Oil acts to "fill" the narrow, abraded surface of the scratch, creating a diminished appearance.
The diminished appearance bore little resemblance to the image of the man who bought a business out of bankruptcy and transformed it into one of the nation's largest manufacturers of body armor for law enforcement and the military.
The diminished appearance of anti-GP2 IgA (4/42, 9.5%) did not reach significance.
Appearing in Federal District Court in Manhattan, Mr. Masri, 54, who lost both hands and an eye in an explosion, looked considerably thinner and diminished in appearance than in recent photographs.
In summary, the images we are interested on can suffer of one or more of the following problems: limited range visibility, low contrast, non uniform lighting, blurring, bright artifacts, color diminished (bluish appearance) and noise.
The use of concomitant methotrexate greatly diminished the appearance of ATIs, with incidence rates of 15%, 7%, and 0% at the three dose levels.
In 1992, the first published aesthetic study on botulinum toxin established that botulinum toxin type A safely and effectively diminished the appearance of glabellar lines.
Concomitant therapy with low-dose metho-trexate greatly diminished the appearance of this antibody, with incidence rates of 15%, 7%, and 0% at the three dosage levels of infliximab, which might explain the mechanism of the synergetic effect of methotrexate and infliximab shown in this study [ 12].
As with the other datasets, under the greedy selection, we find that there is an intermediate number of clusters which yield a maximum deviation in the transcriptional state, after which the inclusion of additional clusters appears to diminish the appearance of the change between the different states (Figure 4a).
Though these products will help diminish the appearance of scars, they have not been proven to successfully eliminate the appearance of acne scars.
"Putin may not get to host the G-8 but if he gets to go to Normandy with everybody, it begins to diminish the appearance of isolation," said Steven Pifer, the former US ambassador to Ukraine who now serves as a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution.
