(v. t.) To unite or join; to link closely together; to bring into harmonious union; to cause or unite so as to form a homogeneous substance, as by chemical union.
(v. t.) To bind; to hold by a moral tie.
(v. i.) To form a union; to agree; to coalesce; to confederate.
(v. i.) To unite by affinity or natural attraction; as, two substances, which will not combine of themselves, may be made to combine by the intervention of a third.
(v. i.) In the game of casino, to play a card which will take two or more cards whose aggregate number of pips equals those of the card played.
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.
Conjoin
Definition:
(v. t.) To join together; to unite.
(v. i.) To unite; to join; to league.
Example Sentences:
(1) Presented is the case of a triplet pregnancy with conjoined twins diagnosed antenatally with sonography.
(2) Although she's been performing since 2000 – in the punk-cabaret duo the Dresden Dolls , in a controversial conjoined-twin mime act called Evelyn Evelyn (they wear a specially constructed two-person dress and have been castigated by disability groups for presenting conjoined twins as circus freaks, an accusation she denies) – in her new band, Amanda Palmer And The Grand Theft Orchestra , she's suddenly become a kind of phenomenon.
(3) Led team of 70 to separate twins conjoined at the head in the first-ever surgery of its kind.
(4) Obstetrical planning is more likely to be successful with antepartum diagnosis, which can be done only if the possibility of conjoining is considered with each twin gestation.
(5) In contrast to many other classification systems the professor in Anatomy at the University of Amsterdam Louis Bolk divided conjoined twins in only three main groups: 1 greater than diplopagi simplex caudad; 2 greater than diplopagi simplex craniad; 3 greater than diplopagi simplex mesad.
(6) Because early diagnosis of conjoined twins is so difficult as to be almost impossible it is usually only made in labour.
(7) For real will-this-do illustrating, look no further than conjoined twins Tip and Tap , although they admittedly boast a certain erstaz charm not seen post- Pique (the much-maligned Goleo VI and Pille the Erudite Ball apart).
(8) The total prevalence of conjoined twins (birth + prenatally diagnosed) was 1:68,000 in the study of 1970-1986.
(9) Pathologic examination of the conjoined female fetuses revealed a single, non-duplicated heart, two livers connected at the right lobe, completely separate bile ducts and digestive tract, and a single placenta and umbilical cord containing two arteries and six veins.
(10) The people of Syria have suffered ever more as a result.” The groups cited the case of the conjoined twins, Moaz and Nawras Hashash.
(11) Thoracoomphalopagus was the most common type of conjoining, occurring in five cases (36%).
(12) Despite the increased variability of spacing and consequent local crowding, including examples of conjoined placentas in the treated rats, there was no evidence that these local factors affected placental growth or weight of individual fetuses.
(13) At the follow-up examination a median of 9 (2-11) years after the operation, a reduction in the hallux valgus angle from 32 degrees to 26 degrees and in the intermetatarsal angle from 13 degrees to 10 degrees was found; but on analyzing the single parts of the operation, we found that the result was only significant in those patients that had had the original procedures done, i.e., tenotomy and reattachment of the conjoined tendon, lateral capsulotomy, and lateral sesamoidectomy.
(14) The extensor digitorum brevis muscle island and separate vascularized second metatarsal osteocutaneous flap represent one of many possible technical combinations of conjoined flaps based on the dorsalis pedis source vessel.
(15) Three cases of conjoined twins are presented: two thorocopagus and one craniopagus.
(16) Female conjoined twins were delivered after 42 weeks' gestation, but they died within a few minutes of birth.
(17) The current excellent outcomes, even in difficult cases of conjoined twinning, suggest that separation should always be considered, with rare exception.
(18) It is suggested that if conjoined twins are diagnosed before labour, of if there is dystocia, Caesarean section is the treatment of choice.
(19) The indispensable conjoined action of the interosseus muscles through the collateral tendon is demonstrated by Duchene in 1867.
(20) The case group was compared to two control groups and it appeared that the periconceptional use of oral contraception and ovulation induction were mentioned more frequently in pregnancies resulting in conjoined twins.