(a.) Applied to one of the cases of the noun in Latin and some other languages, -- the fundamental meaning of the case being removal, separation, or taking away.
() The ablative case.
Example Sentences:
(1) Thin layers of carbon (20 microns) and vacuoles (30 microns) suggested a large temperature gradient along the tissue ablation front.
(2) It has a poor prognosis prior to the current combined treatment of surgical ablation, radiation to the surgical field, and chemotherapy for microscopic metastases.
(3) Future research and clinical evaluations should focus on the components of the learning and memory processes when the ramifications of temporal lobe ablations on cognitive function are studied.
(4) In blood, ablation of porcine aorta was feasible at a distance of 3 mm.
(5) RF ablation appears to be a safe and effective therapeutic option for drug-resistant ectopic atrial tachycardia and may be the preferred first-line therapy for those patients with depressed ventricular function.
(6) Certain untoward effects associated with the use of direct-current electrical catheter ablation of the ventricular endomyocardium have been noted.
(7) SMC ablation caused an increase of aggressive reactions to combined stimulation, revealed in the form of tendency for all animals.
(8) There was no significant difference in the wound-healing rate, but at 36 hours there was a reduction in wound-healing rate of the excimer ablated corneas.
(9) Sixteen patients with an accessory pathway were studied (eight surgical ablations, eight catheter ablations with radiofrequency energy).
(10) This report details the successful catheter ablation of a left free wall accessory pathway with radiofrequency energy.
(11) The absence of this facilitative influence following otocyst ablation becomes apparent just at the time synapses would normally be formed between the the primary auditory afferents and the brain stem auditory neurons.
(12) We compared the ablative efficiency on canine colonic mucosa of the THC:YAG laser with the clinically employed cw Nd:YAG laser.
(13) Their effect of vaporizing and ablating (photodecomposing) thrombi and their thermal injuring effect on adjacent tissues were compared and assessed in order to select optimal laser with little thermal injuring and more rapid vaporizing or ablating thrombi effect for laser angioplasty.
(14) The value of serum thyroglobulin assay employing a kit manufactured by Diagnostic Products Corporation in the detection of recurrence of thyroid carcinoma in patients treated by thyroidectomy and ablative therapy was assessed by clinical follow-up and radioiodine scanning of 122 patients over a 2-year period.
(15) A survey is given on the method of the transvasal intracardiac ablation in the treatment of atrial and ventricular tachyarrhythmias.
(16) Only two pts had a right bundle branch block after ablation.
(17) This unique physiological situation was created by crossing IGF-I Tg mice to GH-deficient, dwarf mice in whom somatotrophs were genetically ablated by the expression of a diphtheria toxin transgene in the somatotrophs.
(18) The addition of exogenous IL-2 was found to ablate the suppressive effects of steroids on lymphocyte blastogenesis.
(19) In this study, uninjured basal forebrain cholinergic neurons did not die after excitotoxic ablation of their target neurons in young adult rats, indicating that they are either not dependent on neurotrophic factors for survival or can obtain trophic support from other sources after target neurons are lost.
(20) The mortality of the renal ablation group was greater than that of the sham controls but not significantly different for the fish oil or the regular laboratory diet groups.
Noun
Definition:
(n.) A word used as the designation or appellation of a creature or thing, existing in fact or in thought; a substantive.
(2) Word reading times increased with the cumulative number of new-argument nouns at clause boundaries (as well as at sentence boundaries).
(3) In two lateralized tachistoscopic experiments, we presented (i) pairs of nouns with close or distant semantic associations or (ii) pairs of nouns which were randomly matched and later rated by the subjects as to their semantic distance.
(4) Semantically congruent situations consisted of adjective-noun pairs that were not highly predictable but were nonetheless plausible (e.g., GOOD-AUNT).
(5) As predicted, the younger children were better at correcting the nouns than the verbs; the two grammatical forms were corrected equally well by the older children.
(6) Each sentence was presented and then re-presented with the noun in Noun Phrase 1 (NP1) or Noun Phrase 2 (NP2) omitted.
(7) If a phrase that expresses a comment about a noun can be omitted without substantially changing the meaning, and if it would be pronounced after a slight pause and with its own intonation contour, then be sure to set it off with commas (or dashes or parentheses): "The Cambridge restaurant, which had failed to clean its grease trap, was infested with roaches."
(8) "Like" is a preposition, said the accusers, and may take only a noun phrase object, as in "crazy like a fox" or "like a bat out of hell".
(9) A difference between verbs and nouns remained even when level of concreteness was controlled.
(10) The sentences within each list consisted of stimulus-response pairs of high-imagery nouns.
(11) In Experiment 2, we ascertain that the bias is specific to nouns; novel adjectives do not highlight superordinate category relations.
(12) Thirdly we investigate his comprehension of semantically and thematically related nouns and verbs.
(13) The study is longitudinal and compares the development of body communication and speech (here: the use of nouns, verbs, adjectives, and pronouns) during the 18-month period of rehabilitation.
(14) Children's interpretations of the new nouns were assessed by asking subjects to select the named toy from an array of 4 toys (e.g., "Point to a fep").
(15) Imageability, concreteness, and the number of syllables in a word were found not to affect performance, nor were derived nouns more difficult to process than simple nouns.
(16) The development of abstract noun definitions follows the development of concrete noun definitions.
(17) Analysis indicated firstly a superiority of the left hemisphere for the naming of compound nouns in mixed print and pictorial representation.
(18) Of course, even though we brights will scrupulously insist that our word is a noun, if it catches on it is likely to follow gay and eventually re-emerge as a new adjective.
(19) Yet our confusions over the c-word are demonstrated by the fact that it has been common in recent years to find hundreds of women standing in a public arena and yelling the gynaecological obscenity: the setting is performances of the drama The Vagina Monologues, in which one sequence invites women to reclaim and empower the down-there noun.
(20) Instead, the results suggest that the lexical representation of a noun or familiar noun phrase provides a pointer to a nonlinguistic conceptual system, and it is in that system that the meaning of a sentence is constructed.