(n.) The least quantity assignable, admissible, or possible, in a given case; hence, a thing of small consequence; -- opposed to maximum.
Example Sentences:
(1) Propranolol resulted in a significantly lower mean hourly, mean 24 h and minimum heart rate.
(2) The move would require some secondary legislation; higher fines for employers paying less than the minimum wage would require new primary legislation.
(3) These results suggest that a certain minimum level of expression of c-myc is required for the maintenance of ras transformation in NIH 3T3 cells.
(4) Due to continued disease relapse in this group (four of eight patients), long-term survivors should not be identified for a minimum of 3.5 years from the time of initial therapy.
(5) At concentrations several hundredfold higher than the equivalents present in the minimum concentration of rat skin soluble collagen required for platelet aggregation, neither Hyl-Gal (at 29 muM) nor Hyl-Gal-Glc (at 18 muM) caused platelet aggregation or inhibited platelet aggregation by native collagen.
(6) The morbidity is well known and if properly anticipated can be reduced to a minimum by judicious use of antibacterial agents and early surgical intervention when appropriate.
(7) Analysis was performed on all patients who received any amount of therapy (VSG) and on the Adequately Treated Group (ATG), who had received 5000 or more rads radiotherapy, two or more courses of chemotherapy, and had a minimum survival of 8 or more weeks (the interval that would have been required to have received either the radiotherapy or chemotherapy).
(8) However, the effect of prior jaw motion and the effect of the recording site on the EMG amplitudes and on the vertical dimension of minimum EMG activity have not been documented.
(9) Leaders of Tory local government are preparing radical proposals for minimum 10% cuts in public spending in the search for savings.
(10) It was shown that the levels of ATP and ADP in the mycelium depended on the carbon source: the maximum and minimum ATP concentrations were found on the glucose and acetate media respectively, the maximum and minimum ADP concentrations showed inverse dependence.
(11) On the tangential views the inclinations of the future implants were estimated and the part of the alveolar ridge having a width less than 5 mm, which is the minimum width for housing an implant, was compiled.
(12) The activity was maximum at the 16-32-cell stage and then decreased to a minimum at the mesenchyme blastula stage.
(13) Minimum investment is £200, and the share prospectus states that interest of 6% will be paid from year three of trading.
(14) The 30-fold chromosomally mediated and 15-fold R-plasmid NT resistance were 3- and 5-fold respectively reduced by a minimum inhibitory combination of Tp + NT.
(15) Minimum inhibitory concentrations for these four antibiotics have been determined against 393 bacterial strains (13 species from eight genera) isolated from clinical materialKanamycin was the least active, 89% of the Pseudomonas aeruginosa strains being resistant.
(16) The number of seats has been reduced from 72,000 to 68,000, with another 12,000 to be added after the Games to meet the 80,000 minimum required in case Japan launches a bid to host the football World Cup.
(17) A minimum of 4 sheeps' heads, obtained weekly over 24 months from the Pretoria Municipal Abattoir, was examined for infestation.
(18) Variations in bioavailability and intestinal absorption are important factors in the determination of dosage and should be reduced to a minimum by improved pharmaceutical formulations.
(19) With a minimum review period of 6 months complete remission of synovitis was obtained in 20%, while 63% gained symptomatic relief, with some reduction of synovitis.
(20) The minimum contraction produced by the threshold current involved usually three or four, sometimes two, sarcomers on both sides of the injecting pipette but contraction involving only one sarcomere was not observered.
Minimus
Definition:
(n.) A being of the smallest size.
(n.) The little finger; the fifth digit, or that corresponding to it, in either the manus or pes.
Example Sentences:
(1) During operation the insertion of the gluteal minimus muscle to the trochanter was carefully detached in a way that only the fibres of the gluteus medius remained on the bone.
(2) In the pelvic region three major compartments (gluteus medius-minimus compartment, gluteus maximus compartment, and iliopsoas compartment) can be distinguished from the smaller compartment of the tensor fasciae latae muscle.
(3) In experimentally infected Tamias striatus and E. minimus, Trypanosoma tamiasi reproduced by equal binary fission in the trypo-, sphaero-, epi-, or amastigote form, mainly in lymphoid organs.
(4) minimus is a species complex evident by IK value were less than 0.0534 and 0.4163 for the morphotaxonomy and isozyme studies.
(5) It is widely distributed in all provinces where minimus breeds.
(6) In 21.1% the gluteus medius inserts autonomously and with 13.5% the gluteus minimus inserts independently.
(7) Using anatomic specimens from 58 fixed femurs, we analyzed the point of insertion and junctional variations of the gluteus medius, minimus and vastus lateralis over the greater trochanter.
(8) The contact of A. minimus with man was much higher outdoors than indoors, and studies showed the species to be an early biter, especially in the dry season, thus increasing the chance of man-vector contact.
(9) Hybridization experiments were conducted by forced mating between Anopheles minimus from Guangxi (G) and Yunnan (Y).
(10) The proportion of patients infective for these mosquitoes was not affected by the administration of chloroquine, however, an elevation was observed in the median values for the numbers of oocysts on the guts of the A. balabacensis, but not the A. minimus, fed on infective patients after initiation of treatment.
(11) According to this model the reduced activity of the gluteus maximus, medius, minimus and quadriceps femoris muscles, which normally cause a decrease of valgus and anteversion, results in an increased subluxating coxa valga antetorta with a consecutive dislocation.
(12) Therefore myoplasty involving musculus gluteus minimus, musculus gluteus medius, musculus rectus femoris and musculus vastus externus, with regard to the size and the localization of the cavity is reliable means of preventing hematoma in case of cavity formation near the neck of the endoprosthesis after the implantation of an artificial hip joint.
(13) The population genetic studies on the Anopheles minimus complex revealed that An.
(14) In order to elucidate the nerve supply of a supernumerary muscle observed between the adductors brevis and minimus in humans and to investigate its true nature and mechanism of formation, 100 body halves from 50 adult Japanese cadavers were subjected to gross anatomical examination.
(15) minimus collected from Kanchanaburi, 3 were positive by IRMA, 2 for P. falciparum and one P. vivax with sporozoites found in head-thorax portion were 1880, 2380 and 1026 respectively.
(16) Gluteus minimus functions as a primary hip stabiliser during the mid- and late phase of the gait cycle.
(17) The authors have made electromyographic examination of m. tensor fasciae latae and m. glutaeus medius and sometimes also minimus in patients after the implantation of total endoprosthesis of the hip joint by anterolateral Watson - Jones approach and transgluteal Bauer approach with the aim to find out if there occurs the anticipated transection of n. glutaeus usp.
(18) We have imitated the gluteus medius and minimus muscles on the pelvis with cables and pulleys.
(19) n. is described from blood and organs of the eastern chipmunk, Tamias striatus, and the least chipmunk, Eutamias minimus.
(20) minimus species C, with 2 pale spots on the humeral dark band and Est-2 allele 98.