(a.) One more than sixteen; ten and seven added; as, seventeen years.
(n.) The number greater by one than sixteen; the sum of ten and seven; seventeen units or objects.
(n.) A symbol denoting seventeen units, as 17, or xvii.
Example Sentences:
(1) Seventeen patients (Group 1) had had no previous surgery, while 13 (Group 2) had had multiple previous operations.
(2) Seventeen patients (9 sibling and 8 unrelated donors) received conditioning with hyperfractionated total body irradiation (TBI), thiotepa, and cyclophosphamide (Cy).
(4) Seventeen different bacteria were used in the adherence tests; ten strains of alpha-hemolytic streptococci, five from children with infective endocarditis (IE) and five from healthy carriers, two S. aureus, two N. meningitidis, two N. gonorrhoeae and one E. coli.
(5) Rates of loss (degradation) of label from membrane proteins in the seventeen bands appeared to be related to the estimated molecular size of the proteins.
(6) Seventeen patients who were followed up for more than 1 year were grouped by functional grading: 11 (65%) were excellent; 3 (18%) good; 2 fair (12%); and 1 poor.
(7) Seventeen patients had type I complex partial seizures (CPS) with three consecutive phases: initial motionless staring, oral-alimentary automatisms, and reactive quasipurposeful movements during impaired consciousness.
(8) Seventeen (77%) of the injuries were due to penetrating trauma and five (23%) were due to blunt trauma.
(9) Seventeen points of origin of pain have been registered in the face.
(10) Seventeen of these were due to infection or loosening of the prosthesis.
(11) Seventeen strains of Lactobacillus acidophilus were evaluated to determine the relationship between bile tolerance and the presence of an outer polysaccharide layer exterior to the cell wall when viewed by transmission electron microscopy.
(12) Seventeen of them showed a constitutional delay in growth and puberty, twenty-three suffered from growth-hormone deficiency (GHD) and eight had a suspected GHD as a result of pharmacological tests.
(13) Seventeen patients were diagnosed as having primary rheumatic carditis, 9 presented with tonsillogenic rheumatic carditis, and 16 had viral rheumatic carditis.
(14) Seventeen lightly wounded were detained in the EH and 4 underwent life-saving surgery there.
(15) Seventeen patients (including 15 with septicaemia) were given fosfomycin and penicillin M for a mean period of 17 days.
(16) Seventeen consecutive patients were studied at various stages ranging from 6 days to 34 days after myocardial infarction (MI).
(17) Seventeen now had symptoms and nine had related physical signs.
(18) Seventeen anorexia nervosa patients were examined dentally and their dietary histories and eating habits studied.
(19) Seventeen patients with advanced, previously treated malignancies were entered into a phase I trial utilizing recombinant DNA produced alpha 2 leukocyte interferon (rIFN-alpha 2).
(20) Seventeen out of eighteen subclones derived from the original clone revealed the same activity.
Seventeenth
Definition:
(a.) Next in order after the sixteenth; coming after sixteen others.
(a.) Constituting or being one of seventeen equal parts into which anything is divided.
(n.) The next in order after the sixteenth; one coming after sixteen others.
(n.) The quotient of a unit divided by seventeen; one of seventeen equal parts or divisions of one whole.
(n.) An interval of two octaves and a third.
Example Sentences:
(1) The location of the Y chromosome in metaphase figures was studied, with respect to its polymorphism, on 700 micrographs from blood lymphocyte cultures from 70 normal male members of seven Canadian family lines whose polymorphic Y chromosomes were inherited in a patrilinear fashion from seventeenth-century French ancestors.
(2) James Cooke, author of one of the most popular English surgical textbooks of the seventeenth century, in an amusing and previously unnoted reference, adds to this denigration and helps to explain why nasal reconstruction became a subject of satire in England.
(3) The ability to excrete a water load was severely limited on the fifth day, but improved progressively by the tenth and seventeenth days.
(4) Beginning with the seventeenth century, when the main scientific foundations were laid, an account is given of the development of various clinical techniques for the assessment of visual acuity and ametropia.
(5) In the seventeenth day after admission, he died of lung edema and heart failure.
(6) At the seventeenth gestational week, endochondral ossification of the condylar process appeared, the formation of joint cavities was fairly completed, and synovial tissues were easily observed.
(7) William Petty, physician, epidemiologist, political economist, demographer, cartographer, and administrator was an intellectual product of the seventeenth century.
(8) In the seventeenth century, the Petition of Right gave new authority to Parliament; and the Bill of Rights set limits on the power of the monarchy.
(9) Documentation of the seventeenth case of melanoma of the rectum is presented.
(10) Basing on Heidegger's discussion of the opposing, albeit complementary, positions taken by Leibniz and by the seventeenth-century East German mystic Angelus Silesius in respect of the concept of the nature and grounds of knowledge and reason, the author attempts to extend the scope of recent experimental epistemologists such as Varela and v. Foerster, pointing out the fundamental dilemmas inherent in the act of cognition, with which--among others--researchers in psychotherapy are confronted.
(11) Attempts to recommend the book to modern readers have missed the point that Burton, more clearly than other seventeenth century writers on melancholy, sees traumatic loss of attachment figures, status symbols and personal health as predisposing to mood disorders.
(12) We now have the moral leadership of the world, and before many years are over we shall have people coming here as to a modern Mecca, learning from us in the twentieth century as they learned from us in the seventeenth," said Mr Aneurin Bevan, Minister of Health, at a Labour rally in Manchester yesterday.
(13) The total cell count on the seventeenth day was 50% of the initial cell count and the cells were almost entirely small, apparently healthy lymphocytes.
(14) To our knowledge, this represents the seventeenth histologically proved case.
(15) Despite the better than expected PMI, firms have continued to reduce jobs in the sector for the seventeenth month in a row in September.
(16) Stature increase is minimal (though seventeenth century Londoners and modern West Africans are shorter than Colonial to Modern Americans); teeth deteriorate and for cultural reasons fractures increase.
(17) All cold-treated groups had an elevation of systolic blood pressure that was proportional to the concentration of NaCl in the diet by the seventeenth week of exposure to cold.
(18) In the sacral levels adjacent to the conus medullaris, the spreading to surface layers was not apparent bilaterally until the seventeenth week.
(19) Dissection of the females on the seventeenth day after the beginning of the mating has shown that the preimplantation is increased when the males are twelve months old whereas exposure to ionizing radiations enhances only the postimplantation loss.
(20) Cytochrome oxidase increases up to the seventeenth week of life, and then decreases in older animals.