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ASCENDING
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The act of changing location in an upward direction
Synonyms:
ascending; ascension; ascent; rise
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("ascending" is a kind of...):
motion; move; movement (the act of changing location from one place to another)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "ascending"):
levitation (the act of raising (a body) from the ground by presumably spiritualistic means)
heave; heaving (the act of lifting something with great effort)
climb; mount (the act of climbing something)
soar; zoom (the act of rising upward into the air)
II. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Moving or going or growing upward
Example:
the ascending stems of chickweed
Classified under:
Similar:
acclivitous; rising; uphill (sloping upward)
ascendant; ascendent; ascensive (tending or directed upward)
assurgent (growing or extending upward)
assurgent (rising from the sea)
scandent (used especially of plants; having a tendency to climb)
highflying (moving upward or along at a considerable height)
up; upward (extending or moving toward a higher place)
Also:
up (being or moving higher in position or greater in some value; being above a former position or level)
Antonym:
descending (coming down or downward)
III. (verb)
Sense 1
-ing form of the verb ascend
Context examples:
A blood vessel arising from the profunda artery supplying the muscles on the front of the thigh and divides into ascending, descending and transverse branches.
(External Circumflex Artery, NCI Thesaurus)
There are simple, complex (adenomatous without atypia), and atypical hyperplasia representing also the ascending risk of becoming malignant.
(Endometrial hyperplasia, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)
Azosemide inhibits sodium and chloride reabsorption throughout the thick ascending limb of the loop of Henle.
(Azosemide, NCI Thesaurus)
The ascending limb of the U-shaped portion of the renal tubule.
(Ascending Limb of Henle's Loop, NCI Thesaurus)
A well differentiated, low grade neuroendocrine tumor (carcinoid tumor) that arises from the ascending colon.
(Ascending Colon Neuroendocrine Tumor G1, NCI Thesaurus)
A cortical branch of the middle cerebral artery supplying the ascending frontal convolution.
(Ascending Frontal Artery, NCI Thesaurus)
The feel of spring was in the air, the feel of growing life under the snow, of sap ascending in the trees, of buds bursting the shackles of the frost.
(White Fang, by Jack London)
One of the three branches of the thyroid axis that supplies the thyroid gland and branches to form the ascending cervical, esophageal, inferior laryngeal, muscular and tracheal arteries.
(Inferior Thyroid Artery, NCI Thesaurus)
It is usually caused by an ascending infection of organisms from the endocervix.
(Pelvic Inflammatory Disease, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)
It was not the result of any convulsion, as in the case of the ascending tunnel.
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
