(n.) The number greater by a unit than two; three units or objects.
(n.) A symbol representing three units, as 3 or iii.
Example Sentences:
(1) Results by these three assays were also highly reproducible.
(2) Thirty-two patients (10 male, 22 female; age 37-82 years) undergoing maintenance haemodialysis or haemofiltration were studied by means of Holter device capable of simultaneously analysing rhythm and ST-changes in three leads.
(3) 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.
(4) Three categories of UV response have been identified.
(5) Sierra Leone is one of the three West Africa nations hit hard by an Ebola epidemic this year.
(6) Comparison of wild type and the mutant parD promoter sequences indicated that three short repeats are likely involved in the negative regulation of this promoter.
(7) Three of the patients had had fractures of the femoral neck.
(8) of PLA2 caused marked degranulation of mast cells in the rat mesentery which was facilitated by addition of calcium ion (10 mM) but antagonized by pretreating with three antiinflammatory agents.
(9) At the time, with a regular supply of British immigrants arriving in large numbers in Australia, Biggs was able to blend in well as "Terry Cook", a carpenter, so well in fact that his wife, Charmian, was able to join him with his three sons.
(10) In each study, all subjects underwent four replications (over two days) of one of the six permutations of the three experimental conditions; each condition lasted 5 min.
(11) The correlates of three characteristics of familial networks (i.e., residential proximity, family affection, and family contact) were examined among a national sample of older Black Americans.
(12) 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.
(13) Induction of labor, based upon only (1) a finding of meconium in the amniocentesis group or (2) a positive test in the OCT group, was nearly three times more frequent in the amniocentesis group.
(14) The RNA polymerase activity was tested after the solubilization and chromatographic resolution of the three types of polymerases with exogenous template.
(15) Michael James, 52, from Tower Hamlets Three days after telling his landlord that the flat upstairs was a deathtrap, Michael James was handed an eviction notice.
(16) The norepinephrine values remained constant on the three days.
(17) Fluorination with [18F]acetylhypofluorite yields 6-[18F]fluoro-L-dopa with 95% radiochemical purity; fluorination of the same substrate with [18F]F2 yields a mixture of all three structural isomers in a ratio of 70:16:14 for 6-, 5-, and 2-fluoro compounds.
(18) Three overlapping clones, spanning a total of 19 kb of the human SC gene, including 3 kb of the 5' flanking region, were characterized.
(19) The 68C intermolt puff of Drosophila melanogaster contains a cluster of three glue protein genes, Sgs-3, Sgs-7, and Sgs-8.
(20) By hybridization studies, three plasmids in two forms (open circular and supercoiled) were detected in the strain A24.
Trichotomy
Definition:
(n.) Division into three parts.
Example Sentences:
(1) The quantitative changes that occurred in the dendritic trees of these cells (increase in segment length, decrease in segment numbers, trichotomy and branching probability) were similar to those seen following other degranulation procedures.
(2) Nevertheless, trichotomy was uniformly reduced in those trees without 'giant spines' and the distribution of branching patterns suggested that growth had proceeded by random terminal dichotomy.
(3) Using the Brief Psychiatric Rating Scale (BPRS) as a clinical example, we cover the principles of expressing scale reliability in terms of a dichotomy ("absence" - "presence" of a given BPRS symptom); as a trichotomy ("none"; "mild to moderate" symptomatology; and "severe" symptomatology); and as the full 7-category dichotomous-ordinal scale: "none," "very mild," "mild," "moderate," "moderately severe," "severe," and "extremely severe."
(4) Except in the case of the tree generated from reciprocal-corrected delta Tm data, nodes were stable under jackknifing; and, again excepting the above-mentioned trichotomy, all nodes were supported by 95% or more of the bootstrapped trees.
(5) A deep trichotomy is thus observed within the ciliates.
(6) In addition, the 2DE data set appears to resolve the human-chimpanzee-gorilla trichotomy in favor of a more recent association of chimpanzees and humans.
(7) The above results, together with changes in segment length, trichotomy, branching probability, and growth cone morphology during development have been discussed in relation to current concepts of dendritic growth.
(8) The quantitative changes in segment lengths, size of trees, and trichotomy accord with those predicted by the filopodial synaptogenic hypothesis of dendritic growth formulated by Vaughn et al.
(9) It was discussed that functional trichotomy of retinal ganglion cells is related to the differentiation more in axon diameter rather than in soma size.
(10) Estimates of gene frequency and displacement from a phenotypic trichotomy agree closely with conventional values for the the dichotomy of tasters vs. nontasters.
(11) They were often some 10 mum in length and their presence effectively reduced segment lengths, increased the frequency of trichotomy and deviated growth from the normal random terminal pattern so that long collateral branching topologies were formed.
(12) Comparisons of cytochrome oxidase subunit II gene sequences provide clear-cut evidence from the mitochondrial genome for the separation of the African ape trichotomy into two evolutionary lineages, one leading to gorillas and the other to humans and chimpanzees.
(13) However, with the exception of an unresolved trichotomy among the two Echymipera species and Peroryctes longicauda, all trees showed the same branchpoints.
(14) In spite of the presence of the complete sequence data of mitochondrial genomes, we could not resolve the trichotomy among human, bovine and murids, probably because the time length separating two branching events among these three lines was short and because chicken is too distant from mammals to be used as an outgroup.
(15) Explorations of this subculture rationale are conducted utilizing a trichotomy of marijuana type users.
(16) The Mollusca appear to be a monophyletic group, related to Arthropoda and Chordata in an unresolved trichotomy.
(17) With the present data, resolving the rodent-primate-lagomorph (rabbit) trichotomy is the least certain aspect of the final tree, followed then by establishing the position of dog.
(18) The appropriate null hypothesis is either a trichotomy or an alternative phylogeny, depending on the data set.