(v. t.) To remove or loose the belt of; to ungird.
Example Sentences:
(1) A mathematical simulation was performed to study the potential of head and neck injury to an unbelted driver restrained by an airbag.
(2) Gastrointestinal tract injuries (stomach, small bowel, colon and rectum) were significantly more frequent in belted vs. unbelted patients (3.4% vs. 1.8%, respectively, p = 0.001).
(3) The unbelted group had a mean Injury Severity Score two times as great as the belted group and were hospitalized 1.6 times longer at double the cost.
(4) Fatality risk versus sex and age was determined for ten categories of vehicle occupants (unbelted car drivers, helmeted motorcycle passengers, etc.).
(5) The corresponding ratio determined here for unbelted drivers is 2.4).
(6) The incidence of abdominal injury was equal in both unbelted patients (13.9%), but the spectrum of organs injured was different in the two groups.
(7) This study demonstrates that in patients admitted to trauma centers after motor vehicle crashes, belted and unbelted patients have an equal incidence of abdominal injury, but belted and unbelted patients have a different spectrum of injuries.
(8) For a control group, we analyzed 72 randomly chosen unbelted victims who had a fatal aortic rupture in similar accidents.
(9) Nearly all children (96%) and parents (99%) correctly identified the front seat unbelted as the most dangerous combination, but only 72% of children and 70% of parents identified the safest place to travel.
(10) Fatality risks to belted and unbelted subject occupants are compared using the other occupant to estimate exposure.
(11) Motor vehicle accident victims tended to be young, single, white, employed males: substance use was detected in 32%, and 57% were unbelted.
(12) For instance he removed: "Ted looked slovenly: his suit jacket wrinkled as if being pulled from behind, his pants hanging, unbelted, in great folds, his hair black and greasy in the light."
(13) For a control group, we analyzed 47 randomly chosen unbelted victims who had sustained a fatal heart rupture in comparable collisions.
(14) Categories studied were all trauma patients, motor vehicle crashes, automobile crashes (drivers, passengers, unknown), and belted and unbelted victims.
(15) It is concluded that the effect of car mass on relative driver fatality likelihood is essentially the same for belted and unbelted drivers (for example, the present analysis gives that a belted driver in a 900 kg car is 2.3 times as likely to be killed in a single car crash as is the belted driver in an 1800 kg car.
(16) The purpose of this study was to characterize the distribution of abdominal injuries after motor vehicle crashes in belted and unbelted patients admitted to trauma centers.
(17) By effectiveness is meant the reduction, expressed as per cent, in fatalities to a presently unbelted population that would result if all of its members were to use belts, but not otherwise change their driving behavior.
(18) The results are presented as graphical and analytical comparisons of fatality likelihood versus car mass for belted and unbelted drivers.
(19) On the first driving trip all subjects were unbelted, while on the second driving trip half of the subjects wore a safety belt while half did not.
(20) Unbelted patients also had significantly more frequent and more severe head injuries (50.0% vs. 32.9%, respectively, p less than 0.001).
Unwind
Definition:
(v. t.) To wind off; to loose or separate, as what or convolved; to untwist; to untwine; as, to unwind thread; to unwind a ball of yarn.
(v. t.) To disentangle.
(v. i.) To be or become unwound; to be capable of being unwound or untwisted.
Example Sentences:
(1) Unlike cisplatin, bis(platinum) complex binding does not unwind supercoiled DNA.
(2) Of the 47 compounds that were positive or equivocal in the alkaline unwinding assay, only carbon tetrachloride and prednisolone were negative in the mouse lymphoma assay, while 12 of the 19 compounds that were negative in the alkaline unwinding assay were positive in the mouse lymphoma assay.
(3) As suggested from the high level of sequence similarity of these viral proteins with the recently described superfamilies of helicase-like proteins (3-5), the NTBM-containing cylindrical inclusion (CI) protein from plum pox virus (PPV), which belongs to the potyvirus group of positive strand RNA viruses, is shown to be able to unwind RNA duplexes.
(4) This limited unwinding of heterologous duplex DNA, termed heterologous unwinding, was detected within 30 seconds and reached a steady state within a few minutes.
(5) Comparison of the superhelix densities obtained by both methods permits a calculation of an unwinding angle for ethidium.
(6) The exposure of the cells from mussel haemolymph and from mouse L1210 to a genotoxic compound such as dimethylsulfate results in DNA damage and consequently in a reduction of the unwinding time.
(7) As for unwinding, the rituals of it give a satisfying end to the shape of my day.
(8) Chromosome replication appears to initiate in E. coli when the dnaA boxes in oriC become filled with DnaA protein, which could simultaneously mediate both the unwinding of the origin for the start of polymerization and the attachment of oriC to the cell envelope (Bramhill and Kornberg, 1988; Løbner-Olesen et al., 1989; Pierucci et al., 1989).
(9) The protein fraction containing the 93 000 dalton protein had considerable unwinding activity, depressing the melting temperature of poly(dA-dT) by 39 degrees C. The protein fraction containing the bulk of the 35 000 dalton protein did not have unwinding activity.
(10) The required cellular protein may be a eukaryotic single-stranded-DNA-binding protein (SSB), since unwinding of the template is also observed when Escherichia coli SSB is substituted for the HeLa protein fraction.
(11) Evidence is presented that the first step in initiation of SV40 DNA replication involves the specific binding of T antigen to the origin, followed by the local unwinding of the two strands of the template.
(12) Complex formation leads to very little, if any, unwinding of the duplex.
(13) It is suggested that the gene D product may function in replicative form DNA unwinding to expose the template for transcription.
(14) Topotecan (SK&F 104864) is a novel antitumor agent whose mechanism of action is inhibition of the DNA unwinding protein topoisomerase I.
(15) We used an RNA unwinding assay to compare the activities of these factors from the different species.
(16) The extension and unwinding of the DNA helix brought about by the intercalating chromophore of the dye molecules are not requirements for the entrapment process.
(17) Second, mutant T antigens with impaired ATPase function also showed a reduced DNA unwinding activity.
(18) Analysts at UBS said: “After Friday’s ... market plunge, many turned to the authorities for support measures as concerns rose that the rapid unwinding of margin trades was fuelling the sell-off.
(19) It is proposed that the DNA-unwinding activity causes the efficient recombination, DNA repair, and SOS induction (after application of nalidixic acid) in recD mutants.
(20) But within minutes of the five-year-old video of Obama being released by the Daily Caller website on Tuesday night , the "exclusive" began to unwind amid criticism that much of it had been reported at the time and the content was anything but explosive.