(n.) Any person or animal especially cherished and indulged; a fondling; a darling; often, a favorite child.
(n.) A slight fit of peevishness or fretfulness.
(a.) Petted; indulged; admired; cherished; as, a pet child; a pet lamb; a pet theory.
(v. t.) To treat as a pet; to fondle; to indulge; as, she was petted and spoiled.
(v. i.) To be a pet.
Example Sentences:
(1) In cases with unilateral hypoperfusion, the percentage of the activity in the lesion to that in the contralateral normal cortex on the early SPECT was correlated well with that on CBF measured by PET (r = 0.870, p less than 0.001).
(2) However, localizing a functional region with PET has been severely limited by the poor resolving properties of PET devices.
(3) The PET studies suggest dysfunction of the prefrontal cortex as a result of damage to the lentiform nuclei.
(4) If the PET measurement is commenced prior to arteriovenous equilibrium, significant errors occur in calculated CBV.
(5) Single photon emission computed tomography (SPECT) and positron emission tomography (PET) are now being used to improve the information available from radioisotopic imaging of patients with cancer.
(6) The muscarinic receptor agonist carbachol had no significant effects on [3H]PEt and [3H]IP formation in nontransfected HEK cells.
(7) Appropriate corrections for atrophy should be employed if current PET scanners are to accurately measure actual brain tissue metabolism in various pathologic states.
(8) Using a 1-stage random-digit dial telephone survey, we estimated the number of pet dogs and cats and cancer case ascertainment in the principal catchment area of an animal tumor registry in Indiana, the Purdue Comparative Oncology Program (PCOP).
(9) Such information could be most useful for in vivo receptor visualization studies using positron emission tomography (PET) scanning.
(10) Half the adolescents completed the child maltreatment instrument first, while the rest completed the pet maltreatment instrument.
(11) In this study, PET images were obtained using [18F]-labeled fluorodeoxyglucose, a marker for glucose metabolism.
(12) The global black market in animal and plants, sold as food, traditional medicines and exotic pets, is worth billions and sees an estimated 350 million specimens traded every year.
(13) The distribution of 1-11C-acetoacetic acid after injection into adult Wistar rats and cats was investigated by PET.
(14) If we start letting movie stars – even though they’ve been the sexiest man alive twice – to come into our nation (with pets), then why don’t we just break the laws for everybody?” Joyce said at the time.
(15) We have developed a method that allows two sets of regional cerebral metabolic rates of glucose (rCMRglc) to be obtained in a single extended procedure using positron emission tomography (PET) and [18F]fluorodeoxyglucose (FDG).
(16) Metabolic PET studies also give insight into pathophysiologic mechanisms of epilepsy.
(17) In view of the number of PET studies involving low count rate acquisitions, there has been increasing interest recently in the development of positron cameras capable of fully three-dimensional acquisition and reconstruction.
(18) We performed dynamic positron emission tomographic (PET) studies of glucose utilization, using (18F) 2-fluoro-2-deoxy-D-glucose (FDG), in patients with probable Alzheimer's disease (AD) and healthy age-matched controls, to evaluate blood-brain-barrier glucose transport and glucose utilization rates in the disease.
(19) We used a 11C-glucose method for positron emission tomography (PET) while estimating cerebral glucose metabolism during human sleep with polysomnography (PSG).
(20) His mother is Denise Welch, late of Corrie and Loose Women, and his father his Tim Healy, who was briefly famous 30 years ago for his role in Auf Wiedersehen, Pet.
Piet
Definition:
(n.) The dipper, or water ouzel.
(n.) The magpie.
Example Sentences:
(1) On her initial four-day trip to the first world war battlefields in November 2012, she visited Piet Chielens, the director of the In Flanders Fields museum in Ypres, Belgium.
(2) There's an exhibition at Tate Liverpool by someone called Piet Mondrian, who we're pretty sure sat on the bench for Holland at Uruguay '30 (Mondrian and his Studios, 6 June-5 October), and also some concerts by Robbie Williams (various UK locations, 13 June to 12 July; football fan Robbie will be free for the final on 13 July) who in the early 2000s formed a useful partnership down the left side with Jonathan Wilkes.
(3) A decade later, she and her husband, the abstract painter Ben Nicholson, worked in a community of radical artists in Hampstead, London, and exhibited with the great Dutch artist Piet Mondrian.
(4) The study’s lead researcher, Prof Piet van den Brandt of Maastricht University in the Netherlands, said: “Our research can help to shine a light on how dietary patterns can affect our cancer risk.
(5) "Even more importantly, a Spanish victory will enable the Dutch support to sing their song honouring Admiral Piet Heyn's capture of the Spanish treasure fleet in 1632 .
(6) At the time the minister of justice was Piet Peltzer, and he said all the allegations of ill treatment were untrue.
(7) In the first of the novel's many adulterous couplings, Piet Hanema and Georgene Thorne make love on her sunporch.
(8) The molecular principles of antigenic variation are now largely known in the bacterial species Borrelia and Neisseria and in the protozoa of the African trypanosome group and these three examples are discussed here by Piet Borst.
(9) A Kubuswoningen, or cube house, designed by architect Piet Blom Both renters and rentees have to establish their identity through a series of careful checks (including taking a picture of their passport or driving licence).
(10) You don't have to imitate figurative art – one contributor even arranged clothes in a suitcase to reproduce the colours of Piet Mondrian's Composition with Red, Blue and Yellow.
(11) My favourite things are these Piet Mondrian sunglasses by Cutler and Gross.
(12) Photograph: Piet De Kersgieter Ghent is the perfect place to enjoy a snug city break.
(13) Her practice, Diller Scofidio + Renfro , together with landscape architect James Corner and garden designer Piet Oudolf , designed the High Line.