(n.) In inland duty or impost operating as an indirect tax on the consumer, levied upon certain specified articles, as, tobacco, ale, spirits, etc., grown or manufactured in the country. It is also levied to pursue certain trades and deal in certain commodities. Certain direct taxes (as, in England, those on carriages, servants, plate, armorial bearings, etc.), are included in the excise. Often used adjectively; as, excise duties; excise law; excise system.
(n.) That department or bureau of the public service charged with the collection of the excise taxes.
(v. t.) To lay or impose an excise upon.
(v. t.) To impose upon; to overcharge.
(v. t.) To cut out or off; to separate and remove; as, to excise a tumor.
Example Sentences:
(1) In this study of ten consecutive patients sustaining molten metal injuries to the lower extremity who were treated with excision and grafting, treatment with compression Unna paste boot was compared with that with conventional dressing.
(2) At operation, the tumour was identified and excised with part of the aneurysmal wall.
(3) It has also been used to measure the amount of excision repair performed by non-replicating cells damaged by carcinogens.
(4) Even so, amputation of fifteen extremities and four other major excisions were required in twelve patients.
(5) Substances with a leaving group at the C-3 position form unsaturated conjugated cyclic adducts and are mutagenic only in the His D3052 frameshift strains with an intact excision repair system (no urvA mutation).
(6) 14 patients with painful neuroma, skin hyperesthesia or neuralgic rest pain were followed up (mean 20 months) after excision of skin and scar, neurolysis and coverage with pedicled or free flaps.
(7) Cholecystectomy provided successful treatment in three of the four patients but the fourth was too ill to undergo an operation; in general, definitive treatment is cholecystectomy, together with excision of the fistulous tract if this takes a direct path through the abdominal wall from the gallbladder, or curettage if the course is devious.
(8) To selectively stain polyanionic macromolecules of growth plate cartilage and to prevent artifacts induced by aqueous fixation, proximal tibial growth plates were excised from rats, slam-frozen, and freeze-substituted in 100% methanol containing the cationic dye Alcian blue.
(9) Precise excision of the masses was thus accomplished and functional and aesthetic reconstruction aided by the conservation of normal anatomical structures.
(10) In the other, the proximal fibula was excised and the epiphysis placed across the saphenous artery and vein in the groin.
(11) Total excision and immediate reconstruction were done with alloplastic material fixated with microplates and screws.
(12) Four had partial simple seizures with secondary generalisation and 3 had cortical excisions (2 frontal, 1 occipital lobe) surgery.
(13) From the findings of this study the authors recommend wide excision of colorectal smooth-muscle tumours whenever there is a suggestion of malignancy.
(14) A simple technique is described for producing enhanced radiographs of excised breast specimens with clinical mammographic equipment.
(15) Adjuvant radiation therapy can often improve the results obtained with surgical excision alone.
(16) Recurrences were noted in nine patients after transanal, pararectal, or transvaginal excision of leiomyomas.
(17) Fifty-seven patients underwent local excision of an invasive distal rectal cancer as an initial operative procedure with curative intent.
(18) Although the response to K+ differed in vascular muscles excised from the different regions, no functional difference was apparent between normotensive and hypertensive.
(19) irradiation by a mechanism that is independent of excision repair.
(20) Physiotherapy for 4 to 12 weeks produced improvement, but in four cases early operation for excision of fibrous tissue and lengthening of the triceps was necessary to restore adequate flexion.
Gabel
Definition:
(n.) A rent, service, tribute, custom, tax, impost, or duty; an excise.
Example Sentences:
(1) Based on these results and the results of R. E. London and S. A. Gabel (Biochemistry 28: 2378-2382, 1989), we conclude that the distribution of TFA in hearts reflects the chloride potential (ECl) and not the membrane potential.
(2) The N-linked oligosaccharides found on the lysosomal enzymes from Dictyostelium discoideum are highly sulfated and contain methylphosphomannosyl residues (Gabel, C. A., Costello, C. E., Reinhold, V. N., Kurtz, L., and Kornfeld, S. (1984) J. Biol.
(3) The morphological concept of 'accessory fork' (Accessorius-Gabel) proposed by Haller seems to be important in considering the hypoglosso-cervical ansa complex, superficial branches of the cervical plexus and the vago-accessorius complex, which reminds us more clearly of the embryological trace of its branchial origin of the human trapezius.
(4) Kerry Washington was it, she really was and she really made it her own.” The series is now credited with giving rise to an increased focus on diversity on-screen across all of the networks, from NBC’s State of Affairs with Alfre Woodard (Hill Street Blues, True Blood, 12 Years a Slave) playing the part of the US president, to CBS’s Stalker, led by British actor Elyes Gabel, who is of Middle Eastern descent.
(5) From the political point of view, epistemological difficulties underlying its praxis-linked to both linear causality, and Gabel's "morbid rationalism", are described.
(6) According to the criteria set by Ryden, Gabel & Eaker [(1973) Int.
(7) In contrast to the rapid degradation of the recognition marker previously observed in mouse lymphoma cells (Gabel, C. A., D. E. Goldberg, and S. Kornfield.
(8) Lucie Gabel and her young son Gerhard boarded the MS St Louis with 900 other passengers in 1939, fleeing her native Berlin to escape Nazi persecution.
(9) The phosphorylated oligosaccharides of Dictyostelium discoideum contain methylphosphomannosyl residues which are stable to mild-acid and base hydrolysis (Gabel, C. A., Costello, C. E., Reinhold, V. N., Kurtz, L., and Kornfeld, S. (1984) J. Biol.
(10) In the accompanying paper (Gabel, Den, and Ambron, in press) it was shown that eight populations of glycopeptides are synthesized by single neurons of Aplysia californica.