(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.
Nat
Definition:
(adv.) Not.
() Not at; nor at.
Example Sentences:
(1) Only NAT activity exhibited daily changes, rising at the onset of darkness and resuming low values shortly before the end of the scotophase.
(2) Most of the money, says WDM, was used to buy shares in Bumi , the troubled London-listed firm co-founded by financier Nat Rothschild that owns large stakes in some of the biggest mining projects in East Kalimantan.
(3) This arylamine NAT acetylates p-aminobenzoic acid thereby demonstrating a monomorphic pattern of acetylation.
(4) In addition, the two enantiomers of D600 also inhibit NAT induction, the D-form slightly more effectively than the L-form.
(5) The ratio of paraoxon insensitive AHAT to OAT to NAT of PABA to NAT of 2-AF appears to be 1:2:11:22 using freshly made cytosols from frozen livers.
(6) The substrate specificity of NAT correlated well with the substrate range of the acetyltransferase in S. noursei and Tn1825-determined streptothricin resistance in Gram-negative bacteria.
(7) Incubation conditions that activate cyclic AMP-dependent protein kinase in retinal homogenates had no effect on NAT activity, suggesting that direct phosphorylation of NAT was probably not involved in the response to elevating cyclic AMP in situ.
(8) It was an accident when the Nats won an overall majority in the 2011 teeth of recession.
(9) Increasingly, you can discern a more minor-key debate among some Nats.
(10) NAT activity was detectable in the cultures under all conditions studied, and was markedly increased by drugs that increase intracellular cyclic AMP levels and cyclic AMP-dependent protein kinase activity: 8-bromocyclic AMP, forskolin, and 3-isobutyl-1-methylxanthine (IBMX).
(11) In contrast, levels of isoniazid N-acetyltransferase and N-hydroxy-3,2'-dimethyl-4-aminobiphenyl O-acetyltransferase activities in mouse liver cytosol appeared to be independent of the arylamine Nat acetylator gene.
(12) There was a decision to preference a new entrant into the WA political field, an Australian Aboriginal, who happens to be a member of the National Party, and to symbolically, I suppose, display him in the preference list … Where possible, where we see shining stars in individual parties, like Scott, or this guy from the Nats, we should individually preference them higher.
(13) NAT activity was significantly depressed on experimental days 1, 3 and 5, and slightly depressed on day 7.
(14) One part was used to estimate serotonin N-acetyltransferase (NAT) activity.
(15) The activity of 3 enzymes related to the bioactivation of toxic compounds and the development of cancer--cytochrome P450 IA2, N-acetyl transferase (NAT), and xanthine oxidase (XO)--can be measured from the ratios of formed metabolites excreted into urine.
(16) The activity of total MAO was about 10 times greater than that of NAT.
(17) Noradrenergic inhibition of 3-isobutyl-1-methylxanthine-augmented cAMP levels and NAT activity was reversed by yohimbine (an alpha 2-adrenergic antagonist) but not by prazosin (an alpha 1-adrenergic antagonist).
(18) A genetic polymorphism of human liver arylamine N-acetyltransferase (NAT; EC 2.3.1.5) enzyme activity divides populations into distinguishable "slow acetylator" and "rapid acetylator" phenotypes.
(19) After an 8-h advance of the LD cycle by shortening of one dark period, the NAT rhythm adjusted to the advance shift within 5 cycles only; during the first 2-3 cycles the rhythm was abolished.
(20) 41 patients with different AV stages were studied with the quantitative NAT test.