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Gradually


Definition:

  • (adv.) In a gradual manner.
  • (adv.) In degree.

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  • (12) In this study patients who had successfully been treated with loreclezole in previous studies were gradually withdrawn from their antiepileptic comedication.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.

Somewhat


Definition:

  • (n.) More or less; a certain quantity or degree; a part, more or less; something.
  • (n.) A person or thing of importance; a somebody.
  • (adv.) In some degree or measure; a little.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) 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.
  • (2) Neuroleptics (chlorpromazine, reserpine and haloperidol) had not such an influence, though they somewhat increased the general activity of the animals.
  • (3) However, the mechanism of the inhibitory action is still somewhat uncertain.
  • (4) Under these conditions the meiotic prophase takes place and proceeds to the dictyate phase, obeying a somewhat delayed chronology in comparison with controls in vivo.
  • (5) These data were in agreement with those from a previous comparative study which had a very different research design and a somewhat different type of schizophrenic population.
  • (6) The elongation of helix III with the addition of helix II at the N-terminus somewhat stabilizes the ordered structure.
  • (7) In presence of oxygen (air) the phototactic reaction values are somewhat lower than in its absence.
  • (8) Somewhat more children of both Head Start and the nursery school showed semantic mastery based on both heard and spoken identification for positions based on body-object relations (in, on, and under) than for those based on object-object relations (in fromt of, between, and in back of).
  • (9) Similarly, it appears that acute hydronephrosis or worsening of an existing hydronephrosis has been somewhat overlooked as a possible cause of uncertain abdominal pain during pregnancy.
  • (10) Somewhat surprisingly then, in view of the mechanisms in mammals, birds do not seem to use this seasonal message in the photoperiodic control of reproduction.
  • (11) This inhibition is counteracted by the somewhat slower increase of NE turnover resulting in normalization of LH levels.
  • (12) Richard now is presented, albeit somewhat inconsistently, as evil in response to social ostracism because of his ugly deformities.
  • (13) The analysis of the causes of hunger current in the 1970's can be summarized somewhat brutally as follows.
  • (14) The vascular risk profile associated with insulin appears somewhat different in apparently healthy men and women.
  • (15) Although differing somewhat in their responses to various biochemical and biophysical tests, all strains were assigned to the genus Flavobacterium.
  • (16) Simple reperfusion of the infarcted myocardium, however, does not necessarily guarantee myocardial salvage, and preliminary studies have been somewhat confusing as to its beneficial effects.
  • (17) In addition, the transcriptional behaviour of this tRNALeuCUG gene in various in vitro systems is described and it seems that, although the gene is transcribed in all test systems, the very A + T-rich 5'-flanking sequence of this particular gene may be somewhat inhibitory to transcription in vitro.
  • (18) Myelosuppressed (cyclophosphamide-pretreated) mice were somewhat more susceptible to C. perfringens as contrasted with mice that had been pretreated with either carrageenan type II or with zymosan.
  • (19) Children 1 to 6 months old had over twice the morbidity from diarrhea if assigned to the antimicrobial group as compared to placebo, while the toddler group (7-30 months) taking the antimicrobial had somewhat less diarrhea.
  • (20) Our results showed an approximately two- to threefold increase in the level of the type I cAMP-dependent protein kinase and a somewhat smaller increase in the type II kinase in extracts of the "old" IMR-90 cells (population doubling greater than 48) as compared to that of the "young" cells (PDL 22-27).