(n.) The act or state of one who, or that which, heads; formation of a head.
(n.) That which stands at the head; title; as, the heading of a paper.
(n.) Material for the heads of casks, barrels, etc.
(n.) A gallery, drift, or adit in a mine; also, the end of a drift or gallery; the vein above a drift.
(n.) The extension of a line ruffling above the line of stitch.
(n.) That end of a stone or brick which is presented outward.
Example Sentences:
(1) This study was undertaken to determine whether the survival of Hispanic patients with squamous cell carcinoma of the head and neck was different from that of Anglo-American patients.
(2) An association of cyclophosphamide, fluorouracil and methotrexate already employed with success against solid tumours in other sites was used in the treatment of 62 patients with advanced tumours of the head and neck.
(3) Head-injured patients had a low thyroxine (T4), low triiodothyronine (T3), and high reverse T3.
(4) Currently, photodynamic therapy is under FDA-approved clinical investigational trials in the treatment of tumors of the skin, bronchus, esophagus, bladder, head and neck, and of gynecologic and ocular tumors.
(5) A triphasic pattern was evident for the neck moments including a small phase which represented a seating of the headform on the nodding blocks of the uppermost ATD neck segment, and two larger phases of opposite polarity which represented the motion of the head relative to the trunk during the first 350 ms after impact.
(6) Businesses fleeing Brexit will head to New York not EU, warns LSE chief Read more Amid attempts by Frankfurt, Paris and Dublin to catch possible fallout from London, Sir Jon Cunliffe said it was highly unlikely that any EU centre could replicate the services offered by the UK’s financial services industry.
(7) By means of computed tomography (CT) values related to bone density and mass were assessed in the femoral head, neck, trochanter, shaft, and condyles.
(8) A substance with a chromatographic mobility of Rf = 0.8 on TLC plates having an intact phosphorylcholine head group was also formed but has not yet been identified.
(9) Lin Homer's CV Lin Homer left local for national government in 2005, giving up a £170,000 post as chief executive of Birmingham city council after just three years in post, to head the Immigration Service.
(10) The skull films and CT scans of 1383 patients with acute head injury transferred to a regional neurosurgical unit were reviewed.
(11) Both Ken Whisenhunt and Lovie Smith were fired as head coaches after the 2012 season.
(12) Thirteen patients had had a posterior dislocation with an associated fracture of the femoral head located either caudad or cephalad to the fovea centralis (Pipkin Type-I or Type-II injury), one had had a posterior dislocation with associated fractures of the femoral head and neck (Pipkin Type III), two had had a posterior dislocation with associated fractures of the femoral head and the acetabular rim (Pipkin Type IV), and three had had a fracture-dislocation that we could not categorize according to the Pipkin classification.
(13) Eight cases of calcification following anterior dislocation of the head of the radius are described.
(14) Younge, a former head of US cable network the Travel Channel, succeeded Peter Salmon in the role last year.
(15) Martin Wheatley will remain head of the Conduct Business Unit and become the future chief executive of the FCA.
(16) It happens to anyone and everyone and this has been an 11-year battle.” Emergency services were called to the oval about 6.30pm to treat Luke for head injuries, but were unable to revive him.
(17) This study reviewed 148 patients who had received radiation for head and neck cancer.
(18) In this study, a technique is described by which large obturators can be retained with an acrylic resin head plate.
(19) The authors describe a new technique for evaluating traumatic conditions to the elbow: the radial head-capitellum view.
(20) Nick Robins, head of the Climate Change Centre at HSBC, said: "If you think about low-carbon energy only in terms of carbon, then things look tough [in terms of not using coal].
Rubric
Definition:
(n.) That part of any work in the early manuscripts and typography which was colored red, to distinguish it from other portions.
(n.) A titlepage, or part of it, especially that giving the date and place of printing; also, the initial letters, etc., when printed in red.
