(a.) Having sixteen leaves to a sheet; of, or equal to, the size of one fold of a sheet of printing paper when folded so as to make sixteen leaves, or thirty-two pages; as, a sextodecimo volume.
(n.) A book composed of sheets each of which is folded into sixteen leaves; hence, indicating, more or less definitely, a size of a book; -- usually written 16mo, or 16ยก.
Example Sentences:
Sixteenth
Definition:
(a.) Sixth after the tenth; next in order after the fifteenth.
(a.) Constituting or being one of sixteen equal parts into which anything is divided.
(n.) The quotient of a unit divided by sixteen; one of sixteen equal parts of one whole.
(n.) The next in order after the fifteenth; the sixth after the tenth.
(n.) An interval comprising two octaves and a second.
Example Sentences:
(1) One patient died of recurrent acute myocarditis at the fourth postoperative month and a second patient died in the sixteenth postoperative month.
(2) The latter contained multivesicular bodies and, from the sixteenth day on, also typical clear vacuoles.
(3) Early bone marrow granulocytes (from eleventh to sixteenth weeks of gestation) behave similarly.
(4) At the sixteenth week, the gonad becomes the ovary that contains millions of primordial follicles; each follicle consists of an ovocyte surrounded by a ring of granulosa cells originating from the coelomic epithelium; the follicles are separated from each other by mesenchymal cells that form the cortical stroma.
(5) Those who finish Huck Finn still doubting Twain's own racial attitudes should read Following the Equator or Pudd'nhead Wilson , in which Twain excoriates the "one-drop rule" (the American law decreeing that "one drop of negro blood" made a person black): "To all intents and purposes Roxy was as white as anybody, but the one sixteenth of her which was black out-voted the other fifteen parts and made her a 'negro'."
(6) Excoriating the media and television voyeurism, he writes: "Sixteenth, what cable news does best now begins, and will continue for the next seventy-two hours: the slow and luxurious licking of tears from the faces of the bereaved."
(7) Cells were observed forming a migratory stream in the period between the thirteenth and sixteenth days of gestation, and were associated with tangentially oriented fibers.
(8) Rupture developed between the fifth and sixteenth day after transplantation during a period when the patients required dialysis because of poor allograft function.
(9) Counts have been made of myelinated and unmyelinated fibers in the sixteenth nerve root of the axolotl, before, during and after regeneration following nerve section.
(10) We report a retrospective study of 54 children with 57 involved ears who underwent surgery for cholesteatoma before their sixteenth birthdays.
(11) Chick embryo trigeminal ganglia of nine days and hippocampus excised from fetal rats between the sixteenth and eighteenth day of gestation were cultivated in cell- and explantcultures in Maximow-chambers.
(12) The development of this distinctive membrane property during the maturation of muscle cells was studied by measuring the maximum rate of rise of the action potential in the larval muscle fibers at different stages of development from the sixteenth to ninety-sixth hours after hatching.
(13) Histidinohydroxylysinonorleucine (HHL) is a major stable trifunctional collagen cross-link in mature skin that involves a carboxyl terminal, telopeptide site 16c, the sixteenth amino acid residue from the carboxy terminal of the telopeptide region of alpha 1 (I) in type I collagen.
(14) The development of tight junctions in fetal rat thyroid from the sixteenth to the twentieth days of gestation was examined with conventional ultrastructural methods and freeze-fracture preparations.
(15) The virus propagated in cell culture at the fifth, tenth and sixteenth passages was found to cause typical VHD.
(16) Although the chloride intake of the low-chloride calves was only one-sixteenth that of controls, body chloride retention was similar for the two groups.
(17) One-sixteenth to one-eighth of the newt ventricle was amputated, minced, and returned to the wounded ventricle.
(18) We report the sixteenth case of a child with fibroepithelial polyp of the ureter.
(19) Those with the C22 and C23 ones had one-eighth and one-sixteenth of the activity, respectively, and those with C24-26 had no detectable activity.
(20) In contrast, the sodium appetite became evident 10-12 hr after dialysis and reached the highest volume of ingestion at the sixteenth hr when both volemia and natremia had returned to normal.