(n.) Any one of numerous species of large aquatic birds belonging to Cygnus, Olor, and allied genera of the subfamily Cygninae. They have a large and strong beak and a long neck, and are noted for their graceful movements when swimming. Most of the northern species are white. In literature the swan was fabled to sing a melodious song, especially at the time of its death.
(n.) Fig.: An appellation for a sweet singer, or a poet noted for grace and melody; as Shakespeare is called the swan of Avon.
(n.) The constellation Cygnus.
Example Sentences:
(1) Indirect methods to evaluate left ventricular function included the use of the Swan-Ganz catheter for pulmonary capillary wedge pressure measurement, systolic time intervals, and cardiac output.
(2) At Wembley England fielded: Springett; Armfield, McNeil; Robson, Swan, Flowers; Douglas, Greaves, Smith, Haynes, Charlton.
(3) Two-dimensional echocardiography was used to guide and locate the balloon of Swan-Ganz catheter during catheterization in 43 patients.
(4) Which certainly isn't a charge you can level at Sony – in recent years, it has conspicuously championed indies (winning a hatful of Baftas for Journey and The Unfinished Swan in the process).
(5) To determine the relationship between SVR and sigma es, left ventricular afterload and contractility were pharmacologically altered in eight dogs instrumented with central aortic microtip and Swan-Ganz thermodilution catheters.
(6) 9.59am GMT Summary We’ll leave you with a summary of what transpired here throughout the day: • Julia Gillard announced a contest for her position as prime minister following calls by Simon Crean, a senior minister in her government, for her to be replaced by her predecessor, Kevin Rudd • Shortly before the ballot was to take place Kevin Rudd announced he would not stand for the Labor Party leadership , re-iterating his promise to the Australian people that he would not challenge Julia Gillard • When it came time for the ballot, Gillard was the only person who stood for the leadership and she and her deputy Wayne Swan were elected unopposed .
(7) The avian blood fluke, Austrobilharzia terrigalensis (Trematoda: Schistosomatidae), is recorded in Western Australia for the first time, and is implicated as the cause of dermatitis among users of the Swan estuary in Perth.
(8) Nonejection systolic and diastolic clicks appeared when a Swan-Ganz catheter was positioned in the proximal portion of the right pulmonary artery.
(9) The Peppers like to be jerks (at Dingwalls Swan dedicated a song to “all you whiney Britishers who can suck my American cock”), but don’t let the surface attitude fool you.
(10) In the dogs on controlled respiration the effect of the above-mentioned substance upon the haemodynamic of the total organism was monitored by means of continuous measuring of the arterial pressure by a Swan-Ganz catheter.
(11) For example, in May 2012 , Hockey said, “Australians are right to be concerned about handing Wayne Swan yet another increase in our nation’s credit card limit.” He then went on Alan Jones to argue that the government could not make claims that it was making savings if it was also increasing the debt ceiling from $250bn to $300bn.
(12) Treasurer Wayne Swan says largely because we have a fixed price in Australia's carbon pricing scheme to allow certainty for businesses having to make the transition.
(13) Resuscitation was significantly more often successful with the Bunegin-Albin catheter (six of nine dogs) than with either Sorenson catheter (zero of seven in both groups) or the Swan-Ganz RA port (one of seven).
(14) Jose Mourinho can go back to worrying about the dead swan in Scotland.
(15) On the basis of clinical and initial Swan-Ganz catheter data, the patients were assigned to one of three groups: an ARDS group (n = 12); a cardiogenic pulmonary edema (CPE) group (n = 12); and a critically ill, nonpulmonary edema group (NPE, n = 17).
(16) I found swans and storks and all manner of seabirds but, again, no owls, because stuffing them is forbidden in France.
(17) Boys from King Edward VI grammar school will lay oblations inside Holy Trinity church, while the Coventry Corps of Drums prepares to lead a "people's parade" towards Bancroft Gardens, where the River Avon widens, and where – if you're lucky – you might see a swan or two cruise by.
