(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.
Quinze
Definition:
(n.) A game at cards in which the object is to make fifteen points.
Example Sentences:
(1) Artist Arne Quinze’s installation, The Passenger.
(2) The first 395 cases which were treated with ultrasound these two last years in the Quinze-Vingts Hospital, are displayed in this report.
(3) The entire sculpture, designed by Belgian artist Arne Quinze and intended to stand here for the next five years, has been dismantled after just five weeks , following concerns over its stability after chunks of wood fell to the ground.
(4) We have talked about reconstruction, but we must first absorb the shock.” Facebook Twitter Pinterest Arne Quinze’s 90m-long sculpture was supposed to stand for five years, but it has been taken down after only five weeks.