(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.
Proximo
Definition:
() In the next month after the present; -- often contracted to prox.; as, on the 3d proximo.
Example Sentences:
(1) Only the proximo-distal axis of the limb is considered.
(2) Differentiation of cartilage is correlated with a marked drop in mitotic rate, accounting for a proximo-distal gradient of mitosis in central counts which was not observed at the limb periphery.
(3) The intermuscular coordination pattern in the sprint can be seen as a compromise between the specific requirement of the sprint and the advantageous effect of a proximo to distal sequence as found previously for jumping.
(4) For explaining the Manduca wing gradient (Nardi & Kafatos, 1976) a model which postulates a proximo-distal gradient in cellular adhesiveness is considered.
(5) Neurite regeneration following axotomy in sensory neurons was partially inhibited distal to a proximo-distal increase in [K+]o.
(6) The margins of the axial box as well as of the proximo-cervical curvature were significantly better finished with the EVA-System and the highly flexible file compared to the axial margin trimmer (p < 0.001).
(7) To study this approach, the architectural properties and the fiber type distributions at three levels and two regions along the proximo-distal axis of the soleus, medial gastrocnemius and tibialis anterior of adult rhesus monkeys were determined.
(8) However, both of these proteins are down-regulated according to a proximo-distal gradient with respect to the distance from the heart.
(9) All fibers of a fast unit within a fascicle were located at approximately the same proximo-distal location.
(10) There was no proximo-distal gradient for the wave of Schwann cell proliferation.
(11) The development of proximo-distal gradient began at the age of 7 days and finished at the end of the first month.
(12) The theory, here formulated mathematically, states that the parts of the limb are specified in proximo-distal succession by an autonomous timing mechanism operating in a 'progress zone' of undifferentiated growing mesenchyme under the influence of the apical ectodermal ridge.
(13) They stress the proximal pole type I et II of the Schernberg (type C of Herbert) classification, and they suggest isolation of an anatomical entity, by the study of blood vessels, the ligament connections, and especially the pathomechanics as well as a clinical entity, by the mechanism of fracture and the surgical treatment, emphasizing the proximo-distal screwing, with excellent results.
(14) In 12 h crushed nerves the accumulation of enzyme activity proximal to the crush was markedly reduced in the nicotine-treated group, indicating a reduction in amount of proximo-distally transported enzyme activity.
(15) Examination of teased, proximo-distally oriented, myelinated nerve fibers revealed no difference between the distal and the proximal stump.
(16) The data concerning the proximo-distal gradient of distribution of the activity of lysosomal proteinases have been supported.
(17) It is concluded that adrenaline and noradrenaline, stored in granules, are transported in a proximo-distal direction at a high rate compared to PNMT.
(18) The results indicate that mitotic inhibitors, when applied locally to cholinergic motor neurons, may block the proximo-distal transport of ACh.
(19) It proceeds in proximo-distal and postero-anterior sequence.
(20) Surface potentials previously measured in vivo have been approximately evaluated in vitro by means of an experimental device allowing a simultaneous record of transepithelial potential differences in 2 areas of the same skin piece cut out along the proximo-distal direction of the anterior limb of Pleurodeles waltlii.