Found 5 hits - Term: attenuated, Database: *, Strategy: exact
- [1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
attenuate \atten"uate\, attenuated \atten"ua`ted\, a. l.
attenuatus, p. p.
1. made thin or slender.
1913 webster
2. made thin or less viscid; rarefied. --bacon.
1913 webster
- [2] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
attenuate \atten"uate\, v. t. imp. p. p. attenuated; p.
pr. vb. n. attenuating. l. attenuatus, p. p. of
attenuare; ad + tenuare to make thin, tenuis thin. see
thin.
1. to make thin or slender, as by mechanical or chemical
action upon inanimate objects, or by the effects of
starvation, disease, etc., upon living bodies.
1913 webster
2. to make thin or less consistent; to render less viscid or
dense; to rarefy. specifically: to subtilize, as the
humors of the body, or to break them into finer parts.
1913 webster
3. to lessen the amount, force, or value of; to make less
complex; to weaken.
1913 webster
to undersell our rivals . . . has led the
manufacturer to . . . attenuate his processes, in
the allotment of tasks, to an extreme point. --i.
taylor.
1913 webster
we may reject and reject till we attenuate history
into sapless meagerness. --sir f.
palgrave.
1913 webster
see also:
attenuated attenuating thin
- [3] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
decreased \decreased\ adj.
made less in size or amount or degree. opposite of
increased. narrower terms: attenuate, attenuated, faded,
weakened; belittled, diminished, small; cut, cut-rate;
diminished, lessened; minimized; remittent;
attenuated
syn: reduced.
wordnet 1.5
see also:
increased attenuate, attenuated, faded, weakened belittled, diminished, small cut, cut-rate diminished, lessened minimized
remittent attenuated
- [4] : WordNet (r) 2.0
attenuated
adj 1: of an electrical signal; reduced in amplitude with little or
no distortion
2: reduced in strength; "the faded tones of an old recording"
syn: attenuate, faded, weakened
see also:
attenuate faded weakened
- [5] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
145 moby thesaurus words for "attenuated":
sanforized, abated, ablated, adulterated, airy, attenuate, bated,
belittled, boyish, cadaverous, consumed, contracted, corky,
corpselike, curtailed, cut, dainty, decreased, deflated, delicate,
diaphanous, dilute, diluted, diminished, dissipated, downy,
dried-up, dropped, emacerated, emaciate, emaciated, eroded,
ethereal, fallen, filmy, fine, fine-drawn, fine-grained, finespun,
flimsy, fluffy, frail, fuzzy, gaseous, gauzy, girlish, gossamer,
gossamery, gracile, haggard, hollow-eyed, insubstantial, jejune,
lacy, less, lesser, light, lower, lowered, marantic, marasmic,
miniaturized, misty, papery, parched, peaked, peaky, pinched, poor,
preshrunk, pubescent, puny, rare, rarefied, reduced, refined,
retrenched, satin, satiny, scaled-down, sear, shorn, shorter,
shriveled, shriveled up, shrunk, shrunken, silky, skeletal,
slender, slenderish, slight, slight-made, slim, slimmish, slinky,
small, smaller, smooth, starved, starveling, subtile, subtle,
svelte, sylphlike, tabetic, tabid, tenuous, thin, thin-bodied,
thin-set, thin-spun, thinned, thinned-out, thinnish, threadlike,
uncompact, uncompressed, underfed, undernourished, unsubstantial,
vague, vaporous, velutinous, velvety, wasp-waisted, wasted,
wasted away, watered, watered-down, watery, weak, weakened,
weazened, weazeny, willowy, windy, wiredrawn, wispy, withered,
wizen, wizen-faced, wizened, worn, wraithlike
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attenuated_pag1.html Live-Attenuated Viruses, NIAID Division of HIV Vaccine Site
...LIVE-ATTENUATED VIRUSES Live, attenuated virus vaccines mimic natural ... of attenuated viruses.. *Utilize plasmid forms of attenuated vaccines ... ..
http://www.niaid.nih.gov/daids/vaccine/attenuated.htm, score=100, date indexed=January 14, 2006, 2:21 am Through attenuated tones of violins::
...Through Attenuated:: ::Tones Of Violins::. Okay, enough of this ' ... ..
http://wild.blogspot.com/, score=93, date indexed=February 4, 2006, 5:49 am attenuated from On-line Medical Dictionary
...Next: attenuated tuberculosis, attenuated vaccine, attenuated virus. ... ..
http://cancerweb.ncl.ac.uk/cgi-bin/omd?query=attenuated, score=82, date indexed=November 17, 2005, 2:05 pm Re: Attenuated FAP
...... Attenuated FAP Tonya 4/26/1999 (. 1) *Re: Re: Re: Attenuated FAP HFHSM. ... Subject: Re: Attenuated FAP. Forum: The Gastroenterology and Liver ... ..
http://www.medhelp.org/forums/gastro/archive/6445.html, score=63, date indexed=November 20, 2005, 10:51 pm Safer Smallpox Vaccine Development - Attenuated smallpox vaccine biodefense by ...
...VaxGen Begins Clinical Development of its Attenuated Smallpox Vaccine ... The Attenuated Vaccinia-Lister Vaccine LC16m8 Protects Rabbits from ... ..
http://www.vaxgen.com/smallpox.html, score=52, date indexed=November 26, 2005, 9:00 pm Honda-Tech.com: Avital alarm...attenuated
...show_menu();. Honda-Tech.com » Audio / Security / Video » Avital alarm...attenuated [ ... Albuquerque NM. 3-28-2003 . Avital alarm...attenuated. « » 8:24 AM 7 ... ..
http://www.honda-tech.com/zerothread?id=928978&postid=10661579#10661579, score=50, date indexed=January 10, 2006, 9:45 pm Honda-Tech.com: Avital alarm...attenuated
...show_menu();. Honda-Tech.com » Audio / Security / Video » Avital alarm...attenuated [ ... Albuquerque NM. 3-28-2003 . Avital alarm...attenuated. « » 8:24 AM 7 ... ..
http://www.honda-tech.com/zerothread?id=928978&postid=10654049#10654049, score=50, date indexed=January 22, 2006, 12:43 pm WHO | Live attenuated vaccines
...... containes an attenuated form of a mycobacteria. Attenuated forms of ... Such organisms are also called attenuated. There are many examples of ... ..
http://www.who.int/vaccine_research/diseases/tb/vaccine_development/live_attenuated/en/, score=47, date indexed=November 19, 2005, 6:39 am Using Live, Attenuated Influenza Vaccine for Prevention and Control of Influenza...
...Murphy BR. Use of live attenuated cold-adapted influenza A reassortant ... attenuated, producing mild or no signs or symptoms related to ... ..
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