(adv.) In a blunt manner; coarsely; plainly; abruptly; without delicacy, or the usual forms of civility.
Example Sentences:
(1) Hepatic enzyme elevations were more dramatic after blunt trauma, reflecting greater hepatocellular disruption.
(2) The Metoclopramide-induced secretion of prolactin and aldosterone was blunted in 6 patients pretreated with 200 mg ibopamine.
(3) The computer tomographic appearances of lesions of parenchymatous organs following blunt abdominal trauma are described in 13 patients (five liver, four renal, two splenic and two pancreatic injuries).
(4) Last November he bluntly warned EU chiefs he could, if he wished, “flood Europe” with refugees.
(5) Persons with clinical abdominal findings, shock, altered sensorium, and severe chest injuries after blunt trauma should undergo the procedure.
(6) Blunt trauma to the epigastrum may result in a retroperitoneal hematoma involving the head of the pancreas and descending duodenum.
(7) The changes included swelling, blunting, and flattening of epithelial foot processes, were accompanied by decreased stainability of glomerular anionic sites, and were largely reversed by subsequent perfusion with the polyanion heparin.
(8) Addition of Ni2+ prior to TRH blunted the component of the TRH-induced transient increase in [Ca2+]i dependent on influx of Ca2+.
(9) As previously reported, patients with affective disorders show a blunted GH response to clonidine.
(10) Blunt homicide predominated amongst White females, who were substantially older than the Coloured and African subjects.
(11) A comparison of two different restriction enzymes, which cleave the plasmid with blunt or cohesive-ended double-strand breaks, did not reveal differences in repair fidelity.
(12) The prognosis was better following blunt trauma, stretch injuries and after a spontaneous onset.
(13) Seventeen (77%) of the injuries were due to penetrating trauma and five (23%) were due to blunt trauma.
(14) The cortisol response to insulin-induced hypoglycemia and exogenous ACTH appeared to be blunted in these patients.
(15) Vagal blockade reversibly inhibited the rise of plasma PP and significantly blunted the elevation of plasma VIP.
(16) But the drugs chief, Julio Calzada, is blunt: " For 50 years, we have tried to tackle the drug problem with only one tool – penalisation – and that has failed .
(17) Average increases in resting metabolic expenditure for a group of patients following elective operation, skeletal trauma, skeletal trauma with head injury, blunt trauma, sepsis and burns were determined by indirect calorimetry and protein need by urinary nitrogen losses over extended time periods.
(18) The indication for angiography in children accident patients with blunt trauma must be set up carefully.
(19) Arterial occlusion or stenosis due to blunt trauma is rare.
(20) Also, the initial rise in V1 was blunted or blocked in all subjects.
Flat
Definition:
(superl.) Having an even and horizontal surface, or nearly so, without prominences or depressions; level without inclination; plane.
(superl.) Lying at full length, or spread out, upon the ground; level with the ground or earth; prostrate; as, to lie flat on the ground; hence, fallen; laid low; ruined; destroyed.
(superl.) Wanting relief; destitute of variety; without points of prominence and striking interest.
(superl.) Tasteless; stale; vapid; insipid; dead; as, fruit or drink flat to the taste.
(superl.) Unanimated; dull; uninteresting; without point or spirit; monotonous; as, a flat speech or composition.
(superl.) Lacking liveliness of commercial exchange and dealings; depressed; dull; as, the market is flat.
(superl.) Below the true pitch; hence, as applied to intervals, minor, or lower by a half step; as, a flat seventh; A flat.
(superl.) Not sharp or shrill; not acute; as, a flat sound.
(superl.) Sonant; vocal; -- applied to any one of the sonant or vocal consonants, as distinguished from a nonsonant (or sharp) consonant.
(adv.) In a flat manner; directly; flatly.
(adv.) Without allowance for accrued interest.
(n.) A level surface, without elevation, relief, or prominences; an extended plain; specifically, in the United States, a level tract along the along the banks of a river; as, the Mohawk Flats.
(n.) A level tract lying at little depth below the surface of water, or alternately covered and left bare by the tide; a shoal; a shallow; a strand.
(n.) Something broad and flat in form
(n.) A flat-bottomed boat, without keel, and of small draught.
(n.) A straw hat, broad-brimmed and low-crowned.
