(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.
Gradually
Definition:
(adv.) In a gradual manner.
(adv.) In degree.
Example Sentences:
(1) 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.
(2) With prolonged ischemia, it is only transient and is followed by a gradual loss of the adenylyl cyclase activity.
(3) The number of axons displaying peptide-like immunoreactivity within the optic nerve, retinal or cerebral to the crush, and within the optic chiasm gradually decreased after 2-3 months.
(4) The deep cerebellar nuclei were moderately labeled at birth and gradually decreased in density thereafter.
(5) There is a gradual loosening of the adolescent's emotional dependence on her parents and a transfer of dependency ties to peers.
(6) In a steady-state exercise test this difference developed gradually during the first 10 min of exercise.
(7) Gradual evolutionary change by natural selection operates so slowly within established species that it cannot account for the major features of evolution.
(8) It was shown that gradual recovery of spike wave patterns occurred from initial water swallowing to successive dry swalllowing.
(9) Size of both areas gradually decreased as the medulla filled with plasma cells, 7-30 days after injection.
(10) The general tendency of gradual CBF reduction from the pedicle to the distal end of all the flaps was observed.
(11) In contrast to findings in the rat and dog, no sharp drop but a gradual fall in CLi was observed at decreasing FENa values down to 0.02%.
(12) In this study patients who had successfully been treated with loreclezole in previous studies were gradually withdrawn from their antiepileptic comedication.
(13) Ten animals served as sedentary controls, the 10 experimental animals were subjected to a training program with gradually increasing intensity of 18 weeks duration on a motor-driven treadmill.
(14) A radical rearrangement of the organism occurred gradually: initially oval in shape, the parasite became round, then elongated, flattened, and underwent cytokinesis.
(15) + inf., pons + medulla), rCBF increased toward the control level gradually, and it completely recovered 60 min after recirculation.
(16) Following uninephrectomy a more gradual regression took place and normal cardiac weight was not obtained until 3 weeks.
(17) This process may be achieved by co-ordinated synthesis and translation of new mRNA or gradual accumulation of constitutively synthesized mRNA, followed by coordinated translational activation.
(18) After more than 10 weeks, CD34+, CD33- cells gradually recovered, as erythroid burst colony-forming cells increased following GM colony-forming cells.
(19) BC treatment was reinstituted, and the serum PRL level decreased gradually without recurrent CSF rhinorrhea.
(20) We conclude that CJD-related neuropathological phenomena do not accumulate gradually through the incubation period but develop relatively abruptly and in complete form.