(n.) A spear armed with three or more prongs, for striking fish.
(n.) One who makes a list or roll.
(n.) Same as Leister.
Example Sentences:
(1) It’s gender, age, disability, sexual orientation, social background, and – most important of all, as far as I’m concerned – diversity of thought.” Diversity needs action beyond the Oscars | Letters Read more He may have provided the Richard Littlejohn wishlist from hell – you know the one, about the one-legged black lesbian in a hijab favoured by the politically correct – but as a Hollywood A-lister, the joke’s no longer on him.
(2) Detailed studies of the effects of acid pH on the formation of Fraction C after borohydride reduction demonstrated the apparent lability of the non-reduced form, thus confirming our previous findings (Bailey & Lister, 1968).
(3) Several stages in its histogenesis may be discerned: I. focal necroses of hepatic cells associated with their invasion with lister Listeria; 2. appearance of cellular elements around the foci of necroses with subsequent formation of granulemas consisting mainly of leucocytes and lymphoid cells; 3. development of necrobiotic changes in the central areas of granulemas with concomitance of exudative processes; 4. organization of necrotic foci with subsequent scarring.
(4) She was accompanied by a Scottish Labour activist Hannah Lister.
(5) Lister, a Scottish surgeon, was the first physician to apply the germ theory to clinical practice and developed the techniques of antiseptic surgery and wound care, resulting in dramatic reductions in surgical mortality.
(6) Rats of the Hooded-Lister strain were sensitized and challenged with ovalbumin.
(7) Sir Edward Lister, Johnson's chief-of-staff and the deputy mayor for planning, said his boss's priority was to increase the number of low-cost homes for Londoners, and that since 2008 more than 76,000 affordable homes had been built in the city.
(8) Simpson, Semmelweis, Lister, and Ogston all found their ideas scorned by members of the profession, which may have feared being held responsible for deaths.
(9) The assay also successfully detected and measured specific anti-LLO antibodies in the sera of silage-fed sheep among which listeric enteritis and abortions had occurred.
(10) The Human Engineering Division of the Armstrong Laboratory (USAF); the Mallinckrodt Institute of Radiology; the Washington University School of Medicine; and the Lister-Hill National Center for Biomedical Communication, National Library of Medicine are sponsoring a working group on electronic imaging of the human body.
(11) Providing more affordable homes, both to rent and buy, is one of the mayor’s top priorities, and the report to be considered by the mayor proposes to double the amount of affordable housing in these planning applications,” Sir Edward Lister, the deputy mayor for planning, said.
(12) Vaccinia viruses LC16m0 and LC16m8 are temperature-sensitive and low-neurovirulent variants derived from the Lister (Elstree) (LO) strain.
(13) Trachoma organisms of immunotypes A, B and C prepared in yolk sac produced more inclusion-forming units per ml in CO60 BHK-21 Lister than in CO60 McCoy.
(14) About 400 British nationals are thought to be fighting in Syria, with a majority likely to be involved with Isis or its affiliated factions, according to Charles Lister, a Middle East analyst at the Brookings Doha Centre.
(15) This congenic strain of the Lister and Albany rat is normotensive, corpulent, and hyperlipidemic when homozygous for the corpulent (cp) gene derived from the Koletsky strain.
(16) Intracardiac injection, in hooded Lister rats, of syngeneic MC28 sarcoma cells never induced tumour growth in normal bowel.
(17) The clinical, angiographic, and histopathological features of experimental posterior uveitis in the black hooded Lister rat are described.
(18) We compared the time course of changes in serum levels of circulating immune complexes (CICs) and of IgG antibody after sensitization of albino Lewis and pigmented Lister strain rats with uveitogenic (retinal S-antigen) and non-uveitogenic (ovalbumin) protein antigens of comparable molecular weight.
(19) One in eight Universities Central Council on Admissions (UCCA) applications for admission to St Mary's Hospital Medical School in 1986 were in due course recirculated to the four short-listers, being seen again either by the same short-lister or by another short-lister.
(20) A standard challenge with percutaneous smallpox vaccine was administered to 629 children six to 12 months after percutaneous primary inoculation with one of four vaccines (New York City Board of Health strains grown in calf lymph or chorioallantoic membranes, the Lister vaccine, or the CV-1 strain).
Prong
Definition:
(n.) The tine of a fork, or of a similar instrument; as, a fork of two or three prongs.
(n.) A sharp-pointed instrument.
(n.) A sharp projection, as of an antler.
(n.) The fang of a tooth.
Example Sentences:
(1) To determine if the type of mechanical ventilation used (ie, face mask, nasal prongs, or endotracheal tube) was associated with GPNN, a matched case-control analysis was performed.
(2) After amputation of the closed tip, a cap from a syringe was inserted via a slit made at the base into one prong of a pair of nasal cannulae.
(3) The system called PRONG (Parallel Recording Of Neural Groups) includes a microelectrode, a lightweight reusable connector, a 24-channel FET-hybrid preamplifier, a 3-band 24-channel amplifier, a 24-channel spike monitor, high-speed digital and analog interfaces and a computer.
(4) The studies were performed with a pneumotachograph applied to the upper airway by means of an inflatable face mask or latex nasal prongs.
(5) Twenty patients did not reach the target level of 8.6 kPa (65 mmHg) PaO2 with the nasal prongs, but the reservoir cannula allowed nine of these "refractory" patients to hit this therapeutic goal, a result indicating a clear trend towards improved immediate oxygen response.
(6) The reservoir cannula Oxymizer Pendant (Chad-Therapeutics Inc.) is a nasal prong system incorporating a pendant reservoir which stores oxygen during expiration and delivers it as a bolus at the onset of inspiration.
(7) Oxygen delivery using nasal prongs was assessed using a lung model for spontaneous ventilation.
(8) The surprise offer, described by one member of the audience as having an air of desperation, appeared to form part of a two-prong strategy.
(9) Based on a model successfully used in the US , the three-pronged Operation Shield combines community mobilisation and opportunities for young people to move away from crime with harsh collective punishment for those who remain in gangs.
(10) There was the doll's house-sized two-pronged fork, and the bivalves themselves, pale and ivory against the silvered shell.
(11) Stun gun torch Facebook Twitter Pinterest The Zap Light sends one million volts between six metal prongs at the front of its torch.
(12) In Britain, there has been a three-pronged approach: the bank rate has been cut from 5% to 0.5%, a lower level than at any time in the 316-year history of the Bank of England; public borrowing has risen to around 11% of GDP, a record for peacetime; and the Bank has pumped £200bn into the money supply through quantitative easing.
(13) Nasal prongs are the usual method for delivering O2 on long-term basis, and portable O2 supply systems permit patients to use O2 continuously without significant restriction of their activities.
(14) Coronary artery segments were mounted between two L-shaped prongs in tissue baths with buffer solution.
(15) The students collect fasting samples of expired air from each other using a simple nasal prong technique.
(16) Read more The official added: “Dedicated conduct and discipline personnel deployed in field missions continue to support each field mission with the implementation of the United Nations three-pronged strategy to address sexual exploitation and abuse through prevention, enforcement and remedial actions.
(17) After studying a group of countries including Brazil, Cambodia, Mali, Peru and Tanzania, the Bank said a six-pronged approach was needed to tackle inequality.
(18) It appeared that the multi-pronged formula would inexorably lead to Greece being deemed to be in sovereign default, at least temporarily.
(19) In his meeting with the 1922 committee of Tory backbenchers on Wednesday night, the prime minister echoed a two-pronged message he delivered in a recent interview with the Spectator .
(20) The treatment works by mounting a two-pronged attack on cancer.