(n.) Space extended upward; height; the perpendicular elevation of an object above its foundation, above the ground, or above a given level, or of one object above another; as, the altitude of a mountain, or of a bird above the top of a tree.
(n.) The elevation of a point, or star, or other celestial object, above the horizon, measured by the arc of a vertical circle intercepted between such point and the horizon. It is either true or apparent; true when measured from the rational or real horizon, apparent when from the sensible or apparent horizon.
(n.) The perpendicular distance from the base of a figure to the summit, or to the side parallel to the base; as, the altitude of a triangle, pyramid, parallelogram, frustum, etc.
(n.) Height of degree; highest point or degree.
(n.) Height of rank or excellence; superiority.
(n.) Elevation of spirits; heroics; haughty airs.
Example Sentences:
(1) The development of pulmonary edema in high-altitude residents with upper respiratory infections and no antecedent low-altitude journey is consistent with the presence of other factors such as inflammation, which may play a role in the pathogenesis of the edema.
(2) It is shown that the combined effects of altitude and wind assistance yielded an increment in the length of the jump of about 31 cm, compared to a corresponding jump at sea level under still air conditions.
(3) Eight men and eight women each performed peak oxygen intake tests on a cycle ergometer breathing ambient air and a mixture of 12% oxygen in nitrogen (equivalent to an altitude of 4400 m) in the two experiments.
(4) Treatment and prevention of menstrual disorders of women at high altitudes could be carried out by invigorating Qi, regulating blood, promoting the flow of Qi, by warming the channel and regulating Zang and Fu, etc.
(5) Therefore, the hypothesis of a fetal sensori-neural hearing loss due to oxygen lack was tested in the following animal models: a) Adult cats to which feline red blood cells were infused thus causing a polycythemia similar to fetal conditions; b) Adult rats acclimated to altitude in a hypobaric chamber, inducing erythropoiesis with elevated hematocrit and hemoglobin; c) Neonatal guinea pigs and goats studied when they were less than 12 hours old so that the fetal compensatory mechanisms were still present.
(6) Previously, we found resting metabolic rate increased at high altitude but the mechanism and consequences of this increase were unclear.
(7) These data suggest that the positive relationship between pelleted feeds and incidence of ascites observed at high altitudes also exists at lower elevations.
(8) The dogs were housed in gravel-based, outdoor pens with doghouses in a high-altitude, high-sunshine level environment.
(9) Cabin altitudes ranged from sea level to 8,915 feet (2717 m).
(10) Rats were exposed to crhonic hypobaric hypoxia at a simulated altitude of 4250 m for 3, 6, 9, 12, 20, and 35 days.
(11) These data indicate that, compared with animals at sea level, animals at altitude have an increased body burden of COHb and will attain the COHb level associated with the National Ambient Air Quality Standard for CO more quickly when breathing CO.
(12) During rest at high altitude, a 32% decrease in coronary blood flow was largely offset by a 28% increase in coronary arterial O2 extraction to maintain myocardial O2 delivery.
(13) The importance of including highaltitude pulmonary edema in the differential diagnosis of any patient who is admitted with coma after a sojourn at high altitude is stressed.
(14) At altitude, temazepam led to less wakefulness and to drowsy sleep--there were no prolonged sleep latencies.
(15) We investigated acute and chronic hypoxic pulmonary pressor responses in two groups of calves, one bred to be susceptible, the other resistant to high-altitude pulmonary hypertension.
(16) The following species features of this animals are associated with their adaptation to high-altitude hypoxia: organization of alpha-granules, mitochondria, the contractile system (microtubes, F-actin), ovoid form of platelets.
(17) Therefore, myocardial hypoxia is not the basis for the decrease in cardiac stroke volume at high altitude reported previously and also observed in the present study.
(18) Thus, the amount of lung vascular smooth muscle inherent within each species is a major determinant of the pulmonary hypertensive response to high altitude and contributes to the interspecies variability in this response.
