(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).
Temporize
Definition:
(v. t.) To comply with the time or occasion; to humor, or yield to, the current of opinion or circumstances; also, to trim, as between two parties.
(v. t.) To delay; to procrastinate.
(v. t.) To comply; to agree.
Example Sentences:
(1) The various evocational changes appear to form sets of interconnected systems and this complex network seems to embody some plasticity since it has been possible to suppress experimentally some of the most universal evocational events or alter their temporal order without impairing evocation itself.
(2) For each temporal position of the independent noise, discriminability was a function of the ratio of the duration of the independent noise (tau) to the total burst duration.
(3) 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.
(4) During these delays, medical staff attempt to manage these often complex and painful conditions with ad hoc and temporizing measures,” write the doctors.
(5) Their receptive fields comprise a temporally and spatially linear mechanism (center plus antagonistic surround) that responds to relatively low spatial frequency stimuli, and a temporally nonlinear mechanism, coextensive with the linear mechanism, that--though broad in extent--responds best to high spatial-frequency stimuli.
(6) After several months, a temporal discrimination was well established, as shown by maximum suppression toward the end of the signal period.
(7) The lengths and heights of the scalae tympani in ten pairs of serially sectioned temporal bones were measured by an adaptation of the serial section method of cochlear reconstruction.
(8) After calving, probably the position of new follicles is temporally influenced by direct signals from the uterine horns affected differently by pregnancy.
(9) In this series there were 45 patients (40%) with independent focal interictal EEG epileptic abnormalities over frontobasal cortex (with or without independent spiking over interomedial temporal region).
(10) A young man being treated with primary adjuvant Adriamycin and DDP for osteogenic sarcoma is described who developed a gingival line which temporally was related to DDP administration.
(11) It is found that, whereas the spatial resolution achievable with such a system is only dependent upon its temporal resolution, the scattering characteristics of the tissue being imaged will strongly affect the ultimate imaging performance of such a system.
(12) Out of 50 epileptics in 31 cases temporal-lobe epilepsy was present, in 15 the seizures and EEG changes were generalized, in 4 cases focal non-temporal-lobe epilepsy was recognized.
(13) Many of observed functional changes in freshly reimplanted lungs are temporally related to changes in extravascular water.
(14) Treatment modalities included: partial temporal bone resection, subtotal temporal bone resection, total temporal bone resection, radical mastoidectomy followed by radiation therapy, radiation therapy alone, and chemotherapy.
(15) The purpose of this study was to determine whether there was a temporal association between the introduction of a Fetal Diagnostic and Treatment Center and changes in fetal mortality.
(16) We have investigated the temporal pattern of appearance, cell lineage, and cytodifferentiation of selected sensory organs (sensilla) of adult Drosophila.
(17) The capacity of granule-cell networks to separate overlapping patterns of activity on their inputs is adequate, with spatial variability in the secretion at synapses, but is improved if there is also temporal variability in the stochastic secretion at individual synapses, although this is at the expense of reliability in the network.
(18) The periodic pattern was assumed as subclinical focal seizure discharges from the right anterior temporal deep structures.
(19) The current study explored the temporal course of the perception of vowel duration.
(20) After the fourth dose of L-asparaginase, he presented with severe headache and a CT scan showed a right temporal infarct.