(n.) That which points out; that which shows, indicates, manifests, or discloses.
(n.) That which guides, points out, informs, or directs; a pointer or a hand that directs to anything, as the hand of a watch, a movable finger on a gauge, scale, or other graduated instrument. In printing, a sign used to direct particular attention to a note or paragraph; -- called also fist.
(n.) A table for facilitating reference to topics, names, and the like, in a book; -- usually alphabetical in arrangement, and printed at the end of the volume.
(n.) A prologue indicating what follows.
(n.) The second digit, that next pollex, in the manus, or hand; the forefinger; index finger.
(n.) The figure or letter which shows the power or root of a quantity; the exponent.
(v. t.) To provide with an index or table of references; to put into an index; as, to index a book, or its contents.
Example Sentences:
(1) In this study, the role of psychological make-up was assessed as a risk factor in the etiology of vasospasm in variant angina (VA) using the Cornell Medical Index (CMI).
(2) Concentrations of alpha-lactalbumin and alpha s1-casein were measured in media and explant homogenates by radioimmunoassay, as an index of lactogenesis.
(3) Using multiple regression, a linear correlation was established between the cardiac index and the arterial-venous pH and PCO2 differences throughout shock and resuscitation (r2 = .91).
(4) In all groups, there was a fall in labeling index with time reflecting increasing tumor size.
(5) Pituitary weight, mitotic index and chromosomes were studied in male rats following a single or repeated dose of estradiol-benzoate for a total period of 210 days.
(6) The groups were matched with regard to sex, age and body mass index.
(7) Peaks in the sperm index were preceded by 6 days with peaks in the serum testosterone concentration.
(8) The time for 90% of this change in VelCO2 to occur (T90) was measured as an index of the rate of correction of body CO2 imbalance.
(9) Results suggest that these resins should be used with some method to compensate for the shrinkage, when used as index material.
(10) The labeling index of the treated groups was significantly reduced when compared to that of control group in both tumors.
(11) Several dimensions of the outcome of 86 schizophrenic patients were recorded 1 year after discharge from inpatient index-treatment to complete a prospective study concerning the course of illness (rehospitalization, symptoms, employment and social contacts).
(12) Discriminant analysis was performed with the fourth child in the family as the index case.
(13) In the kidneys the index of incorporation inthe epithelial cells of the renal cortex was 7.5-fold and in the brain cortex epithelium 15-fold as increased, respectively.
(14) The index estimated the probability of infection more accurately (p less than 0.01) than did clinicians, performed well in each site, and remained accurate when C. trachomatis and N. gonorrhoeae were considered separately.
(15) (2) A close correlation between the obesity index and serum GPT was recognized by elevation of the standard partial regression coefficient of serum GPT to obesity index and that of obesity index to serum GPT when the data from all 617 students was analysed in one group.
(16) Patients were divided into two groups: poor outcome, defined by the death or a post-operative Karnofsky index less than or equal to 70 (n = 36), and good outcome defined by a Karnofsky index of 80 or more (n = 60).
(17) The IgG index (formula: see text) corrects for the influence of serum protein abnormalities as well as a bloodbrain barrier damage and is, therefore, a better measure for the presence of an IgG elevation in CSF due to IgG synthesis, when compared with other IgG quotients commonly used.
(18) A quantitative index of duodenogastric reflux was obtained in each case by determining the percentage of the injected dose of 99mTechnetium-DISIDA that was recovered by continuous aspiration of gastric juice in fasting subjects.
(19) Following thawing, the initial motility index (MI) scores of mf cryopreserved by either method were not significantly different from untreated controls; however, over a period of 15 days in culture the MI scores of both cryopreserved groups showed a small but significant overall decline, with the methanol technique producing the lowest scores.
(20) Then, the delta Fract (coronary flow reserve index) map was obtained for each subject.
Shipyard
Definition:
(n.) A yard, place, or inclosure where ships are built or repaired.
Example Sentences:
(1) Personnel records of over 1000 welders and electricians but only 235 caulkers and 557 platers employed at a shipyard in NE England between 1940 and 1968 were obtained and the mortality followed up to December 1982.
(2) "The Lib Dems are either cosmically ill-informed or seeking to pull the wool over the eyes of many thousands whose jobs depend on a thriving shipyard," he said.
(3) High mortality was also observed in coal mining areas and areas with shipyards.
(4) The impulsiveness of the noise was greater both outside and inside the earmuffs in shipyard work than in forest work.
(5) The study consisted of 226 male construction welders who had never worked in shipyards.
(6) Hemoglobin, hematocrit, red cell indices, total and differential white blood cell counts, and platelet count were measured in shipyard painters and control subjects as part of a cross-sectional, observational study of the effects of ethylene glycol ethers.
(7) In any case, genuinely local capitalism had long since died away in a place like Scotland; and who, in any part of these islands, would invest in a risky enterprise like a shipyard when so much more profit was guaranteed by the simple act of owning a house?
(8) Last week Michael Fallon guaranteed 20 years of work for the BAE Systems shipyard on the Clyde when he announced that work on a new generation of warships would begin next summer.
(9) He had a history of asbestos exposure for 8 years doing piping work in a shipyard.
(10) Effects of record music on hearing were studied by measuring the hearing loss among 175 shipyard workers ranging from 20 to 29 years, who did not have any history of ear or nose diseases, familial hearing loss or ingestion of oto-toxic drugs.
(11) A review of death certificates in New Hampshire, Maine, and Massachusetts for 1959-77 yielded a total of 1722 deaths among former workers at the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard where nuclear submarines are repaired and refuelled.
(12) If you were a welder in a shipyard you were somebody, but if you were working in a shop somewhere, well …" He recalls talking to a priest from Los Angeles, who was devoted to working with the gangs of the Californian city.
(13) Instead, Foot fell under the spell of the shipyard firebrands.
(14) A synergistic relation was found between shipyard employment and cigarette smoking.
(15) These shipyard workers had minimal to moderate asbestosis with much pleural disease and little functional impairment when compared to a smoking-specific reference population.
(16) The causes of rehabilitation of welders employed in the Maritime Shipyard in Szczecin have been analysed for the period 1979-1984.
(17) Talking in his home and recording studio in the shipyard town of Perama, one of the areas worst hit by unemployment, Mitakidis is critical of those who won't stand up against the corruption that has long bedevilled the country.
(18) Major analytic, epidemiologic studies were as follows: a) an international case-control study on breast cancer in relation to diet and exogenous estrogens; b) association between height and weight and various types of cancer; c) a follow-up study of about 9,000 shipyard workers exposed to asbestos; d) an epidemiologic survey on a 2- to 3-% sample population of Hawaii; and e) a follow-up study on leprosy patients in relation to their risks for cancer.
(19) He started in the Barrow shipyard in 1975, following after his father and grandfather, a common local pattern.
(20) Pleural mesothelioma incidence rates among white males increased over time and were highest in seaboard areas where shipyards have been located (Seattle, San Francisco-Oakland, Hawaii).