(n.) The act of carrying, transporting, or conveying.
(n.) The price or expense of carrying.
(n.) That which carries of conveys,
(n.) A wheeled vehicle for persons, esp. one designed for elegance and comfort.
(n.) A wheeled vehicle carrying a fixed burden, as a gun carriage.
(n.) A part of a machine which moves and carries of supports some other moving object or part.
(n.) A frame or cage in which something is carried or supported; as, a bell carriage.
(n.) The manner of carrying one's self; behavior; bearing; deportment; personal manners.
(n.) The act or manner of conducting measures or projects; management.
Example Sentences:
(1) Staphylococcal carriage seems largely to depend on individual characteristics rather than environmental factors.
(2) A higher proportion (14 of 40; 35%) had evidence of hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection than had evidence of either hepatitis B virus (HBV) carriage (17.5%) or alcohol abuse (30%).
(3) Rail campaigners claim that the convoluted carriage-ordering system contributes to overcrowding.
(4) Bronchial carriage may, however, not always be associated with pathological effects.
(5) 2) Chronic HBsAg carriage in the adult household contact was associated with female sex of the index case and with being a sibling; among young subjects, household contacts were more likely to be chronic HBsAg carriers when the index case was the mother, a sibling, or an HBV-DNA-positive subject.
(6) This study further confirms the importance of skin carriage of group A streptococci as a precursor to pyoderma and demonstrates the importance of minor skin trauma as a predisposing factor.
(7) Japanese company Hitachi Rail is planning to invest £82m and create hundreds of jobs at a new train factory in Newton Aycliffe, Darlington, where it will build hundreds of carriages.
(8) The current uses of serotyping of N. gonorrhoeae include epidemiological studies, clinical purposes and surveillance of antibiotic resistance and plasmid carriage.
(9) Think, too, of the savings in road widening and new carriages – money that could be spent mending what we've got, or making travel safer or more comfortable, or spent on other things.
(10) The order is the largest yet for Bombardier’s Aventra trains, at 750 carriages, and is a boost to the Derby plant, whose future recently appeared in jeopardy.
(11) The carriage of C. diphtheriae was found to be 19.8%, 65.3% of them were toxin producing by counter-immunoelectrophoresis (CIEP).
(12) Efforts at prevention of non-A, non-B hepatitis associated with blood transfusion have thus far been hampered by the lack of reliable laboratory markers for carriers of this disease, and controversy exists over the implementation of screening tests on blood donors, using such nonspecific indicators of possible viral carriage as serum alanine aminotransferase levels.
(13) The epidemic strain, which was not agglutinated by commerical diagnostic antisera, was isolated from the hands of personnel in five instances directly incriminated hand carriage as the mode of spread.
(14) The city responded with a mixture of fear and defiance, sharing pictures of cuddly animals on hashtags for the attack in place of the usual images of police, and offering homes, mosques and even grounded train carriages as shelter for those stranded by the shutdown.
(15) These patterns are generally consistent with available information concerning the distribution of hepatitis B surface antigen (HBsAg) carriage in New Zealand and suggest that HBsAg carriage is likely to be a major risk factor for hepatocellular carcinoma in New Zealand, as it is in other countries.
(16) In renal transplant recipients carriage was positively related to treatment with ranitidine, consumption of more than three types of cheese in the previous 20 months, and consumption of English cheddar cheese more than once per week.
(17) The objectives of this preliminary study were to determine the prevalence of oral candidal carriage and infection in a group of HIV-positive individuals and compare the humoral immune responses in serum and saliva in this group with a control group of HIV-negative subjects.
(18) "My service is not as frequent as it should be and has very old carriages," he said.
(19) An association between fecal carriage of Streptococcus bovis and colorectal carcinoma has been reported.
(20) The carriage rates were 89% in children, 39% in adolescents and 34% in adults.
Family
Definition:
(v. t.) The collective body of persons who live in one house, and under one head or manager; a household, including parents, children, and servants, and, as the case may be, lodgers or boarders.
(v. t.) The group comprising a husband and wife and their dependent children, constituting a fundamental unit in the organization of society.
(v. t.) Those who descend from one common progenitor; a tribe, clan, or race; kindred; house; as, the human family; the family of Abraham; the father of a family.
(v. t.) Course of descent; genealogy; line of ancestors; lineage.
(v. t.) Honorable descent; noble or respectable stock; as, a man of family.
(v. t.) A group of kindred or closely related individuals; as, a family of languages; a family of States; the chlorine family.
(v. t.) A group of organisms, either animal or vegetable, related by certain points of resemblance in structure or development, more comprehensive than a genus, because it is usually based on fewer or less pronounced points of likeness. In zoology a family is less comprehesive than an order; in botany it is often considered the same thing as an order.
Example Sentences:
(1) The role of the family practitioner in antenatal care is discussed.
(2) The findings indicate that there is still a significant incongruence between the value structure of most family practice units and that of their institutions but that many family practice units are beginning to achieve parity of promotion and tenure with other departments in their institutions.
(3) It is recognized that caregivers encompass family members and nursing staff.
(4) PMS is more prevalent among women working outside the home, alcoholics, women of high parity, and women with toxemic tendency; it probably runs in families.
(5) 62.1% were from disrupted families (39.5% divorced, 12.9% remarried, and 9.7% widowed).
(6) Serum samples from 23 families, including a total of 48 affected children, were tested for a set of "classical markers."
(7) Among a family of 8 children, 4 presented typical clinical and biological abnormalities related to mannosidosis.
(8) Complementarity determining regions (CDR) are conserved to different extents, with the first CDR region in all family members being among the most conserved segments of the molecule.
(9) This result demonstrates that branching enzyme belongs to a family of the amylolytic enzymes.
(10) The correlates of three characteristics of familial networks (i.e., residential proximity, family affection, and family contact) were examined among a national sample of older Black Americans.
(11) During the study period four family outbreaks and seven recurrences of infection were observed.
(12) Because many wnt genes are also expressed in the lung, we have examined whether the wnt family member wnt-2 (irp) plays a role in lung development.
(13) Twelve families with Wiskott-Aldrich syndrome (WAS) were studied by linkage analysis using 10 polymorphic marker loci from the X-chromosome pericentromeric region.
(14) As players, we want what's right, and we feel like no one in his family should be able to own the team.” The NBA has also said that Shelly Sterling should not remain as owner.
(15) Family therapists have attempted to convert the acting-out behavioral disorders into an effective state, i.e., make the family aware of their feelings of deprivation by focusing on the aggressive component.
(16) Mutational mosaicism was used as a developmental model to analyze 1,500 sporadic and 179 familial cases of retinoblastoma from the world literature.
(17) In this paper, we report the cases of 4 male patients (mean age 32.7 yr) with right-ventricular dysplasia, that occurred in familial form.
(18) The frequency of gastric malignancies in the families of the women with gastric polyps was higher than in the controls and in men, 6.2, 3.1 and 2.4 percent, respectively (p less than 0.05, and p less than 0.025).
(19) The family comprises at least three variable (V) gene segments, three constant (C) gene segments, and three junction (J) gene segments.
(20) Obesity in the Pimas is familial and has complex relationships with non-insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus, a common disease in this population.