(n.) Two taken together; a pair or couple; especially two lines of verse that rhyme with each other.
Example Sentences:
(1) Propranolol therapy abolished ventricular couplets in eight of twelve patients and ventricular tachycardia in four of the patients.
(2) In 78 consecutive patients with uniform ventricular ectopic complexes and without heart disease, ventricular couplets were present significantly more often when the coupling interval of ventricular ectopic complexes was variable than when it was fixed (P less than 0.04).
(3) "I saw Hutton in his prime; another time, another time," as his couplet about his cricketing hero, Sir Leonard Hutton, has it.
(4) Arrhythmias in form of supraventricular and ventricular extrasystoles including bigeminy and couplets of VES in one patient and two episodes of atrial tachycardia in another one on the day of drug injection were noticed.
(5) We examined the extracellular equilibrium status of two redox couplets normally found in plasma (lactate-pyruvate [L-P], beta-hydroxybutyrate, and acetoacetate) during acute metabolic acidosis produced by muscle exertion.
(6) Imitating the white, vaudeville television love-to-hate wrestler Gorgeous George, his forecasts bragged the precise round he was going to win, sometimes combining such box-office larks with couplets of doggerel.
(7) In 4 patients with coronary heart disease associated with arrhythmia guanfacine 1 mg per day during 10 days decreased ventricular premature contractions, couplets and abolished appearance of ventricular tachycardias.
(8) An initial preparation of rat hepatocytes containing approximately 30% couplets was enriched by centrifugal elutriation.
(9) Forty-eight recordings from 46 patients were identified which contained couplets, ventricular tachycardia or R-on-T extrasystoles.
(10) These findings demonstrate the utility of confocal line scanning microscopy for detecting rapid changes in the subcellular distribution of cytosolic Ca2+ in hepatocyte couplets, and suggest that phenylephrine-induced Ca2+ waves radiate in a basal-to-apical direction in this cell type.
(11) Our system was able to assign more cases to couplets then the NOHS-JEM (35,895 to 22,369).
(12) Efficacy of treatment determined by programmed stimulation (ventricular tachycardia no longer inducible or nonsustained) was compared with three Holter criteria of efficacy: I = 83% or more reduction of ventricular premature complexes and abolition of ventricular tachycardia; II = 50% or more reduction of ventricular premature complexes and 90% or more reduction of couplets and abolition of ventricular tachycardia; III = abolition of ventricular tachycardia in patients with ventricular tachycardia during a baseline Holter recording.
(13) Ventricular couplets or triplets (Lown grade IV) were found in less than 10% in patients in age from 15 to 17 years, 33% in patients from 18 to 20 years and showed no increase with age.
(14) Normal neutrophil membrane preparations containing beta-adrenergic receptors were exposed to several concentrations of three redox couplets native to plasma: lactate (L)-pyruvate (P), beta-hydroxybutyrate (BOHB)-acetoacetate (AcAc), and glutathione (GSH-GSSG).
(15) Treatment with flecainide alone resulted in a 38% mean reduction (p less than 0.05) of ventricular premature complexes, a 75% (p less than 0.01) mean reduction of couplets, and elimination of ventricular tachycardia.
(16) Multiformity was found in 27 (28%), couplets in 18 (19%) and ventricular tachycardia in 11 (11.5%).
(17) Patients without arrhythmia inducibility had a high incidence of multiformity (56%) and bigeminy (44%), but a low incidence of either couplets (11%) or spontaneous ventricular tachycardia (11%) on Holter monitoring.
(18) Malignant ventricular premature beats (ventricular couplets, ventricular tachycardia, and R-on-T-type ventricular premature beats) were observed in three of these four patients.
(19) This may explain the observation that the couplets are seldom followed by consecutive ventricular ectopic complexes or ventricular tachycardia.
(20) The effect of Bonnecor on couplets and volleys was clinically relevant in 52 and 46%, respectively, of the patients (reduction greater than or equal to 93%) and approximately corresponds to the results with other antiarrhythmic drugs.
Elegiac
Definition:
(a.) Belonging to elegy, or written in elegiacs; plaintive; expressing sorrow or lamentation; as, an elegiac lay; elegiac strains.