(n.) A car without a roof, the body of which is a platform without sides; a platform car.
(n.) A platform on wheel, upon which emblematic designs, etc., are carried in processions.
(n.) The flat part, or side, of anything; as, the broad side of a blade, as distinguished from its edge.
(n.) A floor, loft, or story in a building; especially, a floor of a house, which forms a complete residence in itself.
(n.) A horizontal vein or ore deposit auxiliary to a main vein; also, any horizontal portion of a vein not elsewhere horizontal.
(n.) A dull fellow; a simpleton; a numskull.
(n.) A character [/] before a note, indicating a tone which is a half step or semitone lower.
(n.) A homaloid space or extension.
(v. t.) To make flat; to flatten; to level.
(v. t.) To render dull, insipid, or spiritless; to depress.
(v. t.) To depress in tone, as a musical note; especially, to lower in pitch by half a tone.
(v. i.) To become flat, or flattened; to sink or fall to an even surface.
(v. i.) To fall form the pitch.
Example Sentences:
(1) Michael James, 52, from Tower Hamlets Three days after telling his landlord that the flat upstairs was a deathtrap, Michael James was handed an eviction notice.
(2) A tiny studio flat that has become a symbol of London's soaring property prices is to be investigated by planning, environmental health and fire safety authorities after the Guardian revealed details of its shoebox-like proportions.
(3) With the flat-fee system, drug charges are not recorded when the drug is dispensed by the pharmacy; data for charging doses are obtained directly from the MAR forms generated by the nursing staff.
(4) Taking into account the calculated volume and considering the triangular image as one face of the particle, it is suggested that eIF-3 has the shape of a flat triangular prism with a height of about 7 nm and the above-mentioned side-lengths.
(5) He gets Lyme disease , he dates indie girls and strippers; he lives in disused warehouses and crappy flats with weirded-out flatmates who want to set him on fire and buy the petrol to do so.
(6) The b-wave in the ERG was lacking and the EOG was flat.
(7) In north-west Copenhagen, among the quiet, graffiti-tagged streets of red-brick blocks and low-rise social housing bordering the multi-ethnic Nørrebro district, police continued to cordon off roads and search a flat near the spot where officers killed a man believed to be behind Denmark’s bloodiest attacks in over a decade.
(8) Distance running performance is slower on hilly race courses than flat courses even when the start and finish are at the same elevation, resulting in equal amounts of uphill and downhill running.
(9) In autumn, leaf-heaps composted themselves on sunken patios, and were shovelled up by irritated owners of basement flats.
(10) Here we present images of polydeoxyadenylate molecules aligned in parallel, with their bases lying flat on a surface of highly oriented pyrolytic graphite and with their charged phosphodiester backbones protruding upwards.
(11) All other broad-spectrum benzimidazole anthelmintics, regardless of substituent at the 2 position (methyl carbamate or thiazolyl group), are flat.
(12) We investigated the mechanism by which retinoic acid causes growth arrest and flat reversion of SSV-NRK, simian sarcoma virus-transformed normal rat kidney cells.
(13) When she speaks, it is in a quiet, clear voice that is middle-class but also flat and London-inflected enough to seem almost classless: it is the voice of the modern southern English professional.
(14) After about 3 weeks of culture, N-ethyl-N-nitrosourea-pretreated fetal rat brain cells showed focal proliferation of neural cells on an underlayer of flat, epithelioid cells.
(15) In order to determine an histological high-risk group, we chose cases with preneoplastic conditions (60 CAG, 10 biopsies of gastric remnants, 3 flat adenomas and 55 gastrectomies by cancer or ulcer).
(16) During inspiration, the velocity was greater and the shape of the flow profile throughout diastole tended to be flat.
(17) The following relationships were found: Round nuclei have higher rates of DNA synthesis than flat ones.
(18) The individual micelles are relatively flat, ring-shaped structures, the center offering space for one of the two bulky sugar chains of the saponins.
(19) Microinfusion of the selective 5-HT1A receptor agonist, 8-hydroxy-(di-N-propylamino)tetralin (8-OHDPAT), into the dorsal raphe nucleus (DRN) produced a marked behavioural hypoactivity and flat body posture.
(20) Don was racing the Dodge through the Bonneville Salt Flats , where Gary Gabelich had just (on 23 October) broken the land-speed record.