(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.
Stand
Definition:
(v. t.) To abide by; to submit to; to suffer.
(n.) To be at rest in an erect position; to be fixed in an upright or firm position
(n.) To be supported on the feet, in an erect or nearly erect position; -- opposed to lie, sit, kneel, etc.
(n.) To continue upright in a certain locality, as a tree fixed by the roots, or a building resting on its foundation.
(n.) To occupy or hold a place; to have a situation; to be situated or located; as, Paris stands on the Seine.
(n.) To cease from progress; not to proceed; to stop; to pause; to halt; to remain stationary.
(n.) To remain without ruin or injury; to hold good against tendencies to impair or injure; to be permanent; to endure; to last; hence, to find endurance, strength, or resources.
(n.) To maintain one's ground; to be acquitted; not to fail or yield; to be safe.
(n.) To maintain an invincible or permanent attitude; to be fixed, steady, or firm; to take a position in resistance or opposition.
(n.) To adhere to fixed principles; to maintain moral rectitude; to keep from falling into error or vice.
(n.) To have or maintain a position, order, or rank; to be in a particular relation; as, Christian charity, or love, stands first in the rank of gifts.
(n.) To be in some particular state; to have essence or being; to be; to consist.
(n.) To be consistent; to agree; to accord.
(n.) To hold a course at sea; as, to stand from the shore; to stand for the harbor.
(n.) To offer one's self, or to be offered, as a candidate.
(n.) To stagnate; not to flow; to be motionless.
(n.) To measure when erect on the feet.
(n.) To be or remain as it is; to continue in force; to have efficacy or validity; to abide.
(n.) To appear in court.
(v. t.) To endure; to sustain; to bear; as, I can not stand the cold or the heat.
(v. t.) To resist, without yielding or receding; to withstand.
(v. t.) To set upright; to cause to stand; as, to stand a book on the shelf; to stand a man on his feet.
(v. t.) To be at the expense of; to pay for; as, to stand a treat.
(v. i.) The act of standing.
(v. i.) A halt or stop for the purpose of defense, resistance, or opposition; as, to come to, or to make, a stand.
(v. i.) A place or post where one stands; a place where one may stand while observing or waiting for something.
(v. i.) A station in a city or town where carriages or wagons stand for hire; as, a cab stand.
(v. i.) A raised platform or station where a race or other outdoor spectacle may be viewed; as, the judge's or the grand stand at a race course.
(v. i.) A small table; also, something on or in which anything may be laid, hung, or placed upright; as, a hat stand; an umbrella stand; a music stand.
(v. i.) A place where a witness stands to testify in court.
(v. i.) The situation of a shop, store, hotel, etc.; as, a good, bad, or convenient stand for business.
(v. i.) Rank; post; station; standing.
(v. i.) A state of perplexity or embarrassment; as, to be at a stand what to do.
(v. i.) A young tree, usually reserved when other trees are cut; also, a tree growing or standing upon its own root, in distinction from one produced from a scion set in a stock, either of the same or another kind of tree.
(v. i.) A weight of from two hundred and fifty to three hundred pounds, -- used in weighing pitch.
Example Sentences:
(1) In the bars of Antwerp and the cafes of Bruges, the talk is less of Christmas markets and hot chocolate than of the rising cost of financing a national debt which stands at 100% of annual national income.
(2) But when he speaks, the crowds who have come together to make a stand against government corruption and soaring fuel prices cheer wildly.
(3) Such was the mystique surrounding Rumsfeld's standing that an aide sought to clarify that he didn't stand all the time, like a horse.
(4) "At the same time, however, we cannot allow one man's untrue version of what happened to stand unchallenged," he said.
(5) I hope this movement will continue and spread for it has within itself the power to stand up to fascism, be victorious in the face of extremism and say no to oppressive political powers everywhere.” Appearing via videolink from Tehran, and joined by London mayor Sadiq Khan and Palme d’Or winner Mike Leigh, Farhadi said: “We are all citizens of the world and I will endeavour to protect and spread this unity.” The London screening of The Salesman on Sunday evening wasintended to be a show of unity and strength against Trump’s travel ban, which attempted to block arrivals in the US from seven predominantly Muslim countries: Iran, Iraq, Libya, Sudan, Somalia, Syria and Yemen.
(6) Where he has taken a stand, like on gun control after the shootings in Newtown, Connecticut, Obama was unable to achieve legislative change.
(7) Profit for the second quarter was £27.8m before tax but the club’s astronomical debt under the Glazers’ ownership stands at £322.1m, a 6.2% decrease on the 2014 level of £343.4m.
(8) "In a sea of bubblegum-cute popsters, Sistar stand out for their cool and sexy image," says Scobie.
(9) Cas reduced it further to four, but the decision effectively ends Platini’s career as a football administrator because – as he pointedly noted – it rules him out of standing for the Fifa presidency in 2019.
(10) If there was to be guerrilla warfare, I wanted to be able to stand and fight with my people and to share the hazards of war with them.
(11) Pickles said that to restore its public standing, the corporation needed to be more transparent, including opening itself up to freedom of information requests.
(12) To confront this evil – and defeat it, standing together for our values, for our security, for our prosperity.” Merkel gave a strong endorsement of Cameron’s reform strategy, saying that Britain’s demands were “not just understandable, but worthy of support”.
(13) Every time I have seen him since – you stand up straight and it’s: ‘Hi, boss.
(14) Critics of wind power peddle the same old myths about investment in new energy sources adding to families' fuel bills , preferring to pick a fight with people concerned about the environment, than stand up to vested interests in the energy industry, for the hard-pressed families and pensioners being ripped off by the energy giants.
(15) "Everyone knows what it stands for and everyone has already got it in their home.
(16) The affected bowel was replaced through the laceration, and the vaginal defects were sutured with the mares standing, utilizing epidural anesthesia.
(17) Brazil and Argentina unite in protest against culture of sexual violence Read more The symbolic power of so many women standing together proves that focusing on victims does not mean portraying women as passive.
(18) "This will obviously be a sensitive topic for the US administration, but partners in the transatlantic alliance must be clear on common rules of engagement in times of conflict if we are to retain any moral standing in the world," Verhofstadt said.
(19) In January a similar group of MPs warned of a threat to Cameron in 2014 unless he improves the Tories' standing.
(20) Why Corporate America is reluctant to take a stand on climate action Read more “We have these quantum leaps,” Friedberg said.