(superl.) Extending far below the surface; of great perpendicular dimension (measured from the surface downward, and distinguished from high, which is measured upward); far to the bottom; having a certain depth; as, a deep sea.
(superl.) Extending far back from the front or outer part; of great horizontal dimension (measured backward from the front or nearer part, mouth, etc.); as, a deep cave or recess or wound; a gallery ten seats deep; a company of soldiers six files deep.
(superl.) Low in situation; lying far below the general surface; as, a deep valley.
(superl.) Hard to penetrate or comprehend; profound; -- opposed to shallow or superficial; intricate; mysterious; not obvious; obscure; as, a deep subject or plot.
(superl.) Of penetrating or far-reaching intellect; not superficial; thoroughly skilled; sagacious; cunning.
(superl.) Profound; thorough; complete; unmixed; intense; heavy; heartfelt; as, deep distress; deep melancholy; deep horror.
(superl.) Strongly colored; dark; intense; not light or thin; as, deep blue or crimson.
(superl.) Of low tone; full-toned; not high or sharp; grave; heavy.
(superl.) Muddy; boggy; sandy; -- said of roads.
(adv.) To a great depth; with depth; far down; profoundly; deeply.
(n.) That which is deep, especially deep water, as the sea or ocean; an abyss; a great depth.
(n.) That which is profound, not easily fathomed, or incomprehensible; a moral or spiritual depth or abyss.
Example Sentences:
(1) Four showed bronchodilation after a deep breath, indicating that this response can occur after extrinsic pulmonary denervation in man.
(2) The deep cerebellar nuclei were moderately labeled at birth and gradually decreased in density thereafter.
(3) In order to develop a sampling strategy and a method for analyzing the circadian body temperature pattern, we monitored estimates of the temperature in four ways using rectal, oral, axillary and deep body temperature from the skin surface every hour for 72 consecutive hours in 10 normal control subjects.
(4) In case of isolated damage of deep flexor tendon of the II-V fingers at the level of the I zone there were made palliative operations of 12 fingers: tenodesis and arthrodesis of distal interphalangeal articulation in functionally advantageous position.
(5) Many speak about how yoga and surfing complement each other, both involving deep concentration, flexibility and balance.
(6) While the heaviest anterogradely labeled ascending projections were observed to the contralateral ventral posterolateral nucleus of the thalamus, pars oralis (VPLo), efferent projections were also observed to the contralateral ventrolateral thalamic nucleus (VLc) and central lateral (CL) nucleus of the thalamic intralaminar complex, magnocellular (and to a lesser extent parvicellular) red nucleus, nucleus of Darkschewitsch, zona incerta, nucleus of the posterior commissure, lateral intermediate layer and deep layer of the superior colliculus, dorsolateral periaqueductal gray, contralateral nucleus reticularis tegmenti pontis and basilar pontine nuclei (especially dorsal and peduncular), and dorsal (DAO) and medial (MAO) accessory olivary nuclei, ipsilateral lateral (external) cuneate nucleus (LCN) and lateral reticular nucleus (LRN), and to a lesser extent the caudal medial vestibular nucleus (MVN) and caudal nucleus prepositus hypoglossi (NPH), and dorsal medullary raphe.
(7) We report a rare case of odontogenic abscess, detected while the patient was in the intensive care unit (ICU), which resulted in sepsis and the patient's death due to mediastinitis, skull osteomyelitis, and deep neck cellulitis.
(8) It is concluded that the transcutaneous ultrasound technique provides a reliable, rapidly available, non-invasive method to confirm the diagnosis of deep vein thrombosis.
(9) After permeabilization, with attendant partial extraction, the preparation can be fixed, then viewed by either deep-etch replication, or by high-resolution scanning electron microscopy, with structure of interest revealed in deep view.
(10) The deep green people who have an issue with the language of natural capital are actually making the same jump from value to commodification that they state that they don’t want ... They’ve equated one with the other,” he says.
(11) In other words, the commitment to the euro is too deep to be forsaken.
(12) The periodic pattern was assumed as subclinical focal seizure discharges from the right anterior temporal deep structures.
