(n.) A place of deposit for the storing of goods; a warehouse; a storehouse.
(n.) A military station where stores and provisions are kept, or where recruits are assembled and drilled.
(n.) The headquarters of a regiment, where all supplies are received and distributed, recruits are assembled and instructed, infirm or disabled soldiers are taken care of, and all the wants of the regiment are provided for.
(n.) A railway station; a building for the accommodation and protection of railway passengers or freight.
Example Sentences:
(1) It is suggested that the rapid phase is due to clearance of peptides in the circulation which results in a fall to lower blood concentrations which are sustained by slow release of peptide from binding sites which act as a depot.
(2) The ACTH deficiency recovered spontaneously, with normal cortisol responses to depot Synacthen (greater than 1380 at 6 h) and hypoglycemia (peak, 590) 14 and 18 months postpartum, respectively.
(3) There was also a significant increase in the mitochondrial proton conductance pathway of brown adipose tissue, assessed from the binding of guanosine diphosphate (GDP) to mitochondria isolated from the interscapular (89% above control) and perirenal and para-aortic depots (130%).
(4) Chromatographic analysis of this radioactivity reveals that the octadecapeptide gives rise to much higher tissue levels of intact peptide and we believe that this acts as a depot and gives rise to the sustained blood concentrations and prolonged biological effects observed with this peptide.
(5) The histological findings show especially that the iron depots of the spleen were empty in all three groups and thereby in this collective no connection exists between the color of the veal and the tested dosage of iron dextran 20%.
(6) Circulating lipid levels, when elevated, can alter the pharmacodynamics of lipophilic drugs presumably by acting as an additional storage depot for such drugs.
(7) injection of 1 mg hydroxocobalamin every three months as maintenance therapy for eight to 20 years after an initial depot treatment of one or two series of five i.m.
(8) Exocrine secretory granules constitute an extension of the post-Golgi sorting system and are not merely terminal depots for proximally targeted polypeptides.
(9) Thus, contractile responsiveness in peripheral arteries may depend upon depots of superficially bound Ca++ to a greater degree than in the more centrally located aorta.
(10) A technique for the radioautographic identification, localization, and study of the turnover of cellular depots of 5-hydroxytryptamine (5-HT) has been evaluated.
(11) Liver depot iron can be divided into two fractions: ferritin iron and non-ferritin depot iron.
(12) This article reviews the role of a new depot antipsychotic dosage form, haloperidol decanoate (HD), in relationship to other comparable pharmacotherapies (oral and injectable).
(13) It has no special barriere - or depot - function in lead metabolism.
(14) In 14 schizophrenic patients, prolactin levels are studied in relation to dosage of depot fluphenazine and gender of patient.
(15) The influence of the non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drug Acemetacin in depot form on the course of the pepsinogen levels in serum was examined during 14 day therapy.
(16) After a glucose load, lipogenesis in the lean epididymal fat pad was not inhibited but that in the inguinal depot was.
(17) Oral fluphenazine, haloperidol, and depot fluphenazine are used to higher maximum levels than chlorpromazine and other neuroleptics, when maximum dose is reached after one week or longer.
(18) After 7 injections of Zoladex Depot (ICI Pharma, Heidelberg, Germany), the uterus was reduced to normal size carrying dorsally a myoma of the same size.
(19) Intensified insulin treatment, using multiple injections or insulin pumps, probably results in an increased risk of insulin deficiency owing to the smaller insulin depots.
(20) It seems possible that the formation of new fat cells is dependent on the average cell weight in a given adipose tissue depot, but there may also be other regional, local regulatory factors.
Facility
Definition:
(n.) The quality of being easily performed; freedom from difficulty; ease; as, the facility of an operation.
(n.) Ease in performance; readiness proceeding from skill or use; dexterity; as, practice gives a wonderful facility in executing works of art.
(n.) Easiness to be persuaded; readiness or compliance; -- usually in a bad sense; pliancy.
(n.) Easiness of access; complaisance; affability.
(n.) That which promotes the ease of any action or course of conduct; advantage; aid; assistance; -- usually in the plural; as, special facilities for study.
Example Sentences:
(1) Typological and archaeological investigations indicate that the church building represents originally the hospital facility for the lay brothers of the monastery, which according to the chronicle of the monastery was built in the beginning of the 14th century.
(2) Four delayed going to a medical facility and six did not have hypotension corrected.
(3) We report a case of a sudden death in a SCUBA diver working at a water treatment facility.
(4) A reduction in neonatal deaths from this cause might be expected if facilities for antenatal diagnosis and termination of pregnancy were made available, although this raises grave ethical problems.
(5) Pharmaceutical services were provided from a large tent near the hospital, which consisted of an emergency treatment facility, two operating rooms, and a small medical-surgical ward.
(6) He also plans to build a processing facility where tourists can gain firsthand experience of the fisheries industry, and to open a restaurant.
(7) "I don't want to go to Zurich, to some anonymous facility; I would want to do it in my own bed.
(8) Off The Hook has facilities of up to £30,000 from the bank, a signatory to the Project Merlin agreement.
(9) The La Parguera facility was established in part to contrast the social behavior of free-ranging groups with that in enclosures, as well as to compare the seasonal events linked to reproduction with those at Cayo Santiago.
(10) Little is known about bacteremia in long-term care facilities.
(11) The image of any radiology facility is a direct result of perceptions gathered by the consumer of their services.
(12) A facility for keeping chickens free of Marek's disease (MD) was obtained by adopting a system of filtered air under positive pressure (FAPP) for ventilation, and by imposing restrictions on entrance of articles, materials and personnel.
(13) I would like to see much more of that money go down to the grassroots.” The Premier League argues that its focus must remain on investing in the best players and facilities and claims it invests more in so-called “good causes” than any other football league.
(14) The brightly lit ice palaces themselves are stunning, inside and out, and the sporting facilities have been rightly praised by almost all the athletes.
(15) The statistical method proved to be very strong in screening patients who should not be considered for community placement and in four of the five facilities was also strong in identifying appropriate outpatients.
(16) Poor workplace health and safety, inadequate toilet facilities and dangerous fumes from mosquito fogging that led to one asylum seeker with asthma collapsing were all raised as concerns by Kilburn, although he stressed that he believed G4S management and expatriate G4S staff acted appropriately.
(17) It is spending £68m this year to help meet this target, including further investment in its China start-up, expansion of its main UK warehouse in Barnsley, and new facilities in Berlin and Shanghai, and expansion of a warehouse in Ohio.
(18) This virus was imported on multiple occasions from a Philippine supplier of cynomolgus macaques as a consequence of an epidemic of acute infections in the foreign holding facility.
(19) This test by virtue of its high sensitivity and the facilities in processing a large number of specimens, can prove to be useful in endemic areas for the recognition of asymptomatic malaria and screening of blood donors.
(20) Even as the Obama administration moves to deal with some of Guantánamo's most notorious captives, it faces tough challenges to closing the facility.