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Supervene


Definition:

  • (v. i.) To come as something additional or extraneous; to occur with reference or relation to something else; to happen upon or after something else; to be added; to take place; to happen.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The earliest reports were of peripheral neuritis, but later it was evident that an upper motor neuron syndrome had supervened.
  • (2) The supervening acidosis had a large anion gap that was of proportion with the increase in lactate values.
  • (3) If both are exhausted, ischemia supervenes and rCMRO2 becomes linearly related to rCBF.
  • (4) Seroconversion and clinico-biochemical amelioration supervene at different observation periods (after 1-6 years) and do not depend on the initial activity of hepatitis.
  • (5) Large cell lymphomas supervening on alpha-HCD belonged to the same proliferating clone as the clone secreting the HCD protein, as shown by surface markers and biosynthesis experiments which demonstrated synthesis but no secretion of HCD proteins.
  • (6) We describe a very rare subcutaneous pseudoaneurysmal development of an internal mammary arteriovenous fistula supervening after sternal wire closure.
  • (7) CMV may be recovered from a variety of body secretions and fluids during acute infection, and protracted shedding may supervene in some instances.
  • (8) Viral envelope constituents remain detectable on the cell surface during the third stage and disappear only when cell-to-cell fusion supervenes.
  • (9) Ca2+ channel blockers can also reduce the susceptibility for ventricular fibrillation to supervene in ischemic hearts, especially when the sympathetic nervous system is overactive.
  • (10) As was emphasized previously for Masson's lesions, lymphangiomas containing similar endothelial changes should also not be mistaken for malignant vascular tumors, since in these two cases, no unusual clinical course supervened.
  • (11) With the loss of sympathetic reserve, congestive failure supervenes.
  • (12) In longitudinal studies, islet cell antibodies and insulin autoantibodies were often present together whether or not diabetes supervened.
  • (13) It is suggested that massive infiltration of lymphoma cells into the bone marrow caused marrow failure and compensatory mechanisms supervened leading to myeloid metaplastic implants in the peritoneum associated with ascites as well as in the liver, spleen and lymph nodes.
  • (14) The earliest changes (after 1 month) include: falling activity of hexokinase and a rise in that of glucose-6-phosphatase and succindehydrogenase, pointing to the damage of microsomes and mitochondria supervenes in 1 and 6 months time after introduction, respectively.
  • (15) The finding of such an illness in a patient with normal serum DNA-binding levels made it unlikely that the illness was due to an exacerbation of the SLE and more likely that an alternative cause such as supervening bacteraemia was responsible.
  • (16) Particular difficulties not readily accommodated within the model are that hormonal autonomy can supervene without loss of the estrogen receptor and that antiestrogen effects are highly context-dependent, without apparent differences in the estrogen receptor itself or in metabolic transformation of antiestrogens.
  • (17) While this diffuse subcortical edema was subsiding gradually in about 2 weeks, progressive brain atrophy was supervening and resulted finally in severe dilatation of the ventricular system.
  • (18) When subjected to decreasing oxygen concentration adult birds slowly became unconscious, without showing any signs of distress, until respiratory failure supervened.
  • (19) However, because renal function was mildly compromised early on, some element of early secondary (renal) hyperparathyroidism may have supervened quickly.
  • (20) Thirty-four previously untreated patients with oat cell carcinoma of the lung were treated with a myelotoxic combination of cyclophosphamide, adriamycin, methotrexate, CCNU, and Corynebacterium parvum (regimen A) every 4 weeks, interspersed with a non-myelotoxic combination including bleomycin, vincristine, dehydroemetine, and Corynebacterium parvum (regimen B) weekly the other 3 weeks or when hematologic toxicity prohibited administration of regimen A. Hematologic toxicity was frequent but was never a serious problem except in two cases of profound leukopenia in which fatal supervening infection occurred.

Supervenient


Definition:

  • (a.) Coming as something additional or extraneous; coming afterwards.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Rosenberg has rightly argued that fitness is supervenient.

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