(n.) A spar formerly used on board of ships, as a crane to hoist the flukes of the anchor to the top of the bow, without injuring the sides of the ship; -- called also the fish davit.
(n.) Curved arms of timber or iron, projecting over a ship's side of stern, having tackle to raise or lower a boat, swing it in on deck, rig it out for lowering, etc.; -- called also boat davits.
Example Sentences:
(1) In the present study, comprising a subset of DAVIT-II, 48 h continuous ECG recordings demonstrated transient ST segment deviation indicative of myocardial ischaemia after one week, prior to randomization, in 18% (10 of 57) of the patients.
(2) Accordingly, the most recent trial, DAVIT-II, was carried out in patients in whom preexisting left ventricular failure had been excluded.
(3) death or reinfarction after a myocardial infarction has been investigated in 2 Danish double-blind placebo-controlled verapamil infarction trials (DAVIT I and II).
(4) DAVIT II demonstrated a non-significant reduction of mortality rate (P = 0.11, hazard ratio 0.80, 95% confidence limits 0.61-1.05), a significant reduction of reinfarction rate (P = 0.04, 0.77, 0.58-1.03), and major event rate (P = 0.03, 0.80, 0.64-0.99) in the verapamil group compared with the placebo group.
(5) death or the first re-infarction from the second week after an acute myocardial infarction was investigated in a double-blind, randomized, placebo-controlled, multicentre investigation (DAVIT II) in which 878 patients commenced treatment with verapamil in a dosage of 360 mg daily and 897 patients received a placebo.
(6) DAVIT II was a later intervention trial that demonstrated a nonsignificant reduction in the 18-month mortality rate [p = 0.11, hazard ratio 0.80; 95% confidence limits (CL) 0.61 to 1.05], a significant reduction in the reinfarction rate (p = 0.04, hazard ratio 0.77; CL 0.58 to 1.03), and in the major event rate (p = 0.03, hazard ratio 0.80; CL 0.64 to 0.99) in the verapamil group compared with the placebo group.
(7) Maria Sharapova sponsor suggests amnesty for genuine takers of meldonium Read more In the former Soviet nation of Georgia, six athletes from the national wrestling team had provisional suspensions lifted, including the Olympic silver medallist Davit Modzmanashvili and the European silver medallist Beka Lomtadze.
(8) The DAVIT-II trial has shown that the verapamil type of calcium antagonist can beneficially be used in post-infarct patients.
(9) Meta-analyses of DAVIT I (for patients alive at day 8) and DAVIT II showed a statistically significant reduction in the odds ratio of mortality (22%), reinfarctions (27%), and the major event rate (21%) in verapamil-treated patients.
(10) Meta-analyses of the results of DAVITs I and II resulted in a reduction of pooled ratios of 22% (95% confidence limits 1-37, p = 0.04) for death, 21% (5-35, p = 0.02) for first major events (first reinfarction or death), and 27% (6-43, p = 0.02) for first reinfarctions.
(11) DAVIT-II is a double-blind, randomized, multicentre, placebo-controlled study of long-term treatment with verapamil 360 mg per day administered to patients who have suffered an acute myocardial infarction (AMI).
(12) The others are Russian speedskater Semyon Elistratov, Russian ice dancer Ekaterina Bobrova and Georgian wrestler Davit Modzmanashvili.
(13) The findings of the DAVIT II study with verapamil demonstrate a significant reduction in the infarction recurrence rate (18% vs 21.6%) in the treatment group.
(14) Meta-analyses of DAVIT I (including only patients alive on day eight) and of DAVIT II showed a statistically significant reduction of odds ratio of mortality of 22% (P = 0.04), of reinfarctions of 27% (P = 0.02), and of major events of 21% (P = 0.02).
(15) Whereas the Secondary Prevention Reinfarction Israeli Nifedipine Trial (SPRINT) [Israeli SPRINT Study Group 1988] with nifedipine showed no beneficial effect of the drug, studies with verapamil in the Danish Verapamil Infarction Trial II (DAVIT II) [Danish Study Group on Verapamil in Myocardial Infarction 1990] and diltiazem in the Multicentre Diltiazem Postinfarction Trial (MDPIT) [Multicenter Diltiazem Postinfarction Trial Research Group 1988] as secondary prevention have demonstrated improvements in survival and cardiovascular complications, but these improvements were restricted to patients without heart failure.
(16) The effect of verapamil on death and reinfarction after an acute myocardial infarction was studied in two double-blind, randomized, placebo-controlled multicenter trials, the Danish Verapamil Infarction Trials I and II (DAVIT I and II).
(17) The effect of verapamil therapy in a dosage of 120 thrice daily on the mortality and re-infarction from the time of admission and for the subsequent six months was investigated in a double-blind, randomized, placebo-controlled, multicentre investigation (The Danish Verapamil Infarction Trial (DAVIT I)).
