(a.) Relating to the daytime; belonging to the period of daylight, distinguished from the night; -- opposed to nocturnal; as, diurnal heat; diurnal hours.
(a.) Daily; recurring every day; performed in a day; going through its changes in a day; constituting the measure of a day; as, a diurnal fever; a diurnal task; diurnal aberration, or diurnal parallax; the diurnal revolution of the earth.
(a.) Opening during the day, and closing at night; -- said of flowers or leaves.
(a.) Active by day; -- applied especially to the eagles and hawks among raptorial birds, and to butterflies (Diurna) among insects.
(a.) A daybook; a journal.
(a.) A small volume containing the daily service for the "little hours," viz., prime, tierce, sext, nones, vespers, and compline.
(a.) A diurnal bird or insect.
Example Sentences:
(1) Four of 18 patients showed no change over the twenty-four hours while 7 patients showed some variation without definite diurnal pattern.
(2) The amount of EB or progesterone injected seemed unimportant but, in either case, had to be given within a limited diurnal period of sensitivity.
(3) Seven days of constant light, however, reverses this diurnal variation such that plasma prolactin levels peak at 11:30 AM and reach a nadir at approximately 11:30 PM.
(4) Study of the clinical characteristics of depressive state by hemisphere stroke with the use of symptom items of Zung scale and Hamilton scale showed that patients in depressive state with right hemisphere stroke had high values in symptom items considered close to the essence of endogenous depression such as depressed mood, suicide, diurnal variation, loss of weight, and paranoid symptoms, while patients in depressive state with left hemisphere stroke had high values in symptom items having a nuance of so-called neurotic depression such as psychic anxiety, hypochondriasis, and fatigue.
(5) Intraocular pressure was investigated with multiple 12-hour diurnal curves.
(6) The purpose of this study was to examine the pattern of diurnal variation of blood pressure in normotensive working women, and to assess the effect of work stress on this pattern.
(7) In order to clarify the diurnal pattern of secretion of plasma immunoreactive (IR) proopiomelanocortin (POMC)-derived peptides, IR-N-terminal peptide (Nt), IR-beta-endorphin (Ep), IR-beta-lipotropin (LPH), and IR-ACTH (ACTH) in normal subjects and in patients with Addison's disease and Cushing's disease, we measured these 4 peptides in the same plasma obtained at 0900 h and then every three hours until 0600 h at the next day.
(8) When administered to adult patients with urge incontinence (generally as a 25mg twice-daily dose) terodiline reduces diurnal and nocturnal micturition frequency and incontinence episodes.
(9) These findings would suggest that hereditary progressive dystonia with marked diurnal fluctuation could show not only a diurnal fluctuation but also age-dependent changes of symptoms.
(10) The diurnal rhythms of sleep-wake activity, motor activity, and Tbr were not affected in rats.
(11) No IgE circadian rhythm was validated in healthy children while a large amplitude (approximately equal to 30% of the 24 hours mean) circadian rhythm with 2 diurnal peaks and a nocturnal trough was demonstrated (P less than 0.0023) in the asthmatics.
(12) The degree of change was comparable during the diurnal and nocturnal periods.
(13) A diurnal pattern, however, could not be shown in the corticosterone response to immobilization.
(14) In one rat studied 30 days after ocular enucleation the diurnal rhythm in synthesis persisted; however, relative to 4 days after enucleation the phase of the rhythm shifted about 90 degrees suggesting that light deprivation caused the rhythm to become free-running with a period slightly different from 24 h.
(15) It has a relatively short half-life, and large diurnal fluctuations in serum concentrations occur, thus making it difficult to define clear relationships between individual serum concentrations and either therapeutic or adverse effects.
(16) Vocalizations exhibited diurnal peaks of occurrence (0600-0800, 1600-1800 h).
(17) The syndrome of obstructive sleep apnoea is associated with an increased morbidity (the consequence of diurnal hypersomnolence and cardiovascular complications).
