(n.) A space between things; a void space intervening between any two objects; as, an interval between two houses or hills.
(n.) Space of time between any two points or events; as, the interval between the death of Charles I. of England, and the accession of Charles II.
(n.) A brief space of time between the recurrence of similar conditions or states; as, the interval between paroxysms of pain; intervals of sanity or delirium.
(n.) Difference in pitch between any two tones.
(n.) Alt. of Intervale
Example Sentences:
(1) No consistent relationship could be found between the time interval from SAH to operation and the severity of vasospasm.
(2) When pooled data were analysed, this difference was highly significant (p = 0.0001) with a relative risk of schizophrenia in homozygotes of 2.61 (95% confidence intervals 1.60-4.26).
(3) Because of the short detachment interval, and the absence of underlying pathology or trauma, the recovery process described here probably represents an example of optimum recovery after retinal reattachment.
(4) Hearing loss at 8 kHz would shorten the I-V interval, while a loss at 4 kHz would be expected to lengthen the interval.
(5) Since 1979, patients started on long-term lithium treatment at the Psychiatric Hospital in Risskov have been followed systematically with recording of clinical and laboratory variables before the start of treatment, after 6 and 12 months of treatment, and thereafter at yearly intervals.
(6) Men who ever farmed were at slightly elevated risk of non-Hodgkin's lymphoma (odds ratio = 1.2, 95% confidence interval = 1.0-1.5) that was not linked to specific crops or particular animals.
(7) Examinations, begun at day 150 of gestation in 33 monkeys and between days 32 and 58 in four other animals, were repeated at intervals of one to seven days.
(8) Phospholipid changes occurring at later stages in the lytic cycle of infected bacteria are more prominent than those at earlier time intervals.
(9) Analysis was performed on all patients who received any amount of therapy (VSG) and on the Adequately Treated Group (ATG), who had received 5000 or more rads radiotherapy, two or more courses of chemotherapy, and had a minimum survival of 8 or more weeks (the interval that would have been required to have received either the radiotherapy or chemotherapy).
(10) Subjects in the highest quartile of the insulin distribution had 6.6 times the risk of developing type II diabetes as subjects in the remaining three quartiles combined (95% confidence interval [CI] = 3.14-13.7).
(11) The hosts had resisted through the early stages, emulating their rugged first-half displays against Manchester United and Arsenal here this season, and even mustered a flurry of half-chances just before the interval to offer a reminder they might glean greater reward thereafter.
(12) The adjusted odds ratio of having one or more hospitalization for current drinkers relative to life-long abstainers in females was 0.67 (95 per cent confidence interval 0.57-0.79) and in males was 0.74 (0.57-0.96).
(13) Comparing the regression lines of HR-QT and HR-QS2 separately for both groups, we found that both intervals decreased in parallel and the mean QT remained shorter than QS2 in both groups during exercise.
(14) During recovery, while the heart rate decreased and the RR interval variance increased, there was a relative increase in LF and a relative decrease in HF in normal subjects (either sedentary or athletic).
(15) A table of the lengths of statistically significant intervals for various sampling interval lengths, numbers of subjects, and autocorrelation parameters is presented.
(16) 64% of the patients without nodular metastases and 45% of the patients with histologically ascertained nodular metastases and 45% of the patients with histologically ascertained nodular metastases survived the 3-year interval.
(17) The following results were obtained: 1) In normal subjects, the changes in ABR waveforms according to the changes of the rise-time, interstimulus interval and frequency of the stimulus were mainly attributed to component wave C. 2) In patients with central disorders, component wave C were initially affected.
(18) The hypoxia-induced prolongation of the AH interval or AH block was prevented in the presence of these drugs.
(19) Behavioral variables, including interreinforcement interval and drug self-administration history, appear to be important determinants of whether or not reinforcement will be demonstrated, particularly among the benzodiazepines; but the range of conditions under which behavioral and pharmacological variables interact to promote or lessen the likelihood of self-administration of these drugs remains to be determined experimentally.
