(a.) Straight; direct; not crooked; as, a right line.
(a.) Upright; erect from a base; having an upright axis; not oblique; as, right ascension; a right pyramid or cone.
(a.) Conformed to the constitution of man and the will of God, or to justice and equity; not deviating from the true and just; according with truth and duty; just; true.
(a.) Fit; suitable; proper; correct; becoming; as, the right man in the right place; the right way from London to Oxford.
(a.) Characterized by reality or genuineness; real; actual; not spurious.
(a.) According with truth; passing a true judgment; conforming to fact or intent; not mistaken or wrong; not erroneous; correct; as, this is the right faith.
(a.) Most favorable or convenient; fortunate.
(a.) Of or pertaining to that side of the body in man on which the muscular action is usually stronger than on the other side; -- opposed to left when used in reference to a part of the body; as, the right side, hand, arm. Also applied to the corresponding side of the lower animals.
(a.) Well placed, disposed, or adjusted; orderly; well regulated; correctly done.
(a.) Designed to be placed or worn outward; as, the right side of a piece of cloth.
(adv.) In a right manner.
(adv.) In a right or straight line; directly; hence; straightway; immediately; next; as, he stood right before me; it went right to the mark; he came right out; he followed right after the guide.
(adv.) Exactly; just.
(adv.) According to the law or will of God; conforming to the standard of truth and justice; righteously; as, to live right; to judge right.
(adv.) According to any rule of art; correctly.
(adv.) According to fact or truth; actually; truly; really; correctly; exactly; as, to tell a story right.
(adv.) In a great degree; very; wholly; unqualifiedly; extremely; highly; as, right humble; right noble; right valiant.
(a.) That which is right or correct.
(a.) The straight course; adherence to duty; obedience to lawful authority, divine or human; freedom from guilt, -- the opposite of moral wrong.
(a.) A true statement; freedom from error of falsehood; adherence to truth or fact.
(a.) A just judgment or action; that which is true or proper; justice; uprightness; integrity.
(a.) That to which one has a just claim.
(a.) That which one has a natural claim to exact.
(a.) That which one has a legal or social claim to do or to exact; legal power; authority; as, a sheriff has a right to arrest a criminal.
(a.) That which justly belongs to one; that which one has a claim to possess or own; the interest or share which anyone has in a piece of property; title; claim; interest; ownership.
(a.) Privilege or immunity granted by authority.
(a.) The right side; the side opposite to the left.
(a.) In some legislative bodies of Europe (as in France), those members collectively who are conservatives or monarchists. See Center, 5.
(a.) The outward or most finished surface, as of a piece of cloth, a carpet, etc.
(a.) To bring or restore to the proper or natural position; to set upright; to make right or straight (that which has been wrong or crooked); to correct.
(a.) To do justice to; to relieve from wrong; to restore rights to; to assert or regain the rights of; as, to right the oppressed; to right one's self; also, to vindicate.
(v. i.) To recover the proper or natural condition or position; to become upright.
(v. i.) Hence, to regain an upright position, as a ship or boat, after careening.
Example Sentences:
(1) The origin of the aorta and pulmonary artery from the right ventricle is a complicated and little studied congenital cardiac malformation.
(2) But everyone in a nation should have the equal right to sing or not sing.
(3) As players, we want what's right, and we feel like no one in his family should be able to own the team.” The NBA has also said that Shelly Sterling should not remain as owner.
(4) CT scan revealed a small calcified mass in the right maxillary sinus.
(5) low molecular weight dextran in the course of right heart catheterization.
(6) The article describes an unusual case with development of a right anterior mediastinal mass after bypass surgery with internal mammary artery grafts.
(7) It is my desperate hope that we close out of town.” In the book, God publishes his own 'It Getteth Better' video and clarifies his original writings on homosexuality: I remember dictating these lines to Moses; and afterward looking up to find him staring at me in wide-eyed astonishment, and saying, "Thou do knowest that when the Israelites read this, they're going to lose their fucking shit, right?"
(8) Joe, meanwhile, defends her right to say "negro" whenever she wants.
(9) Evaluation revealed tricuspid insufficiency, a massively dilated right internal jugular vein, and obstruction of the left internal jugular vein.
(10) He voiced support for refugees, trade unions, council housing, peace, international law and human rights.
(11) We report on a patient, with a CT-verified low density lesion in the right parietal area, who exhibited not only deficits in left conceptual space, but also in reading, writing, and the production of speech.
