What's the difference between fourteen and fourteenth?
Fourteen
Definition:
(a.) Four and ten more; twice seven.
(n.) The sum of ten and four; forteen units or objects.
(n.) A symbol representing fourteen, as 14 or xiv.
Example Sentences:
(1) Fourteen representative cases of the problem are reported.
(2) 1 The effects of chronic ethanol intake on the elimination kinetics of antipyrine were determined in nineteen male alcoholic subjects with comparison made to fourteen male volunteers.
(3) The study included fifty children, aged six to fourteen years, selected from patients seeking routine dental care at Children's Hospital National Medical Center.
(4) Fourteen of the 24 patients in one renal clinic and 18 of their at-risk relatives were interviewed.
(5) Fourteen soil bacteriophages active against Rhizobium trifolii W19 have been studied which fall into four structural groups.
(7) Fourteen patients were examined one to four years after cricopharyngeal myotomy that had been carried out because of dysfunction of the pharyngo-esophageal sphincter.
(8) Fourteen patients with symptoms or with high-grade carotid artery occlusive disease were treated by concomitant carotid endarterectomy.
(9) In an ongoing study utilizing a double-blind crossover technique, fourteen Ménière's patients have been evaluated for allergies utilizing the Rinkle and Lee techniques for inhalent and food allergies.
(10) In another protocol, fourteen volunteers received calcitriol 0.25 microgram, 0.5 microgram, and 1.0 microgram twice a day each for 14 days with intervening control periods of 2 weeks.
(11) Fourteen cases of malignancy were not diagnosed by TRU-CUT biopsy specimens.
(12) Fourteen patients entered the study and each received megavoltage therapy to give a mean dose of 4600 rad to the pituitary over 31 days.
(13) Thirteen of the fourteen melanomas detected were on anatomic sites normally covered by clothing.
(14) Fourteen days after partial plasma exchange the enzyme activity returned to normal.
(15) Fourteen seriously burned patients who had pulmonary arterial monitoring.
(16) Fourteen preterm neonates were studied with a gestational age below 33 weeks (n = 7) or between 34 and 37 weeks (n = 7), respectively, as well as 19 full-term newborns either untreated (n = 9) or treated by phototherapy (n = 10).
(17) We assessed the relative restraints that are provided by fourteen currently available functional knee-braces, using six limbs in cadavera.
(18) Fourteen patients (group A) with unresectable metastasis to the liver from colorectal cancers (11 patients) and gastric cancers (3 patients) were treated with the combined application of hyperthermia and intra-hepato-arterial (IHA) chemotherapy with cisplatinum and 5-fluorouracil.
(19) The present study extended this effort to a noninstitutionalized life-span sample of males and females in six age groups (fourteen to ninety-four).
(20) Fourteen of 60 patients (24%) required treatment breaks because of thrombocytopenia.
Fourteenth
Definition:
(a.) Next in order after the thirteenth; as, the fourteenth day of the month.
(a.) Making or constituting one of fourteen equal parts into which anything may be derived.
(n.) One of fourteen equal parts into which one whole may be divided; the quotient of a unit divided by fourteen; one next after the thirteenth.
(n.) The octave of the seventh.
Example Sentences:
(1) The following examinations were performed before operation, on the first, third, seventh and fourteenth postoperative day: 1) total number of leukocytes and lymphocytes 2) total number of lymphocyte subpopulations (T cells, B cells, Leu2a positive cells, Leu3a positive cells) 3) serum concentration of immunoglobulins (IgG, IgA, IgM).
(2) We studied healthy subjects on the fourteenth day of each treatment period and after a two hour infusion of adrenaline (0.06 micrograms.kg-1.min-1 [0.33 nmol.kg-1.min-1]) we measured their heart rates, blood pressures, and plasma potassium and magnesium concentrations.
(3) One hundred patients were screened for hypercoagulability preoperatively and on the third, seventh, tenth, fourteenth, and twenty-first days postoperatively.
(4) The fourteenth case in the literature of lacrimal sac melanoma and possibly the first by tear seedling is illustrated.
(5) Neonatal rats, when spinalized on the fourteenth postnatal day, showed minimal recovery of function in their hindlimbs.
(6) Between the eleventh and fourteenth day after transplantation, ovarian grafts frequently contained transitional structures consisting of Sertoli cells, pregranulosa cells, a third type of cells which show intermediate characteristics between Sertoli and pregranulosa cells, and oocytes enclosed by common basal lamina.
(7) Although all enzyme levels returned to the preoperative level on the fourteenth postoperative day, the excretory capacity of liver cells as measured by serum bromsulphalein retention rate on day 14 time was still abnormally high (p less than 0.001) and took 2 to 3 months to decline to a level that still exceeded preoperative levels (p less than 0.05).
(8) Direct bilirubin was also higher in Group II than in Group I till fourteenth postoperative day.
(9) Three hundred ninety fetal crown-rump measurements by ultrasound echography were performed in order to correlate the crown-rump length with gestational age between the sixth and fourteenth weeks of gestation.
(10) The IgE-forming plasma cells were detected in the lymph nodes and spleen at the tenth day and their number reached maximum at the fourteenth day.
(11) The rates of heat production and partitioned heat loss were determined on the fourteenth postburn day for five treatment groups: I) burn, fed rat chow ad libitum starting 2 hours postburn; II) burn, fed by gastrostomy beginning 2 hours postburn; III) burn, fed by gastrostomy, delayed until 72 hours postburn; IV) controls, fed by gastrostomy 2 hours post anesthesia; and V) controls, fed rat chow ad libitum 2 hours post anesthesia.
(12) The oxygen tension was monitored at 2 and 12 hours postoperatively, then daily for 1 week, and on the fourteenth postoperative day.
(13) Review of the radiological and dermatological literature has shown this to be the fourteenth case in which these excessively rare entities have been associated.
(14) The thirteenth edition of the standards of the American Association of Blood Banks did not require the use of A1 red cells (RBCs) or an indirect antiglobulin test (IAT) to detect anti-A in neonatal serum, whereas the fourteenth edition mandates both.
(15) At earlier stages of the disease preceding the appearance of peculiar neurological symptoms (the seventh and fourteenth days of the incubation period) a decrease of the Mg2+, Ca2+ = ATPase activity was observed in the brain and spinal cord, whereas the Na+, K+ = ATPase activity in the brain remained at the control level up to the appearance of the disease clearly developed symptoms.
(16) Ten of 45 developed neither renal lesions nor bacteriuria; of the remaining 35 which did, five were killed on each of the second, seventh and fourteenth days, and their renal lesions were assessed.
(17) A group of six pregnant rats were instrumented on the fourteenth day of gestation and studied on days 19 and 20, as well as 7 days post partum.
(18) By comparison, the pregnancy test kit detected chorionic gonadotropin between the fourteenth week prepartum and the last week of gestation with 94% accuracy.
(19) Neurons form between 0-1 and 0-4% of the total cell population and are produced between the twelfth and fourteenth days of gestation.
(20) On the seventh and fourteenth days of each period, psychomotor skills (choice reaction, coordination, and attention) were measured after the administration of drugs in combination with an alcoholic or placebo drink.