(a.) Exhausted; worn out; having lost energy or motive force.
(a.) Exhausted of spawn or sperm; -- said especially of fishes.
Example Sentences:
(1) The idea that 80% of an engineer's time is spent on the day job and 20% pursuing a personal project is a mathematician's solution to innovation, Brin says.
(2) Finally, the automatized measurement system cuts the time spent by a factor of more than five.
(3) But the amount of time spent above SPA has differed substantially between men and women due to women both living longer, and reaching state pension age earlier.
(4) I believe that truth sets man free.” It was a curious stance for someone who spent many years undercover as a counter-espionage informant, a government propagandist, and unofficial asset of the Central Intelligence Agency.
(5) These animals spent a much greater portion of their SWS in the lighter SWS I, as compared to the control group which showed a predominance of the deeper SWS II.
(6) The solution to these problems would seem either to reduce the time spent in rectangular wires or to change to a bracket with reduced torque, together with appropriate second order compensations in the archwire or the bracket.
(7) Autonomy, sense of accomplishment and time spent in patient care ranked as the top three factors contributing to job satisfaction.
(8) She then spent five years as director of mission and pastoral studies at Cranmer Hall.
(9) The bond strength of the resins did not change with the time spent immersed in water up to 6 months, but decreased with any further increase in time.
(10) He numbered the Kennedy family and Ian Fleming, creator of the James Bond thrillers, among his friends and spent millions on amassing a first-class art collection, featuring works by Manet and Monet, as well as Van Gogh.
(11) The subjects were all apparently healthy, had a mean body weight of 66 kg and had spent the preceding day in the calorimeter performing different fixed physical activity programmes.
(12) Belmar and his fellow commanders spent the week before the grand jury decision assuring residents that 1,000 officers had been training for months to prepare for that day.
(13) He spent just 22 minutes there before heading out again, the building’s surveillance system revealed.
(14) Rayburn, who was also told by his jobcentre he would lose his benefits if he did not work without pay, said he spent almost two months stacking and cleaning shelves and sometimes doing night shifts.
(15) It increases the duration and quality of life without prolonging the time spent in hospital, and it reduces health expenses by 50 to 70%.
(16) Chikavu Nyirenda, a leading political analyst, said: "She neglected to look at the local scene but spent a lot of time to please the west and promote herself."
(17) It is Cruz, a longtime critic of so-called “amnesty” policies, who has spent the greater part of the debate’s aftermath seeking to clarify his position.
(18) One minister said at the tail end of last week that they had spent their final working days spending every last penny they could find in their departmental budget.
(19) Our team of reporters have spent the last week on an intensive bikram yoga course in order to get themselves into the rather awkward position of having their ears to the ground, their eyes to the skies and their fingers on the pulse.
(20) A 44-year-old woman, who had spent much of her life in Fiji and India, was treated with a high dose of prednisolone for rheumatoid arthritis complicated by gold lung.
Spet
Definition:
(v. t.) To spit; to throw out.
(n.) Spittle.
Example Sentences:
(1) With the administration of approximately 37 MBq (26-44 MBq) 201Tl, 5 min acquisition time was possible for SPET imaging, which provided good image quality in all patients.
(2) The cerebral perfusion as visualized from SPET was compared to cerebral angiographies, which showed unilateral filling of intracranial vessels in seven patients.
(3) For planar scanning and SPET without scatter correction there was an overestimate of activity in the source of 290% and 40% respectively.
(4) Single photon emission tomography (SPET) of the calves was also performed in five controls and five patients with PVD.
(5) This technique is easy to apply as an adjunct to SPET and may be helpful in the quantitative evaluation of brain perfusion in routine clinical studies.
(6) The SPET studies with 123I-Iomazenil were carried out 5 min and 2 h after injection.
(7) In 4 out of 6 patients with electroencephalogram (EEG) abnormalities on admittance, SPET revealed at least 2 focal lesions.
(8) Thus, SPET assessment of 99mTc-MIBI uptake tends to underestimate the perfusion contrast between areas with normal and areas with low coronary vasodilatory reserve when compared to PET.
(9) A series of 30 consecutive exercise and redistribution 201Tl SPET studies were centered and reoriented by two operators twice with this method, and twice manually.
(10) In an attempt to improve detection of macroscopically invisible tumour spread, intraoperative scintimetry (IOSM) with a hand-held gamma-probe was performed in addition to SPET 24-30 and 41-48 h after injection of the technetium-99m carcinoembryonic antigen (CEA MoA) on 12 patients with colorectal carcinoma and 3 patients with different neoplastic and inflammatory diseases.
(11) It may be a useful agent for assessment of myocardial viability by single photon emission tomography (SPET) imaging.
(12) The three techniques allowing the noninvasive study of cardiac metabolism, namely magnetic resonance spectroscopy (MRS), positron emission tomography (PET) and single photon emission computed tomography (SPET), all use external detection with stable or radioactive isotopes.
(13) It is hoped that once the scientific basis of a physiopathological study is established using PET, diagnostic information might be provided by the more readily available SPET technology.
(14) Two SPET studies (early and late) were carried out within 45 min after intravenous administration of 200 MBq 123I-IPPA at peak sub-maximal exercise.
(15) The patients were injected with approximately 925 MBq (25 mCi) of 99mTc-LL2 Fab' (1 mg), and planar and single photon emission tomography (SPET) studies were performed at 3-4 h post injection and at 24 h. There was no evidence of thyroid or stomach activity up to 24 h. Uniform splenic uptake was seen in all patients.
(16) SPET improvement demonstrated myocardial salvage earlier than wall motion studies.
(17) Sensitivity of CT compared with SPET became increasingly better in patients with older infarcts (1-18 days).
(18) A metabolic marker for SPET studies is still missing.
(19) Ten patients had focal flow abnormalities with 99mTc-HMPAO SPET.
(20) The activity and the volume of the spheres were calculated from the SPET images and compared with known activities.