(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.
Briar
Definition:
(n.) Same as Brier.
(n.) A plant with a slender woody stem bearing stout prickles; especially, species of Rosa, Rubus, and Smilax.
(n.) Fig.: Anything sharp or unpleasant to the feelings.
Example Sentences:
(1) The conidial heads of the fungus have a characteristic briar-pipe appearance in culture.
(2) The unique morphological characteristic of the conidial head resembling a briar pipe led to the identification of A. deflectus.
(3) We have to stop at 9pm because of provincial regulations, so we’re pushing through until then.” Briar Stewart (@briarstewart) I am at far south end of city.
(4) "It is a whitewash by the World Wildlife Fund and the Mexican government," the leading monarch expert Lincoln Brower of Sweet Briar College in Virginia said.
(5) In the normal habitat of the armadillo in Louisiana there are thorny bushes consisting mostly of the green briar and the southern dewberry.
(6) The extracellular matrix undergoes three distinct changes at fertilization: a) formation of a "smooth" layer below the vitelline envelope (VE), b) transformation of the VE itself to an altered VE composed of concentric fibrous sheets, and c) formation of a dense, "briar-patch"-like fertilization layer at the upper surface of the VE.
(7) Deakin had a habit of driving his cars until they were about to give out, then backing them into a particularly deep area of hedge and abandoning them, to be grown through by the briars and nested in by birds.
(8) Prince Charming hacked his way through the briars to wake Sleeping Beauty.
(9) Charlie Briar, senior fellow, cardiac intensive care unit, Great Ormond Street hospital, London Junior doctors are not 18-year-olds fresh out of school Junior doctors are not 18-year-old apprentices fresh out of school.