(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.
Jenny
Definition:
(n.) A familiar or pet form of the proper name Jane.
(n.) A familiar name of the European wren.
(n.) A machine for spinning a number of threads at once, -- used in factories.
Example Sentences:
(1) I’m not in charge of it but he’s stood up and presented that, and when Jenny, you know, criticised it, or raised some issues about grandparent carers – 3,700 of them he calculated – he said “Let’s sit down”.
(2) Baroness Jenny Tonge, president of the European Parliamentary Forum on Population and Development (EPF), said the Cairo agreement was akin to a "Copernicus revolution".
(3) Jenny Jones, a Green party member of the London Assembly who has campaigned to make cycling safer, said she had spoken to the deputy head of the Met's traffic unit to express her worries about the operation.
(4) Jenny Lewis - Just One Of The Guys [Official Music Video] Oh boy!
(5) After more than a year together, Jenny felt that Bob had given her the right signals that he was interested in having children with her.
(6) Sands will be the second woman to edit the agenda-setting programme after Dame Jenny Abramsky, the chair of the Royal Academy of Music.
(7) Jenny Jones calls for IPCC to investigate alleged destruction of her police files Read more On Wednesday the IPCC also announced that it was examining claims that the same intelligence unit had improperly destroyed files it held on the Green party peer, Jenny Jones .
(8) So I wrote this everyday story about Jenny living with her father - and stepfather.
(9) According to Jenny, he argued that she should not waste her life on the run, constantly looking over her shoulder, and that she deserved better – a rewarding career and a family.
(10) Jenny Banks, climate and energy policy officer at WWF-UK, called on the British government to halt shale gas exploration.
(11) "A dear friend, and Sweden's foremost foreign correspondent, was gunned down in Kabul today," said Swedish columnist Jenny Nordberg.
(12) The US diet phenomenon Jenny Craig was bought by Swiss multinational Nestlé, which also sells chocolate and ice-cream.
(13) Experimental work has established that a sexual process can occur in African trypanosomes (Jenni, Marti, Schweizer, Betschart, Le Page, Wells, Tait, Paindavoine, Pays & Steinert, 1986; Paindavoine, Zampetti-Bosseler, Pays, Schweizer, Guyaux, Jenni & Steinert, 1986; Tait, personal communication).
(14) Jenny Peachey is a policy officer for Carnegie UK Trust • Want your say?
(15) The BBC has cast the 26-year-old stage actress Jessica Raine in the lead role of Jenny in the new six-part series.
(16) Team GB Britain’s Jenny Jones starts with a score of 73.00 in her first run.
(17) The Sochi Games have proved a big hit for BBC2 , beating ITV in the ratings for two days running over the weekend, but viewers were unhappy about the coverage of Jenny Jones's Olympic bronze medal success in the snowboarding slopestyle final on Sunday.
(18) Jennie Gray was sentenced to 42 months in jail for child cruelty and for her part in the cover-up, while Butler was also handed a five-year sentence for child cruelty over a series of untreated injuries in the weeks and months before her death.
(19) Jenny Agutter, actor I was reluctant to accept the role of Roberta because I'd played her two years earlier in a BBC series, and had since left school.
(20) Several years ago Wellingborough and surrounding towns resisted the local development agency's bid to rebrand it North Londonshire but local estate agent Jenny Pendered said she made the most of its good transport links when marketing properties.