(n.) That which is taught or authoritatively set forth; precept; instruction; dogma.
(n.) An example for instruction or warning.
(n.) An original or official paper relied upon as the basis, proof, or support of anything else; -- in its most extended sense, including any writing, book, or other instrument conveying information in the case; any material substance on which the thoughts of men are represented by any species of conventional mark or symbol.
(v. t.) To teach; to school.
(v. t.) To furnish with documents or papers necessary to establish facts or give information; as, a a ship should be documented according to the directions of law.
Example Sentences:
(1) By presenting the case history of a man who successively developed facial and trigeminal neural dysfunction after Mohs chemosurgery of a PCSCC, this paper documents histologically the occurrence of such neural invasion, and illustrates the utility of gadolinium-enhanced magnetic resonance scanning in patient management.
(2) Nine of 14 patients studied for documented clinical relapse had positive repeat studies.
(3) Tumor shrinkage was documented by A-scan ultrasonography in all but one patient.
(4) The performance characteristics of the CCD are well documented and understood, having been quantified by many experimenters, especially in the physical sciences.
(5) Of the 594 patients, 23.7% died and 38.7% had documented inhalation injury.
(6) There have been numerous documented cases of people being forced to seek hospital treatment after eating meat contaminated with high concentrations of clenbuterol.
(7) The patients were classified into two groups according to the presence (n = 166) or absence (n = 176) of documented episodes of atrial fibrillation preoperatively.
(8) In documents due to be published by the bank, it will signal a need to shed costs from a business that employs 10,000 people as it scrambles to return to profit.
(9) Four of the five ectopic pregnancies occurred in patients with previously documented tubal pathology.
(10) They more precisely delineate the hazard identification process and the factors important in supporting risk decisions for developmental toxicants than does any other document.
(11) The present study was done in order to document the ability of the eighth cranial nerve of the bullfrog (Rana catesbeiana) to regenerate, the anatomic characteristics of the regenerated fibers, and the specificity of projections from individual endorgan branches of the nerve.
(12) Keep it in the ground campaign Though they draw on completely different archives, leaked documents, and interviews with ex-employees, they reach the same damning conclusion: Exxon knew all that there was to know about climate change decades ago, and instead of alerting the rest of us denied the science and obstructed the politics of global warming.
(13) On Friday, a spokesperson for China’s foreign ministry appeared to confirm those fears, telling reporters that the joint declaration, a deal negotiated by London and Beijing guaranteeing Hong Kong’s way of life for 50 years, “was a historical document that no longer had any practical significance”.
(14) New studies have documented otolaryngologic abnormalities.
(15) 83 well documented cases of amoebic hepatic abscess, treated in the Philippines between 1967 and 1975, are presented with a view to showing the results of 3 different methods of management and comparing the diagnostic accuracy and overall mortality in 2 separate groups.
(16) These data support a modest role for alpha 1-adrenergic coronary vasoconstriction during exercise but fail to document an additional role for postsynaptic alpha 2-adrenergic coronary vasoconstriction during exercise.
(17) A retrospective review of 388 patients who presented to the Mayo Clinic for treatment of endometrial carcinoma between 1979 and 1983 was performed and the surgical and pathologic observations were documented.
(18) However, the effect of prior jaw motion and the effect of the recording site on the EMG amplitudes and on the vertical dimension of minimum EMG activity have not been documented.
(19) The frequency of spontaneously occurring mutants resistant to 0.5, 1, 2, 4 and 8 micrograms of temafloxacin or ciprofloxacin per milliliter was documented with four Staphylococcus aureus and four Staphylococcus epidermidis strains.
(20) Documents seen by the Guardian show that blood supplies for one fiscal year were paid for by donations from America’s Office of Foreign Disaster Assistance (OFDA) and Britain’s Department for International Development (DfID) – and both countries have imposed economic sanctions against the Syrian government.
Gopher
Definition:
(n.) One of several North American burrowing rodents of the genera Geomys and Thomomys, of the family Geomyidae; -- called also pocket gopher and pouched rat. See Pocket gopher, and Tucan.
