(v. i.) An association or community of recluses devoted to a religious life; a body of monks or nuns.
(v. i.) A house occupied by a community of religious recluses; a monastery or nunnery.
(v. i.) To meet together; to concur.
(v. i.) To be convenient; to serve.
(v. t.) To call before a judge or judicature; to summon; to convene.
Example Sentences:
(1) In this study of ten consecutive patients sustaining molten metal injuries to the lower extremity who were treated with excision and grafting, treatment with compression Unna paste boot was compared with that with conventional dressing.
(2) Clinical surveillance, repeated laboratory tests, conventional radiology, and especially ultrasonography and CT scan all contributed to the preoperative diagnosis.
(3) Cantact placing reaction times were measured in cats which were either restrained in a hammock or supported in a conventional way.
(4) In the clinical trials in which there was complete substitution of fat-modified ruminant foods for conventional ruminant products the fall in serum cholesterol was approximately 10%.
(5) Past imaging techniques shown in the courtroom have made the conventional rules of evidence more difficult because of the different informational content and format required for presentation of these data.
(6) A conventional liquid chromatograph with a low capacity column and a conductimetric detector is used to analyze aerosols of Cl-, Br-, NO-3 and SO=4 with good results.
(7) Gamma-irradiated splenic homogenates of armadillos infected with M. leprae proved sterile by conventional tests and media.
(8) Conventionally taken radiographs are captured by a video camera and processed by the IPS system (KONTRON).
(9) In one series of experiments, the animals were not treated before the tissues were conventionally fixed; in another, anesthetized animals were administered horseradish peroxidase 20 min before the tissues were fixed.
(10) Mithramycin should be considered in the early treatment not only of hypercalcaemia but also of severe hypercalciuria, if these complications do not rapidly remit during the first course of conventional myeloma therapy, with or without steroids.
(11) Major limitations of the conventional sperm penetration assay are the inability to assess several aspects of sperm function (zona binding and penetration) and the absence of human ovulatory products known to influence fertilization.
(12) The radiologic findings on conventional examinations (plain films and cholangiograms) in a large group of patients with proven hepatobiliary tuberculosis are reviewed.
(13) At present, ACE inhibitors are preferred because they are usually better tolerated than conventional vasodilators and are clinically more effective.
(14) All conventional injection and insulin pump regimens are supported.
(15) Lisinopril increases cardiac output, and decreases pulmonary capillary wedge pressure and mean arterial pressure in patients with congestive heart failure refractory to conventional treatment with digitalis and diuretics.
(16) Conventional control experiments for method and antiserum specificity were performed.
(17) However, valid electroacoustic evaluation of the DMHAs cannot be accomplished using the conventional hearing aid test box.
(18) Further, the use of food as a reinforcer has been considered taboo by those who use more conventional and restrictive management approaches with Prader-Willi syndrome individuals.
(19) "Monasteries and convents face greater risks than other buildings in terms of fire safety," the article said, adding that many are built with flammable materials and located far away from professional fire brigades.
(20) Our dynamic study indicated that: 1) a bolus injection of contrast medium with our method of CTA (CTA-B) produced an attenuation difference between liver and tumor which was about double that obtained with standard methods for CTA, and 2) marked tumor-liver attenuation differences (above 20 HU) persisted for more than 60 s in CTA-B and for not more than 20 s with conventional methods for CTA.
Covent
Definition:
(n.) A convent or monastery.
Example Sentences:
(1) Not so in 2012, with the shortlist for outstanding achievement in dance revealed as Edward Watson for The Metamorphosis at Covent Garden; Sylvie Guillem for 6,000 Miles Away at Sadler's Wells and Tommy Franzen for Some Like it Hip Hop at the Peacock.
(2) Further success for the small Covent Garden theatre came when rising star Eddie Redmayne won best supporting actor for his portrayal of Mark Rothko's put-upon assistant in Red.
(3) It began in a tiny space on Monmouth Street in Covent Garden in the late 70s, as the first independent roaster.
(4) The council has long wished to establish a new cultural building: plans to create a Covent Garden of the north at the Palace theatre, in partnership with the Royal Opera House, foundered on the rocks of the financial crisis.
(5) The flat is opposite Covent Garden tube station in the heart of London, and a stone's throw from the hustle and bustle of Leicester Square.
(6) The agents remain steely and mutinous, their eyes fixed on a distant plot of land in James Street, Covent Garden, where they could all start a new life.
(7) Coventional bright-field light microscope techniques were used to view the cell, the sarcomere pattern within the cell, and the position of the force beam.
(8) He said he believed opera was becoming more accepted by a wider part of British society than ever, and that BBC TV programmes such as Opera Italia , the BBC Four series fronted by the Covent Garden music director Antonio Pappano, and his Essential Ring, to be broadcast on the same channel this May, were crucial.
(9) Although they have two cafés – the original in Covent Garden, the second at Borough Market, both of which can generate seemingly endless queues – the retail drinks business only accounts for 5% of the six tonnes of beans that they roast a week.
(10) A couple of years ago I had lunch at Carluccio’s in Covent Garden with my breastfeeding daughter and my granddaughter.
(11) Now he was anxiously editing the film, but in Neal's Yard in Covent Garden.
(12) Kevin's mother once again gave the family space in her Covent Garden flat while they waited for the council to find them a home.
(13) Premier Inn has 72 hotels in Greater London, Travelodge has 67, Holiday Inn 38 and Ibis 24; and all brands continue to expand: a fifth Hub by Premier Inn is set to open on Goodge Street, Fitzrovia, for example; Ibis Styles is opening in west London; while Z hotels is adding Covent Garden and Soho to its collection of listed townhouses in 2018.
(14) Coventional measures of growth efficiency were also related to food intake; efficiency decreased with decreasing food intake.
(15) Coventional kittens, 12-27 weeks old, were inoculated with cell-cultured feline panleucopenia virus and killed sequentially between day 3 and day 24 after inoculation.
(16) The remaining Covent Garden branch will continue to offer a range of "proud British flavours", including fish and chips with mushy peas at £14.95; pork belly, banger and mash for £14.50, and sticky toffee pudding with clotted cream at £6.
(17) For Covent Garden he translated Die Fledermaus (1989), for the RSC, adapted A Christmas Carol (1994), and for OUP he produced The Oxford Book of Villains (1992).
(18) The glutaraldehyde method led to at least a five fold increase of the sensitivity compared to coventional adsorption.
(19) The recent experience of the Royal Opera might have been salutary: for as that company seeks a replacement for its head of opera, Kasper Holten, who is leaving in a year’s time , Covent Garden is known to be looking for someone who, unlike Holten, is not an opera director but will be prepared to devote all their energy and time to what’s going on at Covent Garden.
(20) Approximately 20% of the unintegrated MMTV DNA is present as double-stranded, covently closed circles (form I) with a molecular weight of 6 X 10(6) daltons.