(a.) Conferring aid or help; helping; aiding; assisting; subsidiary; as auxiliary troops.
(n.) A helper; an assistant; a confederate in some action or enterprise.
(n.) Foreign troops in the service of a nation at war; (rarely in sing.), a member of the allied or subsidiary force.
(sing.) A verb which helps to form the voices, modes, and tenses of other verbs; -- called, also, an auxiliary verb; as, have, be, may, can, do, must, shall, and will, in English; etre and avoir, in French; avere and essere, in Italian; estar and haber, in Spanish.
(sing.) A quantity introduced for the purpose of simplifying or facilitating some operation, as in equations or trigonometrical formulae.
Example Sentences:
(1) We describe both the three supportive psychotherapeutic steps, which may last months to years including subsequent dynamically psychotherapeutic strategies as well as the reactions of the auxiliary therapist function on the students.
(2) The authors propose three regular procedures with which they are experienced: repair with a large retromuscular nonabsorbable synthetic tulle prosthesis for extensive epigastric eventrations, fillup aponeuroplasty using the sheath of the rectus abdominis associated with a premuscular patch in case of diastasis or of multiple superimposed orifices and suture associated with a small retromuscular auxiliary patch to treat small incisional hernias.
(3) We propose that exact definitions must be given for the auxiliary enzymes in the recommendations of standard determinations for enzyme activities.
(4) Consumers, dentists, dental students, dental assistants, dental hygienists, dental assistant trainees, and dental hygiene students in Massachusetts were surveyed for their attitudes toward the concept of expanded-duties auxiliaries.
(5) Replacing the dentist examination with a dental auxiliary conducted screening evaluation could lead to reduced time and costs.
(6) The developed apparatus included ultrasonic generators operating at a frequency of 0.5-3 MHz, piezoceramic radiators of various design providing the heating of an object with convergent, divergent and plane ultrasonic waves, thermoprobes in the form of single or multiple thermocouples with the bends from 5 points at a 5 mm distance from one another, temperature meters and various auxiliaries.
(7) Physical and technological parameters of carfecillin powder and carfecillin with auxiliary substances in the form of the powder mixture and granulate were studied comparatively.
(8) Chinese drugs constitute a unique medicinal system that features the following three subsystems: subsystem of medicinal substances consisting of traditional theories such as "four properties and five tastes of drugs" and "the principal, adjuvant, auxiliary and conduct ingredients in a prescription' , etc; subsystem of pharmacological actions comprising the theory of "ascending, descending, floating and sinking", etc; Subsystem of human body's functions incorporating the theory of "drugs to act on the channels".
(9) Training of Dental Auxiliaries in the United States Air Force is a highly structured process combining training in short formal courses at the School of Health Care Sciences with extended periods of formal on-the-job training and self-study correspondence courses conducted at bases throughout the Air Force.
(10) Our study was aimed at determining the validity of 99Tcm-HMPAO single photon emission computed tomography (SPECT) in the localization of the epileptogenic focus by correlating this diagnostic method with other auxiliary investigations such as surface EEG and X-ray transmission computed tomography (CT).
(11) Toward these ends, various devices and techniques have been developed, including several different types of vascular shunts in combination with or without extracorporeal oxygenation of blood, implantable auxiliary ventricle and augmentation of diastolic pressure by direct counter pulsation of blood through femoral cannulae or intra-aortic balloon.The sequenced counter pulsator is an external cardiac assist device being developed for the therapy of low output syndromes.
(12) Cyclin, also known as PCNA or the auxiliary protein of mammalian DNA polymerase delta, is a stable cell cycle regulated (synthesized mainly in S-phase) nuclear protein of apparent Mr 36,000 whose rate of synthesis correlates directly with the proliferative state of normal cultured cells and tissues.
(13) 117 people volunteered (37%); among them, nurses showed the highest participation (45.8%) in comparison with doctors, nursing auxiliaries and non-technical personnel (p less than 0.05).
(14) The data suggest that IL 2 receptors may play an auxiliary role in the B cell proliferative response and that IL 2 may exert its effect at a late phase in the B cell activation process.
(15) Thus, removal of calculi was possible only by an auxiliary manipulation and so it took more time.
(16) Each child was evaluated by 2 nurses and 2 auxiliaries.
(17) The venous part regulates the venous inflow volume by the feedback type mechanism; the arterial part ensures complete EC in the pulsating mode during cardiosurgical intervention and auxiliary EC in the course of heart activity recovery after cardioplegia, promoting an increase of the coronary blood flow and synchronized blood supply.
(18) The auxiliary protein is specific for DNA polymerase-delta; it has no effect on the activity of calf thymus DNA polymerase-alpha or the Klenow fragment of E. coli DNA polymerase I with primed homopolymer templates.
