(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.
Pentad
Definition:
(n.) Any element, atom, or radical, having a valence of five, or which can be combined with, substituted for, or compared with, five atoms of hydrogen or other monad; as, nitrogen is a pentad in the ammonium compounds.
(a.) Having the valence of a pentad.
Example Sentences:
(1) Thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura (TTP) is characterized by the pentad of fever, thrombocytopenia, microangiopathic hemolytic anemia, fluctuating neurologic symptoms, and renal dysfunction.
(2) This case supports the associational of thoracoabdominal ectopia cordis (Cantrell's pentad) with chromosomal errors, specifically trisomy 18.
(3) Of the 41 botulinal toxin-positive persons, 38 (93%) had at least three of the commonly recognized pentad of signs or symptoms--nausea and vomiting, dysphagia, diplopia, dilated and fixed pupils, or dry mouth and throat--and 20 (49%) required respiratory assistance.
(4) Review of the reported literature of the Pentalogy of Cantrell and various combinations of the anomalies within the spectrum of this pentad suggests that the PC defines a specific midline ventral developmental field.
(5) There was an increase in the numbers of 'bare' T-tubules and an increased occurrence of diadic, pentadic and heptadic junctions between the membranes of the T-tubules and terminal cisternae.
(6) It is characterized by a pentad of clinical findings: fever, neurological abnormalities, renal dysfunction, microangiopathic hemolytic anemia and thrombocytopenia.
(7) Clinical signs and symptoms of nausea and vomiting, dysphagia, diplopia, dilated pupils, and dry throat occurred with great frequency, forming a diagnostic pentad.
(8) Other clinical features were present inconsistently, and only 34% of "TTP" episodes involved the classic pentad of hemolytic anemia, thrombocytopenia, neurologic disorders, noninfectious fever, and renal impairment.
(9) Common bile duct lithiasis was responsible in 80% of cases presenting with Reynolds' pentad and in 66% of postoperative mortality.
(10) The presence of renal impairment, occurring as frequently as any of the pentad of features that characterize the syndrome, has important implications for the prognosis and long term management of these patients.
(11) By using more specific criteria than the classical clinical pentad, the diagnosis of thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura during pregnancy can be made with greater accuracy.
(12) It is characterized by a pentad of clinical findings, including microangiopathic hemolytic anemia, thrombocytopenic purpura, neurologic and renal abnormalities, and fever.
(13) Information from out patients with thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura implicates respiratory dysfunction as a component of this disease as well as the classically described pentad.
(14) Nuclear chain fibers, in contrast, possess an unusually well-developed SR and T system and a variety of multiple junctional couplings (dyads, triads, quatrads, pentads, septads).
(15) 23% of the 17 patients with pus in the bile duct showed Reynolds' pentad, which was observed in 10% of patients with nonsuppurative acute cholangitis.
(16) During anaphase I the pentad sex chromosomes lie freely between the two sister cells.
(17) It is of prognostic significance, and should be considered as important as the clinical findings of Reynold's pentad.
(18) Thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura (TTP) is a rare disorder of unknown etiology, clinically characterized by a diagnostic pentad (thrombocytopenia, microangiopathic hemolytic anemia, neurologic signs and symptoms, fever and renal damage).
(19) Diagnosis of TTP is usually made on the basis of the pentad of anemia, thrombocytopenia, renal disease, neurologic abnormalities, and fever.
(20) The tetrade "REST syndrome" becomes in these cases the pentade "CREST syndrome".