(12) Endoscopic retrograde cholangiography failed to demonstrate any bile ducts in the right postero-lateral segments of the liver, the "naked segment sign".
(13) The criticism over the downgrading of the leader of the Lords was led by Lord Forsyth of Drumlean, a former Scotland secretary, who is a respected figure on the right.
(14) In this paper, we report the cases of 4 male patients (mean age 32.7 yr) with right-ventricular dysplasia, that occurred in familial form.
(15) Whittingdale also defended the right of MPs to use privilege to speak out on public interest matters.
(16) An axillo-axillary bypass procedure was performed in a high-risk patient with innominate arterial stenosis who had repeated episodes of transient cerebral ischemia due to decreased blood flow through the right carotid artery and reversal of blood flow through the right vertebral artery.
(17) After 1 year, anesthesia was induced with chloralose and an electrode catheter placed at the right ventricular apex.
(18) Right orchiectomy and retroperitoneal lymph node dissection for embryonal carcinoma had been performed 5 years earlier.
(19) Our findings indicate that Turner girls have a functional brain disorder more often than the controls, particularly at the occipital and parietal areas and in those with hemispheric differences most often in the right hemisphere.
(20) The first patient, an 82-year-old woman, developed a WPW syndrome suggesting posterior right ventricular preexcitation, a pattern which persisted for four months until her death.
Survivorship
Definition:
(n.) The state of being a survivor.
(n.) The right of a joint tenant, or other person who has a joint interest in an estate, to take the whole estate upon the death of other.
Example Sentences:
(1) We reviewed the cases of Wilms' tumor reported in the world literature highlighting the survivorship reported by some of the authors.
(2) This article presents a survivorship analysis of the second conservative 100 primary total-condylar knee arthroplasties in 75 patients performed between 1979 and 1980, with a maximum follow-up of 9 years.
(3) Only for cancers of the gastro-intestinal (GI) tract are there statistically significant differences in survivorship by geographical residence.
(4) Fecundity among genotypes was not different, although there was an effect on the total number of offspring suggesting differences in egg-to-adult survivorship.
(5) A joint tenancy is a form of co-ownership in which two or more persons hold a single interest in property and each co-owner has the right of survivorship.
(6) This paper presents a survivorship analysis of the second group of 100 consecutive primary total-condylar knee arthroplasties carried out in 75 patients between 1979-80 with a maximum follow-up of 9 years.
(7) Abundance and parity data were analyzed by a time series method to estimate daily survivorship and the length of the gonotrophic cycle.
(8) Although late mortality from degenerative vascular disease is being increasingly reported with the modern prolonged SLE survivorship, it was identified in only one patient.
(9) Other measures, such as number of multiple matings and number of offspring declined with age faster than survivorship.
(10) Survivorship studies revealed an 85%-90% incidence of loosening by the seventh postoperative year in Class A patients 55 years or younger and those walking preoperatively at more than 50% of normal gait velocity.
(11) Using late migration as an end point, a survivorship analysis of the stem stability was performed.
(12) The effects of abiotic and biotic mortality factors on preimaginal survivorship and the production of adults were investigated for populations of Culex tarsalis Coquillett at a stable foothill breeding site during 1985 and at seven ephemeral breeding sites during 1986.
(13) The best survivorship was observed in patients operated on at 9 years of age or less.
(14) Patients with therapy-related acute nonlymphocytic leukemia present many challenges to health care professionals, yet it is only through the success of cancer management that we have uncovered this rare and unfortunate issue of survivorship.
(15) Of the three contributors to reproductive success, the number of reproductive years, fecundity per year and survivorship of offspring to reproductive age, the first accounted for two-thirds of the variation.
(16) The extensive record system at the Mayo Clinic for the population of Rochester, Minnesota, provided the basis for this study of the incidence, secular trend, pathologic features, relationship with gallstones, and survivorship of patients with carcinoma of the gallbladder and extrahepatic biliary ducts in the period 1935 through 1971.
(17) Survivorship analysis showed that protein-depleted patients had a significantly lower probability of survival one year after the fracture of the hip (p = 0.02).
(18) Litter size also was an important factor in determining survivorship.
(19) This paper, the second in a series on the application of the microcomputer to the estimation of vital rates by indirect techniques, deals with the measurement of adult survivorship.
(20) Mean number of broods produced per daphnid, length of the reproductive period, longevity and survivorship were insensitive criteria relative to mean time to appearance of the primiparous instar, time to release of first brood, brood size, and number of young produced per daphnid per reproductive day.