(v. i.) To become greater or more in size, quantity, number, degree, value, intensity, power, authority, reputation, wealth; to grow; to augment; to advance; -- opposed to decrease.
(v. i.) To multiply by the production of young; to be fertile, fruitful, or prolific.
(v. i.) To become more nearly full; to show more of the surface; to wax; as, the moon increases.
(v. t.) To augment or make greater in bulk, quantity, extent, value, or amount, etc.; to add to; to extend; to lengthen; to enhance; to aggravate; as, to increase one's possessions, influence.
(v. i.) Addition or enlargement in size, extent, quantity, number, intensity, value, substance, etc.; augmentation; growth.
(v. i.) That which is added to the original stock by augmentation or growth; produce; profit; interest.
(v. i.) Progeny; issue; offspring.
(v. i.) Generation.
(v. i.) The period of increasing light, or luminous phase; the waxing; -- said of the moon.
Example Sentences:
(1) Intrathecal injection of zopiclone potentiated morphine antinociception, while the intracerebroventricular injection of zopiclone failed to enhance morphine antinociception and the intracerebroventricular injection of flumazepil to antagonize the intraperitoneal-zopiclone-induced increase in morphine antinociception.
(2) Synthesis of choline esterase on the medium with acetylcholine at a concentration of 1% was increased more than twofold upon addition of glucose at a concentration of 0.1%.
(3) It is supposed that delta-sleep peptide along with other oligopeptides is one of the factors determining individual animal resistance to emotional stress, which is supported by significant delta-sleep peptide increase in hypothalamus in stable rats.
(4) Correction for within-person variation in urinary excretion increased this partial correlation coefficient between intake and excretion to 0.59 (95% CI = 0.03 to 0.87).
(5) The significance of minor increases in the serum creatinine level must be recognized, so that modifications of drug therapy can be made and correction of possibly life-threatening electrolyte imbalances can be undertaken.
(6) Increased plasmin activity was associated with advancing stage of lactation and older cows after appropriate adjustments were made for the effects of milk yield and SCC.
(7) Technical factors that account for increased difficulty in these patients include: problems with guide catheter impaction and ostial trauma; inability to inflate the balloon with adequate guide catheter support; and need for increased intracoronary manipulation.
(8) In conclusion, in S-rats a glucose-stimulated insulin release is accompanied by an increase in IBF, but this is not observed in P-rats.
(9) Following in vitro C activation in NHS by delta IgG, the 40 KD C4d component increased markedly.
(10) The fraction of the viral dose which became cell associated was independent of the incubation temperature and increased with increasing target membrane concentration.
(11) At the early phase of the sensitization a T-cell response was seen in vitro, characterized by an increased spleen but no peripheral blood lymphocyte reactivity to T-cell mitogens at the same time as increased reactivity to the sensitizing antigen was detected.
(12) Maximum increases in portal plasma secretin concentrations of 143, 146 and 190% and maximum increases in VIP of 116, 155 and 147% after, respectively, intraduodenal 0.1 M NaHCO3, 0.1 M Na2CO3, and 0.025 M NaOH were found.
(13) These results demonstrate that increased availability of galactose, a high-affinity substrate for the enzyme, leads to increased aldose reductase messenger RNA, which suggests a role for aldose reductase in sugar metabolism in the lens.
(14) 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.
(15) Such an increase in antibody binding occurred simultaneously with an increase in the fluidity of surface lipid regions, as monitored by fluorescence depolarization of 1-(trimethylammoniophenyl)-6-phenyl-1,3,5-hexatriene.
(16) Both lymph flow from cannulated pancreatico-duodenal lymphatics and intralymphatic pressure in the non-transected ones increased significantly.
(17) Increased dietary protein intake led to increased MDA per nephron, increased urinary excretion of MDA, and increased MDA per milligram protein in subtotally nephrectomized animals, and markedly increased the glutathione redox ratio.
(18) It has been generally believed that the ligand-binding of steroid hormone receptors triggers an allosteric change in receptor structure, manifested by an increased affinity of the receptor for DNA in vitro and nuclear target elements in vivo, as monitored by nuclear translocation.
