(n.) The margin, edge, verge, or border of a surface; especially (when the thing spoken of is somewhat oblong in shape), one of the longer edges as distinguished from the shorter edges, called ends; a bounding line of a geometrical figure; as, the side of a field, of a square or triangle, of a river, of a road, etc.
(n.) Any outer portion of a thing considered apart from, and yet in relation to, the rest; as, the upper side of a sphere; also, any part or position viewed as opposite to or contrasted with another; as, this or that side.
(n.) One of the halves of the body, of an animals or man, on either side of the mesial plane; or that which pertains to such a half; as, a side of beef; a side of sole leather.
(n.) The right or left part of the wall or trunk of the body; as, a pain in the side.
(n.) A slope or declivity, as of a hill, considered as opposed to another slope over the ridge.
(n.) The position of a person or party regarded as opposed to another person or party, whether as a rival or a foe; a body of advocates or partisans; a party; hence, the interest or cause which one maintains against another; a doctrine or view opposed to another.
(n.) A line of descent traced through one parent as distinguished from that traced through another.
(n.) Fig.: Aspect or part regarded as contrasted with some other; as, the bright side of poverty.
(a.) Of or pertaining to a side, or the sides; being on the side, or toward the side; lateral.
(a.) Hence, indirect; oblique; collateral; incidental; as, a side issue; a side view or remark.
(n.) Long; large; extensive.
(v. i.) To lean on one side.
(v. i.) To embrace the opinions of one party, or engage in its interest, in opposition to another party; to take sides; as, to side with the ministerial party.
(v. t.) To be or stand at the side of; to be on the side toward.
(v. t.) To suit; to pair; to match.
(v. t.) To work (a timber or rib) to a certain thickness by trimming the sides.
(v. t.) To furnish with a siding; as, to side a house.
Example Sentences:
(1) Previous use of the drug is found in more than 50 per cent of the patients, and it was often followed by a neglected side-effect.
(2) No differences between the two substances were observed with respect to side effects and general tolerability.
(3) During and after the infusion of 5HTP, none of the patients showed an increase in anxiety or depressive symptoms, despite the presence of severe side effects.
(4) gamma-Aminobutyric acid (GABA) and glutamate release from the treated side was higher than the control value during the first 2-3 h, a result indicating an important role of glial cells in the inactivation of released transmitter.
(5) The obvious need for highly effective contraception in women with existing disorders of glucose metabolism has led to a search for oral contraceptive (OC) regimens for such women that are efficient but without unacceptable metabolic side effects.
(6) Side effect incidence in patients treated with the paracetamol-sobrerol combination (3.7%) was significantly lower than that observed in subjects treated with paracetamol (6.1% - P less than 0.01), salicylics (25.1% - P less than 0.001), pyrazolics (12.6% - P less than 0.001), propionics (20.3%, P less than 0.001) or other antipyretics (17.9% - P less than 0.001).
(7) These findings suggest that clonidine transdermal disks lower blood pressure in hypertensive patients, but produce local skin lesions and general side effects.
(8) Completeness of isolation of the coronary and systemic circulations was shown by the marked difference in appearance times between the reflex hypotensive responses from catecholamine injections into the isolated coronary circulation and the direct hypertensive response from a similar injection when the circulations were connected as well as by the marked difference between the pressure pulses recorded simultaneously on both sides of the aortic balloon separating the two circulations.4.
(9) The Tyr side chain had two conformations of comparable energy, one over the ring between the Gln and Asn side chains, and the other with the Tyr side chain away from the ring.
(10) Estimates of potential for gastrointestinal side effects using the rat enteropooling assay and in vivo monkey effects indicate that diarrhea will be substantially reduced with retention of uterine stimulating potency.
(11) The reason for the rise in Android's market share on both sides of the Atlantic is the increased number of devices that use the software.
(12) Only those derivatives with a free amino group and net positive charge in the side chain were effective.