(20) The independent effects of pain and pain coping strategies, as well as the interaction effects between pain and pain coping strategies on depression, were evaluated cross-sectionally and prospectively over a 6-month interval.
Isochronous
Definition:
(a.) Same as Isochronal.
Example Sentences:
(1) "Isochronic activation curves" for Ix and decay of current tails at -40 mV remained unaffected after Mn.
(2) DDS shifted current-voltage (I-V) and isochronal inactivation curves of ICa,L in the negative direction, whereas DDTMA shifted them in positive direction.
(3) Finally, the isochronal Emax and other end-systolic P-V relation slope values demonstrated inverse linear relationships with left ventricular mass (r = -.68 to -.91, p less than .05 to p less than .001).
(4) Adults hear alternating syllables with isochronous syllable onset-onset times as having a long-short, alternating rhythm when the syllables differ in initial consonant.
(5) Moreover, indirect P-V relations underestimate these Emax values, but they are linearly related with the isochronal Emax values calculated by RNA and CINE.
(6) When the standard pattern consisted of equally timed (isochronic) brief tones, whose interonset intervals (IOIs) were 50, 100, or 200 msec, the accuracy in detecting an asynchrony or deviation of one tone in the sequence was about as would be predicted from older research on the discrimination of single time intervals (6%-8% at an IOI of 200 msec, 11%-12% at an IOI of 100 msec, and almost 20% at an IOI of 50 msec).
(7) Isochronal data during early systole were better fitted to a parabolic than to the linear model; however, fits to linear and parabolic models were equally good near end of systole.
(8) The final positions of isochronically transplanted neurons in the host brain were mapped out by using the 3H-thymidine marker after long survival periods.
(9) The manuscript reviews evidence that these assumptions may not always be true, and when they are not, the isochronal map may be misleading.
(10) In addition, by using lines of constant analysis time (isochrons), it was found that several sets of conditions will result in nearly identical retention times.
(11) To investigate whether components of vector loops could provide information about different activation directions in local areas of myocardium, we correlated "instantaneous vectors" with isochronal activation patterns in an in vitro preparation of experimental myocardial infarction.
(12) Thus the sequence of morphological differentiation and the eventual laminar position of the isochronically transplanted neurons closely paralleled that of their normal host counterparts.
(13) In each case, the resolution equation, when written in terms of isochronal conditions, shows that improvements can be obtained without sacrificing analysis time.
(14) A small piece of membrane shell, a small agar screen, or a piece of quail isochronous isotopic notochord was inserted into the gap.
(15) The routine production of 11C (T = 20.3 min), 123I (T = 13.3 h) and 28Mg (T = 21.1 h) at the Julich Isochronous Cyclotron JULIC via the 12C(p,pn) 11C-, 127I(d,6n) 123Xe(beta+, EC) 123I- and 27Al(alpha,3p) 28Mg-reaction, respectively, is described.
(16) Examples of some original programmes are: the automatic assessment of a pacemaker on the test bench, the formation of programmed impulses for electrocardiographic investigation, the analysis of arrhythmias by a histogram of the RR interval of frequency analysis, the recording of isochrones in pericardial cartography.
(17) The delayed excitation resulting from intraventricular conduction disturbance caused by infarction, as verified by the epicardial isochronic map, is also well represented by the body surface isopotential map.
(18) Emax and VO were determined in all patients from the slope and volume intercept of the isochronic pressure-volume line with the maximum time-varying elastance as described by Sagawa's model and were designated true Emax and true VO, respectively.
(19) The inverse problem of electrocardiography (specifically, that part concerned with the computation of the ventricular surface activation isochrones) is shown to be formally equivalent to the problem of identification and measurement of discontinuities in derivatives of body surface potentials.
(20) The application of a new signal processing methodology to the analysis of epicardial array ECG signals is presented as an alternative to isopotential or isochrones mapping by the use of a zero-delay wavenumber spectrum (ZDWS) estimation technique.