(n.) One who, or that which, paces; especially, a horse that paces.
Example Sentences:
(1) No patient had rejection before the pacer implantation.
(2) Myopotential inhibition of demand pacemakers is a common phenomenon and is responsible for a greater degree of morbidity and possible mortality in patients with pacers.
(3) 3.19am BST Pacers 49-66 Heat - 4:47 remaining, 3rd quarter So yeah, this is not how Indiana wanted to start things.
(4) 2.59am BST Tweets fredrik nygren (@fredriknygren) @HunterFelt Can the Pacers sign Jason Kidd for the rest of this game so he can at least not turn the ball over?
(5) A case of endocarditis associated with six entrapped endocardial pacer leads is presented.
(6) The Pacers don't look capable of winning a seven-game series against anyone, if their late-season struggles continue to bleed into the postseason.
(7) Indiana Pacers 106-99 New York Knicks Pacers win series 4-2 The Indiana Pacers will face the Miami Heat in their first NBA Eastern Conference finals since 2004 after extinguishing the New York Knicks' championship aspirations 106-99 in Game Six.
(8) For example, the Pacers lost 107-97 , at home on Tuesday, in a game where their starting center Roy Hibbert's disappearing act reached nearly-comical levels as he racked up 0 points, 0 rebounds, 1 meager assist and four personal fouls in 12 minutes of playing time.
(9) Standardbred pacers were studied at four different nominated speeds and selected gait kinematics were analysed to determine factors which contribute to pacing speed.
(10) 3.03am BST Pacers 40-54 Heat - 11:21 remaining, 3rd Quarter George Hill hits a three pointer right out of the gate, absolutely necessary for Indiana, but there's no stopping Miami on the other end as Chalmers makes a layup.
(11) After their previous season ended in their Game Seven loss to the Miami Heat in the Eastern Conference Finals, a road game for them, the Pacers have come to realize that home field advantage can mean the difference between a championship and disappointment .
(12) When the RP is retriggered three times in the course of a single pacemaker cycle, the pacer varies its mode of functioning, being the pacing rate increased to a value identical to the magnet rate.
(13) The Fontan patients have a higher incidence of symptomatic dysrhythmias, hospitalizations, and antidysrhythmic medication requirements after pacer insertion.
(14) In retrospect at least, we can easily track the Pacers' gradual improvement over the last few seasons, this was a team that gave the Miami Heat pressure in the 2012 playoffs and then took them to a Game 7 in the 2013 Eastern Conference Finals.
(15) Whatever play the Pacers drew up during the timeout wasn't meant to be because instead, Indiana's George Hill immediately turned it over.
(16) The Heat settled for the East's second seed, after they conceded first place to the Pacers.
(17) Evaluation of candidates for implantable devices, both pacers and defibrillators, is provided, together with the long-term results and the likely future role of such devices.
(18) Average life of pacers varies from 8.5 to 28.3 months; the average life of fixed rate pacers is higher.
(19) 382 pace-makers were used in these 52 patients: the average life of every pacer was 20 months.
(20) In the Eastern Conference, the Bulls played without Derrick Rose, the Celtics didn't have Rajon Rondo and the Pacers were without Danny Granger.
Placer
Definition:
(n.) One who places or sets.
(n.) A deposit of earth, sand, or gravel, containing valuable mineral in particles, especially by the side of a river, or in the bed of a mountain torrent.
Example Sentences:
(1) Placers were both the most advantaged socioeconomically and held the most positive attitudes toward adoption, while young women who never considered adoption were the least advantaged and held the least favorable attitudes.
(2) They were reached as placers of sadomasochistic contact advertisements or as members of sadomasochistic clubs.
(3) Total and total recoverable copper concentrations reported in five Alaskan streams with active placer mines were higher than the acutely toxic concentrations, either individually or in mixtures, that the authors found to be acutely toxic to Arctic grayling and coho salmon from Alaska.
(4) Using FACES II as the measure of family cohesion and adaptability, it was hypothesized that: (1) adolescent parents or placers would describe their families as being less functional than adolescent norms, (2) adolescents who placed their children for adoption would describe their families as being more functional than adolescents who parented their children, and (3) adolescents from the more functional families would report greater satisfaction with the placement decision than those from less functional families.
(5) Using FACES II as the measure of family cohesion and adaptability, it was hypothesized the: 1) adolescent parents or placers would describe their families as being less functional than adolescent norms; 2) adolescents who placed their children for adoption would describe their families as being more functional than adolescents who parented their children; and 3) adolescents from the more functional families would report greater satisfaction with the placement decision than those from less functional families.
(6) However, caution should be used when comparing our results obtained in "clear" water to field situations, because speciation and toxicity of these inorganics may be altered in the presence of sediments suspended by placer mining activities.
(7) Results indicate that Hypothesis 1 was supported, but contrary to Hypothesis 2, there were no significant differences in family functioning between placers and parents.
(8) Based on the results of the present study, estimated no-effect concentrations of arsenic and mercury, but not cadmium, chromium, gold, nickel, selenium, or silver, are close to their concentrations reported in streams with active placer mines in Alaska.
(9) Adolescents who placed their babies had significantly lower scores on the role-reversal measure, but the differences between keepers and placers on the expectations, empathy, and corporal punishment dimensions were not significant.
(10) The acute toxicity of nine inorganics associated with placer mining sediments to early life stages of Arctic grayling (Thymallus arcticus), coho salmon (Oncorhynchus kisutch), and rainbow trout (O. mykiss) was determined in soft water (hardness, 41 mg liter-1 CaCO3) at 12 degrees C. The relative toxicities of the inorganics varied by four orders of magnitude; from most toxic to least toxic, the rank order was cadmium, silver, mercury, nickel, gold, arsenite, selenite, selenate, and hexavalent chromium.
(11) Placers consistently reported that their choice to place their babies rather than parent would increase the likelihood of outcomes such as continuing with school, having enough money to live comfortably and benefiting the baby's emotional development, while those young women who did not consider adoption tended to feel that these outcomes would be more likely if they parented, or that the likelihood of the outcomes would not be affected by their choice.
(12) The level of family or origin functioning of adolescent parents and placers is even less frequently studied.
(13) The level of family of origin functioning of adolescent parents and placers is even less frequently studied.
(14) Thus, arsenic (as arsenite(III)) and mercury may pose a hazard to Arctic grayling and coho salmon in Alaskan streams with active placer mines.
(15) In tests with environmentally relevant mixtures (based on ratios of concentrations measured in streams with placer mining) of these four inorganics, copper was identified as the major toxic component because it accounted for greater than or equal to 97% of the summed toxic units of the mixture, and an equitoxic mixture of these inorganics showed less-than-additive toxicity.
(16) For the most captivating of second-placers the challenge now is simply to make their excellence count in more tangible ways.
(17) The acute toxicities of four trace inorganics associated with placer mining were determined, individually and in environmentally relevant mixtures, to early life stages of Arctic grayling (Thymallus arcticus) from Alaska and Montana, coho salmon (Oncorhynchus kisutch) from Alaska and Washington, and rainbow trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss) from Montana.