(n. pl.) A kind of play with a ball against a wall, resembling tennis; -- so named because three fives, or fifteen, are counted to the game.
(n.) A disease of the glands under the ear in horses; the vives.
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.
Hives
Definition:
(n.) The croup.
(n.) An eruptive disease (Varicella globularis), allied to the chicken pox.
Example Sentences:
(1) Urban hives boom could be 'bad for bees' What happened: Two professors from a University of Sussex laboratory are urging wannabe-urban beekeepers to consider planting more flowers instead of taking up the increasingly popular hobby.
(2) This weekend a new dispute has erupted over government proposals to hive off child protection services to companies such as Serco and G4S ; perhaps the ministers and officials behind those plans should look at the case of Sana when they come to make their final decision on the future of another vulnerable section of the population.
(3) The typical synanthropic species Glycyphagus domesticus is totally absent from dwellings but occurs in 90% of honey-bee hives.
(4) They talk of cutting down to size , of hiving off, of limiting the scope, with all the manic glee of a doctor urging his patient to consider the benefits of assisted suicide.
(5) If bees from a second hive were allowed to forage at both control sites, however, recruits from the experimental hive, while orienting to these sites, exhibited no evidence of having used any distance information they might have received before leaving their parent hive.
(6) immunoglobulin E-mediated hay fever, asthma, eczema, hives) was examined in a nonclinical sample of 379 college students.
(7) Last month, the new TSB bank, hived off from Lloyds to increase competition in retail banking, was established with its headquarters in London, despite being founded in Scotland .
(8) It’s their winter food, for feeding the 10,000-strong colony in the hive when it’s too cold to fly.
(9) Therapeutic response was assessed according to the suppression of symptoms and symptom diary scores of daily itching and frequency, number, size, and duration of hives.
(10) For Hartnett, the new challenge is "re-structuring", by which firms hive off key elements of their trade to tax havens in Switzerland.
(11) Another, keen to make good on the advantage, was said to be a "hive of activity" in the days directly leading up to the inspection.
(12) For instance, the acute symptoms of allergy and asthma such as sneezing, bronchospasm and hives are believed to be largely the result of mediator release from mast cells whereas chronic symptoms (the result of allergic inflammation) can be explained on the basis of eosinophil-mediated tissue damage.
(13) After a few weeks, the hive had stabilised again, with around half of the old foragers now working as nurse bees.
(14) Symptoms include hives, skin eruptions, abdominal pain, perianal pruitis, diarrhea, and pneumonitis.
(15) If you want to go far, go together.” Teddy Ruge is the co-founder of Hive Colab , an innovation hub in Kampala, Uganda .
(16) Even so, King outlined a range of ideas that could involve a radical restructuring of the industry, including hiving off safe deposits from riskier assets.
(17) While some worker bees remain at home, others take flight in search of nectar, pollen and other hive essentials.
(18) Eosinophil counts (range, 4002 to 37,350 cells per cubic millimeter) increased in association with the onset of hives and decreased to baseline levels after their resolution.
(19) Risk declined with the total number of specific allergies reported (p less than 0.001), and was reduced in relation to a history of prior asthma, eczema and hives.
(20) Hives consistently began at the end of menses and lasted for 1 to 2 weeks.