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Enlengthen


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To lengthen.

Example Sentences:

Lengthen


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To extent in length; to make longer in extent or duration; as, to lengthen a line or a road; to lengthen life; -- sometimes followed by out.
  • (v. i.) To become longer.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Hearing loss at 8 kHz would shorten the I-V interval, while a loss at 4 kHz would be expected to lengthen the interval.
  • (2) In the V fibers, APD was lengthened by F, Q, and B, and shortened by L and M. The drug-induced changes in the relation between APD and CL were as in the P fibers.
  • (3) Physiotherapy for 4 to 12 weeks produced improvement, but in four cases early operation for excision of fibrous tissue and lengthening of the triceps was necessary to restore adequate flexion.
  • (4) Simultaneous atrial imaging and pulsed Doppler velocity measurement showed that passive atrioventricular flow occurred late in atrial lengthening and active atrioventricular flow occurred during atrial contraction.
  • (5) Systemic blood coagulation was unaffected by single 10000 U doses of heparin administered intraperitoneally in that plasma A-PTT values were not lengthened when measured over the ensuing six hours.
  • (6) Anesthesia lengthened the procedure by 1 hr but was needed in only 4.5% of the cases.
  • (7) Results from pharmacokinetic studies indicate a lengthening of the SDM half-life when administration was shifted from single to a multiple dose regime.
  • (8) This concept entails that during some seasons the preovulatory phase of the development of the human egg is lengthened, causing congenital anomalies.
  • (9) Simply lengthening the working age bracket is a potential disaster, unless the inequalities at the heart of the policy are addressed in a detailed and sensible way and we achieve full employment.
  • (10) Decreasing inadvertent PEEP by lengthening the expiratory time increased the compliance of the respiratory system (r = -0.74, n = 10, P less than 0.02).
  • (11) Results with the model strengthen the hypothesis that tetraethylammonium (TEA) acts on both the maximum potassium conductance (gK) and the mechanism of sodium conductance inactivation (Tauh) to lengthen the action potential as observed on the Ranvier node (fig.
  • (12) A subsequent S3 encountered further nonuniformly shortened refractoriness (normal areas had shortened refractoriness greater than ischemic areas) and the arc of block was lengthened.
  • (13) Distraction lengthening has gained wide acceptance in general orthopedics and in upper extremity reconstructions.
  • (14) It lengthens repolarisation and the effective refractory period in all cardiac tissues independently of its antiadrenergic properties.
  • (15) However, with further lengthening the conditioning pulse duration, it decreased, further increased, or remained constant depending on the direction of sodium current during the depolarization, irrespective of the membrane potential per se.
  • (16) Replacement of the cysteinylglycyl moiety with cysteine afforded 20, which retained significant antagonist activity, while lengthening or shortening the lipid tail by five methylene groups resulted in complete loss of activity.
  • (17) A technique is described which allows lengthening of a continent appendicovesicostomy.
  • (18) The modern era of leg lengthening has therefore brought two things: new technical versatility to correct complex and coexisting deformities and new concepts of the biology of lengthening that are not device specific and can be applied with most lengthening devices.
  • (19) Body weight was not affected by hormonal treatment, but the tails of the hypophysectomized sucklings were significantly lengthened by thyroxine alone, the effect being enhanced when growth hormone was also given.
  • (20) A technique for extreme lengthening of the mandible is presented.

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