(18) Eight of 9 Mute swans (Cygnus olor) untied in the river acrossing the central part of Tottori-city died within the period of 40 days of summer in 1989.
(19) Hemodynamic evaluations were performed by means of a Swan-Ganz catheter and cardiac output determinations by the thermodilution technique.
(20) Ten consecutive patients with ventricular septal rupture complicating acute myocardial infarction were studied by means of Doppler echocardiography (including two-dimensional, conventional and color Doppler techniques) and bedside right heart catheterization using a Swan-Ganz catheter.
Swank
Definition:
(imp.) of Swink
Example Sentences:
(1) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Ramzan Kadyrov is joined by Jean-Claude Van Damme and Hilary Swank at his birthday party in Grozny in 2011.
(2) Comparison of the Bentley PFS-127, Fenwal 4C2417, Johnson & Johnson Intersept, Pall Ultipore, and Swank IL200 filters led to the conclusion that the Fenwal 4C2423 was both a significant improvement over the previous Fenwal design and comparable to the most efficient of these filters for both the removal of microaggregates during massive blood transfusion and for the blood flow rates obtained.
(3) Hilary Swank plays a resilient, lonely singleton who enlists Jones’s crabby claims jumper to help her escort three mentally ill women back to civilisation.
(4) There were 5 control puppies and 5 for which a Swank filter was placed in the arterial perfusion line.
(5) These changes did not occur in patients transfused comparable amounts of blood through Dacron wool (Swank) filters or in patients transfused less than 20% of blood volumes.
(6) Interposition of Dacron wool (Swank) blood transfusion filters prevented these changes.
(7) Weinberg claimed the actor had "no current plans to attend" the party; later the same month, YouTube footage showed Swank eulogising her host.
(8) Obviously it has taken me some time to digest this, and obviously it will take some more time,” Swank said.
(9) "This is a solid neighbourhood, everyone looks out for each other," Ben Swank, Third Man's co-founder, had explained to me on my tour.
(10) Hilary Swank is gentlewoman farmer Mary Bee Cuddy, a transplant from upstate New York who has built a successful holding but lacks a husband; men tell her she’s “plain and bossy”.
(11) These can be prevented by microfiltration--the Swank IL200 transfusion filter made of Dacron wool is perfectly suitable.
(12) So the party was seriously amaze, we had like these interns you could actually SIT on, tray Gatsby & the entire theme was "bags", non-swank my idea, everyone was going OMG it is like something out of Truman Patootie, then there is this shouting, the doormen are like, couple of liggers shall we eject, I'm like *sigh* let them in but make him do up his shirt & do not let her out of your sight?
(13) Apparently, the Swank blood filter protects the lung by removing leukocytes and damaged platelets from the circulation.
(14) The efficacy of the Fenwal filter, the Swank filter, the Biotest filter and the intersept filter was practically the same, but the Intersept filter provided the best output with an equal filtration capacity.
(15) On the basis of this research, we conclude that polyester mesh micropore blood transfusion filters are not as effective as Dacron wool (Swank) transfusion filters in removal of micro-aggregates from stored human blood.
(16) It has also been demonstrated that rises in Swank screen filtration pressure in an in vitro test circuit are due to the presence of platelet aggregates.
(17) At one point in the film Swank and Jones' characters are confronted by a Pawnee raiding party and have a horse stolen, but Jones rejected any suggestion that he had "stereotyped" Native Americans in his film.
(18) These effects are due to microemboli that pass the filters and are prevented by use of Dacron wool (Swank) micropore transfusion filters.
(19) Microaggregates, detected by the Swank screen filtration pressure technique, were found in blood leaving the columns during three of the four perfusions with each column.
(20) No rises in Swank screen filtration pressure, which detects the presence of cellular aggregates in blood, were observed.