(v. t.) To cut by striking repeatedly with a sharp instrument; to cut into pieces; to mince; -- often with up.
(v. t.) To sever or separate by one more blows of a sharp instrument; to divide; -- usually with off or down.
(v. t.) To seize or devour greedily; -- with up.
(v. i.) To make a quick strike, or repeated strokes, with an ax or other sharp instrument.
(v. i.) To do something suddenly with an unexpected motion; to catch or attempt to seize.
(v. i.) To interrupt; -- with in or out.
(v. i.) To barter or truck.
(v. i.) To exchange; substitute one thing for another.
(v. i.) To purchase by way of truck.
(v. i.) To vary or shift suddenly; as, the wind chops about.
(v. i.) To wrangle; to altercate; to bandy words.
(n.) A change; a vicissitude.
(v. t. & i.) To crack. See Chap, v. t. & i.
(n.) The act of chopping; a stroke.
(n.) A piece chopped off; a slice or small piece, especially of meat; as, a mutton chop.
(n.) A crack or cleft. See Chap.
(n.) A jaw of an animal; -- commonly in the pl. See Chops.
(n.) A movable jaw or cheek, as of a wooden vise.
(n.) The land at each side of the mouth of a river, harbor, or channel; as, East Chop or West Chop. See Chops.
(n.) Quality; brand; as, silk of the first chop.
(n.) A permit or clearance.
Example Sentences:
(1) Infusion of vincristine may be safely incorporated into multiagent chemotherapy programs of the CHOP type for non-Hodgkin's lymphoma.
(2) Seven patients were treated with combination chemotherapy, consisting of CHOP (cyclophosphamide, doxorubicin, vincristine, prednisone) or MOPP (chloromethine, vincristine, procarbazine, prednisone), in some cases followed by non-cross-resistant second line chemotherapy, if no complete response was attained.
(3) 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.
(4) Chartainvilliers) given either chopped (CL) or ground (1.96 mm screen) and pelleted (PL), was measured in a comparative slaughter experiment.
(5) Chop-U units have CVs greater than 0.35, show a decrease in irregularity during the response, and show a variety of rate adaptation behaviors, including negative adaptation (an increase in rate during a short-tone response).
(6) Addictive onion consumption was prevented by mixing chopped or crushed onions in a total balanced ration.
(7) He was treated with CHOP therapy but with no response.
(8) Based on a preliminary trial that suggested that CHOP (cyclophosphamide, doxorubicin, vincristine, prednisone), and PVB (cisplatinum, vinblastine, bleomycin), are at least partially non-cross-resistant, the Southwest Oncology Group treated patients with unfavorable histology, non-Hodgkin's lymphoma with CHOP and PVB.
(9) Chris Hagan, managing director of the factory, says: "If you chopped them into smaller pieces, you could sell them to B&Q."
(10) As the result of differences in drug intake by individual calves, a pelleted feed additive given as top dress on chopped alfalfa hay gave an unsatisfactory mean anthelmintic response.
(11) Lincomycin-resistant Clostridium sporogenes obtained from the stools of a patient with lincomycin-associated pseudomembranous colitis produced a heat-stable cytotoxin in low titre when grown in chopped meat medium.
(12) From 1970 to 1988, 121 patients younger than 18 years of age with newly diagnosed Hodgkin's disease were treated at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) and the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania (HUP).
(13) The present study demonstrates that adrenal glands removed from rats and then chopped release an immunoreactive digitalis-like material into a serum-free minimal incubation medium.
(14) Remnants of each atrial specimen were chopped and added to the tissue bath.
(15) Direct inoculation to cefoxitin-cycloserine-fructose agar and broth was compared with alcohol shock-chopped meat broth inoculation for optimal detection of Clostridium difficile in fecal samples.
(16) Quinine applied on the intracellular side of the membrane in micromolar concentrations chopped the unitary K+ currents into bursts of brief openings.
(17) That's just dandy when you're gazing at a lamb chop with mint sauce, but the downside to this technology is that each time you glance at the image of Jamie on the front cover you'll absorb some of him, too.
(18) The authors devised a Markov-process model to compare the efficacy of a first-generation combination chemotherapy regimen (CHOP) with that of a third-generation regimen (MACOP-B) using currently available data.
(19) Complete response rates were similar: 66% for MATCOP patients and 61% for CHOP patients.
(20) External Cd or Mg ions chopped long-lasting unitary Ba currents promoted by the Ca agonist Bay K 8644 into bursts of brief openings.
