(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.
Vigil
Definition:
(v. i.) Abstinence from sleep, whether at a time when sleep is customary or not; the act of keeping awake, or the state of being awake, or the state of being awake; sleeplessness; wakefulness; watch.
(v. i.) Hence, devotional watching; waking for prayer, or other religious exercises.
(v. i.) Originally, the watch kept on the night before a feast.
(v. i.) Later, the day and the night preceding a feast.
(v. i.) A religious service performed in the evening preceding a feast.
Example Sentences:
(1) However, the firing of 5-HT neurons appears to relate to the state of vigilance of the animal.
(2) Of course the job is not done and we will continue to remain vigilant to all risks, particularly when the global economic situation is so uncertain,” the chancellor said in a statement.
(3) The functional properties of the auditory projections to the somatosensory zones S2 and S were studied by recording evoked potentials in anesthetized and vigil unrestrained cats.
(4) The low incidence of pneumonia regardless of the type of therapy may be attributable to vigorous, vigilant respiratory care in a population at high risk for developing pneumonia.
(5) In the midst of all the newspaper headlines and vigils you can sometimes lose sight of the man who was on death row.
(6) Then the question of the long term vigilance of all infants and children with AIDS should be done.
(7) In order to quantitate the reequency characteristics of the EEG obtained from these subcortical sites (nucleus raphé dorsalis, area postrema, as well as anatomical controls adjacent to these regions) during the different vigilance states (waking, slow-wave sleep, REM sleep) in the cat, power spectral analyses techniques were employed.
(8) Facebook Twitter Pinterest A child praying at the vigil site for Freddie Gray in Baltimore.
(9) Failure to check, lack of vigilance and inattention or carelessness were the most frequently associated factors with the rest of the reports.
(10) The effects of zopiclone on the amount of time spent at each vigilance level have been studied in freely moving rats.
(11) You should maintain particular vigilance during this time.
(12) Bilateral destruction or functional elimination of either hypnogenic region is followed by increased vigilance and insomnia.
(13) One hundred children referred for evaluation of attention and learning problems were administered a battery of tests including two vigilance tasks, other laboratory measures of inattention and impulsivity, and parent and teacher ratings.
(14) There is, of course, a place for regulatory vigilance, for forcing entire institutions to clean up after themselves by paying hefty fines, and weeding out bad practices.
(15) Organic cerebral lesion, disorders of activity and vigilance, longterm psychopharmacotherapy, alteration of condition by acute internal disease and perhaps disorders of the liver are considered to be risks of death by bolus.
(16) Vigils have been held in Cairo for the victims of EgyptAir flight 804 as a French navy ship headed to join the deep-sea search in the Mediterranean for the main wreckage and flight recorders.
(17) Medilog tape-recorders were used to record EEG and EOG on 5 males and 5 females during a 45 min visual vigilance test.
(18) In addition, habitual use increased sensitivity and reduced accuracy, and acute ingestion increased vigilance response time in the presence of white noise.
(19) Extra vigilance and information can be provided by numerous electronic aids that also introduce error, distraction and cost.
(20) a) Limbic structures contribute to the dynamic synthesis of contemporary information, by reason of their share in mechanisms: I. of modulatory central control in the production and transmission of sensory messages, 2. in the genesis of states of vigilance, especially the focussing of attention.