(n.) A series of beds of clay and marl in the South of England, between the upper and lower greensand of the Cretaceous period.
Example Sentences:
(1) Renal function was estimated by the formula of Cockcroft and Gault.
(2) The other two methods were predictive methods: the Kampmann nomogram and the formula developed by Gault and Cockcroft.
(3) Among the numerous mathematical equations, CLCR as estimated by the method proposed either by Mawer or Cockcroft and Gault was the best predictor of CLIN (CLIN = 1.05CLRCR - 18.38 or CLIN = 1.12CLCR - 20.60, respectively; r = 0.81; p less than 0.0001).
(4) CrCLs using the equations of Cockroft-Gault (CGCL), Jelliffe (JCL), and Jelliffe uncorrected for body surface area (JCLu) were calculated, then compared to the AGCL.
(5) To judge whether formulas estimating creatinine clearance from serum creatinine levels are reliable, we also compared 24-hour creatinine clearances measured in 50 inpatients with values calculated by the Cockroft-Gault equation.
(6) Creatinine clearance in each patient was determined by the Cockroft and Gault method (1).
(7) The accuracy and precision of estimates of glomerular filtration rate (GFR) from serum creatinine, age, sex and body weight using the methods proposed by Cockroft and Gault and by Siersbaeck-Nielsen et al, were determined in 234 subjects on 574 occasions.
(8) When the creatinine clearance as calculated by the method of Cockcroft and Gault from the patient's age, weight, and serum creatinine was compared to the measured creatinine clearance in the same patients, the correlation coefficient was low (r = 0.40) and the average difference between the predicted and measured creatinine clearance values was 25.3%.
(9) The predictive accuracy of the Cockroft and Gault equation in the assessment of creatinine clearance was evaluated in 30 Nigerian patients with hypertension, congestive heart failure, chronic renal failure and varying degrees of renal impairment.
(10) The predictive value of the Cockcroft-Gault equation in patients with Cushing's syndrome was evaluated in 23 patients.
(11) The Jelliffe 1973 equation with modified lean body weight was the best equation, followed by the Cockcroft-Gault equation.
(12) Aminoglycoside serum concentrations were used to estimate GFR and were compared with the two measured methods and a creatinine clearance calculated with the Cockcroft-Gault method (ClCG).
(13) Estimated creatinine clearance (EClcr) values were obtained by the Cockcroft-Gault method using ideal body weight (IBW) and total body weight (TBW).
(14) In healthy subjects CLcr calculated by the formulae of Cockcroft & Gault (1976) and Mawer et al.
(15) Predicted Ccr values were derived from Scr using the methods of Cockcroft and Gault (Method II), Siersbaek-Nielsen, Kampmann and others (Method III) and Jeliffe (Methods I and IV).
(16) When all of the subjects with a wide range of CLcr (3.1-164) were considered all formulae gave good correlations, but the formula of Cockcroft & Gault (1976) gave the best estimate.
(17) Thus, in our patient population, creatinine clearance calculated by the method of Cockcroft and Gault did not correlate well with measured creatinine clearance and thus was not useful as a clinical tool.
(18) In patients with cancer treated with cisplatin, carboplatin or methotrexate creatinine clearance calculated using the Cockcroft-Gault formula was compared with measured clearance and with the glomerular filtration rate.
(19) Their accuracy declined in the order from the calculated creatinine clearance according to Cockcroft and Gault via the inverse value of the serum creatinine concentration towards the 24-hour creatinine clearance.
(20) (Huang S-N, Millman I, O'Connell A, Aronoff A, Gault H, Blumberg BS: Am J Pathol 67: 453, 1972) nuclear eosinophilic inclusions due to excess HBcAg particles have been identified in cases of chronic hepatitis B virus infection.
Gaunt
Definition:
(a.) Attenuated, as with fasting or suffering; lean; meager; pinched and grim.
Example Sentences:
(1) On a snowless but chilly afternoon early in the Moscow winter, a 29-year-old man with a gaunt, emaciated face stepped on to the vast expanse of Red Square.
(2) "I am an old lady, and have many grandchildren," she says, pointing to the gaunt, grubby faces baking around her in the tent.
(3) This gaunt, haunting visage (which, in the story, turned out to belong to a deliberately frightening dummy) appeared in Star Trek's end credits almost every week, and was guaranteed to scare the shit out of me whenever it did so.
(4) Facebook Twitter Pinterest He commands the screen even when silent, his pain flitting across that gaunt, ravaged face … Sean Bean in Broken.
(5) In March, Paul Nuttalls called for Johnny and the Baptists to be banned from any venue receiving public subsidy – basically everywhere – for doing a funny song about the Ukips, even though the same places host Jim Davidson, Roy Chubby Brown, John Gaunt and Top Gear; the same week Farage defended the booking of an old-school non-PC comic at the Ukips’ conference saying: “Let people tell their jokes!
(6) Whoops and cheers turned to screams of delight as a gaunt-looking figure mounted the steps and slowly approached the microphone.
(7) It showed a woman of mournfully beautiful gauntness, jacket draped over her shoulder.
(8) Or maybe John of Gaunt had it right: “That England, that was wont to conquer others, Hath made a shameful conquest of itself.” Main illustration by Christophe Gowans • Follow the Long Read on Twitter at @gdnlongread , or sign up to the long read weekly email here This article was amended on 21 June 2016.
(9) Furthermore Orange RN which by azo reduction yields ANSA (and aniline) induce the same effect in pigs (Olsen et al., 1973) but not in rats (Gaunt et al., 1971).
(10) Perhaps it is the classically gaunt face, or maybe it is the aquiline nose, but he looks exactly like Don Quixote.
(11) A gaunt-looking Shalit told Egyptian TV that he hoped the deal would promote peace between Israel and the Palestinians and also spoke of his desire to see freedom for thousands of others Palestinians still held by Israel .
(12) Before the attack for which I was arrested, no one in Balochistan knew I had disappeared,” he said, dressed in a navy blue hooded sweatshirt, drinking a coffee with a gaunt look in his eyes as he nervously twisted a rolled up cigarette in his hand.
(13) He was gaunt and frail, living from one morphine dose to the next.
(14) At my father's bedside, I learned what death looks like Read more For many Glaswegians, Possilpark has a reputation, one resented deeply by its residents, built on images of drug addicts and alcoholics clustered on street corners, of gaunt men and women with hardened, ruined faces queuing outside pharmacies at 7.30am for their methadone handouts.
(15) The son of a police officer, Gaunt is hailed as "the monster who roars for coppers" on the website of the Metropolitan police federation .
(16) Abandoned farms dot the landscape: gaunt timber-framed skeletons, their owners given up and gone to California or Seattle.
(17) Bin Laden appeared gaunt and apparently wounded in a video.
(18) The Everton manager, who looks gaunt and shattered after a dreadful festive period, conceded: “We are still in a very bad run and need to turn it around.
(19) They criticise the decision to fund a £15,000-a-month contract with the Gaunt Brothers, a PR company, to use "blitzkrieg" and "guerrilla" tactics was a major error that damaged the Fed's reputation.
(20) It shows Litvinenko gaunt and emaciated on his hospital bed, and is the last image of him alive, the inquiry heard.