(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.
Tome
Definition:
(n.) As many writings as are bound in a volume, forming part of a larger work; a book; -- usually applied to a ponderous volume.
Example Sentences:
(1) Differing patterns of calcium distribution were observed in the ameloblast seemingly associated with the appearance of Tomes' process.
(2) The arts and social space in Deptford opened in 2015 after three years of fundraising and it now runs a programme of gigs, screenings, talks and performances, as well as being home to Tome Records, which has a distractingly good selection of vinyl, as well as tapes and zines.
(3) The stereotypical view of the historian is that of a stodgy, bespectacled individual poring over tomes of printed text, dusty manuscripts, and thousands of index cards.
(4) This kind of material also could be seen in the spaces between the Tomes' processes and the enamel matrix, and in the vesicles of the Golgi apparatus.
(5) In examination of ground sections of human third maxillary molar teeth, the granular layer of Tomes was shown to consist of expansion of dentinal tubules.
(6) The Arsenal manager had said that he might have to delve for the tome to reacquaint himself with the meaning of crisis.
(7) Without colchicine in the medium, many small vesicles containing HRP were located in the Tomes' processes, whereas only a few were present with colchicine at concentrations above 5 microM.
(8) Preparations from EFAD rats showed a gradual decrease of the tome with time.
(9) Twice as much calmodulin and calpactin II were detected in cell bodies as in Tomes' processes, but calcimedin was more abundant in the latter.
(10) The disturbances in mineralization were characterized by accumulations of unmineralized enamel matrix at the secretory regions of Tomes' process within 1 h after injection.
(11) Bookcases line the property: there are tomes on Hitler, Disney, Titanic, J Edgar Hoover, proverbs, quotations, fables, grammar, the Beach Boys, top 40 pop hits, baseball, Charlie Chaplin – any and every topic.
(12) On the floor was a pile of McQueen’s beloved reference books: Living Jewels, a huge tome of exquisite closeups of beetles, and another on German artist Rebecca Horn ’s installation piece Moon Mirror.
(13) Finally, there was a slower secretion of labeled proteins out of Tomes' processes between 1 and 4 h after injection.
(14) A bookshop clerk confirmed that politically sensitive tomes, such as those produced by the missing booksellers, would no longer be stocked.
(15) Into this depressing scene drops a 250-page radical tome from Dominic Cummings , Michael Gove's charismatically influential adviser.
(16) Newton coined the term in 1687 in his famous tome, Principia Mathematica, and for 200 years scientists were happy to think of mass as something that simply existed.
(17) A similar arrangement of wavy rows of ameloblasts at the level of distal terminal web and Tomes' processes was also seen in monkey teeth.
(18) Abraham is said to have pursued the role running C4 doggedly, quietly breakfasting opinion formers, publishing an impressive art house tome about his two-year rebranding of the UKTV digital channels, led by Dave, and trying to woo anyone who might be close to the decision-making process.
(19) Large type HID-TCH-SP stain deposits, approximately 10 nm in diameter, were detected on the interdigitating cell membrane of Tomes' process, inside some secretory granules, on the lateral cell membrane of stratum intermedium, in the basement membranes associated with outer enamel epithelium and endothelial cells of capillary, within the so-called hole region, and in the enamel matrix near future enamel-cement junction.
(20) Until Martin Blogg quoted us a line or two from Simon Inglis' historical tome Villa Park 100 Years, that is: "Aston Villa Football Club was founded by pupils of the Aston Villa Wesleyan Chapel Sunday school.