(n.) A reckoning; computