(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.
Quieter
Definition:
(n.) One who, or that which, quiets.
Example Sentences:
(1) On the other side of the Atlantic, a more modest, quieter challenger plans to take on the US electric car giant.
(2) It came ahead of the Brexit vote, which the CML said could lead to quieter months ahead.
(3) Updated at 12.09pm BST 11.44am BST andrew harding (@BBCAndrewH) We must take the emotions out of it, says Roux - perhaps as much to himself as the court - his voice becoming quieter.
(4) Now it organises weekly recreational group rides through quieter districts that have sometimes attracted hundreds of cyclists.
(5) Since 7 May, some of the public recriminations involving Ukip have included: Farage’s decision to resign, only to go back on his decision four days later, prompting one of the party’s biggest donors, Stuart Wheeler, to call for him to step back in favour of someone quieter.
(6) O’Leary said he expects “a Herculean growth” in traffic during the quieter winter, with slightly lower fares and high forward bookings leading the airline to predict 20% more passengers.
(7) I grab a few laps but it’s still a bit hectic so I decide to give up and come back when it’s quieter.
(8) The device is not only much cheaper, quieter, and more compact than a commercially built shaking-type bath, but is also gives superior mixing of heterogeneous enzyme incubation samples, particularly those containing tissue homogenates or subcellular particles.
(9) Monarch would be turning around its planes at Sharm at a quieter period of the day, later on Friday afternoon.
(10) €1 is worth $1.23 and £1 is almost worth $1.57 It is a quieter day today, as we wind down for the weekend, but we will be keeping a close eye on the following: Italy is issuing €8.5bn of six-month short-term bonds Germany's latest Consumer Price Index is published The US reveals its latest GDP figures, expected to be down slightly [UPDATE: European Commission President José Manuel Barroso is NOT holding further meetings with Greek PM Antonis Samaras, as we earlier said.
(11) The flame of ultra Serb nationalism appears to be guttering, although it could be replaced with a quieter long-lasting resentment.
(12) In quieter moments she tends her avocado garden, which she forced her mother to transport to the hospital.
(13) While August and September were, as expected, a bit quieter, we remain cautiously optimistic about the outlook.
(14) "If the US is quieter, and uses military channels to urge restraint, that is about the best it can do," added Cordesman.
(15) The 50-year-old star told the BBC in an interview broadcast earlier today that he would hope to move on to "quieter things" in the near future.
(16) Ironically, Greece could not be quieter, less strike-plagued or better value for money.
(17) Read more The Squee Mobile App, meanwhile, aims to link pedestrians and cyclists to travel together on quieter, non-motorised routes in Jakarta’s urban villages.
(18) After a tense first half, the second act, which includes the depiction of Klinghoffer’s murder, was quieter, with a sole exclamation of “this is shit!” by a woman in the stalls, who was hushed by the rest of the audience.
(19) Thirty miles from the centre of Bangladesh’s chaotic capital, Dhaka, the pace of life is quieter.
(20) Located just east of the more famous (and often overcrowded) Bryce Canyon, Kodachrome offers a quieter alternative.