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Centre


Definition:

  • (v. i.) To be placed in a center; to be central.
  • (v. i.) To be collected to a point; to be concentrated; to rest on, or gather about, as a center.
  • (v. t.) To place or fix in the center or on a central point.
  • (v. t.) To collect to a point; to concentrate.
  • (v. t.) To form a recess or indentation for the reception of a center.
  • (n. & v.) See Center.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) We attribute this in part to early diagnosis by computed tomography (CT), but a contributory factor may be earlier referrals from country centres to a paediatric trauma centre and rapid transfer, by air or road, by medical retrieval teams.
  • (2) If there is a will to use primary Care centres for effective preventive action in the population as a whole, motivation of the professionals involved and organisational changes will be necessary so as not to perpetuate the law of inverse care.
  • (3) Businesses fleeing Brexit will head to New York not EU, warns LSE chief Read more Amid attempts by Frankfurt, Paris and Dublin to catch possible fallout from London, Sir Jon Cunliffe said it was highly unlikely that any EU centre could replicate the services offered by the UK’s financial services industry.
  • (4) Undaunted by the sickening swell of the ocean and wrapped up against the chilly wind, Straneo, of Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, one of the world's leading oceanographic research centres, continues to take measurements from the waters as the long Arctic dusk falls.
  • (5) A number of asylum seekers detained in the family camp on Nauru have begun peaceful protests over conditions at the centre.
  • (6) Salmonella Centre of Paris confirmed the antigenic structure and agreed with this designation.
  • (7) Gove, who touched on no fewer than 11 policy areas, made his remarks in the annual Keith Joseph memorial lecture organised by the Centre for Policy Studies, the Thatcherite thinktank that was the intellectual powerhouse behind her government.
  • (8) Nick Robins, head of the Climate Change Centre at HSBC, said: "If you think about low-carbon energy only in terms of carbon, then things look tough [in terms of not using coal].
  • (9) We report on the clinical studies of bladder tumours carried out at the centre for oncology in the Aarhus area and describe the experience and results of the past three decades.
  • (10) Much has been claimed about the source of its support: at one extreme, it is said to divide the right-of-centre vote and crucify the Conservatives .
  • (11) The ruling centre-right coalition government of Angela Merkel was dealt a blow by voters in a critical regional election on Sunday after the centre-left opposition secured a wafer-thin victory, setting the scene for a tension-filled national election in the autumn when everything will be up for grabs.
  • (12) Various immunoassays have been introduced into, and evaluated at, the Amani Medical Centre in north-east Tanzania.
  • (13) At its centre was the Holocaust, the industrialised slaughter of 6 million Jews by the Nazis: an attempt at the annihilation of an entire people.
  • (14) Lofgren complains that " the crackpot outliers of two decades ago have become the vital centre today ".
  • (15) Guy Jobbins, a Cairo-based British water scientist who heads Canada's International Development Research Centre climate change adaptation programme for Africa, says understanding of the issue has rocketed in the past few years.
  • (16) The results of this study are compared with the results of an earlier study which was completed before the Community Care Centre was established.
  • (17) Photograph: David Grayson David Grayson, director, The Doughty Centre for Corporate Responsibility, Cranfield University David became professor of corporate responsibility and director of the Doughty Centre for Corporate Responsibility at Cranfield School of Management, in April 2007, after a 30 year career as a social entrepreneur and campaigner for responsible business, diversity, and small business development.
  • (18) At discharge, 58% were living with their families, 23% were living in group homes, 12% were in supervised apartments and 5% were in an alternative rehabilitation centre.
  • (19) Stray bottles were thrown over the barriers towards officers to cheers and chants of: “Shame on you, we’re human too.” The Met deployed what it described as a “significant policing operation”, including drafting in thousands of extra officers to tackle expected unrest, after previous events ended in arrests and clashes with police across the centre of the capital.
  • (20) Four centres contributed a total of 466 patients to a study comparing the efficacy of oral amoxycillin with that of probenecid and intramuscular ceftizoxime.

Centry


Definition:

  • (n.) See Sentry.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The Extractor-Centri-dot system demonstrated 61.9% sensitivity and 95.8% specificity in detecting the ANT(2") gene in stool samples containing colonies demonstrating the ANT(2") phenotype.
  • (2) Extracts of the evaluations of the Cobe Centry 2Rx + DBPM and the Permutit Series B models, together with summaries and overall comparisons, are given below.
  • (3) Muscle biopsy in the girl revealed muscle fibers with central nuclei and surrounding clear areas compatible with myotubular, centronuclear or peri-centri-nuclear myopathy, whereas the biopsy from the mother showed a selective atrophy of Type I fibers without central nuclei.
  • (4) Acetylcholinesterase was detected in kupffer cells, predominantly in th centri- and mid-lobular regions.
  • (5) The plasma is obtained by membrane filtration of whole blood using the COBE Centry TPE System (Cobe Laboratories Inc, Lakewood, Co.).
  • (6) Mycobacterial species identified by conventional biochemical methods were retested with this DNA probe using the Centri-Dot(TM) format.
  • (7) The CT appearance of LAM distinctly differed from that of other diseases than can produce cystic air spaces in the lungs, such as UIP, eosinophilic granuloma, centri-acinar emphysema, and bronchiectasis.
  • (8) During radium therapy, TDM shows the relationships between the radioactive sources and the centri-pelvic tumour.
  • (9) An accumulation of both micro- and macrovesicles (fat) was found in the centri- and midlobular zones of the liver, which is likely the result of increased synthesis and decreased secretion of triacylglycerol (TAG).
  • (10) There was chronic inflammation of the walls of centri-acinar respiratory bronchioles and peribronchiolar alveoli.
  • (11) Postmortem liver biopsy showed centri- and midzonal necrosis associated with septal fibrosis where intracellular and extracellular calcification were noted.
  • (12) 'Health Equipment Information' Number 148, published in December 1985, carries full reports on the Cobe Centry 2Rx haemodialysis system with double blood pump module (DBPM), the Lucas Medical 2100 haemodialysis system, and the Permutit Series 8 water softener.
  • (13) The NA on the broth blots and the NA on the Centri-dot filters were hybridized with a 310-base-pair probe specific for the 2"-O-aminoglycoside adenylyltransferase [ANT(2")] resistance gene.
  • (14) Histological examination of the liver, performed in seven patients, showed centri- or panlobular cholestasis in all cases, associated with granulomatous hepatitis in one.
  • (15) The NA samples recovered from the Extractor column were applied to nylon membranes by using the Centri-dot system.

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