(13) Inner Ear Decompression Sickness (IEDCS)--manifested by tinnitus, vertigo, nausea, vomiting, and hearing loss--is usually associated with deep air or mixed gas dives, and accompanied by other CNS symptoms of decompression sickness (DCS).
(14) "She was a beautiful woman, she had beautiful, deep green eyes.
(15) On taking office Lansley admitted this was not a deep enough cut.
(16) Since he was created, he has appeared at several robotic fairs across China, but spends most of his time in deep meditation on an office shelf in Longquan.
(17) However, the typically deep invasion of the former tumors and their histologic features indicate that they are highly aggressive neoplasms.
(18) This was followed firstly by superficial and then by deep ulceration of the mucosa.
(19) In deep forms of acne, particularly acne conglobata, Akne-Mycyna may be a valuable supplementation of systemic treatment.
(20) The soleus, deep portions of the vastus lateralis, and superficial portions of the vastus lateralis muscles were examined to represent slow-twitch-oxidative, fast-twitch-oxidative-glycolytic, and fast-twitch-glycolytic skeletal muscle fiber types, respectively.
Profundity
Definition:
(n.) The quality or state of being profound; depth of place, knowledge, feeling, etc.
Example Sentences:
(1) The substances released by algae in the profundal are taken up by aquatic bacteria which explains the lower release and PER measured.
(2) Thirty patients with 43 ischaemic limbs were treated by profundal revascularization.
(3) PCB and sigma DDT concentrations were greater in the predatory bottom animals than in the herbivores or detritus feeders, and the amounts of chlorinated hydrocarbons were greater in profundal animals than in littoral animals.
(4) The ganglia of the anterodorsal lateral line and profundal-trigeminal nerves are totally separate throughout their rostrocaudal extent.
(5) The constrictor effects of sympathetic nerve activity (SNA) on the profundal femoral, circumflex femoral, saphenous, and popliteal arteries varied among 19 out of 20 sites.
(6) "Contrast that with the 'deep-voiced' man, and its connotations of profundity.
(7) This syndrome, which was first described in 1959, is characterized by mechanical pain in one or both hips and profund osteoporosis occurring shortly before or during the third trimester of pregnancy.
(8) He veered between profundity and giggles, sometimes all in one sentence.
(9) The higher release of algal products of photosynthesis in the photic zone than in the profundal is probably caused by the inhibition of physiological activity of bacteria by antibacterial substances produced by algae.
(10) The mathematical probability of procervical activity (1.0 if all procervical; 0.0 if all profundal), and thus the transport, was 0.59 in eumenorrheic and 0.68 in dysmenorrheic patients, the average for the whole series being 0.65.
(11) "Their words carry a profundity and eloquence that deserves to be heard alongside George Washington or Shakespeare or St Catherine of Siena."
(12) Because of its safety and the profundity of its hypolipidemic action, it is suggested that charcoal may find applicability in the management of azotemic diabetic and nephrotic hyperlipidemia.
(13) Naegleria and Vahlkampfia were the most frequently encountered FLA in littoral sediment and surface water samples whereas Acanthamoeba was most commonly isolated from profundal sediment, especially during late summer.
(14) Populations in profundal sediment underwent dramatic seasonal shifts, apparently in response to the seasonal chemical changes in the hypolimnion.
(15) 1 aorto-profundal and 2 iliaco-femoral bypasses have remaint.
(16) Acanthamoeba was most prevalent in late summer, representing as much as 82% of the FLA in profundal sediment.
(17) Microbial biomass and activity were examined in four different arctic sediments: littoral lake sediment and profundal lake sediment from Toolik Lake, Alaska, thaw pond sediment, and eroding river bank peat.
(18) He looked up to see a lissome figure with gentle brown eyes that held a profundity of experience rarely encountered in someone of her age.
(19) Quantitative estimation of the priority ranges made it possible to determine the profundity of the functional relations between the cerebral structures.
(20) The sainted Richard Dawkins habitually manages to frame the questions involved with his customary profundity – claiming in The God Delusion, for example, that: “When my life is taken out, I want to be under general anaesthetic, as if it were my diseased appendix.” But Pharoah’s story shines light on the nuance and complexity that surrounds the whole question, and the cultural factors that are in danger of pushing the argument somewhere very unpleasant.