(n.) The cross, or church, of St. Antony. See Illust. (6), under Cross, n.
(n.) See Tasse.
Example Sentences:
(1) Sixty-six consecutive patients with unresectable hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) were treated with transcatheter arterial chemoembolization (TACE) using aclarubicin microspheres (ACRms) in combination with cisplatin suspended in iodized oil (Lipiodol, Laboratoire Guerbert, Paris, France) (CSL).
(2) A reduction of the tumor size after L-TACE did not necessarily mean a good prognosis for the patients.
(3) We investigated the incidence and endoscopic features of gastroduodenal lesions which appeared after transcatheter arterial chemo-embolization (TACE), performed 29 times in 25 patients with inoperative hepatocellular carcinoma.
(4) The single oral dose of quinestrol showed efficacy equal to the 2-day regimen of Tace.
(5) Therefore, we would like to recommend, TACE of HCC in well-selected patients presenting with good clinical status, patency of the portal vein and without broken capsule, in order to achieve better clinical results.
(6) 3) When ADM was dissolved in Gd-DTPA and intraarterially infused without being mixed with lipiodol, the intensity of the signal on MRI was the same as that in LP-TACE immediately after the administration, and gradually decreased thereafter.
(7) The results demonstrated that TACE can be effective for humoral hypercalcemia of HCC.
(8) These results suggest that TACE is more effective than oral chemotherapy for treatment of hepatocellular carcinoma that recurs after partial hepatectomy.
(9) Further follow-up studies will be needed to discover the effects of oral chemotherapy after L-TACE.
(10) The new development or exacerbation of the gastroduodenal lesions after TACE was evident in 13 of the 29 (45%).
(11) In 22% of the HCC patients and in 42% of the metastatic liver cancer patients, the tumor size was reduced by more than 50% after L-TACE.
(12) Transcatheter arterial chemoembolization (TACE) is one of the established therapeutic modalities for treatment of metastatic liver cancer originating in the gastrointestinal tract.
(13) The factors relating to the duration of survival were analyzed for 329 cases of hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) treated by transcatheter arterial chemoembolization (TACE) between January 1, 1983, and December 31, 1990.
(14) The marked antiestrogen character of TACE was surprising since TACE has been classified and clinically used as an estrogen.
(15) In light of these events, upper gastrointestinal endoscopy should be added to the usual examinations done for patients undergoing TACE.
(16) Cis-Diamminedichloroplatinum (CDDP)-lipiodol suspension (CLS) was developed as a transarterial chemoembolization (TACE) material.
(17) The materials were then clinically prescribed as an embolic agent in preoperative TACE for patients with locally advanced breast cancer.
(18) Under adequate medical care, TACE can safely be applied, although there are some reports about fatal complications.
(19) The survival rates of the HCC patients after L-TACE did not change as a result of oral 5-fluorouracil administration.
(20) TAM and TACE acted as partial agonists on PRL and uterine weight induction.
Take
Definition:
(p. p.) Taken.
(v. t.) In an active sense; To lay hold of; to seize with the hands, or otherwise; to grasp; to get into one's hold or possession; to procure; to seize and carry away; to convey.
(v. t.) To obtain possession of by force or artifice; to get the custody or control of; to reduce into subjection to one's power or will; to capture; to seize; to make prisoner; as, to take am army, a city, or a ship; also, to come upon or befall; to fasten on; to attack; to seize; -- said of a disease, misfortune, or the like.
(v. t.) To gain or secure the interest or affection of; to captivate; to engage; to interest; to charm.
(v. t.) To make selection of; to choose; also, to turn to; to have recourse to; as, to take the road to the right.
(v. t.) To employ; to use; to occupy; hence, to demand; to require; as, it takes so much cloth to make a coat.
(v. t.) To form a likeness of; to copy; to delineate; to picture; as, to take picture of a person.
(v. t.) To draw; to deduce; to derive.
(v. t.) To assume; to adopt; to acquire, as shape; to permit to one's self; to indulge or engage in; to yield to; to have or feel; to enjoy or experience, as rest, revenge, delight, shame; to form and adopt, as a resolution; -- used in general senses, limited by a following complement, in many idiomatic phrases; as, to take a resolution; I take the liberty to say.
(v. t.) To lead; to conduct; as, to take a child to church.
(v. t.) To carry; to convey; to deliver to another; to hand over; as, he took the book to the bindery.
