(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 .
Withdrawal
Definition:
(n.) The act of withdrawing; withdrawment; retreat; retraction.
Example Sentences:
(1) Mice also had a decreased ability to develop delayed-type hypersensitivity reactions while being given cadmium; this abnormality also returned toward normal after withdrawal of cadmium.
(2) They insist this is the best way of ensuring the country does not descend into chaos before the final withdrawal of combat troops.
(3) When AMT administration was discontinued 40 hrs before precipitation of withdrawal the withdrawal pattern occurred with unchanged intensity.
(4) The clinical course was observed in 50 patients while the remaining 10 were hospitalized and submitted to esophago-gastro-duodenoscopy and colonoscopy both before and after treatment for withdrawal of duodenal secretion and fragments of duodenojejunal and colonic mucosa biopsies.
(5) In the total sample, PEI factors and negative nominations were more stable than positive nominations, and PEI Aggression and Withdrawal scores were more stable than negative nominations.
(6) The model identified the following important variables: sex (relative risk (rr) = 2.4), beta-blocker withdrawal (rr = 2.1), performance on exercise test and digitalis treatment (rr = 2.3, P less than 0.05).
(7) Obvious restitution of the thymic medulla was evident about 14 days after withdrawal of FK506.
(8) Sleep alterations in addicted newborns could be related to central nervous system (CNS) distress caused by withdrawal.
(9) "I did so in protest at using unethical ways to make unjust allegations, therefore I hereby withdraw my complaint against this artist."
(10) However, there has been a need for a way to measure withdrawal behavior quantitatively over time.
(11) Twelve weeks after withdrawal heart rate and blood pressure responses to mental stress were normalized.
(12) Scores on the "dependent smoking" subscale of the smoking motivation questionnaire correlated significantly with overall withdrawal severity, craving, and increased irritability.
(13) Withdrawal of the drug and application of all-trans retinoic acid ointment resulted in resolving of the keratinisation.
(14) In 227 smokers' clinic clients who managed at least one week of abstinence, ratings of withdrawal symptoms were used to predict subsequent return to smoking.
(15) Side effects of carbenoxolone therapy were observed, but they did not necessitate withdrawal of the drug and were readily controlled in every instance.
(16) The maximal density of [3H] 8-hydroxy-2-(di-n- propylamino)tetralin [( 3H] 8-OH-DPAT) binding (Bmax) to 5-HT1a receptors was decreased by 25 and 17% in the hippocampus during chronic ethanol intoxication and withdrawal, respectively.
(17) The whole body withdrawal reaction of freshwater snail Planorbarius corneus consists of two phases.
(18) Furthermore, patients with alcohol-related atrial fibrillation were significantly more likely to manifest alcohol withdrawal syndrome than were other inpatients with heavy alcohol use.
(19) Withdrawal from long-term treatment with benzodiazepines was followed in three patients by a severe delusional depression.
(20) A similar increase in HDL-cholesterol was observed in the E2 + NETA group, following withdrawal.