(a.) Measured by sixty degrees; fixed or indicated by a distance of sixty degrees.
(n.) The aspect or position of two planets when distant from each other sixty degrees, or two signs. This position is marked thus: /.
Example Sentences:
(1) In considering logistic function 46% of CHD new cases originated from the first four informative characteristics of the upper sextile.
(2) Risk of CHD development in the upper sextile was 6 times as high as in the lower sextile.
(3) Risk of CHD development compared to the lower sextile increased 9.5-fold.
(4) Cholesterol metabolism has been studied in two groups of five rhesus monkeys each that were selected from the upper and lower sextile in the distribution of serum cholesterol concentration while being fed an atherogenic diet.
(5) 50% of all CHD new cases originated from the upper sextile of distribution (17% of values).
Sixth
Definition:
(a.) First after the fifth; next in order after the fifth.
(a.) Constituting or being one of six equal parts into which anything is divided.
(n.) The quotient of a unit divided by six; one of six equal parts which form a whole.
(n.) The next in order after the fifth.
(n.) The interval embracing six diatonic degrees of the scale.
Example Sentences:
(1) The final number of fibers--140,000-165,000--is reached by the sixth week after birth.
(2) Ventilation-perfusion lung scans and contrast ascending venography were performed on the sixth to eighth postoperative days.
(3) In the sixth frame of the evening he sunk a magnificent long red and careered on his way to a 131 clearance to extend his lead in the match to 9-5.
(4) The highest frequency occurred in the sixth decade.
(5) With Everton heading for a sixth-placed finish in the Premier League, the additional television revenue and prospect of further funds from Fellaini, the club are confident of appointing an "equally significant" successor to Moyes, according to the chairman, Bill Kenwright.
(6) That's the sixth hit allowed tonight dor Wainwright.
(7) A sixth of the world's oil exports passes through it every day.
(8) School sixth-form funding Will be cut to bring it in line with that in colleges by 2015.
(9) Phil Barlow Nottingham • Reading about the problems caused by a lack of toilets reminded me of the harvest camps my father’s Birmingham school organised in the Vale of Evesham during the war, where the sixth-formers spent weeks picking fruit and vegetables on farms.
(10) In addition to generating a chemotactic factor, plasmin destroys the complement-associated chemotactic factor that is a trimolecular complex consisting of the fifth (C'5), sixth (C'6), and seventh (C'7) components of complement.
(11) The authors discuss the appropriateness of teaching clinical pharmacology (CP) to fourth-year students, lectures in CP to fourth-, fifth- and sixth-year students in accordance with the study of the main clinical specialties (therapy, surgery, pediatrics, etc.
(12) The phospholipid which accumulated between the sixth and twelfth culture days was composed of 21--27% disaturated phosphatidylcholines.
(13) The inhibitory effect of SMS on endogenous cholecystokinin release was fully operative on the sixth day of injection treatment, whereas the inhibitory effect on exogenous cholecystokinin injection significantly decreased after SMS administration for seven days, indicating desensitization of the end organ by somatostatin.
(14) )-sensitive mutants and have identified a sixth complementation group, line UV61.
(15) Residual bowel measuring 10 cm required prolonged TPN in the sixth infant and was not compatible with survival.
(16) He was appointed head coach of the Ligue 2 club Metz in June 2015 but left in December with them in sixth place.
(17) The marquee event on Thursday, considering recent off the court events, was the sixth game between the Los Angeles Clippers.
(18) Participants were 206 healthy, volunteer low-to-middle-income Mexican-American and non-Hispanic white (Anglo-American) families (623 individuals), each with a fifth or a sixth-grade child.
(19) A bout a year ago, a few months before she left sixth-form college, my youngest daughter asked cheerily: "What will you feel when you have no one left to wave goodbye to in the morning?"
(20) The action of the venom of the wasp Campsomeris sexmaculata on the insect CNS has been studied using the cercal nerve-giant interneuron preparation of the sixth abdominal ganglion of the cockroach.