(n.) The act or process of combining or uniting persons and things.
(n.) The result of combining or uniting; union of persons or things; esp. a union or alliance of persons or states to effect some purpose; -- usually in a bad sense.
(n.) The act or process of uniting by chemical affinity, by which substances unite with each other in definite proportions by weight to form distinct compounds.
(n.) The different arrangements of a number of objects, as letters, into groups.
Example Sentences:
(1) From 1982 to 1989, bronchoplasty or segmental bronchoplasty and pulmonary arterioplasty in combination with lobectomy and segmentectomy were performed for 9 patients with central type lung carcinoma.
(2) Combinations of maximum amounts of glucagon and the cyclic nucleotide did not produce a greater effect than either agent alone.
(3) Combination therapy was most effective in patients receiving HCTZ prior to enalapril.
(4) Lucy and Ed will combine coverage of hard and breaking news with a commitment to investigative journalism, which their track record so clearly demonstrates”.
(5) The combined immediate and delayed responses to fleas in the dog are as observed by other investigators in man and guinea pigs.
(6) Simplicity, high capacity, low cost and label stability, combined with relatively high clinical sensitivity make the method suitable for cost effective screening of large numbers of samples.
(7) Recently, it has been shown that radiation therapy, alone or combined with chemotherapy, can be successful.
(8) More than 2 months after the combined treatment were required for the suppression.
(9) By combined histologic and cytologic examinations, the overall diagnostic rate was raised to 87.7%.
(10) Treatment termination due to lack of efficacy or combined insufficient therapeutic response and toxicity proved to be influenced by the initial disease activity and by the rank order of prescription.
(11) The combined analysis of pathogenesis and genetics associated with the salmonella virulence plasmids may identify new systems of bacterial virulence and the genetic basis for this virulence.
(12) Multiple overlapping thin 3D slab acquisition is presented as a magnitude contrast (time of flight) technique which combines advantages from multiple thin slice 2D and direct 3D volume acquisitions to obtain high-resolution cross-sectional images of vessel detail.
(13) Handing Greater Manchester’s £6bn health and social care budget over to the city’s combined authority is the most exciting experiment in local government and the health service in decades – but the risks are huge.
(14) Classical treatment combining artificial delivery or uterine manual evacuation-oxytocics led to the arrest of bleeding in 73 cases.
(15) Acquired drug resistance to INH, RMP, and EMB can be demonstrated in M. kansasii, and SMX in combination with other agents chosen on the basis of MIC determinations are effective in the treatment of disease caused by RMP-resistant M. kansasii.
(16) When the data correlating DHT with protein synthesis using both labelling techniques were combined, the curves were parallel and a strong correlation was noted between DHT and protein synthesis over a wide range of values (P less than 0.001).
(17) Infection with opportunistic organisms, either singly or in combination, is known to occur in immunocompromised patients.
(18) Side effect incidence in patients treated with the paracetamol-sobrerol combination (3.7%) was significantly lower than that observed in subjects treated with paracetamol (6.1% - P less than 0.01), salicylics (25.1% - P less than 0.001), pyrazolics (12.6% - P less than 0.001), propionics (20.3%, P less than 0.001) or other antipyretics (17.9% - P less than 0.001).
(19) Because of the small number of patients reported in the world literature and lack of controlled studies, the treatment of small cell carcinoma of the larynx remains controversial; this retrospective analysis suggests that combination chemotherapy plus radiation offers the best chance for cure.
(20) Because it has been suggested that the lathyrogen, BAPN, may stimulate the release of proteases, the protease inhibitors Trasylol and epsilon-aminocaproic acid (EACA) were given alone or in combination to BAPN-treated rats.
Combo
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) To test this premise, 14 healthy, untrained men trained four days per week for 20 weeks on a bicycle ergometer for endurance (END Group, n = 4), on an isokinetic device for increased torque production (ITP Group, n = 5), or on both devices (COMBO Group, n = 5).
(2) Jane's favourite combos are: rhubarb and strawberry, rhubarb and raspberry, and plum and blackberry.
(3) I can’t remember which ill-fated combo decided to do a synth-pop cover of Hoagy Carmichael’s I Get Along Without You Very Well, but I can remember Smash Hits’ one-word response: “Ditto.” In their review of David Bowie’s 1983 album Let’s Dance, there was no sense that the journalist was trying to be reasonable, or to justify his views intellectually.
(4) "The weather dictates," says Jeremy Langmead, editor-in-chief of Mr Porter , but ideally he'll wear "a relaxed combo of brightly coloured trousers – Jil Sander green, Band of Outsiders yellow – with grey T-shirts and unstructured blue blazers".
(5) For gram-negative bacilli, identifications were compared with the ones obtained by MicroScan Combo Panel (American MicroScan, Mahwah, NJ), and all discrepancies were resolved by testing with API 20E (Analytab Products, Plainview, NY).
(6) 5.33am BST Round Three A Manny combo - then bradley puts his head in his opponents stomach, pausing the action.
(7) Photograph: Paula Dear 3 La Serrana Hostel , Salento, Quindío To the south of the huge Nevado del Ruiz volcano is this hostel-camping combo with great relaxation areas, overlooking green pastures.
(8) I used to see Clinton from Pop Will Eat Itself and Blitz [top Oi combo] on scooter runs; we used to get attacked by bikers in Stourbridge (the Poppies' home town), till we followed Clinton down an alternative safe route."
(9) Does their existence in this universe hint at a debut for super-villain combo the Sinister Six in future instalments?
(10) Besides evoking nostalgia for anyone who recalls Sega's classic Golden Axe , the combat adds a host of moves and combos that require skill and attention – hammering the attack buttons won't get you far.
(11) The shirts-and-jeans combos might not be for everyone, but there's no denying the quiet confidence, the soft but authoritative Scouse accent, the silver mane gelled to stiff peaks ...
(12) When these three HIV protease inhibitors and AZT or 2',3'-dideoxyinosine were used in combinations against a primary HIV isolate in phytohemagglutinin-activated peripheral blood mononuclear cells and the results were analyzed with the COMBO program package, their antiviral activities were identified to be synergistic in some cases and additive in others.
(13) And in a unique combo, the Guardian asked columnist Tim Dowling and body language expert Peter Collett to offer their reflections on the photo showing the new cabinet at their first meeting.
(14) Then a right hook, a jab, a combo, Bradley is on the ropes, Pacquiao is in control, dictating the terms of this fight.
(15) Joined previously successful combo and is still around, misunderstood, but seemingly indestructible.
(16) 5.03pm BST 1 min: The pitch is threadbare but also unnaturally green - a jarring combo.
(17) A The title of the music is 'Sequence 3' by Italian brotherly beat combo GF and GP Reverbi.
(18) The highest achiever of Leonia High's Class of 1972 , "Tom" Ilves gave young classmates rides in his family's Plymouth station wagon and introduced me to a peppy little combo from Los Angeles that had just released their first album.
(19) If you can’t make sense of the website, you can nip into the somewhat overshadowed big pink Iglesia del Divino Salvador in nearby Plaza del Salvador and buy the combo visita conjunta ticket for iglesia plus Cathedral plus Giralda.
(20) With this perfect combo, she is reminiscent of Natalie Portman - of whom Page declares herself "profoundly jealous ... in a good way.