(a.) Expressing diminution; as, a diminutive word.
(a.) Tending to diminish.
(n.) Something of very small size or value; an insignificant thing.
(n.) A derivative from a noun, denoting a small or a young object of the same kind with that denoted by the primitive; as, gosling, eaglet, lambkin.
Example Sentences:
(1) Age, histological type, number or location of the index diminutive polyps, were not associated with proximal lesions.
(2) The rate of removal of exogenous PGE2 in the hind limb circulation was not influenced by HC, suggesting that the diminution of PG release by HC results from the suppression of PG generation rather than from the enhancement of degradation.
(3) Incubation of freshly isolated rat hepatocytes with highly purified radiolabeled rat transferrin in weakly buffered medium in the presence of 10 mM ethanol resulted in a marked diminution of iron uptake by these cells, associated with a greater pH depression than in ethanol-free control studies.
(4) The effect was more pronounced in those patients with a greater basal excretion of THP and in those with a more significant diminution of their bone mass.
(5) After intact, cycling female mice received subcutaneous injections of antipain and leupeptin for 16 days, their uteri showed significant diminution in weight and total DNA when compared to untreated controls.
(6) The fibrosis of the gastric wall with motility disturbances, and the diminution of acid and pepsin production from damage to the glandular elements, would weigh against the addition of a vagotomy to the drainage procedure.
(7) The content of membrane lipids also diminished continuously up to 90 years of age, when a marked diminution in level of gangliosides and cerebrosides occurred, a result indicating a rapid reduction in amount of neuronal membranes and myelin.
(8) The tonic influences were expressed in an increase in the amplitude parameters of the responses of the visual cortex in conditions of the formation in the posterolateral nucleus of the thalamus of a focus of heightened excitability (anode polarization), and their perceptible diminution with potassium depression in this nucleus.
(9) Large loads of aspartate cause 20% diminution of glutathione in outer cortex, due entirely to changes in proximal tubule segments.
(10) Rabbits immunized with the flagella developed an immune response to the flagella but showed no statistically significant prolongation of incubation time or diminution of lesion severity when challenged intradermally with 4 X 10(3) Treponema pallidum organisms.
(11) Major changes include an early diminution in myofibrillar density, accompanied by a small reduction in mitochondrial density.
(12) Simultaneous treatment with both drugs resulted in a decrease in the quantity of immune complexes and a diminution of the migration inhibition.
(13) The results presented in this report suggest that the diminution of interphase cytoplasmic microtubules in tumor cells is probably due to the deficiency of microtubule organizing mechanism in interphase tumor cells.
(14) Animals irradiated with 1 Gy showed no diminution in plasma and ileal DAO activities through Day 13 relative to nonirradiated controls.
(15) Response to reimmunization was characterized by a significant acceleration and diminution of skin response, but not to the degree seen in an equivalent group who had received their primary immunization percutaneously.
(16) During the operation and the postoperative period various hemorheological and hemostasiological alterations acquire clinical significance: 1. hyperreagibility of platelets with increased aggregation and adhesion tendency 2. changes in fibrinogen, albumin, and globulin concentrations, which affect viscosity and red cell aggregation 3. impairment of red cell deformability 4. increase in clotting factors 5. disturbance of fibrinolysis characterized by diminution of plasmatic plasmin and increase in antiplasmin activity In addition, anesthetic techniques have also been shown to affect hemorheological and hemostasiological parameters.
(17) In dilute solution this is indeed observed, and the diminution in tetramer concentration when 30% of normal spectrin is replaced by alpha beta' dimers, amounts to only a small proportion.
(18) In contrast to acidosis induced in vivo, mitochondria from normal rats subjected to a diminution in medium pH, either by manipulation of HCO3 concentration or PCO2, significantly decrease NH3 production.
(19) All individuals manifested a marked diminution of CD4+ cells.
(20) Flow cytometric determination of DNA content in R3327AT-3 cells treated in vitro indicated a selective diminution of cells in the G2 and M phases of the cell cycle.
Flo
Definition:
(n.) An arrow.
Example Sentences:
(1) The latter association was sensitive to a non-ionic detergent ('Photo flo').
(2) Dial-A-Flo has no advantage over a standard administration set alone, and should not be used for controlled administration of cardiac drugs.
(3) Samples are extracted with acidic chloroform, filtered through pre-acidified Hy-Flo Supercel, and cleaned up by acid-base partitioning.
(5) Which basically describes every Flo Rida song ever.
(6) When patients or carers are asked what they like about Flo, they describe feeling more confident about their condition, having a "friend", feeling more supported in improving their health, and feeling that the NHS cares about them.
(7) The holographic wall will alternate between showing graphics including "Flo", the three-way swingometer, a 3D House of Commons, a battleground of key seats, and a special "hung parliament" graphic.
(8) In contrast, bradykinin (BK) increased FLO in all species, decreased CON in rats, increased CON in guinea-pigs and had no effect on CON in rabbits.
(9) Most FLO 1 type strains are constitutive, expressing flocculation throughout growth, whereas, NewFLO strains are completely repressed by the presence of excess ammonium ions.
(10) The nature of the N-piperidine substituent is critical for activity, with the ideal fLo value at approximately 2.40.
(11) The drip-rate accuracy of the roller clamp, Dial-A-Flo, and Exacdrop devices was significantly affected when subjects changed positions.
(12) The low ICP was corrected by insertion of a high-pressure Flo-Control valve into the shunt system already in place.
(13) Slowing of mucus transport in the bronchi occurs after suctioning with suction catheters; a newly designed suction catheter tip, the Aero-Flo, displays less adverse effects on mucus velocity than standard end hold and side hole catheters.
(14) The relative sensitivities of the indirect immunobead test, the indirect flo cytometric immunofluorescence assay, and an indirect radiolabeled antiglobulin assay were compared.
(15) The devices tested were the Dial-A-Flo (DAF), Stat Master (SM), CorrectFlo (CFLO), and Arm-A-Flow (AAF).
(16) Mic and Flo are in a simple guesthouse that trains orphans to be chefs and waiters.
(17) Sarah Worrall and Flo Betts, whose Citizens Advice bureau serves Ladywood, will be out of work next month after the service lost £600,000 in council funding.
(18) As a result of this misguided strategy the investigator withheld critical information from the coroner, IPCC, FLO, pathologist and, most importantly, the family.
(19) We selected a group of 27 patients from our programme of periodic hemodialysis who spend 18 h each week in three sessions with an RSP Travenol artificial kidney, using Ultra Flo II as the dialytic unit.
(20) There are advertisers who are daring to talk frankly about tampons and sanitary hygiene ( this Hello Flo ad is one of my favourites, though I won’t encourage the use of commercial tampons until manufacturers tell us what’s in them ).