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Maneuver


Definition:

  • (n.) Alt. of Manoeuvre
  • (n.) Alt. of Manoeuvre
  • (v. t.) Alt. of Manoeuvre

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The protocols which were developed in these studies also provide an effective maneuver for tumor-specific immunotherapy.
  • (2) As aircraft capable of sustaining high "G" maneuvers enter the U.S. Navy Fleet, the reported incidence of cervical injury to aircrew seems to have increased.
  • (3) A breath-holding maneuver was utilized with a high and a low N2O concentration in argon and oxygen.
  • (4) Nonspecific baroreflex loading maneuvers such as head-down tilt readily suppress stimulated arginine vasopressin levels in normal humans.
  • (5) These results show that the prevalence of pseudohypertension is very low in a non-selected elderly population and that Osler's maneuver was not related to the pressure difference between the direct and indirect methods.
  • (6) Until this can be accomplished, different emergency maneuvers should be tried.
  • (7) Because HMBA administration produces large anion gaps, a simple maneuver such as alkalinization might enable the escalation of plasma HMBA css values to > 2 mM.
  • (8) A volume signal is displayed to the operator throughout each test to help control the maneuver.
  • (9) Though increased gravitational stress probably changed regional emptying sequences little during full MEFV maneuvers, substantial changes of emptying sequence were expected during partial maneuvers.
  • (10) Oral intubation was the definitive airway maneuver in 213 patients.
  • (11) Heart rate elevation observed after hand grip maneuver did not change.
  • (12) The magnitude of this risk is difficult to calculate and some maneuvers are available to decrease the likelihood that this will occur.
  • (13) The other was an F wave always preceded by an M response and with a stimulus response jitter of under 50 musec; its jitter and latency are unaffected by the Jendrassik maneuver.
  • (14) The catheter with intact triple knots could be withdrawn without an invasive maneuver.
  • (15) The apparent paradox in these results is correlated with different effects of the two maneuvers on left atrial pressure.
  • (16) Twenty-one subjects flew aboard a KC-135 aircraft operated by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) which performed parabolic maneuvers resulting in periods of 0-g, 1-g, and 1.8-g. Each subject flew once with a tablet containing scopolamine and once with a placebo in a random order, crossover design.
  • (17) In the last three patients with unresectable adenocarcinoma of the distal part of the stomach and invasion of the intestinal mesentery, due to foreshortening of the latter, the proximal loop of the intestine would not reach the desired level of the stomach until this maneuver was performed.
  • (18) The preinspiratory lung volume for the closing volume maneuver was varied from residual volume to closing capacity (CC).
  • (19) Five acceptable forced expiratory maneuvers were obtained with a portable spirometer from each person in a population of 1,670 selected from a stratified random sample of a community.
  • (20) The clinical diagnosis in these patients was supported by noninvasive maneuvers.

Snowplow


Definition:

  • (n.) Alt. of Snowplough

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Each subject skied a total of four slalom runs--one snowplow and three parallel.
  • (2) "It can't be beyond the wit of man, surely, to find the shovels, the diggers, the snowplows or whatever it takes to clear the snow out from under the planes, to get the planes moving and to have more than one runway going," he said.
  • (3) The city announced school closures overnight and has activated its PlowNYC snowplow tracker feature , which maps in real time which streets have been plowed (the tracker was unloved by plow drivers when Mayor Michael Bloomberg introduced it, because it requires GPS responders on trucks; it was hated by New Yorkers because at first it didn't work very well).

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