descend on/upon someone/somewhere

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descend
The classical picture of botulism is of descending symmetrical flaccid paralysis with no fever.
Their possession of the bundles would have identified them as lineage heads, those most directly descended from the divine ancestors.
A logging gap was defined as the area of ground disturbed beneath an opening in the canopy descending to within 12 m of the ground.
Note the right descending aorta is seen well distally and does not run beneath the esophagus.
Finally, an excerpt including ascending and descending parts of the sweep is played.
The pulmonary arteries and descending aorta are also seen well.
Moreover, two aberrant arteries originating from the descending aorta were imaged clearly.
In the normal fetus, the tension of arterial oxygen would be higher in the ascending aorta than in the pulmonary arteries and descending aorta.
The eight most common serogroups were 23, 9, 6, 19, 14, 3, 15 and 11 (in descending order).
However, the book for the most part managed to avoid descending into trivial reportage, so easy to do when coverage is so broad-based.
As the scores are produced in descending order, it is only necessary to consider adjacent values.
She sang and little by little descended to the stage, where she immediately disappeared.
Help was also sought (in descending frequency) from family, friends and neighbours, hospital staff and the police.
The two have descended into the dungeon and are in the process of digging the prisoner's grave.
In the meantime, their aircraft has descended through 7,500 feet.
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