(a.) Inclined to defer or put off what ought to be done at once; given the procrastination; delaying; procrastinating; loitering; as, a dilatory servant.
(a.) Marked by procrastination or delay; tardy; slow; sluggish; -- said of actions or measures.
Example Sentences:
(1) Alpha-receptor blockade did not change the response, while stimulation of these receptors decreased the dilatory response even in deep arterial hypoxia.
(2) The CO2 responsiveness (cerebrovascular dilatory response to increased PaCO2) at the control stage was not altered after the ganglionic blockade.
(3) The intermediate results, average (13.6%) and the bad results (3.6%) both show the same inducing factors: past history of localized dilatory manipulations, infected areas but mostly defective application of management techniques.
(4) During the superimposed stress of exercise coronary flow and myocardial oxygen consumption increased further, so that the dilatory capacity of the coronaries was exhausted at hematocrit levels between 16 and 22%.
(5) Chemical removal of the endothelium with saponin was shown to lead to abnormal coronary reactivity, eliminate dilatory and give rise to constrictive responses to ATP, acetylcholine, histamine.
(6) Intracoronary adenosine as well as the adenine nucleotides (ATP, ADP, AMP, beta, gamma-methylene-ATP, diadenosine-tetraphosphate, and polyadenylic acid) do not elicit their dilatory effects directly at the smooth muscle cells of the resistance vessel wall, but indirectly, via the endothelium.
(7) Blockade of alpha-adrenoreceptors with dihydroergotoxin makes noradrenaline to elicit dilatory responses only, their magnitude depending on the initial level of venous pressure: more obvious responses at 10-15 mm Hg, less obvious those - at 0 and 25 mm Hg.
(8) It induces a gut dilatory response and increases the levels of blood glucose, serum alkaline phosphatase and serum acid phosphatase in rabbits.
(9) The dilatory capacity of the coronary vessels, estimated from the reactive hyperemia after a 12 sec occlusion of the left circumflex coronary artery, dropped from 602% at control to 45% at lowest hematocrit levels.
(10) In dilated cardiomyopathy, there were dilatory manifestations in the coronary arteries and vessels of microcirculation along with increased volumetric density of ventricular vascularization.
(11) These results suggest the presence of H3-histaminergic dilatory receptors in the guinea pig airway.
(12) It was shown that, against the background of constrictory responses of the resistance vessels in these organs, both the constrictory and the dilatory responses of the capicitance vessels could occur or not.
(13) Based upon these observations, it is suggested that comprehensive radiographic evaluation of traumatic hematuria or suspected occult urological trauma unnecessarily may be expensive and dilatory, and that evaluation may be limited routinely to the area of maximum injury.
(14) Lowering of the Mg2+ concentration to 0.8 mM or total withdrawal of this ion from the medium failed to alter the dilatory potency of acetylcholine.
(15) This low value was not the result of a limited coronary dilatory capacity, of inadequate state of exercise training, or of a relative underperfusion of the inner layers of the left ventricle.
(16) Turkey poults grown in a hypobaric chamber at an atmospheric pressure of 592 mmHg (calculated partial pressure of oxygen: 124 mmHg; calculated altitude and O2 equivalents: 2054 m and 16.3%) on a rapid-growth diet developed a mainly right ventricular dilatory cardiomyopathy typical of the acute form of spontaneous turkey cardiomyopathy (STC).
(17) It is concluded that the functional polarity of the vascular wall of these arteries in response to alpha 2-agonists results from the release of a dilatory signal from the endothelial cells, counteracting the direct contractile activation of the adjacent smooth muscle cells by the agonists.
(18) Data on the endocrine heart--neurosecretory cells of heart, producing coronary-dilatory, metabolically active glycopeptides with physico-chemical and biological properties similar to those of previously discovered cardioactive hypothalamic neurohormones--are summarized.
(19) Noradrenalin was shown to elicit either constrictory or dilatory responses depending on the initial level of venous pressure (10-15 mm Hg or 0 and 25 mm Hg) in the capacitance vessels of the cat small intestine.
(20) In response to contractile and endothelium-dependent dilatory agonists, Mg2+ probably affects both the calcium influx into the endothelial and smooth muscle cells as well as the binding of acetylcholine to its endothelial receptor.
Punctilious
Definition:
(a.) Attentive to punctilio; very nice or exact in the forms of behavior, etiquette, or mutual intercourse; precise; exact in the smallest particulars.
Example Sentences:
(1) It is a sorry reminder that physical evidence must be closeted with care and punctiliously marked for later courtroom uses.
(2) The attorney general, George Brandis, sprang to the defence of Heydon, saying the commissioner had an “absolutely stainless reputation for punctilious integrity” and his withdrawal from the event should be the end of the matter.
(3) John Prescott's department published an annual Opportunities for All report that punctiliously monitored these social targets: 48 out of 59 indicators improved.
(4) Young love; pageantry delivered punctiliously; and old love, too.
(5) All he can do – if, as he appears to, he shares the shock of other national leaders – is to join international efforts to establish what happened, even if the results may be unwelcome, and show a punctilious regard for due process.
(6) But France, too, must be punctilious about observing all judicial proprieties.
(7) Experts think authorities are likely to be punctilious in complying with legal requirements given the close scrutiny.
(8) Good-hearted, apparently punctilious people show bias without realising it and may well be taken back or affronted if anyone suggests they have acted unfairly.
(9) Photograph: Frank Martin It’s the same sense of fairness that means that, sometimes in the cracks, while writing about other things, he takes time to punctiliously acknowledge his influences – Alan Coren , for example, who pioneered so many of the techniques of short humour that Terry and I have filched over the years; or the glorious, overstuffed, heady thing that is Brewer’s Dictionary of Phrase and Fable and its compiler, t he Rev E Cobham Brewer , that most serendipitious of authors.
(10) Brandis disputed the description of the event as a fundraiser, saying Heydon had an “absolutely stainless reputation for punctilious integrity” and his withdrawal should be the end of the matter.
(11) Brandis defended Heydon in typically florid terms on Thursday: “He has an absolutely stainless reputation for punctilious integrity.” Yet this was the same man who, in what is regarded as his job application speech at a Quadrant dinner for Mary Gaudron’s vacancy, rather nastily attacked Sir Anthony Mason and the high court under his chief justiceship.
(12) Two obligatory conditions of effective surgery are emphasized: punctilious performance of all the particulars of the operation and postoperative cytostatic therapy.
(13) "Well, Andrew," he says, in that punctiliously courteous way Americans have of employing your name as if it's an honorific, "right at the moment, I'm chief justice of the Nevada Supreme Court."
(14) But the government has defended both the commission and the commissioner, with the attorney general, George Brandis, saying Heydon had an “absolutely stainless reputation for punctilious integrity” and his withdrawal from the event should be the end of the matter.