(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.
Chain
Definition:
(n.) A series of links or rings, usually of metal, connected, or fitted into one another, used for various purposes, as of support, of restraint, of ornament, of the exertion and transmission of mechanical power, etc.
(n.) That which confines, fetters, or secures, as a chain; a bond; as, the chains of habit.
(n.) A series of things linked together; or a series of things connected and following each other in succession; as, a chain of mountains; a chain of events or ideas.
(n.) An instrument which consists of links and is used in measuring land.
(n.) Iron links bolted to the side of a vessel to bold the dead-eyes connected with the shrouds; also, the channels.
(n.) The warp threads of a web.
(v. t.) To fasten, bind, or connect with a chain; to fasten or bind securely, as with a chain; as, to chain a bulldog.
(v. t.) To keep in slavery; to enslave.
(v. t.) To unite closely and strongly.
(v. t.) To measure with the chain.
(v. t.) To protect by drawing a chain across, as a harbor.
Example Sentences:
(1) We used the polymerase chain reaction (PCR) to amplify the breakpoint area of alpha-thalassemia-1 of Southeast Asia type and several parts of the alpha-globin gene cluster to make a differential diagnosis between alpha-thalassemia-1 and Hb Bart's hydrops fetalis.
(2) In addition, DDT blocked succinate dehydrogenase and the cytochrome b-c span of the electron transport chain, which also secondarily reduced ATP synthesis.
(3) The high transition enthalpy for kerasin is ascribed to a lesser accommodation of gauche conformers in the hydrocarbon chains just below the transition temperature.
(4) Mannose receptor mediated uptake by the reticuloendothelial system has been suggested as an explanation for the rapid removal of ricin A chain antibody conjugates from the circulation after their administration.
(5) We have examined overlapping octapeptides from the kappa IIIb light chain variable region and show that some framework peptides have the ability to bind aggregated IgG.
(6) The Tyr side chain had two conformations of comparable energy, one over the ring between the Gln and Asn side chains, and the other with the Tyr side chain away from the ring.
(7) The lineage and clonality of Hodgkin's disease (HD) were investigated by analyzing the organization of the immunoglobulin and T-cell receptor beta-chain (T beta) gene loci in 18 cases of HD, and for comparison, in a panel of 103 cases of B- and T-cell non-Hodgkin's lymphomas (NHLs) and lymphoid leukemias (LLs).
(8) Only those derivatives with a free amino group and net positive charge in the side chain were effective.
(9) Approximately 90% of the patients have a lambda light chain myeloma protein and almost all patients excrete Bence-Jones protein.
(10) The reducing equivalents could be donated by formate or NADH through some segment of the membrane respiratory chain.
(11) Thus there may be four types of LPS in PACI: one contains unsubstituted core polysaccharide and yields L2 on acid hydrolysis, another has short antigenic side-chains of the SR type and yields the LI fraction, while the two high molecular weight fractions are derived from core polysaccharides with different side-chains.
(12) The seve polypeptide chains investigated had generalyy similar properties; all contained two residues per molecule of tryptophan and N-acetylserine was the common N-terminal amino acid residue.
(13) Urine specimens from patient REE also contained a light chain fragment that lacked the first (amino-terminal) 85 residues of the native light chain but otherwise was identical in sequence to the light chain REE.
(14) Peptide:N-glycosidase F removed both the asparagine-linked oligosaccharide chains of ricin B-chain in the absence of lactose.
(15) When labelled long-chain fatty acids or glycerol were infused into the lactating goat, there was extensive transfer of radioactivity into milk in spite of the absence of net uptake of substrate by the mammary gland.
(16) In general, optimal DAGAT activity in vitro was observed when long-chain unsaturated acyl-CoAs and diacylglycerols (DAGs) containing long acyl chains were used as substrates for in vitro TAG synthesis (although 1,2-didecanoin was also very effective).
(17) The canine system allows quantitative separation of native heme containing alpha and beta chains which recombine to for tetrameric hemoglobin with normal functional properties (n = 2.17).
(18) The product of this enzymatic hydrolysis was F420 with one less glutamic acid in the side chain.
(19) The present study deals with 832 ossicular chain reconstruction procedures performed in 655 patients from January 1975 to December 1985.
(20) On the other hand, if we correct for the population of HMM with degraded light chain 2, the difference in the binding constants in the presence and absence of Ca2+ may be as great as 5-fold.