(n.) One of the larger measures of electro-motive force, amounting to one million volts.
Example Sentences:
(1) The sensitivity of storage phosphor imaging plates (SPIP) at megavolt photon energies (60Co, 6-, 10-, and 18-MV radiotherapy beams) is studied both experimentally and by Monte Carlo radiation transport calculations.
(2) Survey of the therapeutic problems of malignant tumors of the thyroid with emphasis on technical considerations in percutaneous megavolt therapy.
(3) For teletherapy, megavolt radiotherapeutical devices are mainly used.
(4) Univ.-Klinik Tübingen showed, that local relapse of breast cancer did not increase after a conservative surgery due to different stages of carcinoma if: 1. the safety distance to the tumor was sufficient, 2. postoperative irradiation had been applied in megavolt technique.
(5) The results obtained in stereotactic treatment of brain tumours are deemed satisfactory, as the method enables a cause-oriented treatment in cases hitherto inoperable because of localisation and resistant to megavolt radiotherapy because of radiobiological characteristics of the given neoplasm.
(6) The indications for combined hyperthermy megavolt treatment is hypoxic malignant tumors of low radiation sensitivity, especially in superficial and shallow tissue regions.
(7) 56 patients with Hodgkin's disease treated with large field megavolt irradiation are presented.
(8) Tumors were irradiated with protons produced at the 160 megavolts Harvard cyclotron.
(9) A comparative study in non-selected patients of our hospital showed that local relapse of the breast cancer did not depend on surgical technique, if the tumour was removed with a sufficient safety distance and postoperative megavolt radiation was performed.
(10) Current treatment techniques employ 10 megavolt photon beam with whole pelvic nodal fields and bilateral arc rotational boost fields.
(11) An inflammatory reaction around the electrolytic lesion with increased blood flow and higher oxygenation of the tumor could cause a more positive response to megavolt treatment.
(12) The 5-year survival rate is 17,6% in progressive cases with tumour invasion in the urinary bladder, from has to derived, that by application of megavolt therapy this group of patients is an indication for radiation therapy under curative terms.
(13) Radiotherapy of bone tumors can now be performed exclusively by megavolt therapy.
(14) From an analysis of a series of megavolt films taken every third radiotherapy session, it was concluded that treatment-to-treatment variations are as large as the errors due to the transition from simulation to treatment situation.
(15) 45 cases of carcinoma of the stomach were treated with megavolt irradiation in the Radiotherapy Clinic of Turku University Central Hospital and in the Radiotherapy Department of the Central Hospital in Jyvâskylâ.
(16) The distribution of patients was as follows: group 1--complex gamma-therapy (55 cases), group 2--complex gamma-therapy plus iliac lymphadenectomy (50 cases) and group 3--complex radiation treatment with megavolt bremsstrahlung beam from the luć type installation and iliac lymphadenectomy (50 cases).
(17) The method of choice, however, is the megavolt-therapy.
(18) An animal experimental study on solid Walker-tumors was undertaken to determine the therapeutic effects utilizing hyperthermy in the form of combined decimeter wave megavolt treatment.
(19) Low megavolt electron beam irradiation was used on 354 sites in 199 patients at the Lahey Clinic either for palliation of symptomatic hypertrophic scars or as post-operative irradiation in an attempt to prevent formation or recurrence of hypertrophic scars.
(20) Radiotherapy with the megavolt technique is necessary in any case.
Volt
Definition:
(n.) A circular tread; a gait by which a horse going sideways round a center makes two concentric tracks.
(n.) A sudden movement to avoid a thrust.
(n.) The unit of electro-motive force; -- defined by the International Electrical Congress in 1893 and by United States Statute as, that electro-motive force which steadily applied to a conductor whose resistance is one ohm will produce a current of one ampere. It is practically equivalent to / the electro-motive force of a standard Clark's cell at a temperature of 15¡ C.
