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  • (12) In this study patients who had successfully been treated with loreclezole in previous studies were gradually withdrawn from their antiepileptic comedication.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

Steeply


Definition:

  • (adv.) In a steep manner; with steepness; with precipitous declivity.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Levels of alpha 1-antitrypsin (A 1-AT) showed marked season-related fluctuation patterns in Co children, the curves in E group children turned steeply upward from the third examination series on.
  • (2) Critical features of the model include a non-monotonic relationship between recovery time during rhythmic stimulation and the state of membrane properties, and a steeply sloped recovery of membrane properties over certain ranges of recovery times.
  • (3) Female fertility drops steeply above the age of 35 and the risk of miscarriage increases: at the age of 40 and above, 40% of pregnancies will be miscarried.
  • (4) Flu cases rose steeply last week, up 44.9%, according to doctors reporting a surge of visits to their practices.
  • (5) Rates are still rising in these provinces, though much less steeply than in the past.
  • (6) Cholesteryl ester content of the hyperlipidemic cells rose steeply for about two days, with a slower rise thereafter.
  • (7) When the low-Ca2+, 0-Na+ solution was presented in darkness, responses to subsequent illumination were affected in a characteristic manner: (i) the response-intensity relation was steepened and shifted to lower intensities, (ii) the response to a step of light could be predicted by integration and compression of the flash response, and (iii) the flash sensitivity declined steeply as a function of background intensity.
  • (8) In the absence of Ca2+, substitution of nonpolymerizable TM for TM reduced significantly the slope of the steeply rising phase of the sigmoidal S-1.ADP binding curve.
  • (9) When the electrode was advanced in steps, the amplitudes of both delta[K+]o and the action potential declined steeply to about 10% over a distance of 20 microns: K+ from oxytocin cells appears to be prevented from dispersing freely through the extracellular space of the SON.
  • (10) (2) Under non-ischaemic conditions the decay of force, turns and amplitude is about the same, whereas during ischaemia force and to a lesser extent amplitude pulses, decline steeply towards zero, while turns, representing the number of impulses, remain in the non-ischaemic range.
  • (11) In Pteronotus the greater part of the basilar membrane, 7.5 mm or approximately 58%, lies within the enormous basal turn and within this turn there are steeply banked curves and one small 0.5-mm region where the membrane is straight.
  • (12) From 30 to 60 min, plasma adrenaline and NA levels rose steeply as seen with control animals.
  • (13) (7) After allowing for differences in treatment parameters, especially for heterogeneity in overall treatment times, tumor control probability increased steeply with increase in total dose.
  • (14) Small-bore airways were more sensitive, flow was reduced to zero and resistance rose very steeply due to mucosal folding while in large-bore airways maximum flow reduction was 50% and resistance increased sigmoidly.
  • (15) However, if during the hypoxic exposure, hypocapnia is allowed to develop, the subsequently determined CO2 ventilatory response curve will shift to the left, rise steeply, particularly in the early phase, and demonstrate a positive hypoxic hypercapnic interaction.
  • (16) During the first few weeks after weaning, this number rose steeply and continued to rise until the mice were about 48 weeks old, when a maximum of more than 25 x 10(6) Ig-SC per SI was found.
  • (17) The lower limits of autoregulation for CBF beyond which blood flow was decreased steeply were 72% of the resting blood pressure level in the control, 56% in the PBZ treated group, and 80% in the PPL group.
  • (18) The value of k(obs) for reactivation increased steeply with [Na+], with the sodium dependence being about the same at pH 8.0 as at pH 7.4.
  • (19) Above 250 ppm yields increased steeply up to about 1% oxygen and then more gradually to a maximum at 100% oxygen.
  • (20) The rise is happening in every country, the IHME paper says, although more steeply in some places than in others.

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