(adv.) From; away; back or backward; -- now used only in opposition to the word to, in the phrase to and fro, that is, to and from. See To and fro under To.
(prep.) From.
Example Sentences:
(1) Microfilariae were detected fro 2-136 days after inoculation.
(2) In controls the conduit emptied mainly by means of low pressure, to-and-fro activity.
(3) The increase in movement of people both within the highlands of New Guinea and also to and fro between holo- and hyperendemic lowland areas and the highlands by policemen and semi-skilled personnel in one direction and by labourers in the other, together with a great increase in potential breeding sites, were virtually inevitable consequences of the development process as the intense communalism and geographical isolation of the highland people was broken down.
(4) Passive Na+ and K+ effluxes and influxes in the presence of bumetanide were tested fro conformity to the Ussing independence relationship.
(5) The characteristics of the sensor and rate adaptive algorithm included in a new dual chamber rate responsive pacemaker (Relay 294-03, Intermedics, Inc.) were studied by submitting the device to calibrated to-and-fro movements of specific frequencies and peak accelerations by means of a mechanical arm connected to a speed adapter.
(6) We conclude that neither the angulation of the circumflex artery as it appears on a two-dimensional projection nor the proportional diametric stenosis of the lesion can serve as easily assessible predictors fro the success of the procedure.
(7) Arteriovenous differences fro amino acids across kidneys of normal and chronically acidotic rats were measured.
(8) On the basis of hydrodynamic principles, to-and-fro pulsatile flow at large Womersley numbers consists of uniform inner flow and boundary-layer-type flow adjacent to a tube wall.
(9) Tramadol induced no measurable alterations in the electronystagmographic recordings of quick voluntary eye movements or follow-up to-and-fro eye movements.
(10) These contractions resulted in four patterns of barium movement: anterograde propulsion, retrograde propulsion, to-and-fro motion, and peristaltic propulsion.
(11) When the needle is in the lesion, small to-and-fro movements with a minimum of angulation are helpful.
(12) The role of FRO in the pathogenesis of the damage of the erythrocytic membrane after thermal trauma and the protective effect of alpha-tocopherol are discussed.
(13) These results show that: a) for the movements against a load, the extra component of the integrated EMG arising from the initial isometric phase is compensated by the mechanical work resulting from the release of potential elastic energy; b) for the to and fro movements, elastic energy is stored in the stretched series elastic component during the negative work and released during the positive work.
(14) The 22 countries stretching from Morocco to Afghanistan, ranging fro m the tip of Africa to the rim of Asia, present a spectrum of population positions ranging from explicit governmental pronatalist to antinatalist policies to no explicity policy at all.
(15) Lippi's spectre came into sharper focus after the Fiorentina defeat, with whispers across the pages of the football press and furious blogging to and fro on Juve's website - echoing Ranieri's Chelsea days, actually, with most fans urging support for Il Mister and concentration on the matter in hand, whatever the long term.
(16) The relative distribution of total body surface area among four regions selected fro the calculation of a mean skin temperature in the Taiwan monkeys was also determined.
(17) The values fro human specimens obtained from young adults with regard to elastic modulus, ultimate tensile stress, and strain energy to failure were approximately two to three times those for specimens from humans in the sixth decade and older.
(18) Diagnostic criteria for echographic CSF-flow imaging are: 1. flow signals "within" CSF-pathways; 2. to-and-fro movement of CSF (spectral analysis); 3. specific response of CSF-flow to stimuli (respiration, crying, abdominal palpation); 4. dynamic CSF-imaging related to specific anatomical areas of intracranial CSF-pathways.
(19) FRO participation in the mechanisms of reduced erythrocyte osmotic resistance in thermic injury is discussed.
(20) Frozen sections were reacted fro the demonstration of HRP using tetramethylbenzidine as chromagen.
From
Definition:
(prep.) Out of the neighborhood of; lessening or losing proximity to; leaving behind; by reason of; out of; by aid of; -- used whenever departure, setting out, commencement of action, being, state, occurrence, etc., or procedure, emanation, absence, separation, etc., are to be expressed. It is construed with, and indicates, the point of space or time at which the action, state, etc., are regarded as setting out or beginning; also, less frequently, the source, the cause, the occasion, out of which anything proceeds; -- the aritithesis and correlative of to; as, it, is one hundred miles from Boston to Springfield; he took his sword from his side; light proceeds from the sun; separate the coarse wool from the fine; men have all sprung from Adam, and often go from good to bad, and from bad to worse; the merit of an action depends on the principle from which it proceeds; men judge of facts from personal knowledge, or from testimony.