(v. t.) To remove; to withdraw; to deduct; -- with from; as, to take the breath from one; to take two from four.
(v. t.) In a somewhat passive sense, to receive; to bear; to endure; to acknowledge; to accept.
(v. t.) To accept, as something offered; to receive; not to refuse or reject; to admit.
(v. t.) To receive as something to be eaten or dronk; to partake of; to swallow; as, to take food or wine.
(v. t.) Not to refuse or balk at; to undertake readily; to clear; as, to take a hedge or fence.
(v. t.) To bear without ill humor or resentment; to submit to; to tolerate; to endure; as, to take a joke; he will take an affront from no man.
(v. t.) To admit, as, something presented to the mind; not to dispute; to allow; to accept; to receive in thought; to entertain in opinion; to understand; to interpret; to regard or look upon; to consider; to suppose; as, to take a thing for granted; this I take to be man's motive; to take men for spies.
(v. t.) To accept the word or offer of; to receive and accept; to bear; to submit to; to enter into agreement with; -- used in general senses; as, to take a form or shape.
(v. i.) To take hold; to fix upon anything; to have the natural or intended effect; to accomplish a purpose; as, he was inoculated, but the virus did not take.
(v. i.) To please; to gain reception; to succeed.
(v. i.) To move or direct the course; to resort; to betake one's self; to proceed; to go; -- usually with to; as, the fox, being hard pressed, took to the hedge.
(v. i.) To admit of being pictured, as in a photograph; as, his face does not take well.
(n.) That which is taken; especially, the quantity of fish captured at one haul or catch.
(n.) The quantity or copy given to a compositor at one time.
Example Sentences:
(1) The rash presented either as a pityriasis rosea-like picture which appeared about three to six months after the onset of treatment in patients taking low doses, or alternatively, as lichenoid plaques which appeared three to six months after commencement of medication in patients taking high doses.
(2) Power urges the security council to "take the kind of credible, binding action warranted."
(3) The 14C-aminopyrine breath test was used to measure liver function in 14 normal subjects, 16 patients with alcoholic cirrhosis, 14 alcoholics without cirrhosis, and 29 patients taking a variety of drugs.
(4) That means deciding what job they’d like to have and outlining the steps they’ll need to take to achieve it.
(5) A survey carried out two and three years after the launch of the official campaign also showed a reduction in the prevalence of rickets in children taking low dose supplements equivalent to about 2.5 micrograms (100 IU) vitamin D daily.
(6) The only sign of life was excavators loading trees on to barges to take to pulp mills.
(7) Under these conditions the meiotic prophase takes place and proceeds to the dictyate phase, obeying a somewhat delayed chronology in comparison with controls in vivo.
(8) "With hyperspectral imaging, you can tell the chemical content of a cake just by taking a photo of it.
(9) Now, as the Senate takes up a weakened House bill along with the House's strengthened backdoor-proof amendment, it's time to put focus back on sweeping reform.
(10) Those without sperm, or with cloudy fluid, will require vasoepididymostomy under general or epidural anesthesia, which takes 4-6 hr.
(11) Serum gamma glutamyl transferase (gammaGT) and alkaline phosphatase (ALP) activities have been estimated in 49 epileptic patients taking anticonvulsant drugs.
(12) Undaunted by the sickening swell of the ocean and wrapped up against the chilly wind, Straneo, of Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, one of the world's leading oceanographic research centres, continues to take measurements from the waters as the long Arctic dusk falls.
(13) But what they take for a witticism might very well be true; most of Ellis's novels tell more or less the same story, about the same alienated ennui, and maybe they really are nothing more than the fictionalised diaries of an unremarkably unhappy man.
(14) It was then I decided to take up the offer from Berkeley."
(15) While the majority of EU member states, including the UK, do not have a direct interest in the CAR, or in taking action, the alternative is unthinkable.
(16) Mother and Sister take over with more nuanced emotional literacy.
(17) "These developments are clearly unwarranted on the basis of economic and budgetary fundamentals in these two member states and the steps that they are taking to reinforce those fundamentals."
(18) This attack can take place during organogenesis, during early differentiation of neural anlagen after neural tube closure or during biochemical differentiation of the brain.
(19) You can't spend more than you take in, and you can't keep doing it for ever and ever and ever.
(20) The process of integrating the two banks is expected to take three years, with predictions that up to 25,000 roles could eventually be eliminated.