(n.) A passage by which an inclosed place may be entered; a place of ingress; entrance.
(n.) A bay or recess,as in the shore of a sea, lake, or large river; a narrow strip of water running into the land or between islands.
(n.) That which is let in or inland; an inserted material.
Example Sentences:
(1) Ventricular septal defect types were perimembranous (six), malalignment (seven), supracristal (three), midmuscular (one), and inlet (one).
(2) The orientation of the dilating balloon in the inlet and outlet portions of the left ventricle, change of the catheter-dilator is controlled due to a loop of the conductor connecting the right and left parts of the heart.
(3) Fourteen patients with double inlet left ventricle and nine patients with tricuspid atresia had biplane left ventricular angiography with simultaneous measurement of left ventricular pressure by micromanometer.
(4) Though thyrotoxicosis caused by amiodarone is recognised, to our knowledge thoracic inlet compression has not been previously described.
(5) It is only useful when there is doubt and in this case both a lateral and an antero-posterior film are necessary as the obstetric conjugate alone was unreliable in predicting the transverse diameter of the inlet as well as the outcome.
(6) The overall productivity of the reactor is a function of the flow rate and the inlet glucose concentration.
(7) In this article the concept of utilizing a pinched inlet channel for field-flow fractionation (FFF), in which the channel thickness is reduced over a substantial inlet segment to reduce relaxation effects and avoid stopflow, is evaluated for steric FFF using one conventional channel and two pinched inlet channels.
(8) To better understand the mechanism of cerebral blood flow during CPR in humans, we determined the aortic-carotid artery pressure difference, the cephalic perfusion pressure (the carotid artery-jugular vein pressure difference), and thoracic inlet venous "valving" (the central venous-jugular vein pressure difference), while administering standard doses of epinephrine.
(9) A small bolus of each of the tracer gases was injected within 1 ms into a constant airflow at the inlet of the model, and the bolus dispersion curve was measured at the outlet by means of a mass spectrometer.
(10) Extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) was performed in 27 mongrel adult dogs employing a V-V bypass between the proximal region of the inferior vena cava, used as a blood outlet, and the external jugular vein, used as a blood inlet, in order to investigate the decrease in leukocytes and the change in leukotriene B4 (LTB4) caused by ECMO.
(11) Fourthly, the atrioventricular connection is determined as follows: (1) usual alignment, (2) criss-crossing, (3) straddling, (4) double inlet, and (5) unilateral atrioventricular valve atresia, by using an apical four-chamber echo view.
(12) Consequently, solutes locally introduced at the inlet of the column are subjected to an efficient partition process in each partition unit and separated according to their partition coefficients.
(13) This was examined by mass spectrometry using direct inlet technique, but no free cholic acid could be identified.
(14) The case of a 5-month-old girl with a large neuroblastoma of the thoracic inlet, an unusual location for this tumor, is presented.
(15) The neoplasms were single, multilobulated, encapsulated masses in the anterior mediastinum or thoracic inlet.
(16) The area close to the inlet is the most severely affected.
(17) A 5-year-old boy with double inlet left ventricle and ventriculoarterial discordance (SDD type) underwent ventricular septation with arterial switch procedure.
(18) TCC differed from C3a and C5a in the following respects: (i) lower detection limit (4 x 10(-11) vs. less than 5 x 10(-9) M for both C-anaphylatoxins); (ii) higher relative increment (inlet) during CU dialysis (25-fold vs. eightfold and twofold, respectively); (iii) C-anaphylatoxins yielded the same ranking (CU much greater than HE greater than PS), but TCC concentrations were not a linear function of C3a or C5a concentrations, respectively.
(19) This paper describes a pathological specimen of double-inlet right ventricle in which no remains of a hypoplastic left ventricle were found.
(20) Surgical mortality of the Fontan procedure for tricuspid atresia and double-inlet left ventricle is now less than 10%, and that, plus these late results, justify continued application of this operation in patients with these lesions.
Pill
Definition:
(n.) The peel or skin.
(v. i.) To be peeled; to peel off in flakes.
(v. t.) To deprive of hair; to make bald.
(v. t.) To peel; to make by removing the skin.
(v. t. & i.) To rob; to plunder; to pillage; to peel. See Peel, to plunder.
(n.) A medicine in the form of a little ball, or small round mass, to be swallowed whole.
(n.) Figuratively, something offensive or nauseous which must be accepted or endured.
Example Sentences:
(1) Sequential birth control pills are less common than monophasic pills, partly because the "first generation" sequential pills, which used estrogen only during the 1st part of the cycle, were more dangerous than the monophasic pills.
(2) Despite this, the public is more suspicious than ever of the danger of pills.
(3) The Dacre review panel, which included Sir Joseph Pilling, a retired senior civil servant, and the historian Prof Sir David Cannadine, said Britain now had one of the "less liberal" regimes in Europe for access to confidential government papers and that reform was needed to restore some trust between politicians and people.
(4) One view of these results stems from the belief that contraception is a necessary evil and the pill is the closest to a 'natural' sex act.
(5) This study compared one particular interview question to a pill-count measure by studying 98 patients who visited their family physician, received medication instructions, and were interviewed in their homes ten days later.
(6) 40 women aged 18-36 used the Postinor brand, levonorgestrel-containing, pill from the Gedeon-Richter firm for 240 menstrual cycles.
(7) This makes The Red Pill a continuous, multi-voiced, up-to-the-minute male complaint nestled at the heart of the so-called manosphere – a network of websites preoccupied with both the men’s rights movement and how to pick up women.
(8) Patients may have difficulty in the transition from one packet of pills to the next, and missed pills that extend the hormone-free interval may contribute to the failure rate.
(9) Among women using the pill for 8 years, the relative risk was 2.6 (p0.0001).
(10) The finding is at variance with others that ascribe haemostatic changes observed to increased oestrogen content in a given pill formulation and so merits confirmation in a larger study.
(11) A mother is facing prosecution for procuring abortion pills for her then underage daughter.
(12) The amino acid pool in leukocytes was found to be smaller in those patients taking the "pill".
(13) Only 2% of the subjects refused to take any pills, and, among pill takers, over 95% were reported to be taking most of their pills at the end of the study.
(14) 88% of the women in the recent study had used the pill at some point and 45% had used an IUD--methods that were not available to women in the 1940s.
(15) The pill group gave birth on an average of 5.79 days after the date forecast by Naegele's rule and .15 days before the date calculated from the ultrasound examination.
(16) Treatments for jock itch include anti-fungal ointments and lotions, or anti-fungal pills for severe cases.
(17) The estrogen potencies of 9 oral contraceptive pills, Enovid-E, Enovid-5, Ovulen, Demulen, Norinyl+80, Norinyl+50, Ovral, Norlestrin 1 mg. and Norlestrin 2.5 mg., were determined by bioassay.
(18) Motor behavior of substitutes was assessed following dry swallows and following several stimuli: intraluminar injection of 30 ml of water or 0.1N hydrochloric acid and swallowing pills.
(19) Presumably the competitive binding of iron by ascorbic acid in the vitamin pill allowed uninhibited absorption of the iron.
(20) Ten women were taking an oral contraceptive containing 50 mug oestrogen and progestogen ("combined pill"), one patient took a progestogen-only contraceptive and 14 served as controls.