Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The time when a transit occurs, as of a star over the middle wire of a transit-instrument, or of a spot on the disk of a planet over its central meridian.
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Examples
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Dietary fibre, transit-time, faecal bacteria, steroids, and colon cancer in two Scandinavian populations.
A cautionary tale of mucus fore and aft | The Blog of Michael R. Eades, M.D. 2006
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Higher intakes of dietary fibre and milk in the low-incidence area suggest a possible protective effect, unrelated to mouth-anus transit-time.
A cautionary tale of mucus fore and aft | The Blog of Michael R. Eades, M.D. 2006
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Bowel transit-time and stool weight in populations with different colon-cancer risks.
A cautionary tale of mucus fore and aft | The Blog of Michael R. Eades, M.D. 2006
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It has been suggested that the risk of cancer, polyposis, and diverticulosis of the large bowel increases with bowel transit-time.
A cautionary tale of mucus fore and aft | The Blog of Michael R. Eades, M.D. 2006
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However, transit-time reduction reaches a condition of diminishing returns when departure velocity starts to exceed 4 km/s.
The Case for Mars Robert Zubrin 1996
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However, transit-time reduction reaches a condition of diminishing returns when departure velocity starts to exceed 4 km/s.
The Case for Mars Robert Zubrin 1996
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In 2010, UPS began operating its new Intra-Asia air hub in Shenzhen, China, to better serve its customers by reducing transit-time in the region.
unknown title 2011
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Although coronary flow reserve evaluations have been performed using either Doppler flow-velocity or thermodilution-derived mean transit-time as surrogate measures of flow, T mn-based CFR has proven to correlate better with CFR derived from absolute flow
PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Rahn Ilsar et al. 2010
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Thermodilution-derived mean transit-time assessments have been shown to be independent of indicator volume and temperature, provided that the amount utilized does not in itself alter underlying flow and adequate indicator-blood mixing occurs
PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Rahn Ilsar et al. 2010
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Peak hyperemic flow assessment using thermodilution-derived mean transit-time (T mn) facilitate accurate coronary microcirculatory evaluation, but remain unvalidated in the lung circulation.
PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Rahn Ilsar et al. 2010
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