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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.

Lighty


Definition:

  • (a.) Illuminated.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) There was a time when Marco Veratti was the hottest thing out there, a fad to rival Pogs, or deely boppers, or those trainers with lighty-up bits in the soles that the Mill sees are back now.
  • (2) Dear Robert Macfarlane”, it began, then: “lighty-dark”: a word to describe the light occurring at the edge of darkness after a cold clear day.

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