(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.
Talon
Definition:
(n.) The claw of a predaceous bird or animal, especially the claw of a bird of prey.
(n.) One of certain small prominences on the hind part of the face of an elephant's tooth.
(n.) A kind of molding, concave at the bottom and convex at the top; -- usually called an ogee.
(n.) The shoulder of the bolt of a lock on which the key acts to shoot the bolt.
Example Sentences:
(1) It angled and twisted, talons probing down on a swallow.
(2) When Adele recently collected her Grammys with long talons painted on both sides (pale on top, pillar box red beneath), it seemed even nail art had gone truly mainstream.
(3) There are three typical types of manicure: the regular polish; the gel or acrylic spatula-shaped talons beloved of the tabloid Wag; and the super-cool, bejewelled nail art more commonly seen in either east London or Japan.
(4) Talon for Twitter (£1.21) Looking for an alternative to the official Twitter app for Android?
(5) What was first diagnosed as an endodontic lesion was, in all probability, a primary periodontal lesion caused by the advance of bacteria from the gingival crevice to the apex along the radicular groove between the main tooth and the talon cusp.
(6) However, the unique feature of the TALON Catalog may be its machine-readable form which offers the potential for quantitative analyses of health sciences library collections.
(7) In that 42 tonnes of bait in the proposed eradication program, there will actually be less than 1kg – 840g – of brodifacoum, a poison in common pesticides like Talon which is found in most supermarkets.
(8) The beak made from what looked to be a bear claw, the feet with their worn-down, pedestrian talons: I mean, please!
(9) #Pistorius May 8, 2014 Wolmarans says the ammunition used was not Black Talon bullets , as previously heard , but ranger bullets.
(10) Plath was killed by what she described as "the owl's talons clenching and constricting my heart".
(11) Only recently have reports of talon cusps on primary teeth appeared.
(12) The methods of treatment of talon cusps are reviewed.
(13) Day 28: 8 May 2014 Ballistics expert Thomas ‘Wollie’ Wolmarans, told the court that the ammunition used to shoot Steenkamp was not Black Talon bullets, as previously heard , but ranger bullets.
(14) The prevalence of talon cusp was found to be 0.6 per 1000, and for ankyloglossia 8.3 per 1000.
(15) I spoke to Avery the day after he had travelled to Margate to admire Jeremy Deller’s painting of an enormous hen harrier grabbing a Range Rover in its talons, which Avery saw as a powerful statement about class-based power still defining what lived and died in the British countryside.
(16) Clinical observations suggest that the incidence of talon cusps in the primary dentition may be not lower than that in the permanent dentition in Chinese children.
(17) He noted the Black Talon brand of ammunition was often used for self-defence because while it caused significant damage to a human target, it was less likely to penetrate the first target and hit other people.
(18) Captain Mangena, the state ballistic expert, maintains the bullets were Black Talons .
(19) CCI's Blazer JSP bullet (developed in conjunction with the UK distributor, Edgar Brothers) is "specifically designed for bone penetration in head shots and to create maximum expansion inside the cranium without exiting"; and then there is Winchester's Black Talon.
(20) An unusual example of anterior tooth fusion is presented in which the involved tooth had one crown, one talon cusp, two roots, and three root canals.