(n.) The uncertain result of throwing a die; hence, a fortuitous event; chance; accident; casualty.
(n.) Risk; danger; peril; as, he encountered the enemy at the hazard of his reputation and life.
(n.) Holing a ball, whether the object ball (winning hazard) or the player's ball (losing hazard).
(n.) Anything that is hazarded or risked, as the stakes in gaming.
(n.) To expose to the operation of chance; to put in danger of loss or injury; to venture; to risk.
(n.) To venture to incur, or bring on.
(v. i.) To try the chance; to encounter risk or danger.
Example Sentences:
(1) The purpose of this paper is to discuss the potential for integrating surveillance techniques in reproductive epidemiology with geographic information system technology in order to identify populations at risk around hazardous waste sites.
(2) They more precisely delineate the hazard identification process and the factors important in supporting risk decisions for developmental toxicants than does any other document.
(3) These findings suggest that aerosolization of ATP into the cystic fibrosis-affected bronchial tree might be hazardous in terms of enhancement of parenchymal damage, which would result from neutrophil elastase release, and in terms of impaired respiratory lung function.
(4) Therefore, a mortality analysis of overall survival time alone may conceal important differences between the forces of mortality (hazard functions) associated with distinct states of active disease, for example pre-remission state and first relapse.
(5) If there was to be guerrilla warfare, I wanted to be able to stand and fight with my people and to share the hazards of war with them.
(6) The time to recovery of full consciousness, time to parasite clearance, and mortality were examined with Cox proportional-hazards regression analysis.
(7) Classification into hazard categories depends on the overall strength of evidence that an agent may cause mutations in humans.
(8) Results in this preliminary study demonstrate the need to evaluate the hazard of microbial aerosols generated by sewage treatment plants similar to the one studied.
(9) As for workers potentially exposed to selected chemical hazards, the first survey provides no consistent evidence that such workers were more likely to receive exposure-specific tests than other workers.
(10) Ecological risk assessments are used by the US Environmental Protection Agency (US EPA) and other governmental agencies to assist in determining the probability and magnitude of deleterious effects of hazardous chemicals on plants and animals.
(11) Gibbs was sent off in the first half at Stamford Bridge for handball, despite replays clearly showing it was his team-mate Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain who illegally deflected an Eden Hazard shot.
(12) The purification and concentration of these viruses in their monomeric forms is hazardous when conventional "tube" rotors are used since they invariably result in dissociation and aggregation of the virus particles.
(13) The authors consider that this device increases safety during this potentially hazardous procedure by eliminating the flammable polyvinyl chloride endotracheal tube and cottonoid packings most frequently used during this procedure.
(14) The identifiable causes of child drowning are absence of a safety barrier or fence around the water hazard, non-supervision of a child, a parental "vulnerable period", an inadequate safety barrier, and tempting objects in or on the water.
(15) However, occupational hazards, toxic and iatrogenic drug-induced aetiologies should not be overlooked.
(16) Persons responsible for animals may be unaware of the potential hazard or lack good judgment in the use of these chemicals.
(17) This has been infrequently reported to occur during general anesthesia and to cause respiratory embarrassment, representing a significant hazard.
(18) Unvaccinated children had a mortality hazard ratio of 3.0 compared with vaccinated children (P = .002), indicating a protective efficacy against death of 66% (CI 32%-83%) of measles vaccination.
(19) Gallium arsenide has proved to be an ideal substrate material for some uses but is associated with unique health hazards.
(20) Recognition, evaluation and control of hazards were carried out in a typical case where chromium was the major pollutant.
Ris
Definition:
(n.) A bough or branch; a twig.
Example Sentences:
(1) These RIs had identical properties to those isolated after in vivo pulse labeling and a substantial proportion of them was matured to form I DNA at later times in the incubation through all the stages known to occur in vivo.
(2) The higher IGF-I binding activity in RIS and non-photoreceptor regions of the retina suggests these sites as candidates for putative IGF-I action.
(3) All three assays indicated that no net assembly of RIS-ROS F-actin accompanied myoid elongation.
(4) After 15 days of treatment followed by 21 days of recovery, the PTD rats showed significant deficits for DNMTS accuracy at retention intervals (RI) that ranged from 3.0 s to 15.0 s, the RIs that produced 75% accuracy on DNMTS in staircase training, and the rate at which a novel radial arm maze task was learned.
(5) RIs were calculated for the proximal hepatic artery and a more distal hepatic artery branch in 67 liver transplant recipients.
(6) Guardian Australia understands that at the last meeting of the state, federal and New Zealand ministers responsible for the new system, at which Nash has conceded Furnival did not declare a conflict of interest, Nash argued that the scheme should be subject to a full regulatory impact statement (RIS).
(7) The results of radioimmunoscintigraphy, RIS, in colorectal and gynaecological cancers were related to the surgical findings and the analysis of the surgical specimens.
(8) There were no statistically significant differences among donors regarding the induction of SCEs and replication indices (RIs) for the compounds tested.
(9) This report reviews several important issues relating to the acquisition of a radiology information system (RIS).
(10) Moreover, high positive RIs of 24-hour memory are found in animals trained on the day just before the inversion of the learning development.
(11) Ninety-eight duplex US examinations were performed, and the Doppler arterial resistive indexes (RIs) correlated with clinical events after transplantation.
(12) Because all seven RIs were labeled during very short pulses with [3H]uridine, we concluded that the subgenome-length RIs are transcriptionally active.
(13) During after-care, five late RIs were evaluated, including a submaximal bicycle exercise test to 50 W, which excluded nine (16%) additional patients from the RM group.
(14) It seems highly probable that both Costellos are agents of the RIS, Costello’s role may well be that of a talent spotter,” notes the MI5 file.
(15) Using a 57Fe-labeled primer in a PCR reaction a 2000-bp DNA was produced that was detected by RIS on nylon membrane after agarose electrophoresis.
(16) In addition, ACTH and cortisol secretion in response to RIS was evaluated in samples of plasma and serum collected at .5-h intervals on the first and last days of stress (d 14 and 16).
(17) In a statement issued late on Thursday, Nash continued to insist the forum had “unanimously” agreed to a cost-benefit analysis but conceded her proposal for an RIS was “not agreed”.
(18) In a long-term prospective study, medical students who later developed cancer, in contrast to the rest of the cohort, gave Rorschach test responses indicating less satisfactory interpersonal relationships as assessed by the Rorschach Interaction Scale (RIS).
(19) An exploration of the relationship between the RIS and specific types of cancer suggested that cancers of the lung may be less influenced by this psychologic factor than are other cancers.
(20) Radiology information systems (RIS) have developed over the past 20 years as a specialized area of medical informatics.