(n.) One of the two points of an orbit, as of a planet or satellite, which are at the greatest and least distance from the central body, corresponding to the aphelion and perihelion of a planet, or to the apogee and perigee of the moon. The more distant is called the higher apsis; the other, the lower apsis; and the line joining them, the line of apsides.
(n.) In a curve referred to polar coordinates, any point for which the radius vector is a maximum or minimum.
(n.) Same as Apse.
Example Sentences:
(1) Two previously reported pediatric severity scoring systems, the Admission Physiologic Stability Index (APSI) and the Organ System Failure (OSF) score were evaluated for 151 patients.
(2) The APSI was higher for children who died than for those who lived (p less than 0.001).
(3) It is anticipated that the APSI will be of value in a variety of treatment and research contexts.
(4) APSI shows that moderately severe postAMI patients can benefit from a beta-blocking treatment and a beta-blocker with mild intrinsic sympathomimetic activity can be effective.
(5) This difference reflected the sharp distinction between the APSI for children who left intensive care within 24 h and those remaining in ICU longer than 24 h (p less than 0.001).
(6) This article presents the multicenter development of the Adolescent Psychosocial Seizure Inventory (APSI), an empirically based self-report test patterned after the Washington Psychosocial Seizure Inventory, which is used to evaluate psychosocial problems in adults.
(8) LZEJ and APSI cells could readily be distinguished from each other after co-injection by using specific and sequential staining protocols of whole organs or sections; staining of host organ cells was minimized.
(9) After pilot work, 120 adolescents with epilepsy from five centers in North America took the APSI and were interviewed by professionals with respect to adequacy of adjustment in eight psychosocial areas.
(10) APsys (19%), and delta AP (43%) were significantly increased from predive values, with an additional increase detected for all these variables after 60 min at 30 bar.
(11) For children remaining in ICU longer than 24 h, there was a large overlap of APSI scores, and the APSI did not discriminate between children in the overlap region who lived and those who died (p = 0.054).
(12) There was underscoring of neurological patients; the APSI did not differentiate neurological patients whole lived and those who died (p greater than 0.10).
(13) Co-injection of the two tumor cell classes resulted in similar numbers of homogeneous microfoci in lungs of LZEJ or APSI cells within minutes after injection that persisted for several hours before clearance of most of them.
(14) Although the objective was not achieved, APSI patients were at a higher risk than the average of the 9 previous trials with beta blockers (12% instead of 7%).
(15) APSI was planned because patients with a death rate greater than 20% have not been enrolled in significant numbers in previous trials and in such high-risk patients, it remained to be proven that beta blockers have a beneficial effect.
(16) The observed chemical shifts suggest the existence of an atypical syn conformation for pseudouridine in the Apsi base pair in regulatory tRNAs in solution.
Dome
Definition:
(n.) A building; a house; an edifice; -- used chiefly in poetry.
(n.) A cupola formed on a large scale.
(n.) Any erection resembling the dome or cupola of a building; as the upper part of a furnace, the vertical steam chamber on the top of a boiler, etc.
(n.) A prism formed by planes parallel to a lateral axis which meet above in a horizontal edge, like the roof of a house; also, one of the planes of such a form.
(n.) Decision; judgment; opinion; a court decision.
Example Sentences:
(1) Dome-shaped, fungiform papillae were scattered among these filiform papillae.
(2) Ethanol, an agent that increases membrane fluidity, stimulates AC to a much greater extent in homogenates from the 22 month than from the 22 day or 90 day rat bladder dome.
(3) And there is plenty of beauty in London - seeing Parliament Square in the snow, the dome of St Paul's rising above the City, the simple perfection of a Georgian terrace or the quietly elegant streets of Mayfair.
(4) In the infant and small child, when most repairs are done, nose tip projection is due more to the alar dome component than to the columella.
(5) It said it hoped to have a small containment dome in place by late today.
(6) Iron Dome receives $176m in annual funding from the US, but the House of Representatives voted in May to double the amount .
(7) Steps wind down a rugged rock face to a bedroom, while light floods in from round skylights in the domed ceiling above.
(8) Mucosla nodularity of the bladder dome, even without gastrointestinal symptoms, should raise the possibility of regional enteritis.
(9) The shadow chancellor told the newspaper the Dome was a mistake and said: "I think you should learn from your mistakes."
(10) In both groups clinical and radiological results were better when the cartilage layer at the talar dome was found to be intact at the time of surgical intervention.
(11) Histopathological examination of one resected aneurysmal dome confirmed the diagnosis of transmural arteritis secondary to SLE.
(12) In addition, the cells receive synapses from numerous nonimmunoreactive terminals including a wide range of different dome-shaped terminals and various scalloped or glomerular terminals.
(13) A review of arthroscopic, radiographic, and clinical data of all patients undergoing ankle arthroscopy at our center provided the following diagnoses: talar dome osteochondral fractures, loose bodies, accessory ossicles, talar dome cyst with loose bodies, and chronic synovitis.
(14) Pilgrims from all over the world, many weeping and clutching precious mementos or photographs of loved ones, jostle beneath its soaring domes every day.
(15) 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.
(16) This domed white building is now a magnet for national expectations, and many wonder whether it will sag under the weight of so much anticipation.
(17) The tumor was diffusely hemorrhagic and occupied the dome of the bladder.
(18) So here we are in Chester's Mill, a snoozy Maine town about to be rent asunder by the arrival of a mysterious transparent dome, shooming down like a giant jam jar on its coffee shops and car lots and effectively cutting its residents off from the rest of civilisation.
(19) Lisa and Brian converted the old wooden schoolhouse six years ago and the design is bright and eclectic, think retro school desks, a funky red kitchen, a clear geodesic dome in the garden for stargazing and chill-out time and a giant chess set on the lawn.
(20) Membranous (M) cells within the dome epithelium of ileal Peyer's patches have been shown to provide selective antigen entry for mucosa-associated lymphoid tissue.