(v. i.) To pass gradually from a sound, prosperous, or perfect state, to one of imperfection, adversity, or dissolution; to waste away; to decline; to fail; to become weak, corrupt, or disintegrated; to rot; to perish; as, a tree decays; fortunes decay; hopes decay.
(v. t.) To cause to decay; to impair.
(v. t.) To destroy.
(n.) Gradual failure of health, strength, soundness, prosperity, or of any species of excellence or perfection; tendency toward dissolution or extinction; corruption; rottenness; decline; deterioration; as, the decay of the body; the decay of virtue; the decay of the Roman empire; a castle in decay.
(n.) Destruction; death.
(n.) Cause of decay.
Example Sentences:
(1) Q In radioactive decay, different materials decay at different rates, giving different half lives.
(2) 4) Parents imagined that fruit drinks, carbonated beverages and beverages with lactic acid promoted tooth decay.
(3) In the absence of prostigmine, increasing the concentration of ACh in the synaptic cleft did not change the time constant for decay of end-plate currents.
(4) The kinetics of bimolecular decay of alpha-tocopheroxyl free radicals (T) was studied by ESR mainly in ethanol and heptanol solvents.
(5) For those synapses that were close to the soma the time constant for decay for the non-NMDA component, which was voltage insensitive, ranged from 4-8 ms. 7.
(6) In analyzing the results with any regimen it is important to have long follow-up since late relapses do occur and initial very positive results tend to decay with greater numbers of patients treated.
(7) In one normal ear, ten noise trauma ears, 11 Meniere disease ears, and 24 eighth nerve lesion ears to reflexes or reflex decay that were suggestive or retrocochlear lesions were observed.
(8) Biochemical, molecular, and immunohistologic studies have identified membrane cofactor protein (MCP) and decay accelerating factor (DAF) on trophoblast cells, which could assist in preventing lysis of the cells by complement-activating maternal antibodies.
(9) It has been 40 years since the first community in the United States added a regulated amount of fluoride to its public water supply to prevent tooth decay.
(10) This could reflect the existence of a parallel set of synapses with fast decay that serve as a shortterm store.
(11) However, clemastine caused a decay in subjects' performance in both Experiments I and II, but only on the tracking task.
(12) The nylon group had the second highest amount of induced WTR cylinder at one day, which had decayed to ATR cylinder by five months.
(13) The observed signals from germinating seeds of Phaseolus aures and decaying leaves of Eucalyptus are presented to show that the signals have characteristic kinetics and intensity.
(14) We develop an analogy between the steric hindrance among receptors detecting randomly placed haptens and the temporary locking of a Geiger counter that has detected a radioactive decay.
(15) Left ventricular relaxation rate was measured by calculation of a time constant of left ventricular pressure decay (T) derived from an exponential curve fit to the digitized tip-micromanometer left ventricular pressure signal.
(16) Factors increasing presynaptic activity (frequency or number of afferent stimulations) during the induction event did not affect the relative amount of LTP decay.
(17) Inhibitor activity decayed with time after radiation (2 Gy) with no activity detected at 6 h even though the cells remained in G2 phase, suggesting that either synthesis or activation of additional components is necessary for recovery from G2 arrest.
(18) These results are consistent with the previous observation in HTC cells that the decay rate of ODC activity in the presence of cycloheximide correlated well with the proportion of ODC present as a complex with antizyme, suggesting the ubiquitous role of antizyme in ODC degradation.
(19) The outward current decays exponentially with an early and late phase.
(20) The decay of acid soluble radioactivity was similar in the two groups, although protein synthesis was lowered by vitamin A deficiency.
Putrefy
Definition:
(v. t.) To render putrid; to cause to decay offensively; to cause to be decomposed; to cause to rot.
(v. t.) To corrupt; to make foul.
(v. t.) To make morbid, carious, or gangrenous; as, to putrefy an ulcer or wound.
(v. i.) To become putrid; to decay offensively; to rot.
Example Sentences:
(1) Eighty-five blood samples with COHb concentrations of 40% and 70% were allowed to putrefy in order to measure the time-dependent changes in COHb values.
(2) Toxicological analyses on a putrefied cadaver are sometimes difficult to perform because of the absence of blood and urine.
(3) To their left, the killers entered the room of the centre's director, who made it outside, where the pond of his blood putrefied on the cement.
(4) Mass graves commonly contain hundreds of putrefying bodies, which bear evidence of torture and extrajudicial execution.
(5) Bromazepam and levomepromazine were identified and assayed in the remains of cerebral tissue, in the clavicle of a putrefied cadaver, and in the fly larvae found on and in the corpse.
(6) For centuries, the Sioux and other tribes used it to treat venomous snake and insect bites, ulcers, sores and any disease (notably syphilis) involving foul-smelling discharges or putrefying flesh.
(7) Toxicological analyses on a putrefied cadaver are sometimes difficult to achieve because of the absence of blood and urine.
(8) When the blood was putrefied, two or three pieces of membranes filters were needed because of choking membrane pore.
(9) The evidentiary specimens chosen for DNA were classified according to substrate (scrapings, plastic bags, synthetics, denim, and carpet) and according to a subjective evaluation of the condition of the stain (soiled, damp, or putrefied) and to its size (small or large).
(10) This method was found to be useful even if applied to old or putrefied blood samples.
(11) The method used would seem to be very useful for determination of methamphetamine and amphetamine in marked putrefied biological materials.
(12) A forensic study was performed on the toxicological effects of triazolam using putrefied tissues.
(13) In case of putrefied liver lipid content is increased slightly but in all periods of putrefaction lipid content in the liver in case of fat dystrophy remains significantly higher than in controls.
(14) In this study, morphine and phenobarbital were simultaneously identified and assayed in several tissues of a putrefied cadaver and in the fly larvae of Calliphoridae found on the corpse.
(15) Finding a putrefying corpse in a lock-up might not feature on most people’s list of job satisfaction criteria, but things are different in Happy Valley (Tuesday, 9pm, BBC1) .
(16) Five drugs (triazolam, oxazepam, phenobarbital, alimemazine, and clomipramine) were identified and assayed in some tissues of a putrefied cadaver and in the maggots found on and in the body.
(17) No RFLP profiles could be obtained from putrefied soft tissues.
(18) Samples of thoracic fluid were obtained at regular intervals from the putrefying bodies of dead dogs.
(19) And that's how I picture you when I read your comments – as a shovelful-of-putrefied-matter-to-be making the very least of its brief window of consciousness.
(20) A reliable and sensitive method has been developed to assess the concentrations of the hypnotic drug triazolam in human tissues, including putrefied tissues.