(n.) A small instrument of steel, sharply pointed at one end, with an eye to receive a thread, -- used in sewing.
(n.) See Magnetic needle, under Magnetic.
(n.) A slender rod or wire used in knitting; a knitting needle; also, a hooked instrument which carries the thread or twine, and by means of which knots or loops are formed in the process of netting, knitting, or crocheting.
(n.) One of the needle-shaped secondary leaves of pine trees. See Pinus.
(n.) Any slender, pointed object, like a needle, as a pointed crystal, a sharp pinnacle of rock, an obelisk, etc.
(v. t.) To form in the shape of a needle; as, to needle crystals.
(v. i.) To form needles; to crystallize in the form of needles.
Example Sentences:
(1) Needle acupuncture did, however, increase the pain threshold compared with the initial value (alpha = 0.1%).
(2) The fine needle aspiration cytology features of twelve peripherally located bronchioloalveolar cell carcinomas of the lung diagnosed by fine needle aspiration biopsy are described.
(3) Needle insertion close to the midline is the safest technique.
(4) The intra cellular free amino acid concentrations of skeletal muscle were determined in tissue specimens obtained before operation and on the third postoperative day using a percutaneous needle biopsy technique.
(5) The results showed the kind of needling sensation while acupuncture had close relation with the appearance of PSM and the acupuncture effect.
(6) Use 3-ml Luer-Lok syringes and 30-gauge needles and thread the needle carefully into the vessel while using slow and steady injection with light pressure.
(7) US guidance facilitated placement of a 22-gauge needle by means of a subxyphoid or transthoracic approach.
(8) These findings in a patient with acute leukaemia are strongly suspicious of fungal infection, and percutaneous fine-needle aspiration under ultrasound or computed tomography-guidance is indicated.
(9) Nuclear DNA distribution in fine-needle specimens from 112 breast carcinomas and 45 prostatic tumours was studied.
(10) Recent reports have indicated the usefulness of nuclear grooves (clefts or notches) as an additional criterion for the diagnosis of papillary thyroid carcinoma in fine needle aspirates; most of these studies were carried out on alcohol-fixed material stained with the Papanicolaou stain or with hematoxylin and eosin, which yield good nuclear details.
(11) The retreating rate constants deduced from the dissolution results were well coincident with the values directly determined by the needle penetration method, suggesting good applicability of the proposed equation.
(12) One to 6 needles were used on each occasion in a maximum of 3 treatments.
(13) Using a special electromyographic hypodermic needle, we injected botulinum A toxin into one of the vocal folds of two patients with severe spasmodic dysphonia.
(14) One hundred thirty-two of 397 consecutive percutaneous fine needle aspirations done at the University of Virginia between January, 1979, and December, 1984, for pulmonary lesions showed no evidence of cancer on cytological examination.
(15) The method can be successfully applied to richly cellular needle aspirates.
(16) During the surgery for the purpose of removal of the tumor, needle type-O2 sensors were inserted into femoral artery and in brain tumor to measure PaO2 and intratumoral O2 pressure.
(17) Consequently the puncture site becomes small (a balloon-catheter may be introduced through a 16 G catheter needle) allowing punctures proximal to lesions (e.g.
(18) The results of 1245 amniocenteses performed by the "free hand needle" technique and ultrasonic control are discussed.
(19) Various methods have so far been used to treat pneumothorax, including rest, needle exsufflation and blind drainage.
(20) This article demonstrates the importance of the use of immunocytochemical methods on fine-needle aspirates to diagnose metastases to the breast.
Neele
Definition:
(n.) A needle.
Example Sentences:
(1) Complex segregation analysis supports the polygenic hypothesis of Hauge and Harvald and Neel et al, according to which hyperuricemia ascertained through gout is rarely due to a major gene, evidence for which is not significant in two studies that were considered to favor a major locus.
(2) The pathogenesis of Bing Neel's syndrome is discussed.
(3) Taking as a starting point the American painter Alice Neel’s prophetic 1936 painting, Nazis Murder Jews , which depicts a Communist party torchlight parade through the streets of New York City, it collects new and recent pieces that address in different ways our own disorienting political moment.
(4) Applying this method to Neel's data from American Indians in South America and to Nozawa's data from Japanese macaques, the mutation rate for electrophoretically detectable alleles is estimated to be (2 approximately 3) x 10(-6) per locus per generation.
(5) A case is described of a 73 year old male with Waldenström's macroglobulinaemia and hyperviscosity in association with neurological abnormalities, the Bing-Neel syndrome.
(6) The modified Lynch operation (Neel-Lake) differs in several ways from the operation described by Lynch.
(7) There have been a few raised eyebrows at the exclusion of some high-profile names, notably the brilliant Donna Tartt and the likes of Martin Amis, but it's even more jarring that of the 13, there are barely any writers of colour – in fact only Indian British author Neel Mukherjee makes the cut with his novel, The Lives of Others .
(8) The favourites had been the three British novelists, Howard Jacobson, Ali Smith and Neel Mukherjee, while the two Americans – Joshua Ferris and Karen Joy Fowler – were not given too much of a chance by pundits.
(9) The reasons for discrepancy between our data and the recent results of Neel and Mohrenweiser (1984) are discussed.
(10) The mean mutation rate for the total Aboriginal sample of 7.25 X 10(-6) is very similar to the value obtained by Neel and his colleagues for Amerindians in South America.
(11) On the basis of these data, Neel and colleagues have estimated that the gametic DD for genetic effects of radiation in man is at least about 4-5 times the 1 Gy value thus far used.
(12) cc: @NYGovCuomo @JerryBrownGov June 3, 2014 Brown’s newly-minted Republican opponent Neel Kashkari remained silent, but that also could be because he was busy winning a primary on Tuesday.
(13) A rare cause of polyneuropathy, first described in 1936, is the Bing-Neel syndrome.
(14) As pointed by Neel, "diabetes mellitus is in many respects a geneticists nightmare".
(15) As Neel Burton, author of The Meaning of Madness, put it, this is “the healthy suspicion that modern life has no meaning and that modern society is absurd and alienating”.
(16) The author emphasizes that the differentiation between unipolar and bipolar affective psychoses is based on the team work of Kleist, Edda Neele and Leonhard.
(17) Three cases of central nervous system involvement in Waldenström's macroglobulinemia (Bing Neel's syndrome) are reported.
(18) Americans Siri Hustvedt and Richard Powers write beautifully about art and music respectively; Richard Flanagan and Neel Mukherjee have produced brilliant historical novels about Australian soldiers in the second world war and Indian politics in the 60s.
(19) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Nazis Murder Jews, 1936, by Alice Neel.
(20) Nyong’o was joined by Ben Kingsley, newcomer Neel Sethi and director Jon Favreau for the upcoming CGI and live-action retelling of The Jungle Book.