(a.) Situated or dwelling in the east; oriental; as, an eastern gate; Eastern countries.
(a.) Going toward the east, or in the direction of east; as, an eastern voyage.
Example Sentences:
(1) Nearly four months into the conflict, rebels control large parts of eastern Libya , the coastal city of Misrata, and a string of towns in the western mountains, near the border with Tunisia.
(2) Serum levels of vitamins A and E, zinc and iron were determined in healthy control subjects and lepromatous leprosy patients belonging to an eastern state of India.
(3) It is the most commonly reported vector-borne disease in the United States, where the incidence is highest in the eastern and midwestern states.
(4) In a third, central eastern focus infections with Mansonella pertans were found.
(5) Moallem’s news conference came a day after jihadis captured a major military air base in north-eastern Syria, eliminating the last government-held outpost in a province otherwise dominated by the Islamic State group.
(6) As the US and the European Union adopted tougher economic sanctions against Russia over the conflict in eastern Ukraine and downing of Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 , Russian officials struck a defiant note, promising that Russia would localise production and emerge stronger than before.
(7) Nucleotide substitutions in the viral-encoded proteinase 3C (3Cpro) region (549 nucleotides) of the RNA genome of a coxsackievirus A24 variant (CA24v), one of the agents causing acute hemorrhagic conjunctivitis (AHC), were studied using 32 isolates collected from the Eastern hemisphere in 1970-1989.
(8) Under Lynch, the eastern district is currently prosecuting at least five cases relating to the prostitution of US minors or sex trafficking – more active prosecutions than any other US attorney’s office in the country, according to knowledgeable observers.
(9) Between October 1981 and June 1983, the Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group (ECOG) conducted a prospectively randomized trial (EST 1581) of the four most active chemotherapy regimens for metastatic non-small-cell lung cancer (NSCLC).
(10) It is a very widely cultivated plant in eastern countries like India, Bangladesh, Ceylon, Malaya, the Philippines and Japan.
(11) One hundred ninety-seven cases occurred in the city of Zanesville, with 34.7% of cases concentrated in two neighborhoods in the eastern part of the city.
(12) The Pentagon leadership suggested to a Senate panel on Tuesday that US ground troops may directly join Iraqi forces in combat against the Islamic State (Isis), despite US president Barack Obama’s repeated public assurances against US ground combat in the latest Middle Eastern war.
(13) British citizens travelling or studying abroad for more than three months are being refused benefits on their return under new rules designed to crackdown on benefit tourism from eastern Europe .
(14) It was concluded that transmission in eastern Mali has now been reduced to the levels required to control onchocerciasis.
(15) The Kalachakra Puja takes place in the eastern state of Bihar at the holy Bodhgaya site, where the Buddha gained enlightenment.
(16) Asked what would happen if Russia entered eastern Ukraine, the spokesman said: "What we are saying very clearly is that they should not escalate."
(17) Its nonstructural and capsid proteins are most closely related to those of eastern equine encephalitis virus while its glycoproteins are most closely related to those of Sindbis virus.
(18) Significant differences (p less than 0.05-p less than 0.01) were found, suggesting that the Eastern mothers strongly expressed their shame, whereas the Western mothers 'felt ashamed' to express it at all.
(19) The anti-Banzi viral factor inhibited the in vitro Banzi viral RNA synthesis but not that of Eastern equine encephalitis virus or of Japanese encephalitis virus.
(20) Mary and Gerry Menke from the small coastal community of Mallacoota in far eastern Victoria were among the 298 people who died when the Malaysia Airlines Boeing 777 was downed over insurgent-held eastern Ukraine on 17 July.
Northwestern
Definition:
(a.) Of, pertaining to, or being in, the northwest; in a direction toward the northwest; coming from the northwest; northwesterly; as, a northwestern course.
Example Sentences:
(1) A deficient G-6PD variant was discovered in 4 males of one family from northwestern Germany.
