(v. t.) To make fat by plenteous feeding; to fatten.
(v. t.) To fertilize or enrich, as land.
(v. i.) To grow fat; to grow fat in ease and luxury; to glut one's self.
(n .) A strip of sawed stuff, or a scantling; as, (a) pl. (Com. & Arch.) Sawed timbers about 7 by 2 1/2 inches and not less than 6 feet long. Brande & C. (b) (Naut.) A strip of wood used in fastening the edges of a tarpaulin to the deck, also around masts to prevent chafing. (c) A long, thin strip used to strengthen a part, to cover a crack, etc.
(v. t.) To furnish or fasten with battens.
(v. t.) The movable bar of a loom, which strikes home or closes the threads of a woof.
Example Sentences:
(1) The usefulness of rectal biopsy is now largely confined to Batten's disease, which was found in 32 (34 per cent of the total).
(2) Nonesterified dolichols have been measured in the urinary sediment of 20 patients with the late infantile and juvenile forms of neuronal ceroid lipofuscinosis (Batten disease), in 15 patients with other storage and neurodegenerative disorders and in 10 control subjects.
(3) Asked why Muslims had been singled out, rather than followers of other faiths, Batten said: "Christians aren't blowing people up at the moment, are they?
(4) Application of the formula in 3 patients with the juvenile CLF, the M. Batten-Spielmeyer-Vogt, resulted in a mitigated course of the disease.
(5) On Tuesday, the Guardian reported that Batten supported the creation of a code of conduct for British Muslims and argued for a ban on new mosques in Britain.
(6) He attacked, battened down the hatches on his serve and was merciless in the tie-break, levelling the match with a well-placed volley.
(7) Ukip also has history with Assange: Gerard Batten, a Ukip member of the European parliament (MEP) , defended the Wikileaks founder in a speech in the European parliament in 2011.
(8) Skin biopsy is a reliable method for diagnosis of Batten disease; it is probably not reliable in Kufs disease.
(9) The present data indicate that a group of ten patients with Batten's syndrome showed reduced activity of erythrocyte glutathione (GSH) peroxidase (Px) (glutathione: H2O2 oxidoreductase, EC 1.1.1.9.)
(10) The large amplitude discharges reported with photic stimulation in children with the late infantile form of Batten disease were not elicited in the dog model.
(11) Batten also repeated his view that some Muslim texts need updating, claiming some say "kill Jews wherever you find them and various things like that".
(12) Asked on Tuesday whether he still believed Muslims should sign the charter, Batten said: "I don't suppose the pope would disagree with it or the archbishop of Canterbury or anybody else.
(13) Batten told Newsnight: “I’m not interested in being part of a European political party.
(14) Thus there is evidence for molecular and genetic heterogeneity in Batten disease.
(15) Mary Honeyball, a Labour MEP for London, said that Batten "represents the ugliest side of Ukip".
(16) The linoleic acid content of serum lipids was measured in 10 paitents with Batten's disease and 11 healthy control subjects by gas liquid chromatography.
(17) Over the course of 500 pages he wrestles a swarthy rage he names "the Fury", battens down his cravings, sprays spit and snot and blood and urine, recounts his misdemeanours, finds friendship, and falls in love.
(18) Neuronal ceroid lipofuscinosis (NCL, Batten disease) is an autosomal recessive disease characterized by progressive mental retardation, cortical atrophy, seizures, and retinal degeneration.
(19) Farage said: "This was a private publication from Gerard Batten in 2006 and its contents are not and never have been Ukip policy.
(20) Another leaked email shows that the party's immigration spokesman, Gerard Batten, warned Ukip officials that he and other MEPs could face jail if they carried out Bown's demands.
Morbid
Definition:
(a.) Not sound and healthful; induced by a diseased or abnormal condition; diseased; sickly; as, morbid humors; a morbid constitution; a morbid state of the juices of a plant.
(a.) Of or pertaining to disease or diseased parts; as, morbid anatomy.
Example Sentences:
(1) In this article we report the survival and morbidity rates for all live-born infants weighing 501 to 1000 gram at birth and born to residents of a defined geographic region from 1977 to 1980 (n = 255) compared with 1981 to 1984 (n = 266).
(2) A modification of Mason's vertical banded gastroplasty for morbid obesity is presented, along with experience from 62 treated patients.
(3) In this study, standby and prophylactic patients had comparable success and major complication rates, but procedural morbidity was more frequent in prophylactic patients.
(4) There appears to be no risk of morbidity or mortality.
(5) The diseases of airways had the highest contribution to the coefficient of morbidity.
(6) Asthma is probably the commonest chronic disease in the United Kingdom, and its attendant morbidity extends outside the possible scope of the hospital sector.
(7) Our results underline the importance of patient-related factors in MVR, and indicate that care is needed in comparing the quality of MVR from different institutions with respect to mortality and morbidity.
(8) Psychiatric morbidity is further increased when adjuvant chemotherapy is used and when treatment results in persistent arm pain and swelling.
(9) The positive predictive accuracy of a biophysical profile score of 0, with mortality and morbidity used as end points, was 100%.
(10) By vaccinating adult dogs in boarding kennels the morbidity rate dropped from 83.5% to 6.5% and the mortality rate from 4.1% to 0.5%.
(11) Higher anxiety, depression and psychiatric morbidity scores were reported by all patients at 6 and, to a lesser extent, at 12 weeks with greater differences in women.
(12) The morbidity is well known and if properly anticipated can be reduced to a minimum by judicious use of antibacterial agents and early surgical intervention when appropriate.
(13) All of these factors make morbidity and mortality associated with penetrating injuries low.
(14) Greater knowledge about these disorders and closer working relationships with mental health specialists should lead to decreased morbidity and mortality.
(15) Although some modes of therapy are effective, there is a significant associated morbidity and mortality.
(16) A patient died after gastric surgery for morbid obesity.
(17) A retrospective study was conducted into 136 patients who had received surgical treatment for perforated gastroduodenal ulcers, with the view to establishing postoperative lethality and morbidity (comparing simple suturing with definitive ulcer surgery).
(18) The fetal monitoring (electronical and gasanalytical) is able to acknowledge in due time a hypoxic situation and procures favourable to the perinatal morbidity.
(19) The time for cervical dilatation from 7 to 10 cm and duration of the second stage of labor did not influence maternal morbidity or fetal outcome, regardless of the method of anesthesia.
(20) The morbidity and mortality rates among the mothers and children are low.