(superl.) Whole; entire; total; without deduction; as, the gross sum, or gross amount, the gross weight; -- opposed to net.
(a.) The main body; the chief part, bulk, or mass.
(sing. & pl.) The number of twelve dozen; twelve times twelve; as, a gross of bottles; ten gross of pens.
Example Sentences:
(1) Gross brain atrophy was slight and equal in both groups.
(2) Gross deformity, point tenderness and decrease in supination and pronation movements of the forearm were the best predictors of bony injury.
(3) Gross mortgage lending stood at £7.9bn in April compared with £8.7bn in March and a six-month average of £9.9bn.
(4) But that gross margin only includes the cost of paying drivers as a cost of revenue, classifying everything else, such as operations, R&D, and sales and marketing, as “operating expenses”.
(5) Initial analysis suggests that about one-fifth of gross costs would be directly returned to the public purse via income tax and national insurance payments.
(6) The concentration of potassium (K+) and sodium (Na+) was measured in breast cyst fluid (BCF) from 611 cysts greater than 3 ml aspirated in 520 women with gross cystic disease of the breast.
(7) They also questioned why George Osborne and the Treasury failed to realise there was a potential issue earlier in the calculation process – pointing to recent upwards revisions of post-1995 gross national income by the UK’s own statistics watchdog.
(8) A lost generation of 14 million out-of-work and disengaged young Europeans is costing member states a total of €153bn (£124bn) a year – 1.2% of the EU's gross domestic product – the largest study of the young unemployed has concluded.
(9) It's the roughly $2bn in revenue grossed by his blockbuster movies, some of which he had to be talked into making.
(10) Ender nails as well as three forms of interlocking nails, Brooker-Wills (B-W), Klenm-Schellman (K-S), and Grosse-Kempf (G-K), were implanted in cadaver femora.
(11) The loss of muscarinic and the sparing of benzodiazepine receptors occurs in the temporal cortex of histologically normal brains in the absence of significant atrophy and of gross dementia.
(12) Affected individuals were not clinically photosensitive, but their fibroblasts demonstrated gross cytopathic changes, low survival indices and an increased frequency of DNA single strand breaks following exposure to long-wave ultraviolet radiation (UVA).
(13) Fields said: "The assertions that Tom Cruise likened making a movie to being at war in Afghanistan is a gross distortion of the record... What Tom said, laughingly, was that sometimes, 'That's what it feels like.'"
(14) A tumor measuring 20 x 25 mm was recognized upon gross examination in the upper lobe of the right lung.
(15) No gross toxicological effects were noted in the experimental fish, although their weight gain was less than that of the controls.
(16) Currently, entitlement to CTC for families with one to three children is fully exhausted when gross household earnings reach about £26,000 and £40,000 a year respectively.
(17) There were no differences in the distribution of gross and histological types of cancer in the modes of recurrence.
(18) The pigeon's metapatagialis muscle consists of three slips, two twitch and one tonic, and these slips are distinguishable at the gross anatomical level.
(19) These findings were confirmed by examination of the experimental cases on the basis of the gross diameter of the warts.
(20) Gross examination suggested that TD was present in 80 per cent, 79 per cent and 27 per cent of tibiotarsi from birds on diets 1, 2 and 4, respectively.
Grossly
Definition:
(adv.) In a gross manner; greatly; coarsely; without delicacy; shamefully; disgracefully.
Example Sentences:
(1) However, cytophotometric DNA analysis disclosed that significant increases in proliferative activity of mucosa had occurred 4 weeks before the appearance of histopathological dysplasia, and 8 weeks prior to development of grossly visible tumors.
(2) In addition, quantification of fluid output from a fistula may be grossly inaccurate.
(3) There was no statistically significant difference between the figures obtained by the 2 methods, except for pharmaceutical expenditures (P = 0.005) which were grossly underevaluated by the program.
(4) In the second hypertrophied form [Type II], the endoplasmic reticulum is very prominent and occurs as a series of grossly dilated sacs of irregular shape.
(5) Radiologically, the clavicles, the sternum and the first ribs are grossly enlarged with complete fusion between them.
(6) Our studies have revealed that patients with Cystic Fibrosis CF who are infected with P. aeruginosa have grossly elevated serum levels of IgG antibodies to the opsonic immunodeterminant, type-specific LPS.
(7) They claim that Zero Dark Thirty is "grossly inaccurate and misleading in its suggestion that torture resulted in information that led to the capture".
(8) Several extrastriate areas have been found to contain maps of the contralateral visual hemifield that are disorderly in the sense that the representation of various parts of the visual field are often misplaced or grossly over-or under-represented.
(9) Calcific deposits were seen grossly as small punctate white masses from day 7 after implantation, progressively becoming more extensive.
(10) In the absence of other contraindications such as a grossly evident purulent infection, an abdominal aortic aneurysm infected by C. fetus may represent a subset of infected aneurysms that can be treated successfully with an anatomically placed prosthetic graft and antibiotics.
(11) When spared the hemorrhage, these regions appear intact grossly and in paraffin sections, but were found to be significantly altered in Epon sections.
(12) Woven bone formation is commonly observed when grossly altered loading conditions are imposed upon living bone tissue.
(13) In the group of mild diabetics, insulin response to glucose was enhanced by sulphonylureas only to a modest extent, the dose-response curves remaining grossly abnormal.
(14) There’s been a sharp rise in the number of death sentences and executions since Sisi came to power, some of which have taken place after grossly unfair trials.
(15) The megakaryocyte, however, remains responsive and the hypothesis advanced is that under these circumstances the intermenstrual platelet increase, normally caused by the interplay of the sex hormones, becomes grossly exaggerated.
(16) In four lymphoma tissue was finally demonstrable in the liver, but in two liver biopsy showed only minor non-specific changes despite grossly abnormal liver function tests.
(17) In a patient with right temporal lobe and additional right basal ganglia damage following a stroke, recognition and reproduction of simple rhythmical Gestalten were examined and found grossly undisturbed.
(18) Grossly, and in part microscopically, this case resembled malignant diffuse mesothelioma, indicating that pericardial angiosarcoma may sometimes mimick malignant mesothelioma.
(19) It is suggested that electron microscopic examination of lining cells of cystic lesions which are considered grossly consistent with lymphagiomas may yield additional similar cases.
(20) FNH and LCA are distinguishable grossly, microscopically, and ultrastructurally.