(adv.) A sound, healthy, or prosperous state of a person or thing; prosperity; happiness; welfare.
(adv.) The body politic; the state; common wealth.
(v. t.) To promote the weal of; to cause to be prosperous.
Example Sentences:
(1) A definite dose-response relationship was demonstrated between the weal and flare areas and the three active treatments.
(2) Formation of both weals and flares was significantly inhibited by cetirizine administered by either route; weals were inhibited as early as 20 min after oral intake but not clearly inhibited until 90 min after sublingual intake.
(3) After blockade of the axon reflex with lidocaine the histamine-induced weals turned white at the centre.
(4) For all drugs the maximal weal suppression with the dosage chosen was recorded the day after the last dosage, being 29% (for dexchlorfeniramine), 72% (for cyproheptadine), 50% (for astemizole), 62% (for loratadine), and 56% (for terfenadine) of the baseline value.
(5) After injection of 0.5 microgram terbutaline inhibition of the flare and weal responses was demonstrable throughout the observation period of 90 min.
(6) Although he supported guidance in general, Mr Weale thought that the inflation “knockout” should apply over a shorter time period than the 18-24 months agreed.
(7) Beyond chance agreement (Kappa index) was poor on the assessment of the extension of blue colour (0.33) and prevalence of cherry red spots or red weal marking (0.17) whereas was fair to good (0.40-0.66; P less than 10(-5)) on the following: location, size, lumen occupancy, presence of blue colour, presence and extension of red colour sign, haematocystic spot.
(8) A dose-response relationship was demonstrated between weal erythema and 120 mg or 240 mg and 60 mg of terfenadine (p less than 0.05).
(9) Martin Weale and Ian McCafferty, both external members of the committee, pushed for a hike to 0.75% in response to lower unemployment and a tightening labour market.
(10) This study aimed to quantify the relative reduction in weal and flare area, thickness and erythema at 4, 8, 12 and 24 h following a single but variable oral dose of terfenadine compared with pre-treatment measurements, in order to compare the dose-effect relationship and time course of the different dosages.
(11) So for example, a Common Weal Scotland would place a strong emphasis on issues such as a diverse and high quality media, a strong arts and cultural identity, a transformed approach to education, new attitudes to transport and urban planning, careful management of natural resources and the environment and so on.
(12) Not only my experience of the period of above-target inflation but also more general statistical analysis suggests that apparently independent inflation shocks tend to come like buses, more than one at a time,” Weale said.
(13) Contact with the tentacles of the jellyfish had produced characteristic whiplash-like weals on the skin.
(14) Martin Weale was already a suspect and now Ian McCafferty has 'come out'.
(15) A similar trend was seen in assessment of the severity of weals, while the treatment regimens had no influence on swelling.
(16) The sizes of skin test weal to D. pteronyssinus were related to the levels of specific IgE antibody.
(17) The non-invasive technique of LDF is a useful, objective and sensitive technique of quantifying the skin blood flow changes induced by intradermal bradykinin and provides an alternative method of quantifying skin response to intradermal bradykinin to measurement of flare or weal sizes.
(18) City dealers said it was possible that rates could be lifted from their emergency level of 0.5% by the end of the year, as three years of unanimous 9-0 decisions at Threadneedle Street ended with Martin Weale and Ian McCafferty calling for the cost of borrowing to be raised by 0.25 percentage points.
(19) The reactions to SP were strong, the flare being maximal 3-5 min after injection and the weal after 10-15 min.
(20) An early (weal and flare) response is succeeded, in 60% of subjects, by a late-onset area of erythema at the site of the resolved weal, reminiscent of the dual response to allergen in sensitized individuals.
Wean
Definition:
(a.) To accustom and reconcile, as a child or other young animal, to a want or deprivation of mother's milk; to take from the breast or udder; to cause to cease to depend on the mother nourishment.
(a.) Hence, to detach or alienate the affections of, from any object of desire; to reconcile to the want or loss of anything.
(n.) A weanling; a young child.
Example Sentences:
(1) Propofol is ideal for short periods of care on the ICU, and during weaning when longer acting agents are being eliminated.
(2) The number of gastrin-immunoreactive cells actually decreases just prior to weaning but then increases at and after, weaning.
(3) The patient and ventilator work ratios, and the work of breathing quantify factors which may be directly useful to the clinician and to future systems to automate weaning.
(4) 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.
(5) The processes of germination and gruel preparation of germinated materials contributed to the digestibility of weaning foods prepared from cereals and legumes.
(6) Although the reeler, an autosomal recessive mutant mouse with the abnormality of lamination in the central nervous system, died about 3 weeks of age when fed ordinary laboratory chow, this mouse could grow up normally and prolong its destined, short lifespan to 50 weeks and more when given assistance in taking paste food and water from the weaning period.
(7) During the weaning period after 18 h of mechanical ventilation following open-heart surgery, central haemodynamics, systemic oxygen transport and total oxygen consumption were assessed in a total of 11 patients receiving continuous positive pressure ventilation.
(8) Piglets from litters with post-weaning diarrhoea had reduced weight gains after weaning and were 2.3 days older at 25 kg bodyweight than piglets from non-diarrhoeic litters.
(9) In the first of two studies, we randomized 2-d-old miniature piglets to receive bottle-feedings of a swine weaning milk formula with (group F + I) or without (group F) the addition of insulin.
(10) In trial with adult wethers and weaned lambs the effect of enzymatic preparation Pektofoetidin G3x (mostly pectinase and cellulase) on rumen fermentation was studied.
(11) To study this further, 86 BB rats were divided into 2 groups during the weaning period (days 13-25): Group A received rat chow without CMP; Group B, rat chow with 1% CMP added.
(12) Thorough knowledge of the modes of ventilatory support and criteria for weaning are essential for the critical care nurse to anticipate patient needs.
(13) Pups were weaned either to the diet of their dam or to the diet fed to dams in the other treatment group in a crossover design.
(14) Chlamydia psittaci was believed responsible for an episode of high perinatal death loss in a swine herd in which 8.5 pigs per litter normally were weaned.
(15) A ten-year review of ventilator-dependent quadriplegic patients at Craig Rehabilitation Hospital was undertaken to determine the number of patients who could be weaned from mechanical ventilation and their long-term survival rate.
(16) Landrace sows lost less weight during lactation (P less than .05) when fed diet F than when fed diet N. The total number of pigs born, born alive, and alive at 21 d and at weaning were higher (P less than .01) for S-line Duroc sows, and litter size at 21 d and at weaning was higher (P less than .01) for S-line Landrace sows than for C-line litters within each breed.
(17) It is our belief that the reproductive and maternal capabilities of the colony-born females were adversely affected by the practice of removing neonates from their mothers at weaning and raising them with age-mates.
(18) Because nitrofen causes both malformations that are compatible with survival to weaning and a high incidence of perinatal (but not of fetal) mortality, emphasis was placed on postnatal parameters of bifenox toxicity.
(19) Cannon bone circumference at weaning was increased (P less than .05) by growth implants.
(20) There was an increase in both serum potassium concentration and erythrocyte count from five (weaning) to six weeks of age.