(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.
Huge
Definition:
(superl.) Very large; enormous; immense; excessive; -- used esp. of material bulk, but often of qualities, extent, etc.; as, a huge ox; a huge space; a huge difference.
Example Sentences:
(1) Handing Greater Manchester’s £6bn health and social care budget over to the city’s combined authority is the most exciting experiment in local government and the health service in decades – but the risks are huge.
(2) The Pan American Health Organization, the Americas arm of the World Health Organization, estimated the deaths from Tuesday's magnitude 7 quake at between 50,000 and 100,000, but said that was a "huge guess".
(3) Even if it were not the case that police use a variety of tricks to keep recorded crime figures low, this data would still represent an almost meaningless measure of the extent of crime in society, for the simple reason that a huge proportion of crimes (of almost all sorts) have always gone unreported.
(4) To many he was a rockstar, to me he was simply 'Dad', and I loved him hugely.
(5) The matter is now in the hands of the Guernsey police and the law officers.” One resident who is a constant target of the paper and has complained to police, Rosie Guille, said the allegations had a “huge impact on morale” on the island.
(6) "We have peace in Sierra Leone now, and Tony Blair made a huge contribution to that," said Warrant Officer Abu Bakerr Kamara.
(7) The size of Florida makes the kind of face-to-face politics of the earlier contests impossible, requiring instead huge ad spending.
(8) To augment the in vitro expansion of LAK cells, we added highly purified human recombinant interleukin-2, phytohemagglutinin and accessory cells (Uc cells) to the LAK culture system, with which huge number of LAK cells (LAK-L) were generated from originally small number of peripheral blood lymphocytes of cancer patients.
(9) The difference in Brazil will be the huge distances involved, with the crazy decision not to host the group stages in geographical clusters leading to logistical and planning nightmares.
(10) We are in the middle of the third year of huge cuts in acute hospitals' budgets," said Porter.
(11) While there has been almost no political reform during their terms of office, there have been several ambitious steps forward in terms of environmental policy: anti-desertification campaigns; tree planting; an environmental transparency law; adoption of carbon targets; eco-services compensation; eco accounting; caps on water; lower economic growth targets; the 12th Five-Year Plan; debate and increased monitoring of PM2.5 [fine particulate matter] and huge investments in eco-cities, "clean car" manufacturing, public transport, energy-saving devices and renewable technology.
(12) But it is a huge logistical problem – unique in the world.
(13) It may not point to independence – nor, given that large swaths of Wales remain firmly dominated by Labour, mean any huge advance for Plaid Cymru.
(14) Half a million homes were sold in Scotland, we lost a huge, huge chunk of stock, and as house prices began to escalate so any asset to the community has gone.
(15) There must also be strict rules in place to reduce the risks they take with shareholders' funds.Yet the huge cost of increasing capital and liquidity is forgotten when the Treasury urges them to increase lending to small and medium businesses.
(16) Toxicity has been reported in the fetus of a woman ingesting a huge overdose of digitoxin; the same result would be anticipated with digoxin poisoning.
(17) All became highly managed, "domesticated" landscapes that demanded a huge input of labour to build and maintain.
(18) Fine, but the most important new political fact is the unprecedented wave of support that has latched on to Corbyn: the hundreds of thousands who joined Labour, the thumping majority that handed him the leadership, the huge sections of the country that have tuned out of Westminster droid-talk.
(19) Calum MacLean, Grangemouth Petrochemicals chairman, says, “This is a hugely sad day for everyone at Grangemouth.
(20) I’m so happy to be joining Arsenal, a club which has a great manager, a fantastic squad of players, huge support around the world and a great stadium in London,” said Sánchez.