What's the difference between steeped and steepen?
Steeped
Definition:
(imp. & p. p.) of Steep
Example Sentences:
(1) The dose response effect in this tumor is steep and combinations which compromise the dose of adriamycin too greatly are showing inferior results.
(2) Steep longitudinal and transverse gradients of glycogen are known to exist in the organ of Corti of the guinea pig, with preferential accumulation in the outer hair cells of the apical turns.
(3) The steep portion of the relationship between Retzius cell action potential amplitude and membrane potential extrapolated to an apparent reversal potential of -13 mV.
(4) This property of endotoxin can serve as a sensitive bioassay, although the dose-response curve is steep.
(5) With its steep hills and cobblestones, the neighbourhood of São Cristóvão in Ouro Preto isn’t an easy place to play football.
(6) Four patients with herpes zoster ophthalmicus developed peripheral corneal ulcers with steep central edges.
(7) The results showed that measurements of impression profiles and SEM photogrammetry gave the most accurate results adjacent to regions simulating steep cavity margins, whereas the profilometric technique gave erroneous results in these regions.
(8) The intensity dependence of the early ganglion cell discharge, its latency and initial impulse frequency, is shown to follow from such a waveform, assuming that 1) latency L = l + D, where l is the time it takes for the rod response linearly summed over the ganglion cell's receptive field to reach a criterion amplitude, and D is a constant delay; and 2) the initial frequency (below saturation) is proportional to the steepness of rise of the summed rod response at time l. It is shown that the intensity dependences of 1) human visual latency and 2) brightness sensation, including effects of stimulus area and duration, are accounted for by the same model.
(9) The new protocol (standardised exponential exercise protocol, STEEP) is suitable for use on either a treadmill or a bicycle ergometer.
(10) Based on the signals observed by organ absorbance spectrophotometry from two compartments with oxidases of markedly different O2 sensitivity, the mitochondria and the peroxisomes, a distribution between high O2 and zero O2 zones is postulated, an intermediate border zone of O2 concentrations between the K0,5 (O2) values being virtually absent (steep intercellular O2 gradients).
(11) A man who had been near them reached the hotel terrace first, scrambling up a steep sandy bank.
(12) Patients with steep sloping audiograms understand better and patients with a conductive hearing loss component understand less in noisy circumstances with a hearing aid.
(13) The operational values are useful in characterising the steepness of dose-incidence curves for normal tissue injury after different fractionation schedules.
(14) Scarborough council said leaving the houses standing could cause a domino-effect down the steep slope above the picturesque harbour where the explorer Captain James Cook lodged and learned his seafaring skills.
(15) It is shown that this individual exhibits approximate alignment of her photoreceptors with the center of the retinal sphere, clear evidence of side lobes on functions, and surprisingly steep SCE I functions.
(16) For cross-linked alpha alpha, however, the curve sags at temperatures somewhat below the region of principal cooperative loss of helix, the latter occurring at higher temperature but with the same steepness as in the non-cross-linked case.
(17) A reduced venous compliance (VC) and inadequate venoconstriction may impair hemodynamics during hemodialysis, the first by impairing plasma volume preservation and by inducing a steep fall in central venous pressure (CVP) during minor plasma volume loss, the second by inadequate mobilization of hemodynamically inactive blood volume.
(18) A generally similar pattern is seen in healthy controls and in patients with untreated pulmonary tuberculosis, treated leprosy, haemophilia A and chronic obstructive lung disease (COLD) patients treated with prednisolone, but the gradient of increasing CD4:CD8 ratio with depth into the dermis is significantly less steep in patients with tuberculosis, haemophilia and prednisolone-treated COLD than in the healthy controls.
(19) Some problem drugs may be recognized if they display one or more of the following characteristics: narrow therapeutic index, steep dose-effect relationship, nonlinear kinetics, variable bioavailability, and pharmacogenetically determined kinetics.
(20) Replacement of a half of Ca++ ions by Sr++ resulted in an augmentation of steepness of the dependence on sum of [Ca++] and [Sp++], and in a more prominent fall in relaxation velocity as compared with contraction velocity.
Steepen
Definition:
(v. i.) To become steep or steeper.
Example Sentences:
(1) Inhibition of nucleoside transport with 20 microM S-(p-nitrobenzyl)-6-thioinosine steepened the transmembrane adenosine gradient.
(2) Reduced tidal volume causes significant steepening of Phase III, which agrees well with experimental data.
(3) When the low-Ca2+, 0-Na+ solution was presented in darkness, responses to subsequent illumination were affected in a characteristic manner: (i) the response-intensity relation was steepened and shifted to lower intensities, (ii) the response to a step of light could be predicted by integration and compression of the flash response, and (iii) the flash sensitivity declined steeply as a function of background intensity.
(4) Eight or 16 concentric point coagulations result in steepening in the central cornea.
(5) Our patient's corneal curvature steepened almost 3 diopters following lenticule removal.
(6) There might be a functional relationship between the observed age-changes in the ciliary muscle system and the phenomenon of the so-called 'lens paradox' (steepening of the anterior and posterior curvatures of the disaccommodated lens with age).
(7) On day 3, application of topical serotonin resulted in corneal steepening (P < .0001); serotonin produced no topographic changes when applied on day 8 and had no effect on normal unoperated corneas.
(8) In all sites, pulse amplitude increased with advancing age (carotid, 91.3%; radial 67.5%; femoral, 50.1% from first to eighth decade), diastolic decay steepened, and diastolic waves became less prominent.
(9) Kindling significantly increased the inhibitory effect of NMDA (10 microM) in slices prepared from animals 24 h after the last class 5 kindled seizure, resulting in a steepening of the dose-response curve for NMDA.
(10) The functional occlusal plane remained stable during mechanotherapy in the adolescents, whereas it steepened considerably in the adults.
(11) This dependence curve steepens in the pH region where charges of carboxyl groups of aspartic and glutamic amino acids are neutralized.
(12) Following detection the bat went into the approach phase where the FM sweep steepened (to about 60 kHz bandwidth) and the repetition rate increased (to about 30 Hz).
(13) In this group, the steepening was commonly restricted to one or two quadrants.
(14) Transverse incisions flatten the steeper meridian an equivalent amount as they steepen the flatter meridian.
(15) Excessively tight sutures induce central corneal steepening.
(16) The mean corneal curvature flattened during the first 3 weeks, but steepened to about 0.37 D at 3 months.
(17) In some eyes, preoperative topographic analysis revealed steepening distributed symmetrically about the corneal apex; in three eyes the steepening was asymmetrically distributed about the corneal apex.
(18) The greatest steepening in the eyes treated with radial keratotomy compared with the untreated eyes occurred at 1.5 to 2.5 mm peripheral to the corneal apex in the inferonasal and nasal octants.
(19) The presence of [Mg2+]o not only steepens the concentration-effect curves to the neurohypophyseal peptides but increases the maximum contractile responses as well.
(20) Agonist competition curves generated in the presence of 1 mM GTP resulted in a rightward shift and steepening of the inhibition-concentration curves, whereas antagonist binding was not altered in the presence of GTP.