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diminished
Laboratory models, however, are necessarily diminished representations of everyday-life processes.
Proliferation of granule cell precursors in the dentate gyrus of adult monkeys is diminished by stress.
First, the likelihood of subsequent non-attendance may be diminished.
Certainly, over a long historical period it might be expected that unrecorded separations would have diminished as a proportion of all marriage breakdowns.
Religion remained a significant determinant of intended family size but its effect had diminished.
The effect of employment status seems to have diminished during the decade.
Although collective work parties have diminished since the ' time of the elders ', they still take place frequently, particularly among certain categories of people.
The rate of production of thyroxine is diminished.
The heightened baseline pain state reached a peak at 3 weeks post-injury, and diminished back to baseline by 1 year.
Removal of the cotyledons strongly diminished enzymatic activity in the embryonic axis.
The cytokinin or ethylene requirements for overcoming thermoinhibition of lettuce germination can also be eliminated or diminished by removing or weakening the endosperm.
This way, positive psychological factors are enhanced while negative ones are diminished.
Regarding the follow-up bid, it appeared that the distribution of (yes, yes) responses diminished with bid size.
After 3 days, the c-wave was diminished substantially to approximately 50% of the preinjection baseline.
All visual behaviors were absent or greatly diminished until 8 to 10 weeks, when retinal layering had returned.
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