(n.) A large box of wood, or other material, having, like a trunk, a lid, but no covering of skin, leather, or cloth.
(n.) A coffin.
(n.) The part of the body inclosed by the ribs and breastbone; the thorax.
(n.) A case in which certain goods, as tea, opium, etc., are transported; hence, the quantity which such a case contains.
(n.) A tight receptacle or box, usually for holding gas, steam, liquids, etc.; as, the steam chest of an engine; the wind chest of an organ.
(v. i.) To deposit in a chest; to hoard.
(v. i.) To place in a coffin.
(n.) Strife; contention; controversy.
Example Sentences:
(1) The results also indicate that small lesions initially noted only on CT scans of the chest in children with Wilms' tumor frequently represent metastatic tumor.
(2) This article reviews the care of the chest-injured patient during the intensive care unit phase of his or her recovery.
(3) A comparison of chest pain description was performed between MI and non-MI subjects.
(4) After a review of the technical development and application of staplers from their introduction to the present day, the indications to the use of this instrument in all gastroenterological areas from the oesophagus to the rectum as well as in chest, gynaecological and urological surgery specified.
(5) Radiological findings on chest X-rays taken two weeks after BAI were evaluated according to Takeuchi's criteria.
(6) A case of dissecting hematoma involving the left main, left anterior descending, and left circumflex coronary arteries is described in a patient who had received vigorous closed-chest cardiac resuscitation.
(7) None of these were apparent on prior roentgenograms of the chest.
(8) A nine-year-old male child presented with a history of recurrent chest infections and breathlessness.
(9) The first source attended was a private practitioner for 53 % of the patients, another private medical establishment for 4 %, a Government chest clinic for only 11 % and another Government medical establishment for 17 %, 9 % went first to a herbalist and 5 % went to a drug store or treated themselves.
(10) Chest X-ray revealed multiple nodular lesions in both lung fields.
(11) Five normovolemic patients undergoing cardiac catheterization for atypical chest pain syndrome volunteered for this study.
(12) Of the 2,472 patients with chest pain evaluated by the emergency medical technicians, 453 (18%) were diagnosed with AMI during hospitalization.
(13) Persons with clinical abdominal findings, shock, altered sensorium, and severe chest injuries after blunt trauma should undergo the procedure.
(14) Fibreoptic bronchoscopy should be undertaken in patients suspected of having a pulmonary complication of AIDS, even if the chest radiograph is normal.
(15) The effect on mortality, serious ventricular arrhythmias and chest pain seemed to be similar in different age groups.
(16) A chest X-ray examination showed a large mediastinal mass on the right.
(17) ECG and chest impedance were continuously monitored and recorded.
(18) Treatment was always surgical, with the following procedures: Laparotomy and chest drainage tube in 7 cases (21%), thoracotomy in 12 cases (36%) and a combined thoracoabdominal approach in 14 (43%).
(19) Spirometry and lung volumes, diffusing capacity of carbon monoxide, chest radiograph, methacholine airway challenge, and bronchoalveolar lavage were done.
(20) In four of the empyemas, PCD was used successfully after incomplete or unsuccessful chest tube drainage.
Yodel
Definition:
(v. t. & i.) Alt. of Yodle
(n.) Alt. of Yodle
Example Sentences:
(1) They rightly perceive that there is a better chance that retailers can get it to them there.” James Daunt, chief executive of the bookstore chain Waterstones , said its online deliveries were being delayed by “one or two days” as a result of problems at its courier service, Yodel, which has been overwhelmed with demand from the retailers it serves.
(2) But they are easy to miss amid the glut of MOR crooners – Nat King Cole, Pat Boone, Mel Torme, Frank Ifield yodeling his way through Hank Williams's Lovesick Blues – and the sound of the Joe Loss Orchestra.
(3) On Thursday delivery firm Yodel also admitted to problems with a backlog of deliveries and temporarily halted pick-ups from retailers.
(4) People will opt for that as they are guaranteed their item rather than relying on the likes of Yodel.” Demand for click and collect is growing ahead of the online retail market, which was expected to increase by 22% this year with 930m parcels dispatched.
(5) 7.37pm GMT “Evening Ian,” yodels Simon McMahon.
(6) Kesha, the pop star who first rose to fame with the loopily yodeled party hit Tik Tok in 2009, appeared to suffer a severe legal setback last Friday .
(7) There had been female singers in country music before – the indefatigably yodelling Patsy Montana; Molly O'Day, all gingham and tears; the regal Sara Carter – but they always required the presence of male protectors: singing husbands or an all-male backing band.
(8) Austria election: far-right candidate and rival tied at 50% in exit poll Read more His campaign videos have featured some unabashed yodelling, his speeches have often referred to the attachment he feels to his Tyrolean H eimat (homeland), and he has repeatedly stressed the social duties and obligation to integrate of Austria’s 90,000 newly arrived refugees.
(9) Morrissey had started yodelling by then, and he'd get down on his shoulders and put his legs straight into the air.
(10) In the Hermes and Yodel model, they only get paid once.” Nicholson said Hermes’ rising profitability “is on the back of the lifestyle couriers who have had little or no increase in what they get per parcel for the last three years”.
(11) Marks & Spencer , Tesco, Debenhams and Argos have all warned of delivery delays in the wake of Black Friday, while courier company Yodel has admitted that it had stopped collecting parcels from retailers because it was struggling to cope with the volume of goods being bought online.
(12) Hermes couriers, alongside workers at the Royal Mail’s ParcelForce and other companies such as Yodel, are the footsoldiers of the internet shopping boom.
(13) This slow frequency change relaxed back to baseline following a biexponential time course which closely resembled that of a distinct behavior seen in intact fish, termed 'yodeling' (Dye 1987).
(14) The second behavior, which we have termed a 'yodel', is distinct from and kinetically intermediate to chirping and the JAR.
(15) Some Amazon customers in Britain are facing the prospect of orders failing to arrive in time for Christmas following the inability of courier companies such as Yodel to cope with a surge in online shopping.
(16) Yodel, with 8,000 couriers, operates a similar system.
(17) It was the second worst performer in the survey, behind Yodel.
(18) "About eleven o'clock, Lucille Henderson, observing that her party was soaring at the proper height, and just having been smiled at by Jack Delroy, forced herself to glance over in the direction of Edna Phillips, who since eight o'clock had been sitting in the big red chair, smoking cigarettes and yodelling hellos and wearing a very bright eye which young men were not bothering to catch," writes Salinger.
(19) These studies compare the pitch perturbations during the crescendo and decrescendo of a swell-tone, and show typical traces of staccato, thrill and yodel.
(20) 'Yodeling' (Dye 1987) appears to involve similar, characteristic changes in the pattern of firing as those seen during chirping.