(n.) Any plane surface, as of the floor of a room or church, or of the ground within an inclosure; an open space in a building.
(n.) The inclosed space on which a building stands.
(n.) The sunken space or court, giving ingress and affording light to the basement of a building.
(n.) An extent of surface; a tract of the earth's surface; a region; as, vast uncultivated areas.
(n.) The superficial contents of any figure; the surface included within any given lines; superficial extent; as, the area of a square or a triangle.
(n.) A spot or small marked space; as, the germinative area.
(n.) Extent; scope; range; as, a wide area of thought.
Example Sentences:
(1) The accumulation of lipids and enzymes such as simple estarase, lipase, beta-HDH, alpha-GDH and NADPH-reductase in those areas, suggests that lipids are not a simple excretory product.
(2) We used the polymerase chain reaction (PCR) to amplify the breakpoint area of alpha-thalassemia-1 of Southeast Asia type and several parts of the alpha-globin gene cluster to make a differential diagnosis between alpha-thalassemia-1 and Hb Bart's hydrops fetalis.
(3) For some time now, public opinion polls have revealed Americans' strong preference to live in comparatively small cities, towns, and rural areas rather than in large cities.
(4) On Friday night, in a stadium built in an area once deemed an urban wasteland, the flame that has journeyed from Athens to every corner of these islands will light the fire that launches the London Olympics of 2012.
(5) Neuropsychological testing is a relatively new field in the area of clinical neuroscience.
(6) A study of factors influencing genetic counseling attendance rate has been conducted in the Bouches-du-Rhône area, in the south of France.
(7) To quantify the size of the lesion in mice, the area of the infarct on the brain surface was assessed planimetrically 48 h after MCA occlusion by transcardial perfusion of carbon black.
(8) The cross sectional area of the aortic lumen was gradually decreased while the length of the stenotic lesion gradually increased by using strips with different width.
(9) No reaction product was observed in the lamellar areas.
(10) This computer is connected to a fileserver via a local area network and is used exclusively for data acquisition.
(11) Graft life is even more prolonged with patch angioplasty at venous outflow stenoses or by adding a new segment of PTFE to bypass areas of venous stenosis.
(12) The coefficient of variation in the integrated area of a single peak is 16%.
(13) A quadripolar catheter was positioned either at the site of earliest ventricular activation during induced monomorphic ventricular tachycardia or at circumscribed areas of the left ventricle.
(14) Blood flow decreased immediately after skin expansion in areas over the tissue expander on days 0 and 1 and returned to baseline levels within 24 hours.
(15) Consensual but rationally weak criteria devised to extract inferences of causality from such results confirm the generic inadequacy of epidemiology in this area, and are unable to provide definitive scientific support to the perceived mandate for public health action.
(16) In the fall of 1975, 1,915 children in grades K through eight began a school-based program of supervised weekly rinsing with 0.2 percent aqueous solution of sodium fluoride in an unfluoridated community in the Finger Lakes area of upstate New York.
(17) Pain is not reported in the removal area, the clinical examinations show identical findings on both patellar tendons, X-ray and ultrasound evaluations do not demonstrate any change in patellar position.
(18) However, there was no statistically significant difference in mean areas under the LH and FSH curves in the GnRH-treated groups.
(19) In 22 cases (63%), retinal detachment was at least partially flattened in the area of the posterior pole of the eye.
(20) The hospital whose A&E unit has been threatened with closure on safety grounds has admitted that four patients died after errors by staff in the emergency department and other areas.
Areal
Definition:
(a.) Of or pertaining to an area; as, areal interstices (the areas or spaces inclosed by the reticulate vessels of leaves).
Example Sentences:
(1) In control group, one week and four weeks after the hepatectomy, ivGTT was examined followed by a blood sampling from the portal vein to measure the changes of glucose, insulin and glucagon, and areal changes of the islets were measured.
(2) Following 8 weeks of loading, areal properties and histomorphometry were performed on both the experimental and intact control ulnae.
(3) Here the pulse curve analysis of the linear blood flow deserves special mention, important parameters being the peak-flow, the catacrote areal index, the peak delay, and the sum of pulse peak and pulse peak delay.
(4) We report here on 49 areal measurements of transplant size from a coronal section and compare the results with isotopically measured areas.
(5) Among others, a modified suture technique for correcting the combined laceration of Perineum-Ampulla recti-areal (third degree perineal laceration) and a modification of the method for correcting pneumovagina are described.
(6) We found that the areal distribution pattern of labeled callosal projection neurons varied at the different fetal ages.
(7) In both sexes, apparent relationships between BMD and lean mass are artifacts attributable to the use of areal density (which is dependent on body size) as a surrogate for volumetric density.
(8) Cross-sectional areal properties and bone formation rates were quantitated from 30 microns mid-diaphyseal sections using a Bioquant Bone Morphometry system.
(9) The amount of bone that grew into the porous surface, the areal density of bone within the available pore space, and the extent of the prosthesis periphery with bone ingrowth were not significantly varied in the two different components.
(10) The dissociation of elastic, muscular and connective tissue and the determination of their areal densities in the superior vena cava and in the ascending aorta of the dog, was performed by automated image analysis.
(11) We found that the areal and numerical densities of darkly reactive mitochondria were lower in deafferented cells than those in the sham-operated animals.
(12) This massive somatotopic reorganization, involving more than half the areal extent of SII, exceeds that previously observed in the postcentral cortex after peripheral nerve damage and may reflect a greater capacity for reorganizational changes in higher order than in primary sensory cortical areas.
(13) By contrast, the areal distribution of associational neurones in area 18a and in nonretinotopically organized areas projecting to area 17 were very similar in controls and in operated animals (neonatal kainate lesion of the visual thalamus, neonatal section of the corpus callosum or both procedures combined).
(14) There was a significant reduction in the areal density of striatal neurons expressing preproenkephalin messenger RNA in the patients with symptomatic HD, but the level of labeling in the remaining cells was not altered compared with the control subjects.
(15) Cortical motor output organization was assessed by mapping the areal extent of movements evoked by intracortical electrical stimulation in anesthetized rats.
(16) The transformation of STIM energy-loss images into maps of areal density is discussed, and is illustrated with images of a fruit fly head (Drosophila melanogaster).
(17) The total area, the number of C cells per unit area, and the areal fraction of C cells were determined for the C cell region using step serial sections.
(18) To quantify these alterations and to determine their contribution to the final form of the region, size and areal measurements were recorded and served as input for principal component and cluster analytic techniques.
(19) At the same time granule and Purkinje cell density declined, suggesting that the areal recovery was due to the expansion of the interneuronal matrix.
(20) Areal boundaries are localized at positions where this laminar pattern changes.