(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(12) In this study patients who had successfully been treated with loreclezole in previous studies were gradually withdrawn from their antiepileptic comedication.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.
Merge
Definition:
(v. t.) To cause to be swallowed up; to immerse; to sink; to absorb.
(v. i.) To be sunk, swallowed up, or lost.
Example Sentences:
(1) Still higher intensities caused the 2 phases of inhibition to merge, giving the appearance of a single, prolonged, inhibitory response.
(2) White lines 2 and 5 tended to merge with lines 1 and 4, respectively, in collagen fibrils formed from a solution containing a significant amount of type I collagen or pure type I collagen.
(3) As alcohol concentration is increased the lower L beta I to P beta' and main P beta' to L alpha transitions of DHPC merge at the threshold concentration of the biphasic effect, so that above this concentration there is one phase transition from L beta I directly to L alpha.
(4) In addition, if a preceding procedural step is a subset of the next one, merging between the two steps occurs.
(5) The subicular area, best expressed in the temporal sector, extends anteriorly over the corpus callosum to the subcallosal gyrus and, throughout its extent from the uncal to the septal junction, is clearly demarcated from limbic neocortex by a transition zone characterized by archicortical cells merging with cells in the deep layer of the bordering neocortex.
(6) Reorganisation can deliver better outcomes, as the merging of care for stroke victims in London has shown.
(7) Merged scanning sequences did not influence volume determination.
(8) In more mature granulocytic cells of chronic myelogenous leukemia the three enzymes merged within a single group of denser particles; such particles were absent in myeloblasts.
(9) More could certainly be done to help charities who would like to investigate merging; there needs to be better guidance available, as well as more open and positive dialogue on the subject within the sector.
(10) Small cell carcinoma was merging with the adenocarcinoma in 11 cases and represented 30% to 90% of total tumor volume.
(11) When merged with repeated-measures data, this technique permits the estimation of parameters representing both individual and group dynamics.
(12) Talking to clinicians at each of the three sites, it was evident that the vast majority felt no particular allegiance to the larger, merged organisation (SLHT) and, the majority wished to continue working on the individual site they had always worked, in the same manner as prior to the merger.
(13) Fibres are branching off from one bundle and merge again either with a branch of the same bundle or with a branch of another bundle, in a higher or a lower layer of this 3 dimensional texture.
(14) They merge individual stripes spaced less than one field diameter apart and show a pause in firing at wider spacing.
(15) There are no explanations for the unusual affinity of possible pathogenic immune reactions to the spine and other organs, the induction of ossification, the merging of cartilage, or the development of sacroilitis.
(16) Such cells do not complete cytokinesis but merge together several hours after telophase.
(17) Merging of these junctions forms the main dense line of myelin.
(18) Areas of ependymoma merged with others that displayed the appearance of a paraganglioma, including lobules and nests of chief cells immunoreactive for neuron-specific enolase, synaptophysin, chromogranin, and serotonin.
(19) The Health Situation and Trend Assessment Program, initiated in 1982, merged the program on health statistics and the program on epidemiological surveillance of communicable diseases.
(20) We should also plan a fast cross-Pennine line, to join the northern city centres, and high-speed lines from Cardiff and Bristol merging, and then splitting again towards Birmingham and west London.