(superl.) Slow of understanding; wanting readiness of apprehension; stupid; doltish; blockish.
(superl.) Slow in action; sluggish; unready; awkward.
(superl.) Insensible; unfeeling.
(superl.) Not keen in edge or point; lacking sharpness; blunt.
(superl.) Not bright or clear to the eye; wanting in liveliness of color or luster; not vivid; obscure; dim; as, a dull fire or lamp; a dull red or yellow; a dull mirror.
(superl.) Furnishing little delight, spirit, or variety; uninteresting; tedious; cheerless; gloomy; melancholy; depressing; as, a dull story or sermon; a dull occupation or period; hence, cloudy; overcast; as, a dull day.
(v. t.) To deprive of sharpness of edge or point.
(v. t.) To make dull, stupid, or sluggish; to stupefy, as the senses, the feelings, the perceptions, and the like.
(v. t.) To render dim or obscure; to sully; to tarnish.
(v. t.) To deprive of liveliness or activity; to render heavy; to make inert; to depress; to weary; to sadden.
(v. i.) To become dull or stupid.
Example Sentences:
(1) "Maybe dullness is associated with psychic pain," Wallace wrote at one point, "because something that's dull or opaque fails to provide enough stimulation to distract people from some other, deeper type of pain that is always there, if only in an ambient low-level way, and which most of us spend nearly all our time and energy trying to distract ourselves from."
(2) Similar systems were put in place at Dulles outside Washington DC, Newark and Chicago airports on Thursday.
(3) The soft, dull, malacic appearance of the center results from lack of a true surface layer of tangential collagen fibers.
(4) Here I am in Los Angeles being paid $30,000 to do next to nothing and still I'm finding life rather dull.
(5) A significant proportion of splenic B cells reacted with these mAb, although lower number (one-log less) than peritoneal B cells and a small proportion of H7dull+ splenic B cells seems to be Ly-1(CD5)dull+, 1 of 200 splenic B cells responded to IL-5 for IgM production.
(6) A 58-year-old man complained of dull left lower quadrant pain and constipation.
(7) They will begin next week at Liberty airport in Newark, New Jersey; Dulles, outside Washington DC; Chicago O’Hare, and Hartsfield-Jackson in Atlanta.
(8) At both observations, crowns were rated on 5-point Likert scales for outline form, porosity, smoothness, reflectance, texture, dullness, defects, and general esthetic appearances.
(9) On the other hand AMH2 showed the dull-positive reaction with some monocytes and pleural exudate cells among above-mentioned cells.
(10) Britain’s Got Talent review – Simon Cowell is looking like Caligula after a dull day at the Coliseum Read more The show, won last year by boy band Collabro, began eight years ago with 4.9 million viewers, rising to 8.8 million for its second series launch before hitting the 10 million mark for the first time in 2009 with 10.3 million.
(11) Disseminated annular psoriasiform lesions developed over a period of 2 months in a 48-year-old man with no preceding psoriatic history of drug intake, being accompanied by general dullness and arthralgia.
(12) 3) At the severe stage, pain and dullness at the back, numbness at arms and hands, hand coldness, sleep disturbance etc.
(13) One month after surgery, she complained of swelling and a dull pain in the right leg without cardiorespiratory symptoms.
(14) Black-hair follicular dysplasia in dogs of mixed breeding was delineated by hypotrichosis and dullness of most black regions of the coat.
(15) Endoscopic examination disclosed an almost roundish, smooth-surfaced, flat and dull red area corresponding to IIc (slightly depressed type).
(16) Their surface phenotype was Thy-1+(dull), Ly-1.2+(dull), Lyt-2-, L3T4-, 9F3+, and 3A1+, which is consistent with that found in intact lpr mice.
(17) The engines, gearboxes and even the doors now have a complexity that sees them constructed elsewhere, but the transformation on this line of the dull sheen of aluminium parts into a moving vehicle at the other end is still something to behold.
