(n.) A shoot or secondary stem growing from the main stem, or from a principal limb or bough of a tree or other plant.
(n.) Any division extending like a branch; any arm or part connected with the main body of thing; ramification; as, the branch of an antler; the branch of a chandelier; a branch of a river; a branch of a railway.
(n.) Any member or part of a body or system; a distinct article; a section or subdivision; a department.
(n.) One of the portions of a curve that extends outwards to an indefinitely great distance; as, the branches of an hyperbola.
(n.) A line of family descent, in distinction from some other line or lines from the same stock; any descendant in such a line; as, the English branch of a family.
(n.) A warrant or commission given to a pilot, authorizing him to pilot vessels in certain waters.
(a.) Diverging from, or tributary to, a main stock, line, way, theme, etc.; as, a branch vein; a branch road or line; a branch topic; a branch store.
(v. i.) To shoot or spread in branches; to separate into branches; to ramify.
(v. i.) To divide into separate parts or subdivision.
(v. t.) To divide as into branches; to make subordinate division in.
(v. t.) To adorn with needlework representing branches, flowers, or twigs.
Example Sentences:
(1) He added: "There is a rigorous review process of applications submitted by the executive branch, spearheaded initially by five judicial branch lawyers who are national security experts and then by the judges, to ensure that the court's authorizations comport with what the applicable statutes authorize."
(2) The adjacent gauge was separated from the ischemic segment by one large nonoccluded diagonal branch of the left anterior descending artery.
(3) Subsequently, the study of bundle branch block and A-V block cases revealed that no explicit correlation existed between histopathological changes and functional disturbances nor between disturbances in conduction (i.e.
(4) This result demonstrates that branching enzyme belongs to a family of the amylolytic enzymes.
(5) One rare case of blind-ending branch originating in the upper third of the ureter are described.
(6) An anatomic study of the peroneal artery and vein and their branches was carried out on 80 adult cadaver legs.
(7) According to the national bank, four Russian banks were operating in Crimea as of the end of April, but only one of them, Rossiisky National Commercial Bank, was widely represented, with 116 branches in the region.
(8) The present study was done in order to document the ability of the eighth cranial nerve of the bullfrog (Rana catesbeiana) to regenerate, the anatomic characteristics of the regenerated fibers, and the specificity of projections from individual endorgan branches of the nerve.
(9) Mechanisms by which a defect in the synthesis of dolichol-oligosaccharides might alter the degree of beta-1,6 branching in N-linked carbohydrates are discussed.
(10) Arterial-type flows produced a pair of vortex sinks downstream of the branching port.
(11) The ACoA branches were divided into the small and the large.
(12) It is possible that the elements provide common precursor proteins that reach the secretory intermediate lobe cells through their dendritic branches.
(13) Limitations include the facts that the tracer inventory requires a minimal survival period, can only be done postmortem, and has low resolution for cuts of the vagal hepatic branch.
(14) So we concluded that duplications and accessories should be thought to have similar meanings with the ordinary branching patterns of MCA in the occurrence of aneurysms.
(15) In the case with a more distally situated VSD, the bundle branches skirted the anterior and distal walls of the defect.
(16) Our results show that stenosis of about one-third of the original external diameter of the artery and vein of the pedicle in our model did not have any significant influence on the survival of the flap and ligation of the femoral artery distal to the branch to the flap did not produce any statistical difference in the viability of the flap.
(17) Autopsy revealed a primary intimal sarcoma with osteogenic elements arising in the posterior leaflet of the pulmonary valve and obstructing the main pulmonary artery and its right branch.
(18) Three cases with intermittent left bundle branch block were studied by means of an intracavitary electrode, which allowed the potential of the bundle of His to be measured, and was also used for the extrastimulus method of study.
(19) 500-MHz H-NMR spectroscopy of the oligosaccharides derived from gamma-seminoprotein, a human seminal plasma glycoprotein, revealed considerable microheterogeneity both with respect to the degree of branching and with regard to the peripheral sugars.
(20) The behavior of the retrograde H deflection in respect to the first extra beat following the premature QRS complex helped in excluding bundle branch reentry.