Rib
Definition:
(n.) One of the curved bones attached to the vertebral column and supporting the lateral walls of the thorax.
(n.) That which resembles a rib in form or use.
(n.) One of the timbers, or bars of iron or steel, that branch outward and upward from the keel, to support the skin or planking, and give shape and strength to the vessel.
(n.) A ridge, fin, or wing, as on a plate, cylinder, beam, etc., to strengthen or stiffen it.
(n.) One of the rods on which the cover of an umbrella is extended.
(n.) A prominent line or ridge, as in cloth.
(n.) A longitudinal strip of metal uniting the barrels of a double-barreled gun.
(n.) The chief nerve, or one of the chief nerves, of a leaf.
(n.) Any longitudinal ridge in a plant.
(n.) In Gothic vaulting, one of the primary members of the vault. These are strong arches, meeting and crossing one another, dividing the whole space into triangles, which are then filled by vaulted construction of lighter material. Hence, an imitation of one of these in wood, plaster, or the like.
(n.) A projecting mold, or group of moldings, forming with others a pattern, as on a ceiling, ornamental door, or the like.
(n.) Solid coal on the side of a gallery; solid ore in a vein.
(n.) An elongated pillar of ore or coal left as a support.
(n.) A wife; -- in allusion to Eve, as made out of Adam's rib.
(v. t.) To furnish with ribs; to form with rising lines and channels; as, to rib cloth.
(v. t.) To inclose, as with ribs, and protect; to shut in.
Example Sentences:
(1) In reconstruction of the orbital floor, homograft lyophilised dura or cialit-stord rib cartilage are suitable, but the best materials are autologous cartilage or silastic or teflon.
(2) There is approximately a 25% decrease in aggregation from regions of the rib distal to the metaphyseal-growth plate junction (69%) to the region proximal to it (50%).
(3) The patient had experienced repeated spontaneous fractures for 1.5 years such as serial rib fractures, fractures of the sternum and most recently fracture of the neck of the femur after a minimal trauma.
(4) Microsurgical anastomoses were performed for revascularizing the rib graft.
(5) The resections included an average of three ribs (range, two to five) and, in seven cases, part or all of the sternum.
(6) Arterial complications are usually associated with cervical ribs or rudimentary first ribs, but 12 per cent have occurred in patients with no osseous abnormality.
(7) The three different layers of this tissue are: the outer fibrous layer, the central part called proliferation zone and the inner part towards the underlying rib called transition zone.
(8) Statistical analysis of the findings indicates that there is no significant difference in bone-remodeling activity between similar sites on alternate ribs.
(9) The rib was the most frequent site of the former; the distal femur, of the latter.
(10) Radiologically, the clavicles, the sternum and the first ribs are grossly enlarged with complete fusion between them.
(11) To test the hypothesis that during unsupported arm exercise (UAE) some of the inspiratory muscles of the rib cage partake in upper torso and arm positioning and thereby decrease their contribution to ventilation, we studied 11 subjects to measure pleural (Ppl) and gastric (Pga) pressures, heart rate, respiratory frequency, O2 uptake (VO2), and tidal volume (VT) during symptom-limited UAE.
(12) Upper thoracic fractures that involved the clavicles, scapula, sternum, and ribs were present in four patients.
(13) The left subclavian artery was prominent in 33 cases, signs indicating a collateral circulation (rib notching, internal mammary artery) were present in 26 cases.
(14) Definitive evidence for poly(ADP-Rib) polymerase activity is localized within internucleosomal "linker" regions of HeLa cell chromatin is presented.
(15) 1) Rates of purine synthesis de novo are regulated at both the PP-Rib-P synthetase and amido PRT reactions by end products, with the latter reaction more sensitive to small changes in purine nucleotide inhibitor concentrations.
(16) Five of 20 ambulatory patients and 8 of 10 patients in acute respiratory failure showed inward abdominal motion coincident with outward rib cage motion during inspiration, suggesting ineffective diaphragmatic function.
(17) Abnormal radionuclide concentrations were observed in the sternoclavicular, sternocostal, and manubriosternal joints, in the ribs, and in the sternum.
(18) This is the first report of detection of tenascine in rib cartilage matrix of human embryos.
(19) This pattern of EMG activity was associated with profound deformations of the rib cage.
(20) Constant ribbing about his private life was compromising Deayton's position as the show's "holier-than-thou" host, who showed no mercy towards politicians or celebrities caught in a similar position, the corporation added.