(n.) The fluid which we breathe, and which surrounds the earth; the atmosphere. It is invisible, inodorous, insipid, transparent, compressible, elastic, and ponderable.
(n.) Symbolically: Something unsubstantial, light, or volatile.
(n.) A particular state of the atmosphere, as respects heat, cold, moisture, etc., or as affecting the sensations; as, a smoky air, a damp air, the morning air, etc.
(n.) Any aeriform body; a gas; as, oxygen was formerly called vital air.
(n.) Air in motion; a light breeze; a gentle wind.
(n.) Odoriferous or contaminated air.
(n.) That which surrounds and influences.
(n.) Utterance abroad; publicity; vent.
(n.) Intelligence; information.
(n.) A musical idea, or motive, rhythmically developed in consecutive single tones, so as to form a symmetrical and balanced whole, which may be sung by a single voice to the stanzas of a hymn or song, or even to plain prose, or played upon an instrument; a melody; a tune; an aria.
(n.) In harmonized chorals, psalmody, part songs, etc., the part which bears the tune or melody -- in modern harmony usually the upper part -- is sometimes called the air.
(n.) The peculiar look, appearance, and bearing of a person; mien; demeanor; as, the air of a youth; a heavy air; a lofty air.
(n.) An artificial or affected manner; show of pride or vanity; haughtiness; as, it is said of a person, he puts on airs.
(n.) The representation or reproduction of the effect of the atmospheric medium through which every object in nature is viewed.
(n.) Carriage; attitude; action; movement; as, the head of that portrait has a good air.
(n.) The artificial motion or carriage of a horse.
(n.) To expose to the air for the purpose of cooling, refreshing, or purifying; to ventilate; as, to air a room.
(n.) To expose for the sake of public notice; to display ostentatiously; as, to air one's opinion.
(n.) To expose to heat, for the purpose of expelling dampness, or of warming; as, to air linen; to air liquors.
Example Sentences:
(1) We attribute this in part to early diagnosis by computed tomography (CT), but a contributory factor may be earlier referrals from country centres to a paediatric trauma centre and rapid transfer, by air or road, by medical retrieval teams.
(2) In a debate in the House of Commons, I will ask Britain, the US and other allies to convert generalised offers of help into more practical support with greater air cover, military surveillance and helicopter back-up, to hunt down the terrorists who abducted the girls.
(3) Sperm were examined at 4.5 h, 8 to 9 h, and 24 to 25 h of incubation (37 degrees C, 5% CO2, and 95% air).
(4) In the present study, respirometric quotients, the ratio of oral air volume expended to total volume expended, were obtained using separate but simultaneous productions of oral and nasal airflow.
(5) The manufacturers, British Aerospace describe it as a "single-seat, radar equipped, lightweight, multi-role combat aircraft, providing comprehensive air defence and ground attack capability".
(6) By increasing luminal air pressure from 10 to 20 cm H2O a significant reduction in GBF was observed.
(7) The dangers caused by PM10s was highlighted in the Rogers review of local authority regulatory services, published in 2007, which said poor air quality contributed to between 12,000 and 24,000 premature deaths each year.
(8) Do [MPs] remember the madness of those advertisements that talked of the cool fresh mountain air of menthol cigarettes?
(9) Enough with Clintonism and its prideful air of professional-class virtue.
(10) These data suggest that submaximal exercise and cold air exposure enhance nonspecific bronchial reactivity in asthmatic but not in normal subjects.
(11) The phenylalanine model allows the rapid assessment of whole body and muscle protein turnover from plasma samples alone, obviating the need for measurement of expired air CO2 production or enrichment.
(12) Age-specific MRs for the over-75-year age group were also not related to the winter air temperatures in the eight cities.
(13) They urged the Department of Environment, Food and Rural Affairs to make air quality a higher priority and release the latest figures on premature deaths.
(14) Of great influence on the results of measurements are preparation and registration (warm-up-time, amplification, closeness of pressure-system, unhurt catheters), factors relating to equipment and methods (air-bubbles in pressure-system, damping by filters, continuous infusion of the micro-catheter, level of zero-pressure), factors which occur during intravital measurement (pressure-drop along the arteria pulmonalis, influence of normal breathing, great intrapleural pressure changes, pressure damping in the catheter by thrombosis and external disturbances) and last not least positive and negative acceleration forces, which influence the diastolic and systolic pulmonary artery pressure.
