() A prefix, in names of Scotch origin, signifying son.
Example Sentences:
(1) One of these antibodies, MCaE11, was used for immunohistochemical detection of MAC in tissue and for quantification of the fluid-phase TCC in ethylenediaminetetraacetic acid plasma.
(2) Pentoxifylline (1 mM) decreased AmB-stimulated PMN Mac-1 expression back to unstimulated amounts.
(3) The concentrations of anesthetics having this effect on the putative Ca2+ channel were between 0.0026 and 0.078 MAC equivalents for each agent, and these concentrations are much lower than the anesthetic concentrations affecting Ca2+ uptake.
(4) Two high-resolution (Hi-Res) ECG systems (MAC-12, Marquette Electronics, Inc (MEI), Milwaukee, WI and LVP101, Arrhythmia Research Technology (ART), Austin, TX) were tested on 143 subjects (13 controls and 130 cardiac patients, 21 of whom were tested for inducible ventricular tachycardia [VT]).
(5) Thirty-three percent of patients (15 of 45) with MAC required permanent pacemaker implantation after aortic valve replacement, compared with only 10% of patients (3 of 31) without MAC (p less than 0.025).
(6) They’re putting on a heavy sales job as one would expect,” Texas representative Mac Thornberry, the Republican who chairs the House armed services committee, told reporters upon leaving one of the briefings.
(7) Among 137 consecutive patients who had a sterile body site cultured for mycobacteria within 3 months of their first AIDS-defining episode of Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia, median survival was significantly shorter in those with disseminated MAC infection (107 days; 95% confidence interval [CI] 55-179) than those with negative cultures (275 days; 95% CI 230-318; P less than .01), even after controlling for age, absolute lymphocyte count, and hemoglobin concentration.
(8) Changes to the Mac Pro desktop computer are also expected, as is a new music streaming service .
(9) Atrial fibrillation thresholds were determined at baseline (0.0% inhalational anesthetic), 0.5 minimal alveolar concentration (MAC), and 1.0 MAC of halothane (n = 8) and isoflurane (n = 8).
(10) To investigate the importance of these factors on the cardiovascular response, we administered five doses [0, 0.5, 1.0, 1.5, and 2.0 minimum alveolar concentration (MAC)] of enflurane, halothane, and isoflurane to each of six dogs.
(11) In May, Mojang launched Minecraft Realms , a service allowing PC and Mac owners to set up their own private servers for up to 20 friends.
(12) 2009 – Big Mac and Si(s) Joe McElderry's win averaged 15.5 million viewers, a 53% share , with a 15-minute peak of 17.1 million (and a five-minute peak of 19.1 million).
(13) The launch of a new version of Mac OS X is normally an exciting time for members of the development community.
(14) Recently, we have developed a large scale technology for the generation of tumor cytotoxic macrophages (MACs) from circulating precursor monocytes.
(15) MAC may eventually infect most if not all HIV-positive patients who do not die from another HIV-related event.
(16) The PMN-7 antigen differs from other antigens associated with the C3bi receptor complex (MAC 1, MO 1, OKM1, OKM10) in that it is present only on neutrophils among peripheral blood cells.
(17) To directly compare FPR levels on the surface of cells displaying varying levels of Mac-1 within a single cell suspension, cells were labeled with FITC-Mo-1 and sorted into subpopulations based on fluorescence intensity.
(18) The present study was performed to determine whether complement activation in pemphigus vulgaris (PV) and pemphigus foliaceus (PF) results in the assembly of the terminal complement sequence or membrane attack complex (MAC) in skin lesions.
(19) Ten patients with roentgenographically demonstrable mitral annulus calcification (MAC) were found to have distinctive echocardiographic patterns.
(20) We calculated the quantity, as MAC hours and MAC hours anaesthetic, of halothane, enflurane and isoflurane, used in this Health District over a 3-year period.
Overcoat
Definition:
(n.) A coat worn over the other clothing; a greatcoat; a topcoat.
Example Sentences:
(1) His assistant for the summer, a 16-year-old who wears both the headscarf and an ankle-long overcoat over her skinny jeans, shrugged.
(2) "It is a blue overcoat, made by Gieves & Hawkes , and their label is on the inside pocket," he says.
(3) Later, in the Adelphi's huge tearoom, the leaders of the overcoat brigade compared everything from songwriting styles to their appearances in photos (Morrissey's chin grows larger, Mac's recedes – both are horrified by the results).
(4) Outside a block of humble flats on Centre Street, two women in long overcoats jump out of a taxi, avoiding the torrents of rainwater pouring along the gutter as they carry a large plastic bucket.
(5) Photos of the event show Wilson in sandals, a short-sleeved shirt, and really quite short shorts while the gentlemen of the press (and they are all men) cluster around in ill-fitting suits and, bizarrely, overcoats.
(6) A glass cabinet containing the brown overcoat, trilby hat and tracksuit of Bob Stokoe from the time of the 1973 FA Cup triumph offers a nod towards history.
(7) Plastic-covered mattresses were almost completely free from mites, but foci were found on soft furnishings and on the jackets and overcoats of hospital workers.
(8) The Aquascutum overcoats were worn by the Prince of Wales, later King Edward VII, who granted Scantlebury & Commin Aquascutum's first royal warrant in 1897.
(9) We are given mouldy overcoats that are so damp they're virtually liquid, and a cup of Soviet coffee – coffee with no coffee in it, made from barley.
(10) Vincent “was the very best dancer in Bay Ridge … he owned 14 floral shirts, five suits, eight pairs of shoes, three overcoats, and had appeared on American Bandstand ”.
(11) "Last week my overcoat was taken from the members' cloakroom, where it was left over a weekend on my peg," writes mournful Tory Richard Benyon.
(12) Someone has spied him, bundled in an overcoat on the street outside.
(13) Nor that he has to cosy up to paranoid weirdos like the Professor, who wears a steampunk suicide vest under his overcoat at all times, just in case something mutinous goes down.
(14) And he is keen to avoid misunderstanding, for the House abounds with overcoats of lesser quality.
(15) His scarf is long and stripy, his trainers a kaleidoscope of fluorescent colour and when he takes off his knee-length overcoat it is clear he thinks of his body in the same way Michelangelo used to think of the ceiling in the Sistine Chapel.
(16) Crombie, the fashion house whose trademark tailored overcoats have enjoyed renewed popularity thanks to bands such as the Specials, is in talks to buy its British rival Aquascutum.
(17) The adult daily intake of tin was about 17 mg per day in 1940, but it has now decreased to about 3.5 mg, due to improvements in technique of tinning with enamel overcoat and crimped lids to minimize exposure to tin and lead solder.
(18) Grainy, newsreel black-and-white, stiff shop awnings, sky as interesting as tea crisscrossed with overheard tram wires, one or two parked cars, shuffling overcoats and - a beacon in all of this - the exotic promise of the Scala cinema on the right, advertising The Hound of the Baskervilles, starring Eille Norwood as Holmes.
(19) "I want to wear sweaters, a scarf, the overcoat, the whole thing, like a Winona Ryder movie.
(20) Clad in a smart overcoat and hat, Jackson, now 70, remains a formidable presence and a compelling speaker.