(v. t.) To cause to cease for a time, or at intervals; to interrupt; to suspend.
(v. i.) To cease for a time or at intervals; to moderate; to be intermittent, as a fever.
Example Sentences:
(1) In 21 patients with ascertained intermitting block the pressure of the carotid sinus caused an asystolia during 3 seconds.
(2) Principle and method of the mathematico-statistical evaluation of an intermitting therapy are explained at the example of the cholestyramine treatment in incomplete obstruction of the bile ducts.
(3) Here, the two-phase regime is preferred with a continuous application of medicaments lasting for three months and following controlled phase with intermitting application of antituberculotics twice a week.
(4) Analgesia was produced by regularly intermitted 20 min of foot-shock action in Experiment II which evoke an opioid, humorally mediated mechanism.
(5) In the second half of the study under Trapidil in contrast to placebo a clinically relevant additional increase of the distance of the intermitent claudication was the result.
(6) For the first time the hormonal activity of a glomus jugulare tumour, clinically manifest by intermitting hypertension, could be demonstrated by catecholamine level determination in blood.
(7) Mechanic ventilators, and intermitent possitive pressure are recommended even though they have a posenous effect on the cardiac output.
(8) For the detection of intermitting blockings the pressure of the carotid sinus was used.
(9) After application of the drugs a rhythmically intermitting increased excretion of all enzymes mentioned develops.
(10) Two methods of the plasmapheresis were used: the intermitting plasmapheresis with use of a refrigeration centrifuge K-70 (GDR) and the permanent membrane plasma separation with the device A2008 RG of the firm "Fresenius" (FRG).
(11) Following symptoms may refer to: permanent or intermitting stridor in the stenoses of the large respiratory tract (trachea and main bronchi), that is diagnosed as the most frequent anomaly.
(12) Six observations are presented of patients receiving intermitent rifampicin treatment (900 mg twice weekly) that developed acute renal failure during treatment (4 cases) or when treatment was taken up again, after an interruption of 6 months (2 cases).
(13) Both patients developed rachitic manifestations since the first year of life, which persisted despite the administration of massive doses of vitamin D intermitently.
(14) Fourteen cases of patients with photoconvulsive response during intermitent luminous stimulation (eleven women and three men) are reviewed.
(15) In female patients with intermitting or permanent inclination to oedemas and intake of diuretics after exclusion of cardiac, renal, venous and lymphogenic causes should be thought of the clinical picture of the idiopathic and diuretic-induced oedema, respectively.
(16) There was no significant difference in the recurrence rate between children receiving "intermitent" as compared with no phenobarbital.
(17) In case of unsuccessful therapy or recurrence or chronicity the application of an intermitting topical or oral therapy is advised for an extended period of time, during or before the general symptoms, mainly premenstrually, occur.
(18) Disappearance of morphological hairy cells from peripheral blood correlated with reduction of B antigen cells, the patients continue to receive alpha interferon three times weekly and future follow-up of these patients will show if alpha interferon will confirm its effect on intermitent dose regimen.
(19) It is suggested that slowing of all ipsilateral saccades with gaze-paretic nystagmus corresponded to partial destruction of the PPRF, and that intermitted abduction palsy in the ipsilateral eye with adduction nystagmus in the fellow eye was due to intermittant dysfunction of the abducens nucleus.
(20) Furthermore we refer to the importance of the isotope nephrogram to recognize intermitting obstructions of the ureters.
Stop
Definition:
(v. t.) To close, as an aperture, by filling or by obstructing; as, to stop the ears; hence, to stanch, as a wound.
(v. t.) To obstruct; to render impassable; as, to stop a way, road, or passage.
(v. t.) To arrest the progress of; to hinder; to impede; to shut in; as, to stop a traveler; to stop the course of a stream, or a flow of blood.
(v. t.) To hinder from acting or moving; to prevent the effect or efficiency of; to cause to cease; to repress; to restrain; to suppress; to interrupt; to suspend; as, to stop the execution of a decree, the progress of vice, the approaches of old age or infirmity.
(v. t.) To regulate the sounds of, as musical strings, by pressing them against the finger board with the finger, or by shortening in any way the vibrating part.
(v. t.) To point, as a composition; to punctuate.
(v. t.) To make fast; to stopper.
(v. i.) To cease to go on; to halt, or stand still; to come to a stop.
(v. i.) To cease from any motion, or course of action.
(v. i.) To spend a short time; to reside temporarily; to stay; to tarry; as, to stop with a friend.