(15) Both eosin derivatives, however, inactivate acetylcholinesterase upon illumination of air-equilibrated samples of hemoglobin-free labeled ghosts.
(16) The biggest single source of air pollution is coal-fired power stations and China, with its large population and heavy reliance on coal power, provides $2.3tn of the annual subsidies.
(17) Rats were injected subcutaneously with 10 ml of air into the dorsal skin to make an air-pouch and with 2 ml of antiserum at an appropriate dilution for passive sensitization, and then 5 ml of air was removed.
(18) Of the other patients, four panicked with sodium lactate, none with 5% CO2, and one with room air hyperventilation.
(19) In presence of oxygen (air) the phototactic reaction values are somewhat lower than in its absence.
(20) In general, air from the mediastinum far more often enters the left pleural cavity than the right one.
Hermetic
Definition:
(a.) Alt. of Hermetical
Example Sentences:
(1) In general, after recording a baseline tympanogram, mechanically created positive and negative air pressures are created in a hermetically sealed ear canal causing increased pressure on the middle ear air cushion.
(2) The main characteristics required of a good endodontic fillingsmaterial are its perfectly hermetic sealing of the root canal, the eventual secondary canals, and the dentine canals, against bacteria.
(3) The respiration rate of spore suspensions of Bacillus anthracoides 96 was assayed by mass spectrometry employing a hermetically sealed reaction vessel constructed for this purpose.
(4) This technique uses a device consisting of a chamber with an apperture hermetically adaptable to the orbital borders.
(5) It was established that the plasma scalpel can be used effectively in hermetic closure of defects in the pulmonary tissue and cleansing of the pleural cavity and operative wound; for arresting diffuse bleeding from the walls of the pleural cavity, the plasma scalpel may be used only in combination with other methods of hemostasis.
(6) The hospital’s chief executive, Dr Iris Minde, said at the time there was no risk of infection for other people because he was kept in a secure isolation ward specially equipped with negative pressure, hermetically sealed rooms.
(7) The goal of the study was to determine histological criteria of the peritonitis course in order to establish the earliest time for hermetic closure of the abdominal cavity.
(8) The hermetically sealed defibrillator is encased in titanium, weighs 250 g and has a volume of 145 ml.
(9) - A technology for the hermetic encapsulation of a pacemaker is described.
(10) The various symptoms in Psychosis can be brought to a selective deficit of the experience's pre classifying such as: -lack of "reversibility" troubling the course of thoughts, causing hermetism etc... -lack of "continuity" making easier experience materiality causing hallucinations.
(11) This method was found to allow determination of the transport function of different variants of lympho-venous and lymphonodular-venous anastomoses, their patency and hermetic capacity and detection of the functionally more advantageous variant of the operation for the introduction into practice.
(12) Unanesthetized rats put in the hermetic chamber breathed with a gas mixture containing 10.5% of oxygen in nitrogen during 30 and 60 min (moderate hypoxia), and 3.5% of oxygen in nitrogen for 30 min (severe hypoxia).
(13) Series III now totals 20 doubly hermetically sealed units, tested for up to three years (total more than 300 months or 26 years), with no pacemaker failures.
(14) This finding seems to be optimistic in an attempt to perform the hermetic sealing of the apical foramen.
(15) Into the ipsilateral canine, a cannula hermetically sealed and filled with heparinized saline solution was inserted.
(16) Possible sensibilization of these factors necessitated hygienic and sanitary measures (ventilation, hermetization of the equipment, aspiration, dust-cleaning, bactericidal light devices provision) which lowered the bacterial contamination level by 40-60%.
(17) The present system might be substantially improved by (1) a modified receiver design with a hermetic seal to prevent fluid penetration, (2) stronger, better insulated electrode wires, and (3) modifications of surgical technique and electrode type to prevent phrenic nerve damage.
(18) Investigations of the French physician Perier on patients after a trepanation of their skulls have shown that talking can be understood in the case of hermetically closed ears by means of the trepanation scar.
(19) Therefore, dentin which is exposed during dental treatment should always be sealed hermetically.
(20) The internal sphincter, 4 to 6 mm thick, cannot close the anal canal hermetically, not even during maximal contraction.