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Hie


Definition:

  • (v. i.) To hasten; to go in haste; -- also often with the reciprocal pronoun.
  • (n.) Haste; diligence.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) These findings have specific importance in showing that decreased fractional catabolic rate contributes substantially to elevation of IgE in atopic and HIE patients.
  • (2) By applying the formula [Discriminating value = 0.4116*HIE + 1.2470*CONVULS + 1.3699*HYPOTEN + 0.8263*VENTILO + 0.5155*EEGRN - 1.3471], a discriminating value of less than 2 predicts no neurodevelopmental impairment with a confidence limit of 95.9%, while a value greater than = 2 indicates a 80% probability of its manifestation.
  • (3) To test the hypothesis that IgE-mediated release of histamine may be, in part, responsible for the abnormal inflammatory response observed in the hyperimmunoglobulin E (HIE) and recurrent infection syndrome, urine and plasma histamine levels were measured.
  • (4) But Forster spares them that need by charging off hie line to claim it himself, bringing an ovation from the relieved crowd!
  • (5) Compared to control subjects who had no history of S. aureus infections (N = 14), sera from patients with HIE (N = 9) lacked the expected elevation of serum antibody to teichoic acid (p greater than 0.05) and had significantly lower levels of this antibody than sera from 14 patients with atopic dermatitis, complicated by recurrent cutaneous S. aureus infections (p less than 0.01).
  • (6) These findings are evidence of a previously undescribed immunoregulatory defect in patients with HIE, which may contribute to the increased susceptibility to infection in this syndrome.
  • (7) The clinical course of symptomatic epilepsy caused by intraventricular hemorrhage (IVH) in 7 preterm infants and hypoxic-ischemic encephalopathy (HIE) in 9 full-term infants were followed up for more than 2 years and 6 months.
  • (8) The incidence of HIE was 6.39% and the mortality was 0.55%.
  • (9) Using data from the Health Insurance Experiment (HIE), this article examines use of over-the-counter drugs (OTC) in a general, nonelderly population.
  • (10) Thus, the measurement of anti-S. aureus IgE by this technique may be a useful laboratory test for the diagnosis of HIE before the appearance of a severe infection.
  • (11) The most common syndromes are chronic granulomatous disease of childhood (CGD), the Chediak-Higashi syndrome (CHS), the hyperimmunoglobulin-E-recurrent infection (Job's) syndrome (HIE), and myeloperoxidase (MPO) deficiency.
  • (12) There ist no doubt that the haemorrhagic form of HIE can be detected by cerebral sonography, but it is of great interest to recognize non-haemorrhagic HIE as well.
  • (13) Three cases of athetoid cerebral palsy after hypoxic-ischaemic encephalopathy (HIE) are reported.
  • (14) Correlation between ultrasound and computed tomography proved that non-haemorrhagic HIE produces global or circumscript high echogenicity in the first week after the hypoxic event whereas computed tomography shows pathologic hypodensity in the same areas.
  • (15) Further studies will be needed before we completely understand the pathogenesis of HIE syndrome.
  • (16) Concerning HIE of term newborns and small infants, CT scan remains necessary, to evaluate the extension of cerebral injury.
  • (17) Etiology was an hypoxic-ischemic encephalopathy (HIE) in 13 cases, cerebral malformations in 10 cases and 4 various prenatal and perinatal cases.
  • (18) Parotid saliva from patients with HIE contained less salivary IgA per milligram of protein (P less than 0.01) and less salivary anti-S. aureus IgA per milligram of protein (P less than 0.05) than did normal controls.
  • (19) Females may be in hormone-induced estrus (HIE), cycling estrus (CE), male-induced estrus (MIE), or postpartum estrus (PPE).
  • (20) Early diagnosis and prediction of HIE and ICH were speculated upon.

