(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.
Eighty
Definition:
(a.) Eight times ten; fourscore.
(n.) The sum of eight times ten; eighty units or objects.
(n.) A symbol representing eighty units, or ten eight times repeated, as 80 or lxxx.
Example Sentences:
(1) Eighty-two per cent of patients with falciparum malaria had recently returned from Africa whereas 82% with vivax malaria had visited Asia.
(2) 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.
(3) Eighty-five per cent of the patients had been on beta-blocker treatment for more than 1 year.
(4) Eighty-eight patients (97%) had a stable fixation and 77 (85%) had resumed preoperative activity or were working but with a residual deficit.
(5) Eighty interposition mesocaval shunts, using a knitted Dacron large diameter prosthesis, have been performed during the past five and one-half years.
(6) Eighty micrograms of the topically active parasympatholytic drug ipratropium were applied intranasally four times daily in 20 adults with perennial rhinitis and severe watery rhinorrhoea in a double-blind controlled cross-over trial.
(7) Eighty percent of subjects with significant asymmetry of muscle action had recent LBP history.
(8) Eighty four colorectal cancer patients who underwent presumably curative surgery were considered as candidates for control recurrence study.
(9) Eighty people, including the outspoken journalist Pravit Rojanaphruk from the Nation newspaper and the former education minister Chaturon Chaisaeng, who was publicly arrested on Tuesday, remain in detention.
(10) Eighty-five per cent of newly appointed judges in France are women because the men stay away.
(11) Eighty bovine fetuses with presumed protozoal infections from a previous 2-year retrospective study were examined by immunohistochemistry using antisera against Neospora caninum.
(12) Eighty percent of the cows were infused with nine different antibiotic preparations separately at drying off, and 20% served as controls.
(13) Eighty-eight patients with 188 sacral fractures were examined with computed tomography (CT) and conventional radiography.
(14) Eighty adults between the ages of 20 and 78 described three pictures.
(15) Eighty-six hearing-impaired ears of 44 subjects with sensorineural hearing loss formed the patient group.
(16) Eighty-five percent of the exposed animals survived in room air.
(17) Eighty-eight percent of subjects receiving CVD 103-HgR mounted a significant (greater than fourfold) rise in Inaba vibriocidal titre while 68% did so for the heterologous Ogawa serotype.
(18) Eighty-six adults serially recalled lists of visually presented consonant letters similar in auditory or visual features or dissimilar in both feature sets.
(19) Eighty-seven patients (54.7%) who presented ocular lesions suggestive of sarcoidosis as an initial manifestation were diagnosed after a systemic survey.
(20) Eighty-one patients (80%) had a good or excellent result, 15 patients (14%) were rated fair, and 6 patients (6%) were rated poor.