(n.) The fourth part; a quarter; hence, a region of the earth.
(n.) A measure of capacity, both in dry and in liquid measure; the fourth part of a gallon; the eighth part of a peck; two pints.
(n.) A vessel or measure containing a quart.
(n.) In cards, four successive cards of the same suit. Cf. Tierce, 4.
Example Sentences:
(1) One hundred twenty nine patients with T1 N0 M0 breast cancer were selectively treated with QUART.
(2) We conclude first, that small pT2 breast carcinomas may also be safely treated with QUART, second, that the electron beam is a radiotherapeutic technique able to produce a good cosmetic result and to assure a satisfactory local control and, finally, that the use of tamoxifen in postmenopausal stage II breast carcinomas is safe and easy to combine with radiotherapy in the conservative management of early breast cancer due to the lower toxic effects, compared to those observed in premenopausal women treated with chemotherapy.
(3) One thousand two hundred and thirty-two women with invasive breast cancer lesions measuring less than 2 cm in diameter, clinically assessed as T1N0-1M0, were treated from 1970 to 1983 at the National Cancer Institute of Milan with quadrantectomy, axillary dissection, and radiotherapy (QUART).
(4) Our study confirms the role of QUART as an effective and reliable method in the treatment of small breast carcinomas.
(5) The experimental apparatus consisted of a high efficiency particulate air (HEPA) filter, an aerosol generator, spiral UV lamps placed around a quart glass tube, an Andersen air sampler and a vacuum pump.
(6) The upper limits of drinking may be as high as three quarts of 1200 proof per day for a person over 200 lbs.
(7) Kay criticised it in a memo: "Have I got a deal for you: a Honda with a one-quart gas tank."
(8) The majority exhibited defects of the endocardial cushion variety and approximately one quarte had complete atrioventricular canals (CAVC).
(9) At home they greedily chug down a quart of amped-up babyccino .
(10) Annually by household oil disposal in Massachusetts is estimated to be 8.8 million quarts.
(11) Nineteen of 20 healthy Oriental adults living in the United States developed abdominal cramps and diarrhea after ingesting an amount of lactose equivalent to that in one quart of milk; 14 reported similar symptoms after one or two glasses of milk; all had consumed milk as infants without having such symptoms.
(12) Over 42% of the injuries concerned the head and face, about a third the lower extremities and a quart the upper extremities.
(13) The method for the determination of free crystalline silica (quarts), as previously described by two of the authors, has been employed on atmosphere dust of unconfined spaces.
(14) A combination of quadrantectomy, axillary dissection, and radiotherapy (QUART) is the regimen most favored by Japanese surgeons among a variety of breast conserving therapies currently available against breast cancer.
(15) From January 1981 to December 1987, 264 patients affected with small breast cancers were treated with quadrantectomy plus axillary dissection and radiation therapy on the breast remnant (QUART).
(16) One of the best essays on why that happened was from Reuters' culture critic Alissa Quart , who explained that the critics' anger over this film being "politicized" reflects a broader syndrome where political indifference is viewed as some sort of virtue: "In the postwar decades, the best reviewers of the day saw addressing the politics within the cultural works they reviewed as part of their jobs.
(17) The sizes of features in STRFs from this mammal appeared significantly smaller in their temporal and spectral extents than those reported in the torus semicircularis of an amphibian and were roughly comparable to the few units reported from cat ventral CN [Eggermont et al., Quart.
(18) No vitamin D was detected in 3 of the 14 samples of skim milk tested (lower limit of assay, 4.7 IU per quart [5.0 IU per liter]).
(19) Analysis of the dairy's vitamin D-fortified milk revealed concentrations of vitamin D3 (cholecalciferol) that ranged from undetectable to as high as 232,565 IU per quart (245,840 IU per liter).
(20) Regarding the limited power of this compilation a reduction of postoperative wound infections is to be expected in "clean-contaminated" procedures to a quart, in "clean" procedures to a half in comparison with procedures without prophylaxis.
Quartz
Definition:
(n.) A form of silica, or silicon dioxide (SiO2), occurring in hexagonal crystals, which are commonly colorless and transparent, but sometimes also yellow, brown, purple, green, and of other colors; also in cryptocrystalline massive forms varying in color and degree of transparency, being sometimes opaque.
Example Sentences:
(1) There fore, the adverse effects may be induced by such quartz or silicon compounds.
(2) We have previously shown that intratracheally instilled silica (quartz) produces both morphologic evidence of emphysema and small-airway changes, and functional evidence of airflow obstruction.
(3) Lung sections of rats exposed to quartz particles were significantly different.
(4) Exposures to quartz amounting to less than about 10 per cent of mixed coal mine dust do not generally affect the probability of developing simple pneumoconiosis.
(5) The effect of quartz, bentonite and coal dusts as well as the effect of the artificial mixture of these dusts on TTC reduction and extra-and intra-cellular lactate dehydrogenase activity in peritoneal rat macrophages was determined in vitro.
(6) Silica quartz dust, a direct toxin of macrophages, suppressed demyelination and inflammation if begun at time of virus infection.
(7) As expected the proportion of quartz was greater in lymph nodes and lungs from men who had worked "low" rank (high ash) coal.
(8) Guinea pig splenic lymphocytes and peritoneal macrophage cultures were incubated with quartz (DQ12), Corundum and aspirin as prostaglandin inhibitor.
(9) A surgical system using 308 nm excimer laser radiation transmitted by quartz fibers is described.
(10) Cancer incidence and cause-specific mortality were studied in a male cohort of 94 talc miners and 295 talc millers, exposed to non-asbestiform talc with low quartz content.
(11) The pulsed dye laser can effectively fragment biliary calculi when transmitted through a small-diameter quartz fiber and may be useful as a tool for fragmenting retained common duct stones.
(12) In mice bearing the highly metastatic tumors B16 melanoma and Lewis lung carcinoma (LLC) treated with Hpd and laser light delivered through a quartz fiber optic significantly prolonged the median survival time.
(13) With a long-term (1 and 4 months) introduction of an additional amount of edible fats (beef, hog fats, butter, sunflower seed oil) to intact and intratracheally quartz-dust laden sexually mature male rats an organ-specific reaction to the supply of fat, and in intact rats, also some peculiarities of the reaction depending upon the kind of the introduced fats, were discovered.
(14) Using a fluorescence microscope with quartz optics and an image analyser, it was possible to measure the intracellular concentration of free calcium ions [Ca2+]i in single microvessels for the first time.
(15) The median amount of quartz for all cases, was 0.044 grams.
(16) The microscope is focused on an in-line quartz flow cell incorporated down stream of a microbore HPLC column or directly on an optically clear portion of fused-silica capillary columns for analyte detection.
(17) X-ray diffraction data from samples of 20, 60 and 100 mug quartz on poly-vinyl chloride membrane filters have been collected using a rotating anode x-ray source.
(18) Mentally,” an Uber driver who used to do contract limo work told a reporter from business magazine Quartz last week, “these rating systems affect us a lot… If I am driving somebody who doesn’t live in New York, and they complain that I took the wrong route, how would they know the route that I should have taken?” He went on to note that in 20 years of working with corporate employees, he hadn’t a single customer complaining.
(19) There are closed relations between progressive systemic sclerosis (PSS) and exposure to quartz dust in the GDR.
(20) A 630 nanometer wavelength of light was delivered through a quartz-optical fiber with either a regular flat end for focal illumination or a bulb-type end which produced an isotropic light pattern.