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How does this principle — the peak shift effect — relate to human pattern recogni- tion and aesthetic preference? Consider the way in which a skilled cartoonist pro- duces a caricature of a famous face, say Nixon’s. What he does (unconsciously) is to take the average o[r]
He issued a challenge to all-comers, killing Miles and badly wounding Griflet. He then jousted with King Arthur and defeated him. Merlin put a spell on Pellimore to save the king’s life. He was later welcomed at the king’s court and given a place of honour at the Round Ta[r]
C The registered nurse asks the LPN/LVN to obtain vital signs and an assessment of the client immediately following a seizure.. D The LPN/LVN delegates vital signs for a client receiving[r]
Clinical bioinformatics is a new way to focus on the combination of clinical measurements and signs with human tissue-generated bioinformatics, understand clin- ical symptoms and signs, disease development and pro- gress, and therapeutic strategy, and map relationships th[r]
This is a dictionary of basic Japanese grammar designed primarily for first and second year Japanese students and for teachers of Japanese. After having examined major textbooks being used in Japan and the United States we have chosen what we believe to be basic grammatical items. Our descriptions a[r]
was performed on patients’s pre- and postoperative visual acuity, refraction, corneal clarity, symptoms and associated or previous ocular pathology. Results: With mean follow-up of 7 months (ranging from 2 to 12 months), corneal clarity was improved significantly i[r]
Silva, Penny (ed.) (1996), A Dictionary of South African English on Historical Principles , Oxford: Oxford University Press. Simpson, J. A. and E. S. C. Weiner (eds) (1989), Oxford English Dictionary , 2nd edn, Oxford: Oxford University Press. Also available[r]
Leptomeningeal metastasis (LM) is a predominantly late stage, devastating complication of a variety of malignant solid tumors. Diagnosis relies predominantly on neurological, radiographic, and cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) assessments.
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wrist . See illustration at HAND in Supplement (NOTE: The plural is carpi.) carrier carrier / kriə / noun 1. a person who carries bacteria of a disease in his or her body and who can transmit the disease to others without show- ing any signs of being infe[r]
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tegula n.; pl. -lae [L. tegula , roofing tile] ( ARTHRO: Insecta) 1. A small convex, scalelike lobe overlying the base of the fore wing; paraptera. 2. In Diptera, small anterior sclerites lo- cated in an incision of the lateral region of the notum. 3. In Lepidoptera,[r]
Quenstedt muscles ( MOLL: Bivalvia) Paired, small muscles anterior to the ctenidial elevator muscles of oysters. quick muscle see phasic muscle quiescence n. [L. quiescere , to become quiet] A condition of temporary cessation of development, or other activity,[r]
The second case of this sort is when a term is used in two ways in the literature, but instead of there being two separate notions that unfor - tunately have the same name, there just seems to be terminological confusion. An example of this is “Turing computable,” which i[r]
1. I went to an art gallery and ................... on a painting by a local artist. 2. She ................... a lot of debts when she was in college. 3. You can ..................... your loan in instalments. 4. My father gave me some money to help ............... me .....[r]
TRANG 1 TRANG 2 TRANG 3 TRANG 4 A DICTIONARY _OF_ EPIDEMIOLOGY _OF_ FIFTH EDITION _EDITED FOR THE_ INTERNATIONAL EPIDEMIOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION _ BY_ MIQUEL PORTA _Professor of Preventive M[r]