(n.) A retired room, esp. an upper room used for sleeping; a bedroom; as, the house had four chambers.
(n.) Apartments in a lodging house.
(n.) A hall, as where a king gives audience, or a deliberative body or assembly meets; as, presence chamber; senate chamber.
(n.) A legislative or judicial body; an assembly; a society or association; as, the Chamber of Deputies; the Chamber of Commerce.
(n.) A compartment or cell; an inclosed space or cavity; as, the chamber of a canal lock; the chamber of a furnace; the chamber of the eye.
(n.) A room or rooms where a lawyer transacts business; a room or rooms where a judge transacts such official business as may be done out of court.
(n.) A chamber pot.
(n.) That part of the bore of a piece of ordnance which holds the charge, esp. when of different diameter from the rest of the bore; -- formerly, in guns, made smaller than the bore, but now larger, esp. in breech-loading guns.
(n.) A cavity in a mine, usually of a cubical form, to contain the powder.
(n.) A short piece of ordnance or cannon, which stood on its breech, without any carriage, formerly used chiefly for rejoicings and theatrical cannonades.
(v. i.) To reside in or occupy a chamber or chambers.
(v. i.) To be lascivious.
(v. t.) To shut up, as in a chamber.
(v. t.) To furnish with a chamber; as, to chamber a gun.
Example Sentences:
(1) Content of cyclic nucleoside monophosphates was decreased in all the eye tissues in experimental toxico-allergic uveitis as well as penetration of cAMP into the fluid of anterior chamber of the eye.
(2) As May delivered her statement in the chamber, police helicopters hovered overhead and a police cordon remained in place around Westminster, but MPs from across the political spectrum were determined to show that they were continuing with business as usual.
(3) This is due to changes with energy in the relative backscattered electron fluence between chamber support and phantom materials.
(4) In the course of the syndrome development blood vessel permeability was increased in the anterior chamber of the eye.
(5) and then placed in the chamber containing a CO atmosphere (0.325-0.375%).
(6) Histologic examination of the anterior and posterior chambers and the vitreous led to a diagnosis of endophthalmitis caused by Coccidioides immitis infection.
(7) Dose distributions were evaluated under thin sheet lead used as surface bolus for 4- and 10-MV photons and 6- and 9-MeV electrons using a parallel-plate ion chamber and film.
(8) The compatibility with Gentamycin solution used for irrigation of the anterior chamber of the eye was studied in experiments performed on rabbits.
(9) The flow of a specified concentration of test gas exits from the mixing board, enters a distributing tube, and is then distributed equally to 12 chamber tubes housing one mouse each.
(10) Previous work has shown that corticocancellous bone chips placed in a titanium chamber with an arteriovenous vascular pedicle will result in a pre-formed vascularized bone graft.
(11) The advantages of the incision through the pars plana ciliaris are (1) easier approach to the vitreous cavity, (2) preservation of the crystalline lens and an intact iris, and (3) circumvention of the corneal and chamber angle complications sometimes associated with the transcorneal approach.
(12) The so-called apparent accommodation has been measured in patients implanted with anterior chamber, iris support and posterior chamber IOLs.
(13) These patients did not have narrow anterior chamber angles preoperatively, and several were aphakix with surgical iris colobomas.
(14) In experiments using double and triple chamber cultures it was demonstrated that suppressive macrophages from advanced T8-Guérin tumor (diameter 5--6.5 cm) bearing rats produced a dialysable factor which suppressed the killer activity of lymphocytes from non-advanced T8-Guérin tumor (diameter 0.5--0.7 cm) bearing rats, as well as from nonadvanced h 18R tumor bearing rats and from Ehrlich ascites bearing mice, against T8-Guérin ascitic cells and, respectively, against h 18R ascitic and Ehrlich ascitic cells.
(15) Rings of isolated coronary and femoral arteries (without endothelium) were suspended for isometric tension recording in organ chambers filled with modified Krebs-Ringer bicarbonate solution.
