(n.) A cluster, crowd, or throng; an assemblage, either of persons or things, collected without any regular form or arrangement; as, a group of men or of trees; a group of isles.
(n.) An assemblage of objects in a certain order or relation, or having some resemblance or common characteristic; as, groups of strata.
(n.) A variously limited assemblage of animals or plants, having some resemblance, or common characteristics in form or structure. The term has different uses, and may be made to include certain species of a genus, or a whole genus, or certain genera, or even several orders.
(n.) A number of eighth, sixteenth, etc., notes joined at the stems; -- sometimes rather indefinitely applied to any ornament made up of a few short notes.
(n.) To form a group of; to arrange or combine in a group or in groups, often with reference to mutual relation and the best effect; to form an assemblage of.
Example Sentences:
(1) A group of interested medical personnel has been identified which has begun to work together.
(2) Once treatment began, no significant changes occurred in Group 1, but both PRA and A2 rose significantly in Groups 2 and 3.
(3) This trend appeared to reverse itself in the low dose animals after 3 hr, whereas in the high dose group, cardiac output continued to decline.
(4) All transplants were performed using standard techniques, the operation for the two groups differing only as described above.
(5) after operation for hip fracture, and merits assessment in other high-risk groups of patients.
(6) Seventeen patients (Group 1) had had no previous surgery, while 13 (Group 2) had had multiple previous operations.
(7) The effects of sessions, individual characteristics, group behavior, sedative medications, and pharmacological anticipation, on simple visual and auditory reaction time were evaluated with a randomized block design.
(8) Urinary ANF immunoreactivity was significantly enhanced by candoxatril in both groups (P less than 0.05 and P less than 0.01 in groups 1 and 2, respectively), with a more pronounced effect evident at the higher dose (P less than 0.01).
(9) The second group only with Haloperidol (same dose).
(10) A change in the pattern of care of children with IDDM, led to a pronounced decrease in hospital use by this patient group.
(11) If the method was taken into routine use in a diagnostic laboratory, the persistence of reverse passive haemagglutination reactions would enable grouping results to be checked for quality control purposes.
(12) We considered the days of the disease and the persistence of symptoms since the admission as peculiar parameters between the two groups.
(13) A group I subset (six animals), for which predominant cultivable microbiota was described, had a mean GI of 2.4.
(14) The half-life of 45Ca in the various calcium fractions of both types of bone was 72 hours in both the control and malnourished groups except the calcium complex portion of the long bone of the control group, which was about 100 hours.
(15) Between 22 HLA-identical siblings and 16 two-haplotype different siblings, a significant difference in concordance of reactions for the B-cell groups was noted.
(16) The cumulative incidence of grade II and III acute GVHD in the 'low dose' cyclosporin group was 42% compared to 51% in the 'standard dose' group (P = 0.60).
(17) The intrauterine mean active pressure (MAP) in the nulliparous group was 1.51 kPa (SD 0.45) in the first stage and 2.71 kPa (SD 0.77) in the second stage.
(18) Biden will meet with representatives from six gun groups on Thursday, including the NRA and the Independent Firearms Owners Association, which are both publicly opposed to stricter gun-control laws.
(19) Another interested party, the University of Miami, had been in talks with the Beckham group over the potential for a shared stadium project.
(20) However, the groups often paused less and responded faster than individual rats working under identical conditions.
Hierarchy
Definition:
(n.) Dominion or authority in sacred things.
(n.) A body of officials disposed organically in ranks and orders each subordinate to the one above it; a body of ecclesiastical rulers.
(n.) A form of government administered in the church by patriarchs, metropolitans, archbishops, bishops, and, in an inferior degree, by priests.
(n.) A rank or order of holy beings.
Example Sentences:
(1) Review of the traditional medical hierarchy and its legal implications, architecture of health institutions, medical records systems, and the selection of medical students are other areas for specific attention.
(2) The "hierarchy" of the individual prognostic parameters has been established: current severe infection, granulocyte count, percentage of the nonmyeloid cells on the bone marrow slides, platelet count, reticulocyte count, 59Fe utilization, and stromal disorganization on the bone marrow biopsy specimen.
(3) These spontaneous alpha, response beta, modulatory gamma, and frequency-divided delta rhythms reveal a collateral neuroendocrine hierarchy, characterized by the pineal feedsideward phenomenon, as a feature of interactions recurring with circadian and infradian frequencies.
(4) Our results support a quantitative competition among the homeotic proteins rather than the existence of a strict functional hierarchy.
(5) Then there are the divisions of ethnicity, faith and caste, the ancient social hierarchy prevalent in much of south Asia.
(6) We propose that use of this approach, rapid frequent measurement of nociceptive threshold, can be used to determine the hierarchy of action of mediators in hyperalgesic mechanisms.
(7) Another factor is the decline of caste, the tenacious Indian social hierarchy which still determines the status of hundreds of millions.
(8) Optional hierarchy is a mechanism that may be employed to achieve the desired specificity for local use while permitting recombination into parent rubrics for external comparisons.
(9) The draft released last Monday had been hailed by some church observers and gay rights groups as “a stunning change” in how the Catholic hierarchy talked about gay people.
(10) It accounts for the amounts of irregularity and hierarchy as represented in a code of a pattern, such that these two amounts can be added to determine the complexity of a code.
(11) Oil operators, large and small, are very keen to address the key themes of the waste hierarchy.
(12) His family belonged to the Ghanchi caste, low down on the tenacious social hierarchy that still often defines status in India, and had little money.
(13) The products of the tra-2 gene are also required for continuous transcription of the yolk-protein genes, suggesting that the pathway inhibited by the cycloheximide is that of the sex-determination hierarchy.
(14) The authors suggest that the evolutionary product of interference competition among coprophilous fungal populations may be a pattern of competitive hierarchy in which certain slower-growing, later-successional species can limit the reproductive potential of other fungal colonists on fecal substrates.
(15) When either subject occupied the highest ranking or alpha position within the dominance hierarchy, rate of aggressive behavior initiated by the subject was several times greater than when that monkey occupied a lower position within the dominance hierarchy.
(16) In spite of his place at the top of the Vatican hierarchy and his academic pedigree, he has urged the church to do more to appeal to the modern world, arguing it needs to build on the second Vatican Council of the 1960s, which proved a landmark moment in Roman Catholic history.
(17) A higher frequency of episodes of illness among leading managers and other executives in the top of the hierarchy and absence of occupational diseases and injuries were characteristic of this group of employees.
(18) These features suggest that members of the myeloblast-promyelocyte-myelocyte hierarchy are likely candidates, but whether the action of hydrocortisone is exerted directly on these cells, or on a more mature accessory population, remains to be determined.
(19) It's only when you try to navigate the system for an elderly relative that you realise how an older person's wellbeing and resilience matter less than the place in the NHS hierarchy of the hospital consultant, GP and social worker.
(20) The role of audit in supporting quality improvement is discussed and the need to install a hierarchy of audit is suggested.