() The present indicative plural of the substantive verb to be; but etymologically a different word from be, or was. Am, art, are, and is, all come from the root as.
(n.) The unit of superficial measure, being a square of which each side is ten meters in length; 100 square meters, or about 119.6 square yards.
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Nare
Definition:
(n.) A nostril.
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(1) Group II received a similar inoculum into the left nares.
(2) Among the 395 hospital staff examined during this study, 35.2pc of them were found to carry S. aureus in their anterior nares.
(3) The cell suspension of M. tuberculosis H37Rv was injected into guinea pigs by nares and intraperitoneal, respectively.
(4) A second gas mixture was forced at constant flow into the external nares.
(5) The same result for neonatal nares was also found, after infants had been in the nursery for two days.
(6) Mupirocin or placebo were applied in both anterior nares thrice daily for 2 weeks and subsequently three times weekly for a total of 9 months.
(7) External nares and nasal passageways, albeit blind-ended, were prominent in the proboscis.
(8) Patients and healthy family members who carried the patient strain applied the ointment in nares twice daily every 4th week during 4-15 months.
(9) Earlier in the expedition, the crew believe, they became the first boat to travel through the Nares Strait west of Greenland to the Arctic Ocean in June, once impassable because of sea ice at that time of year.
(10) A total of 34 isolates (31 patients) of S. aureus were available for testing, including 29 isolates (29 patients) from pericatheter skin, four isolates (four patients) from the nares, and one isolate from an episode of peritonitis.
(11) Paucity of lobular cartilage; the flat dorsum; short columella; wide flaring nares; and skin that tends to keloid formation have led many surgeons to attempt radical surgical techniques to obtain rather limited results.
(12) None of them, however, carried P. aeruginosa in their nares.
(13) Coagulase-negative staphylococci (CNS) were cultured from the anterior nares of surgeons, theatre and ward staff, and from patients before and 2 weeks after a total hip replacement.
(14) Activity could also be recorded in the ophthalmic nerve in response to water flow past the submerged nares.
(15) The cleavage lines were annular in arrangement on the skin around the nares, eyes, and preputial orifice.
(16) The major clinical features were failure to thrive, profound mental retardation, dysmorphic head shape, a short nose, anteverted nares, long eyelashes, synophrys, characteristic mouth, and short stature.
(17) Osteotomy of the nasal bone and removal of the nasal septum were performed to help correct the deviation and to facilitate free air passage through the nares.
(18) Urine from unfamiliar males interrupted pregnancy when placed directly on the external nares of newly mated females, but urine from familiar stud males was without effect.
(19) An increased incidence of lesions of the navel, hocks, and nares was observed, but regression analyses showed them to be relatively unimportant in the determination of body weights.
(20) Two cases of congenital bony stenosis of the nasal piriform aperture (anterior nares) are presented.