(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).
Lib
Definition:
(v. t.) To castrate.
Example Sentences:
(1) However, as the same task confronts the Lib Dems, do we not now have a priceless opportunity to bring the two parties together to undertake a fundamental rethink of the way social democratic principles and policies can be made relevant to modern society.
(2) This was due to the fact that stale bread was fed ad lib, rather than concentrates.
(3) Huhne increased the Lib Dems' majority to 3,864 in 2010, securing 24,966 compared with the Conservatives' 21,102, Labour's 5,153 and Ukip's 1,933.
(4) "I saw my role, and continue to do so, as doing everything I can to accelerate the Lib Dems' journey from a party of protest to a party of government," he said.
(5) The move was confirmed by a Lib Dem aide, who said Tory claims to be green were "already a lame duck and are now dead in the water".
(6) And would all Labour cabinet ministers be as willing to work closely with Lib Dem ministers of state, as happens now, though with some spiky exceptions?
(7) #kflead May 21, 2014 The King's Fund IKS (@kingsfund_lib) Hope you enjoyed @GregSearle2012 's #kflead workshop!
(8) On the mothers' internet forum Mumsnet, 44% of women who voted in a post-debate survey said they were now thinking of voting Lib Dem, compared with 23% three weeks ago.
(9) They took 15% in 2010, with the other parties caught in a scrappy three-way struggle in which the winning Lib Dems came in below 30%.
(10) In order to clarify the development of mandibular movements associated with growth and development of the stomatognathic system, we compared the mandibular movements of children with normal occlusion at different Hellman's dental age between IIA and IIIB, during tooth tapping movements using the following 7 different kinds of frequency; ad lib.
(11) A bit like the old Lib Dems, perhaps: and indeed the Greens owe a big chunk of their surge to the exodus of voters from Clegg’s discredited rump.
(12) The Conservatives have held back the development of garden cities on the scale necessary, but if Liberal Democrats are part of the next government, we will ensure at least 10 get under way – with up to five along this new garden cities railway, bringing new homes and jobs to the brainbelt of south-east England.” The Lib Dems insist they are planning to act in the national interest and are not motivated by electoral considerations.
(13) Liverpool's fixation with the wrecking ball is not party-political – it was passed from a Labour council to the Lib Dems and now back to Labour – nor is it unique to Toxteth.
(14) Nick Clegg sounded exasperated, but it is Lib Dem convention to let members make the party’s policies by democratic vote.
(15) Rather than challenging the Lib Dem policy on Trident, Miliband chose to criticise Cameron's comments about the renewal of Trident in last Thursday's leadership debate.
(16) Labour and, sotto voce, some Lib Dems, counter that Clegg did not need to cede this much ground – there is no clear evidence that the markets will impose higher interest rates if the deficit is not tackled more quickly than Labour planned.
(17) You have got the trade unions, Greens, the Lib Dems, Labour, a Conservative government.
(18) James, who is an MEP for south-east England, was responsible for one of Ukip’s great near-misses, coming within 2,000 votes of unseating the Lib Dems at the Eastleigh by-election in 2013 in a result that shocked political observers.
(19) We'd talked to them about proportional representation, and Andrew Adonis was leading our approach with David Laws for the Lib Dems, and we'd worked out our policy on all these things.
(20) The Lib Dems have campaigned for a "mansion tax" on properties worth more than £2m, to pay for the poorest workers to be lifted out of the tax system.