(adv.) In the first place; principally; preeminently; above; especially.
(adv.) For the most part; mostly.
Example Sentences:
(1) In sheep spleen, the enzyme resides chiefly in the soluble fraction of the cell.
(2) At autopsy bronchiectasis was found, affecting chiefly the right middle and lower lobes.
(3) Substance P had excitatory effects chiefly by release of acetylcholine.
(4) It occurred chiefly in the upper and lower extremities (40 cases) and less frequently in the trunk (11 cases) and the head and neck region (eight cases).
(5) These patients differ from those with Wilms tumor chiefly in the age of presentation and response to chemotherapy.
(6) The clover constituents chiefly incriminated for these effects are glycosides of the isoflavone derivatives genistein and its 4'-methyl ether biochanin-A, daidzein and its 4'-methyl ether formononetin, and pratensein; coumestrol and its 3'- and 4'-methyl ethers account for the estrogenic activity of alfalfa.
(7) The morphologic changes produced in the liver through irradiation at the rate of 1000 rad are characterized chiefly by a well expressed fatty dystrophia.
(8) The onset of the symptoms was chiefly the slowly progressive one (71%).
(9) Its adaptive value, chiefly in reptiles, remains an open question.
(10) This condition is a genodermatosis, seen chiefly around the shores of the Mediterranean, characterised by early pigment disturbances which progress virtually inexorably towards a diffuse epitheliomatosis which usually results in death before the age of 20 years.
(11) The peak incidence occurred in the age group between 2 and 3 years and poisoning chiefly took place in the mornings and in the afternoons, the most frequently ingested substances being household chemicals and drugs.
(12) The effect was chiefly on the frequency of state changes and less on epoch durations.
(13) The airway deadspace is the volume of the airway in which gas moves chiefly by convection.
(14) Correlative evidence suggests that younger intimal fibers may be chiefly susceptible to fibrolytic activity, leaving dense intimal scars characteristic of regressed arteries.
(15) Studies under hypoxia revealed that cardiac responses to hypoxia in the sheep are mediated chiefly by neurogenic factors.
(16) In some cases, other pulmonary histologic findings were noted, chiefly acute diffuse alveolar damage.
(17) scapularis for large mammals, chiefly cattle, horse and even man, was confirmed.
(18) A method is reported for the ion-interaction, reversed-phase separation of 24 compounds (chiefly monoamines) arising from the metabolism of tyrosine and tryptophan.
(19) In acidic urine (pH 5-6), almost no flumequine is excreted unchanged (1%): it is excreted chiefly as acyl glucuronide (84.2%).
(20) Reduction in the number of nerve cells could be ascertained chiefly in the motor cortex.
Primarily
Definition:
(adv.) In a primary manner; in the first place; in the first place; in the first intention; originally.
Example Sentences:
(1) Disease stabilisation was associated with prolonged periods of comparatively high plasma levels of drug, which appeared to be determined primarily by reduced drug clearance.
(2) Further development of drug formulary concept was discussed, primarily for the drugs paid by the Health Insurance, as well as the unsatisfactory ADR reporting in Yugoslavia.
(3) Schistosomiasis control currently relies primarily on chemotherapy which is both expensive and temporary.
(4) Periosteal chondroma is an uncommon benign cartilagenous lesion, and its importance lies primarily in its characteristic radiographic and pathologic appearance which should be of assistance in the differential diagnosis of eccentric lesions of bones.
(5) Under resting conditions, the variance of cerebral metabolism seems to be primarily related to regions which are closely involved with the limbic system.
(6) The decline in the frequency of serious complications was primarily due to a decrease in the proportion of patients with open fractures treated with plate osteosynthesis from nearly 50% to 19%.
(7) We identified four distinct clinical patterns in the 244 patients with true positive MAI infections: (a) pulmonary nodules ("tuberculomas") indistinguishable from pulmonary neoplasms (78 patients); (b) chronic bronchitis or bronchiectasis with sputum repeatedly positive for MAI or granulomas on biopsy (58 patients, virtually all older white women); (c) cavitary lung disease and scattered pulmonary nodules mimicking M. tuberculosis infection (12 patients); (d) diffuse pulmonary infiltrations in immunocompromised hosts, primarily patients with AIDS (96 patients).
(8) It appeared that ratings by supervisors were influenced primarily by the interpersonal skills of the residents and secondarily by ability.
(9) Degradation of both viral and host DNA with micrococcal nuclease and spleen phosphodiesterase indicated that CdG was incorporated primarily into internal positions in both DNAs.
(10) The minimal change in gel fiber size caused by slow A release implies that fibrin fiber size is primarily a function of ionic environment and not of the sequence of peptide release.
(11) Recent research conducted by independent investigators concerning the relationship between crime and narcotic (primarily heroin) addiction has revealed a remarkable degree of consistency of findings across studies.
(12) Release of nsP4 from P1234 appears to be independent of the other cleavages and occurs primarily immediately after translation.
(13) Conservatively treated compressed fractures of the distal radius dorsal metaphysis healed despite primarily good reduction and consequent treatment with a decrease in dorsal length.
(14) In-vivo data are limited primarily to dominant lethal studies in rats and some in-vivo alkaline elution results.
(15) (1) Gastrin release is suppressed primarily by direct contact of acid with the antrum.
(16) at 13:00 h which restored DNA replication to follicles of Stages 2-10: FSH acted primarily on Stages 2-5 and LH on Stages 5-10.
(17) Twenty cases of advanced testicular tumors treated primarily by PVB therapy were reviewed.
(18) Management may be by regional anesthesia or primarily medical.
(19) This excess in diagnosis comprises, in particular, the ductal type, primarily its most aggressive forms.
(20) These results suggest that weight change during smoking reduction and cessation may be primarily due to changes in factors other than caloric intake or activity.