(n.) The act of delivering from restraint; rescue; release; liberation; as, the delivery of a captive from his dungeon.
(n.) The act of delivering up or over; surrender; transfer of the body or substance of a thing; distribution; as, the delivery of a fort, of hostages, of a criminal, of goods, of letters.
(n.) The act or style of utterance; manner of speaking; as, a good delivery; a clear delivery.
(n.) The act of giving birth; parturition; the expulsion or extraction of a fetus and its membranes.
(n.) The act of exerting one's strength or limbs.
(n.) The act or manner of delivering a ball; as, the pitcher has a swift delivery.
Example Sentences:
(1) HSV I infection of the hand classically occurs in children with herpetic stomatitis and in health care workers infected during patient care delivery.
(2) This difference is probably secondary to the different rates of delivery of furosemide into urine.
(3) Classical treatment combining artificial delivery or uterine manual evacuation-oxytocics led to the arrest of bleeding in 73 cases.
(4) Foetal serum TSH concentration declined significantly between 20 and 21 days of gestation, reached a low level at delivery, and remained low for several days after birth.
(5) Direct limiting effects of hypothermia on tissue O2 delivery and muscle oxidative metabolism as well as vasoconstriction and arteriovenous shunting associated with CPB procedures are likely to be involved in the above mentioned alterations of cell metabolism.
(6) 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.
(7) The sexual attitudes and beliefs of 20 children who have been present at the labor and delivery of sibs and have observed the birth process are compared with 20 children who have not been present at delivery.
(8) Antibodies by the papain method were detected 41 of the women at the time of delivery (22 Rh-positive babies and 19 Rh-negative ones).
(9) A pilot study was undertaken to determine the prevalence of gas in the puerperal endometrial cavity and to determine whether this finding has any relationship to the mode of delivery or to the development of puerperal endometritis.
(10) Transtracheal oxygen (TTO) delivery for patients with chronic hypoxemia has been used increasingly since its introduction in 1982.
(11) These results suggest that bPAG is probably synthesized by trophoblast binucleate cells and stored in granules prior to delivery into the maternal circulation after cell migration.
(12) In this article we examine the potential role of liposomes as a drug delivery system for antisense oligonucleotides.
(13) 1) The incidence of premature rupture of the membranes (PROM), threatened premature delivery, toxemia and abruption placentae were 40.6, 36.4, 7.8 and 3.0%, respectively.
(14) In order to map the mental state in the early puerperium the authors gave to a group of 100 women for five days after delivery Lüscher's colour test.
(15) These results suggest that precursors of GPIIb and GPIIIa may be encoded by separate genes and that each precursor is processed before delivery to the plasma membrane.
(16) Under normal conditions (venous PO2 greater than or equal to 40 mm Hg), oxygen delivery to the muscle was maintained mainly by large increases in the capillary exchange capacity and the oxygen extraction ratio in accord with tissue demand following the application of the above stresses.
(17) The 1-carboxyalkyl nicotinamide----dihydronicotinamide redox pair is a new type of brain-enhanced chemical delivery system for drugs containing hydroxyl groups.
(18) Other parameters compared were route of delivery, one- and five-minute Apgar score, birth weight, relative birth order and sex.
(19) Evaluation of the roles of prolactin and placental lactogen in pregnancy in primates has revealed mammotropic, fetal osmoregulatory, metabolic, and steroidogenic roles, which appear to protect the uterine contents during late pregnancy and prepare the fetus for the changes in nutrition at the time of delivery.
(20) A retrospective study of 215 deliveries in diabetic mothers at Hospital de Clínicas (Montevideo, Uruguay) has been performed.
Postal
Definition:
(a.) Belonging to the post office or mail service; as, postal arrangements; postal authorities.
Example Sentences:
(1) This was achieved by means of postal questionnaires, coupled with the biochemical and serological examination of bacterial isolates from 91 outbreaks in poultry and from nine cases in other avian species.
(2) The government will formally begin the sale of Royal Mail on Thursday by announcing its intention to float the 497-year-old postal service on the London Stock Exchange.
(3) A postal survey of all Papua New Guinean private medical practitioners was conducted to ascertain their practice characteristics, how well they kept up with current medical knowledge and whether they were interested in contributing to public sector medicine.
(4) There were 119 quarry drilling and crusher workers (outdoor, physically active), 77 quarry truck and loader drivers (outdoor, physically inactive), 92 postal deliverymen (outdoor, physically active), 75 postal clerks (indoor, physically inactive), and 43 hospital maintenance workers (indoor, physically active).
(5) One year later, using postal questionnaires, they were asked about their experience of back pain in the ensuing 12 months and about smoking habits, breathlessness, coughing, and the bringing up of phlegm.
(6) The Communication Workers Union (CWU), which represents postal workers, has vowed to fight the sale, which it says will lead to a "worse deal for customers, staff and thousands of small businesses dependent on the Royal Mail".
(7) 5.53pm GMT MPs to seek answers from Royal Mail shareholders And finally, the House of Commons business committee plans to write to large investors in Royal Mail to ask for their views on the flotation of the postal service .
(8) A postal survey has been carried out in order to know the attitudes of general practitioners concerning the harmful effects of alcohol.
(9) In the end, turnout on Thursday was a respectable 40.26%, with 7,115 of the 27,791 ballots cast via postal votes.
(10) Subjects were 279 South Australian non-specialist medical practitioners, selected by quasi-random procedures, of whom 76% responded to a postal questionnaire.
(11) A postal survey was undertaken using a questionnaire to assess the public's knowledge of cancer morbidity and mortality and the role of lifestyle and genetic risk factors.
(12) An extra effort in data collection, involving checking hospital admissions and discharges, inquiries to general practitioners and some postal questionnaires, allowed us to identify 45 extra cases of non-fatal myocardial infarction--the special procedure.
(13) To investigate sexual behaviour under the influence of alcohol and the relationship between drinking habits and unsafe sex we carried out a postal and interview survey of 2174 students in the North East of England.
(14) This article deals with certain preliminary findings obtained in a long-term prospective study begun in 1982 using the interview method; the first follow-up was carried out in 1986, the method consisting of a postal inquiry and the collection of recorded data.
(15) Community nurses received only 36 (four per cent) of all the calls despite the interests expressed by hospital nursing staff in their responses to a postal questionnaire.
(16) A total of 21,889 postal questionnaires were returned (87%) representing households containing 42,826 people aged 16 years and over.
(17) In the wake of direct shipping and postal links, this summer also saw the first direct flights across the Taiwan Straits since the civil war, with passenger services now running daily.
(18) Therefore a postal questionnaire was sent to 100 hospital doctors dealing with children asking which features made them consider a parent to be difficult or unlikeable.
(19) A postal survey was carried out on 1,416 women divided into: 1.
(20) But, as the postal sector demonstrates all too clearly, an economic regulator can unleash a whirlwind.