(v. t.) To make broad or broader; to render more broad or comprehensive.
Example Sentences:
(1) The results indicated that neuropsychological measures may serve to broaden the concept of intelligence and that a brain-related criterion may contribute to a fuller understanding of its nature.
(2) As prolongation of the action potential by TEA facilitates preferentially the hormone release evoked by low (ineffective) frequencies, it is suggested that a frequency-dependent broadening of action potentials which reportedly occurs on neurosecretory neurones may play an important role in the frequency-dependent facilitation of hormone release from the rat neurohypophysis.
(3) The present results using approximately 12% hemoglobin concentration in 0.1 M Bistris buffer at pD 7 and 27 degrees C with and without organic phosphate show that there is no significant line broadening on oxygenation (from 0 to 50% saturation) to affect the determination of the intensities or areas of these resonances.
(4) Line broadening detected in several of the high-field nuclear magnetic resonance spectra was attributed to cis-trans isomerization.
(5) The principle of antagonistic compensation was presented by RIESENFELD in 1966 to explain the relative shortening and broadening of hypofunctional bones.
(6) The effects of the very long chain fatty acids, arachidic (C 20) and behenic (C 22) appears to be similar to those of cholesterol in that they cause a broadening of the phase transition with a lowering of the transition enthalpy but have little effect on the temperature at which the phase transition occurs.
(7) She has clearly been broadening her public image, she is popular with colleagues and politically close to Turnbull.
(8) Indications for chemotherapy are broadening, especially in the areas of persistent and metastatic trophoblastic disease.
(9) Ca(II) binding broadens all 1H resonances, so severely at four Ca(II) ions per molecule that few structural conclusions can be made.
(10) After receiving the questions posed by the panel (which are stated later in this document), it was necessary to define the context of the use of occupation and occupational therapy to broaden the panel's understanding of these terms.
(11) The relative distances between the protons and phosphorus atoms of ATP and the superoxide anion in the complex were calculated using the NMR line-broadening data.
(12) Crystallinity of the hydroxyapatites, measured by X-ray diffraction peak broadening as full width at the half-maximum value (FWHM), increased with the synthesis temperature, although HAP500 showed a decrease.
(13) Therefore, we believe the indications for femorofemoral graft should be broadened to include all patients with unilateral aortoiliac occlusive disease where anatomic conditions are favorable and there is unilateral occlusion of an aortic bifurcation graft.
(14) Free thyroid hormone assays have broadened the repertoire in thyroid diagnosis.
(15) A model is presented that enables the detailed effects of spectral broadening to be calculated for a continuous wave (CW) Doppler system by using geometric boundary arguments.
(16) 2D NMR techniques such as mono and hetero-COSY, NOESY, COLOC as well as 1H-NMR line broadening effect were utilized for structure elucidation.
(17) Informed understanding of the likely progressive development of index-middle finger scissoring, pronation of the index ray with spontaneous broadening of the pulp, and the deteriorating use of an existing hypoplastic thumb may make the decision for ablation easier for parents.
(18) This study reveals (i) that Ca2+ influx is required to mediate the expression of spike broadening, and (ii) that internal Ca2+ activates a delayed component of spike repolarization in MNCs of the rat supraoptic nucleus.
(19) The culture, media and sport select committee was also damning of the police, saying Scotland Yard should have broadened its original investigation in 2006, and not just focused on Clive Goodman, the NoW's royal reporter.
(20) It had also "broadened channels to engage with the public, particularly young people".
Lengthen
Definition:
(v. t.) To extent in length; to make longer in extent or duration; as, to lengthen a line or a road; to lengthen life; -- sometimes followed by out.
(v. i.) To become longer.
Example Sentences:
(1) Hearing loss at 8 kHz would shorten the I-V interval, while a loss at 4 kHz would be expected to lengthen the interval.
(2) In the V fibers, APD was lengthened by F, Q, and B, and shortened by L and M. The drug-induced changes in the relation between APD and CL were as in the P fibers.
(3) Physiotherapy for 4 to 12 weeks produced improvement, but in four cases early operation for excision of fibrous tissue and lengthening of the triceps was necessary to restore adequate flexion.
(4) Simultaneous atrial imaging and pulsed Doppler velocity measurement showed that passive atrioventricular flow occurred late in atrial lengthening and active atrioventricular flow occurred during atrial contraction.
(5) Systemic blood coagulation was unaffected by single 10000 U doses of heparin administered intraperitoneally in that plasma A-PTT values were not lengthened when measured over the ensuing six hours.
(6) Anesthesia lengthened the procedure by 1 hr but was needed in only 4.5% of the cases.
(7) Results from pharmacokinetic studies indicate a lengthening of the SDM half-life when administration was shifted from single to a multiple dose regime.
(8) This concept entails that during some seasons the preovulatory phase of the development of the human egg is lengthened, causing congenital anomalies.
(9) Simply lengthening the working age bracket is a potential disaster, unless the inequalities at the heart of the policy are addressed in a detailed and sensible way and we achieve full employment.
(10) Decreasing inadvertent PEEP by lengthening the expiratory time increased the compliance of the respiratory system (r = -0.74, n = 10, P less than 0.02).
(11) Results with the model strengthen the hypothesis that tetraethylammonium (TEA) acts on both the maximum potassium conductance (gK) and the mechanism of sodium conductance inactivation (Tauh) to lengthen the action potential as observed on the Ranvier node (fig.
(12) A subsequent S3 encountered further nonuniformly shortened refractoriness (normal areas had shortened refractoriness greater than ischemic areas) and the arc of block was lengthened.
(13) Distraction lengthening has gained wide acceptance in general orthopedics and in upper extremity reconstructions.
(14) It lengthens repolarisation and the effective refractory period in all cardiac tissues independently of its antiadrenergic properties.
(15) However, with further lengthening the conditioning pulse duration, it decreased, further increased, or remained constant depending on the direction of sodium current during the depolarization, irrespective of the membrane potential per se.
(16) Replacement of the cysteinylglycyl moiety with cysteine afforded 20, which retained significant antagonist activity, while lengthening or shortening the lipid tail by five methylene groups resulted in complete loss of activity.
(17) A technique is described which allows lengthening of a continent appendicovesicostomy.
(18) The modern era of leg lengthening has therefore brought two things: new technical versatility to correct complex and coexisting deformities and new concepts of the biology of lengthening that are not device specific and can be applied with most lengthening devices.
(19) Body weight was not affected by hormonal treatment, but the tails of the hypophysectomized sucklings were significantly lengthened by thyroxine alone, the effect being enhanced when growth hormone was also given.
(20) A technique for extreme lengthening of the mandible is presented.