(n.) That species of attraction or force by which all bodies or particles of matter in the universe tend toward each other; called also attraction of gravitation, universal gravitation, and universal gravity. See Attraction, and Weight.
Example Sentences:
(1) Though increased gravitational stress probably changed regional emptying sequences little during full MEFV maneuvers, substantial changes of emptying sequence were expected during partial maneuvers.
(2) The modelling of physiologic responses to gravitational stress in this experiment revealed a negative correlation between changes in sympathetic tone (as reflected by plasma NE) and ANF levels.
(3) Although all of the primary particulate fractions exhibited binding activities, the bulk of the total homogenate binding activity was associated with the washed particles sedimenting at the lower gravitational forces; this was observed with either atria or ventricles of dog, guinea pig, rabbit, hamster, and rat.
(4) On testing the peripheral vestibular apparatus of astronauts with healthy labyrinths, nystagmus was observed when flushing the ears with hot or cold water even in the absence of gravitation.
(5) Uber drivers are employees not contractors, California rules Read more Like many Ethiopian immigrants in San Diego , Sahilu gravitated towards driving a cab because he didn’t speak much English and couldn’t get recognition for his educational qualifications – in his case, a chemistry degree.
(6) The quantitative evaluation of biopsy material can be used to provide prognostic information in the gravitational syndrome.
(7) Other inertial and the gravitational moments were negligible.
(8) Subpopulations of rabbit spleen cells which respond to T and B mitogens, respectively, can be distinguished by sedimentation velocity in the earth's gravitational field.
(9) These mechanisms include: convective graviosmosis and related effects, gravidiffusional graviosmosis, and osmotic transport aided by gravitational force in multi-membrane systems.
(10) Red cell aggregate sedimentation under gravitation produces pronounced and rapid "phase separation effects" culminating in "compaction stasis" (CS), i.e.
(11) Changes in gravitational stress were not associated with changes of either full or partial MEFV curves.
(12) This is because cosmologists believe only inflation can amplify the primordial gravitational waves into a detectable signal.
(13) When subjects changed from sitting to lying, whilst maintaining the head in the same position in relation to the body, Irs increased and Crs decreased, probably due to gravitational effects.
(14) Other possible causes are the tendency in Japanese medical society to attach greater importance to academic attainment than to clinical competence and the excessive gravitation of residents toward university hospitals.
(15) Only a small fraction appeared to gravitate toward full economic support, to discontinuation of methadone, and to an enduring narcotic-free state.
(16) Post-traumatic regeneration of the rat spleen was studied after resection of half the organ, under gravitation overloading (11 units) using spleen tissue extract prepared by Filatov's method.
(17) Physiologic magnetic fields on the order of magnitude 10(-8) gauss have been unified with their propitiators: quantum genetic particles, the gravitational potential of which is about a few ergs.
(18) Physiological measurements of the distribution of blood flow and ventilation are concentrating on non-gravitational influences such as the pattern of force generation by the respiratory muscles and vasomotor tone.
(19) These data support the hypothesis that olfactory function, like visual, auditory, and vestibular function, is significantly influenced by body position within a gravitational field.
(20) "So many people have it at home when they are young, they read the cartoons and gravitate to other, perhaps more serious areas as they get older," says Molnar.
Gravity
Definition:
(a.) The state of having weight; beaviness; as, the gravity of lead.
(a.) Sobriety of character or demeanor.
(a.) Importance, significance, dignity, etc; hence, seriousness; enormity; as, the gravity of an offense.
(a.) The tendency of a mass of matter toward a center of attraction; esp., the tendency of a body toward the center of the earth; terrestrial gravitation.
(a.) Lowness of tone; -- opposed to acuteness.
Example Sentences:
(1) Urinalysis revealed a low pH, increased ketones and bilirubin excretion, dark yellowish change in color, the appearance of "leaflet-shaped" crystals and increased red blood cells and epithelial cells in the urinary sediment, increased water intake, decreased specific gravity and decreased sodium, potassium and chloride in the urine.
(2) Phycomyces sporangiophores respond to four distinct physical stimuli: gravity, light, stretch, and an avoidance stimulus.
(3) Human granulocytes from the peripheral blood of healthy donors were subjected to transient gravity sedimentation analysis in Ficoll density gradient columns (37 degrees C) containing different concentrations of Escherichia coli endotoxin-activated serum and medium 199.
(4) In contrast, large territories may reflect widespread motor-unit actions, advantageous in force development where fine movement control is less important, as in biting in the intercuspal position or opposing gravity.
(5) The ball sat up; gravity would bring it down again and, when it did, he would score.
(6) Recent data on smoking patterns in the USA are listed and the gravity of the effects of passive smoking is brought out.
(7) Data were obtained on hen-day egg production, egg weight, egg mass, egg specific gravity, Haugh units, feed consumption, and feed efficiency.
(8) Egg production and egg specific gravity were correlated to D3 level in a quadratic fashion.
(9) "I am not trying to minimise the gravity of these offences, just simply make the observation that a sense of proportion needs to be maintained.
(10) Five experiments were conducted using 36 dietary treatments to compare chloride salts and HCl as chemical sources of Cl for the adjustment of dietary Cl when using sodium aluminosilicate (SAS), to compare SAS to natural zeolites (clinoptilolite and mordenite), and to determine the appropriate level of dietary SAS for optimum egg specific gravity.
(11) Specific gravity was only intermittently affected by dietary salt removal.
(12) Host cells were isolated by enzymatic disaggregation of the tumor and fractionated by sedimentation velocity at unit gravity on a Ficoll gradient.
(13) Because the contribution of position represents the additive effect of gravity between two opposite positions, the contribution of gravity to perfusion heterogeneity in one position may be as little as 4%.
(14) Was he being put forward as the foremost literary novelist of his generation, one whose best-known work stands comparison with The Naked and the Dead , Gravity's Rainbow , American Pastoral , Beloved and Underworld ?
(15) Fully 45 of these patients (92%) were operated on in emergency conditions and the choice of the operation was imposed by the gravity of the lesions observed.
(16) A brief image from the television feed before the gravity of the situation became apparent – as a physio reaches and tries to turn over the stricken midfielder – was widely available, especially in postings from outside the UK, where the match was shown on other networks.
(17) The three-dimensional displacements of the center of gravity were computed by the integration of force plate data.
(18) The diagnosis of gravity rests on the measurement of the mean gradient by applying Bernouilli's equation and the point by point quadratic transformation of the transmitral velocity curve obtained by Doppler and the measurement of the mitral area either by measurement of the half-decrease time in pressure or by applying the continuity equation.
(19) Tabulations of the constituents, elemental compositions, specific gravities, and the photon and electron interaction characteristics of 64 materials are given together with recommendations of systems having useful simulation properties.
(20) Hyponatremia complicates ascitic hepatic cirrhosis with frequency and gravity related to the gravity of the cirrhosis itself.