(n.) Look, or particular appearance of the face; countenance; mien; air.
(n.) Appearance to the eye or the mind; look; view.
(n.) Position or situation with regard to seeing; that position which enables one to look in a particular direction; position in relation to the points of the compass; as, a house has a southern aspect, that is, a position which faces the south.
(n.) Prospect; outlook.
(n.) The situation of planets or stars with respect to one another, or the angle formed by the rays of light proceeding from them and meeting at the eye; the joint look of planets or stars upon each other or upon the earth.
(n.) The influence of the stars for good or evil; as, an ill aspect.
(n.) To behold; to look at.
Example Sentences:
(1) The thermoregulatory responses of this American marsupial were, in most aspects, similar to those of Australian marsupials.
(2) Results in May 89 emphasizes: the relevance and urgency of the prevention of AIDS in secondary schools; the importance of the institutional aspect for the continuity of the project; the involvement of the pupils and the trainers for the processus; the feasibility of an intervention using only local resources.
(3) The individual classes of drugs are first treated separately to highlight specific aspects of their quantification, and this is followed by an overview of those methods permitting the concomitant analysis of two or more antiepileptic compounds.
(4) An opening wedge osteotomy is then directed posterior-dorsal to anterior-plantar, to effectively plantarflex the posterior aspect of the calcaneus.
(5) The clinical and epidemiological aspects of these 35 cases are discussed.
(6) The clinical aspects, the modality of onset and diffusion of the lymphoma, its macroscopic and histopathological features and the different therapeutic approaches are discussed.
(7) Since intracellular Ca2+ seems to play a role in stimulus-secretion coupling and ion movements, several aspects of Ca2+ homeostasis have been investigated in CF.
(8) These and other aspects of toxoplasmosis on Taiwan are discussed.
(9) One of the most interesting aspects of the shadow cabinet elections, not always readily interpreted because of the bizarre process of alliances of convenience, is whether his colleagues are ready to forgive and forget his long years as Brown's representative on earth.
(10) The authors suggest that the outstanding high sensitivity of the above mentioned two tests applied parallelly reveals that they highlights partially different aspects of coronary artery disease, and that is why the overlapping between the methods is relatively small.
(11) Major limitations of the conventional sperm penetration assay are the inability to assess several aspects of sperm function (zona binding and penetration) and the absence of human ovulatory products known to influence fertilization.
(12) This article discusses the advantages, clinical uses, limitations, and legal aspects of this mydriatic antagonist in optometric practice.
(13) Tests were chosen to assess various aspects of monocyte function that give some insight into the host defense status and the degree of "activation" of the monocyte.
(14) Some aspects of the life structure, of course, are also unconscious, namely, those having to do with attempted solutions to core personality conflicts and those reflecting modes of ego functioning.
(15) The horizontal portion of the intracavernous ICA as well as the whole aspect of the aneurysm could be exposed as a result of the extended opening of the cavernous roof anterior to the posterior clinoid process.
(16) There were pronounced differences from the fine structural aspects in late infantile cases.
(17) Equilibrium and kinetic aspects of the binding of several proteins to N-(3-carboxypropionyl)aminodecyl-Sepharose, an amphiphilic ampholytic adsorbent, were studied at 22 degrees C, pH 7.0, I 0.10--0.12.
(18) These findings indicate the cytogenetic correlation with clinical and morphological picture, which consequently implicates the diagnostic and prognostic significance of chromosomal aspects.
(19) Although the performance aspects of electronic displays are crucial considerations in workstation design, experience suggests that human factors in mechanical operation, software accessibility, and workstation environment are also important.
(20) The peculiar aspects of uncommon causes of IVH are discussed on the basis of a review of the literature.
Decile
Definition:
(n.) An aspect or position of two planets, when they are distant from each other a tenth part of the zodiac, or 36¡.
Example Sentences:
(1) Age-adjusted cancer incidence was not elevated in the lower deciles of serum uric acid level.
(2) Tables at the back of the budget Red Book have been carefully constructed to show the impact of direct tax, indirect tax, and benefit and tax credit changes on each decile.
(3) (The UK has for households what amounts to a flat tax system other than for the poorest tenth of households who pay a higher proportion of their income in tax than any other decile.)
(4) The median income for a single adult in the fifth decile is £17,600, but for a couple with two children it is £44,200, which may take them into the 40% tax bracket, helping to explain why so many families on average incomes feel they are in the "squeezed middle".
(5) Children who tend to track in the lowest and highest deciles for HDL cholesterol may also mature to become adults respectively at increased and reduced CHD risk.
(6) Study patients were in the top decile for ambulatory visits, and bad elevated scores for anxiety, depression, and somatization.
(7) Sixteen kindreds were ascertained through probands clinically determined to have primary hypoalphalipoproteinemia, characterized by bottom decile high-density lipoprotein cholesterol (HDL-c), but otherwise normolipidemic.
(8) However, an open-ended scale coupled with transformation of reported ratings into a decile scale virtually eliminated the ceiling effect, thus producing consistently linear functions and maximizing test-retest reliability.
(9) Each decile of posttest probability was compared to the actual prevalence of CAD in that decile.
(10) The report suggests that even after the introduction of universal credit, families in the poorest income decile will be 6% worse off in 2014–15 than they would have been had no changes been made to the tax and benefit system.
(11) Compared with the general twin population, the tenth-decile group contained significantly fewer primiparas (P = .0023).
(12) The relative risk of those located in the upper decile of the estimated risk as compared to the bottom decile was 8.2.
(13) The frequency of dementia climbed with each decile affecting 15% of those less than 75 years, 39% of those 75 to 84, and 47% of those over age 85.
(14) With repeat determinations of the HDL-C levels 10 years later, the levels of the subjects in the low decile group with the S1M1 haplotype had regressed toward the population mean, while the regression was much less substantial for the S2M1 group.
(15) A second survey conducted in 304 men of the original sample 5 years later confirmed that haptoglobin was related to FEV1 (r = -0.21; P less than 0.001) and that wheezing was significantly related to hypohaptoglobinaemia (lower decile; P = 0.04).
(16) A detailed comparison was performed of the mortality patterns of "thin" (decile 1 of Quetelet's index) and "average" weight (deciles 4 and 5) cohort members who were age 40-79 years and free of illness at the beginning of follow-up.
(17) The TD50 is converted into an inverse log scale, a decile scale, and then adjusted by weighting factors that describe other parameters of carcinogenic activity.
(18) However, the entire increase is accounted for by the elderly in the top income decile.
(19) A quarter of all deaths from coronary heart disease related to cholesterol occurred among men with concentrations above the top decile, but 55% occurred among men with concentrations in the middle three fifths of the distribution; this figure of 55% could be reduced only by a policy aimed at lowering concentrations in the whole population.
(20) One hundred schoolchildren aged 11-14 years and representing the top, middle and bottom deciles of the blood pressure range completed a crossover protocol requiring them to raise and lower their sodium intake for alternate periods of 4 weeks.