(n.) The act or process of increasing; growth in bulk, guantity, number, value, or amount; augmentation; enlargement.
(n.) Matter added; increase; produce; production; -- opposed to decrement.
(n.) The increase of a variable quantity or fraction from its present value to its next ascending value; the finite quantity, generally variable, by which a variable quantity is increased.
(n.) An amplification without strict climax,
Example Sentences:
(1) With glucose and protein as intraduodenal stimulus (no pancreatin added), the plasma amino acids rose significantly less (by approximately 50% of the control experiment) and the increment in insulin (but not C-peptide) concentrations was significantly reduced by loxiglumide.
(2) The incremental orthostatic effects of the two drugs were similar in the two age groups and were positively correlated (r = 0.65, p less than 0.001) in individual subjects.
(3) The RNA solutions showed a dielectric increment proportional to the strength of the applied field and to the RNA concentration.
(4) Subjects underwent measurement of lung volumes, arterial blood gas analysis and an incremental bicycle exercise test.
(5) It is shown that the combined effects of altitude and wind assistance yielded an increment in the length of the jump of about 31 cm, compared to a corresponding jump at sea level under still air conditions.
(6) Prof Bryan Williams, chair of the working party that developed the chart, said: "Many changes in healthcare are incremental but this new National Early Warning Score (News) has the potential to transform patient safety in our hospitals and improve patient outcomes.
(7) From the 32nd week on, the twins' mean weekly BPD increment decreased, this lesser growth rate being more marked than that of singletons.
(8) Increments in serum IGF-I occurred 4-6 h after initiated GH exposure in all studies.
(9) Weight increments were recorded 3 months before the study when patients were on Pancreatin, and 3 months after the study when patients were on Pancrease.
(10) The LTF4-induced increments of these immunoreactive metabolites was inhibited by pretreatment of the lungs with Indomethacin.
(11) IBA was defined as the percentage increment of the largest binocular response compared with the monocular response.
(12) The free tryptophan concentration in plasma corresponded closely with the increment level of tryptophan in diet when there was a normal level of dietary protein.
(13) Peak glucose and lactate increments occurred within 15 minutes of treatment, followed by a slower decline of plasma calcium levels.
(14) PB increased LPL secretion 2- to 3-fold and intracellular LPL 3- to 10-fold in a time-dependent manner; these increments were less in proportion to the length of the time interval between confluence and initiation of PB treatment.
(15) Seven remained pain free during the first 24 hr of NTG infusion; 11 required increments in NTG infusion rate for pain control.
(16) A visually reinforced headturn discrimination procedure was used to determine sensitivity to increments in peak F0 in synthetic speech in both bisyllabic (CVCVC) and trisyllabic (CVCVCVC) contexts.
(17) (2) Sequences of brightness steps of like polarity (either increments or decrements) elicit positive and negative motion-dependent response components when mimicking motion in the cell's preferred and null direction, respectively.
(18) Exaggerations of this presumed daily incremental rhythm lead to the formation of the more major incremental lines which can also be visualized by scanning electron microscopy.
(19) The data on monozygotic twins further suggested that for most variables examined, the increment of environmental discordance resulting from the twinning phenomena was greater than the developmental noise that caused asymmetry within individual cotwins.
(20) A strikingly significant lower level was found in the mean incremental values of TG ten minutes after injection in the schistosomal patients than the controls.
One
Definition:
(a.) Being a single unit, or entire being or thing, and no more; not multifold; single; individual.
(a.) Denoting a person or thing conceived or spoken of indefinitely; a certain. "I am the sister of one Claudio" [Shak.], that is, of a certain man named Claudio.
(a.) Pointing out a contrast, or denoting a particular thing or person different from some other specified; -- used as a correlative adjective, with or without the.
(a.) Closely bound together; undivided; united; constituting a whole.
(a.) Single in kind; the same; a common.
(a.) Single; inmarried.
(n.) A single unit; as, one is the base of all numbers.
(n.) A symbol representing a unit, as 1, or i.
(n.) A single person or thing.
(indef. pron.) Any person, indefinitely; a person or body; as, what one would have well done, one should do one's self.
(v. t.) To cause to become one; to gather into a single whole; to unite; to assimilite.
Example Sentences:
(1) One hundred and twenty-seven states have said with common voice that their security is directly threatened by the 15,000 nuclear weapons that exist in the arsenals of nine countries, and they are demanding that these weapons be prohibited and abolished.
(2) 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.
(3) The fluoride treated specimens released more fluoride than the nontreated ones.
(4) Fecal occult blood was positive in 4 patients and fecal leukocytes were positive in one patient.
(5) Villagers, including one man who has been left disabled and the relatives of six men who were killed, are suing ABG in the UK high court, represented by British law firm Leigh Day, alleging that Tanzanian police officers shot unarmed locals.
(6) One hour after direct mechanical cardiomassage (DMCM) a moderately pronounced edema of the intercellular spaces in the basal compartment of the seminiferous epithelium, normal content of lactate and succinate dehydrogenases, and a certain decrease in the activity of glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenases and NAD- and NADP-diaphorases were noted.
(7) Sierra Leone is one of the three West Africa nations hit hard by an Ebola epidemic this year.
(8) Chapter one Announcement of the Islamic Caliphate The announcement of the renewal of the caliphate in Iraq in the year 1427AH [2006] was the arbiter between division and separation as well as the glory of the Muslims.
(9) Weddellite calcification was associated with benign lesions in 16 cases, but incidental atypical lobular hyperplasia and lobular carcinoma in situ were present, each in one case.
(10) One must be suspicious of any gingival lesion, particulary if there is a sudden onset of bleeding or hyperplasia.
(11) It was shown in experiments on four dogs by the conditioned method that the period of recovery of conditioned activity after one hour ether anaesthesia tested 7 to 7.5 days.
(12) ), the concentration of AMPO in the hypothalamus was 5.4 times the concentration at 20 h after one injection.
(13) The adjacent gauge was separated from the ischemic segment by one large nonoccluded diagonal branch of the left anterior descending artery.
(14) In one of 28 cases with LCIS examined by mammography there was suspicion of carcinoma.
(15) Both lymph flow from cannulated pancreatico-duodenal lymphatics and intralymphatic pressure in the non-transected ones increased significantly.
(16) For male schizophrenics, all symptom differences disappeared except one; blacks were more frequently asocial.
(17) 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.
(18) Tumor shrinkage was documented by A-scan ultrasonography in all but one patient.
(19) One thing seems to be noteworthy in their opinion: the bacterial resistance of the germs isolated from the urine is bigger than the one of the germs isolated from the respiratory apparatus.
(20) When perfusion of the affected lung was less than one-third of the total the tumour was found to be unresectable.