(19) The turnover time of NE in the hypothalamus remained unchanged, regardless of the altitude, while in the rest of the brain the rate constant of neurotransmitter elimination decreased inversely as a linear function of the degree of hypoxia.
(20) Rats trained to the high-altitude hypoxia displayed signs of intensification of both the plastic and lytic processes; one of these processes prevailed in different cells.
Angel
Definition:
(n.) A messenger.
(n.) A spiritual, celestial being, superior to man in power and intelligence. In the Scriptures the angels appear as God's messengers.
(n.) One of a class of "fallen angels;" an evil spirit; as, the devil and his angels.
(n.) A minister or pastor of a church, as in the Seven Asiatic churches.
(n.) Attendant spirit; genius; demon.
(n.) An appellation given to a person supposed to be of angelic goodness or loveliness; a darling.
(n.) An ancient gold coin of England, bearing the figure of the archangel Michael. It varied in value from 6s. 8d. to 10s.
Example Sentences:
(1) We report a retrospective study of 107 cases of carcinoma of the sigmoid colon and upper rectum treated for primary cure at the University of California at Los Angeles Hospital between 1955 and 1970.
(2) He missed the start of the season while rehabbing from last season's ankle injury, played exactly six games with the Los Angeles Lakers before getting hurt again and even if he's healthy he may still sit the game out .
(3) Cooper, who was briefly a social worker in Los Angeles, also suggests working hard to build a rapport with colleagues in hotdesking situations.
(4) 75 min: Real Madrid substitution: Angel Di Maria off, Ricky Kaka on.
(5) McQueen later worked for Gieves & Hawkes and the theatre costumiers Angels , before being employed, aged 20, by Koji Tatsuno , a Japanese designer with links to London.
(6) In a statement the Los Angeles County department of public health said: "Though legionella bacteria was identified in a water sample taken from the Playboy Mansion, this bacteria has not been determined as the source of the respiratory outbreak.
(7) This relative safety is largely unaffected by the interval since migration, even after decades of residence in Los Angeles.
(8) Brodetsky, Anna M. (University of California, Los Angeles), and W. R. Romig.
(9) The results of these studies were compared with those obtained in a sample of nonfiremen residing in the Los Angeles area who were matched by computer with the firemen for anthropomorphic characteristics and smoking status.
(10) Los Angeles were relentless in their vicious pursuit of a game-tying goal on Wednesday, bidding to send Game 4 into overtime.
(11) Ten of the 45 reviewed were court cases, and 32 workers acutely exposed at University of California-Los Angeles (UCLA) were studied with routine four views of the chest.
(12) Prosecutors in San Francisco and Los Angeles alleged that it was false for Uber to say it was the leader in screening drivers when its background checks were inferior to the process taxi drivers undergo, since Uber does not include fingerprint checks.
(13) Endocervical cultures for Neisseria gonorrhoeae were taken from 4,285 new patients attending the emergency room and outpatient clinics at Women's Hospital, Los Angeles County-University of Southern California Medical Center.
(14) To test these competing hypotheses, a series of health, income, life satisfaction, and social participation variables (interaction with family, kin, neighbors, and friends) was examined with data from a large (N = 1269) sample of middle-aged and older blacks, Mexican Americans and whites in Los Angeles County.
(15) The marquee event on Thursday, considering recent off the court events, was the sixth game between the Los Angeles Clippers.
(16) A new portable model of the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA) instrumented clinical knee testing apparatus and the KT-1000 knee arthrometer were used to measure anterior laxity in normal and anterior cruciate absent knees.
(17) London might have Nelson’s column, the north its angel, Manchester its Alan Turing .
(18) Uribe strikes out to end the inning, an eventful one in Los Angels.
(19) He had huge eyes, a wide, deep brow, an angel's mouth, with the upper lip crested.
(20) The raids came after three separate federal indictments in the biggest investigation to date into trade-based drug money laundering, said Thom Mrozek, a spokesman for the US attorney’s office in Los Angeles.