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Taber


Definition:

  • (v. i.) Same as Tabor.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Taber said: "Unless we get this sorted out, dermal fillers will be the next disaster."
  • (2) These results, taken together with those previously published (A. S. McEnroe and H. W. Taber, Antimicrob.
  • (3) The mar-3 strain studied (aroD163) had previously been shown to be a menaquinone auxotroph (Farrand and Taber, 1973) and to be deficient in amino acid uptake (Bisschop et al., 1975).
  • (4) The bending stiffness of 22 commercial suture materials of varying size, chemical structure and physical form was quantitatively evaluated using a stiffness tester (Taber V-5, model 150B, Teledyne).
  • (5) The Taber Abraser did show non-linear trends similar to those observed clinically.
  • (6) Taber, who attacked the health department for its regulation of the industry, said: "All public and private sector surgeons used these [PIP] implants, which were not the cheapest on the market, in good faith with the knowledge that they had been approved by the Department of Health agency, the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency.
  • (7) Sally Taber, director of Independent Healthcare Advisory Services, the cosmetic surgery industry body, said that the injections were often performed by beauty therapists with just a few hours' training.
  • (8) Bond expert Mark Taber, who helped form the action group to fight for a better deal, and signed up 2,500 members, said the outcome is the best small investors could have hoped for.
  • (9) "It is vital for patients' physical and mental wellbeing that policy is based upon clear and reliable evidence," said IHAS director Sally Taber.
  • (10) "The majority of these are pensioners in their 70s, 80s and 90s who acquired Co-op Bank bonds for pension income," says Taber.
  • (11) Taber said this was to "ensure they [the HPRA] have proper data with which to review the situation rather than relying on the small sample of just 100 patients provided by Transform, which has been taken out of context.
  • (12) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Glacier hiking near Reykjavik, Iceland An exhilarating off-road super-Jeep aurora hunt, crossing a magical frozen landscape and glacial rivers, is included on a new three-night Reykjavik & the Northern Lights break with Taber Holidays , with options of glacier hiking and snowmobile safaris, too, from £830pp including flights.
  • (13) It has been shown that in neurons, taurine increases the Cl current, resulting in hyperpolarization (Taber et al., 1986; Figure 12).
  • (14) Mark Taber, representing retail bondholders who believe they should be spared a haircut on their investments, said there was a "disgraceful" lack of detail in the Co-op's offer.
  • (15) Led by investor Mark Taber , the group comprises 15,000 holders of bonds issued by the bank.
  • (16) "It is vital for patients' physical and mental wellbeing that policy is based upon clear and reliable evidence," said the IHAS director, Sally Taber.
  • (17) Sally Taber, director of the Independent Healthcare Advisory Services, the body representing the private health providers, refused to take questions on the conduct of her members and in a statement offered only free consultations for women who are worried.
  • (18) Bond expert Mark Taber of the Co-op Bank Retail Investors Campaign says the outcome is the best small investors could have hoped for.
  • (19) It has also given the data to the UK regulator, the Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Authority, "to ensure they have proper data with which to review the situation, rather than relying on the small sample of just 100 patients provided by Transform, which has been taken out of context," said Taber.
  • (20) This relationship and its causes were sought in an in vitro test that used the Taber Abraser.

Taper


Definition:

  • (n.) A small wax candle; a small lighted wax candle; hence, a small light.
  • (n.) A tapering form; gradual diminution of thickness in an elongated object; as, the taper of a spire.
  • (a.) Regularly narrowed toward the point; becoming small toward one end; conical; pyramidical; as, taper fingers.
  • (v. i.) To become gradually smaller toward one end; as, a sugar loaf tapers toward one end.
  • (v. t.) To make or cause to taper.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Axons emerge from proximal dendrites within 50 microns of the soma, and more rarely from the soma, in a tapering initial segment, commonly interrupted by one or two large swellings.
  • (2) The cases of S-type were changed to those of ST-type, which emphasized the Tapering type factors.
  • (3) The former possess a variety of spines, axonlike processes and sometimes an unmyelinated axon, and are presumably interneurons, while type IIB cells show a thick tapering axon that is probably myelinated.
  • (4) He presents measures for the management of withdrawal symptoms and relapse, focusing on the use of a slow taper over 3 to 6 months.
  • (5) In the experiments which covered exposure time from 4.5 to 17.0 s, we found that it started slowly, the reflectance increased rapidly once the surface temperature of the lesion reached approximately 90 degrees C. After this rapid rise, the reflectance began to taper off until no change in reflectance was recorded.
  • (6) During the 3-month tapering-off period eight initially improved patients (36%) in the cyclosporin group worsened, as did six (55%) in the placebo group.
  • (7) Special complications included postoperative renal deterioration, especially after tapering of megaureters.
  • (8) Yes, at the 2010 Conservative conference the party announced a similar cliff-edge at the higher rate tax threshold as a way of effectively means-testing child benefit payments, but that was eventually removed and replaced with a less egregious taper at the 2012 budget.
  • (9) Myocardial fibers were elongated and thinner (tapered) in the tips of papillary muscles.
  • (10) Urinary leakage in 3 patients with a right colonic reservoir (2 with an intussuscepted ileal nipple valve and 1 with a plicated ileal segment as a continence mechanism) was managed with tapered narrowing of the nipple valve and the ileocecal valve, respectively, using stapling techniques.
  • (11) Bad pun aside, investors are concerned that the company's high growth-rates are tapering.
  • (12) In addition, after incubation in ATP, they are intermingled with, and converge onto the surfaces of, thick, tapered filaments, which we have tentatively identified as of myosin-like nature.
  • (13) The spheroids grew exponentially with a volume-doubling time of approximately 24 h up to a diameter of approximately 580 microns and then the growth rate tapered off, more for spheroids grown at the low than at the high oxygen tension.
  • (14) The tapered tubes and constricted tubes are of special importance.
  • (15) It involves the deep white matter symmetrically, tapering off toward the cortex.
  • (16) Those on antihypertensive medication prior to enrollment without documented diastolic hypertension had their medication tapered and discontinued, and then met BP criteria (33% of cohort).
  • (17) It has not yet been possible to enumerate these tapered rods by culture methods, but as judged by visual appearances in the histological sections, they seemed to outnumber all other bacteria in the cecum and the colon by a factor of as much as 1000.
  • (18) Child benefit is to be withdrawn from families as soon as one parent hits earnings of £44,000, but any tapering would be costly and require ploughing money back via child tax credits.
  • (19) The imaging system consists of a ZnS(Ag) screen, two tapered fibers, an image intensifier, and a Polaroid film.
  • (20) The micropyle canal measures 8 microns at the opening and tapers to 3.6 microns as it penetrates the membrane.

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