(16) It is borrowed from the UN, where it normally hangs outside the security council chamber.
(17) The energy required for perforation from the external surface to the anterior chamber was the same as the energy required for ab interno perforation.
(18) What we see from those opposite and we see in this chamber every day is the 'born to rule mentality' of those opposite.
(19) Dioptric aniseikonia was calculated between 1 month and 24 months after surgery (with Gruber's and Huber's computer program) on the basis of most recently obtained values (bulb axis length, depth of the anterior chamber, lens thickness, necessary refraction), and compared with subjective measurements taken with the phase difference haploscope.
(20) This Doppler echocardiographic study of patients with a dual chamber pacemaker was undertaken to assess the changes in mitral and aortic flow induced by passing from the double stimulation to the atrial detection mode.
Loaded
Definition:
(imp. & p. p.) of Load
Example Sentences:
(1) After a period on fat-rich diet the patient's physical fitness was increased and the recovery period after the acute load was shorter.
(2) The only sign of life was excavators loading trees on to barges to take to pulp mills.
(3) Spermine clearly activated 45Ca uptake by coupled mitochondria, but had no effect on Ca2+ egress from mitochondria previously loaded with 45Ca.
(4) In the case of nonspecific loading highly trained individuals may have low VT values close to the level characteristic for normal subjects.
(5) Core biopsy with computed tomography (CT) or ultrasound (US) guidance may be such an alternative, particularly when a spring-loaded firing device is used.
(6) Excretion of inactive kallikrein again correlated with urine flow rate but the regression relationship between the two variables was different for water-load-induced and frusemide-induced diuresis.
(7) With this system, a brain region loaded with fura-2 was illuminated by a rotating disc bearing three different interference filters of 340, 360 and 380 nm at a rate of 600 rpm.
(8) Eddy current transducers measured relative displacements under application of static loads, serially applied in the axial, mediolateral, and craniocaudal directions.
(9) Over the course of 26-40 h the Na- and water-loaded cells returned to a normal state of hydration as judged by their density.
(10) Subjects who trained an additional 52 wk showed a slight drop in SV at submaximal work loads from the initial increase following the first 9 wk.
(11) For the non-emergency admissions, the low-load physicians' patients had an average LOS that was 56.2% greater and an average hospital cost that was 58.3% greater than were the LOS and cost of the patients of the high-load physicians.
(12) The presence of an inverse correlation between certain tryptophan metabolites, shown previously to be bladder carcinogens, and the N-nitrosamine content, especially after loading, was interpreted in view of the possible conversion of some tryptophan metabolites into N-nitrosamines either under endovesical conditions or during the execution of the colorimetric determination of these compounds.
(13) The effects of supervised mild aerobic exercise at the work load of the blood lactate threshold for 10 weeks on serum lipids and apolipoproteins were studied in 24 patients with essential hypertension.
(14) In the water-loaded state, MAP rose significantly at the lowest rate of infusion in both pregnant and non-pregnant ewes.
(15) Respiratory muscle endurance at a given level of load was assessed from the time of exhaustion and from the time course of the change in the power spectrum (centroid frequency) of the diaphragm electromyogram (EMG).
(16) Regressional analysis of relations between loads and the level of inbreeding in the Adyg population showed the explicit interrelation between the load of autosomal-dominant diseases and the Fst correlation coefficient being 0.89.
(17) 9 Women performed plantarflexion and dorsalflexion with maximum strength and at constant load of 60% MVC to exhaustion.
(18) In PSS amiloride and EIPA each had a small inhibitory effect on the pH recovery after an acid load.
(19) Also blacks differ from whites in 2 ways that could be relevant for their increased prevalence of hypertension: they excrete sodium loads more slowly and have a markedly lower urinary kallikrein.
(20) Calcium loading to erythrocytes in vitro caused a greater decrease in the membrane fluidity in essential hypertension than in the normotensive controls.