(v. i.) To cease to appear or to be perceived; to pass from view, gradually or suddenly; to vanish; to be no longer seen; as, darkness disappears at the approach of light; a ship disappears as she sails from port.
(v. i.) To cease to be or exist; as, the epidemic has disappeared.
Example Sentences:
(1) Tryptic digestion of the membranes caused complete disappearance of the binding activity, but heat-treatment for 5 min at 70 degrees C caused only 40% loss of activity.
(2) For male schizophrenics, all symptom differences disappeared except one; blacks were more frequently asocial.
(3) In early 2000, during the first months of Vladimir Putin’s presidency, Babitsky was kidnapped by Russian forces and disappeared for many weeks.
(4) A disease in an IgD (lambda) plasmocytoma is described, where after therapy with Alkeran and prednisone a disappearance of all clinical and laboratory findings indicating an activity could be observed.
(5) However, this predictive value disappeared when five baseline parameters found to predict the outcome (neopterin, beta 2-microglobulin, p24 antigen, anti-p18 antibody and immunoglobulin A) were adjusted.
(6) External phonocardiography performed at the time of cardiac catheterization revealed that this loud midsystolic click disappeared whenever a catheter was positioned across the mitral valve.
(7) (ii) A progressive disappearance of the immunoreactive hypendymal cells.
(8) The disappearance of the herbicide, Avadex (40% diallate), from five agricultural soils (differing in either pH, carbon content, or nitrogen content), incubated under sterile and non-sterile conditions, was followed for a period of 20 weeks.
(9) There was a highly significant relationship between the two tests, r = 0.88, P less than 0.001, although the uptake method gave consistently higher results than those obtained from plasma disappearance.
(10) Label was found widely distributed among all the organs except the nervous system and its rate of disappearance from the tissues paralleled its disappearance from the circulation.
(11) Transient intermediates were distinguished from dead-end metabolites by the rapid formation and disappearance of the former.
(12) There is no convincing evidence that immunosuppression is effective, also because the natural history of the disease is characterised by a spontaneous disappearance of the factor VIII-C inhibitor.
(13) In one case an infection of the axillary region developed, which disappeared after removal of the catheter without any consequences.
(14) 3 patients had complete disappearance of the symptoms but did not have a computed tomography scanning control, 3 patients had clinical and CT recovery.
(15) Radiographic examination revealed that three of the cysts had increased is size, three had decreased in size, three had not changed in size, and two had disappeared; no evaluation could be made on two.
(16) The disappearance of ribosomes in Escherichia coli cells starved for a carbon source was studied.
(17) In this paper the domain of validity of the unlabelled and labelled minimal models of glucose disappearance is studied.
(18) They disappear after Leydig cell depletion induced by ethanedimethane sulphonate (EDS) and return after testosterone treatment.
(19) Hepatic glucose production increased only transiently and there was no significant change in glucose disappearance or plasma glucose concentrations.
(20) The disappearance of the bruit was associated with poor renal function.
Wend
Definition:
() p. p. of Wene.
(v. i.) To go; to pass; to betake one's self.
(v. i.) To turn round.
(v. t.) To direct; to betake; -- used chiefly in the phrase to wend one's way. Also used reflexively.
(n.) A large extent of ground; a perambulation; a circuit.
Example Sentences:
(1) Yet the 38-year old former State Department official has raised a Snowden-like alarm that Americans' communication data remains highly vulnerable to surreptitious collection by the National Security Agency – and will remain vulnerable despite the legislative fixes wending through Congress to redress the bulk domestic phone data collection Snowden revealed.
(2) The government's vocabulary seemed to consciously echo the reunification process, with Merkel heralding an "Energie-Wende" – "die Wende" is the word for change which became shorthand for the fall of communism and reunification.
(3) Conversely, lines such as "Forthi, iwysse, bi zowre wylle, wende me bihoues" are incomprehensible to the general reader.
(4) The mighty Chao Phraya river, which wends through the city, is predicted to break its banks over the weekend when coastal tides swell its volume, threatening to inundate central areas.
(5) Indeed, another word that is frequently popping up in civil discourse these days is Wende : “turning point”.
(6) President Xi, like his predecessor Hu Jintao, speaks often about the Confucian virtues of harmony ( hexie ) and stability ( wending ).
(7) The sand here is powdery, so if you've brought buckets, wend your way across the maze of saltings and shallow lagoons towards the sea.
(8) This article investigates causes of death between 1854 and 1884 among the Wends of Serbin, Texas, a nineteenth-century European immigrant community.
(9) When I viewed the flat post-Wende, it had been empty for five years and had simply been forgotten about in the chaos.
(10) And it is also taking a painfully long time to wend its way through the legislative process.
(11) The discard ban is just one element of the new CFP, which has been wending its way through the corridors of Brussels for more than two years.
(12) The issue is now likely to wend its way back up the legal system until it reaches the US supreme court once again for an ultimate decision.
(13) In an online poll of doctors, 1,900 out of 2,600 respondents said it was appropriate to pull the legislation even as it wends its way through the House of Lords.