(a.) Of or pertaining to the Altai, a mountain chain in Central Asia.
Example Sentences:
(1) So one may assume that the Indoeuropean tongues of (West) Europe overlaid a common substratum of Ural-Altaic type which was alive still in the time of Megalithicum.
(2) The analysis of the two endechas and of 12 clauses tolerably handed down shows an Altaic language of an early type which still consists of words and formatives surviving only in one or two of the today's Altaic daughter-languages as Turkish, Mongolian, and Tunguso-Manchu, only seldom in all of them.
(3) A comparison of the two former, high-altitude, populations showed the changes to occur more frequently (by 7.3%) in Khangai population, as compared to Gobi-Altaic residents (p less than 0.05), suggesting that the development of nonspecific myocardial changes is influenced by other, more forceful, factors, such as cold, as well as the altitude factor.
(4) The conicidence of surviving both of Crô-Magnon-typical men and of the archaic Altaic language on the Canary Islands as a reservation of megalithic civilization up to the Middle Ages (XVIth century) approves the hypothesis mentioned above.
(5) Only individual values are reported in one clouded leopard (Neofelis nebulosa), in one leopard (Panthera pardus saxicolor), in one Corbett's tiger (Panthera tigris Corbetti) and in one Altaic tiger (Panthera tigris Altaica).
(6) The suffixes of the nominal declension in the Old Canary and Etruscan languages are very similar to the corresponding elements of the Sumerian and Ural-Altaic tongues.
(7) VELDEN produced many evidences in favour of the hypothesis the Teutons to be a mixture of the Old European Cro-Magnons speaking an archaic ural-altaic idiom with the Indo-Europeans immigrating into Europe from Asia.
(8) the Altaic stratum) passed for unintelligible until the summer of 1977.
Grouping
Definition:
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Group
(n.) The disposal or relative arrangement of figures or objects, as in, drawing, painting, and sculpture, or in ornamental design.
Example Sentences:
(1) A group of interested medical personnel has been identified which has begun to work together.
(2) Once treatment began, no significant changes occurred in Group 1, but both PRA and A2 rose significantly in Groups 2 and 3.
(3) This trend appeared to reverse itself in the low dose animals after 3 hr, whereas in the high dose group, cardiac output continued to decline.
(4) All transplants were performed using standard techniques, the operation for the two groups differing only as described above.
(5) after operation for hip fracture, and merits assessment in other high-risk groups of patients.
(6) Seventeen patients (Group 1) had had no previous surgery, while 13 (Group 2) had had multiple previous operations.
(7) The effects of sessions, individual characteristics, group behavior, sedative medications, and pharmacological anticipation, on simple visual and auditory reaction time were evaluated with a randomized block design.
(8) Urinary ANF immunoreactivity was significantly enhanced by candoxatril in both groups (P less than 0.05 and P less than 0.01 in groups 1 and 2, respectively), with a more pronounced effect evident at the higher dose (P less than 0.01).
(9) The second group only with Haloperidol (same dose).
(10) A change in the pattern of care of children with IDDM, led to a pronounced decrease in hospital use by this patient group.
(11) If the method was taken into routine use in a diagnostic laboratory, the persistence of reverse passive haemagglutination reactions would enable grouping results to be checked for quality control purposes.
(12) We considered the days of the disease and the persistence of symptoms since the admission as peculiar parameters between the two groups.
(13) A group I subset (six animals), for which predominant cultivable microbiota was described, had a mean GI of 2.4.
(14) The half-life of 45Ca in the various calcium fractions of both types of bone was 72 hours in both the control and malnourished groups except the calcium complex portion of the long bone of the control group, which was about 100 hours.
(15) Between 22 HLA-identical siblings and 16 two-haplotype different siblings, a significant difference in concordance of reactions for the B-cell groups was noted.
(16) The cumulative incidence of grade II and III acute GVHD in the 'low dose' cyclosporin group was 42% compared to 51% in the 'standard dose' group (P = 0.60).
(17) The intrauterine mean active pressure (MAP) in the nulliparous group was 1.51 kPa (SD 0.45) in the first stage and 2.71 kPa (SD 0.77) in the second stage.
(18) Biden will meet with representatives from six gun groups on Thursday, including the NRA and the Independent Firearms Owners Association, which are both publicly opposed to stricter gun-control laws.
(19) Another interested party, the University of Miami, had been in talks with the Beckham group over the potential for a shared stadium project.
(20) However, the groups often paused less and responded faster than individual rats working under identical conditions.