(v. t.) To come, or be placed, in the room of; to replace.
(v. t.) To displace, or set aside, and put another in place of; as, to supersede an officer.
(v. t.) To make void, inefficacious, or useless, by superior power, or by coming in the place of; to set aside; to render unnecessary; to suspend; to stay.
(v. t.) To omit; to forbear.
Example Sentences:
(1) It was superseded by a new version earlier this year.
(2) At higher [Ca2+]i, the effect of K+ channels on Em is superseded by opening of nonselective cation channels, producing depolarization.
(3) The cephalic signal can be superseded by juvenile hormone, whose presence is necessary for each follicle to become vitellogenic.
(4) In an age of economic crisis, the tacit assumption of the governing class is that political reform is superseded by the growing demand for security.
(5) Radiological studies of Willis' circle morphology are mainly performed in search of intracerebral aneurysms, and for this purpose digital imaging has not superseded conventional radiology.
(6) This extracellular action may supersede the action of collagenase and the activity of these different enzymes would thus be regulated by changes in the nature of this microenvironment.
(7) Indeed, by the mid-17th century, Caravaggism was already out of favour in Rome and had been superseded by a Raphaelesque classicism, practised most gracefully by Annibale Carracci.
(8) In spite of his life seeming superficially great, in spite of all the praise and accolades, in spite of all the loving friends and family, there is a predominant voice in the mind of an addict that supersedes all reason and that voice wants you dead.
(9) During the period under review the Phemister procedure was replaced by percutaneous epiphysiodesis, and orthoroentgenogram was superseded by computed tomography (CT) scanning.
(10) Indeed, by analogy with anti-hypertensive therapy, enzyme inhibitors could eventually supersede receptor antagonists for the treatment of acid-related diseases.
(11) Autoregulation graduates to wingless independence, but is transient, and is superseded by an engrailed-independent mode of maintenance.
(12) Early excision-graft of burned hands seems to have totally superseded the conventional method of progressive detorsion often with late grafting.
(13) Graphene is claimed by some as an innovation that will prove as revolutionary as the silicon chip, or even plastics, both of which it may supersede.
(14) Stupid, sadistic, public-school educated, a former Black and Tan and one-time professional strikebreaker in the United States, "wanted in New Orleans for the murder of a coloured woman", it's tempting to see him as a satirical portrait of the archetypal hero of the moribund thrillers that Ambler was so determined to supersede, unmasked and revealed for the cryptofascist brute he really is.
(15) If you are in this position, your rights also supersede what are commonly known as "squatters' rights".
(16) Streptomycin undoubtedly will be improved upon and superseded by some other agent in the future, giving us better control of this disease and possibly enabling us to eradicate it.
(17) The application of this combination of techniques supersedes the traditional approaches (gel filtration on polydextran gels, electrophoresis) in specificity and speed.
(18) People and companies are entitled to acquire and hold private assets, but there are times – as in the run-up to the Olympics, as in the period of urban reconstruction after the second world war – when the public good must supersede the rights of those who wish to retain and profit from private assets.
(19) It is designed as an objective system--superseding former weighting processes, which were influenced by ambition, prestige, prejudice and narrow politics--and has sufficient flexibility to accommodate both the anticipated and the unforeseen.
(20) The principle that the best management is resection and exteriorisation of the ends, which was developed in the early 1970s, has been superseded by the realisation that resection and primary anastomosis can be safe in a well-resuscitated infant in whom the bowel ends appear viable.
Supplant
Definition:
(n.) To trip up.
(n.) To remove or displace by stratagem; to displace and take the place of; to supersede; as, a rival supplants another in the favor of a mistress or a prince.
(n.) To overthrow, undermine, or force away, in order to get a substitute in place of.
Example Sentences:
(1) It is as yet impossible to judge how far routine magnetic resonance imaging will supplant or complement CT in making the initial clinical diagnosis.
(2) EUS should not supplant the use of CT scan or ERCP in the differential diagnosis of pancreatic disease, but is rather an adjunct to these studies.
(3) Subsequent fecal samples showed a progressive supplantation of E coli by Klebsiella, Enterobacter and Proteus.
(4) The aim was to supplant the informal militias, known as the " shabiha ", who were often accused of massacres, with a more disciplined and better armed force.
(5) Interview data on some two dozen individuals obtained in the spring of 1982 was increasingly supplemented and supplanted by continued field observation and other techniques of data-gathering through the summer of 1985.
(6) The difference in kinetics for reversal between these two treatments suggests that myo-inositol addition overrides a biochemical pathway while Ca2+ addition supplants a phosphoinositide-mediated rise in the cation that may be necessary for anaphase onset.
(7) For this reason, puncture of the pouch of Douglas was increasingly--and finally completely--supplanted by laparoscopy.
(8) They also confirmed there was no guarantee that the fund will not supplant existing National Health and Medical Research Council funding – which is not quarantined.
(9) Tracheostomy is being supplanted by nasotracheal intubation as the preferred means of securing an endangered airway.
(10) As further technical refinements improve resolution and sensitivity, color Doppler may eventually supplant angiography as the primary imaging modality in peripheral arterial diagnosis, reserving arteriography for interventional procedures.
(11) While in vitro and animal test systems can never fully supplant human studies, they represent our only means for detecting potential carcinogenicity before human exposure has become widespread or long established.
(12) There has been a vigorous search for many years for chemical agents that could supplement or even supplant patient-dependent mechanical plaque control and thus reduce or prevent oral disease.
(13) Additional studies will be necessary, over extended time periods, to determine whether the bilaminar layer remains a constant feature between the HTR and the surrounding bone or whether this region is gradually supplanted by the ingrowing bone.
(14) In this study, they were capable of supplanting conventional sequences in the evaluation of intradural pathology of the spine in the sagittal plane, although conventional sequences were still preferred in the axial plane.
(15) Intravascular fetal transfusion has gained widespread acceptance and has supplanted the use of intraperitoneal fetal transfusion in management of severe alloimmune disease in many centers.
(16) The procedure has been mainly embraced by the gynecologist and its use in this field has largely supplanted culdoscopy.
(17) Currently, MRI's noninvasiveness, sensitivity and multiplanar graphic depiction of the disease process are supplanting the more traditional diagnostic modalities of CT, metrizamide CT, and myelography.
(18) The new orally administered antifungal agents ketoconazole and fluconazole have been approved for clinical use and have supplanted amphotericin B in certain situations.
(19) The ultimate goal is to develop a plan whereby the formal service providers supplement rather than supplant the care and assistance available from the older person's network.
(20) They are reminiscent of current suspicion among Palestinians of Jews seeking today to pray within the Temple Mount compound , harbouring dreams of supplanting the Haram al-Sharif mosques with a third temple.