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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.
Fourteen
Definition:
(a.) Four and ten more; twice seven.
(n.) The sum of ten and four; forteen units or objects.
(n.) A symbol representing fourteen, as 14 or xiv.
Example Sentences:
(1) Fourteen representative cases of the problem are reported.
(2) 1 The effects of chronic ethanol intake on the elimination kinetics of antipyrine were determined in nineteen male alcoholic subjects with comparison made to fourteen male volunteers.
(3) The study included fifty children, aged six to fourteen years, selected from patients seeking routine dental care at Children's Hospital National Medical Center.
(4) Fourteen of the 24 patients in one renal clinic and 18 of their at-risk relatives were interviewed.
(5) Fourteen soil bacteriophages active against Rhizobium trifolii W19 have been studied which fall into four structural groups.
(7) Fourteen patients were examined one to four years after cricopharyngeal myotomy that had been carried out because of dysfunction of the pharyngo-esophageal sphincter.
(8) Fourteen patients with symptoms or with high-grade carotid artery occlusive disease were treated by concomitant carotid endarterectomy.
(9) In an ongoing study utilizing a double-blind crossover technique, fourteen Ménière's patients have been evaluated for allergies utilizing the Rinkle and Lee techniques for inhalent and food allergies.
(10) In another protocol, fourteen volunteers received calcitriol 0.25 microgram, 0.5 microgram, and 1.0 microgram twice a day each for 14 days with intervening control periods of 2 weeks.
(11) Fourteen cases of malignancy were not diagnosed by TRU-CUT biopsy specimens.
(12) Fourteen patients entered the study and each received megavoltage therapy to give a mean dose of 4600 rad to the pituitary over 31 days.
(13) Thirteen of the fourteen melanomas detected were on anatomic sites normally covered by clothing.
(14) Fourteen days after partial plasma exchange the enzyme activity returned to normal.
(15) Fourteen seriously burned patients who had pulmonary arterial monitoring.
(16) Fourteen preterm neonates were studied with a gestational age below 33 weeks (n = 7) or between 34 and 37 weeks (n = 7), respectively, as well as 19 full-term newborns either untreated (n = 9) or treated by phototherapy (n = 10).
(17) We assessed the relative restraints that are provided by fourteen currently available functional knee-braces, using six limbs in cadavera.
(18) Fourteen patients (group A) with unresectable metastasis to the liver from colorectal cancers (11 patients) and gastric cancers (3 patients) were treated with the combined application of hyperthermia and intra-hepato-arterial (IHA) chemotherapy with cisplatinum and 5-fluorouracil.
(19) The present study extended this effort to a noninstitutionalized life-span sample of males and females in six age groups (fourteen to ninety-four).
(20) Fourteen of 60 patients (24%) required treatment breaks because of thrombocytopenia.