prolongation

prolong | American Dictionary

prolong
verb[ T ]
us/prəˈlɔŋ/
to make something last a longer time:
They’re trying to prolong their lives.

prolonged

adjectiveus/prəˈlɔŋd/
Grasslands were damaged by the prolonged drought.

Examples of prolong

prolong
Responses are generally elevated and prolonged, but to a lesser degree than with picrotoxin.
This can be achieved without mortality or morbidity and avoids prolonged evolutions and late deaths.
But the participants had different cultural sensibilities, tall egos, and wide ambitions, which provoked and prolonged their quarrel.
In fact, fathers could delay funding their sons' marriages on the grounds that money was unavailable, thereby prolonging their access to the young men's labor.
No one seriously proposed that the families were mistaken in thinking that ventilator support would be effective in prolonging the patient's biological existence.
Rural bases enabled workers to prolong their strike action in urban areas.
High birth weight, induction or augmentation of labour, and prolonged first stage, were not associated with adverse outcome in this study.
Moreover, study of the rd-3 mutation might also lead to clues for therapies to prolong photoreceptor survival in human disease.
The goals of medicine practice in general are to prolong, protect and preserve life.
The present writer has no wish to prolong their agony - or their irritation.
However, to provide sufficient cases for analysis of maternal age and seasonal variations would require a very extensive and prolonged survey which might prove impractical.
He had therefore prolonged the outward journey farther than was wise, and in addition, the caribou began their southward migration earlier than usual that year.
Under these conditions the hydropriming pretreatment could be prolonged up to 5 d since none of the seeds germinated by this time.
Outbreaks of cryptosporidiosis can be prolonged, involve multiple pools and be difficult to control.
Therefore, it was argued, a process of prolonging independence will have substantial economic advantages, as care remains on lower cost settings.
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