(adv.) To a very great degree; beyond what is usual; surpassingly. It signifies more than very.
Example Sentences:
(1) By 1978, the reduction in incidence of measles will exceed 90%.
(2) Other haematological parameters remained normal, with the exception of the absolute number of lymphocytes, which initially fell sharply but soon returned to, and even exceeded, control levels.
(3) On the other hand, the patients treated with cimetidine showed a marked, systematic increase in theophylline plasma levels, even exceeding the upper limit of its known therapeutic range in 4 cases.
(4) Dietary intakes, measured by three 24-hour recalls, revealed that protein, iron and Vitamin C generally met or exceeded the Nutrition Recommendations for age.
(5) When commercial chickens are infected in most sensitive one-day age, the virus titre does not exceed the value of 10(12) particles per 1 ml of plasma.
(6) Simple interconversion cannot account for the changes in binding that occur upon adding GMP-PNP or removing magnesium, since the increase in [R2]t exceeds the decrease in [R1]t. Moreover, the apparent amount of high-affinity complex exhibits a biphasic dependence on the concentration of [3H]histamine; an increase at low concentrations is offset by a decrease that occurs at higher concentrations.
(7) Between-lot variation exceeded that of within-lot variation in 10 of the 14 liquid antacids for which this variation could be tested.
(8) Typical kinetics of local anaesthetics are presented for various methods of regional anaesthesia informing the anaesthetist on corresponding plasma concentrations if the recommended maximum doses are exceeded and thus he gets useful information for his daily work.
(9) The total amount of variance explained in the frequency of utilization (47%) exceeded that explained by other studies of utilization of various health services by the elderly.
(10) The difference in APD between the first drive train and drive trains after at least 3 minutes of pacing when APD had stabilized was not significant for an inter-train pause exceeding 8 seconds.
(11) The mean survival period for all of them was not exceeding 12 months.
(12) Hospital noise has repeatedly been demonstrated to exceed levels recommended by the Environmental Protection Agency.
(13) Average number of metaphase Ag-NOR chromosomes (calculated per diploid chromosome set) in haploid parthenogenones exceeded that in the control; in some cases all NORs were stained by silver.
(14) Strand-length effects on crosslinkage and on reassociation caused solution hybridization levels to exceed those predicted by simple theory.
(15) Although consultant hospitals are seen to have the greatest share of births at moderate and high risk, this is not sufficient to account for the whole amount by which perinatal mortality in these hospitals exceeds that in other places of delivery.
(16) This suggests his wealth exceeds the total worth of 2012 GOP nominee Mitt Romney, who was attacked for his wealth throughout the campaign.
(17) The complex was found to be unstable toward low values of pH and ionic strength, concentrations of urea exceeding 1 M, modifications of the cysteine residues, and fragmention in which the C terminal portions of either H3 or H4 are removed.
(18) Thirty-six per cent of 972 patients developed fever (temperature exceeding 38 degrees C).
(19) Moxalactam serum levels far exceeded the recommended therapeutic range.
(20) Pure sarcomas of the esophagus are exceedingly rare.
Unusual
Definition:
(a.) Not usual; uncommon; rare; as, an unusual season; a person of unusual grace or erudition.
Example Sentences:
(1) "We examined the reachability of social networking sites from our measurement infrastructure within Turkey, and found nothing unusual.
(2) The clinical and radiologic characteristics of this unusual tumor are discussed.
(3) A diplomatic source said the killing appeared particularly unusual because of Farooq lack of recent political activity: "He was lying low in the past two years.
(4) The article describes an unusual case with development of a right anterior mediastinal mass after bypass surgery with internal mammary artery grafts.
(5) A marked overlap of input from the two eyes is an unusual feature for a diprotodont marsupial and has previously been seen only in the feathertail glider.
(6) Brain damage may be followed by a number of dynamic events including reactive synaptogenesis, rerouting of axons to unusual locations and altered axon retraction processes.
(7) HCECs display an unusual combination of cytokeratin IFs and neurofilaments, together with vimentin, and are heterogeneous with respect to their IF makeup.
(8) This unusual insertion could affect the interaction of cat CD4 with class II molecules, or with FIV, a feline homolog of HIV.
(9) Unusually high cooperativity, specificity, and multiplicity in the protein kinase C-phospholipid interaction are demonstrated by examining the lipid dependence of enzymatic activity.
(10) GlaxoSmithKline was unusually critical of the decision by Nice, the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence, and also the Scottish Medicines Consortium, to reject its drug belimumab (brand name Benlysta) in final draft guidance.
(11) These unusual fractures are not easily detected on the routine three-view "hand-series."
(12) Caulobacter flagella are unusual in that they contain two different flagellin subunits.
(13) The appearance of unusual isoenzyme patterns in newborn infants and in pregnant women in comparison with normal adults.
(14) This case is unusual in that it demonstrated no malignant epithelium beyond that of a borderline tumor, but met the criteria of malignancy because of its invasiveness and metastasis.
(15) A 6.4 kilobase C4B-5'-specific Taq I fragment usually provided a reliable guide to the presence of a C4A deletion but unusually in one instance this fragment was found to be a marker of a functioning C4A gene.
(16) Clinicians should be aware of this new and unusual association of a cerebral glioma and acquired immune deficiency syndrome.
(17) However, it does not and we therefore propose the presence of an unusual DNA conformation in these regions.
(18) An unusually high degree of motional freedom is found for both these spin-labels, even in gel phase bilayers.
(19) An unusual case of myopathy due to lipid storage in Type I muscle fibers is described.
(20) The model electron density map, calculated to a resolution of approximately 35 A, shows an unusually high protein content in the membranes.