(n.) The number greater by a unit than seventeen; eighteen units or objects.
(n.) A symbol denoting eighteen units, as 18 or xviii.
Example Sentences:
(1) Eighteen adult epileptic patients under CBZ therapy were evaluated in this single-blind, randomized cross-over study.
(2) Eighteen of 21 patients had no clinical signs of recurrence after initial therapy.
(3) We performed a combined one-stage approach for the treatment of eighteen spastic subluxated or dislocated hips in eleven children who had cerebral palsy.
(4) Changes of circulating blood volume during isoflurane or sevoflurane anesthesia were investigated by the dual indicator dilution method in eighteen mongrel dogs.
(5) Eighteen rabbits (Kabushikigaishya BioTec Japanese white) were divided into 3 groups.
(6) Buffer mechanism of cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) against acute hypercapnia was studied in eighteen dogs.
(7) Eighteen of the 23 women (78%) had been unable to work during the first day of menstruation, the rate of working days lost was reduced to 4% with ketoprofen and 9 with indomethacin.
(8) Eighteen patients with various mucopolysaccharidoses or mucolipidosis III were studied electrophysiologically to determine the presence or absence of carpal tunnel syndrome.
(9) Eighteen patients had their therapy electively discontinued, and five relapses occurred thereafter.
(10) Eighteen cases (28 eyes) with congenital cataracts are analyzed.
(11) Eighteen control subjects with or without GER were free of upper airway inflammatory process.
(12) Eighteen variables were selected for discriminant analysis, comparing the patients nerver released from the hospital with those known to be current extrainstitutional residents.
(13) One hundred eighteen consecutive patients undergoing valve replacement for aortic stenosis were analyzed to determine the incidence of and predisposing factors to postoperative atrial tachyarrhythmias.
(14) Red blood cell 6TGN concentrations in eighteen leukaemic children receiving chronic 6-mercaptopurine chemotherapy were measured and compared to a previously published spectrophotofluorometric assay.
(15) The efficacy of three different therapeutic regimes was studied in one group by the application of the drug to the entire skin for either five minutes, fifteen minutes, or twelve hours for eighteen days.
(16) Eighteen were followed up for more than 4 years (mean 6.2).
(17) Eighteen total hip replacements were performed in 10 patients with ankylosing spondylitis.
(18) The test plates are incubated at 37 degrees C for a period ranging from thirteen to eighteen hours.
(19) Twenty-six rapidly adapting units (RA), eighteen slowly adapting units (SA) and ten Pacinian corpuscle units (PC) were differentiated from each other mainly on the presence of the off response in RA and PC units to a ramp stimulation, the persistence of discharges of the SA units during steady pressure on the receptive field and the classical tuning curve seen in the PC units.
(20) Fifty-four fractions prepared from eighteen plant species were screened for their inhibitory effects on adenosine 5'-diphosphate, arachidonic acid, or collagen-induced rat platelet aggregation.
Eighteenth
Definition:
(a.) Next in order after the seventeenth.
(a.) Consisting of one of eighteen equal parts or divisions of a thing.
(n.) The quotient of a unit divided by eighteen; one of eighteen equal parts or divisions.
(n.) The eighth after the tenth.
Example Sentences:
(1) The skeleton of an adult man, recovered from an eighteenth century French fort site in Indiana, exhibited a series of sharp force wounds.
(2) Analysis of the genealogic tree of the complete family groups showed that the apoprotein (apo) AIMilano is transmitted as an autosomal dominant trait, all carriers coming from a single mating couple, living in the eighteenth century.
(3) The source and nature of the ethnography of the important eighteenth century thinker Johann Gottfried Herder can in large part be understood through his relationship to his own society and especially through his part in the German cultural nationalist movement of the day.
(4) Wesley had consulted some sources, common sense, and his own experience, tempering those with the general principle of "doing good to all men," particularly "those who desire to live according to the gospel...." Thus, the Methodist patriarch's own formula for life had as much to do with the spread of Primitive Physick throughout eighteenth-century Britain and America as did all of the remedies and suggestions imprinted upon its pages.
(5) Other eighteenth-century artists countered with pathognomy, recognizing that uneven physical features may indicate humanity, instead of character flaws.
(6) The embryos were paralyzed from the tenth to the eighteenth day, when the experiment was terminated.
(7) By the eighteenth century it was said that: "this spirit of liberty is so deeply implanted in our constitution, and rooted in our very soil, that a slave the moment he lands in England, falls under the protection of the laws, and with regard to all natural rights becomes instantly a freeman."
(8) In the eighteenth century, a pedestrian strolling around Georgian London may have witnessed the bizarre sight of an ageing gentleman parading the streets on a painted horse and brandishing the jawbone of an ass.
(9) In tenth to eighteenth day visceral yolk sacs, the mesodermal portion was stained, which is consistent with the presence of basement membranes around blood vessels.
(10) Chick embryo trigeminal ganglia of nine days and hippocampus excised from fetal rats between the sixteenth and eighteenth day of gestation were cultivated in cell- and explantcultures in Maximow-chambers.
(11) Natal molars are rare occurrences, the present instance being only the eighteenth reported case.
(12) Only those patients were included who could be followed beyond the eighteenth year of life (up to age 45).
(13) Attention is called to the fact that, long before the systematization of oral digitalis therapy by Withering in the eighteenth century, the drug was applied to the skin by inunction, producing effects that can now be recognized as due to an overdosage of Digitalis glycosides.
(14) The sudden emergence of rheumatic fever at the end of the eighteenth century was the result of distinct biological changes that led to cardiac damage.
(15) Immanuel Kants "Critique of Judgment" (1970) reflects the medicine of the second part of the eighteenth century.
(16) These were largely resolved by the eighteenth day of illness.
(17) The initial rate of incorporation of [15N]alanine into the 6-amino group of the adenine nucleotides in rat hepatocytes was about one-eighteenth of the rate of incorporation into urea.
(18) From a staining series with anti-thiolase on simultaneously treated slides, it appears that the amount of antigen per peroxisome and the organelle size increase between the seventh and eighteenth weeks.
(19) A reappraisal is offered of the precise sense in which the introduction of moral treatment at the end of the eighteenth century marked a decisive shift in our characteristic ways of responding to and coping with the mentally disturbed.
(20) There is evidence that paralytic poliomyelitis occurred in ancient times, but it was not recognized as a distinct disease until the eighteenth century and did not come into prominence until the late nineteenth century when epidemics began to appear.