(n.) One of the aboriginal inhabitants of New Zealand; also, the original language of New Zealand.
(a.) Of or pertaining to the Maoris or to their language.
Example Sentences:
(1) Relative to the perceived severity of their asthma, both Maoris and Pacific Islanders lost more time from work or school and used hospital services more than European asthmatics using A & E. The increased use of A & E by Maori and Pacific Island asthmatics seemed not attributable to the intrinsic severity of their asthma and was better explained by ethnic, socioeconomic and sociocultural factors.
(2) The Maoris of New Zealand have an interesting history and culture.
(3) The prevalence of dysplastic naevi was studied in a population-based survey of 380 30 to 39-year-old and 50 to 59-year-old non-Maoris in Milton, a small town in the south of New Zealand.
(4) The most important risk factors for other preventable causes were found to be the mother being Maori (RR 4.35, CI 3.12-6.06), having a low birth weight infant (RR 3.56, CI 2.07-6.13) and being unmarried (RR 3.45, CI 2.47-4.82).
(5) When a Maori subsample is examined, an even higher degree of interest was found than that for Europeans.
(6) This analysis demonstrates that although Australian Aborigines, Canadian Registered Indians, New Zealand Maoris, and American Indians and Alaskan natives have similar patterns of high adult mortality, Australian Aborigines are generally characterized by lower life expectancies at birth and higher age- and cause-specific death rates.
(7) Smoking was estimated to be a risk factor, but only where the smokers (Maori and non-Maori) were under 25 years of age.
(8) Both Pacific Island and Maori babies had higher cord fructosamine concentrations than European babies.
(9) By the mid 20th century, however, the apparent decline of the gout in Europe and North America and the breakup of the gouty diathesis in those lands had been more than compensated by their large-scale reappearance in the Maori and in other indigenous inhabitants of the Pacific Basin who, at first sight, appeared to have become one large gouty family.
(10) The age standardised coronary heart disease mortality rate for Maori men is 1.6 times higher than for European men, and the rate for Maori women is 4.2 times higher than that of European women.
(11) Some possible mechanisms of effecting behavioural change in modern Maori society are discussed.
(12) All the patients were European despite the fact that 15 per cent of the local population is either Maori or Polynesian.
(13) The age standardised rate for cervical cancer was 61.8 for Pacific Island, 69.0 for Maori and 59.3 for other women.
(14) The syndrome pursues a notably variable clinical course, affects a considerable proportion of females, occurs over a wide age range, and appears to be disporportionately common among Maoris.
(15) The presence of the rare Lewis phenotype Le(a+b+) is reported in various Polynesian groups, including Maoris, Samoans, Cook Islanders, Nuieans and Tokelau Islanders.
(16) The increased prevalence of diabetes mellitus among Maori and Pacific Islanders, but not in Asians, could be partly attributed to their increased levels of obesity compared with Europeans.
(17) There is a renewed effort by Maoris to assist their own people to rise from their predominantly lower socioeconomic class and to rebuild their culture.
(18) Maori and non-Maori males had comparable social class mortality gradients, but the Maori mortality rates were approximately 50% higher than the non-Maori rates in each class.
(19) The lack of association between CHD and the risk factors in Maori females suggests the possibility of two syndromes of CHD in Maori females.
(20) There was a tendency for a rise in reported wheeze in Europeans (24.3% to 27.4%) and a significant rise in Maoris (27.1% to 36.2%).
Pa
Definition:
(n.) A shortened form of Papa.
Example Sentences:
(1) During control, no significant difference between systolic fluctuation (delta Pa) and pleural swings (delta Ppl) was found.
(2) If tracer is introduced into the carotid artery after osmotic treatment, brain uptake is increased by a net factor of 50 (a factor of 70 due to elevation of PA, multiplied by 7 due to infusion by the carotid route) as compared to uptake by normal, untreated brain with infusion into a peripheral vein.
(3) Whole-virus vaccines prepared by Merck Sharp and Dohme (West Point, Pa.) and Merrell-National Laboratories (Cincinnati, Ohio) and subunit vaccines prepared by Parke, Davis and Company (Detroit, Mich.) and Wyeth Laboratories (Philadelphia, Pa.) were given intramuscularly in concentrations of 800, 400, or 200 chick cell-agglutinating units per dose.
(4) The polymerization of dATP, dCTP, and dGTP onto the defined length initiator, d(pA)10, has been carried out in four buffers.
(5) We have shown that human monocytes can synthesize both urokinase-type PA (u-PA) and tissue-type PA (t-PA).
(6) A variant t-PA (G K1 K2 P), which contained only one of the two fibrin binding sites, i.e.
(7) Patients with inflammatory bowel disease showed decreased tissue-type plasminogen activator antigen release (t-PA Ag), no significant Von Willebrand antigen release (vWF Ag), and a residual plasminogen activator inhibitor activity (PAI activity) after venous occlusion.
(8) Proper function of proteinases such as PA may require focusing of activity on a cellular level.
(9) It was then determined whether reducing the PA wedge pressure during exercise with prazosin (9 patients) or dobutamine (6 patients) reduced ventilatory levels toward normal.
(10) A similar concentration of estradiol had no effect on PA activity of the myocytes.
(11) Plasminogen activator inhibitor-1 (PAI-1), the primary physiological inhibitor of tissue-type plasminogen activator (t-PA) in plasma, is a serine proteinase inhibitor (serpin) that forms a 1:1 stoichiometric complex with its target proteinase leading to the formation of a stable inactive complex.
(12) In 130 patients, who were considered to be anti-HTLV-I positive or negative by the PA method, we compared the anti-HTLV-I detection rates and the specificity of the following three EIA methods: the Ei-test ATL and two new EIA methods using different recombinant antigens which recognize different sites.
(13) Plasminogen activator inhibitor (PAI-I) rapidly inactivates tissue plasminogen activator (t-PA) and urokinase (UK) with nearly identical association rate constants.
(14) Heart block occurred in 214 patients (12%); 113 (6.3%) had heart block on presentation and 101 (5.7%) developed heart block in the 24 h after treatment with rt-PA.
(15) The frequency spectra of transmission coefficients for ultrasound passing through a sheet of gas-filled micropores have been measured using incident waves with amplitudes up to 2.4 x 10(4) Pa.
(16) In testing the hypothesis that Lp(a) can competitively inhibit plasma clot lysis mediated by plasmin, the present study shows that Lp(a) significantly enhanced plasma clot lysis mediated by streptokinase or t-PA.
(17) The in vivo hepatic lipid peroxide content of rats was increased by aspirin or 4-pentenoic acid (4-PA) administration but was decreased by clofibrate (CPIB) administration.
(18) The predominant u-PA binding protein isolated from whole cell detergent extracts migrated with a molecular mass of approximately 36 Kd using affinity chromatography.
(19) These studies demonstrate that alpha-thrombin is a potent stimulus for human PLD-mediated PA formation and that cyclic adenosine nucleotides modulate agonist-induced cellular PLD activity.
(20) From the stress-strain curve the following values were selected: strain, stress, and slope at 80 mmHg equivalent pressure (1 mmHg = 133.3 Pa); maximum stress, strain, and slope; and breaking stress, strain, and slope if the sample broke.