(a.) Moving or extending from a higher to a lower place; tending toward the earth or its center, or toward a lower level; declivous.
(a.) Descending from a head, origin, or source; as, a downward line of descent.
(a.) Tending to a lower condition or state; depressed; dejected; as, downward thoughts.
Example Sentences:
(1) Over a period of 9 months a 12-year-old girl spontaneously developed a palpable cystic tumor in the upper eye lid which led to an indentation and downward displacement of the globe.
(2) Cerebral angiogram displayed a contralateral shift and an unrolling of the anterior cerebral artery, a lateral stretch of middle cerebral artery, a downward stretch of anterior choroidal artery and a tumor stain fed by the Heubner artery.
(3) In this study downward gaze was more severely disturbed than upward gaze.
(4) Business rates: pressure grows for total rethink on controversial tax Read more Meanwhile the downwards press on aggregate council funding is unremitting.
(5) downward occupational and downward social drift, premature retirement and achievement of the expected social development.
(6) In all the RIAs, the dose-response curves obtained on delayed addition by 24 to 48 h of labeled antigens (curves B), were shifted downwards and to the left of those obtained on simultaneous addition of the reagents (curves A), resulting in improved sensitivity of the assay.
(7) A downward protraction force produced relatively uniform stress distributions, indicating the importance of the force direction in determining the stress distributions from various orthopedic forces.
(8) Pregnant women showed an overall downward trend in susceptibility to rubella (from 4.2% at the beginning of 1984 to 3.0% at the end of 1986), and a similar decline was seen in the two other categories.
(9) Put simply, there would have to be evidence that ultra-low oil prices are having only a temporary downward impact on inflation and have helped disguise upward pressure on wages caused by falling unemployment.
(10) With systole there is downward (caudal) flow of CSF in the aqueduct of Sylvius, the foramen of Magendie, the basal cisterns and the dorsal and ventral subarachnoid spaces while during diastole, upward (cranial) flow of CSF in these same structures is seen.
(11) The company's value lies in its FM licence for London, with the audience for its national AM licence spiralling downwards in recent years.
(12) Although the muscles of untreated children also showed shifts of mean frequency to lower frequency values as a function of time, there was a greater downward shift of mean frequency in those treated with functional appliances.
(13) Assuming no future environmental or lifestyle changes, the upward trend in age-adjusted mortality rates, which averaged 2 to 3% per annum since 1950, is projected to discontinue and bend downward by the second decade of the 21st century.
(14) That does not mean that natural ice variability cannot bring it back again, but the trend, we think, will be downward."
(15) These findings suggest that the response to a downward shift of frequency with an amplitude increase results from new activation due to an apical extension of the envelope of the traveling wave and thus represents the activity in a restricted area of the basilar membrane.
(16) The technique consists of wide undermining of supranasal and paranasal skin, use of composite auricular grafts from the ear to lengthen the upper lateral cartilages, use of a chondromucosal septal flap for lengthening the septum, and postoperative downward taping to assure adequate stretching of dorsal skin for the first-stage procedure.
(17) The virus initially appeared within certain keratinocytes, sometimes surrounded by keratinocytes whose surfaces were also positive for the antigens, in the lower epidermal layers including the hair follicles, and then extended upward to the entire epidermis and downward to the sebaceous glands 1-2 days later, when no macroscopic skin lesion was seen.
(18) Erythrocyte sedimentation highly increased leucocyte retention in vertical columns with a downward flow, whereas in slightly tilted columns with an upward flow, the retention was reduced.
(19) Chorismate mutase was also inhibited by prephenate, which caused downward double-reciprocal plots and a Hill coefficient of n = 0.7, evidence for negative cooperativity.
(20) The Saudis and other Gulf states still support rebel fighting formations – as much because of inertia and hostility to Iran as anything else – but western backing is on a downward trajectory as concerns mount about the risks of blowback from al-Qaida-linked groups.
Hierarchy
Definition:
(n.) Dominion or authority in sacred things.
(n.) A body of officials disposed organically in ranks and orders each subordinate to the one above it; a body of ecclesiastical rulers.
(n.) A form of government administered in the church by patriarchs, metropolitans, archbishops, bishops, and, in an inferior degree, by priests.
(n.) A rank or order of holy beings.
Example Sentences:
(1) Review of the traditional medical hierarchy and its legal implications, architecture of health institutions, medical records systems, and the selection of medical students are other areas for specific attention.
(2) The "hierarchy" of the individual prognostic parameters has been established: current severe infection, granulocyte count, percentage of the nonmyeloid cells on the bone marrow slides, platelet count, reticulocyte count, 59Fe utilization, and stromal disorganization on the bone marrow biopsy specimen.
(3) These spontaneous alpha, response beta, modulatory gamma, and frequency-divided delta rhythms reveal a collateral neuroendocrine hierarchy, characterized by the pineal feedsideward phenomenon, as a feature of interactions recurring with circadian and infradian frequencies.
(4) Our results support a quantitative competition among the homeotic proteins rather than the existence of a strict functional hierarchy.
(5) Then there are the divisions of ethnicity, faith and caste, the ancient social hierarchy prevalent in much of south Asia.
(6) We propose that use of this approach, rapid frequent measurement of nociceptive threshold, can be used to determine the hierarchy of action of mediators in hyperalgesic mechanisms.
(7) Another factor is the decline of caste, the tenacious Indian social hierarchy which still determines the status of hundreds of millions.
(8) Optional hierarchy is a mechanism that may be employed to achieve the desired specificity for local use while permitting recombination into parent rubrics for external comparisons.
(9) The draft released last Monday had been hailed by some church observers and gay rights groups as “a stunning change” in how the Catholic hierarchy talked about gay people.
(10) It accounts for the amounts of irregularity and hierarchy as represented in a code of a pattern, such that these two amounts can be added to determine the complexity of a code.
(11) Oil operators, large and small, are very keen to address the key themes of the waste hierarchy.
(12) His family belonged to the Ghanchi caste, low down on the tenacious social hierarchy that still often defines status in India, and had little money.
(13) The products of the tra-2 gene are also required for continuous transcription of the yolk-protein genes, suggesting that the pathway inhibited by the cycloheximide is that of the sex-determination hierarchy.
(14) The authors suggest that the evolutionary product of interference competition among coprophilous fungal populations may be a pattern of competitive hierarchy in which certain slower-growing, later-successional species can limit the reproductive potential of other fungal colonists on fecal substrates.
(15) When either subject occupied the highest ranking or alpha position within the dominance hierarchy, rate of aggressive behavior initiated by the subject was several times greater than when that monkey occupied a lower position within the dominance hierarchy.
(16) In spite of his place at the top of the Vatican hierarchy and his academic pedigree, he has urged the church to do more to appeal to the modern world, arguing it needs to build on the second Vatican Council of the 1960s, which proved a landmark moment in Roman Catholic history.
(17) A higher frequency of episodes of illness among leading managers and other executives in the top of the hierarchy and absence of occupational diseases and injuries were characteristic of this group of employees.
(18) These features suggest that members of the myeloblast-promyelocyte-myelocyte hierarchy are likely candidates, but whether the action of hydrocortisone is exerted directly on these cells, or on a more mature accessory population, remains to be determined.
(19) It's only when you try to navigate the system for an elderly relative that you realise how an older person's wellbeing and resilience matter less than the place in the NHS hierarchy of the hospital consultant, GP and social worker.
(20) The role of audit in supporting quality improvement is discussed and the need to install a hierarchy of audit is suggested.