(n.) The state of becoming gradually less; decrease; diminution; waste; loss.
(n.) The quantity lost by gradual diminution or waste; -- opposed to increment.
(n.) A name given by Hauy to the successive diminution of the layers of molecules, applied to the faces of the primitive form, by which he supposed the secondary forms to be produced.
(n.) The quantity by which a variable is diminished.
Example Sentences:
(1) All reported studies have documented small 5 to 10 mm Hg decrements of blood pressure with dietary supplementation with these fatty acids and conversion of the ratio of polyunsaturated to saturated fatty acids toward unity.
(2) A sustained decrement in RMR accompanied weight loss and persisted for greater than or equal to 8 wk despite increased caloric consumption and body weight stabilization.
(3) First, the decrement in the maximal heart rate response to exercise (known as "chronotropic incompetence") found in the sedentary MI rat was completely reversed by endurance training.
(4) Three response patterns were scored: (1) no startle, (2) startle without response decrement, and (3) response decrement by 12 stimuli.
(5) 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).
(6) (2) Sequences of brightness steps of like polarity (either increments or decrements) elicit positive and negative motion-dependent response components when mimicking motion in the cell's preferred and null direction, respectively.
(7) The data support the hypothesis that the learning decrement found among older men is not simply a manifestation of structural change in the central nervous system but is, at least in part, associated with the heightened arousal of the autonomic nervous system that accompanies the learning task.
(8) Both loci show decrements of norepinephrine concentrations, while the nucleus accumbens samples also show increased dopamine, dihydroxyphenylacetic acid, and 3-methoxy-4-hydroxyphenylglycol concentrations associated with dementia in these subjects.
(9) A series of biochemical and behavioral experiments tested the hypothesis that anisomycin (ANI), a protein synthesis inhibitor, produced decrements in long-term memory by raising free tyrosine levels and by the accumulation of catecholamines (CAs) rather than by its primary effect on protein synthesis.
(10) Following the acquisition of stable baseline decremental bar-pressing performance, animals were given injections of either the serotonin-depleting drug, para-chlorophenylalanine (PCPA), or the catecholamine-depleting drug, alpha-methyl-para-tyrosine (AMPT).
(11) The extrasplanchnic volume decrement is not due to decreases in skeletal muscle or cutaneous tissue intravascular capacity in the limbs.
(12) The mean decrement in glucagon during the insulin infusion was similar in each part of the study.
(13) The initial contractile tension (recorded following isolation) was comparable in the three stages of the cycle, but its decrement with time was greater in metestrus than in proestrus; the opposite being observed regarding the rate of contractions.
(14) During exercise it caused an average decrease in work performance of about 10%, which was equivalent to that performance decrement caused by a decrease in hemoglobin concentration of approximately 10%.
(15) Thus we conclude that both decrements in insulin and increments in glucagon play important roles in the prevention of hypoglycemia during exercise and do so by signaling increments in glucose production.
(16) Depressant drugs did not produce comparable decrements in sequential learning performance.
(17) Although freezing and thawing produced additional decrements in all the assays, the hypotonic stress response was better by a factor of 3.5 than that previously obtained in a cryopreservation method using 0.5 molar glycerol.
(18) Diabetes was associated with a general decrement in the activity of oxidative marker enzymes for all fiber types except the fast-twitch glycolytic fiber.
(19) There was proved, that semen pH increase was correlated to zinc concentration decrement in the semen fluid.
(20) Multiple decrement lifetable procedures were used to calculate the likelihood for breast feeding a each month of the child's age.
Subtraction
Definition:
(n.) The act or operation of subtracting or taking away a part.
(n.) The taking of a lesser number or quantity from a greater of the same kind or denomination; an operation for finding the difference between two numbers or quantities.
(n.) The withdrawing or withholding from a person of some right to which he is entitled by law.
Example Sentences:
(1) Thus, 10 degrees should be subtracted from the ultrasound values in order to obtain the real AV angles.
(2) The signals were processed digitally using three different algorithms: 1) simple linear regression (LR); 2) linear regression with drift correction achieved by adding to, or subtracting from the plethysmographic signal a term proportional to time (LRC); 3) Fourier analysis (FFT).
(3) During bilateral displacements, the activity induced by the respective contralateral leg is linearly summed or subtracted, depending on whether the legs are displaced in the same or in opposite directions.
(4) All MR images were compared with findings of chest X-ray, CT and IVDSA (intravenous digital subtraction angiography) as appropriate.
(5) Binaural difference waves (BDWs), obtained by subtracting the sum of two monaural BAEPs from a binaural BAEP, were obtained in 16- to 20-day-old jaundiced Gunn rats before and after injection of sulfadimethoxine, which produces bilirubin neurotoxicity by promoting net transfer of bilirubin out of the circulation into brain tissue.
(6) Aggressive responding was maintained by contingent presentation of periods free of point subtractions, i.e., provocations.
(7) The diagnosis of this rare anomaly was facilitated by the use of digital subtraction aortography and allowed selective angiography of the artery with an appropriately shaped catheter.
(8) Intraarterial digital subtraction angiography (DSA) was performed to evaluate graft patency in 45 patients undergoing coronary artery bypass grafting with the use of internal mammary artery (IMA).
(9) We studied how much blue, green, or red light had to be added to or subtracted from white to obtain veridical hue perception (blue, green, red, or their complementary colours) at various locations in the temporal visual field.
(10) For each patient, the BSM and the QRS integral map before, during, and after the inflation was compared by subtraction of recordings "during-minus-before" inflation and "before-minus-after" inflation.
(11) Aneurysm of the hepatic artery, causing obstruction of the common bile duct, was definitely diagnosed preoperatively by subtraction angiography, combined with percutaneous transhepatic cholangiography.
(12) One problem required addition; the other subtraction.
(13) Eight complementary DNA (cDNA) clones highly expressed in fetal rat stomach but not in normal adult rat stomach were isolated after screening 2 x 10(4) independent recombinants from a subtracted cDNA library.
(14) In nine cases, MR angiographic findings were verified with digital subtraction angiography or conventional angiography.
(15) The various definitions of "efficiency" and "economy" are considered at the whole body and the isolated muscle level, and a discussion of baseline subtraction is presented.
(16) The voltage-dependent Na+, K+ and Ca2+ currents (INa, IK and ICa) were separated by the use of ion subtraction and pharmacological treatments.
(17) They could be improved by subtraction of the vascular images obtained after injection of 99m-technetium serum albumin.
(18) Single digital subtraction angiography showed bilateral occlusion, predominantly on the left side of the supraclinoid portion of the interna carotid arteries with formation of collateral circulation in the diencephalic territory.
(19) In this pilot study, a blood pool subtraction technique, which makes it possible to visualize MI 6 h postinjection, is validated.
(20) To determine the optimal time for recording left ventricular angiograms during atrial pacing stress tests, digital subtraction left ventriculograms were obtained using 12 ml of contrast material in 40 patients at rest and at peak pacing.