(n.) A nobleman in England, France, and Germany, of a rank next below that of duke. Originally, the marquis was an officer whose duty was to guard the marches or frontiers of the kingdom. The office has ceased, and the name is now a mere title conferred by patent.
Example Sentences:
(1) Photograph: MCT via Getty Images With Marquis in the lead, striding forward holding a ski stick, we marched up the hill.
(2) The Marquis de Sade and Casanova used it to avoid venereal diseases (VDs).
(3) But he was far from comic as the splenetic Marquis of Queensberry, hounding Oscar Wilde to prison over his son's liaison with the homosexual playwright, in The Trials of Oscar Wilde (1960).
(4) Marquis, a philosopher, employs a comparison of harms analysis and concludes that the rights of the postnatal child not to risk permanent, substantial, preventable injury overrides the pregnant woman's right not to be confined involuntarily.
(5) Water is about to reach houses in the coastal villages of Soubise and Marquis.
(6) Marquis believes the copper workings to be central to understanding the ruins.
(7) Shoing off the new co-op gameplay it had two players running through the streets of paris, taking out soldiers, before starting a riot that ends in a marquis being beheaded.
(8) The levels of free carnitine were measured through the enzyme-colorimetry method of Marquis and Fritz.
(9) Then at the Angel Ball, a glittering fundraiser for G&P held at the New York Marriott Marquis hotel on 30 November, Rich for the first time bought a table from Denise.
(10) There is going to be great competition and I’m really looking forward to it.” Elsewhere, another British gold medal winner on 2012’s Super Saturday, and also the European and Commonwealth champion, Greg Rutherford, hopes to recapture his best long jump form against a field that includes Marquis Dendy, who jumped a wind-assisted 8.68m this year, plus the improving Briton Dan Bramble.
(11) Bamiyan seems emblematic of the way international aid has treated Afghanistan,” says Philippe Marquis, former head of the French Archaeological Delegation in Afghanistan (Dafa).
(12) Presented at the ongoing Black Hat Asia 2014 conference in Singapore, Shane Huntley and Morgan Marquis-Boire's research shows that journalists are "massively over-represented" among the targets of state-sponsored hackers.
(13) This former residence of politician, polymath and billionaire hoarder the 17th Marquis of Cerralbo, has resplendent rooms jammed with ancient artefacts, priceless masters, oriental curios and an armoury worthy of a warlord.
(14) That was straight out of the 1750 classic A Character in King Charles the Second, by George Savile, the Marquis of Halifax.
(15) But Marquis could see order where I could not, and instantly identified the different sites and speculated on what they were once used for.
(16) Arguing from the position that prerandomization in clinical trials must be either unsuccessful or unethical, Marquis analyzes prerandomized single-arm consent and multiple-arm consent designs and compares them to each other and to conventional randomized designs.
(17) Schaffner introduces four articles on clinical trials (by F. Gifford, J.B. Kadane, L. Kopelman, and D. Marquis) by providing an historical and methodological context within which to interpret them.
(18) Plasma L-carnitine concentrations have been measured by a spectrophotometrical method according to Marquis and Fritz's technique and subsequently modified by Pearson and Seccombe.
(19) So does "sadism", for that matter, but the Marquis de Sade had been dead for 72 years.
(20) The 1995 season saw the fiscally challenged club unable to hold on to core players such as Walker, Wetteland, Marquis Grissom and Ken Hill – frustrated fans gave up on the organisation with many never going back.
Rhythmic
Definition:
(a.) Alt. of Rhythmical
Example Sentences:
(1) administration of the potent short-acting opioid, fentanyl, elicited inhibition of rhythmic spontaneous reflex increases in vesical pressure (VP) evoked by urinary bladder distension.
(2) The observation that phase reversals did not occur in area 29, together with the low incidence of phasic (rhythmic) theta-on cells, suggests that the posterior cingulate cortex does not independently generate type 2 theta.
(3) Preliminary rhythmic somatic stimulation has a predominantly facilitating effect on EPs appearing in response to tonal stimuli in the areas A1, S2, S1.
(4) We conclude that the pacemaker cells are necessary for rhythmic contractile activity and that cells outside this region do not contract spontaneously.
(5) Under best possible conditions of oxygen supply but in a later stage of perfusion, contractility during rhythmical stimulation is depressed more at lower than at higher rates.
(6) These data suggest that SCN plays a significant role in controlling the rhythmic activity of LHA, VMN and the pineal gland.
(7) Some organization schemes concerning locomotor and scratching rhythmicity generators are considered, such as: two half-centres with reciprocal inhibitory connections and tonic excitatory influences on these half-centres: two half-centres with inhibitory-excitatory connections and tonic excitatory influences on one half-centre; ring structures consisting of more than two functional groups of neurons with excitatory and inhibitory connections between them.
(8) It is shown that when a constant current is applied such that a stable equilibrium and rhythmic firing are present, the following predictions are inherent in the HH system of equations: (a) Small instantaneous voltage perturbations to the axon given at points along its firing spike result in phase resetting curves (when new phase versus old phase is plotted) with an average slope of 1.
(9) The relaxation achieved by rhythmic photoacoustic effects with the help of the device pre-supposes the regulation of the patient's respiration.
(10) When initiated, the two rhythmic activities continued with no further external stimulation although the intraoral self-stimulation differed.
(11) The clinical risks of the reperfusion syndrome are low, practically never rhythmic and only exceptionally haemodynamic.
(12) Disruption of the rhythmic activity of the inspiratory neurons and its replacement by a continuous and irregular discharge may lead to sustained contraction of inspiratory muscles and cessation of respiration.
(13) The rhythmic waves induced by these ions were recorded in the olfactory bulb.
(14) Different repercussion of drug therapy on rhythmic profile of patients with CHF.
(15) The spontaneous rhythmic contraction (RC) occurred consistently in the preparation taken from the thoracic aorta without external stimuli.
(16) This difference, however, did not influence the detection of rhythmical ictal activity in cheek and sphenoidal montages in our study, nor the assignment of side, site or time of seizure onset by unbiased readers.
(17) These observations indicate that the central neural mechanisms responsible for the generation and entrainment of circadian rhythmicity in the rat are not capable of either the functional or morphological plasticity characteristic of other developing neural systems.
(18) The same concentration of carbachol, after metabolic depletion by substrate removal, produced rhythmic contractions and action potentials.
(19) Critical features of the model include a non-monotonic relationship between recovery time during rhythmic stimulation and the state of membrane properties, and a steeply sloped recovery of membrane properties over certain ranges of recovery times.
(20) The preparation was spontaneously active under minimal resting tension (less than 150 mg) and at temperatures above 28 degrees C. Slow depolarizations led to a burst of spikes (multi-spike complexes), which corresponded to rhythmic contractions.