(1) He said: “Almost daily we hear from parents desperate to escape the single cramped room of a B&B or hostel that they find themselves struggling to raise their children in.
(2) Toxicity included an increase in body weight, cushingoid effects, muscle cramps, and tremors in both groups.
(3) Primary amenorrhea and cyclic, cramping lower abdominal pain was the common symptoms of all the patients.
(4) The 1st gynecologic consultant was called after the patient experienced severe cramps and passage of part of a placenta.
(5) Among the observed side effects were moderate pelvic cramps (20.9%), nausea (27%), fainting (4.8%); 61.3% of the women complained of fatigue.
(6) When there's a very limited stock of social housing, and very long waiting lists for people who need it, and lots of big families living in very cramped conditions, that isn't wrong at all.
(7) They also complained of exercise-induced stiffening and cramps of their leg muscles.
(8) Mark Leech, editor of ConVerse , the national newspaper for prisoners, said the former MP should expect "to find himself in a prison reception that is cramped, cold and busy – with up to 200 prisoners being processed each day".
(9) Despite a cramping, high-concept production set in a psychiatric ward, Richardson gave us a Richard resembling a monstrous child whose ravening will had yet to be curbed by social custom.
(10) He took Jessica's mobile out of her pocket; he carried their bodies down the stairs and, after checking no one was around, bundled them into the cramped boot of his car, bending their legs to fit them in; he collected petrol and bin bags (to protect his feet and thus conceal evidence); he drove to Lakenheath and found a lonely track; he got out where the vegetation grew thickly and he rolled the two girls down into the ditch; he climbed into the ditch and cut off their clothing - their red football shirts and their tracksuit trousers, their knickers, Holly's black bra which she and her mother had bought the day before - and then he poured petrol over their bodies and threw on a match.
(11) For chronic phantom and stump pain, burning sensations are treated with interventions designed to increase blood flow to the residual limb, whereas cramping sensations are treated with interventions that reduce muscle spasms.
(12) Post-prandial cramping abdominal pain may be an early symptom of thrombosis, demanding immediate anticoagulation.
(13) Our purpose was to evaluate the analgesic efficacy of single oral doses of ketoprofen 25, 50, and 100 mg compared with aspirin 650 mg and placebo in the relief of moderate to severe postepisiotomy, uterine cramping, or cesarean section pain.
(14) Photograph: Rozena Crossman Despite its small size, the café has a lighter and more modern atmosphere than the cramped bookshop next door, a famous hub for influential writers.
(15) The four-bedroom apartments are cramped and austere, but they sell for more than $100,000.
(16) Epidural morphine is used for postcesarean analgesia, and nonsteroidal antiinflammatory drugs are frequently administered to relieve uterine cramps after vaginal delivery.
(17) Subjective symptoms of venous hypertension were assessed by an analogue scale line considering four symptoms: swelling sensation, restless lower extremity, pain and cramps, and tiredness.
(18) Tommy Banks, Bolton's left back, was exhausted by his efforts to halt Matthews, contracting cramp in his shins, and four times leaving the field for treatment in the final quarter hour.
(19) 65% (140) quit because of side effects, usually pregnancy-like symptoms (such as nausea or weight gain), or menstrual symptoms (such as hemorrhaging or cramps).
(20) Funes Mori will commence a three-match ban on Saturday, John Stones was forced out of the derby with stomach cramps, Phil Jagielka is recovering from a hamstring strain and Seamus Coleman is almost certainly out with a similar injury.
Narrow
Definition:
(superl.) Of little breadth; not wide or broad; having little distance from side to side; as, a narrow board; a narrow street; a narrow hem.
(superl.) Of little extent; very limited; circumscribed.
(superl.) Having but a little margin; having barely sufficient space, time, or number, etc.; close; near; -- with special reference to some peril or misfortune; as, a narrow shot; a narrow escape; a narrow majority.
(superl.) Limited as to means; straitened; pinching; as, narrow circumstances.
(superl.) Contracted; of limited scope; illiberal; bigoted; as, a narrow mind; narrow views.
(superl.) Scrutinizing in detail; close; accurate; exact.
(superl.) Formed (as a vowel) by a close position of some part of the tongue in relation to the palate; or (according to Bell) by a tense condition of the pharynx; -- distinguished from wide; as e (eve) and / (f/d), etc., from i (ill) and / (f/t), etc. See Guide to Pronunciation, / 13.
