(a. & adv.) With decreasing volume of sound; -- a direction to performers, either written upon the staff (abbreviated Dec., or Decresc.), or indicated by the sign.
Example Sentences:
(1) The patient, a 53 year old man, had a crescendo-decrescendo holosystolic murmur, a third and a fourth heart sound, that is the typical auscultatory pattern of this lesion.
(2) The MR murmur in six of the nine patients with valve thickening showed the decrescendo or flat contour, but that in four of the eight patients with MVP showed a crescendo contour.
(3) We have defined this abnormal early diastolic "crescendo-decrescendo" type of transmissibility as "Type 1".
(4) Intrasaccadic disorders mainly consisted of "decrescendo" of the velocity profiles (two-thirds of the cases) and "hypometria" (half of the cases).
(5) In Type 3 DESD there is a crescendo-decrescendo pattern of sphincter contraction which results in urethral obstruction throughout the entire detrusor contraction.
(6) The atrial systolic murmur, recorded in the right ventricular inflow tract, was complete by S1; the crescendo-decrescendo atrial systolic murmur configuration paralleled the right ventricular-right atrial diastolic pressure gradient at the time of the atrial A wave.
(7) Absent pulmonic valve (APV) in tetralogy of Fallot produces a pulmonic regurgitation murmur (PRM) which is usually late in onset after A2, low pitched, and of crescendo-decrescendo character.
(8) In patients with OMI, change in the peak aortic flow velocity was of the crescendo type in 14, crescendo-decrescendo in three and crescendo-plateau in one.
(9) Cardiac examination revealed a decrescendo type of diastolic murmur (aortic regurgitation) and S4 gallop.
(10) Cheyne-Stokes respiration is characterized by crescendo-decrescendo fluctuations in tidal volume and respiratory rate interrupted by central apneas.
(11) Strychnine converted inspiratory ramp activity to a decrescendo type of pattern, with the highest discharge activity present at the onset of the inspiratory phase.
(12) The results were as follows: The apical mid-diastolic murmur in HCM had a crescendo-decrescendo character mainly of medium frequency, and increased in intensity after the inhalation of amyl nitrite.
(13) Auscultation reveals either a continuous systolic-diastolic murmur or a holosystolic crescendo-decrescendo murmur followed by a high-frequency diastolic murmur, maximal parasternally in the second to fourth left intercostal spaces.
(14) Pulmonary regurgitation was diagnosed clinically by mid-frequency diastolic decrescendo murmurs beginning after the pulmonic component of the second heart sound, and diagnoses were confirmed by catheterization.
(15) Furthermore, myocardial damage was much more extensive in the decrescendo type.
(16) In the remaining three it decreased from the beginning of exercise (decrescendo type).
(17) Included were pattern A in 34 patients with a plateau course after the insidious onset of symptoms, pattern B in 18 patients with a decrescendo course after the sudden onset of severe symptoms, pattern C in 5 patients who had no severe symptoms during the years between the early and late periods of severe symptoms and pattern D in 38 patients with a crescendo course after the onset of symptoms and the following period of years of no severe symptoms.
(18) These murmurs occurred in early to mild-systole and were crescendo-decrescendo in configuration.
(19) PCA activity typically peaked early in inspiration followed by either a decrescendo or tonic EMG activity of variable amplitude during expiration.
(20) The velocity pattern was characterized by a crescendo-decrescendo shape in diastole.
Diminuendo
Definition:
(adv.) In a gradually diminishing manner; with abatement of tone; decrescendo; -- expressed on the staff by Dim., or Dimin., or the sign.
Example Sentences:
(1) Your obituary of Richard Hoggart ( 10 April ) remarked on his decision to become warden of Goldsmiths College that "As a close to a career, it was a diminuendo".