"The darkness that gradually invades the auditorium is the equivalent of closing our eyes".
Angiosperm-rich plant communities gradually invaded the Asiatic continental interiors along river valleys and other disturbed habitats and replaced previous fern conifer-dominated mature climax vegetation.
From wedding planners to life coaches to eldercare managers, the marketplace has gradually invaded our homes, Hochschild writes in this thoughtful book, which studies the effects of using paid strangers to meet our most personal needs.
When such lands were established with soils similar to the natural area, woody species would gradually invade by natural secondary succession if given sufficient time, especially where the reclaimed site was closely surrounded by native forest (Skousen et al. 2006).
Studying endochondral bone development of long bone in rabbits, intramembranous bone was formed by the inner layers of the periosteum, and vessels from the periosteum gradually invaded the hypertrophic chondrocytes region to begin formation of endochondral bone [27].
The independent streak had gradually invaded the home of Imperial rule and it was symptomatic of democratic ideas that eventually began to take hold in all of Japan.
The medullary cavity was gradually invaded and the presence of hypointense regions was emphasized, characteristic of necrotic islets and amalgam artifacts at the site of injection (Fig. 6B; day 18, black arrowhead).
According to Owens [38] and Squires [39], ancestral micrabaciids probably inhabited shallow-water environments but may have been essentially preadapted for deep-sea life by having auto-mobile coralla [38], and thus been able to gradually invade deeper waters, resulting in an increase of skeleton porosity [39].
If bony union occurs the head is gradually invaded by the ingrowth of tissue from the distal fragment and sometimes from the hypertrophied round ligament.
The marrow spaces of the dead and non-functioning head are gradually invaded by vascularized connective tissue by way of the round ligament and in some cases by way of the adhesions.
