(adv.) Without limitation or remainder; quite; perfectly; wholly; entirely.
(adv.) Without miscarriage; not bunglingly; dexterously.
(a.) To render clean; to free from whatever is foul, offensive, or extraneous; to purify; to cleanse.
Example Sentences:
(1) Squadron Leader Kevin Harris, commander of the Merlins at Camp Bastion, the main British base in Helmand, praised the crews, adding: "The Merlins will undergo an extensive programme of maintenance and cleaning before being packed up, ensuring they return to the UK in good order."
(2) After four years of existence, many evaluations were able to show the qualities of this system regarding root canal penetration, cleaning and shaping.
(3) Other recommendations for immediate action included a review of the Nursing and Midwifery Council and the General Medical Council for doctors, with possible changes to their structures; the possible transfer of powers to launch criminal prosecutions for care scandals from the Health and Safety Executive to the Care Quality Council; and a new inspection regime, which would focus more closely on how clean, safe and caring hospitals were.
(4) I usually use them as a rag with which to clean the toilet but I didn’t have anything else to wear today because I’m so fat.” While this exchange will sound baffling to outsiders, to Brits it actually sounds like this: “You like my dress?
(5) From the treatment group 23 patients could be assessed: 2 had discontinued clean intermittent self-catheterization due to urethral hemorrhage, 2 died during the observation period and 1 was lost to followup.
(6) The corresponding hydrides, mono-n-butyltin hydride, di-n-butyltin hydride, tri-n-butyltin hydride, monophenyltin hydride, diphenyltin hydride triphenyltin hydride, are detected by electron-capture gas chromatography after clean-up by silica gel column chromatography.
(7) Gassmann, whose late father, Vittorio , was a critically acclaimed star of Italian cinema in its heyday in the 1960s, tweeted over the weekend with the hashtag #Romasonoio (I am Rome), calling on the city’s residents to be an example of civility and clean up their own little corners of Rome with pride.
(8) Will the rate of late (four to five years) wound infection after operations done in a clean-air enclosure be lower than that after procedures done in a "normal" operating-room environment using preoperative, operative, and postoperative antibiotics?
(9) While there has been almost no political reform during their terms of office, there have been several ambitious steps forward in terms of environmental policy: anti-desertification campaigns; tree planting; an environmental transparency law; adoption of carbon targets; eco-services compensation; eco accounting; caps on water; lower economic growth targets; the 12th Five-Year Plan; debate and increased monitoring of PM2.5 [fine particulate matter] and huge investments in eco-cities, "clean car" manufacturing, public transport, energy-saving devices and renewable technology.
(10) Several studies have found that pollution and climate change disproportionately affect the poor , which means boosting clean energy generation and cutting pollution could also simultaneously reduce global inequality .
(11) The Clean Air Act (CAA) Amendments of 1990 was signed into law by President Bush on November 15, 1990.
(12) She followed that with a job at Bibendum – she still talks of Simon Hopkinson, "such an elegant cook, so particular and clean and efficient", with deep reverence – and another at Roscoff in Northern Ireland.
(13) Data support the use of clean intermittent catheterization under the conditions used in this study, including the use of a sterile catheter each day and careful monitoring of infection and technique.
(14) During this period, the microbial flora of the isolator was unchanged, and the time required to clean the cages was reduced by 50%.
(15) Rayburn, who was also told by his jobcentre he would lose his benefits if he did not work without pay, said he spent almost two months stacking and cleaning shelves and sometimes doing night shifts.
(16) Although a clean step response or the ensemble average of several responses contaminated with noise is needed for the generation of the filter, random noise of magnitude less than or equal to 0.5% added to the response to be corrected does not impair the correction severely.
(17) Nick Nuttall, a spokesman for UNEP, said the latest findings should encourage more governments to follow moves by some politicians to invest billions of dollars in clean energy and efficiency as a way of curbing greenhouse gases.
