(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.
Sunset
Definition:
(n.) Alt. of Sunsetting
Example Sentences:
(1) Each moment was scripted, from the placement of his riding boots in the stirrups of the riderless black horse that accompanied his procession through Washington, to tonight’s burial at sunset back in California.
(2) Thorbjørn Jagland, the secretary general of the Council of Europe, raised concerns about the sunset clause.
(3) darlingi from Costa Marques had a bimodal biting activity profile with a major peak at sunset and a minor peak at sunrise.
(4) Held on the nineteenth floor of Broadgate Tower in the city, complete with panoramic views and a stunning sunset, this show delivered a wardrobe of polished separates, slick tailoring and chic dresses.
(5) The entry pattern was more uniform than the exit which showed two distinct peaks around sunset and after midnight.
(6) The speedboat drivers pay close attention to the water conditions on the strait and try to approach the Iranian coast just after sunset.
(7) And, as was the case with almost every other director in Less Than Meets The Eye, Wilder did knock out a few classics; to my count, four: Double Indemnity, Sunset Boulevard, Some Like It Hot and the just re-released The Apartment .
(8) Reflecting on the possibilities for top-flight football in San Diego, Hejduk says: “Why don’t you build a stadium right where you can watch the sunset in the background and have fish tacos in the stadium?
(9) By sunset, around 2,000 had left voluntarily in 42 government buses for government-run camps, but thousands were still left in Idomeni overnight.
(10) I don’t want to start naming names of living American directors because I’ll leave someone out and they’re friends.” He does, however, observe that with the exception of the Coen brothers’ No Country for Old Men and The Sunset Limited , which he directed, Hollywood has bungled adapting the novels of his friend Cormac McCarthy.
(11) But Cameron agreed to a "sunset clause" time-limiting the bill to 2016, a full-scale review of intercept laws, a new oversight board and restrictions on the number of public bodies that can make use of surveillance data.
(12) Steel industry sources pay tribute to the support that successive governments have given in general terms to the industry through apprenticeships, innovation and science, but there is a lingering sense that steel is a sunset industry; like the smog above the plant, a pall of inevitable doom hangs over its future.
(13) When fed with a purified diet, however, both tartrazine and Sunset Yellow FCF at 5% level in the diet resulted in a marked retardation in growth, an unthrifty appearance of the fur and death of 50% or more of the rats within an experimental period of 14 days.
(14) Dadd's three paintings Puck (1841), A Fairy – Sunset (1841-42) and Come unto these Yellow Sands (1842) are elegant and precise – the Puck is a baby, sitting on a mushroom in moonlight under a columbine dripping with dewdrops, among grasses also beaded with water, and watches much smaller naked dancers cavorting below him.
(15) Sit with your feet in the sand around tables cleverly designed out of cable drums, watching the sunset and enjoying a cold Greek beer.
(16) You can pick up your Daredevil comic at Secret Headquarters ( thesecretheadquarters.com ), romance a date at Cafe Stella (3932 Sunset Boulevard; 001 323 666 0265), and grab some Humboldt Fog at Cheese Store of Silver Lake ( cheesestoresl.com ).
(17) A fter a week in Kolkata , blessed with mellow sunsets created by the yellowy haze that hung over the city, I flew back to Britain via Delhi on Friday.
(18) The maximum frequency is observed during the dark phase, the peak values occurring just after sunset and before sunrise.
(19) White Sands national monument Sunset at White Sands national monument, New Mexico.
(20) Normally industrial action of this sort, especially in the UK, would have the likes of the Institute of Directors telling us the cost in millions before sunset.