(n.) An opening; an aperture; a gap; a chasm; esp., a defect in a manuscript, where some part is lost or effaced; a space where something is wanting; a break.
(n.) The concurrence of two vowels in two successive words or syllables.
Example Sentences:
(1) After a hiatus, Smith is back with a flourish for her genre-bending new novel How to be Both , and David Mitchell has been longlisted for a third time, for The Bone Clocks .
(2) A hernial sac originating from the peritoneum near the oesophagogastric junction contained the midgut which had herniated through the oesophageal hiatus.
(3) Only the rats with a 30-min hiatus between the 15- and 25-min bouts of RAO had significantly worse renal failure than controls subjected to a single 25-min ischemic event.
(4) In the paper, the authors stress the importance of the phreno-esophageal membrane in the gastro-esophageal closing mechanism and the necessity of reproducing its continuity during surgery of some sliding esophageal hiatus hernia.
(5) The two forks of the GIA or the PLC 50 instrument are introduced into the oesophagus and jejunum, and the two organs are brought together at the hiatus.
(6) Abrams currently has the production on a two-week hiatus to allow Ford to recover from a broken leg sustained on set.
(7) That hiatus officially ended after two weeks, but withdrawing dollars remained slow.
(8) These findings are reviewed in relation to the development of the diaphragm and it is suggested that inadequate muscle differentiation in the primative mesenchyme contributes both to the occurrence of congenital oesophageal hiatus hernia and nonrotation of the midgut.
(9) Reznor's reimagining of Nine Inch Nails follows a four-year hiatus , during which he mostly worked on film scores.
(10) Most of these functional disorders were of benign nature, including simple or complicated reflux disease of the oesophagus, achalasia of the cardia, para-oesophageal and mixed hiatus hernia, and diverticulum.
(11) Failures were caused by esophageal stricture, respiratory distress, and hiatus hernia.
(12) Hiatus hernia is a common condition and while medical treatment is often sufficient, in some cases surgery may be necessary.
(13) Eight days after the repair he developed vomiting and hiatus hernia was revealed by barium esophagram.
(14) The injection into the extradural space through the hiatus sacralis always included the mixture of lidocaine with bupivacaine to speed up the beginning of the operation.
(15) Ali and Frazier were both undefeated, Ali had been on a forced hiatus for three-and-a-half years [for refusing to be drafted to Vietnam] and while he was gone Joe became what we knew as the undisputed heavyweight champion.
(16) Reduction in size of the esophageal hiatus, fixation of the esophagus to the diaphragmatic crus (esophagopexy), and a left fundic gastropexy were performed.
(17) A-79-year old man, treated by thoracic fundoplication for hiatus hernia with symptomatic gastroesophageal reflux, 12 years previously, was examined for persistent cough and left basal pneumonia.
(18) Earlier in April, Air France, which recently resumed flights to Tehran after an eight-year hiatus, said its female cabin crew can refuse flights to Iran after protests by a number of the crew members over the compulsory hijab.
(19) The solutions help to fill a hiatus that exists between crystalloids and blood products.
(20) This represents a substantial improvement in comparison to the old generation of adhesives which allowed hiatuses of 10 to 50 micrometers to show.
Pause
Definition:
(n.) A temporary stop or rest; an intermission of action; interruption; suspension; cessation.
(n.) Temporary inaction or waiting; hesitation; suspence; doubt.
(n.) In speaking or reading aloud, a brief arrest or suspension of voice, to indicate the limits and relations of sentences and their parts.
(n.) In writing and printing, a mark indicating the place and nature of an arrest of voice in reading; a punctuation point; as, teach the pupil to mind the pauses.
(n.) A break or paragraph in writing.
(n.) A hold. See 4th Hold, 7.
(n.) To make a short stop; to cease for a time; to intermit speaking or acting; to stop; to wait; to rest.
(n.) To be intermitted; to cease; as, the music pauses.
(n.) To hesitate; to hold back; to delay.
(n.) To stop in order to consider; hence, to consider; to reflect.
(v. t.) To cause to stop or rest; -- used reflexively.
Example Sentences:
(1) However, the groups often paused less and responded faster than individual rats working under identical conditions.
(2) The percent pause time, the standard deviation of the voice fundamental frequency distribution, the standard deviation of the rate of change of the voice fundamental frequency and the average speed of voice change were found to correlate to the clinical state of the patient.
(3) The difference in APD between the first drive train and drive trains after at least 3 minutes of pacing when APD had stabilized was not significant for an inter-train pause exceeding 8 seconds.
(4) The aim of this study was clarify the physiopathological mechanisms underlying atrial pauses as well as to evaluate the sensitivity of sinoatrial conduction time (SACT) directly measured on SNE and of SACT estimated with the indirect Strauss method with respect to the detection of SSS.
(5) Nucleotide incorporation kinetics were determined and sequence specific pausing was analyzed by primer-extension.
(6) Similar responses were obtained with gated noise bursts and by pauses in a series of clicks.
(7) High voltage stimuli were always effective, while when the pulse amplitude was reduced to 3.8 volt stimuli were uneffective except when occurring after extremely long asystolic pauses.
(8) The students received cues-pause-point training on an initial question set followed by generalization assessments on a different set in another setting.
(9) This comparison shows that: (1) evaluation of sleep states by CPG technique is only reliable for quiet sleep and (2) there was a significant difference in the number of pauses, the evaluation with PSG being systematically higher than with CPG.
(10) A short direct repeat sequence (AGGAGC), resembling the sequence shown to cause DNA polymerase alpha to pause, and sequences capable of forming hairpin loops were both present at the 5' and 3' break-points of the deletion.
(11) "The performance of Italy and France kind of puts Ireland's heroic non-qualification in context," suggests Sean DeLoughry, giving everyone pause for thought.
(12) SW: Yes she bloody did, did you not hear that pause?
(13) In the pulsed mode, impulse duration and pause duration were varied between 50 and 500 ms. Total duration of coagulation was 30 s in all cases.
(14) Van Gaal’s team can enjoy the two-week pause in action.
(15) During prolonged diastolic pauses, programmed atrial contractions were induced at progressively increasing coupling intervals.
(16) But even away from this disaster, facts about the industry's cost and scope to meet Europe's energy needs should be enough to give nuclear supporters pause.
(17) The maximum postoverdrive pause ranged from 680 to 1600 ms with an average of 1100 ms plus or minus 190 (10).
(18) On a dreich November evening in Gourock, a red-coated mongrel is wandering between the seats in a room above a pub, pausing to sniff handbags for hidden treats.
(19) The building that is happening in Qatar should be paused and they should have a fair and open competition."
(20) The results suggest that Cues, Pause, Point procedures may offer some potential for replacing delusional responding with appropriate responding to social stimuli.