(2) 6. prepared by Northwestern University, were then derived, concurrently with functions of the Auditec version, using (1) a group of listeners with normal hearing; and (2) a group with sensorineural hearing loss.
(3) Approximately 450 respondents over the age of 15 years were investigated in each of the following: a tribal Xhosa community in Transkei; a rural Tswana community in the northwestern Transvaal; an urban Negro population in Johannesburg; and a Caucasian community in the same city.
(4) Size and frequency of rare alleles of HRAS1 protooncogene were studied in 258 patients with various neoplasms and 32 healthy donors of the northwestern region of the USSR.
(5) These findings suggest that controlling the parasite in the domestic dog population, as well as controlling the dog population itself, are important aspects of preventing alveolar hydatid disease in the northwestern Native Alaskan population.
(6) Ventilatory function was measured twice daily on 46 healthy children aged 8-14 years on at least 7 days for each child during a 4-week period at a northwestern New Jersey residential summer camp in 1988.
(7) A total of 91 free-ranging black bears (Ursus americanus) from the Peace River region of northwestern Alberta was examined for helminths.
(8) But Saeid Golkar, lecturer at Northwestern University in the United States and senior fellow at Chicago Council on Global Affairs, believes the ‘pay cheque scandal’ may have indirectly revealed another potential ‘principle-ist’ contender in Parviz Fattah, head of the Imam Khomeini Relief Committee.
(9) Fifty (60-ms) time-gated words were developed from a pre-recorded version (Auditec of St. Louis) of the Northwestern Auditory Test No.
(10) Using Northwestern blots and a novel zinc blotting technique, we localized the zinc- and dsRNA-binding activities of sigma 3 to distinct V8 protease-generated fragments.
(11) In the video, Pablo Hernan Sierra says he organised a militia that operated from the Guacharacas ranch owned by Uribe's family in the northwestern state of Antioquia in 1996 when Uribe was the state's governor.
(12) On the Colville River in northwestern Alaska, the last young falcons will fledge in 1975 and the remaining adult population will disappear by 1980 unless the present rate of reproductive failure is drastically and quickly reversed.
(13) Testing the reliability and usefulness of disability scales in Parkinson's disease has been the object of a study carried out by 4 neurologists on 48 patients using 2 rating scales--Hoehn and Yahr staging and Columbia University Rating Scale--and 2 disability scales--Northwestern University Disability Scale and Extensive Disability Scale, a new scale conceived for this purpose, which is more accurate in examining in a different way the physical incapacity and handicap of parkinsonian patients in their daily living.
(14) Two new chromosome complements of Aotus trivirgatus griseimembra are described making a total of five different karyotypes observed in this subspecies inhabiting Panama and the northwestern part of Colombia, South America.
(15) Why, then, do Huntington Memorial Hospital, Baptist Medical Center of Oklahoma, Morton F. Plant Hospital, Northwestern Memorial Hospital and other hospitals intend to continue their efforts on behalf of their communities' aging populations?
(16) San living in the northwestern Kalahari Desert may be grouped according to different kinds and proportions of dietary habits.
(17) While new spine-stabilizing devices are beginning to appear as alternative methods of providing operative spine stability, a careful review of those methods used by the Spine Injury Service at Northwestern University was undertaken.
(18) To evaluate the use of portable cardiopulmonary bypass as a resuscitative tool and its impact on long-term survival of patients in cardiac arrest, we reviewed the results of 32 consecutive patients resuscitated by cardiopulmonary bypass for cardiac arrest or severe hemodynamic compromise at Northwestern Memorial Hospital over a 2-year period.
(19) A study conducted in the Sioux Lookout Health Zone in northwestern Ontario, Canada analyzed the diagnoses and managements for 139,618 patient visits to three levels of practitioners: physicians, nurse practitioners, and minimally trained health aides.
(20) A series of 632 patients undergoing one or more transurethral resections of the prostate gland at Wesley Pavilion of Northwestern Memorial Hospital is presented.