(n.) An alarm from a real or threatened attack; a sudden attack; also, a bugle sound to give warning.
Example Sentences:
(1) There are several common clinical signs which should alert the physician to a possible diagnosis of SLE and which should condition him to look for specific clinical and laboratory findings.
(2) Keep it in the ground campaign Though they draw on completely different archives, leaked documents, and interviews with ex-employees, they reach the same damning conclusion: Exxon knew all that there was to know about climate change decades ago, and instead of alerting the rest of us denied the science and obstructed the politics of global warming.
(3) In view of the high mortality every clinical deterioration of patients with cirrhosis should alert the physician of the presence of SBP.
(4) Moreover, it allows the clinician to be alert towards findings which could be missed when not carefully searched for and which may be useful to raise or strengthen the suspicion of this disease.
(5) The data support a hypothesis that medial thalamic structures have alerting functions in learning mechanisms.
(6) The correlation between the spike activity and the waves of surface ECoG was studied in the visual and motor cortex of alert non-immobilized rabbits.
(7) The specific angiotensin receptor antagonist, Sar1, Thr8AII (sarthran), was infused intracerebroventricularly in alert spontaneously hypertensive rats (SHR), and Wistar-Kyoto (WKY) and Sprague-Dawley (SD) normotensive rat strains.
(8) Stimulation using implanted electrodes in conscious rats, within the hypothalamic and midbrain areas described above, elicited typical 'flight' and 'escape' behaviour: thus, the localized regions from which the visceral alerting response is elicited contain neurones or nerve fibres integrating the whole defence-alerting response in the rat, as in other species.
(9) These findings suggest that health professionals, particularly nurses, who work with families in their homes, must be alert and sensitive to cues and circumstances which could indicate suffering, and in so doing, take the necessary steps to ameliorate their situation.
(10) It is understood that counterterrorism police at Heathrow are urgently seeking a meeting with senior UKBA management over the missed alerts.
(11) South Korea was put on high alert a year ago amid fears that the North was about to provoke a clash in the contested waters of the Yellow Sea.
(12) This report alerts clinicians that, although helpful in some patients, clonazepam can cause behavioral disinhibition and worsening of symptoms in other patients.
(13) These indicators included temperature elevation, inability to be consoled, level of alertness, nuchal rigidity, bulging fontanel, decreased appetite, rash, referral, and febrile seizures.
(14) This brief outline of optical identification potentials alerts law enforcement agencies to the early developments in the field.
(15) Immediately after delivery the following should be checked for any possible abnormalities: 1) the patient's alertness, 2) blood pressure, 3) pulse, and 4) body temperature.
(16) The results better define the important behavioral differences existing between the two strains, Long Evans rats showing consistently a higher level of alertness and a better conditioned performance.
(17) This article is intended to alert practicing physicians to the extent of the problem and to familiarize them with the various forms of skin cancer.
(18) Albion rarely threatened, though Tim Howard was alert to Shane Long's first-time shot, but had several chances to punish Everton on the counterattack late on.
(19) Witnesses reported hearing a loud bang coming from the area, which is also close to the Belfast city centre's prime retail centre and the city's courts, hours after a security alert was declared after 9pm.
(20) It was thus found that the predictive efficacy of CASE was increased when it employed a combination of human and artificial intelligence, as exemplified by the CASE analysis of 'structural alerts.
Argus
Definition:
(n.) A fabulous being of antiquity, said to have had a hundred eyes, who has placed by Juno to guard Io. His eyes were transplanted to the peacock's tail.
(n.) One very vigilant; a guardian always watchful.
(n.) A genus of East Indian pheasants. The common species (A. giganteus) is remarkable for the great length and beauty of the wing and tail feathers of the male. The species A. Grayi inhabits Borneo.
Example Sentences:
(1) Earlier studies identified purinergic chemoreceptors in the olfactory organ of the spiny lobster, Panulirus argus.
(2) Despite Antarctica's simultaneous warming and cooling phenomena, the second lowest temperatures ever measured on Earth was recorded in July at Dome Argus in the centre of the Antarctic plateau.
(3) The control of the cardiovascular system with particular emphasis on the regulation of blood distribution in the gills and air-breathing organ was studied in the air-breathing teleost Channa argus.
(4) A team of 750 military personnel setting off from Cornwall to help tackle Ebola in Sierra Leone in the Royal Navy hospital ship Argus will be banned from shore leave during its three-month deployment and medical staff will take their temperature twice a day, according to its captain, David Eagles.Mark Zuckerberg, the Facebook chief, and his wife, Priscilla Chan, are donating $25m (£16m) to the CDC Foundation to help address the Ebola epidemic.
(5) The olfactory system of the Florida spiny lobster, Panulirus argus, has olfactory receptors that are excited by the purine nucleotides AMP, ADP, and ATP.
(6) The authors arguse against the hypothesis that the activated astrocytes are the result of attacks.
(7) She also said that Trinity's regional newspaper operation was "certainly holding its own", claiming it had outperformed rival Newsquest - which publishes 17 UK daily paid-for titles including the Brighton Argus, the Northern Echo and the Scottish national newspaper the Herald - and reported results two weeks ago .
(8) Its headteacher, Sarah Clayton, told local paper the Argus that children had designed healthy snacks and learned about the effects of sugar.
(9) One major form of cytochrome P450 has been isolated from the hepatopancreas of untreated spiny lobsters, Panulirus argus.
(10) Sheath structure and permeability have been studied in the nerve fibres of lobster (Panulirus argus) walking limbs, in particular the individually ensheathed larger giant fibres, 100-150 microns in diameter, of which there are five or six in a peripheral bundle.
(11) RFA Argus has a fully-equipped hospital including critical care and high-dependency units, and will be sent to Sierra Leone along with three Merlin helicopters.
(12) The olfactory organ of the spiny lobster, Panulirus argus, is composed of chemosensory sensilla containing the dendrites of primary chemosensory neurons.
(13) Light produced is measured with a very sensitive photon counting camera system (Argus-100), allowing the visualization and localization of the specifically bound alkaline phosphatase on nitrocellulose sheets.
(14) If they’d be working, we wouldn’t have this problem,” an older man said towards the cameraman for Argus Streaming News .
(15) The Florida spiny lobster, Panulirus argus, can behaviorally discriminate between members of a set of four artificial odorant mixture types: crab, mullet, oyster, and shrimp.
(16) But Newsquest, which publishes 17 UK daily paid-for titles including the Brighton Argus, the Northern Echo and the Scottish national newspaper the Herald, said that June was its strongest month since the ad slump took hold.
(17) The Argus sleeve prompted Jimmy Page to invite Hipgnosis to create artwork for Led Zeppelin's Houses of the Holy (1973), and they responded with an image of strange naked children crawling over rocks.
(18) Lessing's previous works of science fiction, the Canopus In Argus Archives series (sample titles: The Making Of The Representative For Planet 8 and Documents Relating To The Sentimental Agents In The Volyen Empire) were met with horror by some critics, who regarded her switch from "real" literature to the geek market as a sort of brain fever.
(19) Newsquest , which publishes 17 UK daily paid-for titles including the Brighton Argus, the Northern Echo and Scottish newspaper the Herald, reported a 60.0% year-on-year slump in revenue from property ads, a fall of 51.4% from employment ads, and a slide of 43.2% from car ads.
(20) 1-14C-n-hexadecane, a model compound for the non-volatile aliphatic hydrocarbon components of crude oil, was administered by intrapericardial injection to the spiny lobster, Panulirus argus, and the clawed or American lobster, Homarus americanus.