(n.) A plant from which layers are propagated by bending its branches into the soil.
(v. i.) To ramfy; to tiller, as grain; to shoot out suckers.
(n.) A single seat with three or four legs and without a back, made in various forms for various uses.
(n.) A seat used in evacuating the bowels; hence, an evacuation; a discharge from the bowels.
(n.) A stool pigeon, or decoy bird.
(n.) A small channel on the side of a vessel, for the dead-eyes of the backstays.
(n.) A bishop's seat or see; a bishop-stool.
(n.) A bench or form for resting the feet or the knees; a footstool; as, a kneeling stool.
(n.) Material, such as oyster shells, spread on the sea bottom for oyster spat to adhere to.
Example Sentences:
(1) Prior to oral feeding, little or no ELA was detected in stools and endotoxinemia was ascertained in only six of 45 infants (13%).
(2) Cholestyramine resin was beneficial in reducing stool bulk but had no substantial effect on fat absorption.
(3) Stool examination revealed blood in 60% and polymorphonuclear leukocytes in 78% of patients.
(4) Stool weights, defecation frequencies, and transit times in this group are much closer to those of westernized whites than to rural blacks.
(5) Approximately a third of patients had stools that were positive for C difficile by either toxin or culture.
(6) Twenty four stool rotaviruses that comprised 22 distinct electropherotypes were selected for genome analysis from the collection of diarrheal specimens obtained over an eight-year period.
(7) Pathogenic Mycobacterium ulcerans were recovered from the stool of anole lizards up to 11 days after inoculation by stomach tube.
(8) Isolates from patients who failed to clear the organism from their stools or who had cholera soon after tetracycline prophylaxis had increased minimum inhibitory concentrations of the drug.
(9) Estimated by SSST, the FAFol, which employs the stool with the highest content of 51Cr corresponding to the most carmine-colored stool, correlated closely with the FAFol based on complete stool collection (r = 0.96, n = 39, p less than 0.0001).
(10) A rapid, sensitive counterimmunoelectrophoresis assay was developed to detect adenovirus in stools of patients with gastroenteritis.
(11) Fifteen of 16 asymptomatic patients demonstrated clearing of Shigella from stool within 48 hours of therapy.
(12) Recovery of CHO (Polycose) added to fresh stool was greater than 95%, inter-assay coefficient of variation (CV) 6.2%.
(13) Decreased consistency of the stools was seen after PEG in both groups (p < 0.001).
(14) Cryptosporidium was eradicated from the stools of four patients but two of these patients subsequently relapsed and one patient continued to have diarrhea despite the absence of Cryptosporidium in the stool.
(15) The amount of stool used for a Kato-Katz preparation is only a 25th of one gram.
(16) A total of 735 stool specimens from adults and children with diarrhea were examined by the Ziehl-Neelson and Kinyoun acid-fast methods and 2.9% of the children 6 to 20 months of age were found passing Cryptosporidium oocysts.
(17) Detection of botulinal toxin or C botulinum in the stool of a persons should be considered evidence supporting the clinical diagnosis of botulism.
(18) Stool frequency per 24 h was less than or equal to 2 in all CR patients while it was greater than 2 in 40 per cent of the SC patients (P less than 0.05).
(19) We compared the utility of this hybridization assay with that of conventional microbiology methods by examination of 1448 stool samples from hospital clinical laboratories.
(20) Cryptosporidium oocysts were rarely found in stools of infants receiving only breast milk.
Tiller
Definition:
(v. t.) One who tills; a husbandman; a cultivator; a plowman.
(n.) A shoot of a plant, springing from the root or bottom of the original stalk; a sucker.
(n.) A sprout or young tree that springs from a root or stump.
(n.) A young timber tree.
(v. i.) To put forth new shoots from the root, or round the bottom of the original stalk; as, wheat or rye tillers; some spread plants by tillering.
