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Deteriorating


Definition:

  • (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Deteriorate

Example Sentences:

  • (1) It is followed by rapid neurobehavioral deterioration in late infancy or early childhood, a developmental arrest, plateauing, and then either a course of retarded development or continued deterioration.
  • (2) Hypertensive disorders in pregnancy are frequently accompanied by deteriorated renal functions and by pathological lesions in the glomeruli.
  • (3) A remarkable deterioration of prognosis with increasing age rises the question whether treatment with cytotoxic drugs should be tried in patients more than 60 years old.
  • (4) "There is … a risk that the political, trade, and gas frictions with Russia could lead to strong deterioration in economic relations between the two countries, with a significant drop in Ukraine's exports to and imports from Russia.
  • (5) This suggests that there was a deterioration of the vasoconstrictor response and indicated a possible effect of heat at the receptor or effector level.
  • (6) Four patients had previously been diverted and the other six were reconstructed because of intractable incontinence or deteriorating renal function.
  • (7) Finally, these cases support the existence of a therapeutic upper limit for desipramine plasma concentrations, above which clinical deterioration occurs.
  • (8) In view of the high mortality every clinical deterioration of patients with cirrhosis should alert the physician of the presence of SBP.
  • (9) The authors present a boy with a sudden onset a large intracranial hematoma causing rapid neurologic deterioration.
  • (10) The data suggest late hemodynamic deterioration after 48 hours of IABC.
  • (11) Aspartylglycosaminuria (AGU) is a hereditary metabolic disorder characterized by slowly progressive mental deterioration from infancy, urinary excretion of large amounts of aspartylglycosamine, and decreased activity of the lysosomal enzyme aspartylglcosamine amido hydrolase in various body tissues and fluids.
  • (12) The dilemma focuses on whether the obliteration or removal of the cystic areas will benefit or cause further deterioration of the patient's condition.
  • (13) Bacteriuria was not associated with deteriorating renal function determined by serial plasma creatinine estimations.
  • (14) The deteriorating situation would worsen if ministers pressed ahead with another controversial Lansley policy – that of abolishing the cap on the amount of income semi-independent foundation trust hospitals can make by treating private patients.
  • (15) During a postoperative follow-up period of 1 to 3 years, no further deterioration has been observed and magnetic resonance studies have demonstrated a space filled with cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) around the lumbosacral cord.
  • (16) Use of sunglasses that block all ultraviolet radiation and severely attenuate high-energy visible radiation will slow the pace of ocular deterioration and delay the onset of age-related disease, thereby reducing its prevalence.
  • (17) Sechin warned the west earlier this week that expanding sanctions over Russia's annexation of Ukraine's Crimea region would only make the political situation deteriorate further, according to Reuters.
  • (18) Rates of clinical deterioration and frequencies of attacks were not significantly different between treated and control groups.
  • (19) In a follow-up of 17 HIV-positive subjects, nine presented deteriorated reflexes in the tests and higher IgG immune complex levels.
  • (20) However, these good results deteriorated on longer follow-up and were not expected to be permanent.

Downhill


Definition:

  • (adv.) Towards the bottom of a hill; as, water runs downhill.
  • (a.) Declivous; descending; sloping.
  • (n.) Declivity; descent; slope.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Distance running performance is slower on hilly race courses than flat courses even when the start and finish are at the same elevation, resulting in equal amounts of uphill and downhill running.
  • (2) The Downhills headteacher has said the school has worked hard to improve the quality of teaching.
  • (3) Like the parental strain, all three types of triple mutant showed moderate rates of downhill lactose transport and were defective in the uphill accumulation of sugars.
  • (4) Endoscopic examination showed downhill esophageal varices.
  • (5) Eighty-nine percent of the soleus m. lesions in the downhill runner group and 97% of those in the level runner group were A-band disruptions.
  • (6) Downhills' latest Ofsted assessment, in September, found that while pupils attained standards that are "well below national expectations … there is a clear trend of improvement".
  • (7) Physiological strain was greater in uphill than in level or downhill walking (P less than .001).
  • (8) Net sodium flux across the mucosa was also inhibited under 'downhill' sodium gradient conditions.
  • (9) The medical profession has gone downhill since the days when abortionists were anathema.
  • (10) It is proposed here that these amines function by catalyzing the isomerization of 11-cis-retinal thermodynamically downhill to form its all-trans congener.
  • (11) Despite the innocent verdict, it was essentially downhill from there.
  • (12) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Even those who’ve never seen a downhill ski race couldn’t help but sympathise with Bode Miller’s agony at missing out on a medal in what will surely be the last Olympic event of his career.
  • (13) This could be a NaCl pump, a downhill KCl transport mechanism, or a Cl-HCO3 exchange mechanism.
  • (14) Examination of each case individually suggests that for the majority, brief therapy was useful in stemming a downhill course.
  • (15) Heart rate and skiing velocities were analyzed over a flat, an uphill, and a downhill section, as well as for the total loop.
  • (16) Intrathoracic masses as a possible cause of "downhill" varices could not be diagnosed in any of these patients.
  • (17) In one man, hypomanic symptoms were caused by early HIV encephalopathy; he rapidly developed typical HIV dementia with a marked downhill course.
  • (18) The subsequent clinical course was progressively downhill.
  • (19) Lakoff and Johnson wrote out the most pervasive metaphors like this: GOOD IS UP; BAD IS DOWN (“We hit a peak last year, but it’s been downhill ever since”) ARGUMENT IS WAR (“Your claims are indefensible”) IDEAS ARE FOOD (“We shouldn’t spoonfeed our students”) UNDERSTANDING IS SEEING (“Let me point something out to you.
  • (20) As evidence that energy supplies for this "downhill" process did not become rate limiting after irradiation, we found that carbonylcyanide-m-chlorophenyl-hydrazone did not stimulate ONPG transport of irradiated cells.

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