(n.) The act of progressing by regular steps or orderly arrangement; the state of being graded or arranged in ranks; as, the gradation of castes.
(n.) The act or process of bringing to a certain grade.
(n.) Any degree or relative position in an order or series.
(n.) A gradual passing from one tint to another or from a darker to a lighter shade, as in painting or drawing.
(n.) A diatonic ascending or descending succession of chords.
(v. t.) To form with gradations.
Example Sentences:
(1) With grievous amazement, never self-pitying but sometimes bordering on a sort of numbed wonderment, Levi records the day-to-day personal and social history of the camp, noting not only the fine gradations of his own descent, but the capacity of some prisoners to cut a deal and strike a bargain, while others, destined by their age or character for the gas ovens, follow "the slope down to the bottom, like streams that run down to the sea".
(2) A gradation in steady-state cyclic guanosine 3',5'-monophosphate (cGMP) levels was observed in incubated slices of these tissues (inner medula greater than outer medulla greater than cortex).
(3) In a multivariate Cox model analysis, the independent correlates of long-term survival were emergent operation with cardiogenic shock (multivariate mortality rate ratio [RR] = 14.0), use of a postoperative intraaortic balloon pump (RR = 3.9), ejection fraction less than 50% (RR = 2.4), preoperative history of congestive heart failure (RR = 2.2), cardiopulmonary bypass time (RR = 1.4 for each 30-minute increment), uncorrected mitral regurgitation (RR = 1.5 for each increment of angiographic gradation), left main coronary artery narrowing (RR = 1.7) and diabetes (RR = 1.6).
(4) To compare this staining with the occurrence of NSE in serum, a histological staining index (HSI) was established by semiquantitative gradation of the staining.
(5) The structural differences are a result of adaptations which allow gradations in mechanical output to be achieved.
(6) Also examined was the gradation of attention effects on efferent modulation demonstrated in animals but never studied in humans.
(7) Results indicate support for the 'coping hypothesis' of post-injury psychological deficits, although effects consistent with a 'gradations of severity' hypothesis were also present.
(8) Immunoglobulin (Ig) A, IgG1, AND IgG2 were detected in the gastrointestinal secretions, with an apparent gradation in stability (IgA greater than IgG1 greater than IgG2) under the conditions investigated.
(9) Thus it appears that there is a gradation of radiation damage to the hypothalamic-pituitary axis which is dependent primarily on the dose received rather than the time interval after radiotherapy.
(10) Histopathologic changes corresponded to the clinical gradation of endophthalmitis, including progressive retinal necrosis.
(11) Adenosine triphosphatase, 5'-nucleotidase, acid phosphatase and nonspecific esterase show continuous gradations of enzyme activity.
(12) • "I made a mistake by allowing myself to get drawn into a great long argument about exactly what the gradations of rape were."
(13) The experimental evidence indicates that gap genes could be responsible for both of these effects: they activate the pair-rule system asymmetrically and, when first expressed, generate a sufficiently complex landscape of concentration peaks and gradations to provide the local cues needed to correctly position and align the pair-rule stripes.
(14) Cell kinetically, urothelial carcinomas yield similar gradations.
(15) Standardized gradations of pain and function showed improvement over-all, but significant impairment remained.
(16) The authors came to the conclusion on the usefulness of such method of identification of the stomatologic material shades and even of the intermediate gradations of these shades.
(17) This latter finding emphasizes the importance of recruitment and especially synchronization of motor unit activity to the gradation of output tension.
(18) The highest row of OHC stereocilia is known to show an orderly gradation in height along the length of the cochlea.
(19) The cells of the plasmacytic category also showed fine gradations from plasmablasts to typical mature plasma cells.
(20) Replacement of Phe-82 in yeast iso-1-cytochrome c with Tyr, Leu, Ile, Ser, Ala, and Gly produces a gradation of effects on (1) the reduction potential of the protein, (2) the rate of reaction with Fe(EDTA)2-, and (3) the CD spectra of the ferricytochromes in the Soret region under conditions where contributions from the alkaline forms of these proteins are absent.
Gradual
Definition:
(n.) Proceeding by steps or degrees; advancing, step by step, as in ascent or descent or from one state to another; regularly progressive; slow; as, a gradual increase of knowledge; a gradual decline.
(n.) An antiphon or responsory after the epistle, in the Mass, which was sung on the steps, or while the deacon ascended the steps.
(n.) A service book containing the musical portions of the Mass.
(n.) A series of steps.
Example Sentences:
(1) The cross sectional area of the aortic lumen was gradually decreased while the length of the stenotic lesion gradually increased by using strips with different width.
(2) With prolonged ischemia, it is only transient and is followed by a gradual loss of the adenylyl cyclase activity.
(3) The number of axons displaying peptide-like immunoreactivity within the optic nerve, retinal or cerebral to the crush, and within the optic chiasm gradually decreased after 2-3 months.
(4) The deep cerebellar nuclei were moderately labeled at birth and gradually decreased in density thereafter.
(5) There is a gradual loosening of the adolescent's emotional dependence on her parents and a transfer of dependency ties to peers.
(6) In a steady-state exercise test this difference developed gradually during the first 10 min of exercise.
(7) Gradual evolutionary change by natural selection operates so slowly within established species that it cannot account for the major features of evolution.
(8) It was shown that gradual recovery of spike wave patterns occurred from initial water swallowing to successive dry swalllowing.
(9) Size of both areas gradually decreased as the medulla filled with plasma cells, 7-30 days after injection.
(10) The general tendency of gradual CBF reduction from the pedicle to the distal end of all the flaps was observed.
(11) In contrast to findings in the rat and dog, no sharp drop but a gradual fall in CLi was observed at decreasing FENa values down to 0.02%.
(12) In this study patients who had successfully been treated with loreclezole in previous studies were gradually withdrawn from their antiepileptic comedication.
(13) Ten animals served as sedentary controls, the 10 experimental animals were subjected to a training program with gradually increasing intensity of 18 weeks duration on a motor-driven treadmill.
(14) A radical rearrangement of the organism occurred gradually: initially oval in shape, the parasite became round, then elongated, flattened, and underwent cytokinesis.
(15) + inf., pons + medulla), rCBF increased toward the control level gradually, and it completely recovered 60 min after recirculation.
(16) Following uninephrectomy a more gradual regression took place and normal cardiac weight was not obtained until 3 weeks.
(17) This process may be achieved by co-ordinated synthesis and translation of new mRNA or gradual accumulation of constitutively synthesized mRNA, followed by coordinated translational activation.
(18) After more than 10 weeks, CD34+, CD33- cells gradually recovered, as erythroid burst colony-forming cells increased following GM colony-forming cells.
(19) BC treatment was reinstituted, and the serum PRL level decreased gradually without recurrent CSF rhinorrhea.
(20) We conclude that CJD-related neuropathological phenomena do not accumulate gradually through the incubation period but develop relatively abruptly and in complete form.