(a.) Descending; falling; proceeding from an ancestor or source.
Example Sentences:
(1) The adjacent gauge was separated from the ischemic segment by one large nonoccluded diagonal branch of the left anterior descending artery.
(2) They insist this is the best way of ensuring the country does not descend into chaos before the final withdrawal of combat troops.
(3) The primary afferent fibers diverge in the brainstem into a short ascending and a long descending tract.
(4) A case of dissecting hematoma involving the left main, left anterior descending, and left circumflex coronary arteries is described in a patient who had received vigorous closed-chest cardiac resuscitation.
(5) Concerning the descending influences, it was found that stimulation of the anterior hypothalamus evokes depressor reactions, whereas stimulation of the posterior hypothalamus results in pressor reactions.
(6) Martin O’Neill spoke of his satisfaction at the Republic of Ireland’s score draw in the first leg of their Euro 2016 play-off against Bosnia-Herzegovina – and of his relief that the match was not abandoned despite the dense fog that descended in the second half and threatened to turn the game into a farce.
(7) This column is located ventral and lateral to the dorsolateral division of the trigeminal motor nucleus, and just medial to the descending trigeminal nerve rootlets.
(8) Blunt trauma to the epigastrum may result in a retroperitoneal hematoma involving the head of the pancreas and descending duodenum.
(9) Acute coronary angiography showed myocardial bridging and total occlusion of the left anterior descending artery in the middle one-third of its course.
(10) In acute experiments on 16 dogs the anterior descending branch of the left coronary artery was stenosed to produce a hypokinesia or dyskinesia of the anterior wall of the left ventricle.
(11) Descending neurons have opposite structural polarity, arising in the brain and terminating in segmental regions of the fused ventral ganglia.
(12) To perform this technique, it is necessary to expose only a longitudinal segment on the anterior aspect of the aneurysm to permit a ventriculotomy parallel to the anterior descending coronary artery 4-5 cm away.
(13) To explore relations between preload, afterload, and stroke volume (SV) in the fetal left ventricle, we instrumented 126-129 days gestation fetal lambs with ascending aortic electromagnetic flow transducers, vascular catheters, and inflatable occluders around the aortic isthmus (n = 8) or descending aorta (n = 7).
(14) A new centrifugal pump (Sarns), originally designed for ventricular assist, was successfully used in two patients during repair of traumatic pseudoaneurysm of the descending thoracic aorta.
(15) The special advantage of the UV-beam is that it allow to inactivate selectively of the particular elements of nuclear apparatus of living ciliates is to observe consequences of operation on distant descendants of irradiated cell.
(16) By LHRH treatment 36 testes (20.5%) reached the scrotum, when HCG was added in unsuccessful cases 47 other gonads (26.8%) descended.
(17) A Teflon cylinder was placed in the mid-left anterior descending coronary artery to create a 33% stenosis.
(18) The descending colon, which after the DMH treatment showed a significant increase in the levels of glycosidases, also gave rise to a larger number of adenocarcinomata than other parts of the colon.
(19) In work to determine whether X-radiation could be used to induce tumors of the colon in outbred Holtzman rats, a technique was devised so that only the descending colon could be irradiated with a collimated X-ray beam and tumorigenic exposures in the kilo-Roentgen range were delivered.
(20) At one, in the Gun and Dog pub in Leeds on Tuesday, a witness described how the meeting descended into chaos when one of the rebels smashed a glass and threatened to attack Griffin supporter Mark Collett.
Scion
Definition:
(n.) A shoot or sprout of a plant; a sucker.
(n.) A piece of a slender branch or twig cut for grafting.
(n.) Hence, a descendant; an heir; as, a scion of a royal stock.
Example Sentences:
(1) It was at this time that Milosevic forged a close friendship with Stambolic, scion of an elite communist family.
(2) State they’re in This was the season American MBNA credit-card scion Randy Lerner finally announced his Villa venture was over and he wanted to sell.
(3) Congress party strategists say that their campaign leader Rahul Gandhi 's relative youth – the scion of the Nehru-Gandhi dynasty is 43 – and their tradition of "pluralist secularism" will win over young people.
(4) Ineffectively led by the family scion Rahul, the party that won India its independence was comprehensively swept aside by Modi’s Bharatiya Janata party.
(5) Hall might be a scion of one of Britain's most important theatrical dynasties (his father is Peter, his half-sister Rebecca), but the cocky irreverence of his productions showed he had every intention of making his own mark.
(6) Two “prominent” Republicans told the New York Times that the scions of the respective affluent and well-connected white families will meet privately in Utah this week, not long before a Wall Street Journal reporter caught Bush at an airport gate for a flight headed to Salt Lake City, near where the Romney family keeps one of its largest houses .
(7) The judicial body confirmed establishing an indirect link with the elder Gaddafi scion, who is believed to be in southern Libya where he is attempting to reach either Niger or Mali.
(8) If it seems eccentric to compare Churchill, scion of the Dukes of Marlborough, with Davis, who was brought up in a council flat in south London, then factor in their shared attributes: unshakable self-confidence, a certain vanity, and a capacity to inspire affection and extreme irritation.
(9) Here, Visconti was doubly lucky; not only was he adapting a novel by Di Lampedusa, melancholic scion of a dwindled dynasty much like the one in The Leopard , but he himself – Luchino Visconti di Madrone, Count of Lonate Pozzolo – was himself such a figure, the playboy descendent of a powerful feudal family that had controlled Milan and Pisa before the Renaissance.
(10) It is particularly noteworthy that overrepresented in this list of political scions are southern Democrats , most of whom are also women.
(11) Unveiling his party's manifesto for elections beginning 7 April, Rahul Gandhi, the scion of the country's most famous political dynasty and the face of the Congress campaign for re-election , said $1tn (£600bn) would be spent on India's inadequate infrastructure and a universal pension scheme created if his party was returned to power.
(12) He mixed with an international circle of acquaintances, including politicians and scions of industry.
(13) John Gotti Junior, scion of the famous Gambino Mafia family, will walk into a Manhattan courtroom.
(14) But New England is overflowing with enough dynastic ambition right now to make even scions of the gilded age blush.
(15) He was born with, if not a silver spoon, then at least a silver-plated spoon in his mouth, being a scion on his father's side of the Kennedy earldom which used to own Culzean Castle in Scotland, and on his mother's side of a Scottish baronetcy.
(16) Money, connections and media attention can be a gift for a young scion seeking to outshine his or her famous parent, but they can also be a curse and some, like Jones, go to great lengths to avoid them.
(17) • Athinas Street, Mon-Sat 8am-6pm Nikos Hadjikyriakos-Ghika Gallery One of Greece’s most important 20th-century artists, Nikos Ghika was also a seriously minted scion of an aristocratic family (and a Rothschild by marriage) with exquisite taste in mid-century modern design.
(18) In controversial comments likely to cause a storm in India, Gandhi – considered a likely prime ministerial candidate and a scion of the country's leading political family – warned Timothy Roemer that although "there was evidence of some support for [Islamic terrorist group Laskar-e-Taiba] among certain elements in India's indigenous Muslim community, the bigger threat may be the growth of radicalised Hindu groups, which create religious tensions and political confrontations with the Muslim community ".
(19) The concept was exported to the US by Rorion Gracie, grandmaster of jiu jitsu , scion of one of the most famous fighting families in the world, and, as a 1989 article in Playboy put it, “the toughest man in the United States”.
(20) In the ensuing years – during which Hirsch was greeted by the American right as a prophet and a saviour, and by the left as a scion of the empire of evil – these ideas solidified.