(n.) A New Zealand forest tree (Metrosideros robusta), also, its hard dark red wood, used by the Maoris for paddles and war clubs.
Example Sentences:
(1) Treatment appeared to have a suppressive effect on RATA, but not on ATA titers, in hypothroid patients with clinical thyroiditis.
(2) Using preselected screening criteria, 663 with specific occlusal features were selected and an additional 355 children with nonspecific features were randomly allocated on a pro-rata basis.
(3) Medical utilization has been risen with the level of services offered more than pro rata to population increase.
(4) City's punishment for breaching Uefa's financial fair-play regulations means they will be restricted to a 21-man Champions League squad next season and it is possible that could mean a pro-rata reduction in the number of home-grown players they must include.
(5) By the time I reached the Laban Rata rest house, I had been climbing for about six hours, seen three different species of rare pitcher plants , but decided that climbing mountains was definitely not something I would be making a habit of.
(6) We redesign the National Insurance (NI) system so that the state can limit the supply of new NI numbers in one category: private sector job offers on less than a certain wage (for example £18,000 a year pro-rata).
(7) Surely it should be pro-rata to the size of what you're doing?"
(8) However, Yentob's salary was described as the "full-time equivalent of his pro rata salary for reduced hours".
(9) Addition of sodium nitrite to BRP extracts increases acid-activatable vasodilator activity pro rata.
(10) Institution of therapy was associated with a fall in copper excretion pro rata with time.
(11) The National Trust , which employs many of its seasonal workers on zero-hours contracts, said it offered the same pay and benefits to those workers, pro rata, as full-time staff, but needed some workers to be on a more flexible arrangement.
(12) No patient who had initially negative serum for RATA subsequently had positive tests during follow-up of five to 24 months, whereas eight of 31 patients with initially negative serum for ATA later developed positive tests.
(13) "[We will] account to artists a good-faith pro rata share of any revenues and other compensation from digital services that stem from the monetisation of recordings but are not attributed to specific recordings or performances," they wrote.
(14) The comparison for any given metabolite is made, keeping the same level of predicted intracellular concentration as in traditional Kiil treatments, and it is found that the number of treatment hours per week may be reduced pro rata as the dialyzer clearance is increased.
(15) He was handed 1.5m shares in 2012 under the 10-year share plan and will receive a portion of his award on a pro-rata basis.
(16) Taken together, these results showed lung burdens rising pro rata with exposure concentration and exposure time.
(17) They could guarantee the losses in the same way as they underwrite the World Bank: each government would provide a modest pro-rata capital infusion and commit the rest in the form of callable capital that would be available if and when losses are actually paid out.
(18) Neo natal oestrogenisation of the male rata provoke at 3 months : 1) a reduction of the insulin secretion at the glucose loading with all the diets 2) hypercholesterolemia with the diet rich in saturated fats 3) hypertriglyceridemia with diets rich in M.C.T.
(19) If there is any money left over for the creditors, they need to work out what they can afford to pay and contact creditors making 'pro rata' offers.
(20) Patients with symptomatic Wilson's disease had by far the highest excretion of radiocopper in all three time periods which fell after treatment, pro rata with time, as had been found for stable copper.
Tree
Definition:
(n.) Any perennial woody plant of considerable size (usually over twenty feet high) and growing with a single trunk.
(n.) Something constructed in the form of, or considered as resembling, a tree, consisting of a stem, or stock, and branches; as, a genealogical tree.
(n.) A piece of timber, or something commonly made of timber; -- used in composition, as in axletree, boottree, chesstree, crosstree, whiffletree, and the like.
(n.) A cross or gallows; as Tyburn tree.
(n.) Wood; timber.
(n.) A mass of crystals, aggregated in arborescent forms, obtained by precipitation of a metal from solution. See Lead tree, under Lead.
(v. t.) To drive to a tree; to cause to ascend a tree; as, a dog trees a squirrel.
(v. t.) To place upon a tree; to fit with a tree; to stretch upon a tree; as, to tree a boot. See Tree, n., 3.
Example Sentences:
(1) Arterial compliance of great vessels can be studied through the Doppler evaluation of pulsed wave velocity along the arterial tree.
(2) The only sign of life was excavators loading trees on to barges to take to pulp mills.
(3) These findings suggest that aerosolization of ATP into the cystic fibrosis-affected bronchial tree might be hazardous in terms of enhancement of parenchymal damage, which would result from neutrophil elastase release, and in terms of impaired respiratory lung function.
(4) While there has been almost no political reform during their terms of office, there have been several ambitious steps forward in terms of environmental policy: anti-desertification campaigns; tree planting; an environmental transparency law; adoption of carbon targets; eco-services compensation; eco accounting; caps on water; lower economic growth targets; the 12th Five-Year Plan; debate and increased monitoring of PM2.5 [fine particulate matter] and huge investments in eco-cities, "clean car" manufacturing, public transport, energy-saving devices and renewable technology.
(5) Anhidrotic ectodermal dysplasia is characterized by an absence of seromucous glands in the oropharynx and tracheobronchial tree, making children with this disease prone to viral and bacterial respiratory infections.
(6) Celebrity woodlanders Tax breaks and tree-hugging already draw the wealthy and well-known to buy British forests.
(7) A new family tree of the tyrannosaurs in the paper considers Lythronax to be very close to Tyrannosaurus and its nearest relatives.
(8) Increasing awareness of disorders such as coronary arterial spasm, functional impairment of subendocardial blood flow and the possible role of variant patterns of anatomic distribution of the coronary arterial tree, will provide a better understanding of their significance as determining or contributing factors in patients with the anginal syndrome.
(9) It's of her and Barack Obama planting an olive tree in Uhuru park in the city centre in October 2006.
(10) The alterations of dendritic trees of pyramidal neurons of layer III of visual cortex of the rat exposed to the influence of space flight aboard biosputnik "Cosmos-1887" were studied and the results are described to illustrate the methods power.
(11) The trachea and the bronchial tree (first through seventh order branches) both synthesized alpha1(II) chains.
(12) Using a large clinic population with adequate controls, significant correlation between ragweed, grass or tree pollen sensitivity and the dates of birth was not obtained.
(13) The criteria selected by a classification tree method were similar: palpable purpura, age less than or equal to 20 years at disease onset, biopsy showing granulocytes around arterioles or venules, and gastrointestinal bleeding.
(14) The results are consistent with an action of banana tree juice on the molecule responsible for excitation-contraction coupling in skeletal muscle, resulting in a labilization of intracellular Ca2+.
(15) Studying the bronchial tree on the chest x-ray it is possible to indicate the visceral situs with asplenia or with polysplenia.
(16) Reconstruction of the intrahepatic biliary tree was carried out in all patients using intrahepatic cholangiojejunostomies between common segmental hepatic stomata and a Roux-en-Y jejunal loop.
(17) Axonal trees display differential growth during development or regeneration; that is, some branches stop growing and often retract while other branches continue to grow and form stable synaptic connections.
(18) When the vascular supply is abnormal, reconstruction of the vascular tree of one or both organs may be needed.
(19) A major outbreak in Kent in 2012 saw 2,000 trees felled.
(20) "We are alarmed to see the government is even wavering about continuing its programme of tracing, testing and destroying infected young ash trees.