(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.
Missy
Definition:
(n.) See Misy.
(n.) An affectionate, or contemptuous, form of miss; a young girl; a miss.
(a.) Like a miss, or girl.
Example Sentences:
(1) Nan had gone away for a weekend Prayathon and Mack had taken Katie and Missy to a shack in Oregon.
(2) Although MIA recently commissioned Bad Girls remixes featuring Azealia Banks and Missy Elliott, the new record will have "no collabs".
(3) Guitarist Donna Matthews left the band after she told frontwoman Justine Frischmann she wanted the new album to sound like Missy Elliott.
(4) The story of Missy's disappearance had been all too familiar to anyone who read second-rate thrillers about serial killers.
(5) You won’t find any swing or crooning standards here: just Missy, Kanye, Biggie and Foxy, while some rather good MCs-in-training keep pace on the stage.
(6) Irvine Welsh, John Waters, Chris Rock, Aidan Moffat, Missy Elliott –sometimes a radio edit just won’t do.
(7) "And I know where to find Missy's body," Mack laughed.
(8) During a tour of the White House, the pair were also joined by the rapper Missy Elliott for a rendition of This is For My Girls and later Elliott’s hit Get Ur Freak On.
(9) As well as the return of the Daleks, this season will bring back John Simm in his role as the doctor’s nemesis The Master, while Michelle Gomez will also be reprising her role as Missy.
(10) The two drove around the White House driveway while they sang Beyoncé and rapped with Missy Elliot, who made a cameo.
(11) But I also like JME and Fat White Family and Bobbie Gentry and Sly Stone and Missy Elliott and some of the strange Appalachian folk music that S plays me from time to time.
(12) Justice Lex Lasry will speak at the Federation Square event and Missy Higgins will perform music.
(13) While SS15 moved through dogtooth print and double-breasted coats, this collection - with soundtrack of Missy Elliot and The Cure turned up loud - fell to streetwear.
(14) In correspondence, Clinton calls her friend “Missy Diane”, and signs Christmas cards to her from the White House “From Potus and Flotus”.
(15) I played drums, but you can’t write a song just to drums.” Brown was the first Spice Girl to record a solo record, and an impressive one it was, too – I Want You Back , featuring hip-hop star Missy Elliott .
(16) Missy Elliot does a guest rap on This Is For My Girls and she popped up in the back seat to deliver her verse, then joined Corden and Obama on Get Ur Freak On, a song whose lyrics didn’t seem to phase Michelle one bit.
(17) But when they reached the shore, Missy was nowhere to be seen.
(18) She is seventh in the world rankings Key rival Missy Franklin, another event where the American leads the world Medal prediction Finalist Liam Tancock 100m backstroke Over one length of the pool, Tancock is all but unbeatable.
(19) And since you've been such a good man, I'll show you where Missy is buried."
(20) Shortly after the summer that Missy vanished, The Great Sadness had draped around Mack's shoulders like an invisible cliche.