(n.) An old weight used in weighing wool, being usually twenty-eight pounds.
(n.) A fox; -- probably so named from its bushy tail.
(v. t. & i.) To weigh; to yield in tods.
Example Sentences:
(1) The relative amounts of stable bonds formed by TOD and human serum albumin and TOD and gamma-globulin varied inversely with the concentration of the proteins.
(2) A field trial of oral therapy for acute diarrhea in children is called for tod etermine the extent of effects on nutrition and mortality, as well as to indicate some of the cultural and logistical problems which remain to be solved.
(3) TOD measurements corresponding to MR lesions were higher than noncancerous tissue measurements in all cases (P less than .005).
(4) In this retrospective study we aimed to identify from 50 outpatient (OP) mild hypertensives without clinical evidence of target organ damage (TOD), a group with unsustained hypertension in order to see whether they had less echocardiographic TOD than patients with sustained hypertension.
(5) "Wir und der Tod", a pre-stage of the second part of Freud's paper "Zeitgemässes über Krieg und Tod" (1915), is the only preserved text of his lectures held in the "Wien" lodge of B'nai B'rith.
(6) TOD was used as an indicator of the degree of tissue compactness or openness.
(7) The greatest amount of lipids in the cellular elements of the granulation tissue was revealed on the 3d day of the experiment, total optic density (TOD) of lipids in leucocytes was 0.83, TOD in histiocytes--0.6.
(8) It is concluded that the differences in energy metabolism, which have been implicated as explanation for the different susceptibility to develop stress lesions by Menguy and Masters, cannot be attributed tod different degrees of ischemia.
(9) In conclusion, stress BP does not increase the strength of relationship with TOD compared to resting BP.
(10) In the pH region from 5.5 to 7.5, the CD spectra of Tod protein with intact interchain disulfide bond (L(SS)) and and CL did not change with pH, while the spectra of Tod protein in which the interchain disulfide bond had been reduced and alkylated (L(RA)) and VL did not change with pH.
(11) variabilities) for systolic, mean and diastolic BP obtained by computer analysis of the BP tracing were related to the rate and severity of target-organ damage (TOD) assessed by clinical examination and quantified according to a predetermined score.
(12) On average, the "drum location" fell 1 mm medial to the TOD.
(13) "Perhaps Irene puts it best – she certainly puts it most often – when she tells Tod that he has no soul."
(14) Tod determine whether changes in unsaturation of fatty acids in rat liver plasma membranes might alter activities of membrane-associated enzymes, liver plasma membranes were prepared from rats fed purified diets lacking or supplemented with essential fatty acids.
(15) In subsequent days phospholipid contents continued decreasing and by the 30th day their TOD was 0.2.
(16) Tod likes to go to church, perhaps, the narrator guesses, because he needs "the forgiving look you get from everybody on the way in".
(17) On average, for frequencies below 6 kHz, the measuring probe tube had to be placed within 8 mm of the vertical plane containing the top of the eardrum (TOD), determined optically, in order to obtain sound pressure magnitudes within 6 dB of "eardrum pressure."
(18) The lifeless lunar surface (“tod” is German for “dead”) is bare but for heaps of building material and the wooden deck of a ski bar which lies marooned amid the scree.
(19) The circular dichroic (CD) spectra of a type lambda Bence Jones protein (Tod), its variable (VL) fragment, and the constant (CL) fragment of a type lambda protein (Nag) were measured under various conditions.
(20) Cardiovascular reactivity differs according to the laboratory stimulus employed and an exaggerated BP rise during stress testing is not associated with an increased rate of TOD.
Tor
Definition:
(n.) A tower; a turret.
(n.) High-pointed hill; a rocky pinnacle.
Example Sentences:
(1) V cholerae O1, biotype El Tor, serotype Inaba, was isolated from three city water samples.
(2) The El Tor vibrios survived for 12 to 24 days in experimentally contaminated sewage water, and for up to 10 days in sewage-contaminated soil.
(3) The Caudal neurosecretory system and the neurohemal organ of a fresh water fish, Tor tor, is described.
(4) Searching through Tor, it is possible to access a site which will sell 100 credit cards (with the CVV2 digits – the three numbers on the reverse of the card) for just $150 (£98), around £1 per card.
(5) For more mainstream users, it could mean running Tor so that your children's location can't be identified when they are online, or could mean a political activist in China, Russia or Syria could protect their identity.
(6) A nucleotide sequence homologous to the 1.2-kb V. cholerae biotype el tor DNA coding for both the 14,000- and 22,000-Da proteins is present in all strains of classical vibrios but is not transcribed.
(7) A point source outbreak of Vibrio cholerae O1 El Tor Inaba infections occurred aboard an oil rig south of Port Arthur, Texas, in September 1981.
(8) In this study, the in-vitro activity of ampicillin, chloramphenicol, oxytetracycline, trimethoprim-sulfamethoxazole (TMP-SMX), cefoperazone, ceftriaxone, cefotaxime, ceftizoxime, ofloxacin, pefloxacin, ciprofloxacin, and fleroxacin against clinically isolated strains of V. cholerae biotype El-Tor have been investigated.
(9) Security blogger and former Washington Post reporter Brian Krebs wrote on Sunday that users were identified using a flaw in Firefox 17, on which the Tor browser is based.
(10) The CAMP reaction is easy to perform and may be useful for routine use in the differentiation of V. cholerae biotype El Tor from classical V. cholerae.
(11) This study provides arguments that (1) strains of biotypes cholerae and El Tor are different clones, (2) a cholera pandemic is not a single world-wide epidemic (due to a single clone) but rather a simultaneous occurrence of several epidemics (several clones involved), and (3) epidemic waves of biotype El Tor could be due to the emergence of new clones.
(12) The "NAG" vibrios were practically identical with the "E1 Tor" vibrio in biochemical properties, polypeptide composition, enteritogenic activity in rabbit ileal loops and showed various antigenic similarities in gel precipitation and indirect immunofluorescence tests.
(13) Derivatives of JBK 70 and CVD 101 (CVD 104 and 105) deleted of genes encoding the EI Tor hemolysin still caused mild diarrhea.
(14) International Business Times reported that part of the GCHQ-NSA collaboration will focus on trying to decrypt messages sent through Tor.
(15) In contrast, only one of the nine El Tor strains studied produced detectable amounts of TCP surface antigen in vivo and no fimbriae or surface antigen reacting with anti-TCP serum was found on El Tor vibrios from human cholera stools.
(16) Its software package – the Tor browser bundle – can be downloaded and used to take advantage of that technology, with a separate version available for Android smartphones.
(17) The article summarizes the experience of diagnosis and treatment of El Tor cholera in servicemen during an outbreak of intestinal polyinfection in the conditions of dry hot climate in desert and mountainous terrain of Afghanistan.
(18) Compact DNA form presents a tor with 100 nm external diameter and 430 nm width.
(19) So even if the NSA aims to surveil everyone, everywhere, they have to be a lot more selective about which Tor users they spy on."
(20) Prior administration of TOR increased nuclear uptake of [3H]E2 whereas TAM had no effect.