(a.) Happening, or taking place, once in two years; as, a biennial election.
(a.) Continuing for two years, and then perishing, as plants which form roots and leaves the first year, and produce fruit the second.
(n.) Something which takes place or appears once in two years; esp. a biennial examination.
(n.) A plant which exists or lasts for two years.
Example Sentences:
(1) The improved economic status of the aged has been documented by a series of surveys beginning in 1941-42 and carried out from time to time until 1972 and biennially since 1976.
(2) In both sexes, at all ages, all-cause, cardiovascular, and coronary mortality rates increased progressively in relation to antecedent heart rates determined biennially.
(3) When Philip Roth accepted the biennial International Booker prize honouring some 60 years of his fiction, from Goodbye, Columbus to Nemesis , he sat at a wooden table in the studio adjoining his airy Connecticut retreat looking as much like a retired priest, or judge, as the Grand Old Man of American letters, pushing 79.
(4) Cigarette smoking cessation and resumption patterns are presented from biennial examination data from the Framingham Study for the years 1956-1978.
(5) My exploded shed was made in 1991, but it wasn't until it was shown at São Paulo Biennial in 1994 that it became well-known."
(6) Events such as the Glasgow International and Manchester International are now must-sees, and the Folkestone Biennial looks like following suit.
(7) More than one in four myocardial infarctions that occurred over 30 years in the Framingham Study were detected only because of routine biennial electrocardiographic examinations.
(8) Assessments are made during routine surveys by field technicians, monthly by the Radiation Safety Officer, and biennially by an independent radiological expert.
(9) The obese classification was based on maximum body mass index (BMI) over the 16 available biennial examinations of the Framingham Heart Study.
(10) The selection of this population and the success in following it through biennial clinical examinations and indirect surveillance for deaths and hospitalizations are described.
(11) Based on 472 stroke events occurring during 10 years' follow-up from biennial examinations 9 and 14, stroke probabilities were computed using the Cox proportional hazards model for each sex based on a point system.
(12) The subjects consisted of 143 males and 208 females aged 58-88 years at the 15th biennial examination in 1978.
(13) During the tenth biennial examination of the Framingham Study, 1315 participants who were free of cardiovascular disease had fibrinogen levels measured.
(14) The festival was co-founded by Erlend Mogård-Larsen and curator Helga-Marie Nordby , who got the idea after working on an art biennial in Lofoten, Norway in 2010.
(15) It is the first time the biennial competition has been held in the UK for over 40 years.
(16) The hypothesis that obesity-related hypertension is relatively innocuous was explored by an examination of cardiovascular events over 34 years of follow-up when related to biennially measured weights and blood pressures using time-dependent covariate proportional hazards analysis.
(17) Perhaps his most significant international contribution was co-founding in 1978, with John Peatling, the International Seminar on Religious Education and Values (Isrev), bringing together international scholars at biennial conferences, initially held alternately in Europe and North America.
(18) Barack Obama’s chief of staff, Denis McDonough, took a clipboard and with mayor Ed Lee scoured San Francisco streets last week for the biennial homeless count.
(19) In terms of the bienniale itself, I was not so interested in what was happening on Riva degli Schiavoni [where some of the yachts are moored].
(20) More young people are joining the dole queue, with the youth unemployment rate increasing from 8.8% in 2008 to 13.3% in 2014, according to the biennial welfare report card from the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (AIHW).
Foxglove
Definition:
(n.) Any plant of the genus Digitalis. The common English foxglove (Digitalis purpurea) is a handsome perennial or biennial plant, whose leaves are used as a powerful medicine, both as a sedative and diuretic. See Digitalis.
Example Sentences:
(1) The therapeutic efficacy of captopril, the inhibitor of the angiotensin-converting enzyme was studied in 18 patients with noticeable chronic cardiac insufficiency, who were refractory to foxglove drugs and diuretics.
(2) This review highlights Withering's experience with "the foxglove," and summarizes modern concepts of digitalis efficacy and toxicity.
(3) Of the plants tested, 5 (oleander, lupine, foxglove, yew leaves, and dieffenbachia) were considered highly toxic and were associated with acute death of birds.
(4) Withering's (1741-1799) greatest merit is not so much that of having discovered the therapeutic value of foxglove in hydropsy, since this indication (among others) was already part of traditional medicine, but actually during a decade of carefully recording clinical observations, he authoritatively settled definite guidelines for its use.
(5) Progesterone 5 alpha-reductase, which catalyses the reduction of progesterone to 5 alpha-pregnane-3,20-dione, was isolated and characterized from cell cultures of Digitalis lanata (foxglove).
(6) This year we are celebrating the bicentenary of the publication, by William Withering, of An Account of the Foxglove and Some of its Medicinal Uses with Practical Remarks on Dropsy and Other Diseases (1).
(7) Foxglove plants were found in the pasture and their poisonous potential seemed to fit the post mortem findings and clinical signs.
(8) The diagnosis was confirmed by chemical analysis of tissues and botanical examination of rumen contents, and a similar fatality was produced in a penned red deer by test dosing with powdered foxglove leaves.
(9) Cytochrome P-450-dependent digitoxin 12 beta-hydroxylase from cell cultures of foxglove (Digitalis lanata) was solubilized from microsomal membranes with CHAPS (3-[(3-cholamidopropyl)dimethylammonio]propane-1-sulphonic acid).
(10) Over 200 years age, William Withering described the advantages which might be gained by the considered use of extracts of the foxglove, digitalis purpurea, in patients with congestive heart failure, particularly if the rhythm was irregular.
(11) It is said that William Withering's discovery of digitalis arose out of curiosity engendered during a stage-coach journey, by witnessing an old woman collecting foxgloves by the side of the road.
(12) Just as foxgloves had been used traditionally for centuries to treat 'afflictions of the heart', the plant Artemesia annua has been used as a treatment for fever in China for almost two thousand years.
(13) It is concluded that foxglove poisoning may be an occasional hazard in the husbanding of red deer.
(14) The Foxglove Saga (1960) was undoubtedly promising, and was undoubtedly helped by the name Waugh.
(15) Withering prepared digitalis from the purple foxglove and wrote a standard work on the cultivation of vegetables.
(16) In spite of its further utilization in many additional illnesses such as madness, foxglove, and later its main heteroside digitoxine, progressively reached their eventual place in the treatment of supraventricular arrhythmias and in congestive heart failure.