(a.) To let descend by its own weight, as something suspended; to let down; as, to lower a bucket into a well; to lower a sail or a boat; sometimes, to pull down; as, to lower a flag.
(a.) To reduce the height of; as, to lower a fence or wall; to lower a chimney or turret.
(a.) To depress as to direction; as, to lower the aim of a gun; to make less elevated as to object; as, to lower one's ambition, aspirations, or hopes.
(a.) To reduce the degree, intensity, strength, etc., of; as, to lower the temperature of anything; to lower one's vitality; to lower distilled liquors.
(a.) To bring down; to humble; as, to lower one's pride.
(a.) To reduce in value, amount, etc. ; as, to lower the price of goods, the rate of interest, etc.
(v. i.) To fall; to sink; to grow less; to diminish; to decrease; as, the river lowered as rapidly as it rose.
(v. i.) To be dark, gloomy, and threatening, as clouds; to be covered with dark and threatening clouds, as the sky; to show threatening signs of approach, as a tempest.
(v. i.) To frown; to look sullen.
(n.) Cloudiness; gloominess.
(n.) A frowning; sullenness.
Example Sentences:
(1) These factors might account for the lower systemic bioavailability of these compounds.
(2) Patients with papillary carcinoma with a good cell-mediated immune response occurred with much lower infiltration of the tumor boundary with lymphocyte whereas the follicular carcinoma less cell-mediated immunity was associated with dense lymphocytic infiltration, suggesting the biological relevance of lymphocytic infiltration may be different for the two histologic variants.
(3) In this study of ten consecutive patients sustaining molten metal injuries to the lower extremity who were treated with excision and grafting, treatment with compression Unna paste boot was compared with that with conventional dressing.
(4) Propranolol resulted in a significantly lower mean hourly, mean 24 h and minimum heart rate.
(5) Homozygotes have sparse greasy fur and lower viability and fertility than normal littermates.
(6) LHRH therapy leads to higher plasma LH levels and a lower FSH in response to an intravenous LHRH test.
(7) On the other hand, the LAP level, identical in preterms and SDB, is lower than in full-term infants but higher than in adults.
(8) It is suggested that the Japanese may have lower trabecular bone mineral density than Caucasians but may also have a lower threshold for fracture of the vertebrae.
(9) Spontaneous locomotor activity was lower in naloxone-infused rats on day 3 only.
(10) After 55 days of unrestricted food availability the body weight of the neonatally deprived rats was approximately 15% lower than that of the controls.
(11) There is no evidence that health-maintenance organizations reduce admissions in discretionary or "unnecessary" categories; instead, the data suggest lower admission rates across the board.
(12) The rate of accumulation of degraded LDL products was lower in collagen gel cultures, but the final levels achieved were the same in the two substrata.
(13) [Ca2+]i exhibited a sigmoidal dependence on [Na+]o. Mg2+, a competitive inhibitor of Na2+-Ca2+ antiport in these cells, antagonized the increase in [Ca2+]i produced by lowering [Na+]o.
(14) Side effect incidence in patients treated with the paracetamol-sobrerol combination (3.7%) was significantly lower than that observed in subjects treated with paracetamol (6.1% - P less than 0.01), salicylics (25.1% - P less than 0.001), pyrazolics (12.6% - P less than 0.001), propionics (20.3%, P less than 0.001) or other antipyretics (17.9% - P less than 0.001).
(15) These findings suggest that clonidine transdermal disks lower blood pressure in hypertensive patients, but produce local skin lesions and general side effects.
(16) Diltiazem monotherapy effectively lowered blood pressure in 60% of patients at 8 weeks.
(17) Thus, our study confirmed that male subjects with a history of testicular maldescent have an increased risk for testis cancer, although the magnitude of this risk was lower than suggested previously.
(18) Anesthetized sheep (n = 6) previously prepared with a lung lymph fistula underwent 2 hr of tourniquet ischemia of both lower limbs.
(19) Nicardipine lowered systolic and diastolic blood pressure to normal, plasma aldosterone was reduced and serum potassium levels were increased.
(20) The overall recoveries of activated ER following chromatography on DEAE-cellulose were significantly lower than the recoveries of the nonactivated ER, 71 and 85%, respectively.
