(n.) A citizen; an inhabitant of a city; a pert townsman; -- used contemptuously.
Example Sentences:
(1) Gel permeation chromatography of the CIT-agarose eluates revealed one protein peak that coincided with PDE activity at an elution position of 135,000 daltons.
(2) Cold-induced thermogenesis (CIT) also reappeared soon after nutritional rehabilitation.
(3) Eleven insulin-dependent diabetic patients were treated in random order by 2-mo continuous subcutaneous insulin infusion (CSII) or 2-mo conventional injection treatment (CIT) with crossover to the alternative regimen.
(4) Nondepleted cells stimulated with the calcium ionophore A23187 showed only a transient accumulation of L-Cit, indicating that L-Cit is recycled to L-Arg during the biosynthesis of endothelium-derived relaxing factor.
(5) We evaluated the feasibility and effectiveness of continuous subcutaneous insulin infusion therapy (CSII) as compared to conventional injection treatment (CIT) in an ordinary diabetic clinic in a one-year randomized crossover study of 65 type I diabetic patients.
(6) The cancers showed important differences from those seen following conventional immunosuppressive therapy (CIT).
(7) However, in the latest period (between 1983 and 1986) the average half-life was 7.6 years for CIT below 13 hours, 7.2 years for those with 13 to 24 hours and 6.4 years for more than 24 hours.
(8) About 60% of America's clothing industry depends on CIT for financing.
(9) Therefore, the positive growth rates of isolates after incubation for 24 hr on CA medium was significantly higher (p less than 0.01) than that on Acet medium and C-Cit medium.
(10) Non-Hodgkin's lymphomas (NHLs) were the most common tumors, being 41% compared with 12% in CIT patients.
(11) The net impairment in both retinopathy grading and individual lesions was significant during CSII as compared with CIT (P less than 0.05).
(12) In cit+ strains, buffering of the medium to pH 5.7 caused sustained maximal activation, while buffering to pH 7.2 prevented enhancement of activation.
(13) In the CIT group both GFR and UAE values were unchanged.
(14) Other MA are increased seven-fold in Cy-A-treated patients and between two- and six-fold in those receiving CIT.
(15) The antagonism of AcA utilization by AcO or Cit is thought to be exerted at the AcO permease.
(16) The effects of 3 wk of near normoglycemia by continuous subcutaneous insulin infusion (CSII) on plasma immunoreactive somatostatin (IRS) responses to arginine (0.5 g X kg-1 X 30 min-1) in seven patients with insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus (IDDM) were compared with the same patients in poor glycemic control during conventional insulin therapy (CIT) and with seven normal controls.
(17) Renal handling of CIT was studied in 45 children with various chronic kidney disorders under standard inulin clearance conditions.
(18) Male nude mice were implanted with osmotic minipumps releasing 50 micrograms of a potent antagonist of luteinizing hormone-releasing hormone (LH-RH) per day [N-Ac-[D-Nal(2)1,D-Phe(pCl)2,D-Pal(3)3,D-Cit6,D-Ala10]LH-RH] (SB-75) [Nal(2), 3-(2-naphthyl)alanine; Phe(pCl), 4-chlorophenylalanine; Pal(3), 3-(3-pyridyl)alanine; Cit, citrulline], or they were treated with s.c. injections of SB-75 (25 micrograms twice a day).
(19) This cortical imaging technique (CIT) is validated by applying it to artificially derived data.
(20) In urethane-anesthetized rabbits CIT decreased the blood pressure, and in succession it lowered, flattened and inverted the T wave of ECG suggesting heart ischemia.
Dweller
Definition:
(n.) An inhabitant; a resident; as, a cave dweller.
Example Sentences:
(1) This article summarizes the increased absorption levels of mercury among dwellers of Ciudad Cristiana Housing Project in Humacao, Puerto Rico confirming the exposition to the metal as documented by sediment analysis of the area performed by the Puerto Rico Environmental Quality Board.
(2) In others, Delhi’s slum-dwellers were left unacknowledged.
(3) Emphysema appeared to be more prevalent in lowland than highland dwellers.
(4) The survey of a population including 40-59-old males, dwellers from the rural areas of the Tien Shan and Pamirs low- and highlands, has demonstrated that atherogenic dyslipoproteinemias are significantly more infrequently encountered among high-altitude dwellers than among low-altitude ones.
(5) On the contrary, not all country dwellers are Tories; and fat cats, often Tory, will be rubbing their hands at the thought of asset-stripping another national resource.
(6) • the following correction was published on 30 October 2011: People and numbers: "Global growth fears put to the test" (News) said Africa "had fewer than 500,000 urban dwellers in 1950", but the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa puts the figure at 14.9% of total population – 33 million.
(7) But indigenous and environmental groups claim Belo Monte will displace tens of thousands of river-dwellers and bring violence and social chaos to the Amazon state of Para.
(8) Urban dwellers had a higher prevalence of abnormal smears (15%) compared with town camp and rural women (2%).
(9) As the Reuters news agency reports: With a 100 percent record so far, the British-born aquarium dweller at Sea Life in Oberhausen, western Germany has become a celebrity having correctly predicted a series of German wins and even Germany's surprise group stage loss to Serbia.
(10) What the rest of the world considers acceptable climate change is, quite simply, a disaster for atoll dwellers.
(11) The LA river will never compete with the Danube or Seine or Thames as an attraction for stressed city-dwellers.
(12) Presently, 33% of urban city dwellers live in slums or shantytowns.
(13) But there are concerns in the region about the impact of the new arrivals in urban areas and emerging tensions between the newcomers and existing town-dwellers.
(14) Random sample of 2,792 community dwellers aged 65 and over (participation rate: 69%).
(15) Corals are crucial to the livelihoods of millions of coastal dwellers around the world.
(16) However, important and unexplained differences in glucose tolerance remained between rural and periurban coastal dwellers after taking these factors into account.
(17) Filaria surveys conducted in some select slum clusters namely Hari Nagar, Yamuna pusht near Vijaya Ghat along the Ring Road and Timarpur in Delhi during 1989, 1991 and 1992 respectively, covering a population of approximately 5000 slum dwellers revealed the presence of bancroftian microfilaria (mf) carriers and disease cases.
(18) The first Latin American pontiff, who once worked with slum dwellers in his home city of Buenos Aires , Argentina, expressed solidarity with the residents of the Varginha favela in northern Rio de Janeiro, where he received a rapturous welcome.
(19) Zymodemes considered to be non-pathogenic (I and XVI) were identified in 34 of 37 isolates from slum dwellers and were not associated with blood in the stools.
(20) In 2011, they published a study in the journal Nature showing that, compared to people who live in the countryside, city-dwellers are hyperactive in a region of the brain called the amygdala, which is linked to depression and anxiety.