(n.) The number greater by one than nine; the sum of five and five; ten units of objects.
(n.) A symbol representing ten units, as 10, x, or X.
Example Sentences:
(1) In this study of ten consecutive patients sustaining molten metal injuries to the lower extremity who were treated with excision and grafting, treatment with compression Unna paste boot was compared with that with conventional dressing.
(2) However, four of ten young adult outer arm (relatively sun-exposed) and one of ten young adult inner arm (relatively sun-protected) fibroblasts lines increased their saturation density in response to retinoic acid.
(3) Ten out of 12 (83%) tumours which had c-erbB-2 and c-erbA co-amplification had metastasised to axillary lymph nodes (P less than 0.006).
(4) Ten patients developed zoster within the first 6 months following transplant.
(5) We report our experience of 11 procedures, performed on ten patients between October 1987 and June 1988.
(6) Ten milliliters of the solution inappropriately came into contact with nasal mucous membranes, causing excessive drug absorption.
(7) The ulcers on seven of ten legs (70%) treated with Unna's boots and on 10 of 14 legs (71%) treated with elastic support stocking healed.
(8) The lengths and heights of the scalae tympani in ten pairs of serially sectioned temporal bones were measured by an adaptation of the serial section method of cochlear reconstruction.
(9) Affected dogs were from ten breeds and their average age was eight years.
(10) The effect of ipratropium bromide administered at two dosage levels, 40 and 80 mug, isoproterenol, 150 mug, and placebo using a metered dose inhaler was evaluated in ten adult patients with asthma in a double-blind, crossover study.
(11) At this threshold there was no effect on reducing the rate of visual acuity overreferrals, but ten children with abnormal binocular vision were detected who were not referred by visual acuity criteria.
(12) Most strains showed reductions in infectivity of less than ten fold, while two strains demonstrated a marked sensitivity to the drug.
(13) Ten weeks of iron therapy was not, however, long enough to increase iron stores.
(14) Ten or 4% of the administered parasites passed in the feces during the 3 days following the first or second infection, but 32% after the third infection.
(15) Since then the intensive development of anti-malaria campaigns in urban areas over about ten years led temporarily to a considerable decrease in the level of endemicity, while in rural areas it remained unchanged.
(16) Ten patients received intercostal nerve blockade on a total of 29 occasions in order to provide analgesia following liver transplantation and to facilitate weaning from artificial ventilation of the lungs.
(17) Ten filtrating blebs remained after a 5 months' follow-up period.
(18) The mean follow-up was ten years and the results were graded in the Lazansky system.
(19) We did three repeated PD measures of mean aortic flow velocity in ten term infants (using four trained operators) to determine inter- and intraoperator reproducibility.
(20) The annual cost of treatment is $200,000 (£130,000), and patients may live for tens of years.
Tenfold
Definition:
(a. & adv.) In tens; consisting of ten in one; ten times repeated.
Example Sentences:
(1) Measurements of the lactose repressor over a tenfold range of cell growth rates were made on protein extracts from Escherichia coli cultures grown in media with various carbon energy sources.
(2) The growth of vaccine strains was depressed at 39 degrees C to a level about 3 log10 lower than that at 37 degrees C. The difference in virus titer attained by wild strains at 37 degrees and 39 degrees C was less than tenfold.
(3) The concentration of G-CSF in supernatants from cells stimulated with both IL-1 and IL-4 was at least tenfold higher than that measured in supernatants harvested from cells stimulated with either IL-1 or IL-4 alone.
(4) Inductive influence of the fascial transplant has been measured in two patients; a tenfold increase in net collagen synthesis and deposition occurs for at least one year following transplantation of fascia to an imbricated scar recipient area.
(5) S1 nuclease protection assays revealed that transfection of full-length raf complementary DNA in the antisense orientation (AS) leads to a specific reduction (greater than tenfold) of steady-state levels of the endogenous c-raf-1 sense (S) transcript in SQ-20B cells.
(6) Heat resistance increased about tenfold in the range of 30-44 degrees C. Sporulation at 52 degrees C did not show any further increase in heat resistance.
(7) In the wild strain (Em 5297a) thiourea is tenfold more toxic on an allantoin medium than on an inorganic nitrogen medium; allantoin as well as urea counteract thiourea toxicity in the allantoin nitrogen medium.
(8) There appears to be a direct connection between this observation and the two main messages of the campaign as the employment of condoms increased tenfold during the period 1986-1988 end contact investigations revealed a decrease in the number of unknown sexual partners.
(9) In this regard, cured lung cancer patients, including those with SCLC, have a tenfold increased risk of developing a second lung cancer (Fontana 1977; Cortese et al.
(10) When [Na+] was varied, with [K+] and [Cl-] constant, there was a linear relation between PD and log [Na+], with a change of 18 mV per tenfold change in concentration.
(11) All the streptovals and streptovaricin degradation products except varicinal A showed a marked improvement (twofold to tenfold) in activity against the viral enzyme over the parent streptovaricins.
(12) About a tenfold increase in enzyme activity could be measured in the presence of 5 microM beta-estradiol or esteriol.
(13) The affinity of modified HMWKa for kaolin was tenfold less than the affinity of unmodified HMWKa.
(14) A tenfold elevation of AFP was found in the first patient.
(15) Throughout the observation period (6 months), TcR2+ cells in peripheral lymphoid organs and blood were absent in treated animals with the exception of few (less than 10%) cells with a tenfold reduced TcR2 density; peripheral TcR2-CD3+ cells, i.e.
(16) Compared with unstimulated platelets, platelets triggered by the combined action of collagen plus thrombin showed a tenfold activity increase in prothrombin activation, and a 20-fold rate enhancement in factor X activation.
(17) By 4 weeks after a single 6.3, 12.5 or 25 ng injection, seven, nine and ten out of ten vaccinees, respectively, had antibody detectable by a HAV AB assay modified to increase its sensitivity tenfold.
(18) The main finding of the study was a tenfold increase in the subsequent visit rate for asthma in the acute bronchitis group.
(19) Increasing the potassium concentration of the medium resulted in a reduction in the resting membrane potential of 60 mV per tenfold change in potassium concentration, and a diminished TSH response.
(20) Quantitative analysis of mannose and leucine incorporation showed that the mutant enzyme incorporated two- to tenfold less mannose than the normal enzyme on a molar basis.