(v. t.) To free from that which infolds or envelops; to unfold; to lay open by degrees or in detail; to make visible or known; to disclose; to produce or give forth; as, to develop theories; a motor that develops 100 horse power.
(v. t.) To unfold gradually, as a flower from a bud; hence, to bring through a succession of states or stages, each of which is preparatory to the next; to form or expand by a process of growth; to cause to change gradually from an embryo, or a lower state, to a higher state or form of being; as, sunshine and rain develop the bud into a flower; to develop the mind.
(v. t.) To advance; to further; to prefect; to make to increase; to promote the growth of.
(v. t.) To change the form of, as of an algebraic expression, by executing certain indicated operations without changing the value.
(v. t.) To cause to become visible, as an invisible or latent image upon plate, by submitting it to chemical agents; to bring to view.
(v. i.) To go through a process of natural evolution or growth, by successive changes from a less perfect to a more perfect or more highly organized state; to advance from a simpler form of existence to one more complex either in structure or function; as, a blossom develops from a bud; the seed develops into a plant; the embryo develops into a well-formed animal; the mind develops year by year.
(v. i.) To become apparent gradually; as, a picture on sensitive paper develops on the application of heat; the plans of the conspirators develop.
Example Sentences:
(1) Without medication atypical ventricular tachycardia develops, in the author's opinion, most probably when bradycardia has persisted for a prolonged period.
(2) By presenting the case history of a man who successively developed facial and trigeminal neural dysfunction after Mohs chemosurgery of a PCSCC, this paper documents histologically the occurrence of such neural invasion, and illustrates the utility of gadolinium-enhanced magnetic resonance scanning in patient management.
(3) A 2.5-month-old child with cyanotic heart disease who required long-term PGE1 infusions; developed widespread periosteal reactions during the course of therapy.
(4) An automated continuous flow sample cleanup system intended for rapid screening of foods for pesticide residues in fresh and processed vegetables has been developed.
(5) Clinical signs of disease developed as early as 15 days after transition to the experimental diets and included impaired vision, decreased response to external stimuli, and abnormal gait.
(6) In addition, this pretreatment protocol did not modify the recipient immune response against B-lymphocyte alloantigens which developed in unsuccessful transplants.
(7) He is also the foremost theorist of the Tijuana-San Diego border in terms of what happens when the urban culture of the developing world collides with that of the developed world.
(8) A new balloon catheter has been developed for angioplasty.
(9) 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.
(10) Oculomotor paresis with cyclic spasms is a rare syndrome, usually noticeable at birth or developing during the first year of life.
(11) A new and simple method of serotyping campylobacters has been developed which utilises co-agglutination to detect the presence of heat-stable antigens.
(12) Virtually every developed country has some form of property tax, so the idea that valuing residential property is uniquely difficult, or that it would be widely evaded, is nonsense.
(13) In some cervical nodes, a few follicles, lymphocyte clusters, and a well-developed plasmocyte population were also present.
(14) We determined whether serological investigations can assist to distinguish between chronic idiopathic autoimmune thrombocytopenia (cAITP) and immune-mediated thrombocytopenia in patients at risk to develop systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE); 82 patients were seen in this institution for the evaluation of immune thrombocytopenia.
(15) beta-Endorphin blocked the development of fighting responses when a low footshock intensity was used, but facilitated it when a high shock intensity was delivered.
(16) Some commentators have described his ship, now facing more delays after a decade in development, as little more than a Heath Robinson machine.
(17) To examine the central nervous system regulation of duodenal bicarbonate secretion, an animal model was developed that allowed cerebroventricular and intravenous injections as well as collection of duodenal perfusates in awake, freely moving rats.
(18) Since 1987, it has become possible to obtain immature ova from the living animal and to let them mature, fertilize and develop into embryos capable of transplantation outside the body.
(19) One developed recurrent dislocation of the shoulder.
(20) The planned development (october 1989) is also depicted.
Vestigial
Definition:
(a.) Of or pertaining to a vestige or remnant; like a vestige.
Example Sentences:
(1) We describe herein, a new unstable mutant of the vestigial locus, isolated from a French natural population.
(2) The ischiocavernosus and bulbospongiosus muscles are vestigial in the female rat.
(3) Anal transitional epithelium is not highly specialized and incorporates features of both urothelium and squamous epithelium; slight urothelial differentiation is considered vestigial.
(4) The 17-DOS, while a vestigial pathway, may still cause disease, and provide clues to central organization of the adreno-cortical response to injury, stress, and disease.
(5) This leg was connected with two sets of coxae by a irregular-shaped bone considered the vestigial vertebrae and ribs.
(6) Two cases of idiopathic soft tissue calcification occurring in the vestigial fingers of infants with congenital brachydactyly are reported.
(7) The DNA-containing nucleomorph of cryptomonad algae appears to be the vestigial nucleus of such an algal endosymbiont.
(8) The short cysteine-containing motif represented the only evidence of a possible vestigial relationship between SP-40,40 and other complement components.
(9) The protamine-mRNA-coding region is flanked by AACA... TGTT sequences, which might represent vestigial traces of past recombination events and whose presence supports the notion that the protamine gene sequence was of foreign origin.
(10) We present a cyst arising from vestigial thymic remnants in the neck.
(11) The dorsal ommatidia have only four full-length typical cells, and one distal and three vestigial full-length cells.
(12) This is in spite of the lack of flight ability in both mutants, the reduced enzyme activity levels in the alpha-glycerophosphate mutant, and in the case of the vestigial flies, of reduced life-span.
(13) A third type characterized by its vestigial callus was found only in histologic sections.
(14) One patient had a vestigial radial artery that ended as muscular branches in the forearm.
(15) Vestigial mutants however, present several alterations including the absence of the ovoid projection, a fact consistent with the existence of very few marginal bristles.
(16) These data, together with the sequence homologies and identical cofactors and substrates, led us to propose that the AHAS enzymes are descended from pyruvate oxidase (or a similar protein) and, thus, that the flavin requirement of the AHAS enzymes is a vestigial remnant, which may have been conserved to play a structural rather than a chemical function.
(17) Goats with dependent ear types were infested more commonly than those with erect ears; no goats with vestigial ears were found to harbor mites.
(18) The hypothesis predicts that if IL-3 is a significant in vivo regulator of megakaryocyte formation and development, receptor for IL-3 should be present on megakaryocytes and may be vestigially on platelets.
(19) Urogenital cysts are retroperitoneal or mesenteric cysts that are derived from vestigial remnants of the embryonic urogenital apparatus.
(20) The absence of the lower portion of the orbicularis oris muscle, the death of tissue in the infralabial region, as well as the presence of only a vestigial lower lip has hitherto not been reported in the literature.