(18) 1) Diurnal patterns of the above-mentioned items were recorded, mutual relationships relationships between these items were revealed.
(19) Plasma and IL peptide levels were relatively constant during daylight hours (0600-1800 h), but increased after the onset of darkness and reached maximal concentrations at 0200 h. To examine the possibility that this diurnal rhythm in the content and secretion of POMC-derived peptides resulted from diurnal changes in the biosynthesis of POMC, the concentration and rate of synthesis of POMC mRNA were examined.
(20) The diurnal variation of [125I]iodomelatonin binding sites in the brain and serum melatonin levels were studied at 4-hour intervals under a 12 h:12 h light:dark cycle in 5-week-old chicks.
Muscovite
Definition:
(n.) A native or inhabitant of Muscovy or ancient Russia; hence, a Russian.
(n.) Common potash mica. See Mica.
Example Sentences:
(1) The marketing slogan was: “There are 1,000 reasons not to believe in independent television, but just 1,000 roubles will get it for you.” Now, the price has gone up, to 4,800 roubles per year, and the channel has around 60,000 subscribers, with Muscovites making up nearly 40% of that number.
(2) During that summer of 1956, Khrushchev's thaw blossomed and Muscovites relaxed a little more.
(3) It was a starry event that lured some of the biggest names in Hollywood along with a sprinkling of the Muscovite elite.
(4) "The president is minimising his meetings in the Kremlin and is preferring to hold them in Ogaryovo to avoid disturbing Muscovites," Peskov told the Interfax new agency.
(5) More than 1,000 protesters were detained across Russia on Monday after the opposition leader Alexei Navalny raised the stakes in his battle with the Kremlin by calling on Muscovites to gatecrash a historical re-enactment fair being held on the Russian capital’s central street.
(6) Hepatic and pulmonary granulomas were recognised in two workers exposed respectively to Portland cement and to muscovite dusts.
(7) Many Muscovites were happy enough to see a tough response to the band's irreverent act of rebellion, which was aimed at President Vladimir Putin .
(8) Luzhkov pledged to form a movement to fight for democracy in Russia – a declaration that amused Muscovites, who had grown used to allegations of corruption during Luzhkov's 18-year rule.
(9) One of the Demon’s men, a jovial Muscovite, gave us a number to call so we could tell his relatives where to find his body when he is killed.
(10) "They are seeking to deliberately provoke disorder, which would threaten the lives and security of Muscovites," Sergei Tsoi declared.
(11) Out: Alexander Borodai A Muscovite, Borodai wrote for the ultranationalist newspaper “Zavtra” with Strelkov and is believed to have close ties to Russia’s intelligence services .
(12) Stories of soldiers being sent to the front without the necessary weaponry and almost starving to death out in the vastness of the Sahara, a place as alien and distant to them as Siberia is to a Muscovite, had turned public opinion against him.
(13) The same year, however, he was ejected from the mainstream Our Ukraine faction after referring to the "Muscovite-Jewish mafia".
(14) The avid political debate that erupted among average Muscovites around Russia's presidential election has largely faded into the background.
(15) By x-ray diffraction analysis the majority of the mineral particulates were free crystalline quartz and muscovite, an aluminum silicate in the mica group of minerals.
(16) Just hours before his death he had appeared on a radio programme calling on Muscovites to come out and protest against the economic crisis and the war in Ukraine.
(17) Outside Moscow, picket-fenced dachas, the summer houses of the rich Muscovites, dotted the landscape before giving way to countryside and forest, thousands of miles before we reached Irkutsk in a journey that would take in big and small stations, all busy no matter the time of day or night.
(18) Electron and x-ray diffraction showed the silicates to be muscovite mica and its hydrothermal degradation product, ie, illite clay.
(19) On the morning of 20 August, Muscovites woke up to discover that the pinnacle of Kotelnicheskaya embankment, one of the legendary “Seven Sisters”, had been painted in Ukrainian blue and yellow.
(20) Last year Muscovites spent $5bn on luxury goods - $1bn more than New York.