(n.) One of the small bones in the knee joints of sheep uniting the bones above and below the joints.
(n.) A child's game, played with dib bones.
Example Sentences:
(1) Akintonwa has classified degranulation into three types, viz, DIA, DIB, and DII (D.A.A.
(2) DIB profiles differed only with respect to slightly higher scores on the affect section among patients who committed suicide.
(3) The qualitative DIB was performed using capillary blood obtained by digi-puncture and results were compared in a blind fashion to the ELISA data.
(4) A case of moderately severe erythroblastosis fetalis due to anti-Dib is reported.
(5) No statistically significant changes in DIB occurred in any of the jaw locations between the 1-year and 2-year evaluations.
(6) red & blue shifts) in the fluorescence spectrum of diB(ae)F-treated cells before injection and in the increase spectrum after injection of G6P, as compared to the same spectra in the diB(ae)F-untreated cells.
(7) Hizb ut-Tahrir called dibs on the Caliphate, and they view Baghdadi’s group and his title as wholly illegitimate.
(8) The findings are consistent with the idea that Kernberg's borderline concept is an instance of a severity or maturity level construct, while DSM-III and DIB are characterological constructs, orthogonally related to the level construct.
(9) In recent years there have been attempts to circumscribe the definition with the help of DSM-III criteria and the DIB.
(10) The DIB may be a useful aid in assessing the host response to putative periodontopathic microorganisms.
(11) Some individual DMT signs correlated with some deviant behaviors as identified by the DIB.
(12) Whole-cell antigen, biotin-labeled goat anti-turkey IgG conjugate, and horseradish-peroxidase-labeled streptavidin were used in the AB-ELISA and AB-DIB assay.
(13) The conclusion is that the DIB may be used for retrospective diagnosis of borderline patients from hospital records.
(14) The DIB is suited to differentiate clinically diagnosed borderline personality disorders from schizophrenics and neurotic depressives.
(15) Both Mycoplasma gallisepticum (MG) and M. synoviae (MS) antigens prepared for the routine haemagglutination inhibition (HI) test were diluted and absorbed to the separate pieces of durapore membrane for the measurement of dot-immunobinding (DIB) titers of test sera.
(16) The concurrent validity of the DIB may be enlarged by modifications of the proposed scaling system.
(17) Two trained and experienced clinical psychologists and two nontrained students rated the sections in Gunderson's Diagnostic Interview for Borderlines (DIB) on the basis of hospital records for 16 patients (DIB-R).
(18) Using peripheral capillary blood and the DIB, detection of elevated systemic antibody levels can be performed in approximately 2 hours.
(19) Using the clinician-administered DIB as the diagnostic standard, the authors found that the DIS borderline index had a sensitivity of 85.7%, a specificity of 86.2%, and a kappa of 0.67.
(20) The Axis I phenomenology of 50 outpatients meeting both Diagnostic Interview for Borderlines (DIB) and DSM-III criteria for Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD), 29 outpatients meeting DSM-III criteria for Antisocial Personality Disorder (APD), and 26 outpatients meeting DSM-III criteria for Dsythymic Disorder as well as DSM-III criteria for some other type of Axis II disorder (dysthymic OPD) was assessed blind to clinical diagnosis using the Structured Clinical Interview for DSM-III (SCID).
Jib
Definition:
(v. i.) A triangular sail set upon a stay or halyard extending from the foremast or fore-topmast to the bowsprit or the jib boom. Large vessels often carry several jibe; as, inner jib; outer jib; flying jib; etc.
(v. i.) The projecting arm of a crane, from which the load is suspended.
(v. i.) To move restively backward or sidewise, -- said of a horse; to balk.
Example Sentences:
(1) Jejunoileal bypass (JIB) has been widely performed for treatment of excessive obesity.
(2) Thirty women, operated on with JIB 11 to 17 years earlier, were examined by colonoscopy with multiple biopsies, systematically taken for histologic evaluation and flow cytometric DNA analysis.
(3) Numbers of intestinal goblet cells containing specific acid mucins were determined in male Sprague-Dawley rats receiving azoxymethane (total dose 90 mg kg-1) with or without jejunoileal bypass (JIB).
(4) Contents of sulphomucins and especially sialomucins were consistently higher in the small bowel and colon of rats receiving azoxymethane alone, but again the highest values were observed in animals with azoxymethane plus JIB.
(5) Malabsorption of calcium and low fasting urinary calcium excretion in the JIB patients were associated with high tubular reabsorption of calcium, the latter presumably attributable to a compensatory increase in circulating parathyroid hormone (PTH).
(6) Arthritis after JIB appears to be associated with circulating immune complexes containing secretory IgA.
(7) The use of a protein supplemented diet alone markedly reduced the detrimental effects of JIB.
(8) In Experiment 1 rats given a cherry-flavored solution immediately after JIB surgery subsequently displayed a strong aversion to the cherry flavor compared to Bypass and Sham-Bypass control groups.
(9) Jejunoileal bypass (JIB) has been a widespread operation for treatment of morbid obesity.
(10) Louis van Gaal likes the cut of the German’s jib, and would apparently cost around £20m.
(11) Forty-five patients who had been subjected to jejuno-ileal bypass (JIB) surgery for morbid obesity and 10 obese nonsurgery subjects were studied.
(12) We conclude that hyperoxaluria in JIB patients is associated both with intestinal hyperabsorption and with enhanced tubular secretion of oxalate, and that in some patients with IHC hypercalciuria is due to reduced tubular reabsorption of calcium.
(13) Patients with JIB have a marked and persistent increase in cell proliferation in the large intestine and may be at increased risk of developing colonic cancer.
(14) Still, if you like the cut of Ukip's jib, you might like to think of its members as bold trailblazers for the future of the radical right.
(15) Particularly well-documented are the feeding and drinking effects of JIB and vagotomy.
(16) In rats JIB causes adaptive colonic hyperplasia and enhances colorectal neoplasia.
(17) Jejunoileal bypass (JIB) has been widely used to treat patients with morbid obesity for the past 20 years.
(18) That dress earned universal praise for its elegance, boldness and simplicity, though some jibbed at its sleevelessness.
(19) The jejunoileal bypass (JIB) has met with increasing disfavor as a result of its unacceptably high complication rate.
(20) The role of the kidney in states of hyperoxaluria and hypercalciuria was investigated in seven patients with hyperoxaluria after jejunoileal bypass (JIB) and six patients with idiopathic hypercalciuria (IHC).