(n.) The title of a statute; -- so called as being anciently written in red letters.
(n.) The directions and rules for the conduct of service, formerly written or printed in red; hence, also, an ecclesiastical or episcopal injunction; -- usually in the plural.
(n.) Hence, that which is established or settled, as by authority; a thing definitely settled or fixed.
(v. t.) To adorn ith red; to redden; to rubricate.
(a.) Alt. of Rubrical
Example Sentences:
(1) 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.
(2) The main problems are the lack of a uniform terminology and the fact that there is little unanimity concerning definitions and what may be included under individual syndromic rubrics.
(3) The rest of ICD-10, either on the three- or on the four-digit level, has to be grouped into combinations of classes (lumping) to allow compatible conversion to the remaining rubrics of ICPC.
(4) In collaboration with the Committee on Injury Scaling of the Association for the Advancement of Automotive Medicine, AIS-85 scores were assigned to 2,062 injury-related ICD-9CM rubrics.
(5) This report describes the development and validation of a computerized system for converting ICD-9CM rubrics to Abbreviated Injury Scale (AIS) scores.
(6) It does not appear to fit in with any rubric of how you fund transport projects.
(7) Our findings show that a death officially coded to ICD 9 rubrics 410-414 (IHD) in Tasmania has 94% sensitivity and a positive predictive value of 90% for fatal definite acute myocardial infarction or possible coronary death as defined by the WHO.
(8) Some 108 deaths coded by 410-414 and 223 deaths coded by other rubrics were eventually excluded.
(9) Yet the dynamic could just as well be reversed: Trump has run his campaign under the rubric “Let Lewandowski be Lewandowski”.
(10) In response to a mailed survey, most health departments replied that squamous-cell carcinoma of the head and neck was coded under rubric 173 and malignant fibrous histiocytoma was coded under rubric 171, but there was no unanimity.
(11) Commencing in the mid-1980s, workers in four of these states complained of upper extremity pain and were diagnosed as suffering from conditions encompassed by the "cumulative trauma disorders" rubric.
(12) That, and the rising inequality that marked the era, allowed the Democratic liberal Bill De Blasio to run a successful bid to succeed him by directly criticising Bloomberg, whose personal wealth now stands at $31bn, under the rubric of “a tale of two cities”.
(13) In South Africa in the 1940s a team headed by Sidney Kark embarked on work in the Pholela region of Natal that became the forerunner of ideas that were later formalized and systematized under the rubric of community oriented primary care.
(14) In this study, the responses of 164 French Canadian university students (92 males and 72 females) to these statements were factor analyzed to arrive at a basic rubric for research and educational purposes.
(15) Optional hierarchy may be employed to develop subdivision rubrics when justified by the high incidence of specific problems, whether due to geographic or social circumstances or because of the special nature of individual practice(s).
(16) Another has printed on it the figure of a person with hands in the air – the same symbol of peaceful defiance used by Ferguson protesters – onto which a gun-sight has been superimposed directly over the head, above the rubric: “This is my peace sign”.
(17) Many types of lesions have been described under the rubric of hypoxic-ischemic encephalopathy, a major proportion of which are found only in the immature nervous system and essentially are never seen later in life.
(18) He reported 50 cases of this entity under the rubric of acute febrile mucocutaneous lymph node syndrome, a designation that has more recently been superseded by the eponym Kawasaki syndrome.
(19) Annual prevalences (that is, the number of patients attending the general practitioner with a condition per 1000 persons at risk) were examined for: all conditions; each of three categories of seriousness of disease; diseases aggregated by chapter of the International classification of diseases; and each of 130 rubrics of the disease classification.
(20) In addition to the inapplicability of the concept to current social problems, and the difficulties of applying current psychiatric knowledge to effect a rational delineation between the two legal entities encompassed under the rubric of responsibility and nonresponsibility, the potential problems and the potential opportunities which may result from the abolition of the plea are presented.