Chapel
Definition:
(n.) A subordinate place of worship
(n.) a small church, often a private foundation, as for a memorial
(n.) a small building attached to a church
(n.) a room or recess in a church, containing an altar.
(n.) A place of worship not connected with a church; as, the chapel of a palace, hospital, or prison.
(n.) In England, a place of worship used by dissenters from the Established Church; a meetinghouse.
(n.) A choir of singers, or an orchestra, attached to the court of a prince or nobleman.
(n.) A printing office, said to be so called because printing was first carried on in England in a chapel near Westminster Abbey.
(n.) An association of workmen in a printing office.
(v. t.) To deposit or inter in a chapel; to enshrine.
(v. t.) To cause (a ship taken aback in a light breeze) so to turn or make a circuit as to recover, without bracing the yards, the same tack on which she had been sailing.
Example Sentences:
(1) To determine whether perioperative blood transfusion affected the recurrence rate of squamous cell cancer of the head and neck, we performed a retrospective study of all patients with stage III and IV disease treated surgically at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, between 1983 and 1986.
(2) Stonehenge stood at the heart of a sprawling landscape of chapels, burial mounds, massive pits and ritual shrines, according to an unprecedented survey of the ancient grounds.
(3) A Benn family spokesperson said: "At the suggestion of the Speaker of the House of Commons and by agreement with the Lords Speaker, Black Rod and the dean of Westminster Abbey, an approach was made by Black Rod to the palace for agreement that Mr Benn's body rest in the chapel of St Mary Undercroft on the night before his funeral.
(4) The attacks were in different continents and on people of different faiths and of none, but in the North Carolina university town of Chapel Hill and the Danish capital, Copenhagen, it was freedom itself that was the intended target.
(5) Unless there is a meaningful increase in the pay offer, with a settlement significantly more than [the Retail Price Index], this group chapel agrees to move towards an industrial action ballot and commits to campaigning robustly for a strong ‘yes’ vote.” The ballot will run from 20 June to 11 July.
(6) Two had died before they were rescued, and their bodies lay a few steps down the hall in the hospital chapel, now a makeshift morgue.
(7) For services to the Restoration of Salem Chapel, East Budleigh, Devon.
(8) In 1500, though, he unveiled two paintings in the Contarelli chapel in the church of San Luigi dei Francesi in Rome – the French church – showing Christ calling St Matthew and his martyrdom.
(9) In a joint statement the chapels said:"It shows management's utter disregard for the loyalty and dedication that their staff show every day in their efforts to produce quality newspapers and magazines, and sends out a deeply unpleasant message: no matter your experience or your commitment, everything is rated by cost."
(10) At Chapel-le-Frith in 1786, for instance, Wesley recorded a kind of punk festival riot: "The terror and confusion was inexpressible.
(11) Kim, Kwang S. (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill), Wallace A. Clyde, Jr., and Floyd W. Denny.
(12) The chapel is identified by the school as a Christian church but also hosts Hindu services and has been used for Buddhist meditations.
(13) The Financial Times’ NUJ chapel has a meeting scheduled at 3pm on Thursday to decide on its next steps following an improved offer from management earlier this week.
(14) Vascular access has become the most common operation performed at North Carolina Memorial Hospital, Chapel Hill.
(15) The Millbank chapel vote on the strike was tied, he said.
(16) I argued we were going into it too quickly and too deeply, and in fact there were better ways of doing coalition.” Asked a second time at the meeting in the Methodist chapel in Penzance to confirm there would be no coalition with the Tories, he said: “I have told you: it is not going to happen.” He also predicted no party would secure an overall majority in the Commons, but it would be better for the differences between the parties to be aired in open in parliament, and not through back room deals.
(17) Paolucci said because the chapel was a place of prayer, timed visits were impossible.
(18) What’s new here is understanding how air works in this space and also adding the ‘intelligent’ aspect.” Paolucci was hosting a conference on Wednesday on the state of the chapel 20 years after the controversial restoration of its frescoes.
(19) The Queen arrived at the chapel with the Duke of Edinburgh, and Princesses Beatrice and Eugenie, Prince Edward , the Countess of Wessex and their children also attended the service.
(20) Since 1985 at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Medicine, an objective structured clinical examination (OSCE) has been implemented at the completion of the second year as the final examination in physical diagnosis.