(n.) A pen, coop, or like shelter for small domestic animals, as for sheep or pigeons; a cote.
(n.) A cover or sheath; as, a roller cot (the clothing of a drawing roller in a spinning frame); a cot for a sore finger.
(n.) A small, rudely-formed boat.
(n.) A sleeping place of limited size; a little bed; a cradle; a piece of canvas extended by a frame, used as a bed.
Example Sentences:
(1) "We were very disappointed when the DH decided to suspend printing Reduce the Risk, a vital resource in the prevention of cot death in the UK", said Francine Bates, chief executive of the Foundation for the Study of Infant Deaths, which helped produce the booklet.
(2) Of these, only the blood-cotting proteins and the vertebrate plasma samples were shown to contain gamma-carboxyglutamic acid.
(3) Transcripts from the chromatin templates when hybridized to DNA showed a larger proportion of RNase resistance of the 32P-termini at low Cot's.
(4) To date, a disproportionate amount of effort may have been spent on deciphering putative intracellular regulatory mechanisms, without knowing some essential fundamental properties of the Na+-Pi-COT.
(5) The body of one of the men was reportedly found charred and lying on a cot.
(6) The same strains were isolated from the baby warmer mattress, baby cot, suction machine bottle and wall of the fridge.
(7) In total preparations of DNA-24 and DNA-36 at cot 0.02-0.06, the number of fast reassociating sequences was increased, on the average, by 4%.
(8) The BBC will cut short a controversial cot death story in EastEnders that looks set to become the long-running soap's most complained-about plotline to date.
(9) Boutik Services (+33 6 0958 0988) in 1850 has cots, booster seats, changing tables, buggies and child skis for hire.
(10) cot-1 is a temperature sensitive mutant of N.crassa that exhibits restricted colonial growth.
(11) Kinetics of DNA reassociation was studied by direct optical scanning and the data obout Cot curve were analized by an improved computer programm "Finger".
(12) The cot-2 strains produce an invertase with altered heat sensitivity, Km, and ratio of heavy to light forms.
(13) Treatment-induced increases in serum Ca2+ had no effect on the reduced RBC CoT function in HYPO.
(14) As the babies were refused admission to the regional perinatal centre because intensive care cots were not available this deficiency should be corrected.
(15) Several complementary DNAs for the peroxisomal enzyme carnitine octanoyltransferase (COT), cloned in the expression vector lambda gt11, have been isolated.
(16) Other BBC controversies of late included a cot death baby swap story on BBC1's EastEnders which led to 13,400 complaints to the BBC and another 1,044 to Ofcom in early 2011.
(17) The cot death story triggered 13,400 complaints to the BBC and another 1,044 to the regulator itself.
(18) New Zealand's high mortality rate from the sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS) prompted the development of the New Zealand cot death study.
(19) Previously, the six-year-old had been sleeping on a mattress from her sister's cot that was too short; the other child had been sleeping in a travel cot.
(20) 50 min after each subject had consumed an amount of water equal to 1% of his body weight, he reclined on a cot.
Portable
Definition:
(a.) Capable of being borne or carried; easily transported; conveyed without difficulty; as, a portable bed, desk, engine.
(a.) Possible to be endured; supportable.
Example Sentences:
(1) Pono – a portable music player with its own digital store selling high-resolution downloads – has raised $6.1m on Kickstarter , in a campaign that ends later today (15 April).
(2) There is good evidence in favor of the use of oxygen savers in patients with portable oxygen, but not for their use in conjunction with fixed oxygen installations in the home.
(3) A new portable model of the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA) instrumented clinical knee testing apparatus and the KT-1000 knee arthrometer were used to measure anterior laxity in normal and anterior cruciate absent knees.
(4) An investigation was made of the accuracy of a portable hematocrit measurement device (Stat-Crit) on the infusate of an autologous blood transfusion system.
(5) Fifty-nine chronic peritoneal catheters made of polyethylene covered with silastic were used to treat 43 IDDM patients peritoneally for 3-34 mo (mean 14 mo) with portable peristaltic pumps and U40 acidic insulin.
(6) Complete data were gathered on 124 pregnancies using a portable real-time ultrasound machine.
(7) With the use of tritiated ara-C and this portable system, pharmacologic studies were performed in 8 patients.
(8) We implemented a parallel version of the backward error propagation neural network training algorithm in the widely portable parallel programming language C-Linda.
(9) Five acceptable forced expiratory maneuvers were obtained with a portable spirometer from each person in a population of 1,670 selected from a stratified random sample of a community.
(10) A portable stereocamera linked to a computer has been developed capable of taking photographs in the clinical situation.
(11) A portable device equipped with a transmitted infrared photoelectric plethysmograph (TIPP) and compression cuff was designed for indirect estimation of elastic properties of the arteries.
(12) The 133Xe wash-out technique, portable CdTe(Cl) detectors and a portable data storage unit were used.
(13) A new portable device (measuring 14 X 11 X 5 cm, weighing 600 g) has been developed for recording ambulatory intra-arterial blood pressure (BP) and R-R intervals on the electrocardiogram at 10 sec intervals throughout a 24 hour period and a computer system for analysis of the 8,640 digital recordings of systolic blood pressure (SBP), diastolic blood pressure (DBP) and heart rate (HR).
(14) To further these ambitions, there will be key announcements: a fresh approach to information and advice for families, new rights for carers, a minimum level of care, "portable" needs assessments so people may move without having to be reviewed, extra funding for supported housing and trials of free care at home for people with terminal illness.
(15) The Pain-Track system includes portable data loggers carried by the patients, a personal computer with a software package for storage and analysis of the data and a terminal unit to connect the loggers and computer.
(16) The stability of fentanyl citrate and bupivacaine hydrochloride in an admixture with 0.9% sodium chloride injection in portable pump reservoirs with or without overwraps was investigated.
(17) Subsequent treatments are given using skin tattoos and laser alignment for target placement within the isocenter of the linear accelerator, and a modified portable halo-ring device is used for skull immobilization.
(18) In that time Beats launched a new range of headphones and portable speakers, designed and manufactured in house, and then in January 2014 the company launched Beats Music – a music streaming subscription service built upon the company’s acquisition of a similar service called MOG in 2012.
(19) 170 patients were treated with continuous infusion of epirubicin, mitoxantrone, carboplatin or 5-fluorouracil through an implanted venous access port with a portable infusion pump.
(20) These elevated levels were observed before the PaO2, the portable chest roentgenograms and the other test results changed following surgery.