(n.) A dry measure of four bushels, or half a quarter.
(n.) Alt. of Coombe
Example Sentences:
(1) Coombs's theory of data (1952, 1964) and his unfolding theory of preferential choice (1950, 1964) provided the conceptualization of metacognition in this psychophysical task context.
(2) Compared to our subjects, Coombs found spouses were either housewives or held lower level jobs rather than demanding careers, and consequently our subjects experienced greater difficulty meeting demands of everyday life (cooking, cleaning, child care).
(3) Thymopoietin injections, from 4 wk of age, reduced the titer of Coombs' antibodies and thymocytotoxic antibodies in NZB mice and caused an increase in Thy 1+ spleen cells in these animals.
(4) With the awareness of quality of life as a primary goal in terminal cancer patients, widespread attention has been drawn to the direct delivery of long-term intraspinal analgesics to cancer patients for who all medical pain control regimens have failed (Coombs & Saunders, 1974).
(5) Amniocentesis is indicated in only a few circumstances: previous child with erythroblastosis fetalis, significant increase in maternal Coombs titer, presence of Kell antigen in the father, and after comparison of the relative risks of hemolytic disease and amniocentesis in each patient.
(6) PRP, administered intraperitoneally into NZB mice, twice a week, at doses 0.01-1 microgram per mouse, significantly lowered the incidence of positive Coombs' reaction and prolonged the mean age of the mice.
(7) The erythrocyte direct Coombs' test remained positive for 3-45 days, and histological examination of splenic material showed no erythrophagocytosis.
(8) Of certain interest are 1) the tendency of modern diuretics (thiazides) to cause a moderate and reversible thrombocytopenia and 2) the positive antiglobulin reaction (Coomb's test) sometimes seen after alpha-methyldopa therapy and in a few cases causing autoimmune hemolytic anemia.
(9) The results obtained with the Rose Bengal test correlated very well with those of the standard tube agglutination test, whereas results with the rapid plate agglutination test and the Coombs (antiglobulin) test were inferior.
(10) A previously apparently healthy male patient developed Coombs-positive haemolytic anaemia and thrombocytopenia during phenoxymethylpenicilline intake.
(11) This youth presented with Coombs positive autoimmune hemolytic anemia.
(12) "He's got another seven years before his first look," Coombs said.
(13) Furthermore, Ts-enriched populations when depleted of G-8-binding cells lose their ability to suppress in vitro anti-MRBC responses of spleen cells from Coombs-negative NZB mice depleted of CD8+ cells, as well as those of unfractionated spleen cells from Coombs-positive NZB mice.
(14) In both cases the anaemia improved and the Coombs test became negative spontaneously in the 4th and 5th months of life, respectively.
(15) "The stress that [she] was under was mostly to give context to what was going on at the time," Manning's lawyer, David Coombs, told NBC's Today show on Thursday.
(16) The two disorders can be differentiated with the indirect Coombs test.
(17) Updated at 4.15pm BST 4.13pm BST Defense attorney David Coombs' planned news conference this afternoon is unusual because Coombs doesn't like the media much, Paul Lewis writes: He's rarely if ever spoken to reporters during the trial.
(18) Positive control red cells were required to standardise canine Coombs' reagents for the laboratory diagnosis of AIHA.
(19) We have further investigated the phenomenon of spontaneous anti-(Coombs) antiidiotypic antibodies in the F1 hybrids of New Zealand black (NZB) and CBA mice.
(20) Blakelock died from his injuries while Coombes was so severely wounded he never resumed active duty.