(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.
Revivification
Definition:
(n.) Renewal of life; restoration of life; the act of recalling, or the state of being recalled, to life.
(n.) The reduction of a metal from a state of combination to its metallic state.
Example Sentences:
(1) The age-specific dynamics of such forms corresponded to general regularities in the development of schizophrenia: in the involutional period there was revivification of the above-mentioned symptoms of schizophrenia while in senescence only paranoial disorders and an increase of deficitary changes remained.
(2) Vic & Bob's Afternoon Delights The UFO Hunters Following the revivification of Alan Partridge for its Mid Morning Matters webseries, fizzy-piss purveyor Fosters snared comic titans Vic Reeves and Bob Mortimer for a collection of shorts last summer.
(3) On the 4th day after revivification of rats, subjected to blood circulation arrest, transcriptional activity of chromatin has been evaluated after Moor's method and the state of histones has been investigated in neuronal nuclei of the III, IV and V layers of the cerebral cortex sensomotor area.
(4) Abreaction and revivification used alone initially retraumatized the patient, and her symptoms worsened.
(5) The quantification was done by recounts in plates or membrane filter methods, in duplicate, with previous revivification.
(6) When creators are actually dead, it’s easier for producers and publishers to feast on their bones – witness the endless Jane Austen spin-offs, the remorseless revivification of Frankenstein’s monster, the Ian Fleming and PG Wodehouse readalikes, the mashup of Dickens characters to be broadcast in 20 parts by the BBC over Christmas, in which Great Expectations fans can finally watch Miss Havisham cop off with Compeyson.