(v.) A putting off or deferring; procrastination; lingering inactivity; stop; detention; hindrance.
(n.) To put off; to defer; to procrastinate; to prolong the time of or before.
(n.) To retard; to stop, detain, or hinder, for a time; to retard the motion, or time of arrival, of; as, the mail is delayed by a heavy fall of snow.
(n.) To allay; to temper.
(v. i.) To move slowly; to stop for a time; to linger; to tarry.
Example Sentences:
(1) The combined immediate and delayed responses to fleas in the dog are as observed by other investigators in man and guinea pigs.
(2) Some commentators have described his ship, now facing more delays after a decade in development, as little more than a Heath Robinson machine.
(3) Our results indicate that increasing the delay for more than 8 days following irradiation and TCD syngeneic BMT leads to a rapid loss of the ability to achieve alloengraftment by non-TCD allogeneic bone marrow.
(4) Cranial MRI revealed delayed myelination in the white matter but no brain malformation.
(5) It was concluded that metoclopramide and dexamethasone showed an excellent antiemetic effect on acute drug-induced emesis, as well as on delayed emesis, induced by cisplatin.
(6) Under these conditions the meiotic prophase takes place and proceeds to the dictyate phase, obeying a somewhat delayed chronology in comparison with controls in vivo.
(7) Four delayed going to a medical facility and six did not have hypotension corrected.
(8) The mechanism by which pertussis toxin (PT) breaks the unresponsiveness of delayed-type hypersensitivity (DTH) to sheep red blood cells (SRBC) was examined in B10 mice.
(9) Variables included an ego-delay measure obtained from temporal estimations, perceptions of temporal dominance and relatedness obtained from Cottle's Circles Test, Ss' ages, and a measure of long-term posthospital adjustment.
(10) The authors conclude that H. pylori alone causes little or no effect on an intact gastric mucosa in the rat, that either intact organisms or bacteria-free filtrates cause similar prolongation and delayed healing of pre-existing ulcers with active chronic inflammation, and that the presence of predisposing factors leading to disruption of gastric mucosal integrity may be required for the H. pylori enhancement of inflammation and tissue damage in the stomach.
(11) Development at two to 15 months of age in the 19 surviving infants was normal in nine, suspect in eight, and severely delayed in two patients.
(12) During these delays, medical staff attempt to manage these often complex and painful conditions with ad hoc and temporizing measures,” write the doctors.
(13) With the stimulated liver being irradiated, the number of cells synthetizing DNA and entering into mitosis was seen reduced almost twice, whereas DNA synthesis and entering into mitosis were delayed, resp., by 4 and 6 hours.
(14) Mice also had a decreased ability to develop delayed-type hypersensitivity reactions while being given cadmium; this abnormality also returned toward normal after withdrawal of cadmium.
(15) We found that, although controlled release delivery of ddC inhibited de novo FeLV-FAIDS replication and delayed onset of viremia when therapy was discontinued (after 3 weeks), an equivalent incidence and level of viremia were established rapidly in both ddC-treated and control cats.
(16) The treatment was started either immediately or delayed for 48 h after peritoneal inoculation.
(17) Blood was cross-matched preoperatively in 47.7% of patients and 90% of this blood was either not administered or given as a delayed nonurgent procedure.
(18) The Tc-99m DISIDA cholescintigraphy demonstrated both early and delayed nonvisualization of the gallbladder.
(19) Sarcoidosis is a chronic granulomatous disease that may be considered to be a human model for the delayed-type hypersensitivity reaction.
(20) We report the treatment of 44 boys with constitutional delay of growth and puberty (CDGP) at a mean chronological age of 14.3 years (range, 12.4-17.1) and bone age of 12.1 years (range, 9.1-15.0).
Forthwith
Definition:
(adv.) Immediately; without delay; directly.
(adv.) As soon as the thing required may be done by reasonable exertion confined to that object.
Example Sentences:
(1) 2) it was also evident that the animals have a grasp of spatial connections and can solve arranged problems forthwith.
(2) There, she is pretty much required reading for anyone under the age of 11 and, indeed, over, too, and I strongly urge everyone who falls into either age group to discover her forthwith.
(3) Any licence to the public to enter or cross this land is revoked forthwith.
(4) Their determination to use it as a stick to beat abortion providers with is simply one more reason why this paternalistic and meaningless little bureaucratic hoop needs to be terminated forthwith.
(5) They have to do it and they have to do it forthwith,” he said, claiming that many Muslims were hiding behind “political correctness” to avoid sharing their knowledge of terrorist activities to law enforcement officials.
(6) Therefore in patients presenting with cerebrovascular pathology even years after receiving radiation therapy, the neurologist and vascular surgeon must be prepared to recognise that extensive damage may underlie the patients' symptoms and that investigation and surgical repair may have to be undertaken forthwith if at all practicable.
(7) The second group had the sham-operated controls which glands were exposed only and the incision was closed forthwith.
(8) They should be released forthwith.” Greste, who grew up in Brisbane, has been imprisoned in Cairo since 29 December along with his al-Jazeera colleagues Fahmy and Baher Mohamed.
(9) But last month the PNG supreme court ruled the detention of asylum seekers and refugees to be illegal , and ordered the PNG and Australian governments to “forthwith” take all steps necessary steps to stop the practice.
(10) It was not clear whether he continued with his mission, but Mwanyongo said: "You stop forthwith to act as a minister of the Malawi government the moment it has been announced.
(11) Even were Kenya to come down to a two-child family forthwith (instead of eight), it would still reach 53 million people before growth peters out.
(12) A week after lifting his latest crown, Cantona, aged 30, announced that he was retiring from football forthwith.
(13) The war was the fault of German expansionism and aggression, London's mayor pronounced, and called for Labour's shadow education secretary Tristram Hunt to be sacked forthwith if he doubted it.
(14) Last week the PNG supreme court found the detention of asylum seekers to be unconstitutional and illegal , and ordered PNG and Australia to “forthwith” act to end the incarceration.
(15) In a letter to the rival organisation, BASW has said: "Given that you do not have a right to use the name … we must request that you cease to use this title forthwith."
(16) The importance of a second-look operation (SLO) in 121 patients with ovarian carcinoma stages III and IV from 1979 to 1983 is forthwith discussed.
(17) His players need acquainting with various truths, forthwith.
(18) District judge Barry Lightman had already made the order granting “possession forthwith” to Andrey Goncharenko’s representatives MCA Shipping Ltd, the registered owner of the leasehold.
(19) These perforations were all immediately recognized during the course of the enema and operated on forthwith; a stoma was made in four cases.
(20) The life and death by starvation of the right-to-die campaigner, Debbie Purdy , should be celebrated by the Commons passing the House of Lords’ “dignity in dying” bill forthwith .