(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.
(7) Acebutolol et Prévention Secondaire de l'Infarctus (APSI), a randomized, placebo-controlled trial, was designed to test long-term acebutolol, 200 mg twice daily, a beta blocker with mild intrinsic sympathomimetic activity, in the prevention of late death in high-risk postacute myocardial infarction (AMI) patients.
(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.
Recess
Definition:
(n.) A withdrawing or retiring; a moving back; retreat; as, the recess of the tides.
(n.) The state of being withdrawn; seclusion; privacy.
(n.) Remission or suspension of business or procedure; intermission, as of a legislative body, court, or school.
(n.) Part of a room formed by the receding of the wall, as an alcove, niche, etc.
(n.) A place of retirement, retreat, secrecy, or seclusion.
(n.) Secret or abstruse part; as, the difficulties and recesses of science.
(n.) A sinus.
(v. t.) To make a recess in; as, to recess a wall.
(n.) A decree of the imperial diet of the old German empire.
Example Sentences:
(1) But the wounding charge in 2010 has become Brown's creation of a structural hole in the budget, more serious than the cyclical hit which the recession made in tax receipts, at least 4% of GDP.
(2) S&P – the only one of the three major agencies not to have stripped the UK of its coveted AAA status – said it had been surprised at the pick-up in activity during 2013 – a year that began with fears of a triple-dip recession.
(3) Epidermolytic PPK is a well delineated autosomal dominant entity, but no recessive form is known.
(4) In junctions, 3' PSS termini are preserved by fill-in DNA synthesis, although their 5' recessed ends cannot serve as a primer.
(5) No changes in degree of recession were observed during the 4-year period.
(6) Although the reeler, an autosomal recessive mutant mouse with the abnormality of lamination in the central nervous system, died about 3 weeks of age when fed ordinary laboratory chow, this mouse could grow up normally and prolong its destined, short lifespan to 50 weeks and more when given assistance in taking paste food and water from the weaning period.
(7) About one out of three profoundly deaf children has an autosomal recessive form of inherited deafness.
(8) Frequency and localization of spontaneous and induced by high temperature (37 degrees C) recessive lethal mutations in X-chromosome of females belonging to the 1(1) ts 403 strain defective in synthesis of heat-shock proteins (HSP) were studied.
(9) Cable argued that the additional £30bn austerity proposed by the chancellor after 2015 went beyond the joint coalition commitment to eradicate the structural part of the UK's current budget deficit – the part of non-investment spending that will not disappear even when the economy has fully emerged from the recession of 2008-09.
(10) The polygenic control of diabetogenesis in NOD mice, in which a recessive gene linked to the major histocompatibility complex is but one of several controlling loci, suggests that similar polygenic interactions underlie this type of diabetes in humans.
(11) If a tear is found, remove all unstable meniscal fragments, leaving a rim, if possible, especially adjacent to the popliteus recess, and then proceed to open cystectomy.
(12) Spain's IBEX has tumbled more than 2%, despite its central bank predicting that the country's recession is over.
(13) In Colchester, David Sherwood of Fenn Wright reported: "High tenant demand but increasingly tenants in rent arrears as the recession bites."
(14) Bimedial rectus recession with measurement from the limbus was combined with conjuctival recession 85 children undergoing surgery for esotropia.
(15) When used in snail neurones such electrodes gave very similar pHi values to those recorded simultaneously by recessed-tip glass micro-electrodes.
(16) An autosomal recessive mode of inheritance of this deficiency was found.
(17) Deficiency of glucosamine-6-sulphatase activity leads to the lysosomal storage of the glycosaminoglycan, heparan sulphate and the monosaccharide sulphate N-acetylglucosamine 6-sulphate and the autosomal recessive genetic disorder mucopolysaccharidosis type IIID.
(18) All the teeth were also measured on both their buccal and lingual aspects to assess the amount of gingival recession.
(19) The data on sex-chromosome loss, sex-linked recessive lethals and autosomal translocations suggest lack of mutagenicity.
(20) Parental consanguinity suggests that an autosomal recessive mutation is the likely aetiology.