(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.
Sept
Definition:
(n.) A clan, tribe, or family, proceeding from a common progenitor; -- used especially of the ancient clans in Ireland.
Example Sentences:
(1) injected at 13.45 h. Transection which interrupted the connection of septum (SEPT), diagonal band of Broca (DBB) and bed nucleus of stria terminalis (BST) with the preoptic-suprachiasmatic area interfered with ovulation and surge of release of all 3 hormones.
(2) "We opened a collective consultation process in addition to a cross company VR [voluntary redundancy] scheme... which ended on 25th Sept.
(3) Between Sept. 1, 1981, and Jan. 31, 1984, 74 eyes (70 patients) were fitted with gas-permeable Polycon contact lenses and monitored for at least six months (range, six to 33 months; mean, 14 months).
(4) Of these, 91.7% reported excellent or good results based on the postoperative assessment scale by Nirschl (JBJS Vol 61-A No 6, Sept 1979).
(5) This study analyzes the survival experience of patients whose initial treatment in a VA hospital for trauma to the spinal cord occurred between Oct 1, 1955, and Sept 30, 1965.
(6) On the morning of Sept 14, 1989, Joseph T. Wesbecker, an emotionally disturbed employee on long-term disability leave from the Standard Gravure Company in Louisville, KY entered the plant in downtown Louisville and killed eight coworkers and injured 12 others with a semiautomatic "assault" rifle before taking his own life with a pistol.
(7) It was 10 minutes before 1 a.m. on Saturday, Sept. 21, 1996, and there were no cameras, no ceremony.
(8) The SEPT seizure development was almost identical to the hippocampal seizure development.
(9) According to data from the FBI, Muslims are now five times more likely to be victims of a hate crime than they were before the attacks on Sept. 11.
(10) Clinic : the most frequent cause of death, during the phases of sept icemia, is cardiac failure.
(11) From Sept. 1989 to April 1990 24 children with anomalies of the urinary tract have been examined each by RARE MR urography and one T1-weighted spin-echo sequence.
(12) It started with the death of an 18-year-old forest worker Sept. 5, spread over a vast area of the North Shore and lasted until the end of October that year.
(13) Fox News reported on the interview on Sept. 20 : Romney was pressed three times on Obama's new policy of so-called "deferred action," which suspends deportation for undocumented immigrants under 31 years old who were brought as minors, have no criminal record, and meet other criteria.
(14) MPO units showed facilitatory responses to stimulation in the MRF, HB and 1-SEPT, and inhibitory responses to stimulation in the MD, HPC, m-SEPT and 1-AMYG in ovariectomized estrogen-primed rats.
(15) The authors discuss briefly the main lesions produced during intensive therapy in 500 patients who died under treatment in the Intensive Care Unit of Padova during the period Dec. 13, 1971--Sept. 9, 1974.
(16) A follow-up survey of survivals (Oct. 1 '80 to May 1, '84) in a randomized controlled study (Aug. '79 to Sept. 30' 80) of lentinan in combination administration with chemotherapeutic agents such as 5FU + mitomycin C or tegafur on patients with advanced or recurrent gastrointestinal cancer has shown that lentinan has been effective in such cases with regard to the following facts: 1) A life span prolongation effect at the end-point has been observed with statistical significance in lentinan treated patients as was found in the phase III study.
(17) Part 1 of this roundtable discussion [Geriatrics 1992; 47(Sept):34-48] examined the flaws in our current healthcare system and factors that are interfering with our nation's ability to achieve reforms.
(18) Children under 15 with tuberculosis, who were diagnosed between Oct 1, 1989 and Sept 30, 1990 and were resident in Barcelona.
(19) These patients represented all patients evaluated by the consulting team at six nursing homes over a 2-year period (Sept. 1, 1984, through Aug. 30, 1986).
(20) Colostomy alone was performed in 18 (37%), multi-stage colectomy in 20 (41%, Group A) and one-stage subtotal colectomy in 11 (22%, Group B, all of them after 1979), the years under scrutiny being from 1973 through Sept. 1990.