(a.) Six and ten; consisting of six and ten; fifteen and one more.
(n.) The number greater by a unit than fifteen; the sum of ten and six; sixteen units or objects.
(n.) A symbol representing sixteen units, as 16, or xvi.
Example Sentences:
(1) Sixteen patients were operated on for lumbar pain and pain radiating into the sciatic nerve distribution.
(2) Sixteen patients in whom schizophrenia was initially diagnosed and who were treated with fluphenazine enanthate or decanoate developed severe depression for a short period after the injection.
(3) The amino acid pools in Chinese hamster lung V79 cells were measured as a function of time during hyperthermic exposure at 40.5 degrees and 45.0 degrees C. Sixteen of the 20 protein amino acids were present in sufficient quantity to measure accurately.
(4) Sixteen patients (27%) manifested anomalies of the urinary tract: 12 had markedly altered kidneys, 8 of which were unilateral and ipsilateral to the diaphragmatic defect.
(5) In this paper we report sixteen new cases from Europe and North America, suggesting that Kabuki make-up syndrome may be more common outside of Japan than supposed.
(6) One hundred and sixteen patients with advanced and metastatic adenocarcinoma of the pancreas were randomized to treatment with combined Streptozotocin and 5-fluorouracil or combined Streptozotocin and cyclophosphamide.
(7) Sixteen (28%) showed an infarct appropriate to the symptoms.
(8) Sixteen smooth Brucella strains were lysed and digested by proteinase K, and the LPS fractions analysed by sodium dodecyl sulphate polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis.
(9) In 210 cases of uveitis sixteen were associated with sarcoidosis.
(10) Sixteen pregnant patients with pelvic masses detected with ultrasound (US) were studied with magnetic resonance (MR) imaging at 0.35 T. Two patients were in their first trimester, eight in the second, and six in the last.
(11) Sixteen patients (2 of whom had had an abdominal procedure) underwent aortic valve replacement for aortic stenosis.
(12) Sixteen patients (7%) with inconclusive diagnosis had symptoms only of SI and UI but no objective findings.
(13) Three hundred sixteen female patients with cancer of the larynx, pharynx, and mouth were examined and the following cancer sites were compared with respect to alcohol and tobacco consumption: oropharynx, hypopharynx, larynx, epilarynx, lip, and mouth.
(14) The post-mortem examination revealed that in sixteen animals there was equally expressed hemorrhagic diathesis, five of which had clinical icterus, five manifested subclinical icterus, and six showed no icterus.
(15) Eleven and six first-calving heifers and sixteen and nine second-calving cows also received cloprostenol + relaxin and cloprostenol + phosphate-buffered saline, respectively.
(16) Sixteen patients with an accessory pathway were studied (eight surgical ablations, eight catheter ablations with radiofrequency energy).
(17) Sixteen patients, 6-15 years old, were tested, using an auditory target selection paradigm.
(18) Sixteen children (41%) subsequently relapsed, but all who reentered treatment became dry.
(19) Sixteen patients who remained wet had detrusor instability; 9 of these were cured by anticholinergic medications.
(20) Sixteen (12.80%) of the 125 male patients studied were G6PD deficient; 33 (18.96%) of the 174 females were heterozygous and 1 (0.57%) homozygous.
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.