(n.) The number next greater than four, and less than six; five units or objects.
(n.) A symbol representing this number, as 5, or V.
Example Sentences:
(1) He added: "There is a rigorous review process of applications submitted by the executive branch, spearheaded initially by five judicial branch lawyers who are national security experts and then by the judges, to ensure that the court's authorizations comport with what the applicable statutes authorize."
(2) In studies of calcium metabolism in 13 unselected patients with untreated sarcoidosis all were normocalcaemic but five had hypercalcuria.
(3) In contrast, resting cells of strain CHA750 produced five times less IAA in a buffer (pH 6.0) containing 1 mM-L-tryptophan than did resting cells of the wild-type, illustrating the major contribution of TSO to IAA synthesis under these conditions.
(4) We examined the karyotype in five individuals of roe-deer (Capreolus capreolus), coming from Southern Moravia.
(5) Five probes of high specificity to individual chromosomes (chromosomes 3, 11, 17, 18 and X) were hybridized in situ to metaphase chromosomes of different individuals.
(6) In contrast to previous reports, these tumours were more malignant than osteosarcomas and showed a five-year survival rate of only 4-2 per cent.
(7) This time is approximately six months for the neuroleptics given orally, one month for antidepressants, and five and a half half-lives for benzodiazepines.
(8) A subsample of patients scoring over the recommended threshold (five or above) on the general health questionnaire were interviewed by the psychiatrist to compare the case detection of the general practitioner, an independent psychiatric assessment and the 28-item general health questionnaire at two different cut-off scores.
(9) Patrice Evra Evra Handed a five-match international ban for his part in the France squad’s mutiny against Raymond Domenech at the 2010 World Cup, it took Evra almost a year to force his way back in.
(10) Five of the nine normal livers had peribiliary glands that showed HLA-DR.
(11) A total of five men appeared at a Moscow courtroom on Sunday.
(12) The concentrations of five normally occurring protease inhibitors in serum and synovial fluid were compared in patients with rheumatoid arthritis, osteoarthrosis, and normal controls.
(13) Wages for the population as a whole are £1,600 a year worse off than five years ago.
(14) However, this predictive value disappeared when five baseline parameters found to predict the outcome (neopterin, beta 2-microglobulin, p24 antigen, anti-p18 antibody and immunoglobulin A) were adjusted.
(15) In group V, five cases of Taenia saginata parasitosis were studied showing a weak positive reading.
(16) In vivo studies were performed in five healthy subjects for at least 3 h after ingestion of radiolabeled meals.
(17) Of the five committees asked to develop bills, four have completed their work, and the Senate Finance Committee announced today that it will move forward next week.
(18) Mild swallowing difficulties occurred in 18 patients (39%), moderate dysfunction in 23 (50%), and severe dysfunction in five (11%).
(19) Finally, the automatized measurement system cuts the time spent by a factor of more than five.
(20) Four of the five ectopic pregnancies occurred in patients with previously documented tubal pathology.
Novum
Definition:
(n.) A game at dice, properly called novem quinque (L., nine five), the two principal throws being nine and five.
Example Sentences:
(1) Eighteen women (median age 54 years, 36-79) with urinary motor urge (n = 13) or sensory urge (n = 5) incontinence were treated for three 2-week periods with emepronium carrageenate (EC) (Cetiprin Novum) in daily doses of 500 and 1000 mg and placebo.
(2) In the first patient (aged 29) who took Ortho-Novum 2 mg. for 11 months prior to infarction and who had an abnormal glucose tolerance test, selective coronary angiography revealed a segmental occlusion of the proximal left anterior descending coronary artery.
(3) Ortho-Novum increased alpha-s-antiplasmin antigen at 12 months.
(4) Standard curves of progesterone RIAs performed while the technician was taking either Ortho Novum 1 + 50 or Ovral, or on no contraceptive are reported.
(5) This case report concerns a 29-year-old caucasian woman who developed cholestatic jaundice while taking Ortho-Novum 2 mg. Biliary stasis was diagnosed from laboratory tests and gradually subsided when the medication was withdrawn.
(6) Patients given Ortho-Novum 5 showed a continued significant elevation of levels of factors VIII and IX for the duration of the study, and the partial thromboplastin time reflected this increase on days 4 and 10.
(7) Carbohydrate metabolism was investigated over 1-year period in new users of 2 different triphasic oral contraceptives (OCs)--Ortho Novum 777, which contains the progestin norethindrone, and Triphasil, in which levonorgestrel is the progestin.
(8) Serum lipid and apoprotein levels were determined in fasting women after longterm use (5-12 years) of Depo-Provera, Orgametril, Ortho Novum SQ, Binordiol, Microgynon-50, and Ministat.
(9) They also decreased partial thromboplastin time (Triphasil at 6 months, p.01), and at 12 months, p.001; Ortho-Novum at 6 months, p.01).
(10) The condition was found to be reproducible when Ortho-Novum 2 mg. was given again.
(11) Compared with matched controls, pure progestogens (Depo Provera and Orgametril) caused a moderate decrease of TG, HDL chol, and Apo A1, whereas estrogen-dominant oral contraceptives (Ortho Novum SQ) increased the same parameters.
(12) 618 women used Ortho-Novum 2mg (2 mg norethindrone and .1mg mestranol) for 5330 cycles of treatment.
(13) In the second menstrual cycle, the experimental cycle, nine girls were given Micronor, a progestogen type oral contraceptive and four girls were given Ortho-Novum SQ, a sequential type oral contraceptive.
(14) Researchers from Gainesville, Florida compared data on 20 women who were randomly assigned the triphasic oral contraceptive (OC) Triphasil (ethinyl estradiol and levonorgestrel) with data on 24 women who were randomly assigned the triphasic OC Ortho-Novum (ethinyl estradiol and norethindrone) and data on 8 women who were controls to evaluate these 2 triphasic OCs' effects on coagulation and anticoagulation factors.
(15) Thus, the patient was placed on Ortho-Novum as well as imipramine.
(16) 9 were taking the oral contraceptive, Ortho-Novum; 4 were fitted with an IUD; and the remaining 25 were used as controls.
(17) Laënnec's invention of the stethoscope (1816) and De l' Auscultation Médiate (1819) inspired Piorry to make an analogous contribution to the technique of percussion (which had been originally described by Auenbrugger in his Inventum Novum in 1761 and translated from the Latin into French by Corvisart in 1808).
(18) If pregnancy is to be avoided hormonal ovulation inhibitors as optimal, since their effectiveness is over 90% (Cilest, Femovan, Marvelon, and Ortho-Novum 2 mg).
(19) The effect on the coagulation mechanism of lactation suppressants was determined by comparing observations on a group of untreated women and two other groups, one receiving Vallestril (methallenestrill 20 mg) and the other Ortho-Novum 5 (5 mg norethindrone and 0.075 mg mestranol).
(20) A benign hepatic adenoma was discovered in a young woman who had been taking an OC (Ortho-Novum 2) for 7 years.