(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.
Trifurcate
Definition:
(a.) Alt. of Trifurcated
Example Sentences:
(1) The serial left carotid angiography, performed immediately after admission, showed the occlusion of left middle cerebral artery at the location of trifurcation.
(2) A review of the most recent literature shows that the prognosis for lesions of the proximal and middle segment of the popliteal artery is greatly improved while in lesions of the distal portion and particularly the trifurcation, the percentage of failure with consequent amputation is still very high (from 30% to 40% of cases).
(3) They consisted of (1) an unusual trifurcation of the abducent nerve, limited to the extradural portion of the neural trunk (1.4% of the cases) and (2) the duplicity (11.1%) of the neural trunk, starting before reaching the orbit and ending before reaching the m. rectus lateralis.
(4) The morphological examination of advanced atherosclerosis caused by atherogenic diet in the coronary arteries and in the aorta abdominalis (trifurcation) of pigs showed plaque hemorrhage and signs of vascularisation.
(5) The distal adjacent segment is demonstrated well in 81 to 95 per cent of the cases up to the level of the trifurcation.
(6) In a 54 year-old man, a symptomatic occlusion of the popliteal artery and its trifurcation occurred following radiotherapy.
(7) Confirmative cine-angiography revealed a few a-v-fistulae at the level of crural trifurcation, which might have exacerbated the symptoms of deep vein thrombosis.
(8) A perspex model of a dog aortic trifurcation was machined to scale and perfused with steady flow from a constant pressure reservoir.
(9) These anomalies include aberrations of the course of one or all of the segments of the canal; abnormal relation to the oval and round window; bifurcations and trifurcations of the nerve; and associations with dysplasia of the stapes, oval window, external ear canal, and auricle.
(10) The branching patterns of Dup-MCA could be classified as "direct bifurcation" from the internal carotid artery, since most lacked the essential bifurcation or trifurcation at the distal end of the M1 portion.
(11) This 11-year retrospective study reviewed 99 arterial injuries distal to the brachial bifurcation or popliteal trifurcation in 89 extremities in 88 patients.
(12) The most remarkable facts are the presence of a radiological pneumogallbladder, and the existence of a real trifurcation of the trachea on the bronchography, associated with a choledocal hypoplasia.
(13) It is an extreme variation in tooth form seen in multirooted teeth in which the bifurcation or trifurcation of the roots is displaced toward the apex of the root, resulting in increased size of the pulp chamber.
(14) In 7 of the 100 cases, a trifurcation was found at the main division of the MCA, in 3 cases a secondary trunk trifurcated.
(15) The MCA lateral projection (patient's head inclined away from the side of injection) is valuable in investigating aneurysms of the internal carotid artery, posterior communicating artery and middle cerebral artery trifurcation.
(16) These events have been related to the extent of arteriosclerotic lesions in the trifurcation of the popliteal artery (trifurcational disease, TFD) in 368 patients treated consecutively.
(17) In the others, branching of the right posterior branch was trifurcated or independent.
(18) Measurements were performed using a 20 MHz pulsed Doppler transducer and an electromagnetic flow meter mounted on the common umbilical artery and catheters at the aortic trifurcation and in one of the umbilical veins.
(19) Each reconstruction was classified in one of eight categories depending on the site of the distal anastomosis: above- and below-knee popliteal, anterior and posterior tibial, peroneal, trifurcation, sequential, and crural (tibial or peroneal) bypasses with adjunctive distal arteriovenous fistulas.
(20) 42 vascular reconstructive procedures, concerning occlusions in full length of the trifurcation of the lower limb, were carried out in 40 patients.