(n.) That which holds back, or causes to recede; a drawback; a hindrance.
(n.) The iron hook fixed to a casement to pull it shut, or to hold it party open at a fixed point.
Example Sentences:
(1) A group of economists told the Wall Street Journal that is exactly what is happening : They blame our lackluster recovery this year on a pullback in spending and investment by US companies, which are afraid that the fallout from a fiscal cliff could compromise their ability to find funding or function normally.
(2) Although an uncommon lesion, when pulmonary stenosis is considered, pulmonary artery and right ventricular pressures should be assessed simultaneously on two-catheter pullback to appreciate the precise location of pulmonary-right ventricular pressure gradients.
(3) Those who have grown pessimistic about a deal with Mahmoud Abbas, the Palestinian president, can nevertheless imagine reaching a bargain with a coalition of Arab states, one that would include an Israeli pullback from occupied Palestinian territory.
(4) Correlation (r = 0.95) between continuous-wave Doppler estimates and catheter pullback pressure gradients across the conduits was excellent.
(5) An extra 3,100 peacekeeping troops will be sent to Congo, the UN Security Council said today, even though rebels said they remained committed to a pullback from the front lines.
(6) Echocardiography confirmed the position of the septostomy catheter before pullback.
(7) Validation studies showed that sphincter imaging based on a stepwise pullback of a catheter with four or eight radial side holes is superior to a rapid motorized pullback.
(8) At specified time points between 1 and 41 days after the initial balloon pullback injury, the iliac arteries were analyzed by angiographic, morphometric, and immunocytochemical techniques.
(9) Other approaches used to determine the mean transaortic valve gradient were less accurate: simultaneous LV-FA (R = 0.991); aligned LV-FA (R = 0.974); averaged simultaneous and aligned LV-FA (R = 0.981); and nonsimultaneous LV-aorta pullback (R = 0.953).
(10) A 22-year-old-man with intermittent obstruction of the subclavian vein at the thoracic outlet was evaluated by a pullback venous pressure gradient measurement and phlebography.
(11) By traversing the inflow tract of the left ventricle on pullback from the left atrium to the aorta, this method served to separate definitively true hypertrophic subaortic stenosis from cavity obliteration.
(12) To examine if any obstruction to LV outflow was caused by the micromanometer, cardiac performance was assessed during pullback from the ventricle to the aorta.
(13) It is determined by computer analysis of continuous-pressure measurements during constant speed pullback of a radially oriented 4- 6- or 8-channel manometry catheter across the LES.
(14) The ceasefire and weapons pullback is to be monitored by the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE).
(15) In 18 patients with AS, the pressure gradient was quantitated from (1) simultaneous left ventricular and ascending aortic pressures (LV-AO), (2) nonsimultaneous LV-AO pullback, (3) LV and femoral arterial (FA) pressures unadjusted for the time delay of the FA tracing (LV-FA unadjusted), and (4) LV-FA adjusted for time delay.
(16) For Lebanon watchers both here and in Washington, the statements have contributed to a long-running belief that an opposition win – even one in which Hezbollah held only a handful of non-security-related cabinet positions – would trigger a broad US pullback from the country, especially as far as funding the Lebanese army is concerned.
(17) We conclude from these preclinical studies that retrograde atherectomy with the Pullback Atherectomy Catheter is a feasible means of performing definitive atherectomy.
(18) IMF director José Viñals said: "Faltering confidence and policy uncertainty have led to a pullback of cross-border private capital flows from the periphery – quite an extraordinary phenomenon within a currency union."
(19) He zips into the box, reaches the byline, and attempts to find Lavezzi with a pullback.
(20) • Despite Thursday's pullback from Salahedin by the FSA, analysts suggest the military balance may be changing .
Reduction
Definition:
(n.) The act of reducing, or state of being reduced; conversion to a given state or condition; diminution; conquest; as, the reduction of a body to powder; the reduction of things to order; the reduction of the expenses of government; the reduction of a rebellious province.