(n.) One of several western American species of the genus Spermophilus, of the family Sciuridae; as, the gray gopher (Spermophilus Franklini) and the striped gopher (S. tridecemlineatus); -- called also striped prairie squirrel, leopard marmot, and leopard spermophile. See Spermophile.
(n.) A large land tortoise (Testudo Carilina) of the Southern United States, which makes extensive burrows.
(n.) A large burrowing snake (Spilotes Couperi) of the Southern United States.
Example Sentences:
(1) Heterochromatin is a dominant component of the genome in the bottae group of the pocket gopher genus Thomomys, having had a major role in the karyotypic evolution of member species.
(2) The protein synthesis intensity essentially grows after animals arousing and their body temperature elevation, ten times exceeding the level of the studied process in hibernating gophers.
(3) Kris Engskov's first job was as a gopher in a busy office with punishing hours and he would often nip out to grab the coffees if there was a crisis and the boss had to work late.
(4) All 90 montane voles examined were positive for Giardia, as were 4 pocket gophers, 1 water shrew, 4 water voles, and 2 meadow voles.
(5) Partial inhibition of the respiratory chain of liver mitochondria of active gophers by antimycin A which causes a decrease in the uncoupled respiration rate and delta psi down to values typical of mitochondria of hibernating gophers, practically exactly reproduced the suppression of oxidative phosphorylation and energy-dependent uptake of cations observed during hibernation.
(6) The content of glucose in the brain of the normothermal gophers (61.2 mg.) is 3,4 times as high as in the rat brain.
(7) In hibernating gophers the maximal rate of the uncoupled respiration and the ionic conductivity of the inner mitochondrial membrane were markedly decreased as compared with awakening gophers.
(8) Three prairie rattlesnakes (Crotalus viridis viridis) and two gopher snakes (Pituophis melanoleucus sayi) from the eastern high plains of New Mexico (USA) were examined for parasites.
(9) The diversity in cranial morphology of living geomyoids, including pocket gophers (Thomomys), spiny pocket mice (Heteromys and Liomys), desert pocket mice (Chaetodipus and Perognathus), and kangaroo rats and mice (Dipodomys and Microdipodops) is accompanied by only a few differences in their cephalic arterial circulation.
(10) It was concluded that partial deenergization arising as a result of inhibition of the respiratory chain is the main and unique cause of suppression of energy-dependent functions of liver mitochondria of hibernating gophers.
(11) In 2007 Winehouse married Blake Fielder-Civil, a part-time gopher for a music video company with whom she had been having an on-off tempestuous relationship.
(12) A strategy of back-to-back experimentation, originally proposed by Gopher and Sanders (1984), is reiterated and an example of a back-to-back study is described.
(13) At all the studied stages of artificial hypothermia as well as at 15 and 30-day hibernation (5 degrees C) the amount of glucose of the gopher brain remains at a relatively high level (41.6-101.5 mg%).
(14) Whether he engaged any other labour force (to be drowned) and how he obtained the necessary supplies of gopher wood and pitch is not recorded.
(15) Odor stimulation of the nose in the box turtle and the gopher tortoise produced a characteristic series of slow potentials in the olfactory bulb which were referred to as the odor evoked response.
(16) The intensity of [14C]leucine incorporation into heart, liver, brain, muscle, and blood plasma protein in gophers under deep artificial hypothermia has been studied.
(17) Intensity of the protein synthesis is studied in cells of different organs and tissues of hibernating, arousing and active gophers and rats.
(18) Concentrations of total acid-soluble phosphates were 50-75% higher in gophers than in rats, while bicarbonate values were within the normal mammalian range.
(19) Behavioral tests of hearing and sound localization in the North American pocket gopher (Geomys bursarius) show that it is unique among mammals.
(20) A derived response method of acquiring frequency specific auditory evoked potentials that utilizes a pure tone in combination with a toneburst is applied to the measurement of hearing sensitivity in guinea pigs, chinchillas and pocket gophers.