(1) Levothyroxine therapy lowered the monoiodotyrosine and diiodotyrosine levels, ameliorated all her endocrinopathies, started her periods, and shrank the goiter.
(2) It therefore seems inevitable that the region will have fallen back into a new recession in the third quarter And here's a summary of the data, showing that only two countries expanded: Ireland: 51.8 (2-month high) The Netherlands: 50.7 (13-month high) Germany: 47.4 (6-month high) Italy: 45.7 (6-month high) Austria: 45.1 (39-month low) Spain: 44.5 (6 month low) France: 42.7 (41-month low) Greece: 42.2 (4-month high) 9.07am BST EUROZONE RECESSION ALL BUT CERTAIN The eurozone's manufacturing sector shrank again in September, making a double-dip recession all but certain.
(3) The Greek consumer prices index shrank by 2.9% in November, showing deflation accelerated after October's reading of minus 2.0%.
(4) All revisions indicated that the devascularized necrotic segment shrank to form a minute fibrous tissue residue, anastomosis was patent and continence was retained for colo-proctoanastomosis.
(5) In experiment one, 144 zygotes shrank to 32-36% of their initial volume in 1.0 M SPBS within 30 min.
(6) His brief grew and then shrank with his appointment as the BBC's "teen tsar" overseeing BBC Switch, axed as part of director general Mark Thompson's strategy review last year.
(7) MR cells shrank about 23% when all chloride was removed from the outside (mucosal) bathing solution.
(8) The sharp fall is partly due to the extra bank holiday in June (for the Diamond Jubilee), so could be a one-off... ...and as the data isn't as bad as feared, it might suggest that the original estimate that the UK shrank by 0.7% in the last quarter will be revised a little higher.
(9) As the programme got going most of the problems shrank in size whilst the problem of changing their practice routines to meet certain guidelines for quality of care imposed by the programme grew.
(10) Spain's economy shrank by 0.3% in the first quarter, putting it back into recession and with a long downturn in prospect as the government cuts spending in an attempt to wrestle down its budget deficit.
(11) Greece is expected to raise as much as €6bn this week to address its borrowing needs – including a much-discussed €3.2bn bond which matures later this month ( this FT piece has more details ) Updated at 10.45am BST 10.02am BST ITALIAN RECESSION CONTINUES Just in: Italian GDP shrank by 0.7% in the second quarter of 2012.
(12) Although the extracellular space (ECS) shrank by approximately 50% during anoxia, the possibility that the increase in K+o and decrease in K+i were mainly caused by shrinkage of the ECS and swelling of intraneuronal space was excluded to a great degree because the changes in K+i and K+o during anoxia were relatively very large.
(13) Light cells shrank when NMG+ replaced Na+, supporting predictions of a Na(+)-dependent volume control system.
(14) RIF-1 tumors shrank to approximately half the volume at the start of therapy after only 3 days of treatment; mammary tumors took longer to respond, not reaching half the starting volume until after 11 days of treatment.
(15) But in April 2014, his show was taken off the air as the opportunities for criticism of authorities shrank.
(16) Tours was transformed, he says, when its high-speed service shrank the journey from Paris to just over an hour in 1989.
(17) Official figures will reveal on Thursday whether the economy shrank for a second successive quarter, from January to March, marking a triple-dip recession – unprecedented in living memory.
(18) The new data show that during the recent downturn the economy shrank by 6.0%, rather than the 7.2% previously estimated.
(19) The Japanese economy shrank by 1.3% in the last three months of 2010, and there are fears that its recovery could be knocked off course.
(20) Economists were most alarmed by data from France, where manufacturing activity shrank at the fastest rate in almost three years.
Shrink
Definition:
(v. i.) To wrinkle, bend, or curl; to shrivel; hence, to contract into a less extent or compass; to gather together; to become compacted.
(v. i.) To withdraw or retire, as from danger; to decline action from fear; to recoil, as in fear, horror, or distress.
(v. i.) To express fear, horror, or pain by contracting the body, or part of it; to shudder; to quake.
(v. t.) To cause to contract or shrink; as, to shrink finnel by imersing it in boiling water.
(v. t.) To draw back; to withdraw.
(n.) The act shrinking; shrinkage; contraction; also, recoil; withdrawal.
Example Sentences:
(1) A shrinking populace is perhaps a greater challenge than any problems with Russia.
(2) "The results present a remarkably bleak portrait of life in the UK today and the shrinking opportunities faced by the bottom third of UK society," said the head of the project, Professor David Gordon of Bristol University.
(3) The resulting free anterior tarsal surface must be covered by a free graft to prevent tarsal shrinking.
(4) Sales are also shrinking in north America and Europe.
(5) Burst your bubble: five conservative articles to read as protests stymie Trump Read more There’s the shrinking minority of Americans who believe he’s doing a good job.
(6) The media are more pervasive, seeping everywhere into the vacuum left by the shrinking of the old powers.
(7) This increase was due to a larger radiation dose to the anoxic tumor core and to external irradiation shrinking the tumor to within the high-dose range of radium therapy.
(8) To make the equations of physics carry on working, Einstein showed that the length of any moving object must shrink in the direction of its travel.
(9) VS K influx into high K cells was transient, whereas influx into low K cells (prepared with nystatin), which are unable to shrink via K efflux, remained fully activated.
(10) The battle for eastern Aleppo in maps: how rebel territory is shrinking Read more Some have arrived in government-held or Kurdish-controlled territory with overstuffed suitcases and bags of their possessions, but others have come empty-handed, with only the clothes on their backs.
(11) According his hypothesis "the nerves were shrinking because of drying" and the treatment had to be long, prolonged bathing.
(12) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Bernie Sanders: I want to see major changes in the Democratic party But Clinton is still a comfortable favourite in polling at the national level and her team argued earlier that day that if she can shrink his lead to single digits in the New Hampshire primary on Tuesday, she will have blunted the surprise momentum that unnerved supporters when he came within a whisker of beating her in Iowa.
(13) Unemployment in Spain's shrinking economy now exceeds 4 million people, or almost 19% of the population, and has pushed the bank's bad loan ratio in its home market up to 3.4%.
(14) Ranch and management x ranch effects accounted for more of the variation in shrink than PC did.
(15) The Blairite rump wants more austerity and markets in public services, while their champion, Douglas Alexander, wants to "shrink" Labour's offer so the Tories and media have as little as possible to attack.
(16) The reality is they seem to be in denial that the Welsh budget is shrinking yet they seem to be calling for more money to be spent in practically every area.
(17) Should they shrink from it, the Lib Dems will reveal that they are neither liberal nor democratic.
(18) At the same time, the diameter of the hair cell top decreased by shrinking.
(19) Corticosteroid therapy for acute "shrinking lungs syndrome" in active SLE can improve symptoms and pulmonary function.
(20) The report does not discuss the reasons why young black people make up an ever greater proportion of the shrinking youth jail population.