(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.
Quint
Definition:
(n.) A set or sequence of five, as in piquet.
(n.) The interval of a fifth.
Example Sentences:
(1) Mutant virus is then reconstituted by cotransfection with overlapping viral clones, together comprising the entire viral genome, as described previously (M. van Zijl, W. Quint, J. Briaire, T. de Rover, A. Gielkens, and A. Berns, J. Virol.
(2) A perchlorinated, cage-structured hydrocarbon, C(10)C(l2), also known as mirex or Dechlorane, has been identified in fish samples from the Bay of Quinte, Lake Ontario, Canada.
(3) Quint Fontana drinks to remember... and he’s thirsty!” Of course, this is all a character act – Fontana is the infectiously appealing creation of comedian Andy Davies, who has been honing the character via a monthly show at Bethnal Green Working Men’s Club.
(4) A quintuple mutant, with all cysteines converted to alanines (Quint), was also constructed.
(5) Quint Fontana is also interested in the power of the female, but he approaches things from a rather different trajectory.
(6) Although the soft-tissue analysis can be made easier by the use of a Quint intensifying screen (Quint X-Ray Co, Inc, Los Angeles) which enhances the soft-tissue image, when the enhanced cephalometric radiograph was compared with a standard, nonenhanced radiograph, it was found to have the same level of diagnostic accuracy.
(7) The mutants C82A and C191A exhibit nearly the same CM in urea denaturation experiments as WT, while the other single mutants and Quint are less stable, with CM differences of up to 0.7 M urea.
(8) After quantitative comparison, it appears that hinge rotation is the primary physiologic movement of the mandible, and that the Hanau quint provides compensatory factors in facilitating hinge jaw movement.
(9) The thermal stabilities of Quint and of the wild-type enzyme (WT) were determined by differential scanning calorimetry.
(10) Pleasance Courtyard, 5.30pm, to 24 Aug Quint Fontana: I Remember Me Facebook Twitter Pinterest Quint Fontana Last year, Bridget Christie picked up the Edinburgh Comedy award with an impassioned, gag-festooned tribute to feminism.
(11) Quint is also less thermostable than WT, with a delta TM of 3.3-4.4 degrees C. Thus the five cysteine replacements yield small, but significant, changes in catalytic and denaturation parameters, but none of the cysteines was found to be essential.
(12) The 1st step in Quint's analysis was a determination of the ratio of new endometrial carcinoma cases to the total "major gynecologic operations" for the intervals 1960-1966 and 1966-1973.
(13) Thus, type-2 astrocytes express the two quint-essential astrocytic features: glial fibrillary acidic protein (previously reported by others) and glutamine synthetase.
(14) This work has been extended by undertaking a computer simulation of the movement of the mandible between centric occlusion and centric relation in an effort to establish a possible mathematical relationship between the variables in Hanau's "Quint."
(15) Dr. Boyd C. Quint recently presented important data regarding the relationship of estrogen therapy to the risk of endometrial carcinoma, but the data seem to have been inappropriately analyzed.
(16) Dr. Quint studied 291 postmenopausal women who received primary treatment for endometrial carcinoma at the Swedish Hospital Medical Center in Seattle, Washington between 1960 and 1973.
(17) Quint's data do support the hypothesis that estrogen therapy may be an etiologic factor among the more recent cases of endometrial carcinoma.