(19) Two alternate hypotheses are discussed (a) in which D is an auxiliary donor and (b) in which D is included in the main electron transfer chain.
(20) Auxiliary measures such as dilatation or dissection of the salivary duct were required only in patients with stones in the submandibular gland (20%).
Relief
Definition:
(n.) The act of relieving, or the state of being relieved; the removal, or partial removal, of any evil, or of anything oppressive or burdensome, by which some ease is obtained; succor; alleviation; comfort; ease; redress.
(n.) Release from a post, or from the performance of duty, by the intervention of others, by discharge, or by relay; as, a relief of a sentry.
(n.) That which removes or lessens evil, pain, discomfort, uneasiness, etc.; that which gives succor, aid, or comfort; also, the person who relieves from performance of duty by taking the place of another; a relay.
(n.) A fine or composition which the heir of a deceased tenant paid to the lord for the privilege of taking up the estate, which, on strict feudal principles, had lapsed or fallen to the lord on the death of the tenant.
(n.) The projection of a figure above the ground or plane on which it is formed.
(n.) The appearance of projection given by shading, shadow, etc., to any figure.
(n.) The height to which works are raised above the bottom of the ditch.
(n.) The elevations and surface undulations of a country.
Example Sentences:
(1) There was prompt symptomatic relief and amelioration of signs of nephritis.
(2) "And in my judgment, when the balance is struck, the factors for granting relief in this case easily outweigh the factors against.
(3) We studied the effect of low-dose intrathecal morphine (0.00-0.20 mg) on pain relief and the incidence of side effects after cholecystectomy in 139 patients divided into eight groups according to intrathecal morphine dose: groups 1 (0.00 mg), 2 (0.04 mg), 3 (0.06 mg), 4 (0.08 mg), 5 (0.10 mg), 6 (0.12 mg), 7 (0.15 mg), and 8 (0.20 mg).
(4) During the treatment phase we found a complete relief of symptoms in 6 (27%), a partial relief of symptoms in 6 (27%), and some relief of symptoms in 12 (54%) in group 2.
(5) Among patients in whom the neuroma had been operated on once previously (first recurrence group), 88% achieved good to excellent pain relief with the technique described in this article.
(6) The improvement in the two groups of patients was statistically comparable to the relief of pain and the over-all restoration of function.
(7) All four active treatment groups also experienced significantly more relief of pelvic-abdominal pain compared with placebo: piroxicam 40 mg for two days followed by three days of 20 mg (p = 0.002), piroxicam 40 mg for one day followed by four days of 20 mg (p = 0.023), piroxicam 20 mg for five days (p = 0.012), and ibuprofen (p = 0.011).
(8) Martin O’Neill spoke of his satisfaction at the Republic of Ireland’s score draw in the first leg of their Euro 2016 play-off against Bosnia-Herzegovina – and of his relief that the match was not abandoned despite the dense fog that descended in the second half and threatened to turn the game into a farce.
(9) The plasma zinc level was significantly lower at the time of onset of zinc deficiency than in normal subjects, before the procedure of TPN, or at the time of symptomatic relief achieved by administration of zinc.
(10) BPV provides long-term relief of pulmonary valvular obstruction in the majority of patients.
(11) With a minimum review period of 6 months complete remission of synovitis was obtained in 20%, while 63% gained symptomatic relief, with some reduction of synovitis.
(12) An integrated approach to the surgical management of diffuse subaortic stenosis has been designed to provide adequate relief of left ventricular outflow tract obstruction whatever the anatomical features encountered at operation.
(13) The BBA statistics director, David Dooks, said: "It was no surprise to see the January mortgage figures falling back from December, when transactions were being pushed through to beat the end of stamp duty relief.
(14) Percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty (PTCA) is recognized as an effective therapeutic procedure for nonsurgical relief of critical coronary stenosis.
(15) It was a moment’s relief in what is becoming an endless trudge on the road to recovery.
(16) Hence, they self-administer opioids for pain relief with PCA according to their expectations.
(17) Arsenal’s 10 men fall at the first hurdle against Dinamo Zagreb Read more This win, even against such feeble opponents, was celebrated, with the locals chorusing their manager’s name amid a wave of relief given so much of the team’s domestic campaign to date has been dismal.
(18) Its complete removal results in dramatic relief of proptosis.
(19) Deficiency in polyunsaturated fatty acids was not found in erythrocyte membranes under conditions of the relief-diet therapy course used.
(20) From this information, it would appear that it is possible that the mechanism for the prolonged effect of acupuncture in treating chronic pain is that the repeated activation of the physiological systems by which acupuncture inhibits pain, by the repeated acupuncture treatments, trains the body to continue this activity and thereby maintains the pain relief for a period of time after the last treatment.