(19) However, four of ten young adult outer arm (relatively sun-exposed) and one of ten young adult inner arm (relatively sun-protected) fibroblasts lines increased their saturation density in response to retinoic acid.
(20) Addition of phospholipase A2 from Vipera russelli venom led to a significant increase in the activity of guanylate cyclase in various rat organs.
Surge
Definition:
(n.) A spring; a fountain.
(n.) A large wave or billow; a great, rolling swell of water, produced generally by a high wind.
(n.) The motion of, or produced by, a great wave.
(n.) The tapered part of a windlass barrel or a capstan, upon which the cable surges, or slips.
(v. i.) To swell; to rise hifg and roll.
(v. i.) To slip along a windlass.
(n.) To let go or slacken suddenly, as a rope; as, to surge a hawser or messenger; also, to slacken the rope about (a capstan).
Example Sentences:
(1) An experimental model was established in the ewe allowing one to predict with accuracy an antral follicle that coincidentally would either undergo ovulation (6-8 mm diameter) or atresia (3-4 mm diameter) following synchronization of luteal regression and the onset of the gonadotropin surge.
(2) The surge the prime minister talks about can only be achieved by coordinating assets across 43 forces.
(3) When the antagonist was administered on the day of the LH surge, serum concentrations of bioactive LH were still elevated on the following day, but then fell to low levels.
(4) While winds gusting to 170mph caused significant damage, the devastation in areas such as Tacloban – where scenes are reminiscent of the 2004 Indian ocean tsunami – was principally the work of the 6-metre-high storm surge, which carried away even the concrete buildings in which many people sought shelter.
(5) In estrogen-primed ovariectomized rats, intraventricular injections of baclofen, a selective GABAB receptor agonist, either delayed, eliminated or disrupted the steroid-induced LH surge, depending on the time and the dose of the agonist injected.
(6) A bit like the old Lib Dems, perhaps: and indeed the Greens owe a big chunk of their surge to the exodus of voters from Clegg’s discredited rump.
(7) The survey also found that department stores – which include general retailers such as Marks & Spencer as well as traditional outlets such as John Lewis – had enjoyed their strongest surge in sales for 30 years.
(8) High blood pressure is itself an independent risk factor for vascular disease, in proportion to its height, for all ages and sexes, whether systolic or diastolic, labile or fixed, and the threat is further aggravated by surges in blood pressure throughout the person's daily activities.
(9) This in turn meant frantic investment in German coal and lignite – 10 new plants are said to be opening – and a surge in Polish coal output.
(10) Since the debate the number of Ukip members has surged past 35,000.
(11) There was however a surge of plasma oxytocin detected during labor and puerperium, a pattern somewhat similar to that seen in normal pregnancy.
(12) Exposure to short daylengths arrests the oestrous cycle, provokes daily gonadotrophin surges and reduces the ability of exogenous oestradiol to trigger behavioural receptivity in golden hamsters.
(13) [Surg Gynecol Obstet 1986; 163:555-560]; the estrogen and progesterone receptor levels were evaluated by immunoenzymatic assay.
(14) The Liberal surge in February 1974 and the rise of the SDP in the early 1980s showed that protest politics was translating into something more ambitious.
(15) The day of the serum LH surge was taken as a reference point in evaluating the reliability and sensitivity in predicting ovulation of the other tests studied.
(16) On the basis of these and previous results it is concluded that the availability of NE in the MPO is an important factor in determining the hight of the preovulatory LH surge.
(17) Frontal hypothalamic deafferentation (FHD), which disconnects the anterior hypothalamus from the preoptic area, stops the twice daily surges of prolactin secretion of pregnancy or pseudopregnancy in the rat, and causes rapid luteolysis.
(18) The relative contributions of dopamine (DA) and prolactin-releasing factor (PRF) in generating the preovulatory prolactin (PRL) surge were investigated.
(19) Most panics surged out of a pre-existing plateau of tonic anxiety which lasted most of the day.
(20) injected at 13.45 h. Transection which interrupted the connection of septum (SEPT), diagonal band of Broca (DBB) and bed nucleus of stria terminalis (BST) with the preoptic-suprachiasmatic area interfered with ovulation and surge of release of all 3 hormones.