(v. t.) To render useless or void; to annul; to reject; to send away.
Example Sentences:
(1) We have always called for a public inquiry into the events at Southall, and for Cass's report to be made public.
(2) Results of coronary artery bypass grafting were evaluated in 856 nonrandomized patients in the Coronary Artery Surgery Study (CASS) registry with mild angina (Canadian Cardiovascular Society Classes I and II) and three-vessel disease, defined as 70% or more stenosis in the proximal or middle segment of the three major coronary arteries.
(3) Unsurprisingly, one of the three lonely references at the end of O'Reilly's essay is to a 2012 speech entitled " Regulation: Looking Backward, Looking Forward" by Cass Sunstein , the prominent American legal scholar who is the chief theorist of the nudging state.
(4) Analysis of data from the CASS registry indicated that blacks had a higher incidence of hypertension and current cigarette smoking than did whites in CASS and that chest pain was the major reason that both blacks and whites underwent coronary angiography for suspected or proven coronary disease.
(5) Mr Cass was beaten about the head and upper body, and suffered an arm injury as he tried to defend himself.
(6) Today the commissioner said he was sorry officers had behaved in the way described by Cass.
(7) There are three large randomized trials of early elective coronary artery bypass graft surgery vs early medical therapy in selected patients with stable angina pectoris: the Veterans Administration Study (or VA Study) with enrollment in 1972 to 1974, the European Coronary Surgery Study Group (or European Study) with enrollment in 1973 to 1976 and the Coronary Artery Surgery Study (CASS) with enrollment in 1975 to 1979.
(8) Burton refused lawyers acting on behalf of Peach's friends and family access to the Cass report.
(9) The cellular chloride concentration was varied between 5 and 700 mM by the nystatin technique (Cass & Dalmark, 1973).
(10) "In my view, while there were enormous innovations of enduring value during this period, the reductionist vision of a central bank's role that was adopted around the world was fatally flawed," Carney said in his Mais Lecture at the Cass Business School in London.
(11) In 1979 the family and friends of Blair Peach called for the Cass report into his death to be made public and for a public inquiry to be held into the events of Southall on the day that he was killed.
(12) The applicability of the Coronary Artery Surgery Study (CASS) to clinical practice is seriously hampered by the following findings.
(13) We put a notice in the Jewish Chronicle,” said Keidan, 38, who is a research fellow at City University’s Cass business school.
(14) Ajay Bhalla at Cass Business School The falling star of Tesco in the US is a harsh reminder that scale is not the recipe for sustainable value creation.
(15) • From the outset, the Cass investigation appeared unlikely to find an officer guilty.
(16) Angiographic evidence of coronary artery disease was present in 16,002 patients in the Coronary Artery Surgery Study (CASS) registry.
(17) However, data from the Coronary Artery Surgery Study (CASS) and others show that there is no difference between medical and surgical therapy in return to work and in need for subsequent hospitalization.
(18) We investigated the effects of cigarette smoking and cessation of smoking in a cohort of 1893 men and women from the Coronary Artery Surgery Study (CASS) registry who were 55 years of age or older and had angiographically documented coronary artery disease.
(19) The bad smell hovering over the global economy Read more China’s borrowings hit 168.48 trillion yuan ($25.6 trillion) at the end of last year, equivalent to 249% of economic output, Li Yang, a senior researcher with the leading government think-tank the China Academy of Social Sciences (CASS), has told reporters.
(20) The Coronary Artery Surgery Study (CASS) Registry is used to evaluate the effect of various baseline clinical and angiographic factors on mortality after acute out-of-hospital myocardial infarction (MI) in patients with and without prior coronary bypass surgery.
Diminutive
Definition:
(a.) Below the average size; very small; little.
(a.) Expressing diminution; as, a diminutive word.
(a.) Tending to diminish.
(n.) Something of very small size or value; an insignificant thing.
(n.) A derivative from a noun, denoting a small or a young object of the same kind with that denoted by the primitive; as, gosling, eaglet, lambkin.
Example Sentences:
(1) Age, histological type, number or location of the index diminutive polyps, were not associated with proximal lesions.
(2) The rate of removal of exogenous PGE2 in the hind limb circulation was not influenced by HC, suggesting that the diminution of PG release by HC results from the suppression of PG generation rather than from the enhancement of degradation.
(3) Incubation of freshly isolated rat hepatocytes with highly purified radiolabeled rat transferrin in weakly buffered medium in the presence of 10 mM ethanol resulted in a marked diminution of iron uptake by these cells, associated with a greater pH depression than in ethanol-free control studies.
(4) The effect was more pronounced in those patients with a greater basal excretion of THP and in those with a more significant diminution of their bone mass.
(5) After intact, cycling female mice received subcutaneous injections of antipain and leupeptin for 16 days, their uteri showed significant diminution in weight and total DNA when compared to untreated controls.
(6) The fibrosis of the gastric wall with motility disturbances, and the diminution of acid and pepsin production from damage to the glandular elements, would weigh against the addition of a vagotomy to the drainage procedure.
(7) The content of membrane lipids also diminished continuously up to 90 years of age, when a marked diminution in level of gangliosides and cerebrosides occurred, a result indicating a rapid reduction in amount of neuronal membranes and myelin.
(8) The tonic influences were expressed in an increase in the amplitude parameters of the responses of the visual cortex in conditions of the formation in the posterolateral nucleus of the thalamus of a focus of heightened excitability (anode polarization), and their perceptible diminution with potassium depression in this nucleus.
(9) Large loads of aspartate cause 20% diminution of glutathione in outer cortex, due entirely to changes in proximal tubule segments.
(10) Rabbits immunized with the flagella developed an immune response to the flagella but showed no statistically significant prolongation of incubation time or diminution of lesion severity when challenged intradermally with 4 X 10(3) Treponema pallidum organisms.
(11) Major changes include an early diminution in myofibrillar density, accompanied by a small reduction in mitochondrial density.
(12) Simultaneous treatment with both drugs resulted in a decrease in the quantity of immune complexes and a diminution of the migration inhibition.
(13) The results presented in this report suggest that the diminution of interphase cytoplasmic microtubules in tumor cells is probably due to the deficiency of microtubule organizing mechanism in interphase tumor cells.
(14) Animals irradiated with 1 Gy showed no diminution in plasma and ileal DAO activities through Day 13 relative to nonirradiated controls.
(15) Response to reimmunization was characterized by a significant acceleration and diminution of skin response, but not to the degree seen in an equivalent group who had received their primary immunization percutaneously.
(16) During the operation and the postoperative period various hemorheological and hemostasiological alterations acquire clinical significance: 1. hyperreagibility of platelets with increased aggregation and adhesion tendency 2. changes in fibrinogen, albumin, and globulin concentrations, which affect viscosity and red cell aggregation 3. impairment of red cell deformability 4. increase in clotting factors 5. disturbance of fibrinolysis characterized by diminution of plasmatic plasmin and increase in antiplasmin activity In addition, anesthetic techniques have also been shown to affect hemorheological and hemostasiological parameters.
(17) In dilute solution this is indeed observed, and the diminution in tetramer concentration when 30% of normal spectrin is replaced by alpha beta' dimers, amounts to only a small proportion.
(18) In contrast to acidosis induced in vivo, mitochondria from normal rats subjected to a diminution in medium pH, either by manipulation of HCO3 concentration or PCO2, significantly decrease NH3 production.
(19) All individuals manifested a marked diminution of CD4+ cells.
(20) Flow cytometric determination of DNA content in R3327AT-3 cells treated in vitro indicated a selective diminution of cells in the G2 and M phases of the cell cycle.