(n.) One who lances; one who carries a lance; especially, a member of a mounted body of men armed with lances, attached to the cavalry service of some nations.
(n.) A lancet.
(n.) A set of quadrilles of a certain arrangement.
Example Sentences:
(1) • The Queen's Royal Lancers are to be amalgamated with the 9th and 12th Royal Lancers.
(2) Corporal Matthew Millington, 31, of the Queen's Royal Lancers, was stationed in Iraq in 2005 when he was diagnosed with an incurable condition which left him unable to breathe; he was told that he would die unless he had a lung transplant.
(3) The badge, known as "the motto", is worn by the Queen's Royal Lancers.
(4) The Queen's Royal Lancers emerged from a number of regiments which took part in the Charge of the Light Brigade in the Crimean war, Waterloo, the last great British cavalry charge at Omdurman in Sudan in which a young Lieutenant Winston Churchill led a troop, and Ypres in the first world war.
(5) The present study was undertaken to determine the effects of the primer component of Mono-Lok (Rocky Mountain) and the primer component of Control (Lancer Pacific) on skin.
(6) The English killed our king Llywelyn [who is regarded as the last leader of a united and independent Wales and died at the hand of an English lancer in 1282].
(7) Also examined are two independent studies made of the informational adequacy of the LANCER project documents.
(8) This finding was recorded in all the cases when wound direction was perpendicular to Lancer's lines of the skin area in which the wound was located.
(9) An evaluation of a photoelectric clot timer, the Lancer Coagulyzer, in measuring the one-stage prothrombin time has been carried out.
(10) Flexible fibreoptic rhinolaryngoscopy has been shown to be an accurate, reliable, inexpensive and safe method of examining the upper aero-digestive tract (Lancer and Moir, 1985).
(11) It was joined by a sapphire and silver brooch given by HMS Ocean, a navy helicopter carrier, and a diamante brooch from the Queen’s Royal Lancers.
(12) Four automated coagulation instruments were evaluated for performance of prothrombin time and activated partial thromboplastin time (APTT): the Dade Auto-Fi, General Diagnostics Dual Channel Coag-a-Mate, MLA Electra 600D, and Sherwood Lancer Coagulyzer.
Lancet
Definition:
(n.) A surgical instrument of various forms, commonly sharp-pointed and two-edged, used in venesection, and in opening abscesses, etc.
(n.) An iron bar used for tapping a melting furnace.
Example Sentences:
(1) A Swedish study in the Lancet in 1999, however, found that women with hyperemesis gravidarum were slightly more likely to be carrying a girl.
(2) Malnutrition is the underlying cause of death for at least 3.1 million children a year, accounting for 45% of all deaths among children under the age of five and stunting growth among a further 165 million, according to a set of Lancet reports published last week.
(3) Furthermore, Gant in a '81 issue of Lancet suggested that blood transfusion in oncological patients may lead to neoplastic relapse by depressing the immune system.
(4) While the arteries show a long stretched spinle or lancet like form they change over blunt, oval, triangular or rhomboid forms into polygonal cells with spiked border lines at the venules.
(5) Lancet 1988;ii:102-3), provide a convenient, rapid, and reliable method of haplotype and linkage analysis, clinically useful in those situations where direct detection of mutations is not possible.
(6) The three doctors face allegations of serious professional misconduct over their study, published in the Lancet journal in 1998, which suggested a link between autism and MMR vaccination.
(7) A proper classification of PMA with HSP may be in the "complicated" forms of HSP according to Harding [Lancet I: 1151-1155 (1983)]; however, the nosology of this condition needs to be further elucidated, possibly on the basis of the underlying molecular genetic mechanisms of HSP and PMA.
(8) A recent piece in the highly respected international medical journal, the Lancet, said a rational and efficient approach to healthcare worker protection was needed.
(9) The recommendation is made in a report, published in the Lancet medical journal , by 20 experts convened by the Harvard Global Health Institute and the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, who analysed the response to the Ebola epidemic.
(10) An experimental lancet, with a 1.8-mm tip length and a diameter of 0.79 mm yielded customary blood volumes from newborns in three of the four pediatric centers where it was tested.
(11) A recent study published in the Lancet medical journal showed that health education by volunteers contributed to improvements in maternal and child health in Malawi.
(12) After implanting a disc (0,25 mm thickness and 1,5 mm diameter) of soft contact lens materials ("Soflens", "Hydroflex", "Hydron") in the anterior chamber of rabbits through a lancet incision, the reactions of iris, aqueous and cornea were observed for six months at regular intervals with slit lamp photograph.
(13) The utilization by evolution of the three-segment architecture of GTP-dependent signal transduction for other modalities of sensory perception, such as olfaction (Lancet et al., this volume) and gustation (Jones et al., this volume), is certainly a reasonable and successful choice.
(14) Writing in the journal Lancet Psychiatry , Amir Englund and other researchers say that with laws around cannabis rapidly changing, the need to protect users from the most harmful effects has never been greater, while more research is urgently needed to inform fresh drug policies.
(15) To determine the national origins of high-quality clinical research we looked at research articles published during the past decade in three leading general clinical-research journals, the New England Journal of Medicine, the Journal of Clinical Investigation, and the Lancet, and in a specialty journal, Blood.
(16) On Friday both the Lancet and British Medical Journal published editorials that were unusually critical.
(17) "There is a perception that breast cancer is a disease of older women in developed countries," said Christopher Murrray, lead author of the IHME paper published online by the Lancet medical journal .
(18) (1983) Lancet ii, 534), this is the first report of the persistent presence of these compounds in alcoholics in the absence of ethanol.
(19) With increasing differentiation the merozoites become lancet-shaped, their apical poles bing always directed towards the periphery of the schizont.
(20) An editorial published earlier this month in the medical journal the Lancet suggests that there is a distinct moral line between force-feeding people who are refusing meals through impaired mental capacity and those doing so as a protest.