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GREATLY

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (adverb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

To an extraordinary extent or degree

Example:

he improved greatly

Classified under:

Adverbs

Pertainym:

great (remarkable or out of the ordinary in degree or magnitude or effect)

Credits

 Context examples: 

I cannot say how greatly the man had come to interest me.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

Dendritic cells infected with TRICOM vectors greatly enhance naive T-cell activation and peptide-specific T-cell stimulation.

(Fowlpox-PSA-TRICOM Vaccine, NCI Thesaurus)

Some humans with SCID (severe combined immunodeficiency disease) also have mutation of their IL-7 receptor gene leading to an absence of T cells and greatly impaired B cell production.

(IL7 Signaling Pathway, NCI Thesaurus/BIOCARTA)

Social relationships may be greatly affected but usually remain within acceptable limits.

(Neurosis, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)

A condition in which the number of eosinophils (a type of white blood cell) in the blood is greatly increased.

(Eosinophilia, NCI Dictionary)

Treatment for colonic diseases varies greatly depending on the disease and its severity.

(Colonic Diseases, NIH: National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases)

Genes - there are two genes, BRCA1 and BRCA2, that greatly increase the risk.

(Breast Cancer, NIH: National Cancer Institute)

The malformations vary greatly in size and location, and produce symptoms through rupture (see also INTRACRANIAL HEMORRHAGES), mass effect, and vascular steal effect.

(Cerebral Arteriovenous Malformation, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)

Microscopically, the tumor greatly resembles the appearance of the ordinary type of endometrial adenocarcinoma.

(Ovarian Endometrioid Adenocarcinoma, NCI Thesaurus)

A slow-growing benign pseudotumor in which plasma cells greatly outnumber the inflammatory cells.

(Plasma Cell Granuloma, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)