(n.) The act of stopping, or the state of being stopped; hindrance of progress or of action; cessation; repression; interruption; check; obstruction.
(n.) That which stops, impedes, or obstructs; as obstacle; an impediment; an obstruction.
(n.) A device, or piece, as a pin, block, pawl, etc., for arresting or limiting motion, or for determining the position to which another part shall be brought.
(n.) The closing of an aperture in the air passage, or pressure of the finger upon the string, of an instrument of music, so as to modify the tone; hence, any contrivance by which the sounds of a musical instrument are regulated.
(n.) In the organ, one of the knobs or handles at each side of the organist, by which he can draw on or shut off any register or row of pipes; the register itself; as, the vox humana stop.
(n.) A member, plain or molded, formed of a separate piece and fixed to a jamb, against which a door or window shuts. This takes the place, or answers the purpose, of a rebate. Also, a pin or block to prevent a drawer from sliding too far.
(n.) A point or mark in writing or printing intended to distinguish the sentences, parts of a sentence, or clauses; a mark of punctuation. See Punctuation.
(n.) The diaphragm used in optical instruments to cut off the marginal portions of a beam of light passing through lenses.
(n.) The depression in the face of a dog between the skull and the nasal bones. It is conspicuous in the bulldog, pug, and some other breeds.
(n.) Some part of the articulating organs, as the lips, or the tongue and palate, closed (a) so as to cut off the passage of breath or voice through the mouth and the nose (distinguished as a lip-stop, or a front-stop, etc., as in p, t, d, etc.), or (b) so as to obstruct, but not entirely cut off, the passage, as in l, n, etc.; also, any of the consonants so formed.
Example Sentences:
(1) Decreased MU stops additions of bone by modeling and increases removal of bone next to marrow by remodeling.
(2) The stopped-flow technique was used to measure the rate constants for the reactions between the oxidized forms of peroxidase with luminol and the following substrates: p-iodophenol, p-bromophenol, p-clorophenol, o-iodophenol, m-iodophenol, luciferin, and 2-iodo-6-hydroxybenzothiazole.
(3) The region containing the injection stop signal (iss) has been cloned and sequenced and found to contain numerous large repeats and inverted repeats which may be part of the iss.
(4) Certainly, Saunders did not land a single blow that threatened to stop his opponent, although he took quite a few himself that threatened his titles in the final few rounds.
(5) … or a theatre and concert hall There are a total of 16 ghost stations on the Paris metro; stops that were closed or never opened.
(6) All of this in the same tones of weary nonchalance you might use to stop the dog nosing around in the bin.
(7) There are no oceans wide enough to stop us from dreaming.
(8) At the ceremony, the Taliban welcomed dialogue with Washington but said their fighters would not stop fighting.
(9) In a separate exclusive interview , Alexis Tsipras, the increasingly powerful 37-year-old Greek politician now regarded by many as holding the future of the euro in his hands, told the Guardian that he was determined "to stop the experiment" with austerity policies imposed by Germany.
(10) She stopped working only when the pain made it hard for her to get to work.
(11) A tall young Border Police officer stopped me, his rifle cradled in his arms.
(12) Crown prince Sultan Bin Abdel Aziz said yesterday that the state had "spared no effort" to avoid such disasters but added that "it cannot stop what God has preordained.
(13) Control measures were introduced rapidly, effectively stopping the epidemic.
(14) Both strong-stop DNAs are made early during in vitro reactions and decline in concentration later, consistent with postulated roles as initiators of long minus- and plus-strand DNA.
(15) Thus it appears that a portion of the adaptation to prolonged and intense endurance training that is responsible for the higher lactate threshold in the trained state persists for a long time (greater than 85 days) after training is stopped.
(16) When asked why the streets of London were not heaving with demonstrators protesting against Russia turning Aleppo into the Guernica of our times, Stop the War replied that it had no wish to add to the “jingoism” politicians were whipping up against plucky little Russia .
(17) Bacteria can stop or lessen antibodies synthesis process.
(18) Never become so enamored of your own smarts that you stop signing up for life’s hard classes.
(19) The scatter measurement was made using a standard imaging geometry with both beam stops and an additional x-ray detector placed behind the standard imaging detector.
(20) Thirteen of the dogs treated with various drug regimens lived for 90 days, after which time treatment was stopped; 10 of the dogs eventually rejected the grafts, but three had continued graft function for 6 months or longer and may be permanently tolerant.