(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.
Women
Definition:
(pl. ) of Woman
(n.) pl. of Woman.
Example Sentences:
(1) PMS is more prevalent among women working outside the home, alcoholics, women of high parity, and women with toxemic tendency; it probably runs in families.
(2) Collins said she asked Sullivan several questions, including who the women were.
(3) In this book, he dismisses Freud's idea of penis envy - "Freud got it spectacularly wrong" - and said "women don't envy the penis.
(4) All the women had vaginal ultrasound velocimetry studies in both mainstem uterine arteries through the parametrium before the surgical procedure and again after the procedure.
(5) Nulliparous women were also more likely to discontinue the condom because of pregnancy, as were non-Protestants and the Australian-born.
(6) Even though attempts to generalize the data from childbearing women to women of childbearing age have an inherent conservative bias, the results of our study suggest that 988 women (95% CI 713 to 1336) aged 15 to 44 years in Quebec had HIV infection in 1989.
(7) This effect was more marked in breast cancer patients which may explain our earlier finding that women with upper body fat localization are at increased risk for developing breast cancer.
(8) The availability and success of changes in reproductive technology should lead to a reappraisal of the indications for hysterectomy, especially in young women.
(9) The epidemiology of HIV infection among women and hence among children has progressively changed since the onset of the epidemic in Western countries.
(10) The obvious need for highly effective contraception in women with existing disorders of glucose metabolism has led to a search for oral contraceptive (OC) regimens for such women that are efficient but without unacceptable metabolic side effects.
(11) More research and a national policy to provide optimal nutrition for all pregnant women, including the adolescent, are needed.
(12) After a discussion of the therapeutic relationship, several coping strategies which have been used successfully by many women are described and therapeutic applications are offered.
(13) DI James Faulkner of Great Manchester police said: “The men and women working in the factory have told us that they were subjected to physical and verbal assaults at the hands of their employers and forced to work more than 80-hours before ending up with around £25 for their week’s work.
(14) Elderly women need to follow the same strategies as postmenopausal women with more emphasis on prevention of falls.
(15) Total cholesterol levels are elevated, particularly in hypopituitary women.
(16) In the 153 women to whom iron supplements were given during pregnancy, the initial fall in haemoglobin concentration was less, was arrested by 28 weeks gestation and then rose to a level equivalent to the booking level.
(17) The frequency of gastric malignancies in the families of the women with gastric polyps was higher than in the controls and in men, 6.2, 3.1 and 2.4 percent, respectively (p less than 0.05, and p less than 0.025).
(18) Four cases of pregnancies in two women with tricuspid atresia (TA) are described.
(19) In 2012, 20% of small and medium-sized businesses were either run solely or mostly by women.
(20) These 150 women, the word acknowledges, were killed for being women.