(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.
Patsy
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) • Patsy Byrne, actor, born 13 July 1933; died 17 June 2014
(2) Then, in 1963, driving to attend a memorial service for Patsy Cline, Hawkshaw Hawkins and Cowboy Copas, country stars who had died in a plane crash, Anglin was killed in a car accident.
(3) They then swung across to Louisiana, where they gunned down convenience-store cashier Patsy Byers, paralysing her from the neck down.
(4) The visiting captain left his best to the closing moments of the half when a juggling act left Leon Osman and Sylvain Distin the patsies in a move that finished with Lallana's volley missing by inches.
(5) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Bowie with, Patsy Kensit and Eddie O’Connell in Absolute Beginners in 1986.
(6) The use of a potential proxy to drive a bomb to a security force base will bring back memories in Derry of the 1990 murder of Catholic contractor Patsy Gillespie.
(7) Speaking to BBC Radio 5 Live earlier today, Yentob added: "If you're negotiating with someone else as well you feel a bit of a patsy if you're sitting down so we stopped and said, 'Do you want to come?'
(8) But I remembered something: in the late 80s, Patsy and I were at a very, very glamorous evening in Hollywood to celebrate a very, very important Hollywood star, and you were the emcee for the evening.
(9) Tim Jonze When You Need a Laugh – Patsy Cline Songs I've heard at dawn return to make me cry in daylight, however saccharine and bloated ( Kelly Clarkson's Because of You , please be kind).
(10) Patsy Baker, a partner from Bell Pottinger is also listed on the documents as sitting on another table.
(11) Jürgen Klopp’s Liverpool overpowered Manchester City with intensity | Michael Cox Read more This victory over City was a triumph for Klopp’s gegenpressing ethos – the quick switch from attack to a high press – as City were cast as hapless patsies who made countless errors and gave up possession cheaply.
(12) Perhaps his violent obsession with blondes had its roots in an incident at the age of 12, when his blonde girlfriend Patsy Morris, 14, was found strangled on Hounslow Heath.
(13) Meanwhile Alderman, when he succeeded Wardle at the SFO, insisted he was no patsy.
(14) Patsy Bivins, 68, a retired waitress from Sturgiss, Kentucky, is one of hundreds or even thousands who have been warned to look out for the tell-tale symptoms of a splitting headache, fever, stiff neck, difficulty walking or worsening back pain.
(15) While there are many holes in Pyne’s denial and the uncomfortably eroding rebuttal from Abbott, there were just as many questions left unanswered by the relatively patsy interview on 60 Minutes.
(16) LP: Last autumn, I worked with Unicef and Patsy and I were in Hanoi for the first time.
(17) His refusal to sign a petition calling for the release of the imprisoned Nobel peace prize winner Liu Xiaobo led to him being dismissed by Salman Rushdie as a "patsy of the regime" , while his fellow Nobel laureate Herta Müller called his win " a slap in the face for all those working for democracy and human rights ".
(18) The new attorney general, appointed in controversial circumstances last December, is seen by the opposition as a Brotherhood patsy.
(19) Clegg had been prepared for attacks by Labour that he has turned into a Tory patsy, but he is insistent he has ensured the budget has not followed the path of most previous fiscal consolidations by hitting the poor hardest.
(20) There had been female singers in country music before – the indefatigably yodelling Patsy Montana; Molly O'Day, all gingham and tears; the regal Sara Carter – but they always required the presence of male protectors: singing husbands or an all-male backing band.