(n.) The time from dusk to dawn; -- opposed to daytime.
Example Sentences:
(1) AEDs may also have differential effects on nighttime sleep.
(2) These injections had no effect on either the nighttime increase or the lights on inhibition of SNAT.
(3) Activity index showed a marked decrease after 80 hours of sleep deprivation compared with that after 40 hours and was dramatically worsened during nighttime.
(4) The association between target organ damage and systolic BP SD was present both in men and women, while that with nighttime BP was present only in men.
(5) The pH of their gastric contents was measured at hourly daytime and two hourly nighttime intervals for 48 hours.
(6) In order to investigate the possible alterations of electrical activity of aged rat pineal glands, electrophysiological recordings in 3- and 18-month-old male Sprague-Dawley rats were undertaken at both daytime and nighttime.
(7) Thirty patients with endoscopy-proved symptomatic duodenal ulcer disease completed a randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial of nighttime anisotropine methyl bromide therapy.
(8) In addition, we suggest the possibility that errors of judgment based on the nonveridical perception of motion displaced in time may play a role in nighttime automobile and aircraft accidents.
(9) The higher acid inhibitory effect of the twice daily dose regimens than of the single ones was evident during the daytime, whereas no difference between them was found during the nighttime (from 2200 to 0800 h).
(10) Sixty-eight percent of the unhealed patients were successfully healed; of these patients, 81% were free of daytime pain and 89% were free of nighttime pain.
(11) A homeless person is someone "who lacks a fixed, regular, and adequate nighttime residence" and whose main nighttime residence is a "supervised public or private shelter designed to provide temporary living accommodations; an institution that provides a temporary residence for individuals intended to be institutionalized; or a public or private place not designed for, or ordinarily used as, a regular sleeping accommodation for human beings."
(12) Since this effect might be mediated by exercise-induced cortisol secretion from the adrenal gland, in the present investigation we studied the relationship between cortisol and melatonin responses to nighttime physical stress in six healthy men, aged 28-33 yr.
(13) The present study indicates that the nighttime peak of N-acetyltransferase activity developed by organ-cultured chick pineal glands is inhibited by adrenergic agonists with a potency order characterizing alpha 2-adrenergic receptors: UK 14,304 greater than clonidine greater than alpha-methylnorepinephrine = epinephrine greater than cirazoline greater than phenylephrine greater than isoproterenol.
(14) One hundred fifty-six adult women were randomly assigned to receive either patient-controlled analgesia (PCA) alone or PCA supplemented with a nighttime infusion of morphine 1.0 mg.h-1.
(15) The pineal hormone melatonin (MLT) is secreted in a circadian rhythm with high serum levels during nighttime and low serum levels during daytime.
(16) Monocular drives were poorer than binocular drivers only in sign reading distance in both daytime and nighttime driving.
(17) These results demonstrate that forced nighttime swimming, unlike several other aversive stimuli, can evoke changes in the normal pattern of pineal melatonin production in this species.
(18) Finally, within the alcohol group, alcohol history was found to significantly correlate with nighttime mean and minimum SaO2 and absolute SaO2 desaturation.
(19) The urinary excretion of endogenous creatinine remained constant during both daytime and nighttime at both 1 and 31 ATA.
(20) Physicians have treated PCOD with clomiphene citrate or nighttime small doses of corticosteroids for 20-30 years.
Sunrise
Definition:
(n.) Alt. of Sunrising
Example Sentences:
(1) The investigators said the Greenpeace ship the Arctic Sunrise had violated the 500-metre security zone around the platform and that it was carrying equipment whose purpose was still unclear.
(2) darlingi from Costa Marques had a bimodal biting activity profile with a major peak at sunset and a minor peak at sunrise.
(3) This technique permits the preparation of ceramic jacket crowns made on Sunrise laminated precious metal alloy.
(4) As the heat of a desert sunrise bears down on the breeze-block walls of the Visión En Acción asylum, casualties and refugees from the most dangerous city in the world begin another day.
(5) Radiography included posteroanterior weight-bearing, true lateral, and sunrise patellar projections.
(6) The Leininger Sunrise Model can serve as a valuable guide to discover care meanings and practices related to the theory, and to provide practical and meaningful culture specific care decisions and actions by nurses.
(7) That same year, he married his partner, the French actress Sunrise Coigney, reportedly after she turned down his proposal once before.
(8) Russian investigators have raised the stakes in their battle with Greenpeace , claiming drugs have been found aboard the organisation's ship, the Arctic Sunrise.
(9) Oxford University accused of 'distasteful joke' over oligarch's £75m donation Read more The spy case and the attack on Sunrise involved the participation of Russian officials who are listed as gross human rights violators by the US Treasury in line with the Sergei Magnitsky Rule of Law Accountability Act of 2012.
(10) The maximum response observed at sunrise occurred when the concentration of calcium in the plasma of control frogs was decreasing; the minimum response, which occurred 6 h after sunrise, was coincident with a diurnal peak in the concentration of calcium.
(11) The maximum frequency is observed during the dark phase, the peak values occurring just after sunset and before sunrise.
(12) The activity of the slide at noon was 65% of the maximum activity (83 A) observed before sunrise.
(13) More than 20,000 people were at the ancient monument to greet the sunrise at 4.52am at the start of the longest day of the year.
(14) Columns of fighters carrying rifles, trucks laden with rockets and men in white wearing mock suicide vests were on the move through the former slum-turned-battlefield soon after sunrise in a futile attempt to beat the blazing midsummer heat.
(15) This begins shortly after sunrise at a temperature of 22 degrees C and a relative humidity of 100%.
(16) "The majority of people play by the rules, they work from sunrise to sunset and pay their taxes as much as they can.
(17) Twelve hour collections from sunset to sunrise showed that An.
(18) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Yoga at Amouage It offers a yoga and surf package including two sessions of yoga a day (at sunrise and sunset), group surf lessons each morning, and afternoons at the beach.
(19) In a single experiment, lasting for 18 months, male and female quail were exposed to an annual cycle of artificial photoperiod synchronized with sunrise and sunset, and their plasma levels of immunoreactive retinol-binding protein (IRBP) and LH were monitored at frequent intervals.
(20) The all-inclusive programme is good value, because it includes riding, sunrise yoga, all meals (including four-course dinners) and an open bar.