If bony union between the fragments follows, the necrotic body will be invaded gradually by blood vessels, fibrous, osteogenic, and myelogenous tissue, and a gradual replacement of the necrotic by living elements will be brought about.
"The tablet launches will begin a gradual replacement of Acer's small laptop-style netbook computers, in line with market demands, Taiwan sales manager Lu Bing-hsian said.
The gradual replacement of older, unqualified workers with younger, better-skilled employees has also helped.Such changes have brought down the underlying level of unemployment compatible with inflation stability.
Electrification is not an all-or-nothing proposition — it's a process, the gradual replacement of gas-burning engines with batteries and electric motors.
Flight, so characteristic of birds, is maintained during the molt in most species by a gradual replacement of the flight feathers.
Jewish persecution under the Roman emperor Constantius II (reigned 337 361) and advances in astronomical science led to the gradual replacement of observation by calculation.
New safety technologies can take a decade to reach the population en masse, because they rely on uptake by manufacturers and then a gradual replacement of older car stocks.
It sets energy and light pollution standards for outdoor lighting and calls for the gradual replacement, where feasible, of conventional lighting with new lamps designed to keep light from being thrown upward or outward where it isn't wanted.
This led to the gradual replacement of older chiefs (men of strong personality who usually lacked a Western-style education) by younger, Western-educated men who were more capable of carrying out government policy and more amenable to British control.
Yet the breach had been opened and would be widened further by the gradual replacement, 150 years later, of "service à la française, the custom of serving numerous dishes simultaneously,... by service à la russe, where one dish followed another".
The spread of this kind of document, on which the space for a seal was small, probably played some part in the gradual replacement of the cylinder by the stamp seal.
