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Fifteen
Definition:
(a.) Five and ten; one more than fourteen.
(n.) The sum of five and ten; fifteen units or objects.
(n.) A symbol representing fifteen units, as 15, or xv.
Example Sentences:
(1) Fifteen sera ICA-IgG and ICA-protein A positive with high titres remained positive thereafter.
(2) Even so, amputation of fifteen extremities and four other major excisions were required in twelve patients.
(3) Fifteen patients of acute intermittent porphyria (AIP) were detected out of 2500 persons of Maheshwari community surveyed.
(4) Fifteen patients suspected to have Morton's neuroma were examined by computed tomography, which revealed the neuroma in seven cases.
(5) Fifteen days after axotomy of the olfactory nerves, two stained patterns which were numerously or sparsely labelled regions were observed.
(6) Fifteen SCI patients underwent a total of 224 ultrasonic bladder volume determinations and 57 urethral catheterizations.
(7) Nineteen Dacron velour fistula bypasses between the brachial artery and median basilic vein were performed in fifteen selected patients for a total dialysis period of ninety-six months.
(8) Fifteen apparently normal patients who had been cured of cryptococcosis were found, as a group, to have impaired responsiveness to skin testing with cryptococcin and mumps, minimal leukocyte migration inhibition when stimulated with cryptococcin or C. neoformans, but normal group responses to cryptococcin in Cryptococcus-induced lymphocyte transformation.
(9) Fifteen animals in Group 1 received a basal diet and were killed sequentially at 0, 2, 4, 6 and 8 weeks (three rats at each point) after the start of the experiment.
(10) Fifteen of 16 asymptomatic patients demonstrated clearing of Shigella from stool within 48 hours of therapy.
(11) 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.
(12) Fifteen patients with primary lymphoma of breast are reported from a 30-year review.
(13) Fifteen women were found to have cervical neoplasia, of whom nine had either never been screened before or had last been screened more than five years previously; a further two women (one of whom was found to have early invasive cancer) had previously had an abnormal smear for which the recommended follow-up had not been done.
(14) Twenty-six patients were subjected to coronary artery bypass surgery, eleven during the first 28 days and fifteen subsequently.
(15) Fifteen cases were neurologically and psychiatrically normal and ranged in age from 43 to 95 years.
(16) Fifteen consecutive patients on peritoneal dialysis who complained of chronic sleep disturbance and requested sedative were selected.
(17) Fifteen injuries resulted from direct penetration of a vessel and three were concussion or blast injuries.
(18) After incubation with the bacteria for fifteen days, the nitrogen and carbon contents were estimated.
(19) The rate of separation anomalies of monozygotic twins is assessed by a review of the literature: from 1 to twenty to fifty thousands for joined twins to 1 per cent fifty thousand to fifteen millions for diprosopus.
(20) Five hundred fifteen senior baccalaureate nursing students randomly responded to one of two packages of 18 one-item pharmacology achievement tests.
Fifteenth
Definition:
(a.) Next in order after the fourteenth; -- the ordinal of fifteen.
(a.) Consisting of one of fifteen equal parts or divisions of a thing.
(n.) One of fifteen equal parts or divisions; the quotient of a unit divided by fifteen.
(n.) A species of tax upon personal property formerly laid on towns, boroughs, etc., in England, being one fifteenth part of what the personal property in each town, etc., had been valued at.
(n.) A stop in an organ tuned two octaves above the diaposon.
(n.) An interval consisting of two octaves.
Example Sentences:
(1) These data were compared with the angiogram of the right superior colic artery supplying the graft, systematically performed on the fifteenth postoperative day, and with the clinical course of follow-up for 3 months.
(2) Agreement rate of the sleep stage by computerized judgment using continuous (method A), one-third (method B), one-ninth (method C), and one-fifteenth (method D) data with that of visual judgment were compared.
(3) Weight, heartgirth, backfat and body condition of sows was monitored in a commercial, farrow-to-finish unit during 1 yr. Measurements were obtained during the third, ninth and fifteenth week of gestation and the day after weaning.
(4) The inteseffectiveness and extenseffectiveness of the treatment with the tested preparations were examined on the fifteenth day after invasion; the examination was based on the findings of ascarids in the helminthological dissection performed 48 hours on the findings of ascarids in the melminthological dissection performed 48 hours after therapy.
(5) In six of the animals, mild hypertension was induced by unilateral renal artery constriction at about the one hundred fifteenth day.
(6) The discovery of the 'Physica' as their source provides us with new insights into Eberhard's compiler-work and the literature which was available to him, as well as the reception of Hildegard's medical writings in the fifteenth century.
(7) There was a significant decrease in [3H]TdR-labeled Type 1 and 2 cells between the third and fifteenth days of recovery as excess cells were sloughed off and the tissue returned to normal.
(8) To test this hypothesis, 20 women were studied serially before pregnancy and in the seventh and fifteenth postconceptional week of an accurately dated, clinically normal, singleton pregnancy.
(9) At the fifteenth anniversary of its inception, the IRS has fulfilled the expectations of its founders as a model for intergroup collaborative research.
(10) Women in this study gave birth to 1653 liveborn infants, of whom 1603 (820 sons and 783 daughters) survived to their fifteenth birthday.
(11) Several oral applications of parathion-methyl (3 ppm) during the sensitive phases of germ formation and growth (fifth to ninth and eleventh to fifteenth or eleventh to nineteenth days from conception) were followed by clear embryotoxic effects, such as retardation and increased resorption.
(12) This was, however, accompanied by increased incorporation of (32)P into RNA, which reached its peak on the fifteenth day.
(13) The serum concentration of protein C reactive (PCR) in preterm and term children was assessed on the first, fifth, eighth and fifteenth day of life.
(14) An adenocarcinoma developed in one of the 14 kidneys in the twelfth month and in all others in the fifteenth month.
(15) The earliest indication of a defect in the reeler hippocampus is seen on the fifteenth embryonic day (E15) which is at least 24 hours after the first indication of a defect in the neocortex.
(16) The eruption evolves in two phases: it spreads centrifugally during the first 8 days and becomes more widespread on the tenth to fifteenth days, with predominant involvement on the half of the body initially affected.
(17) In the course of the first days of infection the R-form was isolated, and thirty days later up to the fifteenth month forms of the L cycle were recovered from the parenchymal organs, blood, and joints.
(18) ], while the rate with PMSF was one-fifteenth of that for chymotrypsin.
(19) On the fifteenth day of hospitalization, after five days without any psychopharmacological therapy, the patients underwent psychological testing: the Wechsler-Bellevue test, separately for the complete, verbal, and nonverbal scales and the Bender-Gestalt test.
(20) With a fixed pH of 6.8, the level of protease was only one-fifteenth of that obtained when the culture was allowed to maintain its own pH.