What's the difference between decimeter and kilometer?

Decimeter


Definition:

  • (n.) Alt. of Decimetre

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The thymus of rheumatoid arthritis (RA) patients was exposed to combined action of bitemporal UHF electric field and decimeter waves to study immunomodulating effect of the combination.
  • (2) We used decimeter waves; wave length of 69 cm and a frequency of 433.92 MHz.
  • (3) Central AS of the II degree of activity was more sensitive to decimeter waves while for peripheral and rhizomelic forms the results of crysonal phonophoresis were more positive.
  • (4) The trend in immunobiological responses to transcerebral action of decimeter microwaves was studied in intact rabbits.
  • (5) Less therapeutic response to the direct stimulation of the adrenals with decimeter waves stems from the deficient function of the latter consequent to long-term corticosteroid therapy.
  • (6) the cellular-divisional (of the non-nervous tissues) related to the egg and the neural-extensive originating in the sperm and characterized by sprouting of processes even several decimeters long from a single nerve cell body.
  • (7) It was shown that the thyroid gland exposure to decimeter waves at these intensities resulted in functional shifts in energy and plastic processes in myocardium and capillary blood supply.
  • (8) Besides, effects of decimeter waves on mice thymocyte-induced expression of Thy-1 antigen were studied.
  • (9) The authors used a new noninvasive method, decimeter radiothermometry, to measure cerebrocranial temperature in 68 patients with brain tumors.
  • (10) The projection zones of the thymus and adrenal glands of the test animals were subjected to the action of decimeter, or ultrahigh frequency (UHF), waves, while the corresponding zones of the control animals were subjected to imitation UHF irradiation.
  • (11) A study was made of the effects of microwave irradiation of different intensity within decimeter and centimeter ranges in vitro on the guinea-pig thymocyte-induced receptor expression to their own and rabbit erythrocytes.
  • (12) Continuous 10-day exposure of the heart and adrenal regions of rabbits with myocardial infarction to electromagnetic field produced by decimeter waves leads to activation of kallikrein-kinin system.
  • (13) The effect of decimeter electromagnetic waves, ultrasound, induction therapy, crysanol phonophoresis was compared in relevant treatment of 180 AS patients.
  • (14) Electron microscopy studies using automatic ultrastructural morphometry have determined changes in cardiomyocyte ultrastructure on exposure of the heart area to decimeter waves.
  • (15) Bitemporal exposure of the adrenals to UHF electric field and decimeter waves was studied as a component of combined therapy for stage I-II chronic SLE.
  • (16) To study the sensitivity of some central brain structures to the action of an electromagnetic field of decimeter waves (EMF of DW) a dynamic investigation of single unit activity was undertaken.
  • (17) The exposure of the thyroid to decimeter waves initiated PIR by 2.5-fold activation of medullar lymphocytes and by a 80% increase in the thymic function.
  • (18) No response was achieved in combined action on the thyroid of the electric field and decimeter waves.
  • (19) The combined exposure to bitemporal UHF electric field and decimeter waves of the adrenals doubles glucocorticoid synthesis abolishing the inhibitory action of the UHF therapy on thyroid function resultant in much more suppressed PIR.
  • (20) An animal experimental study on solid Walker-tumors was undertaken to determine the therapeutic effects utilizing hyperthermy in the form of combined decimeter wave megavolt treatment.

Kilometer


Definition:

  • (n.) Alt. of Kilometre

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Forty-one (85 percent) affected persons lived in five communities located within a 70-kilometer area along the coast.
  • (2) In the picture above, taken over Libya, a storm stretches for hundreds of kilometers across the sand seas of the Sahara.
  • (3) An investigation of aerosols emitted by trickling-filter sewage treatment plants revealed that coliforms were indeed emitted and have been sampled to a distance of 0.8 mile (1.2 kilometers) downwind.
  • (4) Venda, northern Transvaal, South Africa, a self governing region of 7460 square kilometers varying from rural villages to small towns.
  • (5) The use of the rates "death per registered vehicle" or "death per vehicle-kilometer" does not provide a consistent measure across time when there is a nonlinear relationship between number of deaths and number of vehicles.
  • (6) Power will have to flow from offshore wind farms in the north of the country over many hundred kilometers to the industrial centers in the west and the south.
  • (7) We also analyzed the traffic accident risk per million kilometers driven.
  • (8) Boos and whistles from protesters forced Danish Prime Minister Thorning-Schmidt to halt her May Day speech to thousands at the gathering in Aarhus, some 200 kilometers (125 miles) northwest of Copenhagen.
  • (9) Likewise, there appears to be at present little satisfactory explanation for the several clusters of exceedingly high mortality areas scattered in northern and central Italy, since some of these areas are several hundred kilometers apart, and there is no obvious common denominator in diet or other environmental factors that may explain their higher gastric cancer mortality rates.
  • (10) All 91,823 children born in 1980 in Bohemia (population 6.314 million; area 52,478 square kilometers) were examined at least four times during infancy and at the age of three and four years.
  • (11) This study does not take into account the kilometers driven.
  • (12) Fixed health facilities should not be limited to a radius of 5 kilometers, they should establish seasonal circuits as the population moves, and 1 or more areas should be served by an intermediate fed health post.
  • (13) The death rates per hundred million vehicle kilometers of travel, per 100,000 registered motor vehicles, and per 100,000 resident population in 1987 were about 1.87, 19.7, and 26.5, respectively.
  • (14) To examine the effect of intensive physical exercise on interleukin 2 (IL-2), tumor necrosis factor alpha (TNF alpha) and lymphocyte subsets, eleven elite and well-conditioned runners were tested in relation to a five-kilometer race.
  • (15) This paper discusses the surgical and medical problems affecting off-shore oil drilling workers in the south-eastern Atlantic coastline of the Nigerian territorial waters; about 50-60 kilometers from land.
  • (16) The findings of this study are as follows: During the decade studied, Western Europe as a whole experienced a fatality rate reduction per 10(9) vehicle-kilometers traveled of 45.8% while the U.S. experienced a 29.1% reduction during this same period.
  • (17) At the end of this year’s summer melt season, the areal extent covered by sea ice was more than a million square kilometers below the 30-year average.
  • (18) This low coverage was observed in spite the fact that health services were available within 2 kilometer radius.
  • (19) In that test, the rate-pressure product (HR X BPs) also increased and a greater ST segment depression and aggravation of arrhythmia were noted as compared to the findings obtained during the 5 kilometer march and also in the classic ergometric test.
  • (20) The samples were taken from the middle of the White Nile, from handpumps along the river-bank, from the bank of the river and from drinking water bowls in the village of Melut and other surrounding villages within about 100 kilometers.

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