(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).
Tip
Definition:
(n.) The point or extremity of anything; a pointed or somewhat sharply rounded end; the end; as, the tip of the finger; the tip of a spear.
(n.) An end piece or part; a piece, as a cap, nozzle, ferrule, or point, applied to the extreme end of anything; as, a tip for an umbrella, a shoe, a gas burner, etc.
(n.) A piece of stiffened lining pasted on the inside of a hat crown.
(n.) A thin, boarded brush made of camel's hair, used by gilders in lifting gold leaf.
(n.) Rubbish thrown from a quarry.
(v. t.) To form a point upon; to cover the tip, top, or end of; as, to tip anything with gold or silver.
(v. t.) To strike slightly; to tap.
(v. t.) To bestow a gift, or douceur, upon; to give a present to; as, to tip a servant.
(v. t.) To lower one end of, or to throw upon the end; to tilt; as, to tip a cask; to tip a cart.
(v. i.) To fall on, or incline to, one side.
(n.) A light touch or blow; a tap.
(n.) A gift; a douceur; a fee.
(n.) A hint, or secret intimation, as to the chances in a horse race, or the like.
Example Sentences:
(1) This study examined both the effect of variations in optical fiber tip and in light wavelength on laser-induced hyperthermia in rat brain.
(2) Sickle and normal discocytes both showed membrane elasticity with reversion to original cell shape following release of the cell from its aspirated position at the pipette tip.
(3) The complication might have been prevented by measurements of U and I, reflecting changes in impedance or by measurements of catheter tip temperature (T).
(4) But what about phenomena such as table tipping and Ouija boards?
(5) The relationship between technique of obtaining Papanicolaou smears, presence of endocervical cells, and rate of cervical neoplasia was studied by comparing an endocervical and ectocervical nylon brush (Bayne brush), Ayre spatula plus endocervical brush, and spatula plus cotton-tipped swab in a randomized, prospective trial involving 11,061 patients.
(6) Eight electrodes of different size and tip characteristics were evaluated at different temperatures and time settings, both in vitro and in vivo.
(7) Neither was the intra-VMH infusion of MA effective if: (i) the rats were not primed with estrogen; (ii) the tips of the cannulae were outside the VMH; or (iii) it was preceded by an intra-VMH infusion of the alpha 1b-antagonist, chloroethylclonidine (CEC).
(8) "We know that a country has tipped when local-to-local connections outnumber local to foreign," he added.
(9) An inner cannula containing PGE2 or PGF2alpha at its tip was inserted into the previously implanted outer cannula.
(10) The linear flow accelerator failed to prevent, but did delay, catheter tip recoil in proportion to the prolongation of contrast medium injection time.
(11) The inter-connecting linkage system develops postnatally, and the 'tip-linkages' are already found in one-week-old mice, suggesting that the critical organization of the micromechanics of the stereocilia matures rapidly during the postnatal period.
(12) A new simplified technique for evaluating the internal pudendal artery and the penile vessels is described using a new catheter configuration with a very short 90 degrees-angled tip.
(13) Tipping petrol on a fire isn’t going to get the heat out of it,” he told ABC radio.
(14) When used in snail neurones such electrodes gave very similar pHi values to those recorded simultaneously by recessed-tip glass micro-electrodes.
(15) This study demonstrates the limitations of the Q-Tip test and reconfirms the need for more sensitive and specific urodynamic investigations of the incontinent woman.
(16) Following orthodontic treatment the canine's incisal edge occlusion demonstrates the tip and torque present in the appliance that was used.
(17) After 4 weeks of in vivo growth, extensive growth of arborizing ducts was apparent in recombinants composed of urogenital sinus mesenchyme and a single adult prostatic ductal tip.
(18) Conversely, serum starvation decreased TIP levels within 1 hr.
(19) He unleashes a scorching drive from about 18 yards, which Joe Hart tips wide via his right post.
(20) One patient harbored a basilar trunk aneurysm, 1 an aneurysm of the proximal posterior cerebral artery, 3 an aneurysm of the superior cerebellar artery, and 10 an aneurysm at the basilar tip.