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10TH
I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Coming next after the ninth and just before the eleventh in position
Synonyms:
10th; tenth
Classified under:
Similar:
ordinal (being or denoting a numerical order in a series)
Context examples:
A monounsaturated medium-chain fatty acid with a 12-carbon backbone and a single double bond originating from the 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 5th, 6th or 10th positions from the methyl end.
(Lauroleic Acid, NCI Thesaurus)
Polyunsaturated fatty acid with 16 carbons and 2 double bonds at the 7th and 10th carbons from the methyl end.
(Hexadecadienoic Acid n-7, NCI Thesaurus/CRCH)
A polyunsaturated long-chain fatty acid with a 16-carbon backbone and double bonds originating from the 7th position and either the 10th, 11th or 13th positions from the methyl end.
(Hexadecadienoic Acid n-7, NCI Thesaurus)
The Icelandic Sagas tell of Erik the Red: exiled for murder in the late 10th century he fled to southwest Greenland, establishing its first Norse settlement.
(Lost Norse of Greenland fuelled the medieval ivory trade, ancient walrus DNA suggests, University of Cambridge)
Human activity has increased the direct warming effect of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere by 50 percent above pre-industrial levels during the past 25 years, according to NOAA's 10th Annual Greenhouse Gas Index.
(Warming due to carbon dioxide jumped by half in 25 years, NOAA)
The disease, caused by the death of retina cells at the back of the eye, affects 60million people around the world, a 10th of whom have gone completely blind.
(Air Pollution Can Trigger Glaucoma, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)
A monounsaturated medium-chain fatty acid with a 12-carbon backbone and the sole double bond originating from the 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 5th, 6th, 8th or 10th position from the methyl end.
(Dodecenoic Acid, NCI Thesaurus)
Pregnancy loss before 10th week of gestation with no documentation of whether or not an embryo was visible on ultrasonogram.
(Early Pregnancy Loss, NCI Thesaurus)
A fetus that does not grow beyond the 10th percentile of conventionally accepted weight for gestational age.
(Fetal Growth Retardation, NCI Thesaurus)
Clinical manifestations include fever, headache, alterations of mentation, focal neurologic deficits, and COMA. (From Clin Microbiol Rev 1994 Jan;7(1):89-116; Walton, Brain's Diseases of the Nervous System, 10th ed, p321)
(Epidemic Encephalitis, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)
