(v. t.) To go or come after; to move behind in the same path or direction; hence, to go with (a leader, guide, etc.); to accompany; to attend.
(v. t.) To endeavor to overtake; to go in pursuit of; to chase; to pursue; to prosecute.
(v. t.) To accept as authority; to adopt the opinions of; to obey; to yield to; to take as a rule of action; as, to follow good advice.
(v. t.) To copy after; to take as an example.
(v. t.) To succeed in order of time, rank, or office.
(v. t.) To result from, as an effect from a cause, or an inference from a premise.
(v. t.) To watch, as a receding object; to keep the eyes fixed upon while in motion; to keep the mind upon while in progress, as a speech, musical performance, etc.; also, to keep up with; to understand the meaning, connection, or force of, as of a course of thought or argument.
(v. t.) To walk in, as a road or course; to attend upon closely, as a profession or calling.
(v. i.) To go or come after; -- used in the various senses of the transitive verb: To pursue; to attend; to accompany; to be a result; to imitate.
Example Sentences:
(1) Forty-nine patients (with 83 eyes showing signs of the disease) were followed up for between six months and 12 years.
(2) Previous use of the drug is found in more than 50 per cent of the patients, and it was often followed by a neglected side-effect.
(4) Therefore, it is suggested that PE patients without endogenous erythroid colonies may follow almost the same clinical course as SP patients.
(5) We were able to detect genetic recombination between vaccine strains of PRV following in vitro or in vivo coinoculation of 2 strains of PRV.
(6) Twenty-seven patients were randomized to receive either 50 mg stanozolol or placebo intramuscularly 24 h before operation, followed by a 6 week course of either 5 mg stanozolol or placebo orally, twice daily.
(7) However, this deficit was observed only when the sample-place preceded but not when it followed the interpolated visits (second experiment).
(8) Following in vitro C activation in NHS by delta IgG, the 40 KD C4d component increased markedly.
(9) within 12 h of birth followed by similar injections every day for 10 consecutive days and then every second day for a further 8 weeks, with mycoplasma broth medium (tolerogen), to induce immune tolerance.
(10) It is concluded that acute renal denervation augments the pressure diuresis that follows carotid occlusion.
(11) These studies led to the following conclusions: (a) all the prominent NHP which remain bound to DNA are also present in somewhat similar proportions in the saline-EDTA, Tris, and 0.35 M NaCl washes of nuclei; (b) a protein comigrating with actin is prominent in the first saline-EDTA wash of nuclei, but present as only a minor band in the subsequent washes and on washed chromatin; (c) the presence of nuclear matrix proteins in all the nuclear washes and cytosol indicates that these proteins are distributed throughout the cell; (d) a histone-binding protein (J2) analogous to the HMG1 protein of K. V. Shooter, G.H.
(12) "This is the third event in the last few days following An-26 and SU-25 planes being brought down.
(13) Following central retinal artery ligation, infarction of the retinal ganglion cells was reflected by a 97 per cent reduction in the radioactively labeled protein within the optic nerve.
(14) It is followed by rapid neurobehavioral deterioration in late infancy or early childhood, a developmental arrest, plateauing, and then either a course of retarded development or continued deterioration.
(15) Both the vitellogenesis and the GtH cell activity are restored in the fish exposed to short photoperiod if it is followed by a long photoperiod.
(16) Results indicated a .85 probability that Directive Guidance would be followed by Cooperation; a .67 probability that Permissiveness would lead to Noncooperation; and a .97 likelihood that Coerciveness would lead to either Noncooperation or Resistance.
(17) Changes in cardiac adenosine triphosphate (ATP), phosphocreatine (PCr) and inorganic phosphate (Pi) were followed and intracellular pH (pHi) was estimated from the chemical shift of Pi.
(18) The LD50 of the following metal-binding chelating drugs, EDTA, diethylenetriaminepentaacetic acid (DTPA), hydroxyethylenediaminetriacetic acid (HEDTA), cyclohexanediaminotetraacetic acid (CDTA) and triethylenetetraminehexaacetic acid (TTHA) was evaluated in terms of mortality in rats after intraperitoneal administration and was found to be in the order: CDTA greater than EDTA greater than DTPA greater than TTHA greater than HEDTA.
