(v. t.) To gather into one body or place; to assemble or bring together; to obtain by gathering.
(v. t.) To demand and obtain payment of, as an account, or other indebtedness; as, to collect taxes.
(v. t.) To infer from observed facts; to conclude from premises.
(v. i.) To assemble together; as, the people collected in a crowd; to accumulate; as, snow collects in banks.
(v. i.) To infer; to conclude.
(v. t.) A short, comprehensive prayer, adapted to a particular day, occasion, or condition, and forming part of a liturgy.
Example Sentences:
(1) On both days, blood was collected by jugular venepuncture at 10.30 h, and then again 2, 4, 6 and 24 h later.
(2) After 3 and 6 months, blood collected by cardiocentesis using ether anesthesia and then sacrificed to remove CNS and internal organs.
(3) Recent data collected by the Games Outcomes Project and shared on the website Gamasutra backs up the view that crunch compounds these problems rather than solving them.
(4) To examine the central nervous system regulation of duodenal bicarbonate secretion, an animal model was developed that allowed cerebroventricular and intravenous injections as well as collection of duodenal perfusates in awake, freely moving rats.
(5) Periodontal diseases are a collection of disorders that may affect patients throughout life.
(6) Blood was collected from pups and dams to determine its caffeine concentration.
(7) We want to be sure that the country that’s providing all the infrastructure and support to the business is the one that reaps the reward by being able to collect the tax,” he said.
(8) Neither Brucella organisms, nor increased numbers of neutrophils could be found in semen samples collected from the experimental animals.
(9) Platelet-rich plasma (PRP) was prepared, and platelet aggregation studies were conducted directly or conducted on washed platelets prepared from PRP collected with ACD.
(10) Data collection at the old hospital for comparison, however, was not always reliable.
(11) The PUP founder made the comments at a voters’ forum and press conference during an open day held at his Palmer Coolum Resort, where he invited the electorate to see his giant robotic dinosaur park, memorabilia including his car collection and a concert by Dean Vegas, an Elvis impersonator.
(12) Though the 54-year-old designer made brief returns to the limelight after his fall from grace, designing a one-off collection for Oscar de la Renta last year , his appointment at Margiela marks a more permanent comeback.
(13) Two fully matured specimens were collected from the blood vessel of two fish, Theragra chalcogramma, which was bought at the Emun market of Seoul in May, 1985.
(14) Data were collected on a sample of 131 women receiving treatment for gynecological cancer.
(15) Their efforts will include blocking the NSA from undermining encryption and barring other law enforcement agencies from collecting US data in bulk.
(16) Adults and immatures of Ixodes pacificus Cooley & Kohls were collected by flagging vegetation and from lizards during a 3-mo period in the Hualapai Mountain Park, Mohave County, AZ, in 1991.
(17) This is basically a large tank (the bigger the better) that collects rain from the house guttering and pumps it into the home, to be used for flushing the loo.
(18) Group teaching compared to individualized teaching of the patients to collect their own aliquots did not appear to have a measurable effect upon the levels of bacteriuria.
(19) Blood samples were collected from an antecubital vein at sea level (S1), in a base camp at 1515 m prior to the summit ascent (S2), on the summit at 3285 m after 6.5 hours of climbing (S3), at base camp immediately after the descent (S4), and at sea level following a trail descent from the base camp (S5).
(20) In invasive epidermoid carcinoma, the accuracy with the self-collected specimens approached the physician-scraped specimens.
Trousseau
Definition:
(n.) The collective lighter equipments or outfit of a bride, including clothes, jewelry, and the like; especially, that which is provided for her by her family.
Example Sentences:
(1) Two patients with Trousseau's syndrome experienced frequently recurring concomitant arterial and venous thrombotic events that resulted in sequential amputation and loss of the lower extremities.
(2) The patient described in this report represents the first reported case of Trousseau's syndrome caused by a malignancy arising in a choledochal cyst.
(3) The third period starts with Trousseau's report of 200 cases in the therapy of diphtheria in 1833.
(4) Immunohistochemical studies show that many tumors associated with Trousseau's syndrome express tissue factor on their cell surfaces.
(5) Patients with cancer experience a much higher than expected incidence of thromboembolic disorders, commonly referred as Trousseau syndrome.
(6) Many tumor types commonly associated with Trousseau syndrome, for example lung, pancreatic, breast, colon and gastric carcinomas, stained positively for TF.
(7) On neurological examination, he was rather apprehensive and Trousseau sign was mildly positive.
(8) Five strains of Salmonella typhimurium isolated from faeces of infants hospitalized at Trousseau Hospital in Paris have been found to be resistant to third-generation cephalosporins.
(9) Hypoxia-sensitive hyperexcitability of the axon membrane might be responsible for the generation of pseudomyotonia and Trousseau's phenomenon, although the mechanism underlying myokymia remains unknown.
(10) Myokymia, pseudomyotonia (difficulty relaxing after forceful contraction), and ischemia-induced carpal spasm (Trousseau's phenomenon) were not abolished by nerve block distal to the cuff or by intravenous infusion of calcium.
(11) It will be vile not having you to go shopping with, only we're so poor I shan't have much of a trousseau."
(12) The number of discharging motor units varied, sometimes leading to an electrical Trousseau associated to a carpal spasm.
(13) Heparin, but not warfarin, therapy is effective in preventing the occurrence of devastating thrombotic events in patients with Trousseau's syndrome and the reason(s) for this are still unknown.
(14) We present here a case of gallbladder carcinoma found at laparoscopic cholecystectomy, and discuss the interesting clinical findings associated with this entity, including the preoperative suggestion of Trousseau's syndrome.
(15) Thirty-one toe transfers were available for analysis from the series performed in Trousseau hospital (Paris).
(16) On physical examination, she was thin with positive Trousseau's and Chvostek's signs.
(17) Venous thrombosis in gastric cancer was described by Trousseau in 1865 [55].
(18) Physical and laboratory examinations revealed positive Chvostek and Trousseau's signs, hypocalcemea, mild hyperphosphatemia, normal serum magnesium, prolongation of QTc on EKG, normal reaction to Ellsworth-Howard test and high levels of serum PTH.
(19) An association between venous thrombosis and cancer was first suggested by Armand Trousseau and subsequently confirmed by multiple postmortem studies.
(20) The patient had Trousseau's syndrome (tumor-associated thromboembolism) due to carcinoma of the pancreas.