(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.
Geordie
Definition:
(n.) A name given by miners to George Stephenson's safety lamp.
Example Sentences:
(1) Shortly afterwards normal service was very briefly resumed when, with Cardiff overcommitted to attack, a customary roar greeted Newcastle's third goal, a header from the popular, Geordie-reared substitute Steven Taylor.
(2) Alexander Lebedev's son Evgeny is the chairman of Independent Print, the holding company set up to buy the Independent titles, and its directors also include the editor of the Standard, Geordie Greig, who is the Lebedevs' UK consigliere.
(3) Geordie Greig, the Evening Standard editor, also denied that Sawiris was involved in the talks.
(4) The London Evening Standard distributed 850,000 free copies yesterday, 200,000 more than planned, as part of a promotion to mark a relaunch of the paper under new editor Geordie Greig and owner Alexander Lebedev.
(5) In a word: Hollyoaks has become Geordie Shore and The Only Way Is Essex – as unreal as its purported reality show counterparts.
(6) Lebedev's philanthropic interests also extend to Britain, where he is friends with Geordie Greig, editor of Tatler, and other members of Britain's aristo-celebocracy.
(7) The first tranche of redundancies are expected "within weeks rather than months" after the new editor, Geordie Greig, and management have had time to make assessments and plan for the future.
(8) Liverpool also want Aston Villa's purveyor of wayward crosses Ashley Young and will obviously need a muscular, ponytail-sporting Geordie to get on the end of them; step forward £30m-rated Newcastle United No9 Andy Carroll .
(9) However, new Evening Standard editor Geordie Greig subsequently revealed he paid considerably more but declined to name the price.
(10) And all Geordie hope was extinguished when Krul beat away his shot only to be punished by Adebayor's stunning half-volley.
(11) When asked to define his nationality, Plater's stock response was: "Geordie by birth, Yorkshire by upbringing and now a metropolitan sophisticate."
(12) Horse & Hound was down 6.4% year on year to 61,445 in the second half of 2008, while Tatler, which has just replaced the London Evening Standard-bound editor Geordie Greig with Catherine Ostler, was down 4.9% to 86,107.
(13) That said, the MoS editor, Geordie Greig, has a good record on helping the poor.
(14) "When the new editor [Geordie Greig] came in I went to talk to him about it and decided to stop."
(15) Evening Standard editor Geordie Greig is an enthusiastic proponent of the free model after taking the London paper free.
(16) Tatler editor Geordie Greig, a former Sunday Times journalist, had been lined up for the editorship of the paper, although he may be appointed to a more senior editorial role.
(17) The Children's Society Facebook Twitter Pinterest Last year The Children's Society ran Geordie Magic , which saw a team of magicians engage with members of the public in a street fundraising campaign.
(18) I'm inclined to think it's the former but lot of fans assuming he's just behaving badly," writes depressed Geordie Oliver Lewis.
(19) The tycoon insists he has a "hands off" relationship with both titles, leaving their day-to-day management to their respective editors, Dmitry Muratov and Geordie Greig.
(20) "When we went four goals down I thought the house might come down, but in the end we sent 51,000 Geordies home relatively happy.