AUGMENTED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does augmented mean? 

• AUGMENTED (adjective)
  The adjective AUGMENTED has 1 sense:

1. added to or made greater in amount or number or strength

  Familiarity information: AUGMENTED used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• AUGMENTED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Added to or made greater in amount or number or strength

Context example:

a greatly augmented collection of books

Similar:

increased (made greater in size or amount or degree)

 Context examples 

Further, disopyramide directly decreases the rate of diastolic (phase 4) depolarization in cells with normal or augmented automaticity.

(Disopyramide, NCI Thesaurus)

Later on, when it no longer mattered, he learned that the associate editors and sub-editors augmented their salaries by supplying those paragraphs themselves.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

An augmented unipolar lead placed at the sixth intercostal space on the midaxillary line.

(Lead Site aV6, NCI Thesaurus)

My sufferings were augmented also by the oppressive sense of the injustice and ingratitude of their infliction.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

Dobutamine also causes vasodilation by stimulating beta-2 adrenergic receptors in blood vessels, augmented by reflex vasoconstriction resulting in increased cardiac output.

(Dobutamine, NCI Thesaurus)

NOTE: CDER has decided to refrain from expanding the use of this dosage form due to difficulties in setting specific criteria that must be met to be considered augmented.

(Augmented Cream Dosage Form, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)

Augmented p53 mediates mitochondrial dysfunction.

(Huntington's Disease Pathway, NCI Thesaurus/KEGG)

CD74, an integral membrane protein that functions as an MHC class II chaperone, may also be an accessory-signaling molecule; activation of CD74 may initiate cell survival mechanisms involving induction of a signaling cascade resulting in NFkB activation, entry of stimulated cells into the S phase of the cell cycle, elevation of DNA synthesis, cell division, and augmented expression of Bcl-xL.

(Milatuzumab, NCI Thesaurus)

An augmented unipolar electrocardiogram limb lead in which the positive (black) electrode is situated on the left thoracic limb and the negative electrode is a combination of the right thoracic limb (white) electrode and the left pelvic limb (red) electrode.

(Augmented Vector Left, NCI Thesaurus)

To finish the interest of the story, the friendship between him and the Harvilles seemed, if possible, augmented by the event which closed all their views of alliance, and Captain Benwick was now living with them entirely.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)