(v. i.) To cry, as a chicken hatching or newly hatched; to chirp; to cheep.
(v. i.) To begin to appear; to look forth from concealment; to make the first appearance.
(v. i.) To look cautiously or slyly; to peer, as through a crevice; to pry.
(n.) The cry of a young chicken; a chirp.
(n.) First outlook or appearance.
(n.) A sly look; a look as through a crevice, or from a place of concealment.
(n.) Any small sandpiper, as the least sandpiper (Trigna minutilla).
(n.) The European meadow pipit (Anthus pratensis).
Example Sentences:
(1) The use of 100% oxygen to calculate intrapulmonary shunting in patients on PEEP is misleading in both physiological and methodological terms.
(2) LTV was found to be decreased in animals treated with PEEP.
(3) Decreasing inadvertent PEEP by lengthening the expiratory time increased the compliance of the respiratory system (r = -0.74, n = 10, P less than 0.02).
(4) Experiments in volume- expanded healthy volunteers also suggest that CMV with PEEP is able to depress plasma levels of alpha-ANP.
(5) Most of these patients were managed without paralysis using intermittent mandatory ventilation and positive-end expiratory pressure (PEEP).
(6) The effects on gas exchange and hemodynamics were compared with those of CPPV with PEEP, with the premise that CNPV might sustain venous return and improve QT.
(7) Selective PEEP caused a larger volume increase in the dependent lung than general PEEP.
(8) In seven patients with severe respiratory distress, conventional mechanical ventilation and PEEP were used initially for respiratory support, which was changed to high-frequency percussive ventilation (HFPV) at the same level of airway pressure and FIO2.
(9) Oxygenation improved in both groups during the resolution of oedema with a more evident and early effect in the PEEP group.
(10) While PEEP decreased, both PA--PEEP and VT increased with increasing diameter of stenosis.
(11) Five different ventilatory patterns were used for reinflation: simulated normal breathing with and without continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP), simulated deep breathing and mechanical ventilation with and without positive end-expiratory pressure (PEEP).
(12) Hence, Paw was a major determinant of oxygenation, although a PEEP greater than Pflex appeared necessary to optimize oxygenation at a constant Paw.
(13) Continued hemodynamic and pulmonary monitoring of patients is mandatory when using PEEP.
(14) Four of the patients (14 percent) developed a pneumothorax following institution of high PEEP therapy.
(15) Although PEEP, SN, and EMB all increased mean pulmonary arterial pressure, PEEP, had negligible effect on Zc and Ca, whereas SN increased Zc but decreased Ca (+24% and -49%, respectively), and EMB decreased both Zc and Ca (-33% and -39%, respectively).
(16) However, during both hypercapnia and PEEP, length changes of the external oblique were significantly greater than those of the rectus abdominis.
(17) Not for them clipboards, iPads and a rolled-up copy of the New Statesman peeping out of their pockets.
(18) This study was performed to determine the clinical application of this technique in critically ill patients on PEEP.
(19) When the left renal vein was occluded and the RVP was maintained at the level seen during 20 cm H2O of PEEP, left RBF recovered only 50% of the difference from the flow during zero PEEP.
(20) At a PEEP of 8 cm H2O, cardiac performance was impaired significantly, with a profound decrease of the systemic and pulmonary blood flow, SVRV and SVLV and a reflectory increase of the Rs.
Peer
Definition:
(v. i.) To come in sight; to appear.
(v. i.) To look narrowly or curiously or intently; to peep; as, the peering day.
(n.) One of the same rank, quality, endowments, character, etc.; an equal; a match; a mate.
(n.) A comrade; a companion; a fellow; an associate.
(n.) A nobleman; a member of one of the five degrees of the British nobility, namely, duke, marquis, earl, viscount, baron; as, a peer of the realm.
(v. t.) To make equal in rank.
(v. t.) To be, or to assume to be, equal.
Example Sentences:
(1) In a climate in which medical staffs are being sued as a result of their decisions in peer review activities, hospitals' administrative and medical staffs are becoming more cautious in their approach to medical staff privileging.
(2) A dozen peers hold ministerial positions and Westminster officials are expecting them to keep the paperwork to run the country flowing and the ministerial seats warm while their elected colleagues fight for votes.
(3) There is a gradual loosening of the adolescent's emotional dependence on her parents and a transfer of dependency ties to peers.
(4) In Study 4, attributional biases and deficits were found to be positively correlated with the rate of reactive aggression (but not proactive aggression) displayed in free play with peers (N = 127).
(5) Wharton feared that if his bill had not cleared the Commons on this occasion, it would have failed as there are only three sitting Fridays in the Commons next year when the legislation could be heard again should peers in the House of Lords successfully pass amendments.
(6) Three Labour MPs and a Tory peer will be charged with false accounting in relation to their parliamentary expenses, it was announced today.
(7) The DRG principle, however, is feasible and has important management benefits; it is recommended that locally determined DRG weightings be developed, and that other hospitals explore their use in peer review of resource management, costing and pricing.
(8) Level of care (I, accepted practice; II, may have managed differently; and III, would have managed differently) was assessed for each complication at M & M conference and by peer review of the medical record for occurrence screening.
(9) Data were collected during three conditions: baseline, modeling, and peer tutoring.
(10) All organisms inherit parents' genes, but many also inherit parents, peers, and the places they inhabit as well.
(11) Lord Thomson of Monifieth , the now deceased chairman of the political honours scrutiny committee, was a former Labour minister but then sat in the Lords as a Liberal Democrat peer.
(12) A college sample of 66 women and 34 men was assessed on both positive and negative affect using 4 measurement methods: self-report, peer report, daily report, and memory performance.
(13) The government's civil partnership bill to sanction same-sex unions was thrown into confusion last night after a cross-party coalition of peers and bishops voted to extend the bill's benefits to a wide range of people who live together in a caring family relationship.
(14) I agree with Sheryl's lean in advice around setting career goals (18 months and life-long) and also how to work with peers and those in more senior positions.
(15) A system for detecting such cases was established through liaison with other hospital peer review committees or any physician or nurse who was privy to specific information and willing to submit it in writing.
(16) These teenagers were classified as heavy drinkers; the males knew less about alcohol, and had different attitudes to its use than their peers.
(17) Neuropsychological functioning in 90 male and female alcoholics and 65 peer controls was examined using both accuracy and time measures for four basic types of neuropsychological functioning: verbal skills, learning and memory, problem-solving and abstracting, and perceptual-motor skills.
(18) Case abstract data are routinely collected by hospital abstracting services, peer review organizations, and some state agencies.
(19) Secrecy was encouraged and bribery, threats, and peer pressure used to induce participation in sexual activities.
(20) Asked what form the arrangements could take, the peer replied: "Wherever we think that there's something happening that is undesirable and we're looking very carefully at how to draw up those protections."