(n.) A small cavern or hollow place in the side of a hill, or among rocks; esp., a cave used by a wild beast for shelter or concealment; as, a lion's den; a den of robbers.
(n.) A squalid place of resort; a wretched dwelling place; a haunt; as, a den of vice.
(n.) Any snug or close retreat where one goes to be alone.
(n.) A narrow glen; a ravine; a dell.
(v. i.) To live in, or as in, a den.
Example Sentences:
(1) Fractures which occur near the base of the dens have a low propensity to unite spontaneously.
(2) Significantly higher levels of c-myc gene expression were observed in tissues of HCC of the DEN group and in neoplastic nodules of the DEN-DES groups than in the DES and DEN-C group.
(3) The antibody response against flaviviruses tick-borne encephalitis (TBE), Kyasanur Forest disease (KFD), Murray Valley encephalitis (MVE), West Nile fever (WNF), Japanese B encephalitis (JE), dengue 2 (DEN-2), and yellow fever (YF) was studied in humans after administration of an inactivated TBE virus vaccine.
(4) ENU, in contrast with DEN, also resulted in a significant staining of nonparenchymal cells.
(5) A systematic study including morphologic, histologic, pathologic aspects of dens evaginatus was carried out and data were compared with those given in previous reports pertaining to dens evaginatus in other Asian countries.
(6) The data reflect differences in the behaviour of GR and AR in the atrophic BCLA and suggest a relative increase in sensitivity to glucocorticoids compared to androgens in the DEN muscle.
(7) We have now characterized in vivo Th-cell priming activity of one of these peptides (MVE 17, amino acids 356 to 376) and an analogous peptide derived from the E-glycoprotein sequence of the dengue (DEN) 2, Jamaica strain (DEN 17, amino acids 352 to 368).
(8) Particularly so, as Lord Denning put it "...without morality there can be no law."
(9) Rheumatoid arthritis, which produces anterior displacement of the atlas over the dens to more than 10 mm, neurologic symptoms, or untreatable pain must be stabilized by means of C1-C2 fusion.
(10) Most DEN virus strains, representing all 4 serotypes isolated from various parts of the tropics, were identical either visually of spectrophotometrically when infected cell culture fluids were used as sources of antigen.
(11) In the Mahale Mountains National Park of Tanzania, a group of about 33 chimpanzees were observed to surround a leopard den containing a mother and at least one cub and to drag out and kill the cub.
(12) A series of temperature-sensitive (ts) mutants of dengue virus type 2 (DEN-2, TH-36 isolate) were induced by treatment with 5-azacytidine.
(13) produces more potential foci of tumour growth than in the normal liver and (2) that the repeated doses of CCl4 leading to repeated phases of regeneration, after the dose of DEN, provide a promoting stimulus.
(14) The shelf life of the solid phase presensitized with monoclonal antibodies was 4 mth at -15 degrees C. DEN prototype viruses were still identified after storage at -15 degrees C for 1 yr or at room temperature for 1 mth.
(15) O6EG levels in DNA of Clara cell-enriched populations were found to be higher than O6EG levels in DNA of alveolar type II cell-enriched populations and macrophages following acute DEN treatment.
(16) The fiber orientation is dependent on the height of dens axis, mostly in the cranial caudal direction.
(17) At earlier stages of the neoplastic process (11 or 16 weeks after the second DEN dose), most adenomas were well-differentiated lesions with no atypia or focal grade 1 or 2 atypia.
(18) This technique is best applied in nontraumatic cases in which the dens is not seen clearly on the "open mouth view".
(19) This treatment raised the number of adenosine-5'-triphosphatase (ATPase)-deficient foci up to 5-fold, that of gamma-glutamyltranspeptidase (GGTase) and glycogen-positive foci 13- and 10-fold, respectively, after 12 weeks; 25 mg caused no effect compared to DEN-treated controls.
(20) The system consists of a) single carcinogenic dose of diethylnitrosamine (DEN), b) short-term dietary exposure to 2-acetylaminofluorene (2-AAF) sufficient to suppress growth of virtually all normal hepatocytes, and c) partial hepatectomy (PH) to actuate rapid growth of DEN-altered hepatocytes not suppressed by 2-AAF.
Ten
Definition:
(a.) One more than nine; twice five.
(n.) The number greater by one than nine; the sum of five and five; ten units of objects.
(n.) A symbol representing ten units, as 10, x, or X.
Example Sentences:
(1) In this study of ten consecutive patients sustaining molten metal injuries to the lower extremity who were treated with excision and grafting, treatment with compression Unna paste boot was compared with that with conventional dressing.
(2) However, four of ten young adult outer arm (relatively sun-exposed) and one of ten young adult inner arm (relatively sun-protected) fibroblasts lines increased their saturation density in response to retinoic acid.
(3) Ten out of 12 (83%) tumours which had c-erbB-2 and c-erbA co-amplification had metastasised to axillary lymph nodes (P less than 0.006).
(4) Ten patients developed zoster within the first 6 months following transplant.
(5) We report our experience of 11 procedures, performed on ten patients between October 1987 and June 1988.
(6) Ten milliliters of the solution inappropriately came into contact with nasal mucous membranes, causing excessive drug absorption.
(7) The ulcers on seven of ten legs (70%) treated with Unna's boots and on 10 of 14 legs (71%) treated with elastic support stocking healed.
(8) The lengths and heights of the scalae tympani in ten pairs of serially sectioned temporal bones were measured by an adaptation of the serial section method of cochlear reconstruction.
(9) Affected dogs were from ten breeds and their average age was eight years.
(10) The effect of ipratropium bromide administered at two dosage levels, 40 and 80 mug, isoproterenol, 150 mug, and placebo using a metered dose inhaler was evaluated in ten adult patients with asthma in a double-blind, crossover study.
(11) At this threshold there was no effect on reducing the rate of visual acuity overreferrals, but ten children with abnormal binocular vision were detected who were not referred by visual acuity criteria.
(12) Most strains showed reductions in infectivity of less than ten fold, while two strains demonstrated a marked sensitivity to the drug.
(13) Ten weeks of iron therapy was not, however, long enough to increase iron stores.
(14) Ten or 4% of the administered parasites passed in the feces during the 3 days following the first or second infection, but 32% after the third infection.
(15) Since then the intensive development of anti-malaria campaigns in urban areas over about ten years led temporarily to a considerable decrease in the level of endemicity, while in rural areas it remained unchanged.
(16) Ten patients received intercostal nerve blockade on a total of 29 occasions in order to provide analgesia following liver transplantation and to facilitate weaning from artificial ventilation of the lungs.
(17) Ten filtrating blebs remained after a 5 months' follow-up period.
(18) The mean follow-up was ten years and the results were graded in the Lazansky system.
(19) We did three repeated PD measures of mean aortic flow velocity in ten term infants (using four trained operators) to determine inter- and intraoperator reproducibility.
(20) The annual cost of treatment is $200,000 (£130,000), and patients may live for tens of years.