(1) Once treatment began, no significant changes occurred in Group 1, but both PRA and A2 rose significantly in Groups 2 and 3.
(2) However, patients with GGBHS were significantly older (P less than .05).
(3) In each sheep there was a significant negative correlation between the glucose and corticosteroid concentrations in both maternal and fetal plasma, and there were positive correlations between the maternal and fetal plasma concentrations of glucose, and between the glucose and fructose concentrations of fetal plasma.
(4) Such a decrease significantly biased survival (p = 0.001).
(5) This may have significant consequences for people’s health.” However, Prof Peter Weissberg, medical director of the British Heart Foundation, which funded the work, said medical journals could no longer be relied on to be unbiased.
(6) 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.
(7) However, when first trimester specimens were analyzed, the direct-product measurements were significantly larger than the corresponding 3H2O assay results.
(8) The Na+ ionophore, gramicidin, had a small but significant inhibitory effect on Na(+)-dependent KG uptake, demonstrating that KG uptake was not the result of an intravesicular positive Na+ diffusion potential.
(9) Propranolol resulted in a significantly lower mean hourly, mean 24 h and minimum heart rate.
(10) In some other countries the patient-to-nurse ratio was significantly smaller.
(11) The findings indicate that there is still a significant incongruence between the value structure of most family practice units and that of their institutions but that many family practice units are beginning to achieve parity of promotion and tenure with other departments in their institutions.
(12) The significance of minor increases in the serum creatinine level must be recognized, so that modifications of drug therapy can be made and correction of possibly life-threatening electrolyte imbalances can be undertaken.
(13) The process of sequence rearrangement appears to be a significant part of the evolution of the genome and may have a much greater effect on the evolution of the phenotype than sequence alteration by base substitution.
(14) The low affinity of several N1-alkylpyrroleethylamines suggests that the benzene portion of the alpha-methyltryptamines is necessary for significant affinity.
(15) During control, no significant difference between systolic fluctuation (delta Pa) and pleural swings (delta Ppl) was found.
(16) Urinary ANF immunoreactivity was significantly enhanced by candoxatril in both groups (P less than 0.05 and P less than 0.01 in groups 1 and 2, respectively), with a more pronounced effect evident at the higher dose (P less than 0.01).
(17) Both lymph flow from cannulated pancreatico-duodenal lymphatics and intralymphatic pressure in the non-transected ones increased significantly.
(18) We conclude that the priming effect is not a clinically significant phenomenon during natural pollen exposure in allergic rhinitis patients.
(19) This study examined the [3H]5-HT-releasing properties of 3,4-methylenedioxymethamphetamine (MDMA) and related agents, all of which cause significant release of [3H]5-HT from rat brain synaptosomes.
(20) However, the degree of sedation caused by diphenhydramine was significantly greater than that caused by cimetidine (P = .0001).
Sonority
Definition:
(n.) The quality or state of being sonorous; sonorousness.
Example Sentences:
(1) Best friends since school, they sound like an old married couple, finishing each other's sentences, constantly referring to the other by name and making each other laugh; deep sonorous, belly laughs.
(2) The value of sonor biparietal cephalometry and serum oxytocinase that we have obtained with weekly simultaneous determinations in 14 females with normal pregnancy and in 5 with pathological pregnancy, from 24th to 39th week, show a statical positive relation.
(3) And Matthew McConaughey will do a sonorous voice over about the evolution of human endeavour on the trailer.
(4) And the winner of the £25,000 prize – Glaswegian Susan Philipsz , whose piece consisted of a recording of her soft and sonorous voice singing a traditional Scottish lament over the River Clyde – remembered it the morning after just as an artist who works in sound ought: "It was a surreal experience.
(5) But the voice is a deep sonorous thing that crackles like dry leather, and he can still draw blood with one deadpan line.
(6) Sonorant and voicing features were transmitted well for the A condition, but features related to high-frequency and place cues were not.
(7) The author has conducted 95 subtotal reconstructive laryngectomies in the period of 1976 to 1984, with the following effects: decannulation, with the mean time of 6 weeks in 82%; deglutition without difficulties, after the third postoperative month in 90% of operated patients; the restoration of phonetics with sonorous-understandable speech in 11%.
(8) It all began at two minutes to six on May Day last year, when the sonorous tones of Sir David Attenborough combined with the equally unmistakable call of the cuckoo, heralding the start of Tweet of the Day .
(9) My eldest son dropped his dummy like a stone when warned by our Italian dentist, in a sonorous baritone: "You don't give up your dummy, you look like this …" (pantomiming horrible buck teeth).
(10) It has also been argued that the sonority (or vowel-likeness) of the consonant closest to the peak, which is a function of its phonetic class, may have an effect on the strength of boundaries determined by the hierarchical division of the syllable (e.g., Treiman, 1984).
(11) Prefiguring attitudes now associated with John Humphrys and Jeremy Paxman, Robinson succeeded in breaking through what he called the "sonorous drivel" of politicians, of whom he once said: "It's impossible to make the bastards reply to a straight question."
(12) Salient features in the auditory mode for the CI group were duration, sonorancy, and some manner attributes, while the HA subjects used these features as well as sibilancy and voicing.
(13) Velopharyngeal sonorous snoring is best treated with uvulopalatopharyngoplasty (UPPP).
(14) In May, it hosts Nuits Sonores , a five-day (and night) festival of electronic music and art, which sees hundreds of locations across the city transformed into creative stages (13-17 May).
(15) In a slow but sonorous voice, the biblical cadences rolled out, and the crowd would sway with them, and punctuate them with the answering calls that are the special feature of Negro churches.
(16) A high court judge has sonorously intoned that Putin is not very nice.
(17) What's excruciating is seeing your father lying there in a pool of blood, seeing your sister lying in a pool of blood.” Charles Ryan, director of Arizona’s department of corrections, said in a statement: “Once the inmate was sedated, other than sonorous respiration, or snoring, he did not grimace or make any further movement.
(18) These values confirm the fact that, although the new voice achieved through reconstructive laryngectomy surgery is less sonorous, it allows for perfectly understandable, socially acceptable speech.
(19) Other times it is groups of young men who improvise platforms upon the irregular surfaces of the rooftop and talk and laugh with sonorous cries, feeling perhaps, at this height, somewhat liberated from the burdensome human environment, and whose demeanour is tinged with familiarity by their moving around in shirtsleeves – as on a rooftop no one is ashamed of exhibiting themselves dressed like this.” Facebook Twitter Pinterest View from the rooftop of Brasil 42 today.
(20) Not according to some Obama administration voices and rather too many sonorous broadcasters and upmarket commentators.