(n.) One of the twelve portions into which the year is divided; the twelfth part of a year, corresponding nearly to the length of a synodic revolution of the moon, -- whence the name. In popular use, a period of four weeks is often called a month.
Example Sentences:
(1) Forty-nine patients (with 83 eyes showing signs of the disease) were followed up for between six months and 12 years.
(2) A spindle cell sarcoma appeared 20 months after implantation of a pellet of 3-methylcholanthrene in the denervated foreleg of an adult frog, Rana pipiens.
(3) A 2.5-month-old child with cyanotic heart disease who required long-term PGE1 infusions; developed widespread periosteal reactions during the course of therapy.
(4) Since fingernail creatinine (Ncr) reflects serum creatinine (Scr) at the time of nail formation, it has been suggested that Ncr level might represent that of Scr around 4 months previously.
(5) The rash presented either as a pityriasis rosea-like picture which appeared about three to six months after the onset of treatment in patients taking low doses, or alternatively, as lichenoid plaques which appeared three to six months after commencement of medication in patients taking high doses.
(6) More than 2 months after the combined treatment were required for the suppression.
(7) After 3 and 6 months, blood collected by cardiocentesis using ether anesthesia and then sacrificed to remove CNS and internal organs.
(8) In early 2000, during the first months of Vladimir Putin’s presidency, Babitsky was kidnapped by Russian forces and disappeared for many weeks.
(9) King also described how representatives of every country at this month's G7 meeting in Canada seemed to be relying on an export-led recovery to revive their economies.
(10) This time is approximately six months for the neuroleptics given orally, one month for antidepressants, and five and a half half-lives for benzodiazepines.
(11) In all cases the polyarthritis is cured by anti-inflammatory treatment in 1-6 months.
(12) In the group of high myopia (over 20 D), the mean correction was 13.4 D. In the group with refraction between 0 and 6 D, 88% of the eyes treated had attained a correction between -1 and +1 D 3 months postoperatively.
(13) Nine months later, the animals were sacrificed, the esophagus and the gastric stump were removed for histologic examination.
(14) Medication remained effective during the average observation time of 22 months.
(15) The dramas are part of the BBC2 controller Janice Hadlow's plans for her "unashamedly intelligent" channel over the coming months.
(16) Since the start of this week, markets have been more cautious, with bond yields in Spain reaching their highest levels in four months on Tuesday amid concern about the scale of the austerity measures being imposed by the government and fears that the country might need a bailout.
(17) Sixty-six patients were followed for 12 months in an open safety study.
(18) Since 1979, patients started on long-term lithium treatment at the Psychiatric Hospital in Risskov have been followed systematically with recording of clinical and laboratory variables before the start of treatment, after 6 and 12 months of treatment, and thereafter at yearly intervals.
(19) The 36-year-old teacher at an inner-city London primary school earns £40,000 a year and contributes £216 a month to her pension.
(20) Development at two to 15 months of age in the 19 surviving infants was normal in nine, suspect in eight, and severely delayed in two patients.
Muharram
Definition:
(n.) The first month of the Mohammedan year.
(n.) A festival of the Shiah sect of the Mohammedans held during the first ten days of the month Mohurrum.
Example Sentences:
(1) It was the mourning month of Muharram, when the Alevis fast in memory of the martyred Imam Hussein, grandson of the prophet Muhammad, whom the Alevis and orthodox Shia revere.
(2) They were preparing to hold the annual Muharram mourning procession when the three [bombs] were exploded outside the Hossaini Dalan,” deputy commissioner of Dhaka police Mofiz Uddin Ahmed said.
(3) Ashura marks the climax of the holy month of Muharram when Shia Muslims hold processions and gatherings to mourn the martyrdom of the prophet Muhammad’s grandson Imam Hussain at the Battle of Karbala in Iraq in 680 AD.