(n.) The act or process of reducing. See Reduce, v. t., 6. and To reduce an equation, To reduce an expression, under Reduce, v. t.
(v. t.) The correction of observations for known errors of instruments, etc.
(v. t.) The preparation of the facts and measurements of observations in order to deduce a general result.
(v. t.) The process of making a copy of something, as a figure, design, or draught, on a smaller scale, preserving the proper proportions.
(v. t.) The bringing of a syllogism in one of the so-called imperfect modes into a mode in the first figure.
(v. t.) The act, process, or result of reducing; as, the reduction of iron from its ores; the reduction of aldehyde from alcohol.
(v. t.) The operation of restoring a dislocated or fractured part to its former place.
Example Sentences:
(1) Direct fetal digitalization led to a reduction in umbilical artery resistance, a decline in the abdominal circumference from 20.3 to 17.8 cm, and resolution of the ascites within 72 h. Despite this dramatic response to therapy, fetal death occurred on day 5 of treatment.
(2) Use of the improved operative technique contributed to reduction in number of complications.
(3) Following central retinal artery ligation, infarction of the retinal ganglion cells was reflected by a 97 per cent reduction in the radioactively labeled protein within the optic nerve.
(4) It is concluded that amlodipine reduces myocardial ischemic injury by mechanism(s) that may involve a reduction in myocardial oxygen demand as well as by positively influencing transmembrane Ca2+ fluxes during ischemia and reperfusion.
(5) By 1978, the reduction in incidence of measles will exceed 90%.
(6) Osteoporosis is characterized by a reduction in bone density.
(7) At pH 7.0, reduction is complete after 6 to 10 h. These results together with an earlier study concerning the positions of the two most readily reduced bonds (Cornell J.S., and Pierce, J.G.
(8) A survey carried out two and three years after the launch of the official campaign also showed a reduction in the prevalence of rickets in children taking low dose supplements equivalent to about 2.5 micrograms (100 IU) vitamin D daily.
(9) The role of O2 free radicals in the reduction of sarcolemmal Na+-K+-ATPase, which occurs during reperfusion of ischemic heart, was examined in isolated guinea pig heart using exogenous scavengers of O2 radicals and an inhibitor of xanthine oxidase.
(10) Maximal covalent binding of [4,5-14C]ronidazole to DNA also required four-electron reduction, consistent with previous studies of the covalent binding of this agent to immobilized sulfhydryl groups [Kedderis et al.
(11) Optimum rates of acetylene reduction in short-term assays occurred at 20% O2 (0.2 atm (1 atm = 101.325 kPa] in the gas phase.
(12) Meanwhile, reductions in tax allowances on dividends for company shareholders from £5,000 down to £2,000 represent another dent to the incomes of many business owners.
(13) Polyribosomes isolated from the livers of rats sacrificed 6 h after treatment with actinomycin D showed a 42% reduction in their capacity to bind anti-RSA Fab'.
(14) In view of reports of the reduction of telomeric repeats in human malignant tumors, we measured the lengths of telomeric repeats in 55 primary neuroblastomas.
(15) Anatomic and roentgenographic criteria used for the assessment of reduction in ankle fractures are highlighted in this review of ankle trauma.
(16) By increasing luminal air pressure from 10 to 20 cm H2O a significant reduction in GBF was observed.
(17) The reduction rates of peripheral leukocytes, lung Schiff bases and lung water content were not identical in rats depleted from leukocyte after inhalation injury.
(18) The results show that in TMO-treated animals the time to the onset of convulsions, the time to the onset of NADH oxidation-reduction cycles, and the survival time were significantly longer than in the control group.
(19) Since the first is balked by the obstacle of deficit reduction, emphasis has turned to the second.
(20) The analysis of total seizure days showed a significant reduction during LTG treatment (p less than 0.002).