(prep.) Under, or lower in place; beneath not so high; as, below the moon; below the knee.
(prep.) Inferior to in rank, excellence, dignity, value, amount, price, etc.; lower in quality.
(prep.) Unworthy of; unbefitting; beneath.
(adv.) In a lower place, with respect to any object; in a lower room; beneath.
(adv.) On the earth, as opposed to the heavens.
(adv.) In hell, or the regions of the dead.
(adv.) In court or tribunal of inferior jurisdiction; as, at the trial below.
(adv.) In some part or page following.
Example Sentences:
Infra
Definition:
(adv.) Below; beneath; under; after; -- often used as a prefix.
Example Sentences:
(1) The air flow is determined by the differential pressure principle, CO2 measurement is by the infra-red technique and O2 analyser is of the paramagnetic type.
(2) Carbon dioxide lasers emit infra-red radiation at a wavelength of 10600 nm, making them suitable for tissue vaporisation, incision and vessel coagulation.
(3) Therapeutic procedure are based either on physical media: infra-red rays, gamma-rays, electric fields for the transformation of temperature or using chemical mixtures containing methyl bromide, carbon tetrachloride and hydrogen sulphide.
(4) The chance of detecting splenic and hepatic involvement was definitely higher in patients with nodal disease above and below the diaphragm in comparison with those with either supra-diaphragmatic or infra-diaphragmatic adenopathy.
(5) Ultra-violet and infra-red rays are inactive on the autonomic retina and on the hypothalamus.
(6) The hydration of the main-chain carbonyl (CO) groups in proteins have been studied using infra-red spectroscopy, and computer-graphics analysis of high resolution protein crystal structures.
(7) An infra-umbilical entry into the peritoneal cavity through a small incision, without anesthesia, for the identification and cannulation of an umbilical artery was employed for monitoring and therapy in five prematurely born neonates.
(8) This persisted for 1-4 minutes and then progressively subsided passing through a period of 3:2 intra- infra-hisian AV block until it reached 1:1 conduction with transient left bundle branch block.
(9) Volatile degradation products were isolated from a solution of L-dehydroascorbic acid in phosphate buffer solution of pH 2,4,6 and 8 heated under reflux for 3 h or left at 25 degrees C for 200 h. The products were identified by comparison of their gas chromatographic retention data, infra-red and mass spectra with those of authentic compounds.
(10) They were concentrated in the infra- and supra-nuclear cytoplasm.
(11) These results show that the attachment of polynuclear moieties in estradiol 17 alpha-, 4- and 16 alpha-, positions gives rise to compounds which are of potential utility in a new non-radioisotopic receptor assay since the metal-carbonyl markers are readily detected by high-sensitivity Fourier-transform infra-red spectroscopy.
(12) An infra-red photoelectric device monitors the horizontal component of eye movement.
(13) The lack of chemical concordance between the synthetic products and the haptens has prompted a re-examination of these structures utilizing the instrumental techniques not previously available of fast atom bombardment-mass spectrometry, Fourier transform infra-red, and high resolution NMR spectroscopy.
(14) The decreased height of the alveolar bone level at the site of the infra-occluded primary molar has been reported to normalize after the eruption of the permanent successor.
(15) The aim of this study was to evaluate the effect of low-energy infra-red laser treatment on wound healing in rats, both histologically as well as by gross observation.
(16) Although the tumour was detected in the periphery and appeared to extend centrally, extensive surgery suggested that the tumour had its origins in the infra-temporal fossa.
(17) Two types of paralysis could be distinguished, an upper one affecting both the infra- and the supraspinatus muscles (12 patients), and a lower one involving only the infraspinatus muscle (4 patients).
(18) Parinaud's syndromes may occur in infra- and supratentorial space-occupying lesions, but very careful differential diagnosis must be made in those cases.
(19) The carbon monoxide compound of cytochrome o also has absorbance bands in the near infra-red, and these may be attributable to a low-spin ferrous haem compound.
(20) On the other hand, repolarization worsened whenever an impairment of infra or intrahisian conduction occurred.