(n.) A professional poet and singer, as among the ancient Celts, whose occupation was to compose and sing verses in honor of the heroic achievements of princes and brave men.
(n.) Hence: A poet; as, the bard of Avon.
(n.) Alt. of Barde
(v. t.) To cover (meat or game) with a thin slice of fat bacon.
(n.) The exterior covering of the trunk and branches of a tree; the rind.
(n.) Specifically, Peruvian bark.
Example Sentences:
(1) The air entrainment devices from oxygen masks of four manufacturers (Henleys Medical Supplies Ltd, Vickers Medical, Intersurgical Ltd, C R Bard International Ltd) were studied.
(2) Bard College, New York, offered him and Christie the possibility of teaching there and provided the facilities he needed.
(3) Patients were supported by percutaneous femoral bypass using a BARD CPS machine, and underwent successful PTCA of either two vessels (three patients) or three vessels (two patients); in addition, one patient had dilatation of a stenotic aortic valve.
(4) Systolic (SBP) and diastolic (DBP) blood pressure, and heart rate (HR) were measured by an automatic recorder (Sentron Bard Biomedical) twice at rest after 5 min in a supine position and after 2 and 5 min in an upright position, 24 h after the last antihypertensive dose.
(5) Unfortunately – like a bad student mis-copying Wikipedia, he mistakenly quoted the wrong Shakespeare: not the Bard, but his modern descendant, Telegraph journalist Nicholas Shakespeare.
(6) One window was repaired using a bioabsorbable polyglycolic acid (PGA) mesh graft, and the other using a nonabsorbable Marlex mesh (polypropylene mesh; PP mesh) (C. R. Bard, Inc., Billerica, MA) graft.
(7) Bard Inc. was assessed as to its clinical usefulness and suitability to regular use with artificial kidney.
(8) Two new catheters with a large distal electrode have been recently introduced for catheter ablation: a low energy 7F bipolar catheter (Bard) with a contoured distal electrode, and a 7F deflectable catheter with a 4-mm tip (Mansfield).
(9) Last summer as part of world Shakespeare season celebrating the Olympics, the Globe invited companies to come and perform every play the Bard wrote in 37 different languages – including Troilus and Cressida in Maori, Two Gentlemen of Verona in Shona (spoken in Zimbabwe and Zambia), and the Henry VI plays divided among the Balkans in Serbian, Albanian and Macedonian.
(10) After heparinization with an activated clotting time of greater than 450 seconds, cardiopulmonary bypass was instituted using the Bard CPS system.
(11) Having evaluated various needles, we found the Bard Biopty instrument more efficient than manual needles and open biopsy techniques, and it provides muscle specimens for pathologic interpretation that are comparable with open surgical procedures.
(12) Privacy is the biggest unanswered question,” says Arthur Holland Michel, director of the Centre for the Study of the Drone at Bard College, in New York.
(13) Results of radiofrequency ablation of the AV junction using a custom-designed catheter with a large, 3-mm-long distal electrode, 2-mm interelectrode spacing, and a shaft with increased torsional rigidity were compared with those using a standard quadripolar electrode catheter (Bard EP).
(14) Six external velour (Bionit C. R. Bard, Inc.; Billerica, MA) and 11 double velour (Microvel Meadox Medicals, Inc.; Oakland, NJ) warp-knit Dacron grafts with lengths of 6 cm and diameters of 8 mm were implanted in the canine upper descending thoracic aorta for 56 days.
(15) They are not so good for the diastolic blood pressure as the Bard-Sentron over-estimates by 33 p. 100.
(16) Shakespeare’s Globe will finally have staged every one of the Bard’s known plays when it puts on King John next year to mark Magna Carta’s 800th anniversary.
(17) Photograph: Alamy 3 Shakespeare Part II Celebrations for the bard's 450th birthday started last year but will culminate on the actual day in 2014, 23 April.
(18) The rise in BARD was accompanied by a significant increase in lymphocyte basal ACA in normotensive subjects, but not hypertensive patients.
(19) Researchers selected three models of syringe pumps for evaluation: the Bard Harvard Mini-Infuser 150XL, the Becton Dickinson 360 Infuser, and the Strato Stratofuse System.
(20) The Bard prostate biopsy gun under ultrasonic guidance provides consistent, high quality prostatic core samples for histopathologic diagnosis.
Sard
Definition:
(n.) A variety of carnelian, of a rich reddish yellow or brownish red color. See the Note under Chalcedony.
Example Sentences:
(1) It is proposed that all SARDs act on some aspect of the central reaction in the ongoing immune response where antigen presentation to T helper cells results in interleukin 2 production and the generation of activated T cells.
(2) The effects produced by a single agent in vivo and in vitro are not always the same so a single mode of action, for example through possession of a thiol group, cannot explain the effects of all SARDs.
(3) Review of the known activity of SARDs on different cell types at various anatomical sites suggest that in fact different SARD drugs act in differing and sometimes conflicting ways.
(4) Whether these findings explain the low incidence of SARD with cuprammonium cellulose plate dialyzers that do not contain potting material is a matter for continued study and experimentation.
(5) Plasma, bronchoalveolar lavage fluids (BAL), and lung parenchyma were analyzed for vitamin E and polyunsaturated fatty acid (PUFA) concentrations in three groups of patients routinely receiving oxygen therapy--two with adult respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS and SARDS), a third with pneumonia (PNEU), as well as a fourth group of patients receiving little or no oxygen therapy (OTHER).
(6) However, none of the SARDs examined could scavenge O2- at concentrations reported in patients' plasma.
(7) This approach for combination therapy whereby a second SARD is given to patients already established on a single SARD, appears to minimise the toxicity which is a problem when 2 SARDs are started simultaneously.
(8) "These instruments were not invented by Greece, nor did investment banks discover them just for Greece," said Christophoros Sardelis, who was chief of Greece's debt management agency when the contracts were conducted with Goldman Sachs.Such contracts were also used by other European countries until Eurostat, the EU's statistic agency, stopped accepting them later in the decade.
(9) During the first year none of the reactions were serious although 9 of the 29 patients (31%) given D-penicillamine and 3 of the 9 patients receiving aurothiomalate developed side-effects requiring withdrawal of the second SARD.
(10) A gas chromatographic system with wide-bore capillary columns and synchronized accumulating radioisotope detector (SARD) was developed.
(11) The site of action of SARDs within the body--whether at the level of synovial inflammation or of the systemic immune response--is largely undetermined.
(12) Since many drugs, particularly the slow-acting anti-rheumatic drugs (SARDs) used in RA, may alter O2- metabolism, the effects of SARDs on SSA were also studied.
(13) The performance of wide-bore capillary columns was good and the correspondence of the resolution obtained with SARD and that with mass detection was excellent.
(14) This open study examined the safety of adding a second slow-acting anti-rheumatic drug (SARD) - D-penicillamine or sodium aurothiomalate - to the therapy of 38 rheumatoid patients already established on sulphasalazine.
(15) The slow acting anti-rheumatic drugs (SARDS) are a chemically heterogeneous group.
(16) The SSA of the plasma, PB-PMN, JF and JF-PMN were significantly higher in patients treated with SARDs than those without.