(a.) Constituting or being one one of sixty equal parts into which anything is divided.
(n.) The quotient of a unit divided by sixty; one of sixty equal parts forming a whole.
(n.) The next in order after the fifty-ninth; the tenth after the fiftieth.
Example Sentences:
(1) Until the sixtieth day of gestation, liver copper was significantly increased in copper-stressed littermates, although paradoxically at birth, concentrations were significantly lower.
(2) All the animals were killed on the sixtieth day and chromosomal aberrations were screened in spermatocytes at meiotic metaphase I.
(3) Broxaterol elicited a prompt and marked bronchodilating effect (increase in forced expiratory volume in one second and specific conductance), maintained at least up to the sixtieth minute.
(4) For isolated samples, brown was almost never seen, being most often replaced by orange; a white border less than one-sixtieth the width of the color samples was sufficient to restore its perception in an otherwise dark field.
(5) In the thirtieth, sixtieth or ninetieth minute after the injection, the animals were killed and the deoxyribonuclein acid content in 100 mg of fresh tissue of testes, spleen and liver, was measured.
(6) This is the sixtieth case reported in the literature.
(7) The history of The Committee on Problems of Drug Dependence is traced from its beginning (1929) as The Committee on Drug Addiction to 1989, its sixtieth anniversary.
(8) Oral infection was followed by the occurrence of antibody titres, between the tenth day from infection and the sixtieth day, when the experiment was disrupted.
(9) On the sixtieth day, 14 patients (46%) showed clinical improvement, nine were stable and arterial occlusive disease worsened in seven patients.
(10) A proliferating population of human foreskin keratinocytes (presently in the sixtieth passage) has been obtained after transfection with human papillomavirus (HPV) type 16 DNA.
(11) In detail the arterial oxygen partial pressure decreased within the first 30 minutes after the endotoxin injection and normalized itself by the sixtieth minute, afterwards it remained stationary.
(12) (iii) Hydrogen peroxide production and oxygen uptake were induced by ammonium chloride, a proton conductor that can permeate through thylakoid membranes, but whole superoxide in the bulk solution was oxidized back to molecular oxygen by cytochrome c. The effective concentration of ammonium chloride decreased to one-sixtieth of the original, when an ammonium ion ionophore, nonactin, was added.
(13) Despite the fact that the microbiological identification of Y. enterocolitica 03 was successfully carried out by virtually all the microbiological laboratories of the Hygienic Service, reported cases of yersiniosis account for only one sixtieth part of alimentary infections.
(14) Exchange activity in plasma membrane vesicles is only a sixtieth of the expected value, because the vesicles have approx.
(15) The mean values were not significantly different in the two sexes until the sixtieth minute but were significantly higher (P less than 0.05) in the female thereafter.
(16) They were 6.7, 7.6, 10.2, and 12.4 mm Hg on the fortieth, sixtieth, eightieth, and ninetieth postoperative day, respectively, in the animal surviving for 99 days.
(17) It has also been pointed out that these agents produce a strong stimulative effect on the average daily weight gain of calves up to the sixtieth day following treatment.
(18) Mean effective dose values were calculated for chloroquine, sulfamethoxydiazine, and pyrimethamine against blood-induced P. berghei infection, and when a combination of the three drugs was administered therapeutically in the ratio given above, only one-tenth as much chloroquine, one-thirtieth as much sulfamethoxydiazine, and one-sixtieth as much pyrimethamine were needed to cure 50% of murine infections as was needed for each drug alone.
(19) The magnitude and direction of the ground reaction forces and the locus of the center of pressure were recorded every one-sixtieth of a second during free-speed ambulation.
(20) Substitution of a hydroxyl group for the alpha-amino group of puromycin results in an active analogue with about one-sixtieth the affinity of puromycin in the reaction.
Sixty
Definition:
(a.) Six times ten; fifty-nine and one more; threescore.
(n.) The sum of six times ten; sixty units or objects.
(n.) A symbol representing sixty units, as 60, lx., or LX.
Example Sentences:
(1) Sixty-six patients were followed for 12 months in an open safety study.
(2) Sixty-five conditional PSROs are implementing review in acute care hospitals in their geographic area, and 55 planning groups are developing plans to qualify for conditional PSRO designation.
(3) Sixty of 65 H. pylori-infected adults were correctly identified by the test.
(4) Sixty-one patients with Stage IB cervical carcinoma treated initially by Type III radical hysterectomy underwent water cystometry 6 or more months after surgery.
(5) During sixty-six months, 145 Kock pouches were constructed: 79 for continent cutaneous diversion (44 men, 35 women), 54 bladder replacements by men, 12 ileo-rectal diversions (10 women, 2 men).
(6) Sixty-three patients were randomly divided into six groups by the following intrathecal morphine injection: group 1 (0 mg), group 2 (0.025 mg), group 3 (0.05 mg), group 4 (0.075 mg), group 5 (0.1 mg), and group 6 (0.125 mg).
(7) Sixty-two serum concentrations were obtained from 12 infected patients enrolled in a vancomycin pharmacokinetic study.
(8) Five hundred sixty grandmultiparous women were interviewed as to their contraceptive awareness, desirability and use in the three major hospitals in Benin City, Nigeria, between October 1, 1980 and September, 1981.
(9) Sixty-five patients with recrudescent orofacial herpes simplex virus (HSV) infections all had circulating HSV-specific antibody measured by ELISA and cell-mediated immunity (CMI) to HSV by in vitro lymphoproliferation.
(10) Sixty-eight patients (mean age 49 years) were studied with contrast echocardiography (CE) and Doppler echocardiography (DE) to evaluate both methods for detecting and grading tricuspid regurgitation (TR).
(11) Three hundred sixty five children and hundred thirty nine adults with atopic dermatitis were divided into three groups.
(12) Sixty-five percent of the consultations resulted in an endoscopic procedure.
(13) Sixty-nine patients (79%) were NYHA Functional Class (FC) I or II at latest follow-up.
(14) Eight bibliographic control elements are defined, and the criteria for evaluating the occurrence of these elements in sixty-four sample catalogs are specified.
(15) Sixty per cent of children had calcium intakes below two-thirds of the allowance.
(16) Sixty mother-toddler dyads (30 boys and 30 girls) participated as subjects.
(17) Two hundred and sixty six of the 309 patients recruited (86%) completed the study, with satisfactory compliance.
(18) Three hundred and sixty-nine homosexually active men from different areas of England were each assessed twice at an an interval of 9 months in order to examine the extent to which a number of social-psychological factors predicted subsequent high risk sexual behaviour.
(19) Sixty days after 5,7-DHT administration, immunoreactive serotonin in the forebrain, particularly the suprachiasmatic nuclei and intergeniculate leaflets, was severely depleted in 16 animals, moderately depleted in four and only slightly affected in four.
(20) Two hundred sixty-six male patients achieved a complete response and were evaluable for the effects of prophylactic therapy on the duration of remission.