(n.) One who, or that which, supports; as, oxygen is a supporter of life.
(n.) Especially, an adherent; one who sustains, advocates, and defends; as, the supporter of a party, faction, or candidate.
(n.) A knee placed under the cathead.
(n.) A figure, sometimes of a man, but commonly of some animal, placed on either side of an escutcheon, and exterior to it. Usually, both supporters of an escutcheon are similar figures.
(n.) A broad band or truss for supporting the abdomen or some other part or organ.
Example Sentences:
(1) This excellent prognosis supports a regimen of conservative therapy for these patients.
(2) It is supposed that delta-sleep peptide along with other oligopeptides is one of the factors determining individual animal resistance to emotional stress, which is supported by significant delta-sleep peptide increase in hypothalamus in stable rats.
(3) Pathological and immunocytochemical data supported the diagnosis of medullary thyroid carcinoma.
(4) Technical factors that account for increased difficulty in these patients include: problems with guide catheter impaction and ostial trauma; inability to inflate the balloon with adequate guide catheter support; and need for increased intracoronary manipulation.
(5) Cantact placing reaction times were measured in cats which were either restrained in a hammock or supported in a conventional way.
(6) In a debate in the House of Commons, I will ask Britain, the US and other allies to convert generalised offers of help into more practical support with greater air cover, military surveillance and helicopter back-up, to hunt down the terrorists who abducted the girls.
(7) Models able to describe the events of cellular growth and division and the dynamics of cell populations are useful for the understanding of functional control mechanisms and for the theoretical support for automated analysis of flow cytometric data and of cell volume distributions.
(8) The presence of O-glycosidic linkages between carbohydrate and protein in the DF3 antigenic site was further supported by the presence of NaBH4-sensitive sites.
(9) Theresa May signals support for UK-EU membership deal Read more Faull’s fix, largely accepted by Britain, also ties the hands of national governments.
(10) Consensual but rationally weak criteria devised to extract inferences of causality from such results confirm the generic inadequacy of epidemiology in this area, and are unable to provide definitive scientific support to the perceived mandate for public health action.
(11) The program met with continued support and enthusiasm from nurse administrators, nursing unit managers, clinical educators, ward staff and course participants.
(12) Male sex, age under 19 or over 45, few social supports, and a history of previous suicide attempts are all factors associated with increased suicide rates.
(13) It also provides mechanical support for the collateral ligaments during valgus or varus stress of the knee.
(14) The data support the conclusion that accumulation of lipid II is responsible in some way for the hypersensitivity of delta rfbA mutants to SDS.
(15) The International Monetary Fund, which has long urged Nigeria to remove the subsidy, supports the move.
(16) He voiced support for refugees, trade unions, council housing, peace, international law and human rights.
(17) Training in social skills specific to fostering intimacy is suggested as a therapeutic step, and modifications to the social support measure for future use discussed.
(18) We want to be sure that the country that’s providing all the infrastructure and support to the business is the one that reaps the reward by being able to collect the tax,” he said.
(19) Evidence is presented in support of the hypothesis that fresh bat guano serves as a means of pathogenic fungi dissemination in caves.
(20) This postulate is supported by a limited study of the serovars present among the isolates.
Sympathizer
Definition:
(n.) One who sympathizes.
Example Sentences:
(1) With the cultures of mycoplasmas obtained from the eyes of human patients suffering from sympathetic ophthalmia, it was possible to produce the same symptoms in chickens as were described by the author in 1950 in sympathizing and sympathized human eyes, namely: torpid uveitis and papillitis, which dragged on for months, and affected not only the inoculated right eye, but also, after 3 weeks and more, the untouched left eye.
(2) The people who were persecuting him and his companions and his sympathizers.
(3) The children with hyperthermal convulsions showed an increase in the sympathic tone and hyperfunctional manifestations.
(4) One struggles to sympathize: the wealthy, like corporations, rarely pay the full burden of tax anyway.
(5) To detect sympathic lesions the blood pressure changes were observed as response to change in posture (Schellong-Test).
(6) Psychological motivations, reasons why human nature is what it is, principles by which we may 'explain', understand, sympathize, or empathize with other human beings--and ourselves--what a variety of possible principles has been offered by philosophers and psychologists!
(7) These data permit to consider that such changes take place in the faces of patients with ganglionitis of the upper cervical sympathic node.
(8) Other commentators, whether or not they sympathized with Fox’s world view, felt that the level of violence qualified as terrorism, whatever the motivation for it.
(9) Cliven Bundy, the last remaining cattleman in southern Nevada, mobilized hundreds of sympathizers on Saturday to his "range war" in Bunkerville, Nevada, after the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) rounded-up nearly 400 of his cows which were grazing on protected land.
(10) Yemen’s internal turmoil had long proven amenable to al-Qaida sympathizers (the USS Cole was bombed in a Yemeni port in 2000), and Anwar al-Awlaki’s efforts there after 2007 boosted AQAP’s profile.
(11) Morales remained at large, a symbol of an era when violent leftist groups sowed fear and found sympathizers in the US and Latin America, and when bombs and hijackings were not uncommon dangers.
(12) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Pro-Russian sympathizers in Crimea.
(13) To determine whether Haemophilus influenzae could be a factor in human atopy its effects were studied on the (para-)Sympathic Cyclic nucleotide-histamine axis in rats.
(14) These pathologic events are in accord with previously reported increases in myocardial sympathic nerve activity.
(15) There was a sentiment that we’re not just fighting for workers, we’re fighting back against someone who actively wants to destroy our community.” In one of the union’s Spanish-language radio ads , a man representing Trump Hotel employees says: “Our work helps make America a great country … How unfortunate that we have to say what the whole world already knows: no one works harder, no one loves their families more, no one sacrifices more than us.” In a slickly produced video of the first rally , more than 1,000 people, including Trump Hotel employees and their union sympathizers, marched to the hotel property carrying signs and megaphones.
(16) Urinary noradrenaline excretion per animal (24-h) showed a high sympathic nervous tone in both sham and UN rats.
(17) The paper is concerned with a clinical study of 9 patients where ganglionitis of the upper cervical sympathic node proceeded with an atrophy of the soft tissues in the form of facial hemiatrophy.
(18) On the basis of studies carried out by chronic experiments in dogs the authors noted, by clinical, chemical, radiological and histological methods, that the chemical sclerosis of the gastric mucosa performed with a sterile, fresh hypertonic solution of glucose at 60%, injected in the sub-mucosa, represents an intervention which is:--physiological, since the sclero-distrophy is achieved of the acid-secreting glands and "targeted" intra-gastric vago-sympathic denervation, while the storage function of the stomach is maintained;--feasible, since it can be easily performed from the technical view point, without hemorrhagic, perforative intra-operatory risks or hepato-renal toxicity;--fiable, since it was constantly accompanied by good clinical and functional results.
(19) The cause may be a postoperative imbalance between the sympathic and parasympathic innervation of the distal colon.
(20) Studies have suggested that early enucleation of a blind exciting eye can improve the prognosis for the sympathizing eye.