(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.