(n.) The act or fact of coming into life, or of being born; -- generally applied to human beings; as, the birth of a son.
(n.) Lineage; extraction; descent; sometimes, high birth; noble extraction.
(n.) The condition to which a person is born; natural state or position; inherited disposition or tendency.
(n.) The act of bringing forth; as, she had two children at a birth.
(n.) That which is born; that which is produced, whether animal or vegetable.
(n.) Origin; beginning; as, the birth of an empire.
(n.) See Berth.
Example Sentences:
(1) These results indicated that the PG determination was the most accurate predictor of fetal lung well-being prior to birth among the clinical tests so far reported.
(2) within 12 h of birth followed by similar injections every day for 10 consecutive days and then every second day for a further 8 weeks, with mycoplasma broth medium (tolerogen), to induce immune tolerance.
(3) In this article we report the survival and morbidity rates for all live-born infants weighing 501 to 1000 gram at birth and born to residents of a defined geographic region from 1977 to 1980 (n = 255) compared with 1981 to 1984 (n = 266).
(4) Low birth weight, short stature, and mental retardation were common features in the four known patients with r(8).
(5) Oculomotor paresis with cyclic spasms is a rare syndrome, usually noticeable at birth or developing during the first year of life.
(6) The final number of fibers--140,000-165,000--is reached by the sixth week after birth.
(7) However, there was no correlation between the length of time PN was administered to onset of cholestasis and the gestational age or birth weight of the infants.
(8) Most thyroid hormone actions, however, appear in the perinatal period, and infants with thyroid agenesis appear normal at birth and develop normally with prompt neonatal diagnosis and treatment.
(9) These data, then, indicate that the ability to produce C3NeF autoantibody is present from the time of birth in normal individuals.
(10) Foetal serum TSH concentration declined significantly between 20 and 21 days of gestation, reached a low level at delivery, and remained low for several days after birth.
(11) The deep cerebellar nuclei were moderately labeled at birth and gradually decreased in density thereafter.
(12) As many girls as boys receive primary and secondary education, maternal mortality is lower and the birth rate is falling .
(13) The influence of blood and blood-product therapy was studied in two groups of children: 1) 90 children who had exchange transfusion after birth because of serologic incompatibility (aged 5 months to 5 years).
(14) Tables provide data for Denmark in reference to: 1) number of legal abortions and the abortion rates for 1940-1977; 2) distribution of abortions by season, 1972-1977; 3) abortion rates by maternal age, 1971-1977; 4) oral contraceptive and IUD sales for 1977-1978; and 5) number of births and estimated number of abortions and conceptions, 1960-1975.
(15) Women who make their first visit during their first pregnancy are more likely than those who are not pregnant to receive a pregnancy test or counseling on matters other than birth control.
(16) The sexual attitudes and beliefs of 20 children who have been present at the labor and delivery of sibs and have observed the birth process are compared with 20 children who have not been present at delivery.
(17) The last stems from trends such as declining birth rate, an increasingly mobile society, diminished importance of the nuclear family, and the diminishing attractiveness of professions involved with providing maintenance care.
(18) A multiple regression analysis between maxBIL and the significantly correlated parameters showed that only gestational age and birth weight remained significantly correlated with maxBIL.
(19) Ad-infected infants tended to have earlier gestations and lower birth weights.
(20) Galactosylsphingosine had already accumulated at birth and dramatically increased with age.
Dying
Definition:
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Die
(a.) In the act of dying; destined to death; mortal; perishable; as, dying bodies.
(a.) Of or pertaining to dying or death; as, dying bed; dying day; dying words; also, simulating a dying state.
(n.) The act of expiring; passage from life to death; loss of life.
Example Sentences:
(1) The sound of the ambulance frightened us, especially us children, and panic gripped the entire community: people believe that whoever is taken into the ambulance to the hospital will die – you so often don’t see them again.
(2) Insensitive variants die more slowly than wild type cells, with 10-20% cell death observed within 24 h after addition of dexamethasone.
(3) However, ticks, which failed to finish their feeding and represent a disproportionately great part of the whole parasite's population, die together with them and the parasitic system quickly restores its stability.
(4) After resection of the liver 13 patients of 31 died.
(5) Of the 594 patients, 23.7% died and 38.7% had documented inhalation injury.
(6) All of the nude mice developed paraplegia with or without incontinence at 2 weeks and routinely died of inanition 3 weeks postimplantation.
(7) The hospital whose A&E unit has been threatened with closure on safety grounds has admitted that four patients died after errors by staff in the emergency department and other areas.
(8) No evidence of BPH was observed in 68.4% of patients who had died of cancer.
(9) Four patients died while maintained on PD; three deaths were due to complications of liver failure within the first 4 months of PD and the fourth was due to empyema after 4 years of PD.
(10) In the patients who have died or have been classified as slowly progressive the serum 19-9 changes ranged from +13% to +707%.
(11) A 45-year-old mother of four, named as Hediye Sen, was killed during clashes in Cizre, while a 70-year-old died of a heart attack during fighting in Silopi, according to hospital sources.
(12) Three patients died from non-hepatic causes and another has received liver transplantation.
(13) One man has died in storms sweeping across the UK that have brought 100-mile-an-hour winds and led to more than 50 flood warnings being issued with widespread disruption on the road and rail networks in much of southern England and Scotland.
(14) Mitoses of nuclei of myocytes of the left ventricle of the heart observed in two elderly people who had died of extensive relapsing infarction are described.
(15) Four patients with tumours larger than 2 cm died from metastatic carcinoid.
(16) The patient later died from complications of burns.
(17) Male guinea pigs received either a single dose of As2O3 10 mg.kg-1 s.c. or repeated doses of 2.5 mg.kg-1 bis in die (b.i.d.)
(18) Histopathological studies confirmed that mice fed 933cu-rev died from bilateral renal cortical tubular necrosis consistent with toxic insult, perhaps due to Shiga-like toxins.
(19) Thirty had an in situ tumor (mean age: 30 years) and 34 had an invasive adenocarcinoma (mean age: 45 years), 7 of whom died of their cancer.
(20) These patients developed mediastinal lymph node metastasis and died 4 and 11 months after surgery, respectively.