(v. t.) To exceed in duration; to survive; to endure longer than.
Example Sentences:
(1) The reduction in 5-HIAA was transient after potassium infusion, but outlasted the infusion of veratridine or aconitine by several hours.
(2) The EEG effects of the low dose were smaller than those of the middle and high doses, whose peak effects did not statistically differ; but the high dose produced more persistent effects, which outlasted the infusion period for a longer time.
(3) However, after in vivo administration, NA uptake was inhibited only in synaptosomes from imipramine-treated rats, suggesting that imipramine, or its metabolite desipramine, binds to the NA carrier in a manner outlasting the preparation of synaptosomes, whereas mianserin is washed away.
(4) However, it appeared that the duration of these responses was rather short; in 23 of 36 radiation treatments with a follow-up of more than 4 months, progression of the tumour was seen within that time, while the palliative effect outlasted the survival of the patients in only four cases.
(5) Also, whereas the duration of EP effect did not exceed 5 min for Iso and For, it was markedly sustained for VIP, outlasting its contractile but paralleling its vasodilatory effect.
(6) The peak effect of THC on the central nervous system coincided well with the reduction of intraocular pressure induced by the drug; hypotony, however, outlasted euphoria.
(7) These outlasted clinical remission for many years, sometimes up to the age of 16.
(8) Neurokinins caused a slow, prolonged excitation which outlasted the period of application.
(9) The obtained data suggest that exposure to CVP may lead to functional changes in the brain outlasting the period of ChE depression.
(10) This was done because optokinetic nystagmus typically outlasts cessation of an optokinetic stimulus.
(11) In the case of granule cells, depression of IPSPs by (-)baclofen outlasted an only small membrane hyperpolarization, conductance increase or outward current.
(12) With Johnson due to step down in January, Duncan may end up outlasting his chairman after all.
(13) The prolonged onset period and persistent analgesic effects outlasting the period of stimulation--features that have been reported in other studies of brain stimulation-produced pain suppression--were observed in the present study.
(14) How or if Mayweather outlasts that exponential increase in pressure may either blur or enhance his reputation.
(15) Inhibition did not appear to outlast the midbrain stimulation period.
(16) The trains also triggered a prolonged potential, negative at the dendritic pole of our electrodes, which far outlasted the pulse-evoked response.
(17) Last summer, I spent several days in the British Library reading austerity cookbooks: survival manuals for housewives who had to cope with the rationing that would outlast the war by several years (butter, cheese, margarine, cooking fats and meat did not come off the ration until 1954).
(18) Unlike the brief (approximately equal to 1 ms) openings in mode 1, mode 2 openings tend to be longer (greater than 10 ms) and often outlast the test pulse.
(19) For example, kindling-induced potentiation can far outlast LTP.
(20) The dermal electrodes were best tolerated and outlasted the corneal in repeated use.
Persist
Definition:
(v. i.) To stand firm; to be fixed and unmoved; to stay; to continue steadfastly; especially, to continue fixed in a course of conduct against opposing motives; to persevere; -- sometimes conveying an unfavorable notion, as of doggedness or obstinacy.
Example Sentences:
(1) Without medication atypical ventricular tachycardia develops, in the author's opinion, most probably when bradycardia has persisted for a prolonged period.
(2) If the method was taken into routine use in a diagnostic laboratory, the persistence of reverse passive haemagglutination reactions would enable grouping results to be checked for quality control purposes.
(3) We considered the days of the disease and the persistence of symptoms since the admission as peculiar parameters between the two groups.
(4) The remaining case had a calibre persistent submucosal artery within the caecum that was found incidentally in a resection specimen.
(5) The difference in HDL and HDL2 cholesterol concentrations between the MI+ and MI- groups or between the MI+ and CHD- groups persisted after adjustment by analysis of covariance for the effect of physical activity, alcohol intake, obesity, duration of diabetes, and glycemic control.
(6) Since the advance and return of sperm inside the tubes could facilitate the interaction of sperm with secretions participating in its maturation, the persistent infertility after vasectomy could be related to the contractile alteration that follows the excessive tubal distention.
(7) An experimental Anaplasma marginale infection was induced in a splenectomized mule deer (Odocoileus hemionus hemionus) which persisted subclinically at least 376 days as detected by subinoculation into susceptible cattle.
(8) TR was classified as follows: severe (massive systolic opacification and persistence of the microbubbles in the IVC for at least 20 seconds); moderate (moderate systolic opacification lasting less than 20 seconds); mild (slight systolic opacification lasting less than 10 seconds); insignificant TR (sporadic appearance of the contrast medium into the IVC).
(9) They had learned through hard experience what Frederick Douglass once taught -- that freedom is not given, it must be won, through struggle and discipline, persistence and faith.
(10) Short incubations with heparin (5 min) caused a release of the enzyme into the media, while longer incubations caused a 2-8-fold increase in net lipoprotein lipase secretion which was maximal after 2-16 h depending on cell type, and persisted for 24 h. The effect of heparin was dose-dependent and specific (it was not duplicated by other glycosaminoglycans).
(11) The first patient, an 82-year-old woman, developed a WPW syndrome suggesting posterior right ventricular preexcitation, a pattern which persisted for four months until her death.
(12) But not only did it post a larger loss than expected, Amazon also projected 7% to 18% revenue growth over the busiest shopping period of the year, a far cry from the 20%-plus pace that had convinced investors to overlook its persistent lack of profit in the past.
(13) Channel activation persists through the process of platelet isolation and washing and is manifested in higher measured values of [Ca2+]cyt and [Ca2+]dt in the "resting state."
(14) Gastro-intestinal surgery is only indicated if haemorrhage persists after a period of observation.
(15) Psychiatric morbidity is further increased when adjuvant chemotherapy is used and when treatment results in persistent arm pain and swelling.
(16) A newborn presenting with persistent umbilical stump bleeding should be screened for factor XIII deficiency when routine coagulation tests prove normal.
(17) This competence persists over the eight measurement points.
(18) To investigate the possibility that an abnormality of gastric emptying exists in duodenal ulcer and to determine if such an abnormality persists after ulcer healing, scintigraphic gastric emptying measurements were undertaken in 16 duodenal ulcer patients before, during, and after therapy with cimetidine; in 12 patients with pernicious anemia, and in 12 control subjects.
(19) Thus it appears that a portion of the adaptation to prolonged and intense endurance training that is responsible for the higher lactate threshold in the trained state persists for a long time (greater than 85 days) after training is stopped.
(20) persisted and was more abnormal in 23% of the cases including specific tracings in 37%.