Example Sentences:
(1) A case of unilateral anterior dislocation of the shoulder after a shock of 380 volts is presented here.
(2) High voltage stimuli were always effective, while when the pulse amplitude was reduced to 3.8 volt stimuli were uneffective except when occurring after extremely long asystolic pauses.
(3) Proper provision of ground-fault circuit interrupter protection, particularly at temporary work sites, could have prevented most of the deaths from 110-volt AC.
(4) The board samples as many as eight channels, giving 12-bit resolution for signals between plus and minus 2.5 volts.
(5) No grounds for the commission’s volte-face have yet been published, but the Guardian has seen a draft of the EU decision from last October, suggesting that one key decider had been that Hinkley advanced an EU ‘common interest’ around security of supply.
(6) Add to that a dangerous nuclear deal with Iran (as Republicans and Israel’s government see it) and the apparent impotence in the face of Islamic State and the Afghanistan volte-face looks, to political foes at least , like clinching proof of serial failure by the commander-in-chief.
(7) The Volt, which will start production late next year, could be capable of travelling up to 40 miles (64km) on a single charge before its small petrol engine kicks in to power the car and recharge the battery.
(8) Electrical stimulation of the vagal trunk with 10 Hz in frequency, 3 ms in duration and 15 volt in intensity for 10 s in cats produced an excitatory response of the stomach and the response was composed of two phases, an initial rapid excitation during stimulation period and the late multi-peak response after stimulation period.
(9) The purpose of this study was to compare the effectiveness of both high volt galvanic current (HVG) and isometric exercise to strengthen the quadriceps femoris muscles in 17 healthy subjects.
(10) Stun gun torch Facebook Twitter Pinterest The Zap Light sends one million volts between six metal prongs at the front of its torch.
(11) So, should you incur a public-spirited 50,000-volt warning shot – perhaps for brandishing your pension book in an aggressive manner or because a young PC has mistaken your tartan shopping trolley for a piece of field artillery – don't accidentally shout "Oh fuck!"
(12) Two platinum or stainless steel electrodes were placed in the tumor and around 10 volts of direct current was passed for 1 hour.
(13) Operation is controlled by a microprocessor which regulates and controls the addition of reagents and collects and displays the data as time, temperature in volts, and the pH.
(14) Stimulation was performed using a baby Medtronic stimulator coupled to a Vygon amplifier delivering an output of 30 volt.
(15) The volte face was a result of Russian blackmail, the Lithuanian president's office said as senior officials in Brussels said Yanukovych was sacrificing the hopes and wishes of most of his countrymen on the altar of Russian money and contracts.
(16) The maximal intensity which is easily recorded, e.g., by a tracking volt-meter, is proportional to the concentration of the reduced nucleotide.
(17) 3) He thinks the Nissan Leaf and GM Volt are "not great products" What Nissan’s doing with the Leaf is sincere.
(18) The move comes in advance of the release this year of the Nissan Leaf and Chevy Volt, which promise to deliver driving distances of 40 miles or more on a single battery charge and are being marketed to middle-class families.
(19) Before this we’d won nothing for years.” The government’s volte-face means that tens of thousands of the very poorest households on the brink of catastrophe – victims of domestic violence or flooding, homelessness, or those made penniless by sudden financial crises – will in theory still be able to turn to the state, rather than the loan shark, for “last resort” help.
(20) A convenient method of interstitial radiation therapy can be quickly and easily accomplished using absorbable Vicryl-125I sutures which offer these general advantages: long shelf life, 60 day half-life; low energy, 28 kilo electron volts, permitting patients to leave the hospital; good geometric and anatomic distribution of 125I seeds which remain in place after implantation; less radiation exposure to the operating and attending personnel due to this low energy plus the reduced exposure time provided by quick implantation; removal unnecessary, reducing exposure time; implantation using minor surgical equipment; dosage determination easily calculated; hospitalization, from the standpoint of radioactivity, unnecessary.