(v. t.) To free, as from care or pain; to relieve.
Example Sentences:
(1) Weakly reactive antibodies (n = 25) were tested by PEG, Polybrene, and low ionic strength saline (LISS); 64% were strongest in PEG, 28% reacted equally in PEG as in Polybrene or LISS, 8% reacted weaker in PEG than in Polybrene or LISS.
(2) Since most alloantibodies detected only by 2SP-IAT or LISS-DAG were of doubtful clinical significance, and these techniques produced a high number of unwanted positive reactivities, we conclude that 2SP-IAT and LISS-DAG are not appropriate for the pretransfusion screening for unexpected antibodies.
(3) Screening tests for unexpected antibodies, using low-ionic-strength saline (LISS), 10 minutes' incubation at 37 degrees C, and anti-IgG, were nonreactive; however, 1 transfused unit was found crossmatch incompatible by indirect antiglobulin technique (IAT).
(4) Manual hexadimethrine bromide (Polybrene) tests (Polybrene in low-ionic medium) were used in parallel with manual low-ionic-strength solution (LISS) procedures for the routine testing of patient samples referred to a general hospital blood bank.
(5) Serologic techniques included LISS-direct agglutination (DAG) reading plus indirect antiglobulin test (IAT), and two-stage papain (2SP)-IAT.
(6) LISS technique with broad spectrum AGT appears to be suitable and superior for routine antibody detection and compatibility tests.
(7) This specificity was determined by studies with enzyme-treated and neuraminidase-treated human red blood cells (RBCs), animal RBCs and chemically-modified sialoglycoproteins, all suspended in a low ionic strength solution (LISS).
(8) Adam Stanley, assistant headteacher at Liss primary school in Hampshire, said: “The prime reason [for installing solar panels] was the attraction of a clean sustainable form of energy, which sent out a very clear message that we were serious about looking after the environment.” He said the subsidy cuts have already discouraged other schools from following suit.
(9) The electrical behavior of the OHC does not disqualify it as a conveyor of auditory information to the central nervous system, even though its primary function may be that of a mechanical effector (evidence summarized by Dallos, P. (1985) in Contemporary Sensory Neurobiology, Alan R. Liss, Inc., New York, pp.
(10) The recent availability of report generators on commercial Laboratory Information Systems (LISs) mark their transition from automating to informating systems.
(11) In search for antibodies in sera of 1160 patients IAT-PEG detected 7 antibodies not reacting in the IAT-LISS, and 5 of them had Rh system specificity, one was anti-K and one anti-Jka.
(12) D. Oxender ed., Alan R. Liss, New York (1985), in press.
(13) Ten antibodies reacted only on the PEG-IAT and 14 only by the LISS-IAT; the remaining 26 antibodies were detected by both methods.
(14) Prior to transfusion, the antiglobulin antibody screen performed in LISS and an immediate spin crossmatch were negative.
(15) and Denial, T. (1985) in The Molecular Basis of Cancer, 172B, 65-75 (Rein, ed), A. Liss, N.Y.) the measured order of competitor DNA strengths was identical for all three tracer DNAs.
(16) The LISS methods, however, appeared to be more sensitive in detecting antibodies of potential clinical significance.
(17) The authors studied 1,177 sera for unexpected red cell antibodies by comparing one versus two drops of patient serum using a technique with LISS at 37 degrees C through the antiglobulin phase.
(18) For 54 percent of the antibodies in the Kell system, LISS produced significantly higher titers; for 25 percent of antibodies in the Rh system, LIP did so.
(19) With R2R2 red blood cells and LISS, papain, polybrene, or a combination of methods, Rh immune globulin could still be detected until delivery in four of the nine patients.
(20) In routine work, the LISS-SPAT provides a fast, reliable, handy and inexpensive screening of antibodies.
Miss
Definition:
(n.) A title of courtesy prefixed to the name of a girl or a woman who has not been married. See Mistress, 5.
