(n.) A primitive Chinese instrument of the cittern kind, with from five to twenty-five silken strings.
(n.) Relationship, consanguinity, or affinity; connection by birth or marriage; kindred; near connection or alliance, as of those having common descent.
(n.) Relatives; persons of the same family or race.
(a.) Of the same nature or kind; kinder.
Example Sentences:
(1) Frequently, however, only incomplete data on confounders can be obtained from sources such as next-of-kin or co-workers.
(2) To test these competing hypotheses, a series of health, income, life satisfaction, and social participation variables (interaction with family, kin, neighbors, and friends) was examined with data from a large (N = 1269) sample of middle-aged and older blacks, Mexican Americans and whites in Los Angeles County.
(3) All deaths under age 80 were classified as being in former nuclear or non-nuclear workers depending on information supplied by next of kin.
(4) In addition, it is shown that the evolutionary mechanism which causes increases in the frequency of outsider excluders is a form of kin selection or group selection.
(5) The artist bravely offers us a more inclusive idea of who and what constitutes kin.
(6) The results suggest that young mothers who reside with their mothers or other adult kin, and those who are in close proximity to them, are no more likely to seek prenatal care during the first trimester, or to avoid smoking or drinking during pregnancy.
(7) Data on smoking habits, occupation, and residence were obtained from a next of kin to each study subject.
(8) The effects of intracellular pH on an inwardly rectifying K+ channel ("Kin channel") in opossum kidney (OK) cells were examined using the patch-clamp technique.
(9) An organ recovery coordinator from the local OPO helps the hospital staff in determining donation potential, seeking consent from the next of kin, and managing the donor after consent has been obtained.
(10) The approximate ED50 for the inhibition of collagen synthesis was near the Kin (0.4 nM; apparent dissociation constant of receptor nuclear internalization), while the ED50 for osteocalcin synthesis (0.08 nM) was below the Kin, and the ED50 for 24-hydroxylase induction (20 nM) was greater than the Kin.
(11) Although SMS acutely inhibits cAMP accumulation in both kin- mutants, neither mutant exhibited an enhanced forskolin-stimulated cAMP synthetic rate after chronic SMS treatment.
(12) A burden that falls initially on the next of kin who may even be elderly and, indeed, be in need of some sort of care themselves.
(13) Discussion of the patient's condition, technicalities, and judicial consequences with the next of kin, attendants, a pastor, and another physician is a necessary prelude.
(14) Federal regulations require researchers conducting clinical trials to obtain consent to experimentation from their intended subjects or, if the latter are incompetent, from next of kin.
(15) In the kin which the author examined, a further apparently familial renal hypoplasia was noted.
(16) Due to the overlapping of the statistical distribution curves of the normal and defective kins os isozymes, dependent on the relation of x and s, ranges of activity are shown where the measured enzymic activity is not conclusive for the judgement on the number of acting alleles, on the chosen probability level.
(17) We estimate the amount of time the average person spends in nursing homes over his or her lifetime (lifetime nursing home use), using data from the National Mortality Followback Survey of the next of kin of a sample of persons 25 years of age or older who died in 1986.
(18) Four generations of a kin with congenital Factor XII deficiency were examined for coagulation and fibrinolysis, with the homozygous female carrier of features with a Factor XII below 1% also revealing certain indications of a disturbed fibrinolysis.
(19) Douglas county sheriff John Hanlin said during the press conference that officials were still working to notify victims next-of-kin and said the medical examiner’s office was expected to release their names and brief biographies Friday afternoon.
(20) The second permits researchers to initiate experimental therapy under emergency conditions, and then to obtain consent to continue from the subjects' next of kin.
Way
Definition:
(adv.) Away.
(n.) That by, upon, or along, which one passes or processes; opportunity or room to pass; place of passing; passage; road, street, track, or path of any kind; as, they built a way to the mine.
(n.) Length of space; distance; interval; as, a great way; a long way.
(n.) A moving; passage; procession; journey.
(n.) Course or direction of motion or process; tendency of action; advance.
(n.) The means by which anything is reached, or anything is accomplished; scheme; device; plan.
(n.) Manner; method; mode; fashion; style; as, the way of expressing one's ideas.
(n.) Regular course; habitual method of life or action; plan of conduct; mode of dealing.
(n.) Sphere or scope of observation.
(n.) Determined course; resolved mode of action or conduct; as, to have one's way.
(n.) Progress; as, a ship has way.
(n.) The timbers on which a ship is launched.
(n.) The longitudinal guides, or guiding surfaces, on the bed of a planer, lathe, or the like, along which a table or carriage moves.
(n.) Right of way. See below.
(v. t.) To go or travel to; to go in, as a way or path.
(v. i.) To move; to progress; to go.
Example Sentences:
(1) A former Labour minister, Nicholas Brown, said the public were frightened they "were going to be spied on" and that "illegally obtained" information would find its way to the public domain.
(2) Cantact placing reaction times were measured in cats which were either restrained in a hammock or supported in a conventional way.
(3) Although solely nociresponsive neurons are clearly likely to fill a role in the processing and signalling of pain in the conscious central nervous system, the way in which such useful specificity could be conveyed by multireceptive neurons is difficult to appreciate.
(4) Some of those drugs are able to stimulate the macrophages, even in an aspecific way, via the gut associated lymphatic tissue (GALT), that is in connection with the bronchial associated lymphatic tissue (BALT).
(5) Methanosphaera stadtmanae reduces methanol to CH4 in a similar way as Methanosarcina barkeri.
(6) However, as the same task confronts the Lib Dems, do we not now have a priceless opportunity to bring the two parties together to undertake a fundamental rethink of the way social democratic principles and policies can be made relevant to modern society.
(7) Extensive studies during recent years have shown that the interaction between hormone and membrane-bound receptor can affect the receptor characteristics in at least two ways.
(8) "What has made that worse is the disingenuous way the force has defended their actions.
(9) Patrice Evra Evra Handed a five-match international ban for his part in the France squad’s mutiny against Raymond Domenech at the 2010 World Cup, it took Evra almost a year to force his way back in.
(10) The data support the conclusion that accumulation of lipid II is responsible in some way for the hypersensitivity of delta rfbA mutants to SDS.
(11) The way we are going to pay for that is by making the rules the same for people who go into care homes as for people who get care at their home, and by means-testing the winter fuel payment, which currently isn’t.” Hunt said the plan showed the Conservatives were capable of making difficult choices.
(12) The way how to apply this fixator is described in details.
(13) We’re learning to store peak power in all kinds of ways: a California auction for new power supply was won by a company that uses extra solar energy to freeze ice, which then melts during the day to supply power.
(14) On the way back to Pristina later, the lawyer told me everything was fine.
(15) In differing, incomparable ways it will affect every society, industry and region in the country.
(16) Obamacare price hikes show that now is the time to be bold | Celine Gounder Read more No longer able to keep patients off their plans outright, insurers have resorted to other ways to discriminate and avoid paying for necessary treatments.
(17) While they may always be encumbered by censorship in a way that HBO is not, the success of darker storylines, antiheroes and the occasional snow zombie will not be lost in an entertainment industry desperate to maintain its share of the audience.
(18) On the other hand, as a cross-reference experiment, we developed a paper work test to do in the same way as on the VDT.
(19) The results indicated that roughly 25% of patients treated in this way will become hypothyroid after 5 years and that 85% are cured (need no further therapy during the follow-up period) using a single dose of iodine-131.
(20) It is entirely proper for serving judges to set out the arguments in high-profile cases to help public understanding of the legal issues, as long as it is done in an even-handed way.