(n.) A peculiar brad-shaped spike, to be driven alongside the end of an abutting timber to prevent its slipping.
Example Sentences:
(1) Among 120 day survivors of allogeneic BMT, 6% of those with CGVHD developed BrOb as compared with none of those without CGVHD (P = .008).
(2) All seven died, and BrOb was a contributing cause of death in six patients.
(3) Awareness that this group is also at risk for BrOb and severe respiratory compromise may lead to early diagnosis and treatment.
(4) The incidence of BrOb in 120-day survivors was 14% (4 of 29) in patients with both CGVHD and decreased serum IgG, whereas patients with CGVHD only (0 of 25), those with decreased IgG levels only (0 of 53), and those with no CGVHD and normal IgG levels (0 of 70) did not develop BrOb.
(5) Each patient had histologic evidence of bronchiolitis obliterans (BrOb).
(6) The records of 549 bone marrow transplant (BMT) patients at The Johns Hopkins Oncology Center during a 9-year period were reviewed to determine the incidence of bronchiolitis obliterans (BrOb).
(7) Only recipients of allogeneic BMT were at risk for developing BrOb (2% incidence).
(8) Five percent of patients with reduced IgG levels at day 120 developed BrOb as compared with none of those with normal IgG (P = .04).
Frob
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) Bankia needed a further €4.5bn emergency injection of capital from Spain's state FROB rescue fund on Monday as it prepared itself for the eurozone bailout.
(2) Spain already had a restructuring fund for its banks – known as FROB – which will provide the resources for the recapitalisation of Bankia.
(3) "While the restructuring process is completed, the Frob intends to inject capital shortly," it said.
(4) The judge has also summoned the former governor of the Bank of Spain , the president of Stock Market National Commission, the Deloitte partner who worked for Bankia and the legal representative of the Frob (Fondo de Reestructuración Ordenada Bancaria) to testify.
(5) The decision to use the Frob to inject capital into Bankia rather than an emergency facility set aside by the eurozone rescue fund, came as the finance ministry failed to give full details of what losses would be born by shareholders and small investors who bought hybrid preference shares in banks that receive eurozone money.
(6) The Fund for the Orderly Bank Restructuring (Frob) said Bankia's restructuring plan should be ready by October, allowing eurozone rescue money to arrive in November.
(7) Lisp combined with the FROBS expert system shell permitted a declarative representation of each of the components of the experiment, resulting in a transplant specification of the problem within a maintainable system.
(8) A single intravenous introduction of prospidin-C14 was found to be followed by its quick (in 2 hours) disappearance frob the blood.
(9) However, De Guindos said Spain's most troubled bank, Bankia, will get urgent aid and the country's bailout fund, the FROB, said it was injecting €4.5bn into the ailing lender.
(10) The money will be funnelled through Spain's existing bailout fund, called the Frob, and will add to the country's modest but quickly growing national debt with the government "retaining the full responsibility".
(11) Spain asked for the money to go to its FROB bank rescue fund, increasing the national debt.