(n.) The inclination or deviation from the vertical of any mineral vein.
(v. i.) To deviate from the vertical; -- said of a vein, fault, or lode.
Example Sentences:
(1) Aside from the US presidency, the big debate of Bilderberg 2012 is likely to be: what in Hades do we do about Greece?
(2) Cerberus, named after the mythical three-headed dog that guards Hades , declined to comment on why a Dutch entity had bought the mortgages or whether it would pay the same amount of UK tax as a UK-registered entity would have done.
(3) In another herd -- numbering 18 sows -- all sows which hade farrowed during the last 4 months before the present investigation, had developed the Mastitis-Metritis-Agalactia syndrome (MMA).
(4) There was no way we were going to put wigs on them, it was already hotter than Hades on the set.
(5) Based on the fantasy novel by Joe Hill , this looks like one of those teen-orientated movies you really wish had been directed by David Cronenberg as a full-on body horror in which Radcliffe slowly metamorphosises into a hideous creature from the seventh layer of Hades.
(6) Timarion, the fictive narrator, falls ill with a fever and is brought to Hades by two conductors of souls.
(7) It was very toddler unfriendly; I must have asked in about 25 bistros if they hade a high chair, and they would look at me as if I’d asked to bring my horse into the restaurant.
(8) In order to estimate the combined effect of ethanol and fatigue on the activity of tendon reflexes, the mechanical threshhold and the latency of the patellar tendon, the radial and the biceps reflexes as well as the time of contraction of the musculus quadriceps femoris was investigated in men, with an ethanol level in blood at 80 mg % during elimination-period, and with tired subjects meaning that they hade done their usual daywork and had been awake for about 20 to 22 hours.
(9) In Scotland, for example, we have found that Cerberus is tougher in enforcing breaches in covenants.” Taking its name from the mythical multi-headed dog that guarded Hades and prevented the dead from leaving, the New York-based group was founded by Stephen Feinberg and other former employees of Drexel Burnham Lambert, a junk bond specialist that collapsed into bankruptcy in 1990.
(10) Patients with a tumor size of less than 5 cm hade a 5-year survival rate of 21%, but 38% of the patients had a tumor size of greater than 10 cm and none of these lived for more than 4 years.
(11) He wrote his first story while still at school: The Hades Business, originally published in the school magazine.
(12) Half a mile across the sea is the legendary island of Keros, once thought to be the doorway to Hades, and now uninhabited except for teams of visiting archeologists from Cambridge University picking through the rich remains of Bronze Age Cycladic history.
(13) In Hades Timarion sues to the court of judges of the dead.
(14) The tumors of different histological types hade close sensitivity to the tested drugs.
(15) This was Operation Hades, later renamed the friendlier Operation Ranch Hand – the source of what Vietnamese doctors call a "cycle of foetal catastrophe".
(16) According to a decree by Asclepios and Hippocrates posted in Hades, any person that has lost one of his four elements may not live longer.
Vein
Definition:
(n.) One of the vessels which carry blood, either venous or arterial, to the heart. See Artery, 2.
(n.) One of the similar branches of the framework of a leaf.
(n.) One of the ribs or nervures of the wings of insects. See Venation.
(n.) A narrow mass of rock intersecting other rocks, and filling inclined or vertical fissures not corresponding with the stratification; a lode; a dike; -- often limited, in the language of miners, to a mineral vein or lode, that is, to a vein which contains useful minerals or ores.
(n.) A fissure, cleft, or cavity, as in the earth or other substance.
(n.) A streak or wave of different color, appearing in wood, and in marble and other stones; variegation.
(n.) A train of association, thoughts, emotions, or the like; a current; a course.
(n.) Peculiar temper or temperament; tendency or turn of mind; a particular disposition or cast of genius; humor; strain; quality; also, manner of speech or action; as, a rich vein of humor; a satirical vein.
(v. t.) To form or mark with veins; to fill or cover with veins.
Example Sentences:
(1) These immunocytochemical studies clearly demonstrated that cells encountered within the fibrous intimal thickening in the vein graft were inevitably smooth muscle cell in origin.
(2) The statistical T value calculated for the LP-TAE group showed that the administration of LP, the tumor size, intrahepatic metastasis, portal vein infiltration, and serum total bilirubin and alpha-fetoprotein levels significantly (P < 0.01) affected the patients' survival.
(3) Evaluation revealed tricuspid insufficiency, a massively dilated right internal jugular vein, and obstruction of the left internal jugular vein.
(4) If tracer is introduced into the carotid artery after osmotic treatment, brain uptake is increased by a net factor of 50 (a factor of 70 due to elevation of PA, multiplied by 7 due to infusion by the carotid route) as compared to uptake by normal, untreated brain with infusion into a peripheral vein.
(5) This observation, reinforced by simultaneous determinations of cortisol levels in the internal spermatic and antecubital veins, practically excluded the validity of the theory of adrenal hormonal suppression of testicular tissues.
(6) An anatomic study of the peroneal artery and vein and their branches was carried out on 80 adult cadaver legs.
(7) An intravenous bolus of 300 micrograms.kg-1 of 3-desacetylvecuronium was rapidly injected into the jugular vein.
(8) In one of the cirrhotic patients, postmortem correlation of sonographic, angiographic, and pathological findings showed that the dilated vessels seen on sonography were cystic veins draining normally into the portal vein rather than portosystemic anastomoses.
(9) Rapid injection of 2 m Ci TC 99m into a dorsal vein of the foot produced isotope phlebograms with a Dyna camera 2 C.
(10) The superior mesenteric artery and the abdominal aorta made the mean angle of 35.5 degree in patients with normal left renal vein, the mean angle of 45.4 degrees in those with left renal vein compression without nutcracker phenomenon, and the mean angle of 11.9 degrees in those with nutcracker phenomenon.
(11) Blood samples were collected from an antecubital vein at sea level (S1), in a base camp at 1515 m prior to the summit ascent (S2), on the summit at 3285 m after 6.5 hours of climbing (S3), at base camp immediately after the descent (S4), and at sea level following a trail descent from the base camp (S5).
(12) The most frequent source of the pulmonary circulation thromboembolism was the lower limb veins.
(13) A patient with a history of hypertension had a combined central retinal artery and vein occlusion in one eye.
(14) It is usually associated with a left superior caval vein draining into the coronary sinus and is frequently part of a complex congenital malformation of the heart.
(15) It is concluded that the transcutaneous ultrasound technique provides a reliable, rapidly available, non-invasive method to confirm the diagnosis of deep vein thrombosis.
(16) A fiberoptic flow-directed catheter inserted into the hepatic vein continuously measures hepatic venous oxygen hemoglobin saturation (ShvO2).
(17) The angiographic demonstration of veins was similarly improved by the 2 drugs, the effect of 60 mug.
(18) Attention is paid to the set of problems connected with the nonthrombotic insufficiency of the conducting veins of the leg.
(19) In the other, the proximal fibula was excised and the epiphysis placed across the saphenous artery and vein in the groin.
(20) Our results show that stenosis of about one-third of the original external diameter of the artery and vein of the pedicle in our model did not have any significant influence on the survival of the flap and ligation of the femoral artery distal to the branch to the flap did not produce any statistical difference in the viability of the flap.