(18) And that is why we have taken bold action at home – by making historic investments in renewable energy; by putting our people to work increasing efficiency in our homes and buildings; and by pursuing comprehensive legislation to transform to a clean energy economy.
(19) A government-commissioned review into the RET, headed by the businessman and climate change sceptic Dick Warburton, concluded that while it has largely achieved its aims and helped create jobs in clean energy, it should be either wound back or cut off entirely.
(20) The studies allow the interpretation that retention of food in the diverticula is not the reason for the bacterial miscolonization of the duodenum and the biliary tract, but in patients with diverticula a disturbed self-cleaning mechanism is present.
Nait
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) Maternal alloimmunization against fetal platelets can cause fetal and neonatal thrombocytopenia (NAIT).
(2) Improvements in antenatal diagnosis and in utero therapy facilitate appropriate management of pregnancy at risk for NAIT.
(3) There is evidence that in certain cases antibodies against blood group antigens A or B may cause NAIT.
(4) Recent evidence that NAIT is more common than has previously been recognised, a better understanding of the molecular basis of platelet serology and advances in technology, which have made it possible to take blood samples from fetuses and transfuse them in utero, have all contributed to a growing interest in this condition.
(5) Neonatal alloimmune thrombocytopenia (NAIT) is caused by platelet antigen incompatibility between the mother and fetus.
(6) Neonatal alloimmune thrombocytopenia (NAIT) occurs when maternal alloantibodies to antigens present on fetal platelets cause their immune destruction resulting in thrombocytopenia in the newborn infant or fetus.
(7) Neonatal alloimmune thrombocytopenia (NAIT) is due to fetomaternal incompatibility for platelet specific antigens, most frequently HPA-1a (PLA1) and HPA-5b (BRa).
(8) A 31 year old woman was assessed following delivery of her second child affected by neonatal alloimmune thrombocytopenia (NAIT).
(9) An immune response to human platelet antigens (HPA), as in neonatal alloimmune thrombocytopenia (NAIT) and post-transfusion purpura (PTP), is the exception rather than the rule and evidence is accumulating for the importance of human leucocyte antigen (HLA) class II restriction in this situation.
(10) This report of an unaffected pregnancy in a woman with a history of previous pregnancies complicated by NAIT illustrates the role of paternal and fetal platelet phenotyping in managing existing pregnancies at risk of NAIT.
(11) The sera of 219 Zwa-positive mothers who gave birth to children with clinically suspected neonatal alloimmune thrombocytopenia (NAIT) were tested for platelet-reactive antibodies using the platelet adhesion immunofluorescence test and a glycoprotein-specific immunoassay (MAIPA).
(12) Because there is high risk that subsequent pregnancies might be also affected by NAIT, the mothers of a previously affected child should be managed similarly to the HPA-1b mothers (PIA2, Zwb).
(13) Platelet specific alloantibodies cause neonatal alloimmune thrombocytopenia (NAIT), posttransfusion purpura (PTP) and may be found in patients who are refractory to HLA-matched platelet transfusion.
(14) In accordance with established criteria, the Sra antigen represents the first example of a "private" platelet alloantigen that bears significance in rare instances of NAIT.
(15) We report our experience with the serological diagnosis of 14 NAIT cases using new performing techniques such as western blotting (WB) and MAIPA (monoclonal antibody specific immobilization of platelet antigens).
(16) This is a report of 39 cases of NAIT involving the HPA-5b antigen.
(17) Bra antibodies were from mothers of children with neonatal alloimmune thrombocytopenia (NAIT), and anti-Brb was found in the serum of a polytransfused patient.
(18) NAIT is mainly due to alloimmunization; the frequency varying among ethnic groups.
(19) Immunization against these alloantigens is implicated in NAIT and poly-transfused patients.
(20) In the serum of a mother who gave birth to a child with the typical clinical picture of NAIT we found an antibody directed against the new platelet antigen Sra.