(a.) Used in elegies; as, elegiac verse; the elegiac distich or couplet, consisting of a dactylic hexameter and pentameter.
(n.) Elegiac verse.
Example Sentences:
(1) The novel's "elegiac strain lifts a personal story into a more intriguing one .
(2) He has taken various elements of the war, and translated their brutality into elegiac works, as with Freedom Qashoush Symphony, a delicate song which starts with rattled off gunfire, the symphony culminates in an urgent instrumental cry of freedom, inspired by Ibrahim al-Qashoush, an early symbol of rebel martyrdom.
(3) But recounting the story of one of the key experiences of European integration, the painter and decorator sounded elegiac, as if describing not current realities but those of a lamented past.
(4) The book partakes of the elegiac long before, even, the wrenching and brief final chapter, which in that distinctive calm prose acknowledges pain, the death that is coming, the fears of that death, and the therapeutic nature of what we have just read.
(5) Though the first Orange prize was not awarded until 1996, when the Canadian poet Anne Michaels won it for her elegiac Holocaust novel Fugitive Pieces , the founding committee celebrated its 20th birthday this year.
(6) A lament for the failed ideals of a group of 1960s Cambridge graduates who all too quickly swap their literary dreams for coffee table books and hack journalism, the play was an elegiac threnody for soiled friendship and a descent from intellectual rigour and seriousness to philistinism.
(7) Parking is near the elegiac ruins of Tintern Abbey, and from there one embarks upon a digestible but heart thumping climb up to the Devil's Pulpit, a rocky outcrop, affording fantastic views, where the evil doer himself supposedly used to preach temptation to the industrious monks scurrying below.
(8) The main thing that struck a chord was not the profligacy of supermarkets but the elegiac decay of the bagged salad: more than two-thirds of it thrown out, half by customers, half by stores.
(9) This footage of the remaining “red cars” (as the Pacific Electric’s fleet was commonly known) strikes an elegiac tone, especially to modern Angelenos.
(10) – elegiac, melodic, free from lyrics about shopping.
(11) Glue recycles some elements of Thorne’s past triumphs: the on-point indie soundtrack, the elegiac “last gang in town” feel, the tabloid-troubling teenage misdemeanours.
(12) For a poet to choose to document the moment of loss after finishing a novel may hint at mock-elegiac intentions.
(13) The elegiac mood around Mandela suggested that South Africans still find it easier to remember the long walk to freedom than to embark on a new journey.
(14) We in Afghanistan are suffering from the ugly side of globalisation, whether it is drugs, whether it is criminal networks or terrorism.” It is Cameron’s eighth trip as prime minister, and has an elegiac quality, even though it is a conflict he inherited and never wholly embraced.
(15) This corner of Berlin, remembered to such elegiac effect in Bowie's new work, is brighter, more prosperous and more efficient.
(16) Anderson told Screen International that it charts a watershed moment, narcotics-wise: “It’s that idea that when you’re smoking weed everything is OK, but as soon as heroin comes in everything is changed and everything is fucked, and that’s sad.” It’s more troubled and elegiac than Pynchon’s novel even , with less daffy musical interludes, more insistent harking-back to a lost Californian utopia – expressed through Doc’s search for his vanished “old lady” Shasta Fay Hepworth.
(17) In other ways excellent, the New York Times' piece had an elegiac tone, conveyed by the headline How the US Lost Out on iPhone Work .
(18) Rowan Williams , the Archbishop of Canterbury, in an elegiac, filmic farewell to the building – "a purpose-built factory for prayer" – and his job, is seen wandering through the enormous space from attics to crypts, turning the whole space into a valedictory sermon.
(19) Radiohead's much-trumpeted new single, their first in four years, a beautiful, intricately-wrought mesh of complex time signatures, keening vocals, elegiac strings and subtly disturbing audio effects called Pyramid Song, has been beaten to number one by Do You Really Like It?, by DJ Pied Piper and the Master of Ceremonies - perhaps the most unrepentantly stupid dance record since Jive Bunny hung up his tracksuit.