(18) Flow cytometry showed three types of trophozoite staining by mAb: (i) bright staining of greater than 90% of trophozoites, with aggregation of the organisms; (ii) bright staining of approximately 90% of trophozoites, with little or no aggregation; (iii) dull staining of approximately 20% of trophozoites, without aggregation.
(19) The percentage of dull CD8+CD11b+ cells (natural killer cells) among TG-2 cells was lower than that in peripheral blood, but there was no significant difference in bright CD8+CD11b+ cells (suppressor-effector T cells) between thyroid glands and peripheral blood.
(20) It was filed in my mind as a pretty but dull destination, full of pensioners on package deals and cruises.
Obtund
Definition:
(v. t.) To reduce the edge, pungency, or violent action of; to dull; to blunt; to deaden; to quell; as, to obtund the acrimony of the gall.
Example Sentences:
(1) The thigh and hip manifestations can obscure the primary intra-abdominal process either due to the obvious emphysema or to the obtunded abdominal signs secondary to associated neuropathy.
(2) Results showed the greatest inhibition of noxious stimulus perception with Innovar-Vet, lesser inhibition with ketamine-xylazine and ketamine-diazepam, and the least obtunding of nociception with pentobarbital.
(3) The use of wire stylets to facilitate passage of these tubes has increased the chances of unrecognized tracheal intubations, particularly in obtunded patients.
(4) Characteristic clinical features were present in 19 patients, including a gradual obtundation after the initial hemorrhage in 16 patients and small nonreactive pupils in nine patients (all with a Glasgow Coma Scale score of 7 or less).
(5) Kynurenic acid significantly obtunded these behavioral and physiological effects, particularly when given 60-75 min after the toxic insult.
(6) Addition of adenosine deaminase to fat cells isolated from cold-exposed rats did not normalize the lipolytic activity, suggesting that extracellular adenosine was not responsible for the obtunded lipolysis.
(7) A 59-year-old man was admitted because of frequent vomiting and obtundation in February 1982.
(8) Propofol was more effective than methohexitone at obtunding the hypertensive response to electroconvulsive therapy without causing significant hypotension.
(9) Thus, although low doses of glucocorticoids foster development of the coupling of beta-receptors to cellular transduction mechanisms, higher doses such as those used to stimulate lung function may lastingly obtund adrenergic sensitivity.
(10) Neurologic dysfunction is characterized by lethargy, obtundation, persistent vomiting, agitated delirium, and coma.
(11) The current indications for lavage are obtundation, unprotected airway, seizures, the need for urgent removal, and the tendency to form concretions.
(12) Histoplasmosis in the CNS may produce meningitis, single or multiple brain abscesses, and may present with either a clinical picture of obtundation or a deteriorating space-occupying CNS lesion.
(13) Other variables with strong predictive potential were age (P less than 0.001), the presence of multiple disease states (P less than 0.01), therapy with multiple drugs (P less than 0.01) and acute stroke or obtundation on admission (P less than 0.01).
(14) As projected by this study, scleral heterografts might well be used to obliterate bony undercuts and perhaps to obtund cystic cavities and other major bony defects.
(15) The patient became progressively more obtunded throughout the emergency department stay.
(16) The effects of 3H-epinephrine on the duration of block and on the time course of uptake and efflux of local anesthetic (14C-lidocaine hydrochloride) were determined in the infraorbital nerve of the pentobarbital-obtunded rat.
(17) Contraindications for gastric lavage are similar to those for emesis except that it may be safer to use in obtunded, comatose, or uncooperative patients.
(18) I have described a fatal case of GGS meningitis and endocarditis in a previously healthy 84-year-old who had obtundation, irritability, and cellulitis.
(19) The toxicity of dCF alone was minimal, except for one patient who became obtunded on day 5 following the first cycle of therapy.
(20) Symptoms occurred between 30-180 min with the onset of central nervous system depression, ataxia, waxing and waning obtundation, hallucinations, intermittent hysteria or hyperkinetic behavior.