(n.) To grow less, -- opposed to increase; to be diminished gradually, in size, degree, number, duration, etc., or in strength, quality, or excellence; as, they days decrease in length from June to December.
(v. t.) To cause to grow less; to diminish gradually; as, extravagance decreases one's means.
(v.) A becoming less; gradual diminution; decay; as, a decrease of revenue or of strength.
(v.) The wane of the moon.
Example Sentences:
(1) Furthermore, it had early diagnostic (seven days) as well as prognostic value, as revealed by response to therapy and decrease in COA titer.
(2) Such a decrease significantly biased survival (p = 0.001).
(3) The proportion of motile spermatozoa decreased with time at the same rate when samples were prepared in either HEPES or phosphate buffers.
(4) Clinical signs of disease developed as early as 15 days after transition to the experimental diets and included impaired vision, decreased response to external stimuli, and abnormal gait.
(5) One hour after direct mechanical cardiomassage (DMCM) a moderately pronounced edema of the intercellular spaces in the basal compartment of the seminiferous epithelium, normal content of lactate and succinate dehydrogenases, and a certain decrease in the activity of glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenases and NAD- and NADP-diaphorases were noted.
(6) The cross sectional area of the aortic lumen was gradually decreased while the length of the stenotic lesion gradually increased by using strips with different width.
(7) A change in the pattern of care of children with IDDM, led to a pronounced decrease in hospital use by this patient group.
(8) With UVB treatment clinical improvement was achieved, and a less pronounced decrease in epidermal LC was noticed.
(9) Measurement of the intraspinal monoamine level revealed a decrease in the intraspinal norepinephrine level in the treated animals.
(10) All subjects completed the Coping Strategies Questionnaire, which measures the use and perceived effectiveness of a variety of cognitive and behavioral coping strategies in controlling and decreasing pain.
(11) On removal of selective pressure, the His+ phenotype was lost more readily than the Ura+ Trp+ markers, with a corresponding decrease in plasmid copy number.
(12) This clinical improvement was also associated with a decrease of erythrocyte sedimentation rate (p less than 0.001), decrease of C-reactive protein (p less than 0.0001) and with improvement of anaemia (p less than 0.05).
(13) These results suggest that the pelvic floor is affected by progressive denervation but descent during straining tends to decrease with advancing age.
(14) On the other hand, after exposure to BrdUrd, neuron specific enolase decreased in NB-1 and SK-N-DZ and increased in GOTO.
(15) In X-irradiated litters, almost invariably, the incidence of anophthalmia was higher in exencephalic than in nonexencephalic embryos and the ratio of these incidences (relative risk) decreased toward 1 with increasing dose.
(16) Blood flow decreased immediately after skin expansion in areas over the tissue expander on days 0 and 1 and returned to baseline levels within 24 hours.
(17) Western blot analysis of these mitochondria using an antibody against carnitine palmitoyltransferase II purified from beef heart demonstrates a 68-kDa protein, which under ischemic conditions apparently is decreased by 2 kDa.
(18) Even with hepatic lipase, phospholipid hydrolysis could not deplete VLDL and IDL of sufficient phospholipid molecules to account for the loss of surface phospholipid that accompanies triacylglycerol hydrolysis and decreasing core volume as LDL is formed (or for conversion of HDL2 to HDL3).
(19) Content of cyclic nucleoside monophosphates was decreased in all the eye tissues in experimental toxico-allergic uveitis as well as penetration of cAMP into the fluid of anterior chamber of the eye.
(20) Type 1 changes (decreased signal intensity on T1-weighted spin-echo images and increased signal intensity on T2-weighted images) were identified in 20 patients (4%) and type 2 (increased signal intensity on T1-weighted images and isointense or slightly increased signal intensity on T2-weighted images) in 77 patients (16%).
Elimate
Definition:
(v. t.) To render smooth; to polish.
Example Sentences:
(1) This procedure elimates artifacts due to incomplete solubilization of ribosomal proteins, which is common for the transfer from the first- to second-dimension gel.
(2) They have come following media reports of a police training exercise, before the operation to remove Amona, at the Tze’elim army base in the Negev desert.
(3) The two most effective steps to reduce the prevalence of blindness in the Elim district further are to provide aphakia glasses to all aphakic patients and to improve the accessibility of the Eye Department's surgical services.
(4) The relative growth inhibition caused by 12 tetracyclines in a susceptible strain of Staphylococcus aureus (111-elim) and in the same strain carrying a resistance-plasmid (111) showed entirely different patterns.
(5) The pH below 6.2 seemed to lose the ability to elute the enterotoxin from ion exchanger but enough to elimate non-specific extra proteins.
(6) It seems that prevalence differences are less dependent upon the telluric elimate than upon other factors, which remain to find.
(7) application, absorption and elimation were delayed.
(8) The liver mitochondria from rats injected with oil and MC showed inhibition of the metabolic state 3 respiratory rate after Chance, Preincubation with carnitine elimated this inhibition.
(9) In view of the progress of modern medicine, it is concluded that in principle TB and successful pregnancy are compatible, and abortion is advisable only in exceptional cases, when TB actually is a complication of another disease, for the following reasons: serious cases of TB develop and worsen irrespective of abortion; actually in several cases a worsening was observed after abortion; with proper treatment, it is possible to bring the pregnancy to term without harm to the mother; when the fetus is sufficiently developed, pregnancy can be interrupted before its physiological term, if necessary; generally, abortion may present an even greater risk than continued pregnancy; and the risk of reactivation of stabilized TB during pregnancy may be elimated by appropriate preventive treatment.
(10) Dependence upon depuration of clams to elimate health hazards of virus etiology involved a risk factor not measureable in the study.
(11) The indocyanine green elimation was longer at the end of the 6th cycle without any pathological worth from the clinical point of view being proved.
(12) The decrease in the contraction capacity of the tensor must result in loosening of the drum membrane tension, impairement of the muscle activity coordination, decreased ability for elimation of the auditory ossicle fluctuation.
(13) This study used chemical-based temperature indicators to monitor the cold-chain constantly in the Elim Hospital health ward of Gazankulu.
(14) However, there was no significant difference in AUC, Cmax or K(elim) between fasting and nonfasting conditions.
(15) The indocyanine green elimation was longer at the end of the 6th cycle without any pathological worth from clinical point of view being proved.
(16) At a fixed external drug concentration, 111 accumulated less tetracycline and oxytetracycline than 111-elim, whereas comparison at their respective K(i) values showed accumulation to be significantly higher for 111 than for 111-elim.
(17) Canals were graded on the criteria of shape, smoothness, elimation of morphologic aberrations, and apical preparations.
(18) These findings suggest that immunoregulatory T cells may have a biologically significant effect in a narrow zone in which the normal host immune response is insufficient but still potentially capable of providing some additional degree of protection if suppressor cells are elimated.
(19) A resistant mutant of strain 111-elim showed a third pattern of relative growth inhibition, and another distinct pattern was observed in a veterinary wild strain of S. aureus.
(20) Seroprevalence was used to evaluate the vaccination programme in the Elim health ward of Gazankulu.