(n.) A lever of wood or metal fitted to the rudder head and used for turning side to side in steering. In small boats hand power is used; in large vessels, the tiller is moved by means of mechanical appliances. See Illust. of Rudder. Cf. 2d Helm, 1.
(n.) The stalk, or handle, of a crossbow; also, sometimes, the bow itself.
(n.) The handle of anything.
(n.) A small drawer; a till.
Example Sentences:
(1) This is what we imagined: the becalmed beauty of the Whitsunday Passage, that spectacular collection of islands protectively nestled inside the Great Barrier Reef, safe from prevailing winds; bright blue languid days gliding over turquoise waters, taking turns at the tiller in our togs; finding our own private cove as the sun goes down; diving into warm pristine waters; the tinkling of intimate laughter; the fizz of champagne and the sizzle of prawns on the barbie.
(2) But he will not be attending conference every day, and will have his hands firmly off the tiller as far as editorial matters are concerned.
(3) The effects of fescue endophyte content (low, 16 or high, 44% of tillers examined) and of N fertilization rate (low, 134 kg N.ha-1.yr-1 or high, 336 kg N.ha-1.yr-1) upon serum prolactin (PRL) in Angus steers were examined.
(4) In the dental hospital Münster 25 adhesive bridges have been incorporated for the last two years by the Silicoater method, which has been developed by Kulzer with the assistance of Musil and Tiller.
(5) This allows a very Blakean moment: he discovered a photograph of the Tiller Girls doing a horse routine with hooves on their hands.
(6) Those concerns were heightened last year when the deputy mayor, Kit Malthouse, said he and Johnson "have our hands on the tiller" of the Met and had taken control of the force away from the home office.
(7) The cohort of viscose rayon workers previously described by Tiller et al has been reconstructed and followed up to the end of 1982.
(8) To correct his trajectory now, in the year before a general election, he will need to grab hold of that tiller and yank it so hard to the right he will send flying the sunbathers on the deck of his dangerously left-leaning ship.
(9) Dipper samples were taken from rice fields at six phases of maturity (fallow, ploughed, nursery, newly transplanted, after tillering, mature).
(10) That, I believe, is a far more positive and practical Scottish contribution to progressive policy than sending a tribute of Labour MPs to Westminster to have the occasional turn at the Westminster tiller – particularly in the circumstances ofas the opposition's policy increasingly converging with that of the coalition on the key issues of the economy and public spending.
(11) Talking about the first attempt on Tiller’s life, before Roeder, he laughingly refers to perpetrator Shelley Shannon as a terrible shot, because she shot him in both arms, when presumably aiming for his chest.
(12) Usually thanks to my wife: her role is often to lash me to the tiller and keep me there long enough to get through the bad patches.
(13) The squad of players available to Hughton clearly had the talent to make an immediate return but the Championship needs a steady hand at the tiller.
(14) And maybe we should borrow a tiller at this point or buy one?
(15) Sandrine Tiller, programmes adviser on humanitarian issues, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), London, UK, @MSF_UK @sandrinetiller Identify our own weak spots: While it is true that many external factors have made delivering humanitarian aid more difficult, we also have a responsibility to look more closely at ourselves.
(16) Tillers of C. dactylon and E. indica from the three sites were subjected to a series concentrations of Pb(NO3)2.
(17) They tried everything they could to put George Tiller out of business,” Curtis says.
(18) Panel Sandrine Tiller, programmes adviser on humanitarian issues, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) London, UK, @MSF_UK @sandrinetiller Sandrine’s expertise is in the politicisation of aid and the current state of the aid system.
(19) Here’s a press baron who doesn’t interfere; who maintains a careful distance; who doesn’t want tea in Downing Street; who goes outside the UK and outside the media when he has to make crucial appointments: a steadying hand on a tiller far away.
(20) Tiller’s Wichita clinic, one of the few in the country to perform late-term abortions, was for years one of the most prominent battlegrounds over abortion.