(adv.) In a general sense, denoting from or away from; as:
(adv.) Denoting distance or separation; as, the house is a mile off.
(adv.) Denoting the action of removing or separating; separation; as, to take off the hat or cloak; to cut off, to pare off, to clip off, to peel off, to tear off, to march off, to fly off, and the like.
(adv.) Denoting a leaving, abandonment, departure, abatement, interruption, or remission; as, the fever goes off; the pain goes off; the game is off; all bets are off.
(adv.) Denoting a different direction; not on or towards: away; as, to look off.
(adv.) Denoting opposition or negation.
(interj.) Away; begone; -- a command to depart.
(prep.) Not on; away from; as, to be off one's legs or off the bed; two miles off the shore.
(a.) On the farther side; most distant; on the side of an animal or a team farthest from the driver when he is on foot; in the United States, the right side; as, the off horse or ox in a team, in distinction from the nigh or near horse or ox; the off leg.
(a.) Designating a time when one is not strictly attentive to business or affairs, or is absent from his post, and, hence, a time when affairs are not urgent; as, he took an off day for fishing: an off year in politics.
(n.) The side of the field that is on the right of the wicket keeper.
Example Sentences:
Olf
Definition:
(n.) The European bullfinch.
Example Sentences:
(1) The case is described of a 26-year olf woman, gravida 2, para 1, who presented with failure to conceive 18 months after revomal of a Lippes Loop IUD worn for 12 months.
(2) Many are accused of supporting the rebel Oromo Liberation Front (OLF).
(3) Furthermore, with the exception of the OLF the direction of change was not similar to that caused by i.v.
(4) The immunodiagnostic pattern of OLF NB includes the following: (a) NSE present in irregular clusters of tumor cells, (b) S-100 present in peripheral cells which form a marginal network, (c) and GFAP rarely present.
(5) Ossification of the posterior longitudinal ligament (OPLL) combined with ossification of the ligamentum flavum (OLF) in the thoracic spine can result in serious myelopathy, leading to circumferential compression of the spinal cord in advanced stages of the disease.
(6) One young girl said hot coals had been dropped on her stomach because her father was suspected of supporting the OLF, while a teacher described how he was stabbed in the eye with a bayonet after he refused to teach “propaganda about the ruling party” to students.
(7) In the Tarup district of Odense, an investigation was carried out concerning certificates in connection with maintenance allowances during a period olf two months.
(8) Results of laminectomy for OLF were poor because of the high occurrence of complications early on or later deterioration.
(9) During the past 10 years, we have followed 113 cases olf CML throughout their course and results of observations on the clinical, hematological and other apsects of the disease are presented in this communication.
(10) Our results show that OLFs isolated from the urine of salt-loaded healthy subjects strongly enhance basal and vasopressin-stimulated release of calcium in vascular smooth muscle cells and platelets similar to the effects we had observed with endothelin.
(11) Since then, numerous studies confirmed the presence of OLFs in serum, urine, cerebrospinal fluid, and various organs including the heart and hypothalamus.
(12) Therefore, laminoplasty is recommended as a successful procedure for OLF-related thoracic myelopathy, avoiding further local mechanical stress due to tensile force.
(13) Histologic study revealed that the developmental mode of OLF was mainly endochondral ossification.
(14) In six cases, high intensity areas in the spinal cord caused by compressing OLF were demonstrated on T2-weighted images.
(15) Specificity of tissue location defines that the rod and cone transducins (TD1 and TD2, respectively) act as the coupling proteins between rhodopsin and cone opsins and their cyclic nucleotide phosphodiesterase effectors and that G(olf) is the G-protein which tranduces signals from odorant receptors to adenylate cyclase in olfactory sensory neurones.
(16) To examine the role of an ouabain-like factor (OLF) in the pathogenesis of cardiovascular disease in hypertension, we examined plasma levels of OLF in a malignant form of one-kidney, one wrap (1K,1W) hypertension.
(17) Transcript analysis of the region that rescues the olfE phenotype has shown one major transcript at 5.4 kb and a minor one at 1.7 kb.
(18) This operation consists of two steps: posterior and lateral decompression of the spinal cord by removal of the OLF (first step) and anterior removal of the OPLL for anterior decompression (second step), followed by interbody fusion.
(19) At the level of the thickest OLF in each patient, there were three types of OLF from computed tomography and operative findings: a lateral type in 3 patients, diffuse in 8, and thickened nodular in 3.
(20) Areas of high or intermediate signal intensity within the OLF on T1-weighted images were observed in three cases and were interpreted to be due to fat infiltration.