(n.) A hundred; as, ten per cent, the proportion of ten parts in a hundred.
(n.) A United States coin, the hundredth part of a dollar, formerly made of copper, now of copper, tin, and zinc.
(n.) An old game at cards, supposed to be like piquet; -- so called because 100 points won the game.
Example Sentences:
(1) Previous use of the drug is found in more than 50 per cent of the patients, and it was often followed by a neglected side-effect.
(2) Following central retinal artery ligation, infarction of the retinal ganglion cells was reflected by a 97 per cent reduction in the radioactively labeled protein within the optic nerve.
(3) In contrast to previous reports, these tumours were more malignant than osteosarcomas and showed a five-year survival rate of only 4-2 per cent.
(4) Children of smoking mothers had an 18.0 per cent cumulative incidence of post-infancy wheezing through 10 years of age, compared with 16.2 per cent among children of nonsmoking mothers (risk ratio 1.11, 95% CI: 1.02, 1.21).
(5) Eighty-two per cent of patients with falciparum malaria had recently returned from Africa whereas 82% with vivax malaria had visited Asia.
(6) In more than 70 per cent of these, brain injury is the decisive lethal factor.
(7) Socially acceptable urinary control was achieved in 90 per cent of the 139 patients with active devices in place.
(8) Of the 138 patients who were admitted to the study, only seventy-one (51 per cent) could be followed for an average of 3.5 years (a typical return rate of urban trauma centers).
(9) Of the sampled population, 6.3 per cent exhibited some degree of hypodontia (third molar agenesis excluded).
(10) Eighty-five per cent of the patients had been on beta-blocker treatment for more than 1 year.
(11) Ninety-five per cent were suffering from chiasmal compression pre-operatively.
(12) We studied the effect of a 2-hour exposure to 0.6 ppm of ozone on bronchial reactivity in 8 healthy, nonsmoking subjects by measuring the increase in airway resistance (Raw) produced by inhalation of histamine diphosphate aerosol (1.6 per cent, 10 breaths).
(13) Lambing rates approach 1.5 lambs per ewe per year, but a death rate of 23 per cent and an offtake of 27 per cent, means that flock numbers are probably slightly declining.
(14) The remaining 33 sera (13.3 per cent) were classified as low, moderate or strong positives.
(15) Couples applying to in vitro fertilization were admitted into this project when the sperm concentration was greater than 20 million per mL and motility greater than 30 per cent.
(16) Furthermore, the effect of immunization was examined in monkeys previously given fluoride in their diet and which had developed a low incidence of dental caries when offered a human type of diet containing about 15 per cent sucrose.
(17) The lambs of the second group were given 1200-1500 g of concentrate pellets and 300 g chopped wheat straw, and those of the third group were given 800 and 1050 g each of concentrate pellets, and 540 g and 720 g of pellets of whole maize plant containing 40 per cent.
(18) During anaesthesia with 60-70 per cent N2O in O2 and 0.2 per cent isoflurane, a maintenance dose (MD) of fentanyl was administered using a continuous variable-rate IV fentanyl infusion, supplemented by intermittent 50 micrograms IV boluses.
(19) It was found that the initial rate of [14C]oxalate absorption is rapid (6.5 per cent per min), and that after 5 min the rate of absorption decreases to about 0.6 per cent per min.
(20) The adjusted odds ratio of having one or more hospitalization for current drinkers relative to life-long abstainers in females was 0.67 (95 per cent confidence interval 0.57-0.79) and in males was 0.74 (0.57-0.96).
Nickel
Definition:
(n.) A bright silver-white metallic element. It is of the iron group, and is hard, malleable, and ductile. It occurs combined with sulphur in millerite, with arsenic in the mineral niccolite, and with arsenic and sulphur in nickel glance. Symbol Ni. Atomic weight 58.6.
(n.) A small coin made of or containing nickel; esp., a five-cent piece.
Example Sentences:
(1) The effect of airborne pollution, especially nickel, from Kola has been studied in 10,612 persons who participated in a cardiovascular screening survey in Finnmark in 1974-75.
(2) In order to determine the specific action of cadmium on bone metabolism, the effect of cadmium on alkaline phosphatase activity, a marker enzyme of osteoblasts, was compared with that of other divalent heavy metal ions, i.e., zinc, manganese, lead, copper, nickel and mercury (10 microM each), using cloned osteoblast-like cells, MC3T3-E1.
(3) You could understand why the Met was frantic to find who had stabbed Rachel Nickell 49 times on Wimbledon Common while her screaming child looked on, but the case against Stagg was preposterous.
(4) The uptake of nickel ions by the cyanobacterium Anabaena cylindrica was studied.
(5) Nickel induced considerable increases in both glucose and glucagon levels, delayed in 19-day pregnant rats with respect to controls, and deep and permanent decreases in glycogen and amino acids in pregnant rats.
(6) The male:female prevalence of nickel allergy was 1:2 (sex difference p less than 0.001) and for chromate was 7:1 (sex difference p less than 0.001).
(7) These results suggest that nickel is unable to induce basepair or frameshift mutations in Salmonella tester strains and are discussed in relationship to the low binding affinity of Ni(II) for DNA.
(8) Titanium-nickel alloy composed of 50% by weight of each metal has unique thermal shape-memory properties, with a transition temperature of 20 degrees C. Each stent consists of one wire with a diameter of 0.9 mm.
(9) The effect of calcium(II)acetate (CaAcet) and magnesium(II) acetate (MgAcet) on nickel(II) uptake in the lungs of strain A mice and on the nickel(II)-induced changes in the pulmonary DNA synthesis were studied in order to elucidate the mechanism(s) of inhibitory action of CaAcet and MgAcet upon nickel(II) tumorigenesis.
(10) To determine cell-mediated immunity to nickel, another matrix in hard metal besides cobalt, lymphocyte transformation tests (LTT) with nickel were carried out in seven hard metal asthma patients all of who had reacted to cobalt chloride in the bronchial provocation tests (BPT).
(11) The results showed that nickel exposure led significantly to raised nickel concentration in nasal mucosa, plasma and urine both in active and retired nickel workers.
(12) Base metal alloys, principally made of nickel, chromium, and beryllium have gained widespread usage, especially in the United States, due to their lower cost and higher mechanical properties.
(13) An empirical power absorption formula developed by Haider for thermally self-regulating nickel-silicon ferromagnetic seeds has been used to calculate the seed power absorption as a function of seed temperature.
(14) The crystalline nickel sulfides and oxides that slowly dissolve in body fluids and readily enter cells by phagocytosis tend to be most active in producing morphological transformation of SHE cells in vitro and stimulating erythrocytosis and carcinogenesis following ir administration to rats.
(15) The nickel-titanium wires, however, showed a clear deviation form the linearity with a curviform course.
(16) After 3 and 6 months exposure to metallic nickel the macrophages were 'overfed' and inactive.
(17) Nickel deficiency was produced in chicks under near optimal growth conditions.
(18) However, nickel also induces a direct decrease in the release of lysozyme activity by AM.
(19) The hyperglycaemic response to nickel of female rats was more marked than that of males, with an increase in intracellular glucose, more marked during pregnancy, which even surpassed the plasma concentration of glucose.
(20) A nickel subsulfide (Ni3S2) lung tumor model for the study of metal carcinogenesis was evaluated using intratracheally dosed B6C3F1 mice.