(n.) An article of furniture to sleep or take rest in or on; a couch. Specifically: A sack or mattress, filled with some soft material, in distinction from the bedstead on which it is placed (as, a feather bed), or this with the bedclothes added. In a general sense, any thing or place used for sleeping or reclining on or in, as a quantity of hay, straw, leaves, or twigs.
(n.) (Used as the symbol of matrimony) Marriage.
(n.) A plat or level piece of ground in a garden, usually a little raised above the adjoining ground.
(n.) A mass or heap of anything arranged like a bed; as, a bed of ashes or coals.
(n.) The bottom of a watercourse, or of any body of water; as, the bed of a river.
(n.) A layer or seam, or a horizontal stratum between layers; as, a bed of coal, iron, etc.
(n.) See Gun carriage, and Mortar bed.
(n.) The horizontal surface of a building stone; as, the upper and lower beds.
(n.) A course of stone or brick in a wall.
(n.) The place or material in which a block or brick is laid.
(n.) The lower surface of a brick, slate, or tile.
(n.) The foundation or the more solid and fixed part or framing of a machine; or a part on which something is laid or supported; as, the bed of an engine.
(n.) The superficial earthwork, or ballast, of a railroad.
(n.) The flat part of the press, on which the form is laid.
(v. t.) To place in a bed.
(v. t.) To make partaker of one's bed; to cohabit with.
(v. t.) To furnish with a bed or bedding.
(v. t.) To plant or arrange in beds; to set, or cover, as in a bed of soft earth; as, to bed the roots of a plant in mold.
(v. t.) To lay or put in any hollow place, or place of rest and security, surrounded or inclosed; to embed; to furnish with or place upon a bed or foundation; as, to bed a stone; it was bedded on a rock.
(v. t.) To dress or prepare the surface of stone) so as to serve as a bed.
(v. t.) To lay flat; to lay in order; to place in a horizontal or recumbent position.
(v. i.) To go to bed; to cohabit.
Example Sentences:
(1) The previous year, he claimed £1,415 for two new sofas, made two separate claims of £230 and £108 for new bed linen, charged £86 for a new kettle and kitchen utensils and made two separate claims, of £65 and £186, for replacement glasses and crockery.
(2) Since 1979 there has been an increase of 17,122 in the number of beds available in nursing homes.
(3) Hexamethonium abolished vasodilatation in the hindquarters vascular bed only.
(4) The combination of an over-distended uterus caused by a multiple-fetus pregnancy with therapeutic bed-rest may cause mechanical ileus.
(5) "I don't want to go to Zurich, to some anonymous facility; I would want to do it in my own bed.
(6) One ejaculation followed by daily contact with soiled bedding taken from a male's cage did not increase pregnancy rates.
(7) But even before the reforms, half of the women coming to refuges were being turned away, so beds were already scarce.
(8) It is suggested that this human model of unloading could serve to simulate effects of microgravity on skeletal muscle mass and function because reductions in muscle mass and strength were of similar magnitude to those produced by bed rest.
(9) Kunduz hospital patients 'burned in beds … even wars have rules', says MSF chief Read more The resolution – which was supported by Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) and others – requests that Ban present recommendations on measures to prevent attacks and to ensure that those who carry them out are held accountable.
(10) Using nursing home and hospital medical records, we performed a case-control study to identify risk factors for death from LRI among residents of a 110-bed, midwestern community nursing home.
(11) These results indicate, that there is no autoregulation in the hyperemizied capillary bed.
(12) A 30% maltodextrin solution has been continuously hydrolyzed at 50 degrees C and pH 4.5 in a recycled, fluidized bed reactor (FBR) containing GA immobilized on these magnetic microparticles.
(13) Mattress dusts from the beds of 51 asthmatic children with positive skin tests to house dust mite were assayed for Der p I, Fel d I and certain viable fungi.
(14) A key part of the reason why Addenbrooke’s hospital in Cambridge, one of the NHS’s most prestigious hospitals, was put into special measures last week was that 200 of its beds were being occupied by patients who could not leave because there was a lack of social care in place to support them.
(15) AR and ER mRNA-containing neurons were widely distributed in the rat brain, with the greatest densities of cells in the hypothalamus, and in regions of the telencephalon that provide strong inputs in the medial preoptic and ventromedial nuclei, each of which is thought to play a key role in mediating the hormonal control of copulatory behavior, as well as in the lateral septal nucleus, the medial and cortical nuclei of the amygdala, the amygdalohippocampal area, and the bed nucleus of the stria terminalis.
(16) Principles and technique for selecting material from the human heart ventricular walls to study stereometrically their intramural arterial bed are described.