(n.) A young unmarried woman or a girl; as, she is a miss of sixteen.
(n.) A kept mistress. See Mistress, 4.
(n.) In the game of three-card loo, an extra hand, dealt on the table, which may be substituted for the hand dealt to a player.
(v. t.) To fail of hitting, reaching, getting, finding, seeing, hearing, etc.; as, to miss the mark one shoots at; to miss the train by being late; to miss opportunites of getting knowledge; to miss the point or meaning of something said.
(v. t.) To omit; to fail to have or to do; to get without; to dispense with; -- now seldom applied to persons.
(v. t.) To discover the absence or omission of; to feel the want of; to mourn the loss of; to want.
(v. i.) To fail to hit; to fly wide; to deviate from the true direction.
(v. i.) To fail to obtain, learn, or find; -- with of.
(v. i.) To go wrong; to err.
(v. i.) To be absent, deficient, or wanting.
(n.) The act of missing; failure to hit, reach, find, obtain, etc.
(n.) Loss; want; felt absence.
(n.) Mistake; error; fault.
(n.) Harm from mistake.
Example Sentences:
(1) City badly missed Yaya Touré, on international duty at the Africa Cup of Nations, and have not won a league match since last April when he has been missing.
(2) Despite a 10-year deadline to have the same number of ethnic minority officers in the ranks as in the populations they serve, the target was missed and police are thousands of officers short.
(3) Amid the acrimony of the failed debate on the Malaysia Agreement, something was missed or forgotten: many in the left had changed their mind.
(4) He missed the start of the season while rehabbing from last season's ankle injury, played exactly six games with the Los Angeles Lakers before getting hurt again and even if he's healthy he may still sit the game out .
(5) In that respect, it's difficult to see Allen's anthem as little more than same old same old, and it's probably why I ultimately feel she misses the mark.
(6) Moreover, it allows the clinician to be alert towards findings which could be missed when not carefully searched for and which may be useful to raise or strengthen the suspicion of this disease.
(7) The striker missed the whole 2006-07 season but returned to make 35 appearances in 2007-08.
(8) They would say 'Here comes Miss Marple' when I came by."
(9) They have already missed the critical periods in language learning and thus are apt to remain severely depressed in language skills at best.
(10) I have the BBC app on my phone and it updates me, and I saw the wire ‘Malaysian flight goes missing over Ukraine.’ I’m like, well it’s probably the Russians who shot it down.
(11) The type of semantic categories missing from the UMLS consisted mainly of modifier information relating to certainty, degree, and change type of information.
(12) On the other hand, the total number of missing hair cells, irrespective of location, was a good, general indicator of the hearing capacity in a given ear.
(13) They said it shows Bergdahl, now 27, in poorer health than previous footage taken in the years since he went missing in Afghanistan on 30 June 2009.
(14) Phosphoglucomutase 1, an enzyme mapping on the short arms of chromosome 1, is constantly missing in the leukemic cell line K-562 in spite of the presence of three No.
(15) We report a case of popliteal vein obstruction by an osteochondroma, arising from the proximal tibia, in which the diagnosis was initially missed.
(16) the EcoR1 fragment of 8.6 kbp length which contains the oriC region (Marsh and Worcel, 1977; v. Meyenburg et al., 1977; Yasuda and Hirota, 1977) is missing.
(17) In patients with less than 15 diverticula, 3.1% of lesions were missed, while in those with more than 15 diverticula, 20.4% of tumors were undetected.
(18) The fitting element to a Cabrera victory would have been thus: the final round of the 77th Masters fell on the 90th birthday of Roberto De Vicenzo, the great Argentine golfer who missed out on an Augusta play-off by virtue of signing for the wrong score.
(19) Thirty-eight bodies have been removed from the mass graves, but DNA tests have shown that none is that of a missing student.
(20) The interplay of policies and principles to which Miss Nightingale subscribed, the human frailty of one of her women, Miss Nightingale's illness, and the confusion and stress which characterized the Crimean War are discussed.