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Chiefly


Definition:

  • (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.

Thiefly


Definition:

  • (a. & adv.) Like a thief; thievish; thievishly.

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