(n.) The twenty-fourth part of a day; sixty minutes.
(n.) The time of the day, as expressed in hours and minutes, and indicated by a timepiece; as, what is the hour? At what hour shall we meet?
(n.) Fixed or appointed time; conjuncture; a particular time or occasion; as, the hour of greatest peril; the man for the hour.
(n.) Certain prayers to be repeated at stated times of the day, as matins and vespers.
(n.) A measure of distance traveled.
Example Sentences:
(1) Propranolol resulted in a significantly lower mean hourly, mean 24 h and minimum heart rate.
(2) One hour after direct mechanical cardiomassage (DMCM) a moderately pronounced edema of the intercellular spaces in the basal compartment of the seminiferous epithelium, normal content of lactate and succinate dehydrogenases, and a certain decrease in the activity of glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenases and NAD- and NADP-diaphorases were noted.
(3) It was shown in experiments on four dogs by the conditioned method that the period of recovery of conditioned activity after one hour ether anaesthesia tested 7 to 7.5 days.
(4) After 4 to 6 hours of recirculation, accumulation of vasoactive amine, 5-hydroxytryptamine, its major metabolite, 5-hydroxyindole acetic acid, and its precursor amino acid, tryptophan were detected.
(5) The half-life of 45Ca in the various calcium fractions of both types of bone was 72 hours in both the control and malnourished groups except the calcium complex portion of the long bone of the control group, which was about 100 hours.
(6) They had allegedly agreed that Younous would not be charged with any crime upon his arrival there and that he would not be detained in Morocco for longer than 72 hours.
(7) Six hours later, bronchoalveolar lavage was performed.
(8) They spend about 4.3 minutes of each working hour on a smoking break, the study shows.
(9) Blood flow decreased immediately after skin expansion in areas over the tissue expander on days 0 and 1 and returned to baseline levels within 24 hours.
(10) The difference in BP between a hospital casual reading and the mean 24 hour ambulatory reading was reduced only by atenolol.
(11) Further, at the end of treatment fewer patients had depressive symptoms and the total daily number of hours of wellbeing and normal movement increased.
(12) DI James Faulkner of Great Manchester police said: “The men and women working in the factory have told us that they were subjected to physical and verbal assaults at the hands of their employers and forced to work more than 80-hours before ending up with around £25 for their week’s work.
(13) On 9 January 2002, a few hours after Blair became the first western leader to visit Afghanistan's new post-Taliban leader, Hamid Karzai, an aircraft carrying the first group of MI5 interrogators touched down at Bagram airfield, 32 miles north of Kabul.
(14) A mean difference for individual patients between the first and second recording within 5 mm Hg was observed in 49.3% and 52.1% of patients for 24-hour systolic and diastolic blood pressure, respectively.
(15) The half-life was very variable between subjects [2-8 hours], but less variable within subjects and it was unaffected by the formulation.
(16) Investigations on the influence of the diuresis effect on the results of quantitative estrogen and human chorionic gonadotropin (HCG) determination revealed that the estrogen values increase with the 24-hour amount of urine.
(17) At 24 or 48 hours after ischemia, 63Ni, 99TcO4, and 22Na were preferentially concentrated in the damaged striatum and hippocampus, whereas 65Zn, 59Fe, 32PO4, and 147Pm did not accumulate in irreversibly injured tissue.
(18) The reproducibility of the killing-curve method suggests that at least two different concentrations should be used and that a decrease in viable counts below 2 log10 after 24 hours does not exclude a synergistic action.
(19) Mieko Nagaoka took just under an hour and 16 minutes to finish the race as the sole competitor in the 100 to 104-year-old category at a short course pool in Ehime, western Japan , on Saturday.
(20) Two hours after refeeding rats fasted for 48 h, ODC activity increased 40-fold in mucosa from the intact jejunum and 4-fold in the mucosa of the bypassed segments.
Timekeeper
Definition:
(n.) A clock, watch, or other chronometer; a timepiece.
(n.) A person who keeps, marks, regulates, or determines the time.
(n.) A person who keeps a record of the time spent by workmen at their work.
(n.) One who gives the time for the departure of conveyances.
(n.) One who marks the time in musical performances.
(n.) One appointed to mark and declare the time of participants in races or other contests.
Example Sentences:
(1) This report has focused on the actions of melatonin and how it serves as a timekeeping hormone in the seasonal reproductive process of the ewe.
(2) The period variances of the right and left systems in the 162 instances of absolute coordination were analysed according to a method that assumes that a timekeeper function and a motor implementation function contribute independently to the variance in the periodic timing of a rhythmic movement.
(3) The jobcentre supervisor told the man that his poor timekeeping had become an issue and put him at risk of being "sanctioned".
(4) These results indicate that separate mechanisms are involved in transducing temporal cues from LD and EF cycles in the circadian timekeeping system of these nonhuman primates.
(5) In addition, these rhythms are either interdependent or subject to the same maternal timekeeping mechanism, supporting the hypothesis that the exact time of the day at which birth occurs in the rhesus monkey depends on the maternal circadian system.
(6) These age-related changes are similar to those that characterize photically entrained circadian rhythms and suggest that both components of the rat's multioscillatory circadian timekeeping system deteriorate in parallel over the life span.
(7) Pharmacological manipulations with or without the addition of lighting strategies have been used to analyze the neurochemistry of circadian timekeeping.
(8) Since Fos expression within the SCN oscillates in the absence of photoperiodic time cues and since the peak of this oscillation coincides with the circadian times when light modulates the periodicity of the SCN pacemaker, these data provide further evidence that expression of the c-fos gene may be a molecular signal in the circadian timekeeping mechanism in the SCN and its regulation by photic stimuli.
(9) Musical compositions too apparently evolved originally as a timekeeping device.
(10) It is suggested that cell-cycle timing, by counting subcycles in growing cells, may become dominated by circadian control in slowly growing natural populations and that the same subcycles may be used for circadian timekeeping.
(11) We haven’t got an outstanding candidate for captain and that is a worrying sign.” Asked about Wayne Rooney , who is vying with Robin van Persie to be named United captain by the new manager Louis van Gaal, Robson, speaking at an event in Los Angeles hosted by Bulova (Manchester United’s official timekeeper), said: “You look at it and it is a difficult one.
(12) These results suggest a timekeeping role for social cues for timing onset of the breeding season in an animal that normally relies on photoperiodic signals for temporal regulation of the seasonal reproductive cycle.
(13) This striking uniformity indicates good timekeeping.
(14) The experimental approach presented in this paper is useful because it allows systematic assessment and distinction of the input, pacemaker, and output components of a mammalian circadian timekeeping system in vivo.
(15) The precision of timekeeping is measured by the extent to which embryos, within an initially synchronous population, come to diverge in the course of their development.
(16) The lower the variation the better the timekeeping.
(17) Separable estimates of a central timekeeper component and an implementation component were derived from the total variability scores following a model developed by Wing and Kristofferson (1973).
(18) This has enabled the formulation of strategies for treatment of patients with manic depressive illness and certain sleep disorders in which disorders of circadian timekeeping may be fundamental.
(19) Eventually, Charles Moore, then the paper's editor, lost patience with Johnson's timekeeping and didn't print his column.
(20) The second type of timekeeping involves time-to-flowering.