(n.) That which is devised, or formed by design; a contrivance; an invention; a project; a scheme; often, a scheme to deceive; a stratagem; an artifice.
(n.) Power of devising; invention; contrivance.
(n.) An emblematic design, generally consisting of one or more figures with a motto, used apart from heraldic bearings to denote the historical situation, the ambition, or the desire of the person adopting it. See Cognizance.
(n.) Improperly, an heraldic bearing.
(n.) Anything fancifully conceived.
(n.) A spectacle or show.
(n.) Opinion; decision.
Example Sentences:
(1) Thirty-two patients (10 male, 22 female; age 37-82 years) undergoing maintenance haemodialysis or haemofiltration were studied by means of Holter device capable of simultaneously analysing rhythm and ST-changes in three leads.
(2) The reason for the rise in Android's market share on both sides of the Atlantic is the increased number of devices that use the software.
(3) Core biopsy with computed tomography (CT) or ultrasound (US) guidance may be such an alternative, particularly when a spring-loaded firing device is used.
(4) Socially acceptable urinary control was achieved in 90 per cent of the 139 patients with active devices in place.
(5) Good fixation was obtained in 4 cases using Steffee's devices.
(6) The image was altered in the expected way, which means that the device is suitable for investigating the possibilities of different filters to improve the diagnostic ability.
(7) Streaming is shown to occur in water in the focused beams produced by a number of medical pulse-echo devices.
(8) A device allowing pressure to be applied to a local skin site where the skin blood flow is followed using laser Doppler flowmetry is described.
(9) While there has been almost no political reform during their terms of office, there have been several ambitious steps forward in terms of environmental policy: anti-desertification campaigns; tree planting; an environmental transparency law; adoption of carbon targets; eco-services compensation; eco accounting; caps on water; lower economic growth targets; the 12th Five-Year Plan; debate and increased monitoring of PM2.5 [fine particulate matter] and huge investments in eco-cities, "clean car" manufacturing, public transport, energy-saving devices and renewable technology.
(10) The Nd-Yag-Laser seems to be a useful device in transsphenoidal surgery due to its potent coagulation effect and comfortable handling.
(11) However, localizing a functional region with PET has been severely limited by the poor resolving properties of PET devices.
(12) The devices worked as well on postphlebitic legs as on normal ones.
(13) Ten patients have undergone abdominal proctocolectomy with the formation of an ileal reservoir anastomosed onto the anal canal using a stapling device.
(14) The lack of pedestrian crossing devices, crosswalks, or sidewalks, however, was not associated with an increased risk.
(15) He added that 45% of traffic to Local World's extensive portfolio of websites – 76 newspaper sites, 26 This is … sites and 400 hyper local sites – comes from mobile devices.
(16) The latter animals were raised in an automated feeding device (Autosow) with an artificial diet simulating the nutritional composition of sow milk.
(17) "Android’s gain came mainly at the expense of BlackBerry, which saw its global smartphone share dip from 4 percent to 1 percent in the past year due to a weak line-up of BB10 devices," said Strategy Analytics' senior analyst Scott Bicheno.
(18) The authors consider that this device increases safety during this potentially hazardous procedure by eliminating the flammable polyvinyl chloride endotracheal tube and cottonoid packings most frequently used during this procedure.
(19) A training device is used in conjunction with an exercise program to teach muscle control for retention of a mandibular denture.
(20) We also used an optical device to stabilize images of the real world upon the retina.
Inductor
Definition:
(n.) The person who inducts another into an office or benefice.
(n.) That portion of an electrical apparatus, in which is the inducing charge or current.
Example Sentences:
(1) An increase of the beta-galactosidase synthesis occurred only in the presence of specific substrate inductors.
(2) These results show that under superinduction conditions partly 3 times more interferon is induced in comparison with the standard inductor Poly (IC).
(3) The toxic action of the inductors was more pronounced in a most radiosensitive thymocyte fraction.
(4) The proteins-inductors appear to penetrate in the cells and, while interacting (directly or via the cytoplasm) with the nuclei, "programme" the ectodermal cells towards the lens differentiation.
(5) Platelet aggregation by various inductors was studied in citrated and heparinized plasma of the following groups of subjects: Normal, hemophilia A, combined factor V and factor VIII deficiency, v. Willeprand's disease and congenital afibrinognemia.
(6) Biological activities of the RNA replicative form of phage f2, a natural interferon inductor and poly-I -- poly-C, a synthetic polyribonucleotide complex were studied comparatively.
(7) The antiviral effect of interferon inductors, such as poly-I--poly-C, phage f2 RNA replicative form and low molecular inductor GSN and their influence on cellular DNA synthesis were studied in the cultures of lymphoblastoid (inplanting lines Raji Namalva) and somatic human cells.
(8) It is shown that prodigiosan is an inductor of synthesis of the substances with the thymosin-like activity.
(9) Stimulation by a live shigella culture--the dysentery vaccine--revealed by means of Sonne diagnostic high, and when endotoxin from Serratia marcescens and dysenterin was used as an inductor, mild indicators of NBT test activity.
(10) The respiratory system can be considered analogous to a remarkably simple alternating-current electrical system with a resistor, an inductor, and a capacitor in series.
(11) The importance of the mesonephric ducts as guides or 'inductor' elements for adequate Müllerian development is emphasized.
(12) The method permits recording the platelet aggregation in citrate plasma, enriched for platelets, after exposure to the inductor in very low concentrations (0.05-0.15 microM ADP).
(13) The process is followed immediately by new-bone formation by autoinduction in which both the inductor cells and the induced cells are derived from ingrowing cells of the host bed.
(14) The simultaneous use of the two inductors does not result in additive increasing of the enzyme activity.
(15) Application of mannose-specific lectins (Con A, PSL) as inductors caused the increase, while application of other carbohydrate-specific lectins caused the decrease of luminol-dependent chemiluminescence in neutrophilic granulocyte suspension after the irradiation.
(16) The findings make it possible to recommend the new inductor of microsomal liver enzymes benzonal as part of the combined therapy of neonatal hemolytic disease.
(17) Spontaneously synthesized colicin was shown not to differ from the colicin synthesized by using inductors of the SOS-system of cell reparation.
(18) An inductor of microsomal enzymes 9-acetate-16alpha-isothiocyanogen pregnenolone (ATCP), administered into rats within 5 days after termination of feeding with an atherogenic diet, caused normalization of cholesterol content in blood, of beta-lipoproteins spectrum as well as the structure of liver cells.
(19) It is thus observed that chronic tonsillitis, symptoms of which may not be volunteered at examination, is a potent inductor of sickle cell pain crisis and that tonsillectomy is an effective mode of treatment, especially when the tonsillar crypts contain pus.
(20) Gene c alters the morphology of the mutant anterior endoderm - the primary heart inductor.