(a.) Growing along, and clinging to, the ground, or to a wall, etc., by means of rootlets or tendrils.
Example Sentences:
(1) The estimated Ki's for inhibition of myocardial creep currents were 3 microM for dodecylamin, 10 micron for quinacrine, and 4 microM for 3',4'-dichlorobenzamil.
(2) As we walk away from the restaurant, he looks up an interview (with himself) on his iPhone and announces his musical credentials: "Yup, two Radiohead songs in both 'Clueless' and 'Romeo and Juliet', back when all anybody knew was 'Creep'.
(3) Diarrhoea occurred in some animals after weaning, but did not occur in pigs which did not have access to creep food before weaning.
(4) The osteoconductive properties were promising; creeping bone formation could be observed, although no complete fusion had been achieved at 24 weeks.
(5) Years ahead of its time, it saw each song presented theatrically, the musicians concealed in the wings (although Bowie said that they kept creeping on to the stage, literally unable to resist the spotlight) and with Bowie performing on a cherry-picker and on a giant hand, both of which kept breaking down.
(6) These differences in creep force can be qualitatively accounted for by differences in sarcomere dynamics.
(7) One-year follow-up studies showed that 2 patients with a malignant gastric tumour had recurrence 9 months after the combined treatment; I patient has recurrence in the same terms after similar treatment of creeping benign adenoma.
(8) However, the PTFE suture did exhibit some viscoelastic characteristics (hysteresis and creep) that begin to approach the chordal behavior.
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(10) While the protesters' demands are varied, their unanimous target is Beijing – its creeping influence over the city's boardrooms, newspapers, classrooms and courts.
(11) The tetrapeptide Gly-His-Arg-Pro at comparable concentrations decreased the modulus and increased the creep to a lesser degree; when combined with Gly-Pro-Arg-Pro it enhanced the effectiveness of the latter.
(12) This type of ventilation brought about changes in viscous properties, measured during creep and oscillation of the mucus, which would be expected to reduce mucus clearance in vivo.
(13) But fresh evidence that waiting times are creeping up, despite David Cameron's pledge to keep them low, has forced Lansley to change tack and impose an extra treatment directive on the NHS.
(14) His free-kick was decent, he whipped the ball around the ball, but it was half-cleared before it could creep inside the far post.
(15) Since prosthetic meniscal replacement may be performed in the setting of normal articular cartilage, a prosthesis will be required to match the exact joint configuration, induce the same lubricity, produce the same coefficient of friction, and absorb and dampen the same joint forces (without incurring significant creep or abrasion) as does the normal meniscus.
(16) Calcification was slightly heavier and the degree of creep was significantly greater in the mitral position.
(17) The effect outside Syria’s borders, of refugees and the creep of global terror, continues to raise the stakes.
(18) Diacridines linked by a rigid, polar but neutral dicarbamoylpyrazole chain retain slow exchange kinetics, have a greatly reduced potential "creep rate", and possess good in vitro potency and significant in vivo antileukemic activity.
(19) Acceleration of the creep test by increasing the test temperature permits an estimation whether the creep properties of a material are within the required limits within a week.
(20) The lessons of creeping loss of control made us decide to go private again if we possibly could.
Serpiginous
Definition:
(a.) Creeping; -- said of lesions which heal over one portion while continuing to advance at another.
Example Sentences:
(1) The lesions were annular or serpiginous and their surface was livid-red to pale-red.
(2) Calcification on abdominal radiographs, especially serpiginous, seen in the region of the neck of gallbladder, appears to be the clue to the diagnosis of gallbladder schistosomiasis in people from endemic areas.
(3) We found shallow serpiginous, longitudinal ulcerations in the descending colon at the first examination of a 17-year-old female patient with Crohn's disease.
(4) This paper describes two patients with neurocytoma in which serpiginous flow voids and isointensity with cortex were distinctive features on the magnetic resonance imaging scan.
(5) A 15-year-old Japanese girl had widespread annular serpiginous erythematous plaques, bilateral granulomatous uveitis, bloody diarrhea, and seronegative arthralgia.
(6) Neovascularization has been more often described with serpiginous choroiditis.
(7) Seven patients affected by bilateral inflammatory serpiginous choroiditis have been treated with Cyclosporine-A for 6-21 months.
(8) Barium swallow is generally used to demonstrate esophageal varices, which appear as serpiginous filling defects in the distal esophagus and cardia of the stomach.
(9) We treated eight patients who had lesions typical of geographic helicoid peripapillary choroidopathy (GHPC) (also called serpiginous choroidopathy or geographic choroiditis) initially affecting the macula.
(10) Abnormal serpiginous vessels supplying or draining the mural nodule or solid lesion were not visualized on contrast-enhanced computed tomography, but were easily identified as flow voids on MR in five patients.
(11) A 51-year-old man and a 45-year-old man had geographic or serpiginous choroiditis and anterior uveitis as shown by ophthalmoscopy and fluorescein angiography.
(12) Abundant neovascularity was present with serpiginous vessels tending to cluster in nodular areas, with adjacent avascular areas.
(13) Serpiginous and geographic choroiditis, one and the same disease, is characterized by episodic involvement of the pigment epithelium and choroid.
(14) A 13-year-old male patient with Down's syndrome developed reddish hyperkeratotic papules in a serpiginous and ellipsoid configuration on the face.
(15) Both acute posterior multifocal placoid pigment epitheliopathy (APMPPE) and geographic or serpiginous choroiditis are probably the result of a primarily inflammatory involvement of the choroid.
(16) However, if there is a pneumococcal chronic dacryocystitis and a resultant lacrimal conjunctivitis, the association with pneumococcal serpiginous ulcers is significant.
(17) Geographic (serpiginous) choroiditis, also known as Geographic Helicoid Peripapillary Choroidopathy, is a rare, chronic, and progressive, bilateral disorder primarily involving the choriocapillaris, retinal pigment epithelium, and the overlying sensory retina.
(18) Geographic lesions appeared to result either from a coalescence of focal lesions or from a slow (serpiginous) spread from a single focus.
(19) Eight patients with serpiginous choroidopathy were evaluated with the use of quantitative immunoelectrophoresis for Factor VIII-von Willebrand factor antigen.
(20) Several smaller intrahepatic common bile ducts are connected directly to the intrahepatic common bile duct, are convoluted or serpiginous and are surrounded intimately by sinusoids.