(a.) Having the ascendency over others; superior in strength, influence, or authority; prevailing; as, a predominant color; predominant excellence.
Example Sentences:
(1) A group I subset (six animals), for which predominant cultivable microbiota was described, had a mean GI of 2.4.
(2) These results indicate that astrocytes possess bradykinin receptors and that these are predominantly of the B2 subtype.
(3) Exudative inflammatory processes predominate in the ulcer floor.
(4) The secondary leukemia that occurred in these patients could be distinguished from the secondary leukemia that occurs after treatment with alkylating agents by the following: a shorter latency period; a predominance of monocytic or myelomonocytic features; and frequent cytogenetic abnormalities involving 11q23.
(5) In hypophysectomized rats the activity of alanine aminotransferase was increased, but its normal zonation (predominance in the periportal zone) was preserved.
(6) Anaerobes, in particular Bacteroides spp., are the predominant bacteria present in mixed intra-abdominal infections, yet their critical importance in the pathogenicity of these infections is not clearly defined.
(7) I hope this movement will continue and spread for it has within itself the power to stand up to fascism, be victorious in the face of extremism and say no to oppressive political powers everywhere.” Appearing via videolink from Tehran, and joined by London mayor Sadiq Khan and Palme d’Or winner Mike Leigh, Farhadi said: “We are all citizens of the world and I will endeavour to protect and spread this unity.” The London screening of The Salesman on Sunday evening wasintended to be a show of unity and strength against Trump’s travel ban, which attempted to block arrivals in the US from seven predominantly Muslim countries: Iran, Iraq, Libya, Sudan, Somalia, Syria and Yemen.
(8) Analysis of conjugated discharges ACHs showed that they appeared predominantly periodically (87% of cases).
(9) Alcohol abuse remains the predominant cause of chronic liver disease in the Western world.
(10) Immunogold electron microscopy demonstrated that outer dense fibres were the predominant immunoreactive site.
(11) Saturated acyl residues predominated in lysolecithin and unsaturated ones in acids released by hydrolysis of egg lecithin.
(12) The axons of A5, RPoOl and RaD neurons exhibit no lateral predominance in their spinal projections.
(13) Of the three patients with a pure or predominantly endometrioid pattern treated with diethylstilbestrol, two had a marked clinical response.
(14) The mRNA data of the developing gut correspond with previous protein data, which showed that the shorter Mr 210,000 polypeptide predominates during earlier developmental stages and the larger Mr 260,000 polypeptide appears later in the embryonic gut (Aufderheide, E., and P. Ekblom.
(15) Neisseria meningitidis group B serotype 2 strain M986 contains two predominant outer membrane proteins, with apparent molecular weights of 41,000 (protein b) and 28,000 (protein e).
(16) Preliminary rhythmic somatic stimulation has a predominantly facilitating effect on EPs appearing in response to tonal stimuli in the areas A1, S2, S1.
(17) Following injections of HRP into the apex of the heart, the sinoatrial (SA) nodal region and the ventral wall of the right ventricle, we observed that HRP-labeled sympathetic neurons were localized predominantly in the right stellate ganglia, and to a lesser extent, in the right superior and middle cervical ganglia, and left stellate ganglia.
(18) Ultrastructual analysis indicated that the majority of the microtubules assembled predominantly from the pericentriolar material but also onto the centrioles.
(19) The organisms were predominantly associated with host deposits of erythrocytes, phagocytes, platelets, and fibrinous-appearing material, which collectively appeared on the valve surface in response to trauma.
(20) These animals spent a much greater portion of their SWS in the lighter SWS I, as compared to the control group which showed a predominance of the deeper SWS II.
Subdominant
Definition:
(n.) The fourth tone above, or fifth below, the tonic; -- so called as being under the dominant.
Example Sentences:
(1) Effect of immobilization stress on myocardial ultrastructure has been studied in rats occupying, according to the behavior, dominant, subdominant and "outcast" position in the group.
(2) Content of dopamine and serotonin in the brain structures studied was found to be different in dominants and subdominants.
(3) They probably consist of a dominant, monogamous breeding pair, its dependent offspring and separate hierarchies of subdominant males and females who stay associated with the group for various lengths of time.
(4) When an unconditioned reflex (blinking) was used as in agent exposing defensive dominant, it was found that summation in the dominant focus may occur without a conjugate inhibition of the subdominant center.
(5) Long delays in the experimental scheme enabled the subdominant to get up to 50% of the food reinforcement due to the dominant baboons mistakes.
(6) The established neuro-psychological syndrome in observations with neoplasms in the right subdominant hemisphere possesses only a tentative topico-diagnostical significance.
(7) The repression of the subdominant flora by the dominant flora prevents the subdominant flora from spreading to the mesenteric ganglia and then the whole body.
(8) In healthy subjects, in a state of relative rest, with different individual profiles of asymmetry (20 right-handed and 10 left-handed subjects), a greater conjunction of electrical brain processes (estimated by mean EEG coherence levels) has been found in the dominant hemisphere as compared to the subdominant one, more distinctly expressed in the right-handed subjects.
(9) We compared resting conditions after a special relaxation procedure with three music perception tasks: (1) a standardised rumba rhythm generated by a keyboard and delivered binaurally by earphones, (2) the same as an arpeggio in D major, and (3) the same as an arpeggio with a tonic-subdominant-dominant cadence.
(10) The report contains some results of an experimental psychological study of memory in 144 patients with lesions of the right and left temporal lobes and in 25 patients with parkinsonism, who had undergone stereotaxic operations on the nuclear structures of the thalamus for dominant and subdominant speech of the brain hemisphere.
(11) Within a week, this was followed by obvious decrease of noradrenaline content in different regions of the brain in both dominant and subdominant animals, whereas the brain serotonin and dopamine levels did not change.
(12) Decrease of norepinephrine and dopamine content by the injection of alpha-methyl-DL-tyrosine and decrease of norepinephrine alone by means of FLA-57 and also norepinephrine decrease and dopamine increase caused by combined injection of FLA-57 and alpha-DOPA were accompanied by a transfer of dominant and subdominant animals into the rank of subordinates.
(13) The obvious negative state of the subdominant baboon resulted in a severe neurotic breakdown.
(14) The dominant flora is strictly anaerobic and the subdominant flora optionally aero-anaerobic, consist mainly of Enterobacter, Streptococci and Lactobacilli.
(15) Dominant, subdominant, subordinate and non-aggressive mice were recognized in these groups.
(16) There was a larger increase in the blood concentrations of dopamine, serotonin and cortisol and more significant inhibition of testosterone production under the influence of two-hour immobilization as compared to the subdominant animals.
(17) Particularly sexually successful animals, carrying out the most ejaculations, live 10-20% longer than their (subdominant) competitors displaying less sexual success.
(18) A distinct decrease of NA concentration in the brain produced an increase of intermale aggression and elevation of plasma testosterone level in dominant mice, whereas brain NA alteration did not change testosterone level in the blood and decreased aggressiveness in subdominant animals.
(19) Depending on the level of excitation in the dominant focus, the subdominant focus may be both in inhibitory state (no blinking in response to the subdominant stimulus) and in a state of enhanced excitation (the reflex to its proper stimulus increases).
(20) The barrier flora, consisting of groups of anaerobes, either prevent the implantation of exogenous microorganisms (drastic barrier) or limit it to the subdominant flora (permissive barrier).