(a.) Following the thirty-ninth, or preceded by thirty-nine units, things, or parts.
(a.) Constituting one of forty equal parts into which anything is divided.
(n.) One of forty equal parts into which one whole is divided; the quotient of a unit divided by forty; one next in order after the thirty-ninth.
Example Sentences:
(1) This assay can be performed at the bedside with simple equipment in 70 seconds at approximately one-fortieth the cost of present standard lung maturity studies.
(2) To clarify the mechanism of CA 125 elevation in maternal sera, serum levels of CA 125 and CA 19-9 were measured in 122 apparently healthy pregnant women (fifth to fortieth week of gestation) and 50 postpartum women (26 term deliveries and 24 second-trimester induced abortions).
(3) The fortieth case of emphysematous pyelonephritis is reported and a plan for management is proposed based on differentiating this condition from gas-forming infections of the perinephric space and the renal collecting system.
(4) Twenty-five patients, hospitalized within 24 hours from the beginning of the precordiaglia due to acute diaphragmatic infarction, with or without a posterior extension, underwent the ECG and VCG recordings for the first consecutive twenty days and on the fortieth day, in order to study the development of ventricular depolarization.
(5) His name is a byword to all students of public health and is familiar to readers of World Health Forum from our fortieth anniversary article about the early days of WHO (1) and the reminiscences of Szeming Sze (2).
(6) Acetylcholinesterase activity was found initially in small amounts in some regions of the outer plexiform layer at the fortieth day of gestation.
(7) The wild type formed heme from glycine and succinate at one-fortieth the rate of bacteriochlorophyll under anaerobic-light conditions.
(8) Synthetic 16beta-OH-DHEA was found to have a mineralocorticoid potency one-fortieth that of aldosterone in the rat bioassay.
(9) At the beginning of systematic investigations on this complex of problems we determined the cAMP content in 111 samples of amniotic fluid from 104 pregnant women without risk symptoms between the eleventh and fortieth week of pregnancy.
(10) It was a half to a quarter that of normal bone marrow stem cells and we found a subpopulation of circulating stem cells whose capacity for stem cell generation was an eighth to a fortieth that of normal femoral stem cells.
(11) The second phase begins at the end of the first phase and finishes toward the fortieth or fiftieth day of the mission.
(12) The levels of creatine kinase MB and serum glycosaminoglycan in the CLS 2210 patients were initially higher than in the placebo patients but fell below placebo levels between the fortieth and fifty-fifth hours, respectively (p = 0.89, 0.02).
(13) In a controlled study in oedematous patients it was equipotent with frusemide at one-fortieth the molar dosage and did not differ from frusemide with regard to its pattern of electrolyte excretion.
(14) Retinae of guinea pigs from the fortieth day of gestation to one day postnatally were processed for the localization of cholinesterases in the electron microscope according to the method of Lewis and Shute ('66).
(15) This year is the fifteenth anniversary of the National Contact Point (NCP) system and in 2016 the OECD guidelines for multinational enterprises on responsible business conduct will celebrate its fortieth anniversary.
(16) A previously unidentified mineralocorticoid, 16beta-hydroxydehydroepiandrosterone (16beta OH-DHEA) has recently been isolated from urine extracts of patients with low-renin hypertension and reported to possess one-fortieth the mineralocorticoid potency of aldosterone by bioassay.
(17) The maximum rate obtained was from proline plus alanine; even then the rate represented less than one-fortieth of the capacity of glutamine synthetase measured in vitro.
(18) Also, this pilot study coincided with stories in the media in commemoration of the fortieth anniversary of the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
(19) Fully developed MECs were found between the thirtieth and fortieth day.
(20) A case of what was assumed to be twiddler's syndrome was caused by spontaneous twisting and displacement of the electrode on the fortieth postoperative day.
Forty
Definition:
(a.) Four times ten; thirty-nine and one more.
(n.) The sum of four tens; forty units or objects.
(n.) A symbol expressing forty units; as, 40, or xl.
Example Sentences:
(1) Forty-nine patients (with 83 eyes showing signs of the disease) were followed up for between six months and 12 years.
(2) Forty-five enteropathogenic (enteropathogenic Escherichia coli-like) strains isolated in commercial rabbit farms were subdivided into four biotypes with the help of six carbohydrate fermentation tests, ornithine decarboxylase tests, and motility tests.
(3) Forty-two patients with membranous glomerulonephritis were treated.
(4) The faeces of forty-two were examined microscopically for nematode eggs.
(5) Forty male and forty female animals were used in each group, of which 10 of each sex were killed at 2 and 6 weeks.
(6) Two hundred and forty root canals of extracted single-rooted teeth were prepared to the same dimension, and Dentatus posts of equal size were cemented without screwing them into the dentine.
(7) The patient was a forty-five-year-old female who had been troubled by obstinate Raynaud's phenomenon for ten years before the definite diagnosis of pulmonary hypertension was made.
(8) Forty five elderly patients undergoing total hip replacements were assessed one day before and two days after surgery in order to explore the relationship between pre-operative anxiety and post-operative delirium.
(9) One hundred and forty six calving interval records were built up from 64 N'Dama cows maintained for 3.5 years under a high natural tsetse challenge in Zaire.
(10) Forty-nine women who attended a surgical emergency department after being battered are the subjects of this prospective study.
(11) Forty-five children with stable chronic renal failure, not on dialysis, were treated conservatively with a regimen of mild dietary phosphate restriction and high-dose phosphate binders for up to 5 years.
(12) Two hundred and forty-one residents were examined for carotid bruits and signs of previous stroke.
(13) Forty-eight reinterventions in 34 limbs were required to restore or maintain graft patency in thrombosed or failing grafts.
(14) A forty-four-year-old woman with Takayasu's arteritis and involvement of the aortic arch and its main branches complained of precordial pain on effort.
(15) Forty-six percent of the plain abdominal radiographs were suspected for cecal volvulus, but only 17 percent were diagnostic.
(16) The results of the Tinel percussion test, the Phalen wrist-flexion test, and the new test were evaluated in thirty-one patients (forty-six hands) in whom the presence of carpal tunnel syndrome had been proved electrodiagnostically, as well as in a control group of fifty subjects.
(17) Forty heels in 32 patients were reviewed either by a clinical and radiographical examination (35 heels), or by a questionnaire (5 heels) after an average of 6 years (range 1-12 years).
(18) The component was revised in forty-five patients, revision and advancement of the trochanteric component was done in twenty-five patients, and impinging bone or cement was removed from six patients; a combination of these procedures was done in nineteen patients.
(19) Forty patients with Crotalidae snake bites were evaluated and treated over a 7-year period.
(20) Two hundred forty-six fetuses had at least one abnormal biophysical profile variable with the risk of bad outcome, for a single abnormal variable, ranging from 8% (body movements) to 100% (tone) and increasing from 14% (any variable abnormal) to 63% (all variables abnormal).