(n.) A person who stands at the door of an omnibus to open and shut it, and to receive fares; an idle hanger-on about innyards.
(n.) A lowbred, presuming person; a mean, vulgar fellow.
Example Sentences:
(1) In conclusion, 99Tcm-MIBI SPECT provides a reliable method for detecting CAD.
(2) ST-segment elevation is an uncommon finding in these patients and does not reliably differentiate those with and without fixed CAD.
(3) The nuclear runoff experiments also demonstrated that the CAD gene expression was shut down in less than 4 h after induction, well before morphological changes were observed in these cells.
(4) In a prospective study, the influence of the length of the time interval on spontaneous variability was investigated in 100 patients with CAD or IDC and untreated ventricular arrhythmia of Lown grade IV.
(5) Therefore, we studied 122 consecutive clinically stable patients with angiographically defined CAD (greater than 75 per cent luminal stenosis) and a positive exercise test.
(6) These changes in EF were accompanied by the development of wall motion abnormalities, which occurred in segments of myocardium that were supplied by coronary arteries with angiographic CAD (more than 50% diameter narrowing).
(7) The correlation between elevated cholesterol and coronary artery disease (CAD) has emerged slowly, with the strongest statistical links appearing recently.
(8) Angiograms were evaluated by two angiographers for presence or absence of coronary artery disease (CAD, defined as one or more coronary artery stenoses of 50% or greater in diameter, and no CAD, defined as no stenosis of 25% or greater in diameter, respectively).
(9) When combined with atrial pacing, 2-D echocardiography and thallium 201 perfusion imaging are of similar value for diagnosing the presence of CAD in patients with stable chest pain.
(10) A consecutive series of 198 patients (148 men and 50 women, mean age 51 years, range 18 to 76) with pure, isolated, severe aortic regurgitation was retrospectively studied to determine the prevalence of angiographically significant coronary artery disease (CAD) and its relation to angina pectoris and coronary risk factors.
(11) These study designs will be discussed and compared with other studies, and the expected impact on CAD event rates presented.
(12) The trimers are found to be in slow equilibrium with hexamers and higher oligomers composed of multiples of three copies of the CAD polypeptide chain.
(13) Ninety percent of patients with VA were cigarette smokers and 70% were heavy smokers (more than 20 cigarettes daily), compared with 53% and 33% in patients with CAD (p less than 0.001) and 30% and 15% in those without heart disease (p less than 0.001).
(14) Some clinical results of the application of this method on CAD patients are presented and discussed.
(15) Several large-scale, observational epidemiologic studies in the United States and abroad have shown a strong independent inverse relation between HDL and CAD.
(16) Propranolol therapy did not significantly affect the ST segment of the exercise ECG in the normal subjects or the CAD patients without an ischemic control exercise ECG.
(17) Of the 96 patients, 21 had AP, 10 (48%) with angiographically significant CAD and 11 (52%) without (CAD).
(18) In patients with mild to moderate degree of CAD, PGI2 was found to be well tolerated.
(19) The cad operon encodes lysine decarboxylase and a protein homologous to amino acid antiporters.
(20) The interaction of Type A behavior and social support in relation to the degree of coronary artery disease (CAD) severity was investigated.
Scoundrel
Definition:
(n.) A mean, worthless fellow; a rascal; a villain; a man without honor or virtue.
(a.) Low; base; mean; unprincipled.
Example Sentences:
(1) Cutts-McKay said he regretted ever agreeing to work at Al-Madinah, saying of the trust and governors: "The worst mistake I ever made was getting involved with that shower of scoundrels."
(2) Boris Johnson has always struck me as an enigma wrapped inside a whoopee cushion Yes, those of us who woke up on Friday 24 June to discover that far from being patriots, under the new dispensation we were very likely to be regarded as not simply scoundrels but quite possibly traitors.
(3) Han definitely shoots first (and asks questions later) Lucas and fans have debated for decades whether the sardonic space scoundrel was originally intended to shoot bounty hunter Greedo only after the alien fired his blaster first in the Mos Eisley Cantina in 1977’s saga opener A New Hope, but Abrams clearly has no such qualms about showing the elder Solo as a quick-on-the-draw kind of guy.
(4) He lambasted those at the top of Kremlin power as “thieves, scoundrels and traitors who must be destroyed”.
(5) A younger version of Solo will instead return in a new spin-off , tipped to appear in 2018, with Dave Franco, Logan Lerman and Scott Eastwood reportedly among the frontrunners to play the sardonic space scoundrel.
(6) He had a totally persuasive interview style which led to the unmasking of a scoundrel."
(7) In the immediate postwar period, he was the handsome scoundrel in Giuseppe De Santis's neo-realist melodrama Bitter Rice (1948), in which he was first seen on international screens.
(8) Tom Riddles Heckmondwike, West Yorkshire • Stuart Rose perhaps needs to be reminded of Samuel Johnson’s remark: “Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.” Tim Gossling Cambridge
(9) The general public may not share Hislop's tendency to quirky nostalgia, but they certainly think that today's politicians are scoundrels.
(10) He is a very bad man (if you like, or if you don't like), but he may be the purest-spoken scoundrel in all the movies.
(11) They say that patriotism is the last refuge of scoundrels and we are seeing that truism yet again with the government,” Shorten said.
(12) However, that script was reversed on Wednesday as Fiorina repeatedly referenced God, the constitution and the founding fathers while Cruz bashed Trump as “a no-good scoundrel” and “a big government New York liberal, who is a Washington insider, who agrees with Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama”.
(13) It is better to be safe than sorry, or, as my mother was fond of saying, "I don't have a grammar school education but I can spot one scoundrel".
(14) Patriotism is indeed the last recourse to which a scoundrel clings.
(15) Did we believe Boris Johnson to be a scoundrel, or someone whose ruling passion was the love of his country?
(16) The person causing much of that bleeding is Sterling Archer himself, a figure informed not only by secret agents such as Bond and Matt Helm, but also by George MacDonald Fraser's literary soldier-scoundrel Flashman (who Reed reckons makes Archer "seem like a social worker").
(17) On idle scoundrel parasites – 2005 Asked how he rated the role of professional TV pundits, Mourinho told the Sunday Express: “The best job in the world is to be a sacked coach.
(18) Iam not going to suggest, as some scoundrel who shares a name with me did on these pages last year, that we should welcome a recession.
(19) You expect Peel to have a lot of splattercore records with titles like I'll Be Glad When You're Dead – but who would have suspected a liking for a-ha's 1986 multi-platinum opus Scoundrel Days ?
(20) It’s a choice between scoundrels.” Many voters, especially younger ones, feel ill-equipped to make that choice.