(a.) Having the form of a cross; appertaining to a cross; cruciform; intersecting; as, crucial ligaments; a crucial incision.
(a.) Severe; trying or searching, as if bringing to the cross; decisive; as, a crucial test.
Example Sentences:
(1) Therefore, the measurement of the alpha-antitrypsin content plays the crucial part in differential diagnosis of primary (hereditary determined) and secondary (obstructive) emphysema.
(2) At first it looked as though the winger might have shown too much of the ball to the defence, yet he managed to gain a crucial last touch to nudge it past Phil Jones and into the path of Jerome, who slipped Chris Smalling’s attempt at a covering tackle and held off Michael Carrick’s challenge to place a shot past an exposed De Gea.
(3) The agriculture ministry raised the risk level of the virus spreading from moderate to high on Tuesday across the country, at a crucial time for the industry.
(4) Conservative commentators responded with fury to what they believed was inappropriate meddling at a crucial moment in the town hall debate.
(5) Although the performance aspects of electronic displays are crucial considerations in workstation design, experience suggests that human factors in mechanical operation, software accessibility, and workstation environment are also important.
(6) The secretary of state should work constructively with frontline staff and managers rather than adversarially and commit to no administrative reorganisation.” Dr Jennifer Dixon, chief executive, Health Foundation “It will be crucial that the next government maintains a stable and certain environment in the NHS that enables clinical commissioning groups (CCGs) to continue to transform care and improve health outcomes for their local populations.
(7) The results suggest that the ACTH-containing part of the hypothalamus around the PVH is crucially involved in the organization of grooming behaviour.
(8) A functional impairment of the amino acid transport systems at the level of the blood-brain barrier seems to play a crucial role in causing deleterious modifications of the synaptic neurotransmission in the central nervous system.
(9) The cerebral distribution and regulation of excitatory amino acid levels may play a crucial role in neuronal development.
(10) Imagining faces was also the only condition that led to an increase of activity in the left inferior occipital region which has been suggested by previous studies as being a crucial area for visual imagery.
(11) This is the most crucial issue of our time and the people must be heard, not criminalised."
(12) Therefore it is crucial to investigate the role of glucocorticoids in non-pituitary tumours and this requires an understanding of the molecular mechanisms involved in glucocorticoid inhibition of the normal POMC gene in the pituitary.
(13) The agreement, hailed as a "landmark" deal and a breakthrough by politicians and the green lobby alike, came before a crucial EU summit opening in Brussels tomorrow at which 27 prime ministers and presidents are supposed to finalise an ambitious package to cut greenhouse gas emissions by 20% by 2020.
(14) A comparison of the pharmacokinetics as well as the teratogenicity between cyclophosphamide and some specific deuterium-labeled analogues showed that the isotope effect observed can be related to a particular metabolic pathway crucial for teratogenic activation by this drug.
(15) The crucial issue of whether subtle behavioral, intellectual, and developmental impairment occurs in young children, as a result of lead-induced CNS damage is discussed in detail.
(16) The crucial point in all likelihood is the nature of this heme-binding protein.
(17) Standard criteria for staging and response evaluation, including pathologic documentation of remission status, are crucial.
(18) Given that a post-poll economy still registers as a crucial issue among undecided voters, and that matters economic are now his BBC day job, that was hardly surprising.
(19) Overall, these results confirm that the medial septum plays a crucial role in the acquisition of problem solving.
(20) He is joined by Cathy O’Toole, the ALP candidate for the crucial swing seat of Herbert where Rudd’s campaign bus has stopped on Sunday evening.
Eminent
Definition:
(a.) High; lofty; towering; prominent.
(a.) Being, metaphorically, above others, whether by birth, high station, merit, or virtue; high in public estimation; distinguished; conspicuous; as, an eminent station; an eminent historian, statements, statesman, or saint.
Example Sentences:
(1) Unilateral VNAB lesions induced similar alterations but these were restricted to the ipsilateral PVN and median eminence.
(2) It was also demonstrated that the plexus of the median eminence is, at its periphery, in direct communication with the systemic venous twigs.
(3) For this purpose fragments of hypothalamus containing arcuate-periventricular nuclei and median eminence were incubated in vitro and endogenous DA released into the medium was assayed by radioenzymatic assay.
(4) In an interview with the Guardian, James Hansen, the world's pre-eminent climate scientist, said any agreement likely to emerge from the negotiations would be so deeply flawed that it would be better to start again from scratch.
(5) The seasonal rhythm in hypothalamo-hypophyseal-adrenal function was studied in 3-week-old, meat-hybrid chickens, bred under standard conditions, CRF content in the median eminence and ACTH content in the adenohypophysis showed the maximum in February, the minimum in August, to return practically to the February level by November.
(6) One arcuate cell identified as projecting to the median eminence was nonresponsive to supraoptic stimulation.
(7) These findings indicate that rGRF-LI is localized in the median eminence and arcuate nucleus in the rat and that rGRF-, SRIF-(1-28)-, and SRIF-(1-14)-LI are present in a 1:2.10:6.29 ratio on a molar basis.
(8) Since 1930 Dr. Rakowiecki has started as self-taught astronomy studies becoming soon one of seven most eminent Polish astronomers.
(9) (1970) previously used for the study of hemoglobins, was found to be eminently suitable for the study of O2 affinities of hemocyanins.
(10) The action potential of the nerve was recorded in 50 nerves of 25 normal subjects, by antidromic stimulation of the median nerve 10cm from the surface recording electrode over the midthenar eminence.
(11) However, DIO-prone [3H]PAC binding was only 14-39% of DR-prone levels in 9 areas including 4 amygdalar nuclei, the lateral area, dorso- and ventromedial nuclei of the hypothalamus, median eminence and medial dorsal thalamic n. Although it is unclear whether this widespread decrease in [3H]PAC binding implicates brain alpha 2-adrenoceptors in the pathophysiology of DIO, it does correlate with a phenotypic marker (increase glucose-induced NE release) which predicts the subsequent development of DIO on a high-energy diet.
(12) Special attention was given to the portal vascular system of the median eminence and the pars distalis.
(13) On the other hand, the change in the stroma was more eminent in the periglandular region than in the periluminal and deep regions in most conditions.
(14) The light microscopic analysis showed accumulation of Gomori-stainable products in the median eminence and a striking depletion of this material from the neural lobe.
(15) induced a marked increase in histamine (HA) in the anterior (AHR) and posterior (PHR) hypothalamic regions, the median eminence (ME) and adenohypophysis (Ah) with no apparent effect on the concentration of HA in the neurohypophysis (Nh), as measured by high-performance liquid chromatography.
(16) A rich network of fibers was observed in the median eminence coursing towards the pituitary stalk.
(17) Electrolytic lesions in the median eminence of deafferented rats caused an elevation of serum prolactin which was more marked in female than in male rats.
(18) Moreover, in the rat brain we found immunoreactive material in neurons of the suprachiasmatic nucleus, in the parvocellular part of the paraventricular nucleus, in fibres of the external region of the median eminence and in neurosecretory exohypothalamic fibres.
(19) All parts of the periventricular region of the hypothalamus receive an input, including the preoptic and anterior parts in which somatostatin-containing neurons that project to the median eminence are clustered.
(20) The structure and ultrastructure of the following regions of the hypothalamo-hypophysial neurosecretory system (HHNS) in the population cycle of lemming were studied: supraoptic (SON), paraventricular (PVN) and arcuate nuclei (AN), the median eminence (ME) and posterior pituitary (PP).