(n.) One who, or that which, divides; that which separates anything into parts.
(n.) One who deals out to each his share.
(n.) One who, or that which, causes division.
(n.) An instrument for dividing lines, describing circles, etc., compasses. See Compasses.
Example Sentences:
(1) The study of cellular cyclic AMP level in response to extracellular adenosine stimulation in dividing cells and quiescent cells showed that cells in defined medium had a lower extent of response to adenosine compared to cells cultured in serum-containing medium.
(2) In high concentrations of antiserum, some of the agglutinated cells of L. h. hertigi were enlarged and showed syncytial characters that included up to five nuclei, two dividing nuclei and five basal bodies associated with a single kinetoplast.
(3) We studied the effect of low-dose intrathecal morphine (0.00-0.20 mg) on pain relief and the incidence of side effects after cholecystectomy in 139 patients divided into eight groups according to intrathecal morphine dose: groups 1 (0.00 mg), 2 (0.04 mg), 3 (0.06 mg), 4 (0.08 mg), 5 (0.10 mg), 6 (0.12 mg), 7 (0.15 mg), and 8 (0.20 mg).
(4) The ACoA branches were divided into the small and the large.
(5) lengths with the subjects equally divided into these four groups: distributed trials, distributed sessions; distributed trials, massed sessions; massed trials, distributed sessions; and massed trials, massed sessions.
(6) 310 patients with acute infantile gastroenteritis were divided into 2 groups.
(7) Patients were divided into two groups: poor outcome, defined by the death or a post-operative Karnofsky index less than or equal to 70 (n = 36), and good outcome defined by a Karnofsky index of 80 or more (n = 60).
(8) To determine the correlation with clinical findings, the patients were divided into three groups: (1) symptomatic with monoclonal immunoelectrophoretic patterns; (2) asymptomatic with monoclonal immunoelectrophoretic patterns; (3) asymptomatic with polyclonal immunoelectrophoretic patterns.
(9) A 2.7-kilobase DNA fragment carrying the entire exotoxin A (ETA) structural gene was divided into three nonoverlapping probes.
(10) When the schizophrenics were divided into those with and without an abnormal response to PGE1, oleic acid was higher and eicosapentaenoic acid lower in those patients with an abnormal response.
(11) Treatment was divided into two categories named arbitrarily "no therapy" (general supportive measures) or "therapy" (causal treatment based on active drugs or measures aimed at affecting the cause of the disease).
(12) Left ventricular synchrony was assessed from regional volume curves derived by dividing the global ventricular region of interest into four quadrants.
(13) The serial changes in EF during exercise was divided into 5 types, including continuous increase (type A), initial increase but return to the baseline (type B), no change (type C), initial increase but later decrease below the baseline (type D), and continuous decrease (type E).
(14) Much has been claimed about the source of its support: at one extreme, it is said to divide the right-of-centre vote and crucify the Conservatives .
(15) Transplanted cells divided in vivo and progressively migrated into the host brain from the site of implantation up to distances of about 1 mm.
(16) The subjects were divided into 4 ages groups, each comprising 8 horses (4 of each sex).
(17) Patients were divided into the following groups: control (followed without specific active treatment), corticosteroid group, azathioprine group, corticosteroid and azathioprine group, chlorambucil group, 5-fluorouracil group, colchicine group and isoprinosine group.
(18) Sixty-three patients were randomly divided into six groups by the following intrathecal morphine injection: group 1 (0 mg), group 2 (0.025 mg), group 3 (0.05 mg), group 4 (0.075 mg), group 5 (0.1 mg), and group 6 (0.125 mg).
(19) Rats were divided into four groups: drug naive controls; HAL-treated for 6 months; AMPH-treated for 1 month; and rats administered both continuous HAL for 6 months and concurrent AMPH treatment during the 2nd month of HAL administration.
(20) Eighteen rabbits (Kabushikigaishya BioTec Japanese white) were divided into 3 groups.
Screen
Definition:
(n.) Anything that separates or cuts off inconvenience, injury, or danger; that which shelters or conceals from view; a shield or protection; as, a fire screen.
(n.) A dwarf wall or partition carried up to a certain height for separation and protection, as in a church, to separate the aisle from the choir, or the like.