(19) Furthermore, all of the sera from seven other patients with shock reactions following the topical application of chlorhexidine preparation also showed high RAST counts.
(20) Our results indicate that increasing the delay for more than 8 days following irradiation and TCD syngeneic BMT leads to a rapid loss of the ability to achieve alloengraftment by non-TCD allogeneic bone marrow.
Supervene
Definition:
(v. i.) To come as something additional or extraneous; to occur with reference or relation to something else; to happen upon or after something else; to be added; to take place; to happen.
Example Sentences:
(1) The earliest reports were of peripheral neuritis, but later it was evident that an upper motor neuron syndrome had supervened.
(2) The supervening acidosis had a large anion gap that was of proportion with the increase in lactate values.
(3) If both are exhausted, ischemia supervenes and rCMRO2 becomes linearly related to rCBF.
(4) Seroconversion and clinico-biochemical amelioration supervene at different observation periods (after 1-6 years) and do not depend on the initial activity of hepatitis.
(5) Large cell lymphomas supervening on alpha-HCD belonged to the same proliferating clone as the clone secreting the HCD protein, as shown by surface markers and biosynthesis experiments which demonstrated synthesis but no secretion of HCD proteins.
(6) We describe a very rare subcutaneous pseudoaneurysmal development of an internal mammary arteriovenous fistula supervening after sternal wire closure.
(7) CMV may be recovered from a variety of body secretions and fluids during acute infection, and protracted shedding may supervene in some instances.
(8) Viral envelope constituents remain detectable on the cell surface during the third stage and disappear only when cell-to-cell fusion supervenes.
(9) Ca2+ channel blockers can also reduce the susceptibility for ventricular fibrillation to supervene in ischemic hearts, especially when the sympathetic nervous system is overactive.
(10) As was emphasized previously for Masson's lesions, lymphangiomas containing similar endothelial changes should also not be mistaken for malignant vascular tumors, since in these two cases, no unusual clinical course supervened.
(11) With the loss of sympathetic reserve, congestive failure supervenes.
(12) In longitudinal studies, islet cell antibodies and insulin autoantibodies were often present together whether or not diabetes supervened.
(13) It is suggested that massive infiltration of lymphoma cells into the bone marrow caused marrow failure and compensatory mechanisms supervened leading to myeloid metaplastic implants in the peritoneum associated with ascites as well as in the liver, spleen and lymph nodes.
(14) The earliest changes (after 1 month) include: falling activity of hexokinase and a rise in that of glucose-6-phosphatase and succindehydrogenase, pointing to the damage of microsomes and mitochondria supervenes in 1 and 6 months time after introduction, respectively.
(15) The finding of such an illness in a patient with normal serum DNA-binding levels made it unlikely that the illness was due to an exacerbation of the SLE and more likely that an alternative cause such as supervening bacteraemia was responsible.
(16) Particular difficulties not readily accommodated within the model are that hormonal autonomy can supervene without loss of the estrogen receptor and that antiestrogen effects are highly context-dependent, without apparent differences in the estrogen receptor itself or in metabolic transformation of antiestrogens.
(17) While this diffuse subcortical edema was subsiding gradually in about 2 weeks, progressive brain atrophy was supervening and resulted finally in severe dilatation of the ventricular system.
(18) When subjected to decreasing oxygen concentration adult birds slowly became unconscious, without showing any signs of distress, until respiratory failure supervened.
(19) However, because renal function was mildly compromised early on, some element of early secondary (renal) hyperparathyroidism may have supervened quickly.
(20) Thirty-four previously untreated patients with oat cell carcinoma of the lung were treated with a myelotoxic combination of cyclophosphamide, adriamycin, methotrexate, CCNU, and Corynebacterium parvum (regimen A) every 4 weeks, interspersed with a non-myelotoxic combination including bleomycin, vincristine, dehydroemetine, and Corynebacterium parvum (regimen B) weekly the other 3 weeks or when hematologic toxicity prohibited administration of regimen A. Hematologic toxicity was frequent but was never a serious problem except in two cases of profound leukopenia in which fatal supervening infection occurred.