(n.) A iron instrument which is attached to a ship by a cable (rope or chain), and which, being cast overboard, lays hold of the earth by a fluke or hook and thus retains the ship in a particular station.
(n.) Any instrument or contrivance serving a purpose like that of a ship's anchor, as an arrangement of timber to hold a dam fast; a contrivance to hold the end of a bridge cable, or other similar part; a contrivance used by founders to hold the core of a mold in place.
(n.) Fig.: That which gives stability or security; that on which we place dependence for safety.
(n.) An emblem of hope.
(n.) A metal tie holding adjoining parts of a building together.
(n.) Carved work, somewhat resembling an anchor or arrowhead; -- a part of the ornaments of certain moldings. It is seen in the echinus, or egg-and-anchor (called also egg-and-dart, egg-and-tongue) ornament.
(n.) One of the anchor-shaped spicules of certain sponges; also, one of the calcareous spinules of certain Holothurians, as in species of Synapta.
(v. t.) To place at anchor; to secure by an anchor; as, to anchor a ship.
(v. t.) To fix or fasten; to fix in a stable condition; as, to anchor the cables of a suspension bridge.
(v. i.) To cast anchor; to come to anchor; as, our ship (or the captain) anchored in the stream.
(v. i.) To stop; to fix or rest.
(n.) An anchoret.
Example Sentences:
(1) The haplotype of the recombinant X chromosome of each of 241 backcross progeny has been established using the X-linked anchor loci Otc, Hprt, Dmd, Pgk-1, and Amg and the additional probes DXSmh43 and Cbx-rs1.
(2) The popularly used procedure in Great Britain is that in which a sheet of Ivalon sponge is sutured to the sacrum and wrapped around the rectum thus anchoring it in place.
(3) The company also confirmed on Thursday as it launched its sports pay-TV offering at its new broadcasting base in the Olympic Park in Stratford, east London, that former BBC presenter Jake Humphrey will anchor its Premier League coverage.
(4) Since the introduction of osseointegrated titanium implants for bone-anchored facial and dental prostheses, an increasing number of irradiated patients are being treated with this technique.
(5) The brain enzyme did not contain components characteristic of the glycolipid anchors of erythrocyte acetylcholinesterases.
(6) Our findings support the proposal that bcd transcripts are selectively recognized and trapped as they enter the anterior tip of the oocyte, and suggest that this localization process is mediated by anchored sequence-specific receptors in the oocyte cytoplasm.
(7) Sanders, the Vermont senator and self-described democratic socialist, first answered questions from Fox News anchor Bret Baier over his comments in Sunday’s debate that white people “don’t know what it’s like to be living in a ghetto”.
(8) A truncated anchor-minus form of the G2 glycoprotein was found to be secreted into the culture medium, but was retained in the Golgi complex when coexpressed with the G1 glycoprotein.
(9) Major histocompatibility complex (MHC) class 1 molecules that were either transmembrane- (H-2Db) or glycosylphosphatidylinositol (GPI)-anchored (Qa2) were labeled with antibody-coated gold particles and moved across the cell surface with a laser optical tweezers until they encountered a barrier, the barrier-free path length (BFP).
(10) This lipid has a hybrid nature of an archaeal feature in alkyl glycerol diether core portion and an eucaryal feature in the polar head group identical to the conserved core structure (GlcNp(alpha 1-6)-myo-inositol 1-phosphate) of glycosylated phosphatidylinositol which serves as a membrane protein anchor in eucaryal cells.
(11) Ultrastructurally these glands had apical microvilli with associated glycocalyx and long anchoring rootlets.
(12) This was confirmed by the crystal structures, which also showed that the Gln46 amide is hydrogen bonded to the Phe100 N and O atoms, and tightly anchored in this position.
(13) Each of the two chemically identical subunits folds into a three-layer domain anchored by a large six-stranded mixed beta sheet.
(14) A group of proteins anchored to the cell by phosphatidylinositol (PI) has recently been identified.
(15) In conclusion, the N-linked sugar chains are not required for in vitro activity but required for in vivo activity, acting as anchors for the essential terminal sialic acids.
(16) Replacement of the COOH-terminal hydrophobic domain with a signal peptide that normally functions in membrane translocation, or with a random hydrophobic sequence, results in efficient and correct processing, producing GPI-anchored DAF on the cell surface.
(17) Since the corresponding keto analogue, N-[(R)-2-benzyl-5-cyano-4-oxopentanyl]-L-phenylalanine (compound 4), does not inactivate the enzyme, it is suggested that the NH in compound 1 is critical for the proper active-site anchoring of the inhibitor for the inactivation process to take place.
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(19) This tissue may anchor the lead so that it is difficult, dangerous, or impossible to remove it.
(20) The anchoring wire can also be retracted and repositioned.
Davit
Definition:
(n.) A spar formerly used on board of ships, as a crane to hoist the flukes of the anchor to the top of the bow, without injuring the sides of the ship; -- called also the fish davit.
