Diagnostic tests revealed blockages of the left vertebral artery between the c2 and c3 vertebrae; the blood vessel there had suffered "total or nearly complete occlusion" — in other words, no blood could get through to the brain.
Discontinuation of alpha-blocking agents in 18 women with incontinence resulted in 13 (72%) reporting total or almost complete resolution of their urinary symptoms [ 12].
Public speaking can have amazing results, so why is it when we are asked to speak in front of a group of peers (or total and complete strangers) most of us break out in a sweat and want to run the other way?
In total, 65 complete or truncated ORFs were identified as putative determinants of acetic acid tolerance and an S. cerevisiae gene homologous to most of them was found.
Between 1911 and 1932, excavations during six field seasons led by German palaeontologists Eberhard Fraas (1911 1912), Friedrich von Huene (1921 23), and finally Reinhold Seemann (1932) revealed a total of 35 complete or partially complete skeletons of Plateosaurus, as well as fragmentary remains of approximately 70 more individuals.
A total of 55 complete or almost complete Eumetabola mitochondrial genomes (17 of Paraneoptera and 38 of Holometabola) were downloaded from GenBank (Additional file 1: Table S1).
In addition, a total of 191 complete or nearly complete cytochrome b (cyt b) sequences were obtained from GenBank (177 Cyprinidae, five Catostomidae, three Cobitidae, four Balitoridae, one species of Gyrinocheilidae, and one species of Gonorynchiformes as outgroup; see Additional file 1).
The phylogenetic relationships of vertebrate otopetrin and arthropod and nematode DUF270 genes were deduced from a total of 62 complete or nearly complete open reading frames in 25 species (see Table 1 for a listing of the specific species and accession numbers).
The system used here defines total loss as complete or near-complete negativity and is therefore more reliable.
Surgery for early stage breast carcinoma is either total mastectomy (complete breast removal) or surgical lumpectomy (only tumor removal).
CON and EXP groups were not different in age, weight, height, body fat percentage, average thigh cross-sectional area or total work completed (Table 2).