(n.) A surface, as that afforded by a curtain, sheet, wall, etc., upon which an image, as a picture, is thrown by a magic lantern, solar microscope, etc.
(n.) A long, coarse riddle or sieve, sometimes a revolving perforated cylinder, used to separate the coarser from the finer parts, as of coal, sand, gravel, and the like.
(v. t.) To provide with a shelter or means of concealment; to separate or cut off from inconvenience, injury, or danger; to shelter; to protect; to protect by hiding; to conceal; as, fruits screened from cold winds by a forest or hill.
(v. t.) To pass, as coal, gravel, ashes, etc., through a screen in order to separate the coarse from the fine, or the worthless from the valuable; to sift.
Example Sentences:
(1) An automated continuous flow sample cleanup system intended for rapid screening of foods for pesticide residues in fresh and processed vegetables has been developed.
(2) Simplicity, high capacity, low cost and label stability, combined with relatively high clinical sensitivity make the method suitable for cost effective screening of large numbers of samples.
(3) It is suggested that the results indicate the need for full haematological screening of all patients with recurrent aphthae.
(4) Plain radiographs should be the initial screening modality for a suspected foreign body.
(5) I hope this movement will continue and spread for it has within itself the power to stand up to fascism, be victorious in the face of extremism and say no to oppressive political powers everywhere.” Appearing via videolink from Tehran, and joined by London mayor Sadiq Khan and Palme d’Or winner Mike Leigh, Farhadi said: “We are all citizens of the world and I will endeavour to protect and spread this unity.” The London screening of The Salesman on Sunday evening wasintended to be a show of unity and strength against Trump’s travel ban, which attempted to block arrivals in the US from seven predominantly Muslim countries: Iran, Iraq, Libya, Sudan, Somalia, Syria and Yemen.
(6) The sensitivity of an indirect fluorescent antibody (IFA) test (screening test) for the detection of antibodies to cytomegalovirus (CMV) was examined by using 128 serum specimens and quaternary aminoethyl (QAE)-Sephadex A50 column chromatography to separate IgM from IgG class antibodies.
(7) A cDNA library prepared from human placenta has been screened for sequences coding for factor XIIIa, the enzymatically active subunit of the factor XIII complex that stabilizes blood clots through crosslinking of fibrin molecules.
(8) This study examines the costs of screening patients for alcohol problems.
(9) The screening of blood products for HTLV-1 is of minor importance.
(10) The high participation percentage also shows that the prerequisite of screening, namely, a positive attitude on the part of the population, was as well fulfilled in the present project.
(11) Eighty-four paraplegic patients whose injury level was T2 or below and who were at least one year from spinal cord injury were screened for upper extremity complaints.
(12) The results indicated that 48% of the sample either regularly checked their own skin or had it checked by another person (such as a spouse), and 17% had been screened by a general practitioner in the preceding 12 months.
(13) A newborn presenting with persistent umbilical stump bleeding should be screened for factor XIII deficiency when routine coagulation tests prove normal.
(14) From 1983 to 1986 more than 2000 non-penicillinase producing Neisseria gonorrhoeae from Amsterdam, The Hague and Rotterdam were auxotyped and screened for susceptibility to 10 antibiotics by MIC determination.
(15) Improvement of its particularly poor prognosis requires therefore early screening based on reliable biological markers.
(16) A study was conducted to determine the usefulness of self-screening of blood pressure in families as part of a school health care programme, and to study the relationship between BP and sodium excretion in school children.
(17) We have isolated a murine cDNA clone, pCAL-F559, for the calcium-binding protein calcyclin by differential screening of a cDNA library made from RNA isolated from hair follicles of 6-d-old mice.
(18) Short-forms of Wechsler intelligence tests have abounded in the literature and have been recommended for use as screening instruments in clinical and research settings.
(19) Noise exposure and demographic data applicable to the United States, and procedures for predicting noise-induced permanent threshold shift (NIPTS) and nosocusis, were used to account for some 8.7 dB of the 13.4 dB average difference between the hearing levels at high frequencies for otologically and noise screened versus unscreened male ears; (this average difference is for the average of the hearing levels at 3000, 4000, and 6000 Hz, average for the 10th, 50th, and 90th percentiles, and ages 20-65 years).
(20) It appears that there exist similarities between rats and mice and that these models may be used for screening tests of hypolipidemic drugs.