(v. t.) To lay open by extending; to open wide; to spread out; to diffuse; as, a flower expands its leaves.
(v. t.) To cause the particles or parts of to spread themselves or stand apart, thus increasing bulk without addition of substance; to make to occupy more space; to dilate; to distend; to extend every way; to enlarge; -- opposed to contract; as, to expand the chest; heat expands all bodies; to expand the sphere of benevolence.
(v. t.) To state in enlarged form; to develop; as, to expand an equation. See Expansion, 5.
(v. i.) To become widely opened, spread apart, dilated, distended, or enlarged; as, flowers expand in the spring; metals expand by heat; the heart expands with joy.
Example Sentences:
(1) Blood flow decreased immediately after skin expansion in areas over the tissue expander on days 0 and 1 and returned to baseline levels within 24 hours.
(2) Histiocytes, lymphocytes, immunoblasts, and plasma cells were present in expanded paracortical regions which encroached on, and occasionally effaced, lymphoid follicles.
(3) About 30% of clonable T cells, including both CD4+ CD8- and CD4- CD8+ cells, could be expanded for assay at an average of 22 days after cloning.
(4) Providers of services and their reimbursement will also expand.
(5) The availability of locus-specific probes should significantly expand the role of minisatellite markers in population biology.
(6) The expectation of life at birth was only 30-35 years, but it was long enough to allow for children to be born and for the populations to expand.
(7) Thus, whereas CD3-associated molecules isolated from polyclonal CD3+WT31+ populations (expanded in IL 2 under the same culture conditions) appeared as diffuse bands, CD3-associated molecules isolated from CD3+WT31- populations displayed a homogeneous molecular mass.
(8) The analysis is further expanded to a more general case to result in four criteria based upon the energy concepts.
(9) Guanabenz is acutely natriuretic and diuretic in saline expanded animals.
(10) Abe’s longstanding efforts toward those goals, which include the successful passage of a state secrets act and efforts to expand the scope of Japan’s military activities have already damaged relations with China.
(11) It is worth noting though that the government is reaping scant reward in the polls even though the economy has expanded by more than 3% over the past year and – according to the IMF – will be the fastest growing of the G7 economies this year.
(12) A developing sophistication on the part of both children and parents, coupled with a rapidly expanding recognition of the need to minimize the amount of physical and psychological trauma that a child has to experience, has led to a growing use of premedication agents for children.
(13) The expanded tumor-infiltrating cells were Leu-4+ T cells, and in five of six patients the majority were Leu-3+.
(14) Further development of meta-analysis in such an expanded way may have an important impact on decision-making in clinical medicine, and in health policies.
(15) Our understanding of the organisation of eye movements has been greatly expanded in recent years, mainly due to studies in animals.
(16) Although the group is constantly the target of an all-out political assault, it has a robust national fundraising operation that allows it to subsidize abortions for poor women and expand to new locations.
(17) In 2013 it successfully applied for a Visa Innovation Grant , a fund for development and non-profit organisations seeking to adopt or expand the use of electronic payments to those living below the poverty line.
(18) The intervertebral discs expand centrally and become increasingly convex.
(19) Jubilant Democrats are eyeing so-called “red states” such as Georgia and Utah and expanding their ambitions to take both the Senate and House .
(20) Labour's education spokesman, Ed Balls, said it was important to continue expanding the number of graduates.
Rarefy
Definition:
(v. t.) To make rare, thin, porous, or less dense; to expand or enlarge without adding any new portion of matter to; -- opposed to condense.
(v. i.) To become less dense; to become thin and porous.
Example Sentences:
(1) The 6410t cells were shown to bind specifically this factor and react to it by proliferation in the conditions of rarefied inoculation.
(2) An initial reaction of mononuclear cells, activated fibroblasts, and some giant cells of foreign body type in the surrounding connective tissue is followed by the development of a fibrous capsule rarefied by cells around the implant in the time up to 3 months.
(3) As half an hour of vox-poppery proves, this is also a place where the supposedly rarefied issue of electoral reform may actually come up on the proverbial doorstep.
(4) Fluorescein angiography demonstrated slight hyperfluorescence through rarefied retinal pigment epithelium but no leakage occurred from perifoveal retinal capillaries.
(5) Bone-destructive inflammatory processes (rarefying osteitis) were the most frequently encountered lesions, occurring in both the maxilla and the mandible.
(6) Their genuine disregard for the clichés of being in a band means conversation is relaxed, while their rarefied wealth of music, film and TV geekery makes for good gags.
(7) Nerves injected with demyelinating serum contained oligodendrocytes with pyknotic nuclei and edematous, rarefied cytoplasm.
(8) "Due to uncertainties in predicting the rarefied atmosphere at these very high altitudes, the accuracy of re-entry prediction is of the order of 10% of the remaining lifetime, so even on the last orbit revolution (90 minutes), there is a nine-minute prediction uncertainty.
(9) He didn’t inhabit rarefied social circles or drive a Bentley.
(10) Electron-microscopic examination revealed capillary engorgement with erythrocytes that appeared adherent to each other and contained entrapped areas of rarefied material.
(11) As evidenced from experiments on rats, a combined application of apressin with obsidan and diprazine, and also of adenozine with nicotine-amidadenine-dinucleotide (NAD), as well as of adeozine with nicotine amide potentiates the protective effect of these substances in hypobaric hypoxia, increases the resistance of the animals to cerebral ischemia, brings down the excess lactate level and raises the redoz potential of the system lactic-acid-pyruvic acid in the brain of rats exposed to the effects of rarefied atmosphere.
(12) Fibrillar and flocculent deposits were seen in the widened and rarefied subendothelial space in a small artery and two glomeruli, one of which also contained electron-dense deposits.
(13) I don't mean literature is obscure or rarefied or precious – that's no test of a book – rather it is operating on a different level to our everyday exchanges of information and conversation.
(14) The authors found that the median portion of chiasma is a weak point of microcirculation, as demonstrated by rarefied and transverse capillaries.
(15) In 90 days of Hk reduction of the capillaries is recorded, rarefied pericapillary network prevails, twistedness of the capillaries is clearly manifested, their complex branching decreases.
(16) The white matter showed a rarefied texture with widely dispersed nerve fiber tracts, volume expansion, and occasional cyst formation.
(17) Histopathologic findings included rarefied white matter with pyknotic nuclei and eosinophilic cytoplasm.
(18) However, looking at the neat rows of symbols made me reflect on how rarefied this sort of data can seem when summarised for a national website.
(19) No compensatory rarefying of acid discharge from the stomach, that was observed in reference subjects if transport of contents was accelerated, was detectable in the patients with ulcerative colitis.
(20) Microscopic sections of the skin revealed a thickened dermis with shortened and rarefied elastic fibers.