Hit


Definition:

  • (pron.) It.
  • () 3d pers. sing. pres. of Hide, contracted from hideth.
  • (imp. & p. p.) of Hit
  • (v. t.) To reach with a stroke or blow; to strike or touch, usually with force; especially, to reach or touch (an object aimed at).
  • (v. t.) To reach or attain exactly; to meet according to the occasion; to perform successfully; to attain to; to accord with; to be conformable to; to suit.
  • (v. t.) To guess; to light upon or discover.
  • (v. t.) To take up, or replace by a piece belonging to the opposing player; -- said of a single unprotected piece on a point.
  • (v. i.) To meet or come in contact; to strike; to clash; -- followed by against or on.
  • (v. i.) To meet or reach what was aimed at or desired; to succeed, -- often with implied chance, or luck.
  • (n.) A striking against; the collision of one body against another; the stroke that touches anything.
  • (n.) A stroke of success in an enterprise, as by a fortunate chance; as, he made a hit.
  • (n.) A peculiarly apt expression or turn of thought; a phrase which hits the mark; as, a happy hit.
  • (n.) A game won at backgammon after the adversary has removed some of his men. It counts less than a gammon.
  • (n.) A striking of the ball; as, a safe hit; a foul hit; -- sometimes used specifically for a base hit.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Philip Shaw, chief economist at broker Investec, expects CPI to hit 5.1%, just shy of the 5.2% reached in September 2008, as the utility hikes alone add 0.4% to inflation.
  • (2) Sierra Leone is one of the three West Africa nations hit hard by an Ebola epidemic this year.
  • (3) But the wounding charge in 2010 has become Brown's creation of a structural hole in the budget, more serious than the cyclical hit which the recession made in tax receipts, at least 4% of GDP.
  • (4) David Cameron last night hit out at his fellow world leaders after the G8 dropped the promise to meet the historic aid commitments made at Gleneagles in 2005 from this year's summit communique.
  • (5) Hanley Ramirez was hitting behind Michael Young and now he's injured.
  • (6) Botswana, Kenya, Somalia and the Democratic Republic of the Congo have also been badly hit.
  • (7) We are better off in.” Out campaigners have claimed that the NHS could be badly hit by a decision to stay in the EU.
  • (8) What shouldn't get lost among the hits, home runs and the intentional and semi-intentional walks is that Ortiz finally seems comfortable with having a leadership role with his team.
  • (9) Chris Pavlou, former vice chairman of Laiki, told Channel 4 news that Anastasiades was given little option by the troika but to accept the draconian terms, which force savers to take a hit for the first time in the fifth bailout of a eurozone country.
  • (10) Macron hit back on Twitter, saying her proposals to take France out of the EU would destroy France’s fishing industry.
  • (11) VAT increases don't just hit the poor more than the rich, they also hit small firms, threaten retail jobs and, by boosting inflation, could also lead to higher interest rates."
  • (12) And Norris Cole hits a "good night everybody" three-pointer.
  • (13) If you’ve escaped the impact of cuts so far , consider yourself lucky, but don’t think that you won’t be affected after the next tranche hits.
  • (14) Government borrowing has hit a record high for a September.
  • (15) The weapon is 13 metres long, weighs 60 tonnes and can carry nuclear warheads with up to eight times the destructive capacity of the bombs that hit Hiroshima and Nagasaki in the second world war.
  • (16) The debate certainly hit upon a larger issue: the tendency for people in positions of social and cultural power to tell the stories of minorities for them, rather than allowing minority communities to speak for themselves.
  • (17) On the first anniversary of Peach's death I took part in my first ever demonstration where we chanted the names of the six SPG officers who were said to have been hitting people with batons on the street where Peach died.
  • (18) "Some of the shrapnel went into the arm of the Australian soldier that was hit, another part went into the foot [of the New Zealand soldier]," he told a news conference .
  • (19) Two short homologous sequences in the rat insulin I enhancer fragment used, IEB2 and IEB1, have been described as playing a dominant role in the regulation of HIT hamster insulinoma cell-specific transcription of the insulin gene (1).
  • (20) Women on the beat: how to get more female police officers around the world Read more Mortars were, for instance, used on 5 June when Afghan national army soldiers accidentally hit a wedding party on the outskirts of Ghazni, killing eight children.

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