(a.) A term used in designating an East Indian tree (the Vateria Indica or piney tree, of the order Dipterocarpeae, which grows in Malabar, etc.) or its products.
Example Sentences:
(1) Piney Woods miniature swine, when injected with Mycoplasma hyorhinis, develop an acute arthritis.
Piny
Definition:
(a.) Abounding with pines.
Example Sentences:
(1) The authors discuss the treatment of recurrent dislocation of the shoulder joint in a synthetic review of methods so far proposed and tried out; the they offer a critical description of the method currently representing the best one available according to their experience made at Milan's Istituto Ortopedico G. Pini.
(2) Healthy children are identified by a PINI value less than 1 whereas sick patients are characterized by a progressive rise above 1 as the conditions worsens.
(3) CRP, orosomucoid, albumin and prealbumin are considered the most valuable indicators; from their values the so-called PINI index can be calculated and the patients can be divided into five prognostic zones.
(4) We consider that the PINI index is useful as a predictive and evolutive parameter, and it can be used in children with a chronic illness.
(5) This study compared the efficacy of the PINI versus its individual determinants as potential prognostic indicators of infection or death in patients with burns.
(6) We have used the index proposed by Ingenbleek (PINI = prognostic inflammatory and nutritional index) in which nutritional scoreboards and biochemical inflammatories correlate.
(7) The patterns of correlation between PINI items and GRASP and Medicus scores indicated that these two classification systems do not measure nursing resource use in the same way.
(8) The psychometric assessment of a new measure of nursing intensity, The Patient Intensity for Nursing Index (PINI) is reported.
(9) The results of these measurements were used to calculate the prognostic inflammatory and nutritional index (PINI).
(10) PINI scores were significantly related to medical severity of illness, length of hospital stay, disposition at discharge, number of secondary medical diagnoses and specialty consults, and scores on three different hospital classification systems used for staffing.
(11) In one line they evolved into single-pored species such as R. pollinis-pini, then to Chytridium and tendochytrium-like chytrids and to polycentric chytrids such as Nowakowskiella and Cladochytrium.
(12) The clinical impression shows that the classification by groups of risk obtained according to the value of the PINI is very near to reality.
(13) Dosthistromin, an anthraquinone derivative produced by the pine-blight fungus, Dothistroma pini, inhibits the growth of Chlorella pyrenoidosa and Bacillus megaterium.
(14) The Prognostic Inflammatory and Nutritional Index (PINI = [alpha 1-acid glycoprotein x C-reactive protein] divided by [albumin x prealbumin]) has been proposed as a means of predicting morbidity or mortality in hospitalized patients.
(15) He should go to Chelsea, and demand £150k a week - Speaking of Chelsea, he’d just had a call from super agent Pini Zavi (spelling, sorry, we all know who he means!)
(16) Dothistromin is a metabolite produced by Dothistromin pini and Cercospora arachidicola.
(17) The authors review the cases of Ledderhose's disease come to their observation at the "Gaetano Pini" Orthopedic Clinic of Milan.
(18) The PINI was positively correlated with CRP concentration (r = 0.72, p = 0.0001) and negatively correlated with PA concentration (r = 0.56, p = 0.0004 and nitrogen balance (r = -0.51, p = 0.0018).
(19) "It's incredibly significant to have a prime minister powerfully state that she has experienced sexism and even more powerfully state that she will refuse to ignore it any longer," Pini said.
(20) The PINI value correlated positively with the burn area given in per cent (for day 5 of follow-up, the regression line equation was y = 9.346 + 1.65 x).