(1) Direct fetal digitalization led to a reduction in umbilical artery resistance, a decline in the abdominal circumference from 20.3 to 17.8 cm, and resolution of the ascites within 72 h. Despite this dramatic response to therapy, fetal death occurred on day 5 of treatment.
(2) Hepatic enzyme elevations were more dramatic after blunt trauma, reflecting greater hepatocellular disruption.
(3) Defibrotide prevents the dramatic fall of creatine phosphokinase activity in the ischemic ventricle: metabolic changes which reflect changes in the cells affected by prolonged ischemia.
(4) This transient paresis was accompanied by a dramatic fall in the MFCV concomitant with a shift of the power spectrum to the lower frequencies.
(5) The 21K peptide had little direct effect on the selection of promoters in vitro as measured by this technique, but it dramatically increased the translatability of the product.
(6) Electrical stimulation of afferent pathways at intensities just below threshold for eliciting action potentials resulted in a dramatic decrease in JSCP threshold.
(7) Guardian Australia reported last week that morale at the national laboratory had fallen dramatically, with one in three staff “seriously considering” leaving their jobs in the wake of the cuts.
(8) Although statistical analysis did not show dramatic changes in all these parameters, some individual extreme values were substantially altered.
(9) The most striking feature of some industrialized countries is a dramatic reduction of the prevalence of dental caries among school-aged children.
(10) Galactosylsphingosine had already accumulated at birth and dramatically increased with age.
(11) Jack Straw, foreign secretary at the time of the Iraq war, took a less dramatic view.
(12) The Vc was dramatically increased in the qk, slightly decreased in the shi, and close to control in the mld.
(13) Injection of carbachol into the AV3V produced the expected natriuresis, which was accompanied within 20 min by a dramatic rise in the plasma ANP concentration and a rise in ANP content in the medial basal hypothalamus, the neurohypophysis, and particularly the anterior hypophysis but without alterations in the content of ANP in the lungs or the right or left atrium.
(14) A course of corticosteroid therapy resulted in dramatic, sustained, clinical and electromyographic improvement, normalization of CSF IgG synthesis rate, and disappearance of the oligoclonal bands.
(15) The dramatic nationwide increase of primary and secondary syphilis in women has precipitated a dramatic rise in congenital syphilis.
(16) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Nick Clegg and the Liberal Democrats have suffered a dramatic slump in support as a result of their role in the coalition and are now barely ahead of the Greens with an average rating of about 8% in the polls.
(17) Radioimmunoassay measurements of prostaglandins (PGs) E2, F2 alpha, 6-keto-PGF1 alpha and thromboxane (Tx) B2 in 24 h urine specimens from a male and a female healthy volunteer on several consecutive days revealed a dramatic increase of PGE2, PGF2 alpha, 6-keto-PGF1 alpha on days, upon which they had sexual intercourse; only TxB2 remained stable.
(18) We show how this model would explain the perinatal or infantile onset of the disease, the variability of the rate of evolution between the different SMA forms, and the fact that motoneuron loss is much more dramatic in SMA than in even advanced cases of myopathy.
(19) The poll – which sets the stage for a tense and dramatic run to referendum day – suggests that, among the undecideds, more are inclined to vote Remain than Leave.
(20) Its complete removal results in dramatic relief of proptosis.
Thespian
Definition:
(a.) Of or pertaining to Thespis; hence, relating to the drama; dramatic; as, the Thespian art.
(n.) An actor.
Example Sentences:
(1) He owed his late-flourishing film career to Branagh, appearing in a string of his movies: as Bardolph in Henry V (1989), Leonato in Much Ado About Nothing (1993), the old blind man in Mary Shelley's Frankenstein (1994), a cantankerous old thespian in A Midwinter's Tale (1995), Polonius in Hamlet (1996) and Sir Nathaniel in the musical Love's Labour's Lost (2000).
(2) Now it appears he has aspirations to be a leading thespian.
(3) The idea of the vampire as a silver-tongued aristocrat, like Count Dracula, is mirrored in Irving's thespian mannerisms, and his fascination with theatrical villains.
(4) I'm buying because he is between jobs, as the thespians say.
(5) It was a showcase for thespian fireworks – and perhaps, it could be admitted, showed O'Toole's weakness for stagey hamminess, which was to come to full, legendary flower not in the movies but in his stage version of Macbeth in 1981.
(6) Dalton, for example, admittedly more of a stage actor, is possibly best known since for voicing a thespian toy hedgehog in Toy Story 3.
(7) Particularly arresting were the new uses Bush was making of her voice: tracks such as Pull Out the Pin and Suspended in Gaffa teemed with a panoply of exaggerated accents and jarring phrasings, as Bush applied thespian emphasis on particular words or syllables, and developed a whole new vocabulary of harsh shrieks and throat-scorched yelps.
(8) Gough had made it known he was slightly miffed that many high-profile thespians were taking up the minor roles in Olivier's Richard III (1955), leaving little room for actors like himself.
(9) Many have done that before, with equally accomplished thespian delivery, including Hugh Laurie earlier that evening (“I accept this award on behalf of psychopathic billionaires everywhere”).
(10) The opening production, in 1960, was Manzoni's Adelchi, a heavyweight poetic classic, which enabled Gassman to show off his flamboyant thespian qualities - but which frankly bored audiences.
(11) Returning home from National Service, he declared that he fancied being a thespian and duly won a scholarship to Rada.
(12) Listen to the tracks below and let us know what you make of the thespian covers.
(13) The British Museum exhibition focuses on the rivalry, partly engineered but at heart real enough, between actors known as Rikan and Shikan (although in the bewildering world of Japanese thespian nomenclature, they had at least three other names), who embodied opposite principles of acting.
(14) The thespian couple, who have been together for almost 19 years, held their civil partnership ceremony at Islington town hall, north London.
(15) Andrew Faulds, the unmistakably loud and thespian Labour backbencher, who has died aged 77, was a House of Commons character who never managed to live up to the role he envisaged for himself.
(16) A masterly comic writer whose work on The Day Today and with Coogan on the Alan Partridge shows preceded a move into high-end theatre, Marber is armed to respond to the accusation that Lewes, from a town of 16,000 an hour's walk from Brighton and Hove Albion's new Falmer Community Stadium, have been taken over by thespians.
(17) 9 Oklahoma State, both for his skills and for his reputation for being, let’s put this in a nice way, something of an on-court thespian .
(18) I will tell you, I had the most difficult time I've ever had with another thespian – with the gentleman who played my father in that film [Michael Parks].
(19) Having toured the country's class map pretty extensively – middle-class family, posh private school, bohemian squats, thespian acclaim – by the turn of the century Coltrane had graduated to the senior ranks of celebrity, which could be classified as a form of modern-day aristocracy.
(20) And likely for the same motives: a realistic and grown-up acceptance of their own not very considerable thespian limits, and a taste for high-impact expressive minimalism in performance, the currency of pure movie stars, not of actors per se.