(v. t.) To make larger; to increase in quantity or dimensions; to extend in limits; to magnify; as, the body is enlarged by nutrition; to enlarge one's house.
(v. t.) To increase the capacity of; to expand; to give free scope or greater scope to; also, to dilate, as with joy, affection, and the like; as, knowledge enlarges the mind.
(v. t.) To set at large or set free.
(v. i.) To grow large or larger; to be further extended; to expand; as, a plant enlarges by growth; an estate enlarges by good management; a volume of air enlarges by rarefaction.
(v. i.) To speak or write at length; to be diffuse in speaking or writing; to expatiate; to dilate.
(v. i.) To get more astern or parallel with the vessel's course; to draw aft; -- said of the wind.
Example Sentences:
(1) In patients with coronary artery disease, electrocardiographic signs of left atrial enlargement (LAE-negative P wave deflection greater than or equal to 1 mm2 in lead V1) are associated with increased left ventricular end diastolic pressure (LVEDP).
(2) In addition to the aqueduct other associated inner ear anomalies have been identified in 60% of this population including: enlarged vestibule (14); enlarged vestibule and lateral semicircular canal (7); enlarged vestibule and hypoplastic cochlea (4); and hypoplastic cochlea (4).
(3) In high concentrations of antiserum, some of the agglutinated cells of L. h. hertigi were enlarged and showed syncytial characters that included up to five nuclei, two dividing nuclei and five basal bodies associated with a single kinetoplast.
(4) During the 20-year period, the number of children with the enlarged thyroid was found to be 1.5-fold as increased.
(5) Patients with MID, but not those with DAT, exhibited correlations between enlargement of the third and lateral ventricles and severity of cognitive impairment.
(6) Electron microscopy revealed a well-developed rough endoplasmic reticulum, an enlarged Golgi apparatus and many highly electron-dense secretory granules resembling those of Clara cells.
(7) Emergency CT showed evidence of pericardial effusion suggesting hemopericardium, enlargement of the ascending aorta and a peripheral semilunar filling defect which caused a slight deformation of the true channel.
(8) Liver enlargement occurred in the intact male with acetophenetidin (1.0%) but not with the N-butyryl- and thiophenol derivatives fed at 1.0 and 0.50%, respectively.
(9) These cells are characterized by enlarged nuclei which are significantly larger than those in MGCs of the Langhans type.
(10) Restriction of feed intake to 40% of normal attenuated the increases in lung weight and lavage protein concentration in MCTP-treated rats and abolished the right ventricular enlargement but did not affect the increased lavage LDH activity.
(11) In chronic active hepatitis and liver cirrhosis, both carbohydrate antigen 19-9 positive biliary ductular cells and factor VIII-related antigen positive endothelial cells were not only observed in the enlarged portal area but also extended into the parenchyma.
(12) The “100% Australian-made” text on packaging has been enlarged to appeal to customer patriotism.
(13) Hyperprolactinemia, hypogonadotropinism, and subnormal plasma testosterone were found in a 65-year-old patient who had an enlarged sella turcica, complained of fatigue, and addmitted to decreased sexual interest and potency.
(14) The observed clinical findings include scarring of the face and hands (83.7%), hyperpigmentation (65%), hypertrichosis (44.8%), pinched facies (40.1%), painless arthritis (70.2%), small hands (66.6%), sensory shading (60.6%), myotonia (37.9%), cogwheeling (41.9%), enlarged thyroid (34.9%), and enlarged liver (4.8%).
(15) Obstetrician-gynecologists must place lymphocytic adenohypophysitis in the differential diagnosis of pituitary enlargement associated with pregnancy, since treatment is available and the sequelae may be life-threatening.
(16) Some of these vacuoles had remnants of mitochondrial cristae or were enlarged endoplasmic reticulum.
(17) In all dosage groups of the 90-day study special histological methods revealed a dose-dependent increase and enlargement of lysosomes in the epithelia of the proximal renal tubules.
(18) The more enlarged lateral ventricles were ipsilateral with the affected visual pathways.
(19) In the transition from proliferating to hypertrophic cell zones in the growth plate, there is an increased in chondrocyte cell volume and a corresponding decrease in collagen content to allow for cell enlargement.
(20) An enlargement of the epidermal proliferative compartment has been noticed.
Magnified
Definition:
(imp. & p. p.) of Magnify
Example Sentences:
(1) "We purposely watched it that way - to magnify the experience," Kidman says.
(2) Equivalent viewing power (EVP), field of view, and working distance (WD) were calculated for 4 different magnifier equivalent powers, four magnifier-to-eye distances, and for uncorrected spherical ametropias varying from +20.00 to -20.00 D in 0.25 D steps.
(3) Ordinary details that any mother would recognise have been magnified into major problems.
(4) The potential benefits [of AI research] are huge, since everything that civilisation has to offer is a product of human intelligence; we cannot predict what we might achieve when this intelligence is magnified by the tools AI may provide, but the eradication of disease and poverty are not unfathomable,” the letter reads.
(5) In an article for the Daily Telegraph , Obama argued that Britain’s influence in the world was magnified by its membership of the EU.
(6) These data reject the possibility that albino central vision is similar to normal peripheral vision, but the results are predictable on the hypothesis that the central retina of albinos is a spatially magnified (underdeveloped) version of the normal fovea.
(7) On the photographs the pupillary diameter is measured under a magnifying lens.
(8) No significant difference was found comparing spectacle lenses or illuminated stand magnifiers with regard to reading duration.
(9) To determine the incidence of penile condyloma in a group of high risk males, we have performed magnified penile surface scanning and biopsy of suspicious lesions in 51 men.
(10) This is magnified manyfold when the relationship is father and son.
(11) The magnified endoscopic view permits selective exposure of blood vessels and prevents injury to the adjacent organs.
(12) Combination method of magnification consists in the use of the Visolett in addition to a spectacle magnifier, which doubles the magnification.
(13) "The much larger than initially expected economic and fiscal costs of the 11 March earthquake are magnifying the adverse effects imparted by the global financial crisis from which Japan's economy has not completely recovered," Moody's said.
(14) Tensions around the world – when magnified by the media and portrayed as strictly part of a religious binary – sow suspicion in the hearts of even the most open-minded.
(15) Perhaps another is pop's forever-long obsession with watching women, as if they're ants on a hot patio and you're the boy with the magnifying glass.
(16) Buergenthal is a judge on the International Court of Justice in The Hague, and the power of his testimony is magnified by a jurist's coolness and eye for detail.
(17) Anterior chamber adapter magnifies the scan for detailed work in the anterior chamber and lens.
(18) The results obtained were as follows: 1) More detailed informations regarding to P waves were obtained by means of the high-speed and magnified ECG.
(19) The gravimetric density was determined for both left and right lungs by averaging the CT numerical data within lung slices traced on a magnified video image of the thorax.
(20) 9.11pm BST A commander of the Free Syrian Army, a key US ally among the opposition, has echoed and magnified Idris' stated opposition to the Russian proposal for dismantling the regime's chemical weapons.