(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%).
Hysteresis
Definition:
(n.) A lagging or retardation of the effect, when the forces acting upon a body are changed, as if from velocity or internal friction; a temporary resistance to change from a condition previously induced, observed in magnetism, thermoelectricity, etc., on reversal of polarity.
Example Sentences:
(1) That the opposite was observed in our study indicates that the increase in Pst(L), which results from parenchymal hysteresis, offsets any dimensional decrease in upstream airways due to airways hysteresis.
(2) The sensor's hysteresis is about 8 percent at 40 degrees Celsius (C) and 12 percent at 20 degrees C. The sensor has a maximal nonlinearity of 8 percent and a worst-case nonrepeatibility of 7 percent.
(3) Both inspiratory constants are decreased, and the area of hysteresis is increased.
(4) In heterogeneous tissues, MR imaging does not follow changing temperatures directly because even in the case of reversible thermal interactions, there is a hysteresis in the dynamic relationship between MR signal intensity and temperature.
(5) However, the PTFE suture did exhibit some viscoelastic characteristics (hysteresis and creep) that begin to approach the chordal behavior.
(6) Stepwise inflation and deflation was done for analysis of oesophageal compliance and hysteresis.
(7) Gas exchange seems to be the main reason for the hysteresis.
(8) Upon back titration of human fragment-1, from pH 9, hysteresis is observed.
(9) Intermediate scanning loops as well as the equilibrium and metastable branches of the hysteresis loop have been determined.
(10) The dynamic stiffness, the slope of the hysteresis loop or the ratio of the maximum of pressure change to the maximum of volume change, increased in linear proportion to intraluminal pressure rise during contraction.
(11) Sick sinus syndrome was the intrinsic rhythm disturbance in 63% of the group requiring discontinuation of rate hysteresis.
(12) For eight subjects the probability (P) of exhibiting hysteresis effects was greater than or equal to 0.50 on both types of sessions.
(13) The properties and determinants of hysteresis during ventricular effective refractory period (VERP) measurements by an extrastimulus technique were determined in 15 anesthetized open-chest dogs as well as in isolated ventricular muscle (n = 6).
(14) Hysteresis in the phase transition temperature may be due to the difference in water content of the two phases and their low water permeabilities.
(15) Moreover, the force-aiNa relation observed after increase in stimulation rate from 0.5 to 3 Hz resembled that observed after decrease in the rate from 3 to 0.5 Hz, indicating an absence of hysteresis in the relation.
(16) Hysteresis became negligible, provided the films were not collapsed by further area reduction.
(17) The "Hysteresis Loop" method was used in this investigation to experimentally determine the material constants.
(18) Postanaesthetic preparations of these lungs examined using the Wilhelmy balance exhibited a significant fall of the stability index from 1.73 to 1.25, though hysteresis remained unaffected.
(19) The effects of sarcomere length show that the phenomenon is not due to force per se since, for example, greater peak force produces less hysteresis as sarcomere length is increased towards 2.2 microns.
(20) Bronchodilation results in a constrictor effect of a DI which probably represents relaxation of smooth muscle in conducting airways, thereby decreasing airway hysteresis and allowing parenchymal hysteresis to dominate.