(n.) A light vehicle having two wheels one behind the other. It has a saddle seat and is propelled by the rider's feet acting on cranks or levers.
Example Sentences:
(1) A novel bicyclic prostaglandin analogue, (1S)-[1 alpha,2 alpha(Z),3 alpha,4 alpha]-7-[3-[(hexylthio)methyl]-7- oxabicyclo [2.2.1]hept-2-yl]-5-heptenoic acid ((-)-10), and its cogeners were found to be potent antagonists at the TxA2 receptor.
(2) The authors report an ocular luxation of a four-year-old girl after a bicycle accident.
(3) In a Bloomberg article last week, for example, one Stanford student compared women who get raped to unlocked bicycles : ‘Do I deserve to have my bike stolen if I leave it unlocked on the quad?’ [Chris] Herries, 22, said.
(4) Considerate touches includes the free use of cruiser bicycles (the best method of tackling the Palm Springs main drag), home-baked cookies … and if you'd like to get married, ask the manager: he's a minister.
(5) Subjects underwent measurement of lung volumes, arterial blood gas analysis and an incremental bicycle exercise test.
(6) Each patient underwent graded bicycle exercise testing to define maximal performance, and prolonged exercise at 70% of their peak work capacity.
(7) The data of bicycle ergometry test and echocardiography were studied and compared in patients with postinfarction cardiosclerosis and type II diabetes mellitus without the clinical signs of heart failure.
(8) We had our bicycles and we were just turned loose all day.
(9) Near maximal supine exercise for 10 min on a bicycle ergometer caused a small increase in plasma renin activity during exertion with a much larger increase during recovery which reached a peak between 10-20 min.
(10) In all patients a standardized bicycle-ergometric exercise sitting and a coronarography as well as a ventriculography were performed.
(11) He has just performed a skit now about his bicycle scheme, which included a swipe at the French (because their scheme resulted in many more cycles being pinched, apparently.)
(12) Seven healthy volunteers were exposed to head-down tilt at -15 degrees for 5 h. Before and after exposure they exercised on a bicycle ergometer in the supine and seated positions.
(13) The pressure waves recorded in the container were added by computer to those recorded intra-arterially during bicycle ergometry.
(14) An incremental, symptom-limited, bicycle exercise test was done one month after the myocardial infarction, and blood samples were taken for determination of plasma potassium.
(15) A bicyclic hexadecapeptide, which corresponds to the sequence 36-51 and contains the chymotrypsin-reactive Leu-43-Ser-44 bond of soybean Bowman-Birk inhibitor, has been synthesized.
(16) Ester already has a second child with her husband, who makes a living using his bicycle to provide a taxi service.
(17) The new protocol (standardised exponential exercise protocol, STEEP) is suitable for use on either a treadmill or a bicycle ergometer.
(18) The most frequent cause of abdominal injury in children was a bicycle accident.
(19) To test this premise, 14 healthy, untrained men trained four days per week for 20 weeks on a bicycle ergometer for endurance (END Group, n = 4), on an isokinetic device for increased torque production (ITP Group, n = 5), or on both devices (COMBO Group, n = 5).
(20) The KB was found to be remarkably tolerant of changes in the electronic constitution and lipophilicity of the bicyclic ring system (template).
Bicyclist
Definition:
(n.) A bicycler.
Example Sentences:
(1) There are nominal cycle lanes on some of the capital's main thoroughfares, but with seven million cars jostling for space, those lanes are often cannibalised by motorised rickshaws and scooters, leaving no safe space for bicyclists.
(2) Through age 12, nine out of ten bicyclists were probably responsible for the collision; above age 12, probable responsibility decreased in proportion to age; and only 34% of the bicyclists aged 25 years or older were probably responsible.
(3) In a population of 402 motorcyclists and bicyclists, which were treated in the Traumatological Department of the University of Freiburg during 1986, we describe the different cause, spectrum and follow-up of the injuries.
(4) Police reports were compared to the information provided by a hospital monitoring system for children under 15 years old injured as pedestrians and bicyclists by moving motor vehicles in Orange County, California.
(5) Of the 649 emergency room treated bicyclists, 62% were children aged 5-14 and 70% were male.
(6) On the basis of the movements of the vehicles involved, the bicyclist or the bicycle or both was probably responsible for the initiation of more than three fourths of the collisions.
(7) Of 108 elementary schools bicyclists, only two (1.85%) wore helmets.
(8) To increase the helmet use among bicyclists, a law, as in Australia, would be an excellent instrument.
(9) In 1990, the first regulation requiring the use of helmets for bicyclists younger than 16 years of age was passed in Howard County, Maryland.
(10) The curfew ordinances were associated with a 23% reduction in motor vehicle related injury for 13- to 17-year-olds as passengers, drivers, pedestrians, or bicyclists during the curfew hours.
(11) Using an unpublished method developed by Somers, it was estimated that the risk of death from head injury was considerably reduced for helmeted relative to unhelmeted bicyclists, depending on helmet type.
(12) Head trauma is the most frequent cause of death and serious injury among bicyclists.
(13) Alcohol increased the bicyclist's risk of injury from falling more than from collision.
(14) Our study included 212 bicyclists with facial injuries and 319 controls with injuries to other body areas, who were treated in emergency rooms of five Seattle area hospitals over a one-year period.
(15) We collected questionnaire data by mail from 191 recreational bicyclists who reported having fallen and struck their heads in a cycling mishap.
(16) Motorcyclists, pedestrians, and bicyclists (bicycle collisions with motor vehicles) became controls for the study.
(17) Seven hundred bicyclists from the street were randomly selected as controls.
(18) To evaluate cycling morbidity, 492 active adult bicyclists from a metropolitan area responded to a survey to determine cycle use and accident patterns.
(19) These data suggest that the child's personality and behavior are weaker risk factors for pedestrian and bicyclist injuries than are family and neighborhood characteristics.
(20) Two- and one-leg extension strengths were compared in 155 female and male, untrained and trained (eight bicyclists, 38 weight-lifters) subjects and in a polio patient with almost no strength in one leg.