(n.) Anything which covers or conceals, as a roof, a screen, a wrapper, clothing, etc.
Example Sentences:
(1) In a debate in the House of Commons, I will ask Britain, the US and other allies to convert generalised offers of help into more practical support with greater air cover, military surveillance and helicopter back-up, to hunt down the terrorists who abducted the girls.
(2) Photograph: Guardian The research also compiled data covered by a wider definition of tax haven, including onshore jurisdictions such as the US state of Delaware – accused by the Cayman islands of playing "faster and looser" even than offshore jurisdictions – and the Republic of Ireland, which has come under sustained pressure from other EU states to reform its own low-tax, light-tough, regulatory environment.
(3) The surface of all cells was covered by a fuzzy coat consisting of fine hairs or bristles.
(4) Five patients have been examined by defecography before and four after closure of a loop ileostomy performed to cover healing of the pouch and ileoanal anastomoses.
(5) A failure to reach a solution would potentially leave 200,000 homes without affordable cover, leaving owners unable to sell their properties and potentially exposing them to financial hardship.
(6) It was an artwork that fired the imaginations of 2 million visitors who played with, were provoked by and plunged themselves into the curious atmosphere of The Weather Project , with its swirling mist and gigantic mirrors that covered the hall's ceiling.
(7) But because current donor contributions are not sufficient to cover the thousands of schools in need of security, I will ask in the commons debate that the UK government allocates more.
(8) The degree of infection and incidence of different genera covering the same period were identical in both series.
(9) At first it looked as though the winger might have shown too much of the ball to the defence, yet he managed to gain a crucial last touch to nudge it past Phil Jones and into the path of Jerome, who slipped Chris Smalling’s attempt at a covering tackle and held off Michael Carrick’s challenge to place a shot past an exposed De Gea.
(10) The Sports Network broadcasts live NHL, Nascar, golf and horse racing – having also recently purchased the rights for Formula One – and will show 154 of the 196 games that NBC will cover.
(11) As to complications they recorded in one case mucosal bleeding after gastrofiberoptic polypectomy and in one case a covered perforation of the sigmoid at the site of colonoscopic polypectomy.
(12) The pressure is ramping up on Asda boss Andy Clarke, who next week will reveal the chain’s sales performance for the quarter covering Christmas.
(13) This week MediaGuardian 25, our survey of Britain's most important media companies, covering TV, radio, newspapers, magazines, music and digital, looks at BSkyB.
(14) When allegations of systemic doping and cover-ups first emerged in the runup to the 2013 Russian world athletics championships, an IOC spokesman insisted: “Anti-doping measures in Russia have improved significantly over the last five years with an effective, efficient and new laboratory and equipment in Moscow.” London Olympics were sabotaged by Russia’s doping, report says Read more We now know that the head of that lauded Moscow lab, Grigory Rodchenko, admitted to intentionally destroying 1,417 samples in December last year shortly before Wada officials visited.
(15) Chapman and the other "illegals" – sleeper agents without diplomatic cover – seem to have done little to harm American national security.
(16) This hydrostatic pressure may well be the driving force for creating channels for acid and pepsin to cross the mucus layer covering the mucosal surface.
(17) A retrospective study of autopsy-verified fatal pulmonary embolism at a department of infectious diseases was carried out, covering a four-year period (1980-83).
(18) Over the same period, breeding in drums dropped from 14%-25% to 4.7%, even though the drums were not treated or covered.
(19) The study covered 500 children from Warsaw's primary schools--250 children aged 6-8 years and 250 aged 13-15 years.
(20) The smaller interfaces cover about 700 A2 of the subunit surface.
Decorticated
Definition:
(imp. & p. p.) of Decorticate
Example Sentences:
(1) The length of the interpulse interval for LH release secretion decreased in unilateral decorticate animals, whereas the length of the cycle of FSH secretion increased in this circumstance.
(2) The decortication is aimed at removing the chronic pleural sack and the possible parenchymatous lesions and at the recovery of the maximum functional pulmonary parenchyma.
(3) Following chronic decortication of the dLGN, the distribution pattern of both GABAergic axonal types had changed considerably.
(4) The technique requires only three major steps: (1) decortication limited to the parietal sides of the peel's sac, (2) cleansing the empyemic cavity, and (3) drainage.
(5) In decorticate and in spinal curarized rabbit preparations, respiratory and locomotor rhythms can be closely related (1:1 coupling between successive periods), demonstrating central relationships between the two types of pattern generators.
(6) Our procedure is indicated in patients for whom it is thought simple decortication will not lead to primary cure of empyema.
(7) Total ventilatory and perfusion percentage increased significantly in the decorticated lung (p less than 0.001 and p less than 0.005, respectively).
(8) Non-sulfated CCK-8 also stimulated the motility, particularly in the decorticated rats.
(9) One cat, in which decortication was performed and resulted in marked reexpansion of the lung lobes, died 4 hours after surgery with signs compatible with pulmonary edema.
(10) The presence of anaerobic bacteria in 8 of 22 children (36%) was associated with rapid organization of the empyema and the need for decortication.
(11) Decortication, that is excision of both the visceral and parietal pleura, has become a rarely performed operation.
(12) A protocol of echocardiographic surveillance of the left main coronary artery has been instituted in these patients to detect any late postoperative changes after ostial decortication.
(13) One and a half years later, the patient shows decorticated posture with ataxic respiration and negative light reflexes.
(14) From early stimulation, decortication and transection studies (see Ref.
(15) The most serious complication was a case of hemothorax which required later pulmonary decortication.
(16) The external fixators were applied after decortication and bone grafting either immediately in cases with no evidence of infection or later in cases of draining, infected wounds.
(17) When all other measures failed, thoracotomy with pleural decortication was done.
(18) The average time of hospitalization was for the debrided cases 13.6 days and for the decortication group 19.6 days.
(19) Surgical procedures included lobectomy (n = 317), pneumonectomy (n = 41), wedge resection (n = 82), resections of blebs or bullae (n = 17), thoracotomy and biopsy for unresectable lesion (n = 6), and decortication (n = 5).
(20) Some changes of the organization of cortical motor representations, which were revealed by means of the intracortical microstimulation (ICMS) in aged rats after unilateral partial decortication, were true consequences of the decortication, but had no significant relationship to the aging.