(n.) The nodule of earth from which the ball is struck in golf.
(n.) A short piece of pipe having a lateral outlet, used to connect a line of pipe with a pipe at a right angle with the line; -- so called because it resembles the letter T in shape.
Example Sentences:
(1) Transesophageal echocardiography (TEE) is a semi-invasive examination that provides better images of the atrium than classical transthoracic echocardiography (TTE) due to the anatomical positioning of the captor and the high frequency Doppler apparatus used.
(2) The data obtained by intraatrial palpation were compared with the data obtained by TEE.
(3) Attending to the prerequisitis and contraindications TEE growth up to an important method for cardiac surgery with regard to prae-, intra- and postoperative diagnostic and evaluation of treatment effectiveness.
(4) The clinical value of biplane transesophageal echocardiography (TEE) was assessed on basis of the experience of the first 100 cases.
(5) In 90 of 10,218 TEE studies (0.88%) with successful probe insertion, the examination had to be interrupted because of the patient's intolerance of the echoscope (65 cases); because of pulmonary (eight cases), cardiac (eight cases), or bleeding complications (two cases); or for other reasons (seven cases).
(6) TEE studies detected 83 lesions (in 80 patients), which we characterized by type and site: 46 left atrial, 16 right atrial, 7 left ventricular, 2 right ventricular, and 12 extracardiac mass lesions.
(7) TTE observed 1% of mitral prosthesis vegetation compared to 8.8% by TEE.
(8) The authors report a case of myocardial infarction complicated by a false aneurysm of the posterior wall of the left ventricle, the diagnosis of which was confirmed, for the first time, by transesophageal echocardiography (TEE) which provided better definition of the anatomical features of the lesion: visualisation of the particularly wide neck (5 cm) and the site of rupture of the myocardium; demonstration of the presence in the false aneurysm with a thin pericardial wall of a large thrombus of different acoustic density, itself overlain by swirling whorls.
(9) Only 28% of TEE episodes (RWMA suggestive of ischemia) were preceded by acute changes in any hemodynamic parameter.
(10) "I'm Ms Dy-na-mi-TEE-ee," she sang on the chorus, putting an emphasis on the penultimate syllable.
(11) In adults transesophageal echocardiography (TEE) has become a well-established method for the assessment of cardiac malformations.
(12) Practical experience from and diagnostic yield of 65 transesophageal echocardiographies (TEE) performed routinely in 63 patients aged 10-84 are presented.
(13) The players were each to be given a present: Dietmar Hamann (he's German, tee hee hee) got a copy of Mein Kampf, while the Italian Alessandro Pistone, perceived as lacking fight, was given a sheep's heart.
(14) The introduction of two-dimensional transesophageal echocardiography (TEE) has widened the ultrasonic examination possibilities of the heart and great arteries.
(15) But in 3 type I dissections and in all cases with type III aneurysms (n = 4) the intimal flaps and the DeBakey type of classification were identified only by TEE.
(16) Transesophageal echocardiography (TEE) has advanced rapidly as a valuable cardiovascular diagnostic technique.
(17) No other noninvasive methods were used after the diagnosis of AAD by TEE.
(18) The English pilot, which is being run in the Tyne Tees and Borders region, will be produced by News 3, a consortium of Trinity Mirror, the Press Association and the TV production company Ten Alps.
(19) TEE, however, is associated with lower specificity for lesions in the ascending aorta.
(20) Major indications for TEE include the search for a cardiac source of embolism and cardiac tumors, the work-up prior to balloon mitral valvuloplasty, the evaluation of prosthetic valves and the search for vegetations and aortic dissection.
(v. t.) Wandering from moral rectitude; perverse; dissolute.
(v. t.) Specifically: Deviating from the rules of chastity; lewd; lustful; lascivious; libidinous; lecherous.
(v. t.) Reckless; heedless; as, wanton mischief.
(n.) A roving, frolicsome thing; a trifler; -- used rarely as a term of endearment.
(n.) One brought up without restraint; a pampered pet.
(n.) A lewd person; a lascivious man or woman.
(v. i.) To rove and ramble without restraint, rule, or limit; to revel; to play loosely; to frolic.
(v. i.) To sport in lewdness; to play the wanton; to play lasciviously.
(v. t.) To cause to become wanton; also, to waste in wantonness.
Example Sentences:
(1) We simply do whatever nature needs and will work with anyone that wants to help wildlife.” His views might come as a surprise to some of the RSPB’s 1.1 million members, who would have been persuaded by its original pledge “to discourage the wanton destruction of birds”; they would equally have been a surprise to the RSPB’s detractors in the shooting world.
(2) He pointed out that the eighth amendment of the US constitution “prohibits the unnecessary and wanton infliction of pain through torture, barbarous methods, or methods resulting in a lingering death”.
(3) The real offense, for which no one has been charged, is the wanton disregard for human life that Manning exposed.
(4) We’re back to those flappers, with their jobs and their knee-length skirts and their dangerous opinions about politics, or the girls of the 1960s destroying the traditional family by wantonly taking the pill.
(5) Long said: "This is not an attack on an individual or on a party, but a wanton attack on the democratic process.
(6) In the 1930s the Spanish city of Guernica became a symbol of wanton murder and destruction.
(7) The wanton slaughter of two dozen civilians in Haditha, Iraq and the severe and even lethal torture of Afghan detainees generated, at worst, shockingly short jail time for the killers and, usually, little more than letters of reprimand.
(8) What distinguishes games from books, or films, is that the dodgy sexual politics and wanton violence of one is used as a stick to bash them all.
(9) "The president commiserates with all the families who lost loved ones in the heinous attacks and extends his heartfelt sympathies to all those who suffered injuries or lost their properties during the wanton assaults on Bauchi and Kaduna States," said a statement.
(10) But that doesn't mean that halting and reversing the wanton growth of shorthaul flights is an act of class war.
(11) Here in Bristol we could use the old railway lines that used to thread their way into the city, before Beeching and Marples ripped them up – another example of wanton government lack of foresight.
(12) To the contrary, they are the inevitable by-products of societies that recruit every institution in service of defending even the most wanton abuses by the state.
(13) Later at university, there were nice Protestant ladies and wanton atheists; taxpayer-funded Guinness and Spear of Destiny .
(14) Three hours of sexual and pharmacological excess, wanton debauchery, unfathomable avarice, gleeful misogyny, extreme narcotic brinksmanship, malfeasance and lawless behaviour is a lot to take, and some have complained of the film's relentlessness, which, if understood in formal terms, I think may be one of its main aims.
(15) Humankind must become accountable on a massive scale for the wanton destruction of our collective home.
(16) Young children were expected to carry out gruelling domestic chores and were wantonly punished, she says.
(17) An influential Communist party journal has compared online rumours to Cultural Revolution-style denunciations and warned of the need to curb "wanton defamation" of authority, as China intensifies its campaign to control social media.
(18) What we are seeing in London tonight, the wanton vandalism, smashing of windows, has nothing to do with peaceful protest."
(19) On the periphery of all the wanton lust and questionable puns stands Evie (Antonia Thomas), who’s pretty, sweet and has a camera; the holy trinity for chumps like Dylan.
(20) Following release of the Mosul video showing wanton destruction of antiquities, there has been a lot of email traffic between Libyans working in archaeology and Arab-world representatives on the major international heritage bodies,” said David Mattingly, a professor at the University of Leicester, who has spent years excavating Roman ruins in Libya.