(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.
Quint
Definition:
(n.) A set or sequence of five, as in piquet.
(n.) The interval of a fifth.
Example Sentences:
(1) Mutant virus is then reconstituted by cotransfection with overlapping viral clones, together comprising the entire viral genome, as described previously (M. van Zijl, W. Quint, J. Briaire, T. de Rover, A. Gielkens, and A. Berns, J. Virol.
(2) A perchlorinated, cage-structured hydrocarbon, C(10)C(l2), also known as mirex or Dechlorane, has been identified in fish samples from the Bay of Quinte, Lake Ontario, Canada.
(3) Quint Fontana drinks to remember... and he’s thirsty!” Of course, this is all a character act – Fontana is the infectiously appealing creation of comedian Andy Davies, who has been honing the character via a monthly show at Bethnal Green Working Men’s Club.
(4) A quintuple mutant, with all cysteines converted to alanines (Quint), was also constructed.
(5) Quint Fontana is also interested in the power of the female, but he approaches things from a rather different trajectory.
(6) Although the soft-tissue analysis can be made easier by the use of a Quint intensifying screen (Quint X-Ray Co, Inc, Los Angeles) which enhances the soft-tissue image, when the enhanced cephalometric radiograph was compared with a standard, nonenhanced radiograph, it was found to have the same level of diagnostic accuracy.
(7) The mutants C82A and C191A exhibit nearly the same CM in urea denaturation experiments as WT, while the other single mutants and Quint are less stable, with CM differences of up to 0.7 M urea.
(8) After quantitative comparison, it appears that hinge rotation is the primary physiologic movement of the mandible, and that the Hanau quint provides compensatory factors in facilitating hinge jaw movement.
(9) The thermal stabilities of Quint and of the wild-type enzyme (WT) were determined by differential scanning calorimetry.
(10) Pleasance Courtyard, 5.30pm, to 24 Aug Quint Fontana: I Remember Me Facebook Twitter Pinterest Quint Fontana Last year, Bridget Christie picked up the Edinburgh Comedy award with an impassioned, gag-festooned tribute to feminism.
(11) Quint is also less thermostable than WT, with a delta TM of 3.3-4.4 degrees C. Thus the five cysteine replacements yield small, but significant, changes in catalytic and denaturation parameters, but none of the cysteines was found to be essential.
(12) The 1st step in Quint's analysis was a determination of the ratio of new endometrial carcinoma cases to the total "major gynecologic operations" for the intervals 1960-1966 and 1966-1973.
(13) Thus, type-2 astrocytes express the two quint-essential astrocytic features: glial fibrillary acidic protein (previously reported by others) and glutamine synthetase.
(14) This work has been extended by undertaking a computer simulation of the movement of the mandible between centric occlusion and centric relation in an effort to establish a possible mathematical relationship between the variables in Hanau's "Quint."
(15) Dr. Boyd C. Quint recently presented important data regarding the relationship of estrogen therapy to the risk of endometrial carcinoma, but the data seem to have been inappropriately analyzed.
(16) Dr. Quint studied 291 postmenopausal women who received primary treatment for endometrial carcinoma at the Swedish Hospital Medical Center in Seattle, Washington between 1960 and 1973.
(17) Quint's data do support the hypothesis that estrogen therapy may be an etiologic factor among the more recent cases of endometrial carcinoma.