(17) We present interim survival data for a group of 83 adult patients with recurrent malignant glioma treated by implanting stimulated autologous lymphocytes into the tumour bed following surgical debulking.
(18) Effectiveness of a relaxation technique to increase the comfort level of patients in their first postoperative attempt at getting out of bed was tested on 42 patients, aged 18 to 65, who were hospitalized for elective surgery.
(19) Biomicroscopic studies performed in anesthetized white rats revealed the increase in the cortex mass and the formation of microcirculatory bed as the main factors in microcirculation development.
(20) In 9 women with polycystic ovarian disease (PCOD) and in 11 control subjects at the follicular phase of the normal cycle, blood samples were collected at 15-min intervals during a 2 h period of bed rest for the assay of beta-endorphin, beta-lipotropin, corticotropin, cortisol and prolactin.
Ped
Definition:
(n.) A basket; a hammer; a pannier.
Example Sentences:
(1) Qa-2 antigen expression was used as a marker for the Q subregion and fast or slow development was used to assess Ped gene phenotype in backcross embryos generated from the mating of (B6.K1 x B6.K2)F1 and B6.K1 mice.
(2) We recently studied the effects of 4-OHA and other aromatase inhibitors, 10-propargylestr-4-ene-3,17-dione (PED) and imidazo[1,5-alpha]3,4,5,6-tetrahydropyrin-6-yl-(4-benzonitrile) (CGS 16949A) as well as 5 alpha-reductase inhibitors, N,N-diethyl-4-methyl-3-oxo-4-aza-5 alpha-androstane-17 beta-carboxyamide (4-MA) and 17 beta-hydroxy-4-aza-4-methyl-19norandrost-5-en-3-one (L651190) in prostatic tissue from 11 patients with prostatic cancer and six patients with benign prostatic hypertrophy (BPH), and from normal men at autopsy.
(3) A simple, accurate, and practical device was designed for detecting the woman at risk for postpartum emotional disorder (PED).
(4) Hedo Turkoglu was busted for PED use Despite the fact that the use of performance enhancing drugs is one of the biggest stories in sports today, alongside other notable topics such as imaginary girlfriends and ill-timed power failures, the NBA world seems strangely immune to the controversy.
(5) PEDS Plus broth aids diagnosis of pediatric bacteremia by increasing recovery of etiologic agents and decreasing the time required for detection.
(6) The results of these studies show that the difference in the rate of cleavage division between slow-developing strains (Ped slow) and fast-developing strains (Ped fast) is maintained in vitro.
(7) Initial detection occurred earlier with Bactec Peds Plus, while growth on solid media occurred earlier with Roche Septi-Chek.
(8) Of 7,798 adult patients admitted to a level I trauma center from July 1986 through June 1990, 16.0% (1,246) had greater than or equal to 1 PED.
(9) It appeared on the border of the PED (16 cases) usually temporally, or on the immediate border of the laser scar (4 cases).
(10) The findings, corrobated with other closely comparable observations, suggest that the emergence of PED as an intercurrent mortality problem during rabbit passage of pathogenic Treponema pallidum is the result of a specific selective pressure on a benign passenger virus.
(11) However, the results also demonstrate that several of the PDE inhibitors have effects on central DA mechanisms that are difficult to explain solely on the basis of PED inhibition.
(12) 9.56pm BST More Guardian coverage My colleague Michael Solomon weighs in with a piece that explains the Biogenesis PEDs scandal.
(13) Medium levels of progesterone, a major product of these cells, were found to decrease in a dose- and time-dependent manner upon addition of PED.
(14) PED was elicited either mechanically by employing single or double pressure steps, or electrically by antidromic stimulation of the aortic nerve.
(15) One hundred eighty-one isolates were recovered in both bottles, 75 in PEDS Plus only, and 33 in 6A only (P less than 0.001).
(16) Obvious subretinal new vessels developed in 16 (34%) of the serous PEDs over an average follow-up period of 25 months.
(17) Similarly, neither the position nor curvature of the Ped-Aed relation was changed by ULFS-49.
(18) This is a sign that although MLB and MLBPA are now working together to rid PED's from the game, the union is still prepared to fight for due process which makes a lot of sense from their perspective.
(19) The slow potassium current (Er = -85 mV) evoked in Ped-8 and Ped-9 neurones by glutamate, quisqualate and kainate could be blocked by tetraethylammonium (50 microM).
(20) Meanwhile Bud Selig, who made his pursuit and punishment of those using PEDs a top priority during a controversial, costly and aggressive investigation, is reaching the end of his time as MLB commissioner.