(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.
Shrill
Definition:
(v. i.) Acute; sharp; piercing; having or emitting a sharp, piercing tone or sound; -- said of a sound, or of that which produces a sound.
(n.) A shrill sound.
(v. i.) To utter an acute, piercing sound; to sound with a sharp, shrill tone; to become shrill.
(v. t.) To utter or express in a shrill tone; to cause to make a shrill sound.
Example Sentences:
(1) There’ll never be another like him,” she shrilled when she recovered.
(2) He should conduct this conversation factually, carefully, without loud or shrill tones.
(3) Sorry, I mean it would be the department of trade.” She gives a shrill, uneasy laugh.
(4) They also spend excessive time in making unusual sounds consisting of a high-pitched shrill cry with little intonation in infancy and a harsh, strained, and glottal stridency in later life.
(5) Morrison has described claims that Australia was violating international law as offensive and labelled criticism of his silence over the fate of the two boats "shrill and hysterical".
(6) 2.13pm GMT He calls the idea that we have lost track of terrorist plotters as a result of these disclosures "shrill and unsubstantiated".
(7) A grandmother of five, Jones sports a discrete shrill carder bumblebee tattoo on her shoulder courtesy of taking part in a green art project.
(8) Dave meanwhile lapsed into his shrill Bullingdon Club persona; the dividing line between self confidence and smugness is gossamer thin for the prime minister.
(9) Let it be said clearly that the press – divided, suspicious, too often shrill – is no easy partner in this search.
(10) In the context of the increasingly shrill debate around migration and Europe, this week's the Mail on Sunday included an article attacking the non-profit organisation European Alternatives , of which I am co-president.
(11) "Navalny carefully distanced himself from the shrill, old-guard western-friendly liberals – 'hellish, insane, crazy mass of the leftovers and bread crusts of the democracy movement of the 80s', he called them – who simply participated in Putin's cult of personality in reverse."
(12) Winners and losers Going: Species facing "severe" threats in England Red squirrel Northern bluefin tuna Natterjack toad Common skate Alpine foxtail Kittiwake Grey plover Shrill carder bumblebee Recovering: Recent conservation success stories Pole cat Large blue butterfly Red kite Ladybird spider Pink meadowcap Sand lizard Pool frog Bittern
(13) Even at school throughout the school day you would be teaching and next door in the secure accommodation unit you could hear someone, this shrill scream, as they just cry out because they’ve lost it, absolutely lost it, or self-harmed,” Reen said.
(14) The shrill blast of a whistle still makes Almaz Russom wince.
(15) His later years, as the preachments of abolitionists and slaveholders reached their shrill adumbration of bloody war, were marked, even made notorious, by his fiery championing of John Brown, whom he had briefly met in Concord, finding him "a man of great common sense, deliberate and practical", endowed with "tact and prudence" and the Spartan habits and spare diet of a soldier.
(16) The risks are in being ignored entirely or forcing an interjection and appearing “shrill” – the death shriek for women trying to get ahead anywhere.
(17) The shameful destruction of New Orleans, the Wall Street crash of 2008 and growing indebtedness to China, the collapse of so many industries and the shrill ideological divisions in Congress over monetary and fiscal policy can all be traced to habits ingrained in the Reagan years when the notion took hold that "the government is not the solution to our problems; the government is the problem".
(18) He says it's hyperventilation from a shrill government.
(19) It can be a bit shrill One long-serving maker of risky BBC television programmes argues that behind the compliance craze is a bigger loss of nerve.
(20) The shepherd lad held on steadily, driving his goats with shrill cries up our hill for the better pasture on the western side.