(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.
Surreptitiously
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) A new approach is presented to the refractive procedure by adding observation, both surreptitious and direct, as an adjunct, an aid and a supplement to differential diagnosis in a refractive examination and in visual analysis.
(2) Aberrantly low plasma levels are more likely due to surreptitious noncompliance or drug interactions with enzyme inducers such as carbamazepine.
(3) A history of episodic edema and hypokalemia, often attributed in women to surreptitious diuretic abuse, requires a careful search for hypercorticism even in the absence of clinical Cushing's syndrome.
(4) Part of that must be down to the way the language of welfare reform is surreptitiously laced with innuendo about scroungers and skivers.
(5) Controls were compared to Ss receiving 2 deepening techniques or 2 suggestions for positive and negative hallucinations that were surreptitiously enhanced.
(6) It soon emerged that the City Planning Commission had already, surreptitiously, designated the area as blighted.
(7) In 2008, Weatherup gave evidence at the trial of Ian Strachan and Sean McGuigan, two men jailed for surreptitiously recording then blackmailing a royal family member over gay sex claims and drug-taking.
(8) When she remained anticoagulated during a 2-month period off of warfarin a plasma analysis detected warfarin indicating she was taking the anticoagulant surreptitiously.
(9) Menezes supported pacification, but said that the drug trade for which Alemão was notorious continues surreptitiously: "It doesn't stop.
(10) In the third and fourth experiments, subjects were led to believe that only on stimulus type would occur but were surreptitiously shown another type on a small number of trials.
(11) Surreptitious self-administration of insulin is an important cause of hypoglycemia.
(12) The present study attempted to assess the effectiveness of commonly used deepening techniques and of surreptitiously provided stimulation on hypnotizability scores, in-hypnosis depth reports, retrospective realness ratings, and the Field Inventory of Hypnotic Depth (Field, 1965).
(13) The longer she remains on the throne, the greater her standing on the world stage and the greater the respect for her – and, therefore, the greater her potential surreptitious influence.
(14) The usefulness of assays for the rapid identification and determination of quantitative plasma levels of warfarin sodium and dicumarol is documented by the case histories of five patients: a man who accidentally took dicumarol for several weeks and developed an acute condition within the abdomen, a man who ingested 500 mg of warfarin sodium in a suicide attempt, a malingering nurse who surreptitiously took dicumarol, a nurse with warfarin intoxication who did not follow dosage prescription because of fear of developing thrombosis, and a woman with calf vein thrombosis who did not ingest the administered warfin sodium becausing of fear of developing bleeding.
(15) Tanni Grey-Thompson was Britain's first disabled sports superstar, but she has become, almost surreptitiously, one of Britain's most high-profile disability rights activists.
(16) Surreptitious diuretic use was found in a patient with longstanding hypokalaemia thought to be due to Bartter's syndrome.
(17) Gary, drunk on surreptitious martinis, dripping blood from his hand which he has cut while trying to trim a hedge, furious with his wife for her insistence that he is "clinically depressed" (and because she has confided in their sons that this is the case), has sneaked to the kitchen liquor cabinet.
(18) A case of surreptitious ingestion of oral anticoagulants is presented.
(19) Yet the 38-year old former State Department official has raised a Snowden-like alarm that Americans' communication data remains highly vulnerable to surreptitious collection by the National Security Agency – and will remain vulnerable despite the legislative fixes wending through Congress to redress the bulk domestic phone data collection Snowden revealed.
(20) Scahill, one of the founders of the Intercept , also last week revealed documents leaked by intelligence whistleblower Edward Snowden showing the CIA’s years-long effort to break encryption on Apple mobile devices like iPads and iPhones and a related effort by Britain’s GCHQ to surreptitiously retrieve communications data from them.