(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.
Thereupon
Definition:
(adv.) Upon that or this; thereon.
(adv.) On account, or in consequence, of that; therefore.
(adv.) Immediately; at once; without delay.
Example Sentences:
(1) Thereupon these effects in the blood coagulating system seem to be called forth by activity of the sympathetic system after vagotomy.
(2) The claw of a hammer was placed beneath the hilt of the knife for additional leverage, and the weapon was thereupon successfully removed.
(3) This study investigates the ischemic-time dependency of dysfunction in reversibly ischemic myocardium and the effect of postischemic oxygen free radical scavenging thereupon.
(4) Reactions between the mineral limonite and hydrogen peroxide were studied and gases produced thereupon were analysed by gas chromatography.
(5) Thereupon, pharmacokinetic parameters were calculated using a two-compartment open model.
(6) "There are times," Cohn wrote, "when this underworld emerges from the depths and suddenly fascinates, captures and dominates multitudes of usually sane and responsible people who thereupon take leave of sanity and responsibility.
(7) Each patient was summoned for at least one dental examination per year, thereupon presenting better results in regard to average plaque index, carious lesions, degree of gingival inflammation, probing depth and functionality of the prosthetic appliance, a marked difference to those patients who did not participate in such a dental maintenance program.
(8) Thereupon the state of inhibition is concluded to be characterized by the spatio-temporal discrepancy in the brain electric activity.
(9) Several examples of studies including our own conducted to delineate the ischemic derangements of the myocardial energy metabolism and the effects of various interventions thereupon were illustrated.
(10) Thereupon, the granules lose their perigranular membranes, and about 40% of the heparin proteoglycans and all of the chondroitin sulfate proteoglycans that they initially contained are released into the incubation medium.
(11) All pigs received the optimal conventional regimen of hydration, phenoxybenzamine, furosemide, and mannitol to allow assessment of free radical treatment superimposed thereupon.
(12) Thereupon, a renal dysfunction of characteristic type and severity occurred invariably and almost immediately.
(13) Thereupon, cholestyramine and a normal diet were given followed, within the next 48 hours, by a remission of the diarrhea; the weight loss was recovered within the next 3 months.
(14) Phosphate accumulation by muscle in vitro and the effects of vitamin D3 metabolites thereupon were studied in cultures of chick embryo skeletal muscle myoblasts and intact chick soleus muscles.
(15) Thereupon a set of regulatory decisions can be arrived at that are backed up by sound scientific analysis.
(16) Thereupon neonatal heart rate falls gradually and reaches a stabil level in the 13. minute after delivery.
(17) Thereupon, incubation of the inactivated enzyme with Zn(2+) fully restores activity.
(18) Thereupon performed radiological examination demonstrated multiple radiolucent skeletal lesions and supported this diagnosis.
(19) The hepatic distribution of [14C]warfarin was investigated and the effect of a displacer thereupon.
(20) Thereupon 4 mg nifedipine were injected through the angio-catheter within 30 min (five individual doses of 0.8 mg each).