(n.) A machine for raking grain or hay by horse or other power.
(n.) A gun so placed as to rake an enemy's ship.
(n.) See Gill rakers, under 1st Gill.
Example Sentences:
(1) The gill bars (bearing gill rakers that interlock with rakers of adjacent arches) clearly function as a resistance within the oral cavity and restrict posterior water influx during mouth opening, creating a unidirectional flow during feeding.
(2) The threshold of both filament-related and gill raker mechanoreceptors was relatively high.
(3) The basal lamina exhibits a smooth contour over most of the gill surface with the exception of the short gill rakers where it formed cones within the taste bud cores, and on the respiratory lamellae where it closely mimicked the underlying capillary network.
(4) Two rows of gill filaments (about 42 filaments per row) extended posterolaterally, and two rows of gill rakers (about 10 rakers per row) extended anteromedially from each arch.
(5) Anatomical examinations showed that fluid channels in the buccal chamber and gill raker sieve are complex and can be expected to vary spatially and temporally throughout the respiratory cycle.
(6) Physiological properties of gill filament and gill raker mechanoreceptors in the gills of spontaneously breathing carp, Cyprinus carpio L., were analysed.
(7) 2 generally prefers relatively flat surfaces in the gill chamber but is more versatile in its choice of attachment sites on its host, the blacktip cod, Epinephelus fasciatus; two specimens were attached to the gill arch, one to a gill raker and one to the dorsal pharyngeal tooth pad.
(8) The department sent undercover officers, codenamed "rakers", into Muslim neighbourhoods, and ran a network of informants known as "mosque crawlers" to monitor sermons – even when there had been no evidence of criminality.
(9) Gill rakers are large in size in Notopterus notopterus while they are small in Colisa fasciatus.
(10) Taste buds were especially prominent on the rakers and the pharyngeal surfaces of the first and second gill arches, but were often replaced by horny spines on the third and fourth gill arches.
(11) In an effort to uncover terrorist plots, so-called "rakers" or "mosque crawlers" – typically paid NYPD informants – were sent to Muslim student association meetings, businesses, universities, restaurants, whitewater rafting trips and more than 250 mosques in New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, Pennsylvania and elsewhere.
(12) Deflection of gill rakers also elicited a brief response in epibranchial ganglion neurons.
(13) The map of the oropharyngeal epithelium is distorted so that the gill arches are rotated through an angle of 90 degrees along the transverse plane, and the dorsally mapped region of the gill rakers is tilted posteriorly in the sagittal plane of the vagal lobe.
(14) Gill head region consists of bony arch, gill rakers and interbranchial septum.
Rater
Definition:
(n.) One who rates or estimates.
(n.) One who rates or scolds.
Example Sentences:
(1) Accuracy of discrimination of letters at various preselected distances was determined each session while Ortho-rater examinations were given periodically throughout training.
(2) A rater-specifuc varuabke was fiybd fir eacg if tge fiyr raters.
(3) Study 1 assessed the effects of roentgenogram quality, raters, and seven measurement methods on the consistency and accuracy of evaluating translations in the sagittal plane.
(4) Videotaped interviews were used for assessing the level of inter-rater reliability and the communicability of the CPRS to unexperienced raters.
(5) In order to evaluate how many patients presenting at accident and emergency (A&E) departments show signs of psychiatric disturbance, 140 consecutive medical presentations to an A&E department were evaluated using a range of simple self-report and rater measures, then followed up a month later.
(6) This increase was greater with the inexperienced raters than with the experienced group.
(7) Interrater reliabilities, ranging from .62 to .83 across rater pairs, were superior to reliabilities reported in medical education studies.
(8) The DRS and LCFS were compared in terms of how consistently ratings could be made by different raters, how stable those ratings were from day to day, their relative correlation with Stover Zeiger (S-Z) ratings collected concurrently at admission, and with S-Z, Glasgow Outcome Scale (GOS), and Expanded GOS (EGOS) ratings collected concurrently at discharge, and finally in the ability of admission DRS and LCFS scores to predict discharge ratings on the S-Z, GOS, and EGOS.
(9) Scale items that differed from the raters' intuition tended to be omitted more than others.
(10) Two raters examined 45 children (90 hips), including patients with spastic diplegia and with meningomyelocele, who are prone to developing hip flexion contractures, and healthy subjects.
(11) Additional evaluations included interrater reliability and an evaluation that included longitudinal measurement, in which one subject was imaged sequentially 24 times, with reliability computed from data collected by three raters over 1 year.
(12) Furthermore, raters watched the synchronously recorded video versions of the subject's face and rated them as to expressivity.
(13) Each rater evaluated the transcript of 15 prenatal interviews.
(14) These differences diminish when more highly educated raters are used.
(15) Prealcohol and postalcohol responses were assessed by self-rating scales of affect and mood, independent rater observation, perceptual-motor, and cognitive performance tasks.
(16) Intrarater reliability for each of the four nurse-raters on a random sample was at a significant level.
(17) Several investigators have used the Brier index to measure the predictive accuracy of a set of medical judgments; the Brier scores of different raters who have evaluated the same patients provides a measure of relative accuracy.
(18) Comparison of reliability scores across rating conditions indicated that the videotape medium had little effect on the ability of raters to rate affective flattening similarly.
(19) Calibrated raters were unaware of group affiliation of products.
(20) The Brief Psychiatric Rating Scale (BPRS) and the Clinical Global Impressions (CGI) scale were administered at study entry and once a week by a blind rater.