(a.) Of or pertaining to the hand; done or made by the hand; as, manual labor; the king's sign manual.
(a.) A small book, such as may be carried in the hand, or conveniently handled; a handbook; specifically, the service book of the Roman Catholic Church.
(a.) A keyboard of an organ or harmonium for the fingers, as distinguished from the pedals; a clavier, or set of keys.
(a.) A prescribed exercise in the systematic handing of a weapon; as, the manual of arms; the manual of the sword; the manual of the piece (cannon, mortar, etc.).
Example Sentences:
(1) A modification of the manual glucose oxidase-gum guaiacum method of Shipton, B., Wood, P.J.
(2) Classical treatment combining artificial delivery or uterine manual evacuation-oxytocics led to the arrest of bleeding in 73 cases.
(3) And this is the supply of 30% of the state’s fresh water.” To conduct the survey, the state’s water agency dispatches researchers to measure the level of snow manually at 250 separate sites in the Sierra Nevada, Rizzardo said.
(4) Excellent correlations were observed between computer and manual methods for both systems.
(5) The reduction is believed due to the currently used pre-prepared disposable or reusable capsules containing the amalgam versus formerly mixing the ingredients manually.
(6) We performed a prospective study on 68 eyes of 68 patients to compare the vertical cup-disk ratio obtained with the video-ophthalmograph to that obtained with manual analysis of black-and-white stereoscopic photographs.
(7) Furthermore, the AMDP-3 scale and its manual constitute a remarkable teaching instrument for psychopathology, not always enough appreciated.
(8) A manual search, derived from the references of these papers, was performed to obtain relevant citations for the years preceding 1970.
(9) Experiments have been performed using CO2 laser-assisted microvascular anastomoses, and they demonstrated the following features, in comparison with conventional anastomoses: ease in technique; less time consumption; less tissue inflammation; early wound healing; equivalency of patency rate and inner pressure tolerance; but only about 50 percent of the tensile strength of manual-suture anastomosis.
(10) The article reflects the experience in the work of the manual therapy consulting-room at the Smela town hospital named after N. A. Semashko in Chernigov Province from November 1985 to December 1987 inclusive.
(11) Although the assay was performed manually, it showed considerable potential for full automation.
(12) Finally, from the published manuals, the common components of these diverse, multi-component treatment packages of different family-intervention studies are identified."
(13) A preliminary "profile" of the patient with low back pain who would likely benefit from manual therapy included acute symptom onset with less than a 1-month duration of symptoms, central or paravertebral pain distribution, no previous exposure to spinal manipulation, and no pending litigation or workers' compensation.
(14) Manual compression of the bladder elicited urine leakage from the urethra, and the urethral closure pressure was markedly low.
(15) Indirect blood pressure measurement techniques included automated oscillometry, manual auscultation, visual onset of oscillation (flicker) and return-to-flow methods.
(16) Response requirements are manual rather than verbal so that, in addition to monitoring heart rate, subjects' exhaled air may be collected throughout the task in order to determine oxygen consumption.
(17) The modified CIRS was operationalized with a manual of guidelines geared toward the geriatric patient and for clarity was designated the CIRS(G).
(18) We describe a fully enzymic method for manual and continuous-flow colorimetric assay of triacylglycerols (triglycerides) in serum.
(19) The correlations between automated and manual counts for neutrophils, eosinophils, basophils, and lymphocytes were excellent: r = 0.912, 0.945, 0.332, and 0.964, respectively.
(20) Aiming at a particularized functional analysis 70 patients with shoulder-hand syndrome were diagnosed; aspects of reflexotherapy (manual and neural therapy) were taken into consideration on this occasion inclusive a comment on the psychical condition.
Manus
Definition:
(pl. ) of Manus
(n.) The distal segment of the fore limb, including the carpus and fore foot or hand.
Example Sentences:
(1) It is unclear if the steps against Australian advisers have any connection to the Manus dispute.
(2) But a former Manus immigration caseworker, Liz Thompson, told Guardian Australia on Tuesday she was aware of at least three cases where asylum seekers on Manus had presented their sexuality as a reason for their persecution during protection interviews since September last year, indicating the department would be well aware there were gay asylum seekers on Manus.
(3) In figures from 2014 and 2015, Iranians were the dominant cohort on both Manus and Nauru.
(4) No asylum seeker on Manus has had a refugee claim processed.
(5) The immigration minister, Scott Morrison, headed to Papua New Guinea on Friday to discuss Manus Island violence and refugee resettlement and to iron out what the PNG foreign minister, Rimbink Pato, describes as “bumps” in an asylum policy partnership that is still intact.
(6) In a tweet, the Department of Immigration and Border Protection denied the incident took place: “Reports of a disturbance at the Manus Offshore processing centre are false.” Detainees and staff on the island insist it did take place.
(7) Manus Island detention centre to close, Papua New Guinea prime minister says Read more Australia’s immigration minister, Peter Dutton , told Sky News on Thursday morning there was room on Nauru to take additional detainees.
(8) Refugees still stuck on Manus Island need to be allowed to move freely, get jobs and be productive members of PNG society – that is, to get on with their lives.
(9) Already one man held on Manus, Hamid Kehazaei, has died this year from an infection .
(10) Guardian Australia has been told some of the men imprisoned were taken from the Manus centre’s secret solitary confinement cells, the Chauka isolation unit.
(11) Only a handful of countries raised the issue of the Manus detention centre during PNG’s UPR session.
(12) Lomai’s case is on similar grounds to the successful challenge brought by PNG opposition leader Belden Namah , which argued the detention regime on Manus breached Section 42 of the PNG constitution guaranteeing a person’s right to liberty.
(13) A spokesman for Transfield Services, the company contracted by the Australian government to run the Manus Island detention centre, said the guard’s employment was terminated and he was taken from the island after the investigation.
(14) Geographical location of Manus Island The immigration minister, Tony Burke, who recently moved women and children off Manus Island because of substandard conditions, said families would not be sent to the centre until it was upgraded.
(15) Why can't we know what's happening on Nauru and Manus Island?
(16) Morrison, who did not respond to a request from Guardian Australia for comment on the letters, said in December he was “unaware of any claims or declarations of homosexuality” from asylum seekers on Manus.
(17) We are continuing to see heart wrenching reports of sexual abuse and assault, self-harm and hopelessness of refugees detained on Nauru and Manus Island with over 2,000 people left to languish in detention,” Szoke said.
(18) Don’t forget you live in Manus.” Guardian Australia has approached detention centre operators Transfield and security subcontractor Wilson Security for comment on Satah’s security regime.
(19) 4.25am BST Scott Morrison said the Manus events of 16-18 February were a "terrible, tragic and distressing" series of incidents.
(20) That is to say, the violence on Manus Island and elsewhere comes from inside (let's call it "The Process"), and the students' protest intrudes from without.