(n.) A narrow passage; esp., a contracted part of a stream, lake, or sea; a strait connecting two bodies of water; -- usually in the plural; as, The Narrows of New York harbor.
(v. t.) To lessen the breadth of; to contract; to draw into a smaller compass; to reduce the width or extent of.
(v. t.) To contract the reach or sphere of; to make less liberal or more selfish; to limit; to confine; to restrict; as, to narrow one's views or knowledge; to narrow a question in discussion.
(v. t.) To contract the size of, as a stocking, by taking two stitches into one.
(v. i.) To become less broad; to contract; to become narrower; as, the sea narrows into a strait.
(v. i.) Not to step out enough to the one hand or the other; as, a horse narrows.
(v. i.) To contract the size of a stocking or other knit article, by taking two stitches into one.
Example Sentences:
(1) The PSB dioxygenase system displayed a narrow substrate range: none of 18 sulphonated or non-sulphonated analogues of PSB showed significant substrate-dependent O2 uptake.
(2) Comparison of developmental series of D. merriami and T. bottae revealed that the decline of the artery in the latter species is preceded by a greater degree of arterial coarctation, or narrowing, as it passes though the developing stapes.
(3) This promotion of repetitive activity by the introduction of additional potassium channels occurred up to an "optimal" value beyond which a further increase in paranodal potassium permeability narrowed the range of currents with a repetitive response.
(4) In all immunized rabbits the antisera obtained with the 7 alpha-derivative had a higher affinity and a narrower specificity than the antiserum obtained with the 7 beta-derivative.
(5) That is, he believes, to look at massively difficult, interlocking problems through too narrow a lens.
(6) Photograph: AP Reasons for wavering • State relies on coal-fired electricity • Poor prospects for wind power • Conservative Democrat • Represents conservative district in conservative state and was elected on narrow margins Campaign support from fossil fuel interests in 2008 • $93,743 G K Butterfield (North Carolina) GK Butterfield, North Carolina.
(7) Their narrowed processes pass at a common site through the muscle layer and above this layer again slightly widen and project above the neighbouring tegument.
(8) These patients did not have narrow anterior chamber angles preoperatively, and several were aphakix with surgical iris colobomas.
(9) The linewidths of the methionine Cepsilon resonances are narrowed by increasing temperature according to an Arrhenius energy of activation of nearly 3 kcal.
(10) The detergent lauryl maltoside abolishes respiratory control and proton ejection by cytochrome c oxidase-containing proteoliposomes over a narrow concentration range.
(11) Per-rotational nystagmus was recorded in rabbits with unilaterally narrowed vertebral arteries or following unilateral cervical sympathectomies.
(12) However, the narrow range of the ED50 suggests relatively little variation in the response of the different isolates in vivo and similarly small variation was also noted in some of the tests in vitro.
(13) Eight patients had glaucoma only in one eye; three narrow-angle glaucoma, three primary open-angle glaucoma and two secondary glaucoma.
(14) In the fifth case the vein was too narrow to allow catheterization.
(15) It was found that within the dorsal part of the well known pressor area there is a narrow strip, 2.5 mm lateral from the mid line, starting ventral to the inferior colliculus and ending in the medulla close to the floor of the IV ventricle, from which vasodilatation in skeletal muscles is selectively obtained.
(16) Each border was within a region of 11 nucleotides and gave rise to a narrow size range (1248-1261 nucleotides) for the population of 22 subgenomic DNAs.
(17) These factors include narrowing of septal arteries and the artery to the atrioventricular node, preservation of fetal anatomy with dispersion in the atrioventricular node and His bundle, fibrosis of the sinus node, clefts in the septum, multiple atrioventricular pathways and massive myocardial infarction.
(18) Time suggests that the FBI inquiry has been extended from a relatively narrow look at alleged malpractices by News Corp in America into a more general inquiry into whether the company used possibly illegal strongarm tactics to browbeat rival firms, following allegations of computer hacking made by retail advertising company Floorgraphics.
(19) These three activities, appearing within a narrow range of molecular weights, different from those of other known lymphokines, suggest the existence of a distinct class of lymphokine mediators with the common function of influencing functional properties of tumor cells.
(20) The narrow intercellular ridge is smooth, whereas the epithelial cells have small cytoplasmic knobs between the cilia.