(v. t.) To make briefer; to shorten; to abridge; to reduce by contraction or omission, especially of words written or spoken.
(v. t.) To reduce to lower terms, as a fraction.
(a.) Abbreviated; abridged; shortened.
(a.) Having one part relatively shorter than another or than the ordinary type.
(n.) An abridgment.
Example Sentences:
(1) The profile includes three physiologic assessments and four variables which express the number, location, and severity of a patient's injuries in terms of 'Abbreviated injury scale' values.
(2) The results also demonstrate the effect of an outward current to prolong the action potential and the effect of an outward current blocker to abbreviate the action potential.
(3) We investigated the accuracy of the Hodkinson abbreviated mental test (AMT) as a screening instrument for dementia in an Italian population.
(4) The aberrant conformation is evidently forced upon the abbreviated constructs by the residual 5' precursor sequence, since its removal by the maturation endonuclease RNAase M5 precipitates the reordering of the mature domain into its native conformation.
(5) This abbreviated therapeutic approach may eliminate the need for serial electropharmacologic testing, long-term drug therapy, antitachycardia pacemakers, and surgical ablation.
(6) Challenge after abbreviation of primary infections at different stages of worm development showed that persistence of larvae beyond day 21 was critical in determining poor response to reinfection.
(7) An abbreviated review of behavioral animal studies provides additional support for the clinical investigations presented.
(8) Under simulated ischaemic conditions, lignocaine, propranolol and nicainoprol did not produce a concentration-dependent reduction in action potential duration whereas disopyramide and verapamil, respectively, prolonged and abbreviated both APD50 and APD90.
(9) The temperature-sensitive Drosophila developmental mutation, l(3)c21RRW630 (abbreviated RW630) disturbs oogenesis and has a maternal effect on embryogenesis.
(10) PEP I was prolonged, LVET I was abbreviated, while QS2 I remained unaltered.
(11) And, finally, the "R", an abbreviation for recommandé (registered), suggests that it would have contained the 100-franc allowance that Theo regularly sent his brother.
(12) A correlation and linear regression study was performed, to establish differences between the detailed and the abbreviated methods.
(13) An abbreviated form of the MMPI test was used in the clinical part.
(14) Abbreviated and full versions of the discharge summary were generated with very little interactive time required of the physician or record clerk.
(15) The lateral preferences of 959 Brazilian adults (471 males and 488 females) were assessed with the abbreviated form of the Edinburgh Inventory using the interview method.
(16) Two-thirds of hospitals performed a major antiglobulin crossmatch (rather than an abbreviated one) before all neonatal red cell transfusions.
(17) This report describes the development and validation of a computerized system for converting ICD-9CM rubrics to Abbreviated Injury Scale (AIS) scores.
(18) Third, MATa cells expressing a truncated but functional STE2 gene (in which the COOH-terminal 135-hydrophilic residues were deleted) produced a protein detected by cross-linking to 35S-alpha-factor of apparent molecular weight 33,000, close to the size expected for the predicted abbreviated STE2 polypeptide.
(19) The Interview Schedule for Social Interaction, could be abbreviated and simplified for the use in population surveys.
(20) The Italian MMPI abbreviated version was administered to all subjects.
Abridgment
Definition:
(n.) The act of abridging, or the state of being abridged; diminution; lessening; reduction or deprivation; as, an abridgment of pleasures or of expenses.
(n.) An epitome or compend, as of a book; a shortened or abridged form; an abbreviation.
(n.) That which abridges or cuts short; hence, an entertainment that makes the time pass quickly.
Example Sentences:
(1) Two examples are presented from published literature which illustrate some problems encountered with the use of the abridged census method.
(2) This is an abridged version of a paper delivered in Tel Aviv by two American nurses.
(3) Abridged versions of existing inventories are very practical in these instances.
(4) Transgenic embryos harboring an abridged lab gene are able to overcome the embryonic lethality associated with the loss of lab function and survive to adulthood.
(5) Using these alternative, abridged life tables were devised, and these in turn were used to draw up a table showing the life expectancy at birth that would result from realization of each alternative.
(6) He tweets as @SolomonADersso This is an abridged version of Solomon's essay 'This question of African unity - 50 years after the founding of the OAU.'
(7) The abstract, under a multitude of names, such as hypothesis, marginalia, abridgement, extract, digest, précis, resumé, and summary, has a long history, one which is concomitant with advancing scholarship.
(8) Hamburger, entitled 'The Current Point of View of the Theory of Natural Immunity', which is also published in a slightly abridged version in this issue of Tijdschrift voor Diergeneeskunde.
(9) It generalizes the conventional discrete (abridged and complete) life tables into a continuous life table that can produce life-table functions at any age and develops a unified method of life-table construction that simplifies the disparate laborious procedures used in the traditional approach of constructing abridged and complete life tables.
(10) The methodology is designed to determine how departures in sexual orientation and social sex-role are the basis for the abridgment of civil liberties.
(11) An abridged somatization construct (the Somatic Symptom Index) derived from the Diagnostic Interview Schedule's somatization disorder items was tested on community epidemiological samples to examine its prevalence, risk factors, and predictive value.
(12) The results suggest that the DSM-IV somatoform disorders section should include somatization disorder, an abridged definition of somatization disorder often associated with anxiety and depression, as well as a type of somatization associated with an adjustment disorder.
(13) This abridged account of a report to the British Medical Research Council describes a long-term investigation of 1,503 subcapital fractures of the femur, almost all of which were treated by reduction and internal fixation.
(14) This paper is an abridged version of the author's Submarine Medical Officer qualification thesis.
(15) We found that 4.4% of the respondents met criteria for this abridged cutoff score of somatization, whereas only 0.03% of the respondents met criteria for the full DSM-III somatization disorder diagnosis.
(16) The abridged census estimator, also known as Weinberg's shorter method, is a device used to estimate lifetime incidence from the observed age distribution of a population at risk coupled with data on the current prevalence of a mental disorder.
(17) This scale was largely composed of edited and abridged gender items from Part A of Freund et al.
(18) In the US, by contrast, despite having been built out of a distrust of rulers, everything is held to be potentially publishable - as embodied in its First Amendment ("Congress shall make no law… abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press…").
(19) Lister Hill Center is concerned with developing a computerized information system, with a data base consisting of an expanded Abridged Index Medicus, using part of a large computer system, and connecting this system to the TWX network.
(20) Seven essays in this issue of the Hastings Center Report defend civil disobedience as a legitimate form of protest against terrible injustices: legalized abortion (G. Leber); abridgement of women's reproductive rights (S. Davis); government policy toward persons with AIDS (H. Spiers and A. Novick); abuse of the rights of animals (S. Siegel, C. Jackson, and P. Singer).