(a.) Lifted up; showing above the surroundings; as, raised or embossed metal work.
(a.) Leavened; made with leaven, or yeast; -- used of bread, cake, etc., as distinguished from that made with cream of tartar, soda, etc. See Raise, v. t., 4.
Example Sentences:
(1) By combined histologic and cytologic examinations, the overall diagnostic rate was raised to 87.7%.
(2) I’m not in charge of it but he’s stood up and presented that, and when Jenny, you know, criticised it, or raised some issues about grandparent carers – 3,700 of them he calculated – he said “Let’s sit down”.
(3) McDonald said cutting better deals with suppliers and improving efficiency as well as raising some prices had only partly offset the impact of sterling’s fall against the dollar.
(4) The 40 degrees C heating induced an increase in systolic, diastolic, average and pulse pressure at rectal temperature raised to 40 degrees C. Further growth of the body temperature was accompanied by a decrease in the above parameters.
(5) The adaptive filter processor was tested for retrospective identification of artifacts in 20 male volunteers who performed the following specific movements between epochs of quiet, supine breathing: raising arms and legs (slowly, quickly, once, and several times), sitting up, breathing deeply and rapidly, and rolling from a supine to a lateral decubitus position.
(6) These findings raise questions regarding the efficacy of medical school curriculum in motivating career choices in primary care.
(7) The compressive strength of bone is proportional to the square of the apparent density and to the strain rate raised to the 0.06 power.
(8) Theoretical objections have been raised to the use of He-O2 as treatment regimen.
(9) The study revealed that hypophysectomy and ventricular injection of AVP dose dependently raised pain threshold and these effects were inhibited by naloxone.
(10) Cameron also used the speech to lambast one of the central announcements in the budget - raising the top rate of tax for people earning more than £150,000 to 50p from next year.
(11) The issue has been raised by an accountant investigating the tax affairs of the duchy – an agricultural, commercial and residential landowner.
(12) A reduction in neonatal deaths from this cause might be expected if facilities for antenatal diagnosis and termination of pregnancy were made available, although this raises grave ethical problems.
(13) Thus the failure to raise anti-Id with internal image characteristics may provide an explanation for the lack of anti-gp120 activity reported in anti-Id antisera raised to multiple anti-CD4 antibodies.
(14) In the interim, sonographic studies during pregnancy in women at risk for AIDS may be helpful in identifying fetal intrauterine growth retardation and may help raise our level of suspicion for congenital AIDS.
(15) To study these changes more thoroughly, specific monoclonal antibodies of the A and B subunits of calcineurin (protein phosphatase 2B) were raised, and regional alterations in the immunoreactivity of calcineurin in the rat hippocampus were investigated after a transient forebrain ischemic insult causing selective and delayed hippocampal CA1 pyramidal cell damage.
(16) The independent but combined use of both antigens, appreciably raises the diagnostic success percentage with regard to that obtained when only one tumour marker was used.
(17) In a newspaper interview last month, Shapps said the BBC needed to tackle what he said was a culture of secrecy, waste and unbalanced reporting if it hoped to retain the full £3.6bn raised by the licence fee after the current Royal Charter expires in 2016.
(18) 5) Raise the adult learning grant from £30 to £45 a week.
(19) Using polyclonal antibodies raised against yeast p34cdc2, we have detected a 36 kd immunoactive polypeptide in macronuclei which binds to Suc1 (p13)-coated beads and closely follows H1 kinase activity.
(20) The enzyme activity can be raised to a plateau by Se supplements, but there is no evidence that supplementation leads to better health.
Retroflex
Definition:
(a.) Alt. of Retroflexed
Example Sentences:
(1) Bony anomalies encountered in the 'no neck' form of Klippel-Feil syndrome (KFS) are a wide, short, fused, bifid, retroflexed spinal canal; craniolacunia, cranium bifidum, and acrania.
(2) 8 of the 50 had a retroflexed uterus and 2 of those were displacement cases, suggesting that anomaly of position could be a predisposition for ectopia.
(3) Each subject, by means of computerized stabilometric platform, has been submitted to the sensitized test with head retroflexed.
(4) Most perforations occur at the time of insertion; insertion during the early postpartum period or during the period of lactational amenorrhoea, or in the case of an undiagnosed pregnant uterus or an acutely anteflexed or retroflexed uterus can be the cause.
(5) The head is not retroflexed, and the tongue is not supported by an endoscope as in direct laryngoscopy.
(6) During a period of 18 months with a history of chronic pelvic pain symptomatology (severe dysmenorrhea, severe dyspareunia, extramenstrual pain) retroverted or retroflexed uterus, and infertility were subjected to laparoscopy for diagnostic and therapeutic purposes as well.
(7) Prior ultrasound of this area was significantly limited by bowel loops anterior to the retroflexed uterine body and cervix, which were displaced cephalad out of the pelvic inlet and were not seen.
(8) This tracing technique labeled, in a Golgi-like manner, the neurons which initiate the fasciculi retroflexes and revealed details of their morphological pattern.
(9) This case report presents a full-term pregnancy in a retroflexed uterus.
(10) An insufficiently full bladder, a retroflex uterus, echoes caused by the intestine, and obesity made the ultrasonic scanning more difficult.
(11) The features of interest are sonorant, syllabic, consonantal, high, back, front, and retroflex.
(12) We describe a fetus with hydrocephalus and the cranial and cervical findings of iniencephaly (enlarged foramen magnum, fusion of the upper cervical vertebrae, and a retroflexed, webbed neck) who had an unusual palatal abnormality ("palatal anteversion").
(13) Finally, the retroflexed uterine position does not appear to increase the risk of abnormal outcomes.
(14) Two cases of retroflexed holoprosencephaly are presented.
(15) A tortuous retroflexed innominate artery can simulate a right apical mass.
(16) Secondary dysmenorrhea means pathological organic alterations of the genital tract: uterus myomatosus, endometrial polyps, endometriosis, and retroflexed uterus.
(17) The fetus remained fixed in the same position with the head retroflexed during each consecutive exam.
(18) Examination revealed a retroflexed uterus with the cervical opening pointing toward the anterior abdominal wall.
(19) The GIF-P2-prototype with four-way tip control and ability to retroflex 180 degree up, 60 degree down, and 100 degree right and left was superior to GIF-P1 and CF-P-prototype for visualization of the entire esophagus, stomach, duodenal bulb, and postbulbar area in patients less than 10 years old.
(20) The common phenotypic features of this syndrome include growth failure and mental or developmental retardation, hypotonia, persistent lanugo, distorted head, congenital glaucoma, short and upturned nose, prominent maxilla, micrognathia, short, webbed neck, short limbs, retroflexed third and fourth toes, cutaneous syndactyly of the second, third and fourth toes, and elevated galactose-1-phosphate uridyl transferase activity in the red blood cells.