(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.
Enclosure
Definition:
(n.) Inclosure. See Inclosure.
Example Sentences:
(1) Will the rate of late (four to five years) wound infection after operations done in a clean-air enclosure be lower than that after procedures done in a "normal" operating-room environment using preoperative, operative, and postoperative antibiotics?
(2) The La Parguera facility was established in part to contrast the social behavior of free-ranging groups with that in enclosures, as well as to compare the seasonal events linked to reproduction with those at Cayo Santiago.
(3) Inexperienced physicians are often unable to immediately identify these translucencies as air enclosures in the intracranial cavity.
(4) Mice were exposed to hypoxia by enclosure in cages covered with dimethyl-silicone rubber membranes for 1-14 days.
(5) On each trial, access to saccharin at normal ambient temperature was followed by injection of drug or saline and placement for 6 hr into a temperature-controlled enclosure.
(6) Quite a lot of things here are variations on the idea of enclosure, putting a roof up, spreading some kind of meniscus over the land.
(7) Expression of the DIT and DIT2 genes is restricted to sporulating cells, with the DIT1 transcripts accumulating at the time of prospore enclosure and just prior to the time of dityrosine biosynthesis.
(8) Our results show that use of ATB ANA microplates in an anaerobic enclosure is a valuable method in clinical practice.
(9) Comparative behavioral samples were obtained on 38 subjects in the existing indoor-outdoor run and in the enclosure.
(10) When observed as yearlings and 2-year-olds, juveniles who had had more protective early mothering showed less interest in the external environment, as measured by the percentage of time they spent looking outside the home enclosure.
(11) Two replicate experimental populations were established from each collection, and each replicate was then released into an enclosure surrounding a natural habitat at a central-latitude locality.
(12) The atmosphere in an enclosure equipped with an automatic life support system was examined during 30-day integrated animal experiments.
(13) The data showed the vertical flow room to exhibit significantly lower (P less than .05) contamination levels than the horizontal flow enclosure.
(14) perfringens strains isolated from feces of test subjects kept in an enclosure for 34 days.
(15) We compared monochromatic ultraviolet radiation of 254 nm with the use of a Charnley-Howorth air enclosure by bacterial air-sampling during 113 total hip arthroplasties.
(16) Using the rebreathing method, CO2 sensitivity of the respiration regulation system was investigated during a year-long enclosure study and head-down tilt tests of varying duration (up to 120 days).
(17) Addition of ATP and GTP to bound vesicles caused limited vesicle fusion, but enclosure of the chromatin was not observed.
(18) In the undrugged state both groups tended to scan the walls of the enclosure with the vibrissae side of the face.
(19) Sonography, computed tomography and scintigraphy were performed, and the prenatally diagnosed process was identified as a cystic growth in the right liver lobe with enclosure of the V. cava inferior.
(20) Males born and housed in a small woodland enclosure in 1979-1980 and well fed with grain did not experience the long period of regressed testes.