(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.
Seventeen
Definition:
(a.) One more than sixteen; ten and seven added; as, seventeen years.
(n.) The number greater by one than sixteen; the sum of ten and seven; seventeen units or objects.
(n.) A symbol denoting seventeen units, as 17, or xvii.
Example Sentences:
(1) Seventeen patients (Group 1) had had no previous surgery, while 13 (Group 2) had had multiple previous operations.
(2) Seventeen patients (9 sibling and 8 unrelated donors) received conditioning with hyperfractionated total body irradiation (TBI), thiotepa, and cyclophosphamide (Cy).
(4) Seventeen different bacteria were used in the adherence tests; ten strains of alpha-hemolytic streptococci, five from children with infective endocarditis (IE) and five from healthy carriers, two S. aureus, two N. meningitidis, two N. gonorrhoeae and one E. coli.
(5) Rates of loss (degradation) of label from membrane proteins in the seventeen bands appeared to be related to the estimated molecular size of the proteins.
(6) Seventeen patients who were followed up for more than 1 year were grouped by functional grading: 11 (65%) were excellent; 3 (18%) good; 2 fair (12%); and 1 poor.
(7) Seventeen patients had type I complex partial seizures (CPS) with three consecutive phases: initial motionless staring, oral-alimentary automatisms, and reactive quasipurposeful movements during impaired consciousness.
(8) Seventeen (77%) of the injuries were due to penetrating trauma and five (23%) were due to blunt trauma.
(9) Seventeen points of origin of pain have been registered in the face.
(10) Seventeen of these were due to infection or loosening of the prosthesis.
(11) Seventeen strains of Lactobacillus acidophilus were evaluated to determine the relationship between bile tolerance and the presence of an outer polysaccharide layer exterior to the cell wall when viewed by transmission electron microscopy.
(12) Seventeen of them showed a constitutional delay in growth and puberty, twenty-three suffered from growth-hormone deficiency (GHD) and eight had a suspected GHD as a result of pharmacological tests.
(13) Seventeen patients were diagnosed as having primary rheumatic carditis, 9 presented with tonsillogenic rheumatic carditis, and 16 had viral rheumatic carditis.
(14) Seventeen lightly wounded were detained in the EH and 4 underwent life-saving surgery there.
(15) Seventeen patients (including 15 with septicaemia) were given fosfomycin and penicillin M for a mean period of 17 days.
(16) Seventeen consecutive patients were studied at various stages ranging from 6 days to 34 days after myocardial infarction (MI).
(17) Seventeen now had symptoms and nine had related physical signs.
(18) Seventeen anorexia nervosa patients were examined dentally and their dietary histories and eating habits studied.
(19) Seventeen patients with advanced, previously treated malignancies were entered into a phase I trial utilizing recombinant DNA produced alpha 2 leukocyte interferon (rIFN-alpha 2).
(20) Seventeen out of eighteen subclones derived from the original clone revealed the same activity.