Mask
Definition:
(n.) A cover, or partial cover, for the face, used for disguise or protection; as, a dancer's mask; a fencer's mask; a ball player's mask.
(n.) That which disguises; a pretext or subterfuge.
(n.) A festive entertainment of dancing or other diversions, where all wear masks; a masquerade; hence, a revel; a frolic; a delusive show.
(n.) A dramatic performance, formerly in vogue, in which the actors wore masks and represented mythical or allegorical characters.
(n.) A grotesque head or face, used to adorn keystones and other prominent parts, to spout water in fountains, and the like; -- called also mascaron.
(n.) In a permanent fortification, a redoubt which protects the caponiere.
(n.) A screen for a battery.
(n.) The lower lip of the larva of a dragon fly, modified so as to form a prehensile organ.
(v. t.) To cover, as the face, by way of concealment or defense against injury; to conceal with a mask or visor.
(v. t.) To disguise; to cover; to hide.
(v. t.) To conceal; also, to intervene in the line of.
(v. t.) To cover or keep in check; as, to mask a body of troops or a fortess by a superior force, while some hostile evolution is being carried out.
(v. i.) To take part as a masker in a masquerade.
(v. i.) To wear a mask; to be disguised in any way.
Example Sentences:
(1) The blocking action may have masked and hindered detection of the stimulatory action of barium in other systems.
(2) Masking experiments are demonstrated for electrical frequency-modulated tone bursts from 1,000 to 10,000 cps and from 10,000 to 1,000 cps with superimposed clicks.
(3) Though immunocytochemistry did not show staining of synaptic regions this may be due to masking of the reactive epitope.
(4) Such factors can mask any interactions between biologic factors of the aging female reproductive system and other social factors that might otherwise detemine fertility during the later reproductive years.
(5) The interresponse-time reinforcement contingencies inherent in these schedules may actually mask the effects of overall reinforcement rate; thus differences in response rate as a function of reinforcement rate when interresponse-time reinforcement is eliminated may be underestimated.
(6) In gastric cancers the major finding was the occurrence of extensive masking of lectin binding sites by sialic acid which was not seen in normal mucosa.
(7) The expression of such secondary and tertiary syphilis is commonly masked and distorted by the long-term effects of subcurative doses of antibiotics; in fact, late latent and tertiary syphilis produce symptoms and immunosuppression similar to the profile of AIDS.
(8) After induction of anesthesia, the airway of those in group A was maintained with a conventional tracheal tube; in group B, with a laryngeal mask airway.
(9) To determine if the type of mechanical ventilation used (ie, face mask, nasal prongs, or endotracheal tube) was associated with GPNN, a matched case-control analysis was performed.
(10) Data were analyzed by investigators who were masked to treatment assignment or phase of study.
(11) The air entrainment devices from oxygen masks of four manufacturers (Henleys Medical Supplies Ltd, Vickers Medical, Intersurgical Ltd, C R Bard International Ltd) were studied.
(12) North Korea's blustering defiance at the annual US-South Korean exercises masks just a little fear that they could easily be turned into an all-out attack, and seems to work on the principle that the more you shout, the safer you will be.
(13) Since headache can often represent the warning symptom of a masked depression, in the present study sulpiride has been administered to patients suffering from nonorganic headache syndromes.
(14) • Police would be given discretion to remove face masks from people on the street "under any circumstances where there is reasonable suspicion that they are related to criminal activity".
(15) Analyses of this artificial curve allow estimation of that part of the internal interactions uninfluenced by the masking effect.
(16) Compared to previous masking studies of orientation selective units, non-oriented units have somewhat broader spatial frequency sensitivity curves, in agreement with primate neurophysiology.
(17) The contralateral masked condition was performed using 30-dB-SL 400-Hz narrow-band masking noise centered at frequency of test tone.
(18) But the research drills down into the data to examine different cohorts separately, and discovers that reassuring overall averages are masking some striking variations.
(19) Older subjects were found to be significantly more susceptible to the backward masking effect over longer delays between the target and masking stimuli.
(20) We have compared an alternative breathing system for preoxygenation comprising a Hudson face mask with high oxygen inflow (48 litre min-1) and a Mapleson A breathing system (100 ml kg-1 min-1).