(a.) Eight and one more; one less than ten; as, nine miles.
(n.) The number greater than eight by a unit; nine units or objects.
(n.) A symbol representing nine units, as 9 or ix.
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) One hundred and twenty-seven states have said with common voice that their security is directly threatened by the 15,000 nuclear weapons that exist in the arsenals of nine countries, and they are demanding that these weapons be prohibited and abolished.
(3) In 49 cases undergoing systemic lymphadenectomy 32 were found to have glandular involvement, of which both aortic and pelvic nodes were positive in 17 cases (53.1%), aortic nodes positive but pelvic negative in six (18.8%), and pelvic nodes positive but aortic negative in nine (28.1%).
(4) Nine of 14 patients studied for documented clinical relapse had positive repeat studies.
(5) Nine months later, the animals were sacrificed, the esophagus and the gastric stump were removed for histologic examination.
(6) Five of the nine normal livers had peribiliary glands that showed HLA-DR.
(7) A review of campylobacter meningitis by Lee et al in 1985 reported nine cases occurring in neonates, of which only one case was caused by C. fetus.
(8) 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.
(9) Nine of the 12 long-term survivors showed lymph node metastasis and six of the 12 revealed cancer cells at the surgical margins.
(10) Definite tumor regression, improvement of some clinical symptoms, and continuous remission over 6 mo or more were observed in six, nine, and three patients, respectively.
(11) Nine of the in vivo synthesized early polypeptides can be precipitated specifically from infected cell extracts by antisera with specificity against early adenovirus proteins.
(12) It was found that preterm infants (delivered before 38 weeks of gestation) had nine times the early neonatal mortality of term infants, irrespective of growth retardation patterns.
(13) One hundred and ninety-nine children aged 7-14 and 177 adolescents in remission and minimal manifestations of rheumatoid arthritis (RA) were examined before and after fangotherapy with allowance for activity of the process, age-related reactivity.
(14) Of the 16 cases, 14 (88%) were diagnosed as TSS or probable TSS by the attending physician, although only nine (64%) of the 14 diagnosed cases were given the correct discharge code.
(15) A two-year follow-up was available for fifty-nine of the treated knees.
(16) Four of the nine patients failed to show any clinical or hematological improvement.
(17) Histological and electron-microscopic study of the lungs of 15 patients who had been treated with bleomycin for advanced squamous cell carcinoma demonstrated marked histological changes in nine.
(18) The effect of pO(2) was studied in a further nine dogs.
(19) Labeling experiments with fucose and glucosamine show that at least nine of the iodinated peptides may be glycoproteins.
(20) When war broke out, the nine-year-old Arden was sent away to board at a school near York and then on Sedbergh School in Cumbria.
Novum
Definition:
(n.) A game at dice, properly called novem quinque (L., nine five), the two principal throws being nine and five.
Example Sentences:
(1) Eighteen women (median age 54 years, 36-79) with urinary motor urge (n = 13) or sensory urge (n = 5) incontinence were treated for three 2-week periods with emepronium carrageenate (EC) (Cetiprin Novum) in daily doses of 500 and 1000 mg and placebo.
(2) In the first patient (aged 29) who took Ortho-Novum 2 mg. for 11 months prior to infarction and who had an abnormal glucose tolerance test, selective coronary angiography revealed a segmental occlusion of the proximal left anterior descending coronary artery.
(3) Ortho-Novum increased alpha-s-antiplasmin antigen at 12 months.
(4) Standard curves of progesterone RIAs performed while the technician was taking either Ortho Novum 1 + 50 or Ovral, or on no contraceptive are reported.
(5) This case report concerns a 29-year-old caucasian woman who developed cholestatic jaundice while taking Ortho-Novum 2 mg. Biliary stasis was diagnosed from laboratory tests and gradually subsided when the medication was withdrawn.
(6) Patients given Ortho-Novum 5 showed a continued significant elevation of levels of factors VIII and IX for the duration of the study, and the partial thromboplastin time reflected this increase on days 4 and 10.
(7) Carbohydrate metabolism was investigated over 1-year period in new users of 2 different triphasic oral contraceptives (OCs)--Ortho Novum 777, which contains the progestin norethindrone, and Triphasil, in which levonorgestrel is the progestin.
(8) Serum lipid and apoprotein levels were determined in fasting women after longterm use (5-12 years) of Depo-Provera, Orgametril, Ortho Novum SQ, Binordiol, Microgynon-50, and Ministat.
(9) They also decreased partial thromboplastin time (Triphasil at 6 months, p.01), and at 12 months, p.001; Ortho-Novum at 6 months, p.01).
(10) The condition was found to be reproducible when Ortho-Novum 2 mg. was given again.
(11) Compared with matched controls, pure progestogens (Depo Provera and Orgametril) caused a moderate decrease of TG, HDL chol, and Apo A1, whereas estrogen-dominant oral contraceptives (Ortho Novum SQ) increased the same parameters.
(12) 618 women used Ortho-Novum 2mg (2 mg norethindrone and .1mg mestranol) for 5330 cycles of treatment.
(13) In the second menstrual cycle, the experimental cycle, nine girls were given Micronor, a progestogen type oral contraceptive and four girls were given Ortho-Novum SQ, a sequential type oral contraceptive.
(14) Researchers from Gainesville, Florida compared data on 20 women who were randomly assigned the triphasic oral contraceptive (OC) Triphasil (ethinyl estradiol and levonorgestrel) with data on 24 women who were randomly assigned the triphasic OC Ortho-Novum (ethinyl estradiol and norethindrone) and data on 8 women who were controls to evaluate these 2 triphasic OCs' effects on coagulation and anticoagulation factors.
(15) Thus, the patient was placed on Ortho-Novum as well as imipramine.
(16) 9 were taking the oral contraceptive, Ortho-Novum; 4 were fitted with an IUD; and the remaining 25 were used as controls.
(17) Laënnec's invention of the stethoscope (1816) and De l' Auscultation Médiate (1819) inspired Piorry to make an analogous contribution to the technique of percussion (which had been originally described by Auenbrugger in his Inventum Novum in 1761 and translated from the Latin into French by Corvisart in 1808).
(18) If pregnancy is to be avoided hormonal ovulation inhibitors as optimal, since their effectiveness is over 90% (Cilest, Femovan, Marvelon, and Ortho-Novum 2 mg).
(19) The effect on the coagulation mechanism of lactation suppressants was determined by comparing observations on a group of untreated women and two other groups, one receiving Vallestril (methallenestrill 20 mg) and the other Ortho-Novum 5 (5 mg norethindrone and 0.075 mg mestranol).
(20) A benign hepatic adenoma was discovered in a young woman who had been taking an OC (Ortho-Novum 2) for 7 years.