(a.) Composed of parts in a heap; forming a mass; aggregated.
(a.) Augmenting, gaining, or giving force, by successive additions; as, a cumulative argument, i. e., one whose force increases as the statement proceeds.
(a.) Tending to prove the same point to which other evidence has been offered; -- said of evidence.
(a.) Given by same testator to the same legatee; -- said of a legacy.
Example Sentences:
(1) The cumulative incidence of grade II and III acute GVHD in the 'low dose' cyclosporin group was 42% compared to 51% in the 'standard dose' group (P = 0.60).
(2) Children of smoking mothers had an 18.0 per cent cumulative incidence of post-infancy wheezing through 10 years of age, compared with 16.2 per cent among children of nonsmoking mothers (risk ratio 1.11, 95% CI: 1.02, 1.21).
(3) Measures of average and cumulative rank were used to augment tests of the significance of correlations between different indicators.
(4) It was shown that the antibiotic had low acute toxicity, did not cumulate and had no skin-irritating effect.
(5) In guinea pig ventricular myocytes, the positive contractile staircase was associated with ascending staircases of both peak systolic and end diastolic [Ca2+]i because of a cumulative increase in diastolic [Ca2+]i.
(6) Results obtained from cumulative labeling and pulse-labeling and chase experiments with cells from late gastrulae, yolk plug-stage embryos, and neurulae showed that the 30S RNA is an intermediate in rRNA processing and is derived from 40S pre-rRNA and processed to 28S rRNA.
(7) A cumulative response rate of 31% is reported for a total of 200 patients treated with this drug.
(8) Repeated feedings of 1 mg of Sudan III induced cumulative increases in the concentration of menadione reductase (EC 1.6.99.2) in liver, whereas protein concentration was unchanged.
(9) A physiologically based model, comprising the reservoir, liver blood and tissue, and bile, was fitted to reservoir concentrations of 3H-oxazepam and 3H-oxazepam glucuronides, and the cumulative amount excreted into bile.
(10) The cumulative results suggest that the two sulfate activating enzymes do not associate to form a "3'-phosphoadenosine 5'-phosphosulfate synthetase" complex.
(11) Thus, in theory, the Pl concentration should cumulatively decrease as the blood approaches the outer cortex, contrary to the concentration of red and white blood cells (RBC and WBC).
(12) Using cumulative nursing GPAs, the likelihood of predicting success on NCLEX-RN increased at the end of each academic year.
(13) Also, studies on the simulated cumulative effect of background radiation during storage failed to find any detrimental effect when embryos were exposed to the equivalent of about 2000 years of background radiation.
(14) The requirement of BHK-21 cells for transferrin appears to be minimal since cells exposed to HDL and basic FGF could be serially transferred for at least 50 cumulative population doublings in the absence of transferrin.
(15) In patients with preexistent congestive heart failure (CHF), predicted cumulative survival rates at 1, 3, and 5 years were 78%, 69%, and 57%, respectively, for group 1 (n = 23) and 90%, 83%, and 75%, respectively, for group 2 (n = 16).
(16) The estimated mean decrement in KCO for a cadmium worker employed 5 or more years with a cumulative exposure of 2000 yr.microgram.m-3 (exposure to the current UK control limit of 50 micrograms.m-3 for a working lifetime of 40 yr) lies between 0.05 and 0.3 mmol.min-1.kPa-1.l-1 (95% confidence interval).
(17) The life-table method was used to determine the cumulative survival rate and cumulative recurrence rate.
(18) Furthermore, this study demonstrates that by forming groups of patients with similar age at diagnosis the cumulative survival rate declined in the group with early diagnosis much more markedly than in the group of patients with later diagnosis.
(19) The cumulative incidence of colorectal cancer in all patients was 0.2% at 10 yr, 2.8% at 15 yr, 5.5% at 20 yr, and 13.5% at 30 yr.
(20) Significant differences were found mainly for the peripheral-, core temperature difference, the cumulative sodium and cumulative fluid balance from which the diagnosis addisonian crisis could have been made.
Ogive
Definition:
(n.) The arch or rib which crosses a Gothic vault diagonally.
Example Sentences:
(1) Additional analysis in which a normal ogive was fitted to the sample VC data distributions suggests that statistically significant predictions of the probability of eventral flap necrosis can be made using VC measurements obtained immediately postoperatively.
(2) Similar to the endogenous data, exogenous insulin removal followed an ogival pattern during fasting.
(3) Cumulative distributions may be plotted as sigmoidal ogives or can be transformed into discrete probabilities (linear probits), which are then linear, and amenable to regression analysis.
(4) Data were also expressed as cumulative frequencies (ogives) and subjected to statistical analysis by the non-parametric Kolmogorov-Smirnov test.
(5) The cells occur chiefly as pairs within chains and elongate to ogive-shaped cells during growth.
(6) There was a curvilinear relationship (rising ogive) between mean GTT and age.
(7) Additional analysis in which a normal ogive was fitted to the sample VC data distributions suggests that statistically significant predictions of the probability of eventual flap necrosis can be made using VC measurements obtained immediately postoperatively.
(8) This led to a psychophysical function in which the probability of a long response was related to signal duration in an ogival manner.
(9) Three children, two females and one male, born from unrelated parents show brachycephaly, ogival palate, blindness from 5-6 months and progressive piramidal symptoms.
(10) In our pediatric out-patient clinic, most of the patients suffering severe recurrent ENT problems show variable malformations: abnormal implantation or shape of the external ear, a microretrognathism, cervical or facial branchial fistulae, high or ogival palate with anomalies of the dental occlusion or a bifid uvula.
(11) Calibration curves, such as the commonly adopted logistic ogive in relation to log dose, are fitted by weighted least squares to observed counts directly using empirical weights proportional to the reciprocal of estimated counting variance.
(12) Analysis of 140 cortisol assays, all with two replicates of each of 50 sources (9 standard doses, 3 quality control preps, and 38 unknowns), led to an asymmetric rising ogive relating variances to means of counting rates.
(13) Frequency, length, and intensity of the habit generate as a consequence: anterior open bite, retrusion of the mandible, protrusion of the maxilla, excessive overjet, labial version of the upper incisors, uprighting of the lower incisors, posterior cross bites, sometimes associated to a ogival palate, diastema between the upper incisors, and any others facial characteristics.
(14) None of these distributions differed significantly from normal, and they were well fitted by normal ogives.
(15) All had a facial abnormality: one woman had a complete Pierre Robin syndrome with mandibular hypoplasia, glossoptos and cleft palate; in the other cases, minor forms were observed, with micrognathia and ogival palate.
(16) The two technics gave comparable mean values, ogives, equivalent points, and overlap for patients with cystic fibrosis and healthy subjects.
(17) As expected, weighting the lever with 0, 15, 30, or 45 g produced progressive decreases in maximal rates, but it also caused a weight-related shift to the right of the rate-frequency ogives in each of the 7 rats.