(n.) Curved arms of timber or iron, projecting over a ship's side of stern, having tackle to raise or lower a boat, swing it in on deck, rig it out for lowering, etc.; -- called also boat davits.
Example Sentences:
(1) In the present study, comprising a subset of DAVIT-II, 48 h continuous ECG recordings demonstrated transient ST segment deviation indicative of myocardial ischaemia after one week, prior to randomization, in 18% (10 of 57) of the patients.
(2) Accordingly, the most recent trial, DAVIT-II, was carried out in patients in whom preexisting left ventricular failure had been excluded.
(3) death or reinfarction after a myocardial infarction has been investigated in 2 Danish double-blind placebo-controlled verapamil infarction trials (DAVIT I and II).
(4) DAVIT II demonstrated a non-significant reduction of mortality rate (P = 0.11, hazard ratio 0.80, 95% confidence limits 0.61-1.05), a significant reduction of reinfarction rate (P = 0.04, 0.77, 0.58-1.03), and major event rate (P = 0.03, 0.80, 0.64-0.99) in the verapamil group compared with the placebo group.
(5) death or the first re-infarction from the second week after an acute myocardial infarction was investigated in a double-blind, randomized, placebo-controlled, multicentre investigation (DAVIT II) in which 878 patients commenced treatment with verapamil in a dosage of 360 mg daily and 897 patients received a placebo.
(6) DAVIT II was a later intervention trial that demonstrated a nonsignificant reduction in the 18-month mortality rate [p = 0.11, hazard ratio 0.80; 95% confidence limits (CL) 0.61 to 1.05], a significant reduction in the reinfarction rate (p = 0.04, hazard ratio 0.77; CL 0.58 to 1.03), and in the major event rate (p = 0.03, hazard ratio 0.80; CL 0.64 to 0.99) in the verapamil group compared with the placebo group.
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(8) The DAVIT-II trial has shown that the verapamil type of calcium antagonist can beneficially be used in post-infarct patients.
(9) Meta-analyses of DAVIT I (for patients alive at day 8) and DAVIT II showed a statistically significant reduction in the odds ratio of mortality (22%), reinfarctions (27%), and the major event rate (21%) in verapamil-treated patients.
(10) Meta-analyses of the results of DAVITs I and II resulted in a reduction of pooled ratios of 22% (95% confidence limits 1-37, p = 0.04) for death, 21% (5-35, p = 0.02) for first major events (first reinfarction or death), and 27% (6-43, p = 0.02) for first reinfarctions.
(11) DAVIT-II is a double-blind, randomized, multicentre, placebo-controlled study of long-term treatment with verapamil 360 mg per day administered to patients who have suffered an acute myocardial infarction (AMI).
(12) The others are Russian speedskater Semyon Elistratov, Russian ice dancer Ekaterina Bobrova and Georgian wrestler Davit Modzmanashvili.
(13) The findings of the DAVIT II study with verapamil demonstrate a significant reduction in the infarction recurrence rate (18% vs 21.6%) in the treatment group.
(14) Meta-analyses of DAVIT I (including only patients alive on day eight) and of DAVIT II showed a statistically significant reduction of odds ratio of mortality of 22% (P = 0.04), of reinfarctions of 27% (P = 0.02), and of major events of 21% (P = 0.02).
(15) Whereas the Secondary Prevention Reinfarction Israeli Nifedipine Trial (SPRINT) [Israeli SPRINT Study Group 1988] with nifedipine showed no beneficial effect of the drug, studies with verapamil in the Danish Verapamil Infarction Trial II (DAVIT II) [Danish Study Group on Verapamil in Myocardial Infarction 1990] and diltiazem in the Multicentre Diltiazem Postinfarction Trial (MDPIT) [Multicenter Diltiazem Postinfarction Trial Research Group 1988] as secondary prevention have demonstrated improvements in survival and cardiovascular complications, but these improvements were restricted to patients without heart failure.
(16) The effect of verapamil on death and reinfarction after an acute myocardial infarction was studied in two double-blind, randomized, placebo-controlled multicenter trials, the Danish Verapamil Infarction Trials I and II (DAVIT I and II).
(17) The effect of verapamil therapy in a dosage of 120 thrice daily on the mortality and re-infarction from the time of admission and for the subsequent six months was investigated in a double-blind, randomized, placebo-controlled, multicentre investigation (The Danish Verapamil Infarction Trial (DAVIT I)).
(18) The effect of verapamil on death and major events (i.e., death or reinfarction) after an acute myocardial infarction was studied in a double-blind, randomized, placebo-controlled, multicenter trial, the Danish Verapamil Infarction Trial II (DAVIT II).
(19) DAVIT I was an early intervention trial that demonstrated a statistically nonsignificant reduction in mortality and reinfarction after 6 months of treatment.
(20) This article is a review of presented subsets of the Danish Verapamil Infarction Trial II (DAVIT II) regarding the effect of verapamil on postinfarction ischemia, ventricular arrhythmias, and heart rate (HR), and the prognostic implications of these findings.