(n.) The aspect of planets when separated the fifth part of the zodiac, or 72¡.
Example Sentences:
(1) When the 2 preinvasive disease categories were combined, an elevated odds ratio of borderline significance was found for 2 of the 3 lower quintiles for the 4 low quintiles combined.
(2) Age-adjusted all-cause mortality rates per 10,000 man-years of follow-up in normotensive men ranged from 64.0 in the least fit quintile to 18.6 in the most fit quintile.
(3) In multivariate analyses, the relative risks of breast cancer for women in the highest quintile of consumption of saturated fat and animal proteins were 3.0 (95% confidence interval, 1.9-4.7) and 2.9 (1.8-4.6), respectively.
(4) Each of the 469 kidneys was placed into 1 of 5 quintiles on the basis of its effective renal plasma flow at the first examination.
(5) Reproducibility of placing a dietary factor into a particular quintile of consumption was good for most foods, but it was lowest for cruciferous and leafy green vegetables.
(6) Overall, 69.9% of the age-sex-specific quintiles and height-sex-specific quintiles of systolic blood pressure were identical.
(7) The relative risks for highest vs. lowest quintile of intake were estimated for carbohydrates to be 2.57 (95% confidence interval 1.64-4.03), cholesterol 2.68 (1.72-4.17), dietary fiber 0.45 (0.30-0.63), and vitamin C 0.53 (0.38-0.76).
(8) There was no appreciable association between height and endometrial cancer: compared with the lowest quintile, the multivariate relative risks (RR) were 0.9, 0.9, 0.7 and 0.8 for each subsequent quintile.
(9) The increased risk leading to diabetes for those in the top quintile compared to the lowest quintile of the distribution of statistically significant risk factors were: body mass index = 21.7, triglycerides = 13.5, waist-to-hip circumference ratio = 9.6, diastolic blood pressure = 6.7, uric acid = 5.8, glutamic pyruvic transaminase = 3.9, bilirubin = 3.2, blood glucose = 2.7, lactate = 2.4 and glutamic oxaloacetic transaminase = 2.0.
(10) The percentage of the kidneys that had clinically significant pyelocaliectasis or in which the pyelocaliectasis significantly worsened was 20.4 per cent in the lowest (first) quintile and 9.3, 2.2, 5.4 and 3.2 per cent in the second, third, fourth and fifth quintiles, respectively.
(11) In only 1.0% of children did these quintiles differ by more than one.
(12) We observed a decreased risk of lung cancer mortality only in the higher quintiles of FEV1 in current smokers among men, but not in women.
(13) No suggestion of a protective effect of dietary fiber was observed (RRs for increasing quintiles were 1.0, 0.95, 0.93, 1.02, and 1.02).
(14) The increased incidence of diabetes was confined to the lowest quintile of SHBG values, where it was 5-fold higher than in the remaining group.
(15) Relative risk according to quintiles, and adjusted for age, family history, BMI and WHR, for women at the 80% level was 2.9 as compared with those at the 20% level for C-peptide.
(16) Correlation coefficients, quintile distributions, and regressions all confirmed the ability of baseline SBP and DBP to predict their respective pressures on follow-up examination.
(17) Interaction was also seen for the next lowest quintile (22.4-24.2).
(18) Among subjects who belonged to the lowest quintile on the basis of the food record measurement, an average of 51 per cent fell into the same quintile and 76 per cent fell into the lowest two quintiles when they were categorized on the basis of the food use questionnaire.
(19) The observation that cholecystectomy rates are not linearly associated with obesity suggests that women in the highest quintiles of body mass could be considered a reasonable group in which strategies for prevention of gallbladder disease might be tested.
(20) The results are presented by neighborhood income quintile group (based on percentage of low income), and by the mother's age, parity (number of live births), marital status and country of birth, as well as by CMA.
Quintine
Definition:
(n.) The embryonic sac of an ovule, sometimes regarded as an innermost fifth integument. Cf. Quartine, and Tercine.
Example Sentences:
(1) In 1963, when Tony Benn won his fight to renounce his inherited peerage, he was rapidly followed by Quintin Hogg and Alec Douglas-Home, who were prominent in the Lords but understood they needed to face the people to get to the very top, as Douglas-Home went on to do.
(2) Here's Quintin Berry, and if the Tigers can't score here...well... 1.53am GMT Giants 2 - Tigers 0, Bottom 5th A little flare by Infante finds a little bit of room out on right field, and that really is all you need.
(3) Quintin Price, a former manager at investment management firm BlackRock, will join the management board to lead Deutsche’s assetmanagement business, while the current head Michele Faissola will leave the bank.
(4) Meanwhile Quintin Mikell is questionable with a foot injury and his return is questionable.
(5) But the director general of the European commission, Odile Quintin, yesterday acknowledged that the EU was divided on the issue, and that the position, for now at least, was that the word "apology" would not be used.
(6) Both Hogg’s parents had leading roles in Sir John Major’s government and her grandfather, Quintin Hogg, was a prominent Tory who almost won the Conservative party leadership following the resignation of Harold Macmillan.
(7) She did not disclose her brother Quintin’s role at Barclays – regulated by the Bank – until 22 February when she filled in a questionnaire from the Treasury select committee before her evidence about her promotion to deputy governor.
(8) Now Quintin Berry will hit for the pitcher, and he chops to Scutaro at second and just gets the out at first, side retired!
(9) 12.28am GMT Giants 0 - Tigers 0, Bottom 1st Quintin Berry is up next and he works a full count off of Cain, fouls a few balls off, gets Cain to throw eight pitches and then lines a ball... *JUST* foul into the corner.
(10) 1.12am GMT Giants 1 - Tigers 0, Bottom 3rd Quintin Berry bunts, and Cain and Sandoval nearly collide in trying to field it, and Sandoval gets the ball and manages to just throw out Berry at first.
(11) So we have two runners on and just one out for Quintin Berry.
(12) Emwazi was educated at another school in the area, Quintin Kynaston (QK), where his contemporaries included the singer-songwriter Tulisa.
(13) Her parents had leading roles in Sir John Major’s government and her grandfather, Quintin Hogg, better known as Lord Hailsham, was a prominent Tory who almost won the Conservative party leadership after the resignation of Harold Macmillan in 1963.
(14) Bank of England deputy's slip-up was astonishing – but its reaction was predictable | Nils Pratley Read more Hogg’s troubles began when it emerged that she had not declared a potential conflict of interest , which is that her brother, Quintin Hogg, is a director of group strategy at Barclays, which the Bank of England regulates.
(15) A scion of one of Britain’s most high-profile political families, Hogg had initially told MPs last month that the Bank was aware of Quintin Hogg’s role at the high street lender.
(16) 7.32pm GMT 49ers 6-10 Panthers, :42, 2nd quarter Carolina's Quintin Mikell was injured on the last play, looks like the ankle.
(17) The lengthy beer menu lists 170 brews, including hard-to-find local specialities such as Quintine beers from the witches’ town of Ellezelles (which claims to be birthplace of Hercule Poirot, solely on the basis of a fake birth certificate) and lovely spicy, unfiltered La Chouffe on tap.
(18) 2.56am GMT Giants 3 - Tigers 3, Bottom 8th Pinch-hitting for the Tigers for Quintin Berry is Avisail Garcia.
(19) Then we have trouble, a one-out walk to Quintin Berry, which means the meat is coming up with a man on.
(20) 1.51am GMT Giants 1 - Tigers 2, Bottom 5th Quintin Berry hits a grounder that Cain can't get a handle on but, it gets to Crawford who throws to Belt just in time to get the out and end the inning.