(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.
Number
Definition:
(n.) That which admits of being counted or reckoned; a unit, or an aggregate of units; a numerable aggregate or collection of individuals; an assemblage made up of distinct things expressible by figures.
(n.) A collection of many individuals; a numerous assemblage; a multitude; many.
(n.) A numeral; a word or character denoting a number; as, to put a number on a door.
(n.) Numerousness; multitude.
(n.) The state or quality of being numerable or countable.
(n.) Quantity, regarded as made up of an aggregate of separate things.
(n.) That which is regulated by count; poetic measure, as divisions of time or number of syllables; hence, poetry, verse; -- chiefly used in the plural.
(n.) The distinction of objects, as one, or more than one (in some languages, as one, or two, or more than two), expressed (usually) by a difference in the form of a word; thus, the singular number and the plural number are the names of the forms of a word indicating the objects denoted or referred to by the word as one, or as more than one.
(n.) The measure of the relation between quantities or things of the same kind; that abstract species of quantity which is capable of being expressed by figures; numerical value.
(n.) To count; to reckon; to ascertain the units of; to enumerate.
(n.) To reckon as one of a collection or multitude.
(n.) To give or apply a number or numbers to; to assign the place of in a series by order of number; to designate the place of by a number or numeral; as, to number the houses in a street, or the apartments in a building.
(n.) To amount; to equal in number; to contain; to consist of; as, the army numbers fifty thousand.
Example Sentences:
(1) However, as other patients who lived at the periphery of the Valserine valley do not appear to be related to any patients living in the valley, and because there has been considerable immigration into the valley, a number of hypotheses to explain the distribution of the disease in the region remain possible.
(2) These included bringing in the A* grade, reducing the number of modules from six to four, and a greater attempt to assess the whole course at the end.
(3) When micF was cloned into a high-copy-number plasmid it repressed ompF gene expression, whereas when cloned into a low-copy-number plasmid it did not.
(4) Use of the improved operative technique contributed to reduction in number of complications.
(5) Nutritionally rehabilitated animals had similar numbers of nucleoli to control rats.
(6) Simplicity, high capacity, low cost and label stability, combined with relatively high clinical sensitivity make the method suitable for cost effective screening of large numbers of samples.
(7) The hemodynamic efficiency of the drive was tested in a number of in vivo experiments.
(8) The final number of fibers--140,000-165,000--is reached by the sixth week after birth.
(9) On removal of selective pressure, the His+ phenotype was lost more readily than the Ura+ Trp+ markers, with a corresponding decrease in plasmid copy number.
(10) This article describes a number of syndromes affecting the nail unit.
(11) At the time, with a regular supply of British immigrants arriving in large numbers in Australia, Biggs was able to blend in well as "Terry Cook", a carpenter, so well in fact that his wife, Charmian, was able to join him with his three sons.
(12) Since 1979 there has been an increase of 17,122 in the number of beds available in nursing homes.
(13) Other haematological parameters remained normal, with the exception of the absolute number of lymphocytes, which initially fell sharply but soon returned to, and even exceeded, control levels.
(14) All the twins were born in years 1973-1987, the total number was 2,226 boys and 2,302 girls.
(15) The number of neoplastic cells in each cell suspension was determined by cytologic criteria.
(16) aeruginosa and Enterococci) were significantly reduced in number during the manipulation (Fig.
(17) Because of the small number of patients reported in the world literature and lack of controlled studies, the treatment of small cell carcinoma of the larynx remains controversial; this retrospective analysis suggests that combination chemotherapy plus radiation offers the best chance for cure.
(18) Further, at the end of treatment fewer patients had depressive symptoms and the total daily number of hours of wellbeing and normal movement increased.
(19) The country has no offshore wind farms, though a number of projects are in the research phase to determine their profitability.
(20) Despite a 10-year deadline to have the same number of ethnic minority officers in the ranks as in the populations they serve, the target was missed and police are thousands of officers short.