(13) Thus there may be four types of LPS in PACI: one contains unsubstituted core polysaccharide and yields L2 on acid hydrolysis, another has short antigenic side-chains of the SR type and yields the LI fraction, while the two high molecular weight fractions are derived from core polysaccharides with different side-chains.
(14) For retrospective action to be taken, and an FA charge to follow, the decision of the panel must be unanimous.” The match between the sides ended in acrimony and two City red cards.
(15) We studied the effect of low-dose intrathecal morphine (0.00-0.20 mg) on pain relief and the incidence of side effects after cholecystectomy in 139 patients divided into eight groups according to intrathecal morphine dose: groups 1 (0.00 mg), 2 (0.04 mg), 3 (0.06 mg), 4 (0.08 mg), 5 (0.10 mg), 6 (0.12 mg), 7 (0.15 mg), and 8 (0.20 mg).
(16) The temperature increased from the anterior to the posterior region on both buccal and lingual sides of both arches.
(17) The product of this enzymatic hydrolysis was F420 with one less glutamic acid in the side chain.
(18) On embryonic day 3.5 (E3.5), 1 day after surgery, there is a 42% average increase in volume of the polyganglia compared with the corresponding DRG on the unoperated side.
(19) Side effects were observed in 15.9% of the patients in the urapidil group and in 11.3% of the prazosin group (NS).
(20) Significant side-effects occurred infrequently and only 2 children lost weight during the period of medication.
Sidewinder
Definition:
(n.) See Horned rattler, under Horned.
(n.) A heavy swinging blow from the side, which disables an adversary.
Example Sentences:
(1) After analysis of the catheter maneuvers inherent to the special shape of the type of catheter used (Sidewinder, Cordis Corporation), it is concluded that this complication resulted from incorrect catheter manipulation and an incorrect choice of the dimensions of the preshaped part of the catheter in relation to the diameter of the aortic arch.
(2) Synchronized electromyography and cinematography were used to determine the muscle activity of colubroid snakes during sidewinding and concertina locomotion.
(3) A hairpin bend between the strictured ureter and the ileal conduit was easily negotiated by reforming a Sidewinder loop within the contralateral ureter and withdrawing it until the tip entered the conduit.
(4) The Simmons sidewinder catheter is frequently used, but reforming its unique curve may be a problem.
(5) The characteristics of the "sidewinder-technique" are emphasized.
(6) Reforming an open loop in the ascending aorta is the first step in performing selective catheterization of the aortic arch branches, using a sidewinder catheter.
(7) Sidewinding locomotion of Nerodia fasciata and Crotalus cerastes was the result of continuous posterior propagation of contractile blocks consisting of several adjacent muscle segments.
(8) Use of a special guide wire contributed to the successful performance of safe femorocerebral angiography with the Simmons sidewinder catheter in the 47 of 48 elderly patients in whom it was performed.
(9) At 7.24am, one of them opened fire with an air-to-air missile, believed to be a US-made Aim-9 sidewinder .
(10) A Simmons (sidewinder) catheter is maneuvered into the ascending aorta and is rotated as to assume its performed shape.
(11) Best known for the big melodies of Everybody Hurts, The Sidewinder Sleeps Tonight and Man on the Moon, a murkier, older REM mood prevails on Automatic for the People – try the arresting Try Not to Breathe, about an old man grappling with death, a cousin to Green's similarly affecting You Are the Everything, or the woozy New Orleans Instrumental No 1.
(12) Reformation of the curve of the Simmons sidewinder catheter may be difficult in some patients, and the originally described technique using the left subclavian artery may be unsuccessful.
(13) Through using the sidewinder catheter system for visceral angiography in over 200 patients we have improved our success rate.
(14) A three-dimensional left coronary bypass graft catheter with a sidewinder configuration is described.
(15) During sidewinding, the activity of the M. longissimus dorsi and M. iliocostalis was primarily unilateral, beginning when a body region was convex and ending when it was maximally concave on the side of the active muscle.