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Nim


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To take; to steal; to filch.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Ver or Nim iv induced significant reduction of MAP and CVR.
  • (2) Overall, the NIM group showed a significantly better local-regional control rate than the placebo group (46% vs 32%).
  • (3) A multiple growth factor-producing tumor cell line (NIM-1) was newly established from a patient with thyroid cancer and remarkable neutrophilia.
  • (4) The National Infant Mortality Surveillance (NIMS) project aggregated data provided by 53 vital statistics reporting areas--50 States, New York City, the District of Columbia, and Puerto Rico (subsequently called States)--from their files of linked birth and death certificates and compared individual States' total infant mortality experiences for the 1980 birth cohort by age at death, race, birth weight, and plurality.
  • (5) A detailed mappage of vascular and neuronal NIM binding sites was allowed by silver-intensification of the NIM-gold complex bound to the nervous tissue.
  • (6) Interestingly, the principle larval antigenic components recognized by pigs were those recognized by the monoclonal anti-sera NIM-M1.
  • (7) A high-field 1H NMR investigation of Glp-His-cHyp-OH and its diastereomer Glp-His-Hyp-OH, obtained by Nim-detritylation of the key tripeptide, showed that the configuration at C-4 of the prolyl residues is critical for the determination of the preferred three-dimensional structure of the molecules.
  • (8) Two of these appear to correspond to the NIm-IA and NIm-II sites described for HRV-type 14, although there are also substantial differences.
  • (9) Nim, likewise, features old footage of a real chimp, spliced with that of a furred-up actor employed to re-enact crucial scenes not recorded at the time.
  • (10) The effect of NIM and CTX alone or in combination without radiation was assessed by tumor growth delay measured by tumor growth time (TGT).
  • (11) That conclusion, however, was invalidated by videotape analyses, which showed that most of Nim's utterances were prompted by his teacher's prior utterance, and that Nim interrupted his teachers to a much larger extent than a child interrupts an adult's speech.
  • (12) However, applying NIM 30 min before radiation and CTX 3.5 hrs after radiation, the ER increased to 1.6.
  • (13) By comparing its sequence with that of the nonamyloid kappa II Nim, a different distribution of some polar and apolar amino acid residues through the molecule is evidenced.
  • (14) MABP was slightly reduced, by 8 mmHg (7-9), and 9 mmHg (4-11) after infusion of NIM for 2 and 4 hours, respectively.
  • (15) Initial alignment of HRV2 with HRV14 based on the primary sequence and the knowledge of the three-dimensional structure of HRV14 showed that the most probable position of the majority of insertions and deletions occurred in the vicinity of the neutralizing immunogenic sites (NIm).
  • (16) The facilitative effect was equal in four cases: (i) making no response (NR), (ii) finger abduction (FA), (iii) noninvolved muscle (NIM), and (iv) involved muscle during treadle pressing (IM).
  • (17) These results suggest that the relaxant effect of Nim on rat aorta may be closely related to the blockade of Ca2+ entry through both potential-dependent calcium channels (PDC) and receptor-operated calcium channels (ROC), while the action on PDC seems to play a more important role than that on ROC.
  • (18) No reversal of the previously noted LCGU depression caused by the freezing lesion (Pappius, 1981) was detected following treatment with either PY-108-068 (PY) or nimodipine (NIM).
  • (19) The effects of anesthetic doses of ketamine (iv bolus of 3 mg X kg-1 followed by a continuous infusion of 20 micrograms X kg-1 X min-1) on functional residual capacity (FRC) measured by the helium dilution method and on the breathing pattern recorded by a noninvasive method (NIM) based on chest wall circumference changes were studied in 14 ASA P.S.
  • (20) NIM was bridged to colloidal gold sols by a suitable amphophilic detergent, and used according to autoradiographic procedures.

Numb


Definition:

  • (a.) Enfeebled in, or destitute of, the power of sensation and motion; rendered torpid; benumbed; insensible; as, the fingers or limbs are numb with cold.
  • (a.) Producing numbness; benumbing; as, the numb, cold night.
  • (v. t.) To make numb; to deprive of the power of sensation or motion; to render senseless or inert; to deaden; to benumb; to stupefy.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Symptoms include numbness, tingling and pain in the anterolateral thigh.
  • (2) Headache and vertigo were not linked with exposure to vibration in forestry and a significant part of the numbness reported may be due to the carpal tunnel syndrome.
  • (3) With grievous amazement, never self-pitying but sometimes bordering on a sort of numbed wonderment, Levi records the day-to-day personal and social history of the camp, noting not only the fine gradations of his own descent, but the capacity of some prisoners to cut a deal and strike a bargain, while others, destined by their age or character for the gas ovens, follow "the slope down to the bottom, like streams that run down to the sea".
  • (4) Forty-four patients of meralgia paraesthetica presented with combination of symptoms mainly of numbness with loss of superficial sensation on the anterolateral aspect of a thigh were selected for the study.
  • (5) Postoperatively, the weakness of the lower extremities was improved immediately, but numbness remained.
  • (6) Numbness sets in.” Philip Hope-Wallace on Look Back in Anger “I must be the only playwright this century to have been pursued up a London street by an angry mob … There was an inescapable tension in the house.
  • (7) A case is reported of a patient with sudden onset, generalized toothache accompanied with a numb chin and lower lip.
  • (8) A 57-year-old man was admitted with the complaints of vague headache and left upper limb numbness.
  • (9) Unilateral enlargement of the tibialis anterior muscle associated with complex repetitive discharges occurred over several months in two patients and was preceded by pain and numbness in the lower leg.
  • (10) But after 14 hours Danilkin's numbing monologue – almost a carbon copy of the prosecutors's case – is beginning to pall.
  • (11) In the nineteenth century, some natives of Peru noticed circumoral numbness, euphoria and analgesia after chewing the leaves of the Erythroxylen coca bush.
  • (12) In a random sample of 3000 women of ages eighteen to fifty-nine years in the city of Västerås, Sweden, 19% of the 2705 responders to a questionnaire complained of cold and white fingers with or without numbness.
  • (13) There were some hormonal patterns characteristic of individual complaints; hot flush was associated with increased FSH and LH, and decreased E1 and E2; difficulty in falling asleep, excitability, and fatigability, with increased FSH and LH, and decreased E2; nervousness, with increased LH and decreased E2; headache, with increased LH and PRL, and decreased E2; feeling of cold, with decreased E2 and PRL; and numbness and shoulder stiffness, with decreased E2.
  • (14) Other common manifestations were unilateral leg pain, numbness or weakness of the leg, and evidence of mild cauda equina compression.
  • (15) Major symptoms included progressive hearing loss, facial numbness, occipital headaches, dizziness, and diplopia of less than a year's duration.
  • (16) A case is reported in which mandibular swelling and lower lip numbness were the first signs of a metastatic adenocarcinoma of the lung.
  • (17) A 60 year-old man complained of numbness and pain in the right lower limb, suggesting lesions of the fifth lumbar and first sacral roots.
  • (18) The prevalence of VWF, numbness and coldness of the fingers, and coldness of the legs was higher the longer the total chain saw operating period.
  • (19) 3) At the severe stage, pain and dullness at the back, numbness at arms and hands, hand coldness, sleep disturbance etc.
  • (20) The perioral numbness (paresthesia) experienced at doses of 750, 900, and 1,000 mg was probably drug related.

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