| Coronary blood flow occurs during diastole, and as the heart rate increases diastole shortens. |
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| If the horse gets apprehensive or frightened, his back tightens and shortens. |
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| Administration of antibiotics during the catarrhal stage shortens the duration and decreases symptom severity of the disease. |
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| It automizes the page layout and shortens the phase of creation, correction and setting. |
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| This backward movement shortens the spring, permitting the box once again to ride the belt. |
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| Until then, or until such times as the team's injury list shortens, Stark must rely on hope or good fortune to deliver that precious commodity. |
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| Other community groups complain that construction companies don't take the proper care around the trees, which also shortens their lives. |
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| It's how you cope with the injuries that either extends or shortens your career. |
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| The stairwell is double height so that shortens any floorspace on the first floor as well. |
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| In a contracting muscle myosin and actin filaments slide past each other as the muscle fiber shortens. |
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| Apparently you're not supposed to use bar soap in the shower afterwards because it shortens the life of a spray tan. |
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| As the child develops a preference for positioning, the ipsilateral sternocleidomastoid muscle shortens resulting in torticollis. |
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| In vivo, the diaphragm does not perform maximum isometric contractions but shortens against a submaximal load. |
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| This shortens the life of blooms and makes the violet unthrifty. |
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| As the darkness shortens, and as days lengthen, birds get spring fever. |
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| At the moment it is legal for doctors to administer large doses of drugs to terminally ill patients in pain and distress, knowing that the medication shortens their lives. |
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| Their contraction shortens the tongue towards its base on the hyoid. |
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| The Paleo diet is dangerous because it permits red meat, which clogs our arteries and shortens our lifespan. |
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| This shortens the odds for the other pub winners as far as the grand prize of a digital camera goes with two absentee winners not going into the draw. |
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| In addition, a more efficient control unit shortens the interval between pre-injection and main injection and the injectors themselves are manufactured to finer tolerances. |
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| For instance placing cut flowers in a vase alongside other flowers shortens the life of the latter. |
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| Do not press the stamp hard into the pad, as this overinks the stamp and shortens the life of the pad by squeezing out the ink. |
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| Benzene makes people sick, shortens lives, and harms future generations. |
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| Combined with the use of a single ATP, the interaction of myosin and actin creates movement and shortens the sarcomere. |
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| The SLS process significantly shortens the production time from the maquette to the casting while retaining the artistic detail. |
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| They mislead cancer patients, who are encouraged not only to pay their last penny but to be treated with something that shortens their lives. |
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| The review has clarified that alcohol shortens the time it takes to fall asleep, increases deep sleep, and reduces REM sleep. |
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| Transformation by natural and engineered processes shortens the ethoxy chain, which alters the compound's transport and toxicity. |
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| Another source of sound change is the erosion of words as pronunciation gradually becomes increasingly indistinct and shortens words, leaving out syllables or sounds. |
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| Smith Barney, for example, goes so far as to shift the hours during which taxi rides home are expensable as nighttime lengthens and shortens, says Moszkowski. |
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