(a.) Of the second grade in the staff of the army; as, an assistant surgeon.
(n.) One who, or that which, assists; a helper; an auxiliary; a means of help.
(n.) An attendant; one who is present.
Example Sentences:
(1) We determined whether serological investigations can assist to distinguish between chronic idiopathic autoimmune thrombocytopenia (cAITP) and immune-mediated thrombocytopenia in patients at risk to develop systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE); 82 patients were seen in this institution for the evaluation of immune thrombocytopenia.
(2) Periosteal chondroma is an uncommon benign cartilagenous lesion, and its importance lies primarily in its characteristic radiographic and pathologic appearance which should be of assistance in the differential diagnosis of eccentric lesions of bones.
(3) Serially sectioned rabbit foliate taste buds were examined with high voltage electron microscopy (HVEM) and computer-assisted, three-dimensional reconstruction.
(4) The methodology, in algorithm form, should assist health planners in developing objectives and actions related to the occurrence of selected health status indicators and should be amenable to health care interventions.
(5) There were 54 patients who had a family doctor, 38 felt he could assist in aftercare.
(6) A neodymium YAG (Nd:YAG) laser was evaluated in a dog ulcer model used in the same manner as is recommended for bleeding patients (power 55 W, divergence angle 4 degrees, with CO2 gas-jet assistance).
(7) Following mass disasters and individual deaths, dentists with special training and experience in forensic odontology are frequently called upon to assist in the identification of badly mutilated or decomposed bodies.
(8) Two lunches are recoded with John Yates and Andy Hayman, the former assistant commissioners.
(9) Cloning of the A-T allele(s) will assist in the early or prenatal diagnosis of A-T and provide a firm basis for determining who, in the general population, carries this gene and is therefore at a high risk of cancer.
(10) Four goals, four assists, and constant movement have been a key part of the team’s success.
(11) Despite this exposure, none of 255 dentists, hygienists and chairside assistants had the antibody to HIV following an estimated 189 or more exposures.
(12) Documents seen by the Guardian show that blood supplies for one fiscal year were paid for by donations from America’s Office of Foreign Disaster Assistance (OFDA) and Britain’s Department for International Development (DfID) – and both countries have imposed economic sanctions against the Syrian government.
(13) Nursing staff can assist these clients in a therapeutic way by becoming familiar with the types of issues these clients present and the behaviors they manifest.
(14) Although left heart bypass has gained popularity as a powerful technique to assist the severely failed left heart, apparent right heart failure has often developed during the bypass procedure.
(15) It is shown that the combined effects of altitude and wind assistance yielded an increment in the length of the jump of about 31 cm, compared to a corresponding jump at sea level under still air conditions.
(16) A compensator connected to the section consisting of the pump-main line-operating member and including a pneumatic resistance and a flaxid non-elastic container enables it in combination with the feedback to maintain through the volumetric displacement of the gas, or changing the pump diaphragm position, the stability of the gas volume in the pneumatic transmission element of the assisted circulation apparatus.
(17) Restriction site analysis, DNA sequence analysis, and computer-assisted search revealed eight retrotransposon-like elements distributed over a 25 kilobase (kb) mouse Il-6 region.
(18) This is what President Carter did when he raised the spectre of terminating US military assistance if Israel did not immediately evacuate Lebanon in September 1977.
(19) Experiments have been performed using CO2 laser-assisted microvascular anastomoses, and they demonstrated the following features, in comparison with conventional anastomoses: ease in technique; less time consumption; less tissue inflammation; early wound healing; equivalency of patency rate and inner pressure tolerance; but only about 50 percent of the tensile strength of manual-suture anastomosis.
(20) 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.
Dresser
Definition:
(n.) One who dresses; one who put in order or makes ready for use; one who on clothes or ornaments.
(n.) A kind of pick for shaping large coal.
(n.) An assistant in a hospital, whose office it is to dress wounds, sores, etc.
(v. t.) A table or bench on which meat and other things are dressed, or prepared for use.
(v. t.) A cupboard or set of shelves to receive dishes and cooking utensils.
Example Sentences:
(1) But once installed the couple must decide how to live their daily lives: surrounded by butlers, dressers, cooks and cleaners, or more akin to the simpler life they have so far enjoyed.
(2) No butlers, dressers and footmen (if the Queen wants them she can pay for them herself).
(3) I then worked for a brief while as a shop assistant, a dresser at the BBC and the Royal Opera House, and a receptionist at a family planning clinic.
(4) A retrospective cohort mortality study was conducted on 807 fur dyers, fur dressers (tanners), and fur service workers who were pensioned between 1952 and 1977 by the Fur, Leather and Machine Workers Union of New York City.
(5) And when you see Portman naked and leaning in profile on a dresser, she's posed deliberately, artfully, bony elbows protecting her modesty.
(6) SMRs for the dressers and dyers were also low, but not as low as for the manufacturers.
(7) In 1996, a young Samantha Sheffield started working at Smythson as a window dresser.
(8) And back to work.” The BBC also confirmed The Dresser, a one-off drama directed by Sir Richard Eyre for BBC2 starring Anthony Hopkins and Ian McKellen, and the return of Top of the Lake for a second series; casting details were not announced but the BBC said the story will be set in Sydney, Australia.
(9) In fact, Hall was a very eccentric dresser, who would go nowhere without a wide-brimmed fedora (who knew?
(10) However, because of the relatively small number of expected and observed deaths in the cohort and especially among the heavily exposed dressers and dyers, the confidence intervals around SMR estimates were wide and excess risks cannot be ruled out.
(11) It feels amazing that I'm actually going to show my work this time and not just be the dresser.
(12) When my boyfriend and I Chuckle-Brothered a heavy dresser over the threshold just under a year ago, I was filled with a sense of hope.
(13) When attention was restricted to the French Canadians in the cohort, the observed deaths were close to the expected; there was a noteworthy excess of colorectal cancer (four observed, 0.8 expected) for dressers and dyers.
(14) A delegate would have to possess the courage of a cross-dresser in Texas to oppose anything in this atmosphere.
(15) He was a genuine cross-dresser, an 18th-century transvestite.
(16) Denise Dresser (@DeniseDresserG) Peña Nieto invita.a Trump para: August 31, 2016 Translation: Peña Nieto invited Trump because: For Higa [a Mexican construction company] to build the wall To speak about hairstyles To tell him the good things To present his thesis At press time, getting Higa to build the wall had 49% of the more than 8,000 Twitter votes.
(17) Callahan's paper on paternalism and involuntary psychiatric commitment of adults, with comments by Rebecca Dresser, appeared in the August 1984 issue of the Journal of Medicine and Philosophy (Vol.
(18) Fortunately, at least for the Downton set-dresser, there is of course an app for that.
(19) Support was not found for the prediction that the sex change group would have the worst present and past adjustment followed by the homosexual cross-dressers with the poorest past adjustment.
(20) There was a big difference between those classes which we didn’t know before.” 2014 : Flamboyant dressers in modern-day Kinshasa.