(n.) The form to which a word or phrase is reduced by contraction and omission; a letter or letters, standing for a word or phrase of which they are a part; as, Gen. for Genesis; U.S.A. for United States of America.
(n.) One dash, or more, through the stem of a note, dividing it respectively into quavers, semiquavers, or demi-semiquavers.
Example Sentences:
(1) The profile includes three physiologic assessments and four variables which express the number, location, and severity of a patient's injuries in terms of 'Abbreviated injury scale' values.
(2) The results also demonstrate the effect of an outward current to prolong the action potential and the effect of an outward current blocker to abbreviate the action potential.
(3) We investigated the accuracy of the Hodkinson abbreviated mental test (AMT) as a screening instrument for dementia in an Italian population.
(4) The aberrant conformation is evidently forced upon the abbreviated constructs by the residual 5' precursor sequence, since its removal by the maturation endonuclease RNAase M5 precipitates the reordering of the mature domain into its native conformation.
(5) This abbreviated therapeutic approach may eliminate the need for serial electropharmacologic testing, long-term drug therapy, antitachycardia pacemakers, and surgical ablation.
(6) Challenge after abbreviation of primary infections at different stages of worm development showed that persistence of larvae beyond day 21 was critical in determining poor response to reinfection.
(7) An abbreviated review of behavioral animal studies provides additional support for the clinical investigations presented.
(8) Under simulated ischaemic conditions, lignocaine, propranolol and nicainoprol did not produce a concentration-dependent reduction in action potential duration whereas disopyramide and verapamil, respectively, prolonged and abbreviated both APD50 and APD90.
(9) The temperature-sensitive Drosophila developmental mutation, l(3)c21RRW630 (abbreviated RW630) disturbs oogenesis and has a maternal effect on embryogenesis.
(10) PEP I was prolonged, LVET I was abbreviated, while QS2 I remained unaltered.
(11) And, finally, the "R", an abbreviation for recommandé (registered), suggests that it would have contained the 100-franc allowance that Theo regularly sent his brother.
(12) A correlation and linear regression study was performed, to establish differences between the detailed and the abbreviated methods.
(13) An abbreviated form of the MMPI test was used in the clinical part.
(14) Abbreviated and full versions of the discharge summary were generated with very little interactive time required of the physician or record clerk.
(15) The lateral preferences of 959 Brazilian adults (471 males and 488 females) were assessed with the abbreviated form of the Edinburgh Inventory using the interview method.
(16) Two-thirds of hospitals performed a major antiglobulin crossmatch (rather than an abbreviated one) before all neonatal red cell transfusions.
(17) This report describes the development and validation of a computerized system for converting ICD-9CM rubrics to Abbreviated Injury Scale (AIS) scores.
(18) Third, MATa cells expressing a truncated but functional STE2 gene (in which the COOH-terminal 135-hydrophilic residues were deleted) produced a protein detected by cross-linking to 35S-alpha-factor of apparent molecular weight 33,000, close to the size expected for the predicted abbreviated STE2 polypeptide.
(19) The Interview Schedule for Social Interaction, could be abbreviated and simplified for the use in population surveys.
(20) The Italian MMPI abbreviated version was administered to all subjects.
Chad
Definition:
(n.) See Shad.
Example Sentences:
(1) That is happening not only in Brazil, but also in poorer cotton-producing countries such as Burkina Faso, Mali, Benin and Chad.
(2) Out of 4176 sera from asymptomatic adults originating from Chad, equatorial Guinea and Gabon tested for HIV-1 antibodies, 146 (3.5%) were positive by an enzyme immunoassay (EIA).
(3) Abaifouta, who is now president of the Hissène Habré victims association in Chad, spends his days campaigning on behalf of others like him; tireless in his efforts to bring justice, he has worked closely with Human Rights Watch and other groups.
(4) On Wednesday he will travel to Chad and Niger, whose troops help fight Boko Haram, said his spokesman, Garba Shehu.
(5) The aim is to secure the capital Bangui and the principal routes towards neighbouring Cameroon and Chad.
(6) In a summit in Paris last week, the west African nations of Cameroon, Chad and Niger agreed to each contribute a battalion to form a border patrol troop based around the arid Sahelian belt, large swaths of which have fallen under the control of Islamist terrorists in recent years.
(7) It also was recovered from El Bur and one with similar microscopic characters has been seen in Chad and also in "territoire français des Afars et des Issas".
(8) Spurs made light of their lack of recognised strikers, with Chadli and Carroll doing the damage from wide midfield and helping them to a comfortable victory.
(9) Chad Abram runs for three yards for a first down, and FSU keep driving, and Winston throws again to Benjamin, 24 yards to the Auburn 29, and that's very much another first down.
(10) Funding for programmes in Chad has been particularly difficult to secure.
(11) The reservoir cannula Oxymizer Pendant (Chad-Therapeutics Inc.) is a nasal prong system incorporating a pendant reservoir which stores oxygen during expiration and delivers it as a bolus at the onset of inspiration.
(12) Nacer Chadli was another who might have won it for the home team but this was not a day for ruthlessness.
(13) Many young people have never known a time when Habré was in Chad – he fled the country shortly after Idriss Déby's forces progressed westwards from Iriba, and eventually sought refuge in Senegal.
(14) Chad Griffin, president of Human Rights Campaign, said, in a video posted on the organisation's website : "Years from now, we'll remember this election day as the most historic and the most important in the LGBT community."
(15) "We can say there is a crisis already, just by the number of cases of malnutrition which we're dealing with in hospitals from Chad to Burkina Faso to Mali," said Alvaro Pascual, Sahel desk officer for Action Against Hunger .
(16) Few Americans may have heard of Hissène Habré, but the US government was intimately involved in his rise to power in Chad in 1982.
(17) A regional military coalition of Nigeria, Niger, Chad and Cameroon has claimed a series of major victories against Boko Haram since launching sweeping offensives against the terrorist group in February.
(18) Seattle had already opened the scoring, Chad Barrett converting from close range after Lovel Palmer was unable to clear a Kenny Cooper cross.
(19) The recently appointed captain Younès Kaboul, Emmanuel Adebayor, Mousa Dembélé and Nacer Chadli have also stayed at home.
(20) "Niger and Chad are the two countries with the largest crop deficits and there are already reports of a 90% reduction in cereal trades entering at some border posts in Nigeria," said Steve Cockburn of Oxfam West Africa .