(n.) A handbarrow or portable frame on which a corpse is placed or borne to the grave.
(n.) A count of forty threads in the warp or chain of woolen cloth.
Example Sentences:
(1) Dan Biers, the first secretary at the US embassy, said it was disappointed by the verdict.
(2) A modern version of Bier's original method is described, conveniently called an intercuff block (ICB), which reintroduces the possibility of effective flushing, offers better operating conditions and engenders new ideas for further study.
(3) The addition of 2 mg of Atracurium to the Bier's Block improved the ease of reduction (P less than 0.025) and the quality of analgesia (P less than 0.05) (Mann-Whitney U test).
(4) Perhaps this latter group should be done under Bier block intravenous anesthesia, if they can be identified beforehand.
(5) Barley, bier and draff therefore contain a beta-glucan-like factor which stimulates lactogenic hormone secretion.
(6) These microorganisms were identified following the Otto Bier and Bailey & Scott's techniques (3, 1).
(7) The mini-dose Bier block, a technique of intravenous (IV) regional anesthesia that uses low-dose lidocaine and provides safe and effective anesthesia for outpatient closed reductions of upper extremity fractures and dislocations, is presented.
(8) We describe the purification of a single-strand nuclease from Aspergillus oryzae using the first commercial prototype of an instrument (RF3TM) designed by Milan Bier et al.
(9) These studies suggest that the glycocalyx develops late in cercarial development (late in Stage 6 or in Stage 7 of Cheng and Bier), is made by the cercariae themselves, and is not a product of either the sporocyst wall cells or snail hepatopancreas.
(10) The retrograde intravenous pressure infusion into an arterially occluded segment of an extremity (Bier's technique) is the most effective method to achieve maximal tissue concentrations of a drug.
(11) The effect of 30-min tourniquet ischaemia (Bier's block) on the antidromic homolateral left median nerve sensory potential (SP) and on the bilateral sympathetic skin response (SSR) was studied in 6 healthy volunteers.
(12) Bier's method of regional anaesthesia has been proposed to deposit various drugs intravenously distal to an arterial block in legs with severe arterial insufficiency.
(13) Milan Bier's contributions to preparative electrophoresis and, in particular, his work in "recycling", have had an enormous impact on the development of scaling strategies for continuous flow electrophoresis.
(14) A double-blind comparison of bupivacaine and lignocaine for intravenous regional analgesia (Bier's block) was carried out in seventy-two patients presenting for upper limb surgery.
(15) The authors conclude that the addition of Atracurium to a Bier's Block is useful in selected patients with a wrist fracture.
(16) Ocado sold a 12-pack of Beck’s Bier as “was £12.19 now £9” for almost a month but it had only sold at the higher price of £12.19 for three days, 18 days before the offer started.
(17) Ten additional experiments were carried out using a Bier blockade tourniquet (5 cm wide).
(18) No serious complications have been documented in the literature relating to prilocaine in IVRA and we have conducted a survey within the U.K. which indicates that about 45,000 Bier's blocks have been carried out with prilocaine without convulsion, arrhythmia or fatality.
(19) An intravenous regional sympathetic block was produced in the upper limb using a Bier's technique and guanethidine.
(20) The cost of Bier block anesthesia administered in the emergency room (ER) was significantly less than that of a general anesthetic in the operating room.
Birr
Definition:
(v. i.) To make, or move with, a whirring noise, as of wheels in motion.
(n.) A whirring sound, as of a spinning wheel.
(n.) A rush or impetus; force.
Example Sentences:
(1) The community pays 1,200 birr for waste removal once or twice a month and has recently started charging outsiders 1 birr to use them.
(2) Education is free until the age of 17, when there is a 60 birr registration fee.
(3) I rummage through my pockets for the 1.5 birr (5p) fare as passengers clamber on and off at regular intervals before we reach the Bole bridge bus terminal.
(4) He is building himself a three-bedroom house with satellite TV and internet access for about 500,000 birr (£15,000).
(5) One of those labouring on the railway is happy enough with his Chinese managers, but says his fee of 50 birr (£1.50) a day is insufficient and that “there’s no safety” – recently four workers died when a hole they were digging collapsed, he says.
(6) People are arriving exhausted, scared and in increasing numbers,” said Bhajat Al Arandas, an official with Al-Birr Society, which is working with UNHCR to distribute aid to the refugees.
(7) They are doing daily labour work on a farm to secure their lives.” Another addition to the village, in 1998, was a 1.5m birr medical centre.
(8) The school owns three hectares (7.5 acres) of land and last year grew six tonnes of wheat, earning a return of 55,000 birr.
(9) Birr et al., have shown that the C-terminal region of thymosin alpha 1 is essential for the biological activity.
(10) But officials in this fast-developing city say they have a 100m birr (£3m) plan to build an extra 25 public toilets within the next year along with 103 community and 289 mobile toilets, the latter equipped for pregnant women and people with disabilities.