(n.) A contagious disease of fowls, characterized by hoarseness, discharge from the nostrils and eyes, and an accumulation of mucus in the mouth, forming a "scale" on the tongue. By some the term pip is restricted to this last symptom, the disease being called roup by them.
(n.) A seed, as of an apple or orange.
(n.) One of the conventional figures or "spots" on playing cards, dominoes, etc.
(v. i.) To cry or chirp, as a chicken; to peep.
Example Sentences:
(1) The D-Phe peptides, which are cleaved especially rapidly by thrombin in water, have structures (in deuterated DMSO) in which the aromatic ring of the D-Phe residue is folded back over the Val or Pip residue.
(2) Each tone pip was presented at four intensity levels (70, 50, 30, and 10 dB hearing threshold level), and graphic recordings were made for each frequency at the specific intensity levels.
(3) Low concentrations of each of the negatively charged phospholipids increased the Vmax., but high ratios of PIP, PIP2 or PA to PC decreased this parameter.
(4) We recorded auditory evoked magnetic fields in response to 128 15 msec duration 1 kHz tone pips from both hemispheres of 6 normal adult males.
(5) Following the complete GSH oxidation diamide impaired the turnover of PIP and PA dramatically.
(6) Each new PIP claim - worth between £21 and £134 a week to disabled claimants - costs an average £182 to administer, compared to £49 under the disability living allowance, said the report.
(7) She admits she "got it wrong" by voting in favour of the Iraq war, a stance exploited by Barack Obama when he pipped the former first lady for the Democratic nomination in 2008.
(8) The precision (coefficient of variation) of the calibration curves for underivatized drugs and their derivatized metabolites over the linear ranges was 2-20% and the reproducibility of the assay over a range of clinical concentrations of these drugs found in human plasma was 5-16% for PANC, 2-4% for VEC and 6-11% for PIP.
(9) A behavioral observation scale (Virginia Polydipsia Scale; VPS) for monitoring drinking patterns was developed and its reliability tested during 25 hours of tandem ratings among six patients with the syndrome of psychosis, intermittent hyponatremia, and polydipsia (PIPS).
(10) By 24 hours pulmonary edema resolved and the PIP and PaO2 returned to baseline.
(11) The thrombin-induced hydrolysis of inositol phospholipids by phospholipase C, which was measured as the formation of [32P]PA, was potentiated by adrenaline, as was the increase in the levels of [32P]PIP2 and [32P]PIP.
(12) Only PIP or TIC + SUL or TAZ were able to inhibit at least 90% of tested strains.
(13) Analysis of twenty-one MP and sixty-eight PIP endoprostheses placed in eighty-three patients until 1979 is given.
(14) A phosphatidylinositol 4-phosphate (PIP) pool linked to muscarinic receptor-activation increased 160% after addition of atropine, the maximal response occurring at a time when relaxation was 80% complete.
(15) We demonstrate for the first time that a number of plasma membrane glycerophospholipids effectively stimulate the ATPase, including PIP, PIP2, and cardiolipin.
(16) Claimants of the benefit that PIP replaced, the very people whom Mr Duncan Smith resigns to defend, were previously at the sharp end of his maladministration.
(17) After two weeks ground squirrels were reanesthetized and tone pips and clicks were delivered through a TDH-49 headphone.
(18) The range of the mean uptake varied considerably between proximal interphalangeal (PIP) joints in normal subjects.
(19) He will himself have to repeatedly reapply for PIP, despite the fact that the severity of his condition meant he was granted a lifelong DLA award, after a paper-based assessment.
(20) The aim was to investigate whether these velocities altered in relation to the peak inflation pressure (PIP) used.
Predicted
Definition:
(imp. & p. p.) of Predict
Example Sentences:
(1) The predicted non-Lorentzian line shapes and widths were found to be in good agreement with experimental results, indicating that the local orientational order (called "packing" by many workers) in the bilayers of small vesicles and in multilamellar membranes is substantially the same.
(2) Pretraining consumption did not predict (among animals) post-training consumption.
(3) Moreover in MIT-1, the size of the novel polypeptide was not that predicted of the precursor (44.9 kDa) but was about 39 kDa, the same size as the authentic GS gamma polypeptide in CYT-4.
(4) From these data it is possible to predict theoretically the apparent temperature difference as seen by an infrared scanner or radiometer with a detector of which the spectral detectivity, D (lambda), is known.
(5) In practice, however, the necessary dosage is difficult to predict.
(6) Basing the prediction of student performance in medical school on intellective-cognitive abilities alone has proved to be more pertinent to academic achievement than to clinical practice.
(7) However, this predictive value disappeared when five baseline parameters found to predict the outcome (neopterin, beta 2-microglobulin, p24 antigen, anti-p18 antibody and immunoglobulin A) were adjusted.
(8) From the biochemical markers in follicular fluid, cyclic adenosine monophosphate has a distinct predictive value in regard to pregnancy in in vitro fertilization-embryo transfer cycles.
(9) (Predictive value positive refers to the proportion of all people identified who actually have the disease.)
(10) Serial observations of blood pressure after unilateral adrenalectomy for aldosterone-producing adenoma revealed an incidence of hypotension (systolic BP less than fifth percentile for age- and sex-matched normal population) of 27% at 2 years, more than 5 times that predicted.
(11) Thus, brain NE levels after training were not predictive of retention performance in amygdala-implanted or -stimulated animals.
(12) Current status of prognosis in clinical, experimental and prophylactic medicine is delineated with formulation of the purposes and feasibility of therapeutic and preventive realization of the disease onset and run prediction.
(13) Our prospective study has defined a number of important variables in patients with clinical evidence of mast cell proliferation that can predict both the presence of SMCD and the likelihood of fatal disease.
(14) Serum sialic acid concentration predicts both death from CHD and stroke in men and women independent of age.
(15) Consequently, it is important to predict accurately dose for such fields to ensure adequate coverage of the target region and sparing of healthy tissues.
(16) Evidence reported here shows that, consistent with prediction, 10 carcinogens are all active in inducing tandem duplications.
(17) An experimental model was established in the ewe allowing one to predict with accuracy an antral follicle that coincidentally would either undergo ovulation (6-8 mm diameter) or atresia (3-4 mm diameter) following synchronization of luteal regression and the onset of the gonadotropin surge.
(18) Correlations and some clinically relevant comparisons suggested that the MMPI 168 predicted the standard MMPI with a high degree of accuracy.
(19) Meanwhile Ed Miliband, the Labour leader, waiting anxiously for news of the scale of the Labour advance in his first nationwide electoral test, will urge the electorate not to be duped by the promise of a coalition mark 2, predicting sham concessions by the Conservatives .
(20) The positive predictive accuracy of a biophysical profile score of 0, with mortality and morbidity used as end points, was 100%.