructural data concerning the ameboid trophozoite, particularly the presence of lobopodies and the reduplication by binary fission, associated with cyst forming capacity, suggest that P. carinii can be reasonably placed within the Protozoa.
(15) The data are discussed in relation to hypotheses about the function of reduplication and the function of whole word repetitions in language development.
(16) There was epithelial and mesangial cell proliferation, splitting and reduplication of GBM, crescent formation, and glomerular scarring and atrophy.
(17) Cellular reduplication is normally achieved by mitosis.
(18) What is the mechanism of the reduplication of blood vessel basal lamina in the non-sun-exposed areas of both types of patient?
(19) Criteria for white matter ischaemia were reactive astrocytosis, macrophage infiltration, karyorrhexis and endothelial swelling or reduplication.
(20) The histological structure of the cyst wall and its relationship to the normal arachnoid are defined and found to consist of a reduplication of the normal arachnoid membrane resulting in a space within the arachnoid tissue.