(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.
(4) Guillain Barré syndrome following herpes zoster is rare and only 25 cases have been reported to date.
(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.
Reload
Definition:
(v. t.) To load again, as a gun.
Example Sentences:
(1) Applications of sodium butyrate over the same period of time, on the other hand, was associated with buildup of alkalosis in the second half of the experimental period, with alternation of loading, compensation, and reloading being recordable.
(2) The rate of state 3 respiration increased by ATP-reloading approached that of uncoupler-stimulated respiration measured with ischemic mitochondria.
(3) Muscle atrophy appears to increase the susceptibility to form eccentric contraction-like lesions after reloading; this may reflect weakening of the myofibrils and extracellular matrix.
(4) To determine whether this deficit can be restored by skeletal reloading we measured bone formation rate at the tibiofibular junction and total bone calcium in the tibia and lumbar vertebra in rats whose hindlimbs were unloaded for 2 wk and then reloaded by return to normal weight bearing.
(5) A simple principle of interrupting the complete approximation of the operating slide to the thumb ring was utilized to apply the Falope-Ring to each fallopian tube with one introduction of the Falope-Ring applicator already loaded with two rings, thus eliminating the process of withdrawal, reloading, and reinsertion.
(6) With termination of stimulation, the Ca2+ permeability of the pool membrane rapidly decreased while the pool continued to reload with extracellular Ca2+.
(7) Then again, given that according to Alvarez officer Van Dyke was reloading his service weapon after the 16th bullet had struck Laquan’s body, maybe we do know.
(8) The ADP-depleted F1 preparations were unable to rebind normal amounts of ADP or any ATP in simple reloading experiments.
(9) In addition, choline appears to play a competitive role because its presence during incubation in NE or after reloading results in decreased numbers of dense-cored vesicles.
(10) Reloading of the soleus after 1 or 3 days of unloading increased uptake of 2-deoxy-D-glucose above control and returned it to normal within 6 h and 4 days, respectively.
(11) 3.23am BST Cardinals 2 - Nationals 6, Top 5th Gonzalez walks Beltran to reload the bases, still only one out.
(12) As the sequence is determined on-line during electrophoresis, reloading and running 10 fragments simultaneously allows us to use one gel for sequencing of about 50 different oligonucleotides.
(13) 42 workers reloading sulphur and 25 cargo handling workers unexposed to dusts were examined.
(14) Stimulation of individuals in aerated sea water for 1-2 min caused a partial deoxygenation of the haemoglobin; the pigment reloaded soon after this period of increased activity had ended.
(15) In acini depleted of intracellular Ca2+, increased cellular Ca2+ influx and reloading of the agonist-sensitive pool occurred even if extracellular CaCl2 was added 10 min after the termination of agonist action.
(16) The modern handgun is a precision weapon, modelled on military predecessors; it is light, easily hidden and capable of rapidly and accurately discharging up to 15 rounds without reloading.
(17) Push-through-stem tests of straight and tapered titanium alloy stems, surrounded by cement columns, were performed and the resulting load-displacement behavior and strain distribution on the surface of the cement column were measured for loading, unloading, and reloading.
(18) A student, Erick Cervantes, told local television the teacher intercepted the gunman as he paused, possibly trying to reload.
(19) A rapid reloading of cells previously depleted of Na+ was readily measured by 23Na NMR.
(20) To trace the route of Ca2+ entry and the role of the cytosolic Ca2+ pool in reloading of the internal stores of pancreatic acinar cells, Mn2+ influx into Fura 2-loaded cells and the effect of 1,2-bis(2-aminophenoxyethane-N,N,N',N'-tetraacetic acid (BAPTA) on Ca2+ storage in intracellular stores and reloading were examined.