(18) The effect of verapamil on death and major events (i.e., death or reinfarction) after an acute myocardial infarction was studied in a double-blind, randomized, placebo-controlled, multicenter trial, the Danish Verapamil Infarction Trial II (DAVIT II).
(19) DAVIT I was an early intervention trial that demonstrated a statistically nonsignificant reduction in mortality and reinfarction after 6 months of treatment.
(20) This article is a review of presented subsets of the Danish Verapamil Infarction Trial II (DAVIT II) regarding the effect of verapamil on postinfarction ischemia, ventricular arrhythmias, and heart rate (HR), and the prognostic implications of these findings.
Gripe
Definition:
(n.) A vulture; the griffin.
(v. t.) To catch with the hand; to clasp closely with the fingers; to clutch.
(v. t.) To seize and hold fast; to embrace closely.
(v. t.) To pinch; to distress. Specifically, to cause pinching and spasmodic pain to the bowels of, as by the effects of certain purgative or indigestible substances.
(v. i.) To clutch, hold, or pinch a thing, esp. money, with a gripe or as with a gripe.
(v. i.) To suffer griping pains.
(v. i.) To tend to come up into the wind, as a ship which, when sailing closehauled, requires constant labor at the helm.
(n.) Grasp; seizure; fast hold; clutch.
(n.) That on which the grasp is put; a handle; a grip; as, the gripe of a sword.
(n.) A device for grasping or holding anything; a brake to stop a wheel.
(n.) Oppression; cruel exaction; affiction; pinching distress; as, the gripe of poverty.
(n.) Pinching and spasmodic pain in the intestines; -- chiefly used in the plural.
(n.) The piece of timber which terminates the keel at the fore end; the forefoot.
(n.) The compass or sharpness of a ship's stern under the water, having a tendency to make her keep a good wind.
(n.) An assemblage of ropes, dead-eyes, and hocks, fastened to ringbolts in the deck, to secure the boats when hoisted; also, broad bands passed around a boat to secure it at the davits and prevent swinging.
Example Sentences:
(1) His gripe is with Jeremy – as far as I’m concerned, he will play for West Brom again,” Pulis told the Daily Mail .
(2) Like many, I assumed that the accumulated gripes about ticketing (thoroughly justified in this case), Zil lanes, G4S failures, McDonald's sponsorship and over-heavy security would have ensured healthy levels of Olympic alienation and even hostility.
(3) Where d’you live, let’s have this out in person, shall we?’” But these are small gripes.
(4) Or is it someone who takes 10 minutes of going on about their bunions and general gripes before revealing that they had an episode of crippling chest pain last night, by the way?
(5) This is one of my pet gripes about modern society: the way in which serious issues and events are converted into bizarre forms of celebrity,” he wrote.
(6) This is one of my pet gripes about modern society: the way in which serious issues and events are converted into bizarre forms of celebrity.” Efforts to contact Latham have been unsuccessful.
(7) Along with the City, they've all got a gripe with Miliband.
(8) Large numbers of babies are given gripe water for no valid reason or for only trivial symptoms, write Cynthia Illingworth and John Timmins.
(9) Simultaneous tenesmic gripes, some of the patients had also suffered from, disappeared completely, with the exception of two cases where, however, normalization of the stools was obtained by means of the loperamide therapy.
(10) Hannah Fletcher, a single mum who works part-time but would like more hours, said her main gripe was that the majority of politicians “are white, middle-aged men who are not in tune with society”.
(11) Lamont's further gripe is a council tax freeze launched as a stopgap measure in 2007-08 by the then minority SNP administration, pending the introduction of a local income tax.
(12) My main gripe is that there’s no flexibility about when my work gets done.
(13) HS That is absolutely not my gripe: if anyone is potty (and rich) enough to spend a grand on a handbag, that’s fine by me— and you’re right, all power to the craftsmen and everyone else involved.
(14) Premier League 2015-16 review: gripe of the season | Tom Davies Read more David Hytner For some reason, I hate it when the league is referred to as ‘The Barclays Premier League,’ either in copy or on TV.
(15) Wilkie says: "The main gripe is that all the music we play is crap.
(16) And for all my gripes, many of my most intense experiences of art happen here.
(17) Indeed, McClaren’s only possible gripe would have been regret that some of his side’s sharp midfield incision could have done with being replicated in the penalty area.
(18) Small gripes include the grading of games leading to tiered pricing, and having to buy tickets for two games if you want to go to Palace versus the likes of Arsenal and Chelsea.
(19) But the militant gays and thinning hair and gluteal amnesia are small gripes.
(20) But bias is not my gripe; the good Muslim v bad Muslim game is an old one.