(a. & adv.) With a constantly increasing volume of voice; with gradually increasing strength and fullness of tone; -- a direction for the performance of music, indicated by the mark, or by writing the word on the score.
(n.) A gradual increase in the strength and fullness of tone with which a passage is performed.
(n.) A passage to be performed with constantly increasing volume of tone.
Example Sentences:
(1) There was a crescendo intensity and frequency of LIMA staining in an inverse relation to the degree of cell maturation and differentiation from type I intestinal metaplasia (60 per cent) to type II (85 per cent), type III (100 per cent), and dysplasia (100 per cent).
(2) Regardless of how many pillows I piled under my knees, it bubbled up until it hit a crescendo.
(3) The past seven days have seen a rising crescendo of outrage over superinjunctions; the challenge to the courts from Twitter; the PCC rapping the Telegraph for entrapment and this morning's European court judgment over Max Mosley .
(4) By definition, patients with angina of new onset, of a crescendo pattern, and with angina at rest are included in this high-risk group.
(5) But with unrest appearing to reach a crescendo, it is unclear whether the meeting will take place.
(6) During exercise, it increased progressively (crescendo type) as the exercise was increased in normal subjects.
(7) I’m a fan of epic crescendos so I’m glad that’s how the piece ends.
(8) The patient, a 53 year old man, had a crescendo-decrescendo holosystolic murmur, a third and a fourth heart sound, that is the typical auscultatory pattern of this lesion.
(9) Thursday's battle marked a crescendo in the clashes between two Syrian regime brigades and a collection of Jihadist and rebel groups wrestling for control of the northern Golan.
(10) In a 49-year-old man with crescendo angina, elevated serum cholesterol level and an old posterior myocardial infarction, selective coronary arteriography showed multiple arteriosclerotic aneurysms of the right coronary artery associated with extensive and severe arteriosclerotic disease of the left coronary artery.
(11) There was a rapid crescendo in violence , sparked by conflict between local residents and asylum seekers, and when morning came on 18 February the centre was in ruins.
(12) A 'crescendo' pattern of pre-infarction angina was rarely observed in both groups.
(13) Mitral preclosure resulted in mid- or end-diastolic crescendo murmur accompanied by soft first heart sound.
(14) Then the delivery, reminding me by the end of my mother's out-of-body sermon crescendos as she preached with me in tow from church to Pentecostal church.
(15) After 12 days the pain increased, but EKG and serum enzymes remained normal ("preinfarct," crescendo, unstable, or accelerated angina).
(16) In conditions of left ventricular hemodynamic failure caused by global hypoxemia, a separate abnormal mid-to-late diastolic "crescendo" type of transmissibility was found, and is defined as "Type 2".
(17) In the latter group of patients anginal episodes were more frequently associated with S-T segment elevation than with S-T segment depression (p less than 0.001), while the opposite was found in patients with crescendo angina.
(18) Two patients had prior history of syncope; one patient, of ventricular tachycardia; three patients, of pulmonary edema; and three patients, of crescendo angina.
(19) Subjects were also instructed to produce a slow crescendo.
(20) The criticism reached a crescendo in January when the BBC's Inside Out broadcast a report claiming the wages being paid to workers at Kibale were 'abysmal' and that viewers would do better to reduce their own carbon emissions than to buy offsets.
Decrescendo
Definition:
(a. & adv.) With decreasing volume of sound; -- a direction to performers, either written upon the staff (abbreviated Dec., or Decresc.), or indicated by the sign.
Example Sentences:
(1) The patient, a 53 year old man, had a crescendo-decrescendo holosystolic murmur, a third and a fourth heart sound, that is the typical auscultatory pattern of this lesion.
(2) The MR murmur in six of the nine patients with valve thickening showed the decrescendo or flat contour, but that in four of the eight patients with MVP showed a crescendo contour.
(3) We have defined this abnormal early diastolic "crescendo-decrescendo" type of transmissibility as "Type 1".
(4) Intrasaccadic disorders mainly consisted of "decrescendo" of the velocity profiles (two-thirds of the cases) and "hypometria" (half of the cases).
(5) In Type 3 DESD there is a crescendo-decrescendo pattern of sphincter contraction which results in urethral obstruction throughout the entire detrusor contraction.
(6) The atrial systolic murmur, recorded in the right ventricular inflow tract, was complete by S1; the crescendo-decrescendo atrial systolic murmur configuration paralleled the right ventricular-right atrial diastolic pressure gradient at the time of the atrial A wave.
(7) Absent pulmonic valve (APV) in tetralogy of Fallot produces a pulmonic regurgitation murmur (PRM) which is usually late in onset after A2, low pitched, and of crescendo-decrescendo character.
(8) In patients with OMI, change in the peak aortic flow velocity was of the crescendo type in 14, crescendo-decrescendo in three and crescendo-plateau in one.
(9) Cardiac examination revealed a decrescendo type of diastolic murmur (aortic regurgitation) and S4 gallop.
(10) Cheyne-Stokes respiration is characterized by crescendo-decrescendo fluctuations in tidal volume and respiratory rate interrupted by central apneas.
(11) Strychnine converted inspiratory ramp activity to a decrescendo type of pattern, with the highest discharge activity present at the onset of the inspiratory phase.
(12) The results were as follows: The apical mid-diastolic murmur in HCM had a crescendo-decrescendo character mainly of medium frequency, and increased in intensity after the inhalation of amyl nitrite.
(13) Auscultation reveals either a continuous systolic-diastolic murmur or a holosystolic crescendo-decrescendo murmur followed by a high-frequency diastolic murmur, maximal parasternally in the second to fourth left intercostal spaces.
(14) Pulmonary regurgitation was diagnosed clinically by mid-frequency diastolic decrescendo murmurs beginning after the pulmonic component of the second heart sound, and diagnoses were confirmed by catheterization.
(15) Furthermore, myocardial damage was much more extensive in the decrescendo type.
(16) In the remaining three it decreased from the beginning of exercise (decrescendo type).
(17) Included were pattern A in 34 patients with a plateau course after the insidious onset of symptoms, pattern B in 18 patients with a decrescendo course after the sudden onset of severe symptoms, pattern C in 5 patients who had no severe symptoms during the years between the early and late periods of severe symptoms and pattern D in 38 patients with a crescendo course after the onset of symptoms and the following period of years of no severe symptoms.
(18) These murmurs occurred in early to mild-systole and were crescendo-decrescendo in configuration.
(19) PCA activity typically peaked early in inspiration followed by either a decrescendo or tonic EMG activity of variable amplitude during expiration.
(20) The velocity pattern was characterized by a crescendo-decrescendo shape in diastole.