(v.) A putting off or deferring; procrastination; lingering inactivity; stop; detention; hindrance.
(n.) To put off; to defer; to procrastinate; to prolong the time of or before.
(n.) To retard; to stop, detain, or hinder, for a time; to retard the motion, or time of arrival, of; as, the mail is delayed by a heavy fall of snow.
(n.) To allay; to temper.
(v. i.) To move slowly; to stop for a time; to linger; to tarry.
Example Sentences:
(1) The combined immediate and delayed responses to fleas in the dog are as observed by other investigators in man and guinea pigs.
(2) Some commentators have described his ship, now facing more delays after a decade in development, as little more than a Heath Robinson machine.
(3) Our results indicate that increasing the delay for more than 8 days following irradiation and TCD syngeneic BMT leads to a rapid loss of the ability to achieve alloengraftment by non-TCD allogeneic bone marrow.
(4) Cranial MRI revealed delayed myelination in the white matter but no brain malformation.
(5) It was concluded that metoclopramide and dexamethasone showed an excellent antiemetic effect on acute drug-induced emesis, as well as on delayed emesis, induced by cisplatin.
(6) Under these conditions the meiotic prophase takes place and proceeds to the dictyate phase, obeying a somewhat delayed chronology in comparison with controls in vivo.
(7) Four delayed going to a medical facility and six did not have hypotension corrected.
(8) The mechanism by which pertussis toxin (PT) breaks the unresponsiveness of delayed-type hypersensitivity (DTH) to sheep red blood cells (SRBC) was examined in B10 mice.
(9) Variables included an ego-delay measure obtained from temporal estimations, perceptions of temporal dominance and relatedness obtained from Cottle's Circles Test, Ss' ages, and a measure of long-term posthospital adjustment.
(10) The authors conclude that H. pylori alone causes little or no effect on an intact gastric mucosa in the rat, that either intact organisms or bacteria-free filtrates cause similar prolongation and delayed healing of pre-existing ulcers with active chronic inflammation, and that the presence of predisposing factors leading to disruption of gastric mucosal integrity may be required for the H. pylori enhancement of inflammation and tissue damage in the stomach.
(11) Development at two to 15 months of age in the 19 surviving infants was normal in nine, suspect in eight, and severely delayed in two patients.
(12) During these delays, medical staff attempt to manage these often complex and painful conditions with ad hoc and temporizing measures,” write the doctors.
(13) With the stimulated liver being irradiated, the number of cells synthetizing DNA and entering into mitosis was seen reduced almost twice, whereas DNA synthesis and entering into mitosis were delayed, resp., by 4 and 6 hours.
(14) Mice also had a decreased ability to develop delayed-type hypersensitivity reactions while being given cadmium; this abnormality also returned toward normal after withdrawal of cadmium.
(15) We found that, although controlled release delivery of ddC inhibited de novo FeLV-FAIDS replication and delayed onset of viremia when therapy was discontinued (after 3 weeks), an equivalent incidence and level of viremia were established rapidly in both ddC-treated and control cats.
(16) The treatment was started either immediately or delayed for 48 h after peritoneal inoculation.
(17) Blood was cross-matched preoperatively in 47.7% of patients and 90% of this blood was either not administered or given as a delayed nonurgent procedure.
(18) The Tc-99m DISIDA cholescintigraphy demonstrated both early and delayed nonvisualization of the gallbladder.
(19) Sarcoidosis is a chronic granulomatous disease that may be considered to be a human model for the delayed-type hypersensitivity reaction.
(20) We report the treatment of 44 boys with constitutional delay of growth and puberty (CDGP) at a mean chronological age of 14.3 years (range, 12.4-17.1) and bone age of 12.1 years (range, 9.1-15.0).
Pend
Definition:
(n.) Oil cake; penock.
(v. i.) To hang; to depend.
(v. i.) To be undecided, or in process of adjustment.
(v. t.) To pen; to confine.
Example Sentences:
(1) And this has opened up a loophole for businesses to be morally bankrupt, ignoring the obligations to its workforce because no legal conduct has been established.” Whatever the outcome of the pending lawsuits, it’s unlikely that just one model will work for everybody.
(2) A preliminary "profile" of the patient with low back pain who would likely benefit from manual therapy included acute symptom onset with less than a 1-month duration of symptoms, central or paravertebral pain distribution, no previous exposure to spinal manipulation, and no pending litigation or workers' compensation.
(3) He can appoint Garland to the supreme court, and even push through the other 58 federal judicial nominees that are pending.
(4) Catheter occlusion of the right lower pulmonary artery allowed evaluation of the integrity of the remaining pulmonary vascular bed as well as improvement of the patient's hemodynamic condition pending more definitive therapy.
(5) The spokesman added that there were already "quite a few cases pending".
(6) UK in denial over Saudi arms sales being used in Yemen, claims Oxfam Read more A previous draft report prepared by the arms export controls select committee was set to call for a suspension of UK arms sales to Saudi pending an independent investigation into the way the Saudi-led coalition was conducting a bombing campaign in Yemen.
(7) The implications for ethics committees of the pending federal Patient Self-Determination Act are discussed here by John C. Fletcher in "The Patient Self-Determination Act: yes," and by Alexander Morgan Capron in "The Patient Self-Determination Act: not now."
(8) Greens in the European parliament, as well as in France and Germany , called for the conference to be postponed pending an investigation of the allegations.
(9) Scotland Yard said the 15-year-old was questioned on suspicion of offences under the Computer Misuse Act, but freed on bail on Tuesday morning pending further inquiries.
(10) I would do so in consideration of the appellants' rights, to avoid the possibility of a miscarriage of justice, and in comity with the supreme courts' request for time to resolve the issues pending before it."
(11) These conclusions must be considered tentative, pending other studies to disprove the presence of new molecular species with no change in net charge or size.
(12) As pharmacists are legally or unofficially involved in many areas with few facilities, it may be questioned how their contribution may be more effective pending the development of more extensive official programs.
(13) The TLU was well tolerated by the patients; only two patients refused the TLU pending discussion of the technique with their obstetrician.
(14) Although supporters have stumped up £180,000, it is expected bail will be refused, pending a full hearing of Sweden's extradition request.
(15) The Alabama supreme court ordered county probate judges to uphold the state ban pending a final ruling by the US supreme court , which hears arguments in April on whether gay couples nationwide have a fundamental right to marry and whether states can ban such unions.
(16) Successful application of CAD technology for bridge to transplant or pending recovery of the natural heart requires understanding issues involving team readiness, patient selection, device limitations, patient management, and complications.
(17) But the pending toughening of the rules merely angers lawyers acting for the detainees even more – why, they ask, did the Obama administration not act more quickly to effect transfers before the squeeze was imposed.
(18) Pending delivery, which is the only definitive therapy for preeclampsia, maternal complications of intracerebral hemorrhage and eclampsia may be prevented with judicious use of antihypertensive medication (e.g., hydralazine) and magnesium sulfate, respectively.
(19) Balls's intervention came in the wake of News International announcing yesterday that Ian Edmondson, the News of the World's assistant editor, had been suspended before Christmas pending an investigation into whether he had instructed reporters to hack phones, or had knowledge of the practice.
(20) He is reported to have expressed unhappiness at his own pending deployment and of US troops being responsible for the killing of fellow Muslims in Iraq and Afghanistan.