() p. p. of Fly; -- often used with the auxiliary verb to be; as, the birds are flown.
(a.) Flushed, inflated.
(p. p.) of Fly
Example Sentences:
(1) By the time Van Kirk returned to the US in June 1943, he had flown 58 combat and eight transport missions.
(2) But we sent out reconnoitres in the morning; we send out a team in advance and they get halfway down the road, maybe a quarter of the way down the road, sometimes three-quarters of the way down the road – we tried this three days in a row – and then the shelling starts and while I can’t point the finger at who starts the shelling, we get the absolute assurances from the Ukraine government that it’s not them.” Flags on all Australian government buildings will be flown at half-mast on Thursday, and an interdenominational memorial service will be held at St Patrick’s cathedral in Melbourne from 10.30am.
(3) The passengers were then flown to an Australian icebreaker, the Aurora Australis, which had cracked through ice floes and was now sailing towards Australia's Casey research base.
(4) Colleagues quoted by the Kommersant newspaper said White, who is also the chief executive of the Russia-focused investment consultancy Marchmont Capital Partners, had flown to Florida.
(5) His body was flown to Melbourne for burial the following week.
(6) Ballot boxes from the provinces are to be flown by helicopter to the capital by US and international forces and examined on rolling basis.
(7) Saadi's entire family were bundled aboard an aircraft in Hong Kong and flown to Tripoli in March 2004.
(8) Pigeons are able to home from unfamiliar sites because they acquire an olfactory map extending beyond the area they have flown over.
(9) The growth rate of flown algae did not differ from that of ground-based controls in terms of increases in the cell number and biomass.
(10) Our next priority is to ensure that patients in need of post-operative care and follow-up are flown to our larger MSF projects in Lankien, Nasir and Leer.
(11) Paramedics managed to stop the bleeding and the man was then flown to a Brisbane hospital in a serious, but stable condition.
(12) Admittedly, minutes earlier Steven Fletcher’s header from a Lens cross had flown only marginally off target but it represented a rare shaft of sunlight.
(13) As a result she won’t be watching her son in the final because she has flown back to prepare Britain’s women’s tennis team for the Federation Cup, starting in Budapest on Wednesday.
(14) The England international, who has made 18 appearances in a season blighted by a number of fitness problems, has flown to the US to see Dr Peter Asnis, an orthopaedic surgeon connected to Fenway Sports Group’s other major acquisition, the Boston Red Sox, in an attempt to solve his hip injury.
(15) The Briton had been part of Gu's inner circle, but the relationship had cooled; he had flown down to the city at her request.
(16) She may have flown to Bangladesh, Uruguay and Zambia on behalf of the UN, but she doesn’t come across as if she is lecturing her fans from on high – more as if she is learning alongside them.
(17) West African leaders have flown into the Gambia to make a final attempt to persuade Yahya Jammeh to step down when his presidential term ends next week.
(18) Sanchéz, who insisted the operation was the result of months of intelligence work, said all three detainees had been flown to Mexico City and were being held for initial questioning in the organised crime unit of the attorney general's Office.
(19) Several survivors and family members of the victims who were flown to the US testified this week , and one cursed Bales for attacking villagers as some slept and others screamed for mercy.
(20) The second concerns Shaker Aamer , a Saudi national and UK resident who was detained and allegedly mistreated at Bagram, before being flown to Guantánamo.
Lown
Definition:
(n.) A low fellow.
Example Sentences:
(1) In a prospective study, the influence of the length of the time interval on spontaneous variability was investigated in 100 patients with CAD or IDC and untreated ventricular arrhythmia of Lown grade IV.
(2) According the degree of septal thickness (ST), patients were classed in 4 groups: (formula; see text) This study allows to conclude that mean and severe concentric LVH (ST greater than or equal to 12) detected by echo are associated with a greater PVC and a higher Lown's class ventricular ectopy.
(3) Three patients were withdrawn from the study at the end of the first period (1 after SR nicardipine and 2 after chlorthalidone) because of severe arrhythmias (Lown's class 4B) requiring antiarrhythmic therapy.
(4) A 79-year-old patient, who had received a pacemaker after suffering two posterior myocardial infarctions, was treated with 2 X 100 mg flecainide daily for 9 days for ventricular extrasystoles (Lown IV b).
(5) Ventricular arrhythmias were absent in 60% of the group, while among the 41 patients presenting these phenomena, as many as 32 presented simple forms, while only 5 were in Lown's class IV and 2 of these due to a single pairing, 1 a single triplet.
(6) A positive correlation was found between the extent of LV damage and the occurrence of complex arrhythmias expressed as the highest Lown class.
(7) The control-group revealed no late potentials although 4 patients had Lown IVa or more in Holter-ECG.
(8) The Lown and the Italian Modified Lown classifications were used.
(9) A new syndrome of ventricular pre-excitation syndrome is differentiated--of additional obscure retrograde conducting ventricular-atrial connection, different from the so far known syndrome of Wolff-Parkinson-White, Lown-Ganong-Levine and syndrome of Mahaim.
(10) Multivariate Cox's hazard function analysis on 18 variables, including age, type of infarction, Lown and Killip class, ejection fraction, and medications, showed that the presence of ST changes on Holter monitoring was a significant predictive variable for one-year mortality in the overall study population and particularly in the subgroup of 59 patients who could not undergo early exercise treadmill testing.
(11) Ventricular extra systoles were recorded in 31 patients (65.9%), 70.97% being from class III-V according to Lown.
(12) According to the long-term ECG recordings 22 patients were classified as Lown IV.
(13) Ventricular couplets or triplets (Lown grade IV) were found in less than 10% in patients in age from 15 to 17 years, 33% in patients from 18 to 20 years and showed no increase with age.
(14) In order to evaluate the effects of propafenone (an antiarrhythmic class 1 c agent) acutely administered intravenously on left ventricular function, 10 patients with acute myocardial infarction (AMI), affected by arrhythmias (greater than or equal to Lown class III), belonging to Killip class I and II, and with normal serum electrolyte levels, were studied 2-4 days after an acute episode.
(15) Thus the short PR wide QRS syndrome is not always a result of the Wolff-Parkinson-White syndrome but can also be seen in the Lown-Ganong-Levine syndrome coexisting with bundle-branch block.
(16) In 6 patients with normal resting electrocardiogram, AEM revealed: first degree A-V block (4 cases), class IVa Lown ventricular arrhythmias (3 cases) and episodes of atrial fibrillation (4 cases).
(17) The study population consisted of 27 pts; 22 (81%) were in Lown class 4A (18%) or 4B (63%).
(18) The Lown's type 3 ventricular beats had a 50% reduction.
(19) In order to clarify the role of age and hypertension in determining arrhythmias, we evaluated the average heart rate, and the number of supraventricular and ventricular premature beats and their severity (Lown grade) by 24-h Holter electrocardiography of 336 patients.
(20) The atrial depolarization pattern was studied in 22 patients with Wolff-Parkinson-White and Lown-Ganong-Levine syndrome.