(n.) A box, sheath, or covering; as, a case for holding goods; a case for spectacles; the case of a watch; the case (capsule) of a cartridge; a case (cover) for a book.
(n.) A box and its contents; the quantity contained in a box; as, a case of goods; a case of instruments.
(n.) A shallow tray divided into compartments or "boxes" for holding type.
(n.) An inclosing frame; a casing; as, a door case; a window case.
(n.) A small fissure which admits water to the workings.
(v. t.) To cover or protect with, or as with, a case; to inclose.
(v. t.) To strip the skin from; as, to case a box.
(n.) Chance; accident; hap; opportunity.
(n.) That which befalls, comes, or happens; an event; an instance; a circumstance, or all the circumstances; condition; state of things; affair; as, a strange case; a case of injustice; the case of the Indian tribes.
(n.) A patient under treatment; an instance of sickness or injury; as, ten cases of fever; also, the history of a disease or injury.
(n.) The matters of fact or conditions involved in a suit, as distinguished from the questions of law; a suit or action at law; a cause.
(n.) One of the forms, or the inflections or changes of form, of a noun, pronoun, or adjective, which indicate its relation to other words, and in the aggregate constitute its declension; the relation which a noun or pronoun sustains to some other word.
(v. i.) To propose hypothetical cases.
Example Sentences:
(1) Intestinal dilatation seemed in all cases a response to elevated CO2 only.
(2) By presenting the case history of a man who successively developed facial and trigeminal neural dysfunction after Mohs chemosurgery of a PCSCC, this paper documents histologically the occurrence of such neural invasion, and illustrates the utility of gadolinium-enhanced magnetic resonance scanning in patient management.
(3) A report is presented of 6 surgically-treated cases of recurrent cervical carcinoma.
(5) In 49 cases undergoing systemic lymphadenectomy 32 were found to have glandular involvement, of which both aortic and pelvic nodes were positive in 17 cases (53.1%), aortic nodes positive but pelvic negative in six (18.8%), and pelvic nodes positive but aortic negative in nine (28.1%).
(6) These channels may, at least in some cases, be responsible for the generation of pacemaker depolarizations, thereby regulating firing behaviour.
(7) Weddellite calcification was associated with benign lesions in 16 cases, but incidental atypical lobular hyperplasia and lobular carcinoma in situ were present, each in one case.
(8) The fine structure of neurofibrillary tangles in the hippocampal gyrus, substantia nigra, pontine nuclei and locus coeruleus of the brain was postmortem studied in a case of progressive supranuclear palsy.
(9) Together these results suggest that IVC may operate as a selective activator of calpain both in the cytosol and at the membrane level; in the latter case in synergism with the activation induced by association of the proteinase to the cell membrane.
(10) In one of 28 cases with LCIS examined by mammography there was suspicion of carcinoma.
(11) Only 81 cases are reported in the international literature.
(12) Single-case experimental designs are presented and discussed from several points of view: Historical antecedents, assessment of the dependent variable, internal and external validity and pre-experimental vs experimental single-case designs.
(13) The data from this experience as well as others previously reported can yield prognostic indicators of survival in cases of accidental hypothermia.
(14) Subsequently, the study of bundle branch block and A-V block cases revealed that no explicit correlation existed between histopathological changes and functional disturbances nor between disturbances in conduction (i.e.
(15) The procedure was used on 71 occasions, and in each case a clinical diagnosis was made and compared with the cytological diagnosis made independently by a pathologist.
(16) The Cole-Moore effect, which was found here only under a specific set of conditions, thus may be a special case rather than the general property of the membrane.
(17) The analysis is based on the personal experience of the authors with 117 cases and the review of 223 cases published in the literature.
(18) The histological pattern of tumor was identified in 28 cases.
(19) In all cases the polyarthritis is cured by anti-inflammatory treatment in 1-6 months.
(20) This is a fascinating possibility for solving the skin shortage problem especially in burn cases.
Code
Definition:
(n.) A body of law, sanctioned by legislation, in which the rules of law to be specifically applied by the courts are set forth in systematic form; a compilation of laws by public authority; a digest.
(n.) Any system of rules or regulations relating to one subject; as, the medical code, a system of rules for the regulation of the professional conduct of physicians; the naval code, a system of rules for making communications at sea means of signals.
Example Sentences:
(1) Since MIRD Committee has not published "S" values for Tl-200 and Tl-202, these have been calculated by a computer code and are reported.
(2) Using the oocyte system to express size-fractionated mRNA, we have also determined that the mRNA coding for this protein is between 1.9-2.4 kilobases in length.
(3) Reiteration VII (within protein coding regions of genes US10 and US11) and reiteration IV (within introns of genes US1 and US12) were stable between the isolates (group 1).
(4) The mboIIR gene specifies a protein of 416 amino acids (MW: 48,617) while the mboIIM gene codes for a putative 260-residue polypeptide (MW: 30,077).
(5) A cDNA library prepared from human placenta has been screened for sequences coding for factor XIIIa, the enzymatically active subunit of the factor XIII complex that stabilizes blood clots through crosslinking of fibrin molecules.
(6) Of the 16 cases, 14 (88%) were diagnosed as TSS or probable TSS by the attending physician, although only nine (64%) of the 14 diagnosed cases were given the correct discharge code.
(7) This gene, termed cbbE', codes for a putative surface protein of approximately 55 kDa, termed the E' protein.
(8) The bursa of Fabricius, thymus glands and spleen of chickens were also shown to express mRNA coding for ANP.
(9) The mitochondrial genome codes for 13 proteins which are located in the respiratory chain.
(10) Dilemmas of trust, confidentiality, and professional competence highlight the limits of professional ethical codes.
(11) The coding sequence for Spirulina platensis acetohydroxy acid synthase (AHAS, EC 4.1.3.18) is shown to be contained within a 4.2 Kb ClaI fragment (ilvX) that has been cloned from a recombinant lambda library.
(12) When very large series of strains are considered, the coding can be completely done and printed out by any computer through a very simple program.
(13) Cells transfected with either the first or second construct and selected for the TK+ phenotype were then tested for TK induction after superinfection with HSV-1(F) delta 305, containing a deletion in the coding sequences of the TK gene, and viruses containing, in addition, a ts lesion in the alpha 4 regulatory protein (ts502 delta 305) or in the beta 8 major DNA-binding protein (tsHA1 delta 305).
(14) The ps1A1 polypeptide was coded for by a 5.5-kbp mRNA which others have shown also codes for PS IRC polypeptide ps1A2.
(15) The sequence of the coding region was derived from the published amino acid sequence of the protein (Tanaka, M., Haniu, M., Yasunobu, K.T., and Mayhew, S. G. (1974) J. Biol.
(16) An average size chromomere of the polytene X chromosome of Drosophila melanogaster contains enough DNA in each haploid equivalent strand to code for 30 genes, each 1,000 nucleotides long.
(17) Patient care data for patients treated at the medical center are first recorded on paper charts and then coded and transferred to computer.
(18) The delta qa-1S strain exhibits constitutive expression of the qa genes supporting earlier evidence that the qa-1S gene codes for a repressor.
(19) DNA fragments coding for signal peptides with different lengths (28, 31, 33 and 41 amino acids from the translation initiator Met) were prepared and fused with the E. coli beta-lactamase structural gene.
(20) The major RNA species present in the purified mitochondrial fraction of the Walker carcinoma were investigated in order to determine which of them are located in the mitochondria and coded by the organelle DNA.