(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.
Vacation
Definition:
(n.) The act of vacating; a making void or of no force; as, the vacation of an office or a charter.
(n.) Intermission of a stated employment, procedure, or office; a period of intermission; rest; leisure.
(n.) Intermission of judicial proceedings; the space of time between the end of one term and the beginning of the next; nonterm; recess.
(n.) The intermission of the regular studies and exercises of an educational institution between terms; holidays; as, the spring vacation.
(n.) The time when an office is vacant; esp. (Eccl.), the time when a see, or other spiritual dignity, is vacant.
Example Sentences:
(1) Two years later, Trump tweeted that “Obama’s motto” was: “If I don’t go on taxpayer funded vacations & constantly fundraise then the terrorists win.” The joke, it turns out, is on Trump.
(2) Compelling evidence of the transference in this case occurred in the ninth month of treatment when the therapist told the child that she would be going on vacation.
(3) Antipyrine clearance was 18% higher during exposure to gasoline than after 2-4 weeks of vacation (P less than 0.01), while antipyrine clearance was unchanged in the office workers.
(4) You don't have a film called Out of Asia and you rarely go to Oceania on holidays (instead you talk of vacations in Australia, New Zealand or another island).
(5) The cerebellar molecular layer of chronic alcohol treated rats showed degenerated parallel fiber boutons and vacated Purkinje cell spines after 6 months of alcohol feeding; degenerated Purkinje cell dendrites were concomitantly observed.
(6) Gibson has held the role of chairman since 4 May 2006, when he took over from Sir Victor Blank, who vacated the role to become chairman at Lloyds TSB.
(7) He had simultaneously taken degrees in history and economics, so could cope with the politics and economics, but had to mug up the philosophy over the vacation.
(8) The authorities had vacated the area, leaving barricades and piles of rubble in place.
(9) The infestation happened in Greece during vacation.
(10) Obama and his family vacation every August on Martha’s Vineyard, and he has spent most of this year’s trip on the golf course, at the beach and dining at the island’s upscale restaurants.
(11) The top court late on Wednesday also vacated a stay from the US court of appeals.
(12) A well-known conservative, Ditka publicly flirted with running against Democratic candidate Barack Obama, then a state senator, for the open seat in the US Senate vacated by Illinois senator Peter Fitzgerald in 2004.
(13) Vacated postsynaptic sites are subsequently removed by phagocytosis.
(14) In the subsequent vacations the Hg values in the students' urine clearly decreased.
(15) Asked whether he was worried about being hassled on his family vacation, Jagger said: "Depends where I go.
(16) "We are actively considering what is necessary to deal with that threat and we are not going to be restricted by borders," said Rhodes, briefing reporters at Martha's Vineyard, where the president is on vacation.
(17) If they do move, they go into the private sector where a smaller home costs the housing benefit budget more than the social housing just vacated.
(18) Most travel (71%) was for vacations, 13% was for teaching or study, 11% for business, and 5% for missionary activities.
(19) Sabiah Khatun, a third-year student at Queen Mary, University of London, was inspired to study law after her Smart Start experience, after which she was selected for a summer vacation scheme and will start her training contract at the firm in September 2017.
(20) That is, APS binds to the subsite vacated by PAPS in the compulsory (or predominately) ordered product release sequence (PAPS before MgADP).