(v. t.) To indicate by lines drawn in the form or figure of; to represent by sketch, design, or diagram; to sketch out; to portray; to picture; in drawing and engraving, to represent in lines, as with the pen, pencil, or graver; hence, to represent with accuracy and minuteness. See Delineation.
(v. t.) To portray to the mind or understanding by words; to set forth; to describe.
Example Sentences:
(1) The extent of the infectious process was limited, however, because the life span of the cultures was not significantly shortened, the yields of infectious virus per immunofluorescent cell were at all times low, and most infected cells contained only a few well-delineated small masses of antigen, suggestive of an abortive infection.
(2) This association is delineated from two other "facio-audio-symphalangism" syndromes and from Wildervanck syndrome.
(3) They more precisely delineate the hazard identification process and the factors important in supporting risk decisions for developmental toxicants than does any other document.
(4) Delineation of the presence and anatomy of an obstructed, nonfunctioning upper-pole duplex system often requires multiple imaging techniques.
(5) Current status of prognosis in clinical, experimental and prophylactic medicine is delineated with formulation of the purposes and feasibility of therapeutic and preventive realization of the disease onset and run prediction.
(6) Their significance in adding to the doctor's knowledge of the patient is delineated.
(7) For consistent identification of the normal pancreas, preliminary longitudinal scanning at, or near, the mid-line and subsequent oblique scanning in the long axis are necessary prerequisites in delineating the anatomic outline of the pancreas.
(8) The fringe of the seizure ("borderland of epilepsy") is briefly delineated.
(9) Developmental changes are delineated, with particular reference to recent work on the ovine blood-brain barrier.
(10) Epidermolytic PPK is a well delineated autosomal dominant entity, but no recessive form is known.
(11) Anticardiolipin antibodies delineate a recently defined syndrome characterized by venous and arterial thrombosis, thrombocytopenia and recurrent fetal loss, usually in the setting of autoimmune disease.
(12) In order to delineate the critical blood flow pattern during the Cushing response in intracranial hypertension, regional cerebral blood flow was measured with radioactive microspheres in 12 anesthetized dogs at respiratory arrest caused either by expansion of an epidural supratentorial balloon or by cisternal infusion.
(13) Three distinct antigenic regions were delineated on P by competitive radioimmunoassays (RIAs), and through Western blot analysis all three sites were mapped to a 40,000-MW (40K) Staphylococcus aureus protease V8-digestion fragment, which remains associated with the neucleocapsid structure.
(14) The utility of a life charting approach is emphasized in delineating past and present course of illness, considering the relevance of cycling pattern and past treatment efficacy in selection of present pharmacological interventions, and helping to formulate a multifactorial concept of the interplay of biological and psychosocial factors in the evolution or exacerbation of mood disorders.
(15) By analysis of the three sequences we were able to delineate a hypothetic model for region X domain evolution and discussed the origin of genetic variability within and without strains.
(16) The usual clinical environment in which this type of reaction occurs has been very specifically delineated.
(17) The implications of these findings for delineating the locus of the memory impairment in multiple sclerosis is discussed.
(18) In two of the cases in which almost the whole lungs were studied on continuous slice images with thin slice high resolution CT, sub-sub-subsegmental bronchi could be easily delineated, except in for the lingular segment.
(19) Clinical and standard radiographic evaluation of patients with lumbosacral radicular symptoms may, on occasion, fail to delineate a cause.
(20) The significance of ventricular asynergy in determining medical prognosis and surgical risk in patients with coronary artery disease and its delineation by ventriculography have been of increasing interest.
Protract
Definition:
(v. t.) To draw out or lengthen in time or (rarely) in space; to continue; to prolong; as, to protract an argument; to protract a war.
(v. t.) To put off to a distant time; to delay; to defer; as, to protract a decision or duty.
(v. t.) To draw to a scale; to lay down the lines and angles of, with scale and protractor; to plot.
(v. t.) To extend; to protrude; as, the cat can protract its claws; -- opposed to retract.
(n.) Tedious continuance or delay.
Example Sentences:
(1) AL-ST works with another dose distribution in time than the conventional brachytherapy, so a higher fractionation of high-dose-rate afterloading is substituted for the classical protraction of low-dose-rate brachytherapy.
(2) Whereas a protracted inhibitory activity is observed in haemophiliacs after replacement therapy (isoantibodies) as well as in acquired haemophilia (autoantibodies), immediate inhibition is characteristic of antibodies directed against phospholipids.
(3) A small number of children with protracted diarrhoea, who have severe mucosal injury may not be able to handle even starch and may require diets based on short chain glucose polymers.
(4) The effects of maxillary protracting bow appliance were the maxillary forward movement associated with counter-clockwise rotation of the nasal floor and the mandibular backward movement associated with clockwise rotation.
(5) A high responsiveness to SCW antigens was seen more frequently in sarcoidosis patients with protracted clinical course.
(6) A downward protraction force produced relatively uniform stress distributions, indicating the importance of the force direction in determining the stress distributions from various orthopedic forces.
(7) Reports in the literature suggest a poor prognosis in the presence of this complication, because of protracted renal damage and chronic renal failure.
(8) However, in the majority (53%) of patients, late recurrence was local and survival subsequent to treatment of these metastases was often protracted, emphasizing the importance of long-term follow-up in all patients with cutaneous melanoma.
(9) According to data in the literature the hormetic effect comprises stimulation of the immune system, a general increase of the resistance of the organism, a reduced risk of cancer and in model organisms a protraction of the median life span was observed.
(10) Human cancers undergo protracted complex development from benign to malignant states, as most thoroughly documented in the mole-to-melanoma sequence.
(11) Pouch young are born prior to retinal innervation of the primary visual centers and spend a protracted period of development in the pouch, making them ideal for visual, developmental studies.
(12) They say an increasing number of “protracted refugees” living in centres in Jordan, Lebanon, Turkey and Iraq will attempt the treacherous journey to Europe because they cannot offer their families a life or a future in the camps.
(13) The duration of the pre-ejection period of the systole, the Q-Kd interval and Achilles tendon reflex was protracted.
(14) Initial clinical trials utilized a daily schedule of administration, which led to severe and protracted myelosuppression and inadequate evaluation of the antitumor spectrum of mitomycin-C.
(15) Immature granulocytes would not exit through a restrictive barrier even after protracted periods and were not responsive to chemoattractants.
(16) The predominant clinical characteristic of this complication was protracted pancytopenia, which required 2 to 5 months recovery time after treatment and did not resolve in one patient.
(17) RBE values increased as dose was protracted, largely due to the reduced effectiveness of protracted gamma irradiation; however, about 28% of the increase can be attributed to the increase in neutron-induced injury caused by dose protraction.
(18) I have not known any time in my half century in this business in which we have had this many simultaneous, complex and protracted crises, of no solution right now.
(19) Within each layer deriving from the cortical plate (layers VIa to II-III), GABA-immunoreactivity showed a protracted maturation in which the first GABA-positive cells were detected a few days after cell birth but substantial numbers of neurons began to express GABA considerably later.
(20) Dose response curves for acute and protracted exposures have been obtained for cells derived from patients with cancer-prone syndromes including ataxia telangiectasia (AT) and Bloom's syndrome.