(n.) A son or a daughter; a male or female descendant, in the first degree; the immediate progeny of human parents; -- in law, legitimate offspring. Used also of animals and plants.
(n.) A descendant, however remote; -- used esp. in the plural; as, the children of Israel; the children of Edom.
(n.) One who, by character of practice, shows signs of relationship to, or of the influence of, another; one closely connected with a place, occupation, character, etc.; as, a child of God; a child of the devil; a child of disobedience; a child of toil; a child of the people.
(n.) A noble youth. See Childe.
(n.) A young person of either sex. esp. one between infancy and youth; hence, one who exhibits the characteristics of a very young person, as innocence, obedience, trustfulness, limited understanding, etc.
(n.) A female infant.
(v. i.) To give birth; to produce young.
Example Sentences:
(1) A 2.5-month-old child with cyanotic heart disease who required long-term PGE1 infusions; developed widespread periosteal reactions during the course of therapy.
(2) Child benefit has already been withdrawn from higher rate taxpayers.
(3) Unfortunately, due to confidentiality clauses that have been imposed on us by the Department of Immigration and Border Protection, we are unable to provide our full names and … titles … However, we believe the evidence that will be submitted will validate the statements that we are making in this submission.” The submission detailed specific allegations – including names and dates – of sexual abuse of child detainees, violence and bullying of children, suicide attempts by children and medical neglect.
(4) The proportion of teeth per child with calculus was approximately 8 percent for supragingival and 4 percent for subgingival calculus.
(5) In the past, the interpretation of the medical findings was hampered by a lack of knowledge of normal anatomy and genital flora in the nonabused prepubertal child.
(6) There were 101 unwanted pregnancies, and 1 child was born with intersexual genitals.
(7) Parents believed they should try to normalize their child's experiences, that interactions with health care professionals required negotiation and assertiveness, and that they needed some support person(s) outside of the family.
(8) After a due process hearing, the child was placed in a school for autistic children.
(9) By adjustment to the swaying movements of the horse, the child feels how to retain straightening alignment, symmetry and balance.
(10) 'The only way that child would have drowned in the bath is if you were holding her under the water.'
(11) After these two experimental years, a governmental institute for prevention of child abuse and neglect was organized.
(12) Discriminant analysis was performed with the fourth child in the family as the index case.
(13) The authors describe a case of expulsive choroidal effusion which occurred in the course of a fistulating operation in a child with Sturge-Weber syndrome.
(14) An age- and education-matched group of women with no family history of FXS was asked to predict the seriousness of problems they might encounter were they to bear a child with a handicapping condition.
(15) No case of oromandibular-limb abnormality was seen in the CVS groups, but 1 child in the AC group had aplasia of the right hand.
(16) The authors used a linear multivariate regression to evaluate the effects of distance from the highway, age and sex of the child, and housing condition.
(17) Child age was negatively correlated with mother's use of commands, reasoning, threats, and bribes, and positively correlated with maternal nondirectives, servings, and child compliance.
(18) The safe motherhood initiative demands an intersectoral, collaborative approach to gynecology, family planning, and child health in which midwifery is the key element.
(19) Because the HRG level is increased in Child A liver cirrhosis, we suggest that other mechanisms, other than simply a decreased synthetic capacity of the liver, contribute to the changes in HRG levels in patients with liver disease.
(20) A nine-year-old male child presented with a history of recurrent chest infections and breathlessness.
Chiseler
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) When the method proposed by Trela (1975) is applied, thin layers of the petrous crest are chiselled out until the common crus of the superior and posterior semi-circular becomes apparent.
(2) A new system, which includes cannulated chisels and a cannulated one-piece plate that can be inserted over a guide wire, is suggested.
(3) Our technique of using autogenous bone, cut with a thin chisel which curls to the shape of the ear canal, will be presented and illustrated.
(4) Nevertheless it is still far from clear, perhaps even to May herself, what will emerge once she has finished with her hammer and chisel.
(5) A chisel edged, stainless steel ring was cemented to the butt end of a dentin cylinder.
(6) Ultrasonic chisels are used clinically to remove composite-retained bridges from one or both abutment teeth.
(7) The super-sized Alabaman certainly looks the part: 228lbs of chiseled musculature and fast-twitch fibers that wouldn’t be out of place in an NFL team’s defensive backfield.
(8) We obtained good results in preventing these complications by a fixation at the hollow which is made by chiseling the frontal bone and by fibrous tissue which grows through the small holes of the implant tail.
(9) They scalped them to remove the hair, they removed the eyeballs and ears, they knocked off the faces, then removed the jaws and chiseled away the edges to make the rims nice and even.
(10) "The decision to return the marbles to the place where they were chiselled, next to those sculptures from which they were so illegally and violently ripped apart."
(11) The surgical blade, and especially the reciprocating motor-driven diamond tip eliminated overhangs better than the chisel.
(12) Back in the freezer, I put down the two-inch chisel and pick up a one-inch.
(13) He is a boat-rocking libertarian with a chisel-jawed faith in a small state and the power of the little man transmitted through the internet.
(14) Approximately half routinely use a chisel as opposed to a bur for bone removal.
(15) The first chink of light has been spotted between the top three and the chasing pack, a three-point gap chiselled out between Mourinho's team and fourth-placed Everton to suggest a massed scramble towards the summit is thinning out.
(16) Chisel in hand, he walked slowly around the base of his giant sculpture, carefully inspecting the detail on the eagle crest in front, and the name inscribed on the back – John Garang de Mabior.
(17) Vibration isolating gloves were tested and resulted in an additional reduction in vibration of up to 63% when used with the chisel sleeve.
(18) Displacement amplitude measurements at the tip of the two designs available showed that the curved chisel was twice as powerful as the straight chisel.
(19) Madrid kept their cool in the face of the storm and, gradually, they chiselled out a foothold.
(20) It showed that substantially higher vibration levels are produced at the chisel of a chipping hammer than at its handle.