(n.) A little leaf; also, a little printed leaf or a tract.
(n.) One of the divisions of a compound leaf; a foliole.
(n.) A leaflike organ or part; as, a leaflet of the gills of fishes.
Example Sentences:
(1) Urinalysis revealed a low pH, increased ketones and bilirubin excretion, dark yellowish change in color, the appearance of "leaflet-shaped" crystals and increased red blood cells and epithelial cells in the urinary sediment, increased water intake, decreased specific gravity and decreased sodium, potassium and chloride in the urine.
(2) To evaluate the relationship between the motion pattern and degree of organic change of the anterior mitral leaflet (AML) and the features of the mitral component of the first heart sound (M1) or the opening snap (OS), 37 patients with mitral stenosis (MS) were studied by auscultation, phonocardiography and echocardiography.
(3) Autopsy revealed a primary intimal sarcoma with osteogenic elements arising in the posterior leaflet of the pulmonary valve and obstructing the main pulmonary artery and its right branch.
(4) A block of tissue bounded by the ostium of the coronary sinus, the pars membranacea, the septal leaflet of the tricuspid valve and the atrial and ventricular septa is removed.
(5) To investigate whether lipids could also be transported from the inner to the outer leaflet, lipid probes residing exclusively in the inner leaflet were monitored for their appearance in the outer leaflet.
(6) Our observations demonstrated that echographic coaptation of the aortic valve leaflets coincides with the trough of the aortic pressure incisura and the onset of A2.
(7) Echocardiographic studies provided the precise noninvasive diagnosis by demonstrating large aneurysms arising below the posterior mitral leaflet.
(8) Twenty-one of the 22 patients showed systolic anterior movement of the anterior leaflet of the mitral valve on a cineangiogram and the papillary muscles and left ventricular wall were moderately to severely hypertrophied in 18 patients.
(9) The participants strongly preferred the experimental leaflets to the approved leaflets, both with respect to accessibility of the contents (overall preference 78.1% v 17.8%) and ease of understanding the contraindications of drug use (90.2% v 73.7%).
(10) Sixty days after 5,7-DHT administration, immunoreactive serotonin in the forebrain, particularly the suprachiasmatic nuclei and intergeniculate leaflets, was severely depleted in 16 animals, moderately depleted in four and only slightly affected in four.
(11) The fairytales – which have been distributed by leaflet to universities around Singapore – include versions of Cinderella, the Three Little Pigs, Rapunzel and Snow White, each involving a reworked tale that relates to fertility, sex or marriage, and a resulting moral.
(12) The city council’s community safety team, now responsible for a leaflet campaign urging young Muslims not to join Isis, used to employ 31-year old Mashudur Choudhury as a racial harassment worker.
(13) It was not related to a greater degree of dilatation of the tricuspid ring but to more severe septal and right ventricular infarction causing prolapse of the septal and posterior septal leaflets into the right atrium.
(14) The edge of the valve leaflet and the other 2 cusps were intact.
(15) The opening amplitude of the leaflet as well as the slope of the ejection fraction were not decreased.
(16) Changes in strain in the line of aortic valve leaflet attachment (aortic ring) were measured during the cardiac cycle by means of an inductive technique.
(17) Angiographic features felt to indicate valve tearing were present following 17 of 25 procedures and included increased excursion or straightening of leaflets, localized change in leaflet motion (flail leaflet), and the presence of an additional contrast jet through the valve.
(18) Furthermore, the long axis of the right and left atria was measured from the center of the apposed atrioventricular valve leaflets to the posterior atrial wall, and the sizes of the atrial chambers were defined using their widths at the prospective broadest points through the area of foramen ovale.
(19) One valve displayed a fixed outward eversion of the free margin of two leaflets.
(20) To date, 3-dimensional studies have demonstrated that the mitral valve is saddle-shaped in systole, so that apparent superior leaflet displacement in the mediolateral 4-chamber view, often seen in otherwise normal individuals, lies entirely within the bounds defined by the mitral annulus and occurs without leaflet distortion or actual displacement above the entire mitral valve.
Pamphlet
Definition:
(n.) A writing; a book.
(n.) A small book consisting of a few sheets of printed paper, stitched together, often with a paper cover, but not bound; a short essay or written discussion, usually on a subject of current interest.
(v. i.) To write a pamphlet or pamphlets.
Example Sentences:
(1) A small clinic consisting of 1 room decorated with pamphlets against AIDS, malaria, and other diseases was managed by the chief primary health care (PHC) assistant named Joseph.
(2) Mainly though, the pamphlet – which you can read in its original form in the Women's Library in east London – is fulminating rightwingness, peppered with self-publicising, a proto-Melanie Phillips with an extra PhD.
(3) Jon Cruddas Sitting amid piles of policy papers and pamphlets, many of which were never adopted (to his intense frustration), the MP for Dagenham speaks of an existential threat to Labour unless it confronts the scale of its failure.
(4) It is permissible to have intercourse with the female slave who hasn’t reached puberty if she is fit for intercourse.” The pamphlet added that it was also permissible to buy, sell, or give as a gift female slaves, “for they are merely property, which can be disposed of”.
(5) The chancellor's position was not helped by the centre right Centre for Policy Studies which argued in a pamphlet on Monday that he would struggle to meet his deficit reduction plan, the cornerstone of the government's economic strategy.
(6) In a pamphlet to be published by the Lib Dem thinktank CentreForum, Burstow describes it as "an anomaly in our welfare system" and an ineffective way of targeting help.
(7) The intervention consisted of the practice receptionist giving female patients pamphlets about Papanicolaou smear-tests and the general practitioner offering a Papanicolaou smear-test.
(8) The Lib Dems are sending out pamphlets for next month's European elections showing Clegg as the man trying to stop Farage.
(9) The Centers for Disease Control (CDC) of the Public Health Service made public health history in 1988 by mailing the pamphlet, "Understanding AIDS," to every household in the United States.
(10) Javid wrote about his early life for a pamphlet with a foreword by Major, which spotlighted the working-class backgrounds of more than a dozen Conservative MPs.
(11) From the early pamphleteers – Tom Paine for one – to the muckrakers who fought injustice such as Nellie Bly; from Rachel Carson's Silent Spring to Ralph Nader's Unsafe At Any Speed ; from Mother Jones to the Pentagon papers, the words that shook America mostly came from passionate reporters with a cause to champion.
(12) A questionnaire distributed to 500 patients, answered by 48.2%, showed that most patients liked to receive the pamphlets and 85.5% found them useful.
(13) When Michoacán's governor obliquely blamed the caballeros for the murder, they responded with banners and pamphlets that denied the charge.
(14) Information pamphlets for certain drugs on prescription have been distributed to patients by pharmacies since 1985.
(15) That is partly why we published out pamphlet today because there is intense frustration across the university and college community – we are not prepared to just allow the debate around universities to go nowhere.
(16) They claim in their pamphlet that "a quarter of station staff could go" and warned of the consequences of "sharing afternoon programmes on BBC Radio Nottingham, and having just one programme for the whole of England after 7pm".
(17) Thus you can witness unironical celebrations of Rand Paul as an original thinker, despite the fact that his every core policy proposal reads like a distorted Xerox of an older Xerox of his father’s decades of rant-pamphleteering.
(18) The pamphlet scored a reading ease grade of 45, corresponding to what is considered difficult reading and at a level commonly found in academic journals.
(19) Those techniques were used to analyze a pamphlet designed for patient education by the American Academy of Dermatology.
(20) We sent a pamphlet that explained the program to 1568 people who had undergone apheresis and asked them to reply, stating their interest.