(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.
Spar
Definition:
(n.) An old name for a nonmetallic mineral, usually cleavable and somewhat lustrous; as, calc spar, or calcite, fluor spar, etc. It was especially used in the case of the gangue minerals of a metalliferous vein.
(v. t.) A general term any round piece of timber used as a mast, yard, boom, or gaff.
(v. t.) Formerly, a piece of timber, in a general sense; -- still applied locally to rafters.
(v. t.) The bar of a gate or door.
(v. t.) To bolt; to bar.
(v. t.) To To supply or equip with spars, as a vessel.
(v. i.) To strike with the feet or spurs, as cocks do.
(v. i.) To use the fists and arms scientifically in attack or defense; to contend or combat with the fists, as for exercise or amusement; to box.
(v. i.) To contest in words; to wrangle.
(n.) A contest at sparring or boxing.
(n.) A movement of offense or defense in boxing.
Example Sentences:
(1) It's good to be able to take the opportunity to thank my friends and sparring partners from around the YouView boardroom table.
(2) US supreme court justices spar over strictest abortion law in the nation Read more Delta has been sending its patients on this trek for a week – ever since the fifth circuit court of appeals put on hold a lower court ruling that would have allowed the clinic to remain open.
(3) In vivo spin-lattice relaxation times, T1, of water and lipid protons of normal and atrophic muscles were measured, using the spatially resolved spectroscopy (SPARS) sequence, in a genetic avian model of myopathy.
(4) A method of spatially resolved spectroscopy (SPARS), combined with techniques to suppress water signal, was used to overcome this problem.
(5) Amid the sparring over Snowden's asylum claim, his father Lon Snowden told Reuters he was confident Putin would not cave in to pressure to send his son back to the US to face espionage charges.
(6) Shoppers will find out whether they are shopping in a free-bag or pay-bag Spar only when they reach the checkout.
(7) Many of the president's former sparring partners are now billionaires who occupy senior Kremlin positions.
(8) All eyes will be watching closely as Hillary Clinton, Bernie Sanders, Martin O’Malley, Jim Webb and Lincoln Chafee spar over the economy, environment, foreign policy, labor rights, and more.
(9) Down at the Spar store, the manager, Chris Richards, was waiting anxiously for the notices that will explain the charge to customers.
(10) Although the data for hearing-impaired subjects fail to support the rationale for the SPAR test, the results for the entire research sample offer substantial support.
(11) Business, governments, consumers, activists - all the main actors in the debate over corporate social responsibility were present in the Brent Spar case, and since then nothing has quite been the same.
(12) But by this time next year, Obama and others may have cause to miss their old sparring partner Karzai.
(13) Although the technical and scientific assessments led to our initial plan to safely sink Brent Spar in deep water in the Atlantic Ocean (a plan supported by the government at the time) we failed to engage sufficiently with others and win public acceptance.
(14) As a child, Dinara fell asleep to the sound of her parents talking late into the night, sparring cheerfully over history or discussing Leyla’s work as head of the Institute for Peace and Democracy , a group launched in 1995 to fight corruption, violence against women, and unlawful evictions.
(15) Carly Fiorina expertly defuses Trump on 'beautiful face' retort and foreign policy Read more The New York real estate mogul went out off his way to bash Carly Fiorina , the former Hewlett Packard CEO and GOP presidential rival with whom he sparred in Wednesday’s debate.
(16) In a cartoon fashion, I half-believe he'll turn up on the news one day jogging and sparring.
(17) His T-shirt is soon soaked with sweat and he looks incredulous when told he has sparred 10 rounds.
(18) To satisfy the competitive spirit, there will be a chance for them to enter an arena-style activity that lets them spar against one another for honour and bragging rights..." On that subject, Destiny players will, of course, get access to Bungie.net, the studio's community website.
(19) Obama has often sparred with Netanyahu over strategy on Iran and the Palestinians.
(20) Subjects were categorized into groups showing high, medium, and low competitive anxiety to assess whether differences on the variables of sparring and forms were significantly related with scores on competition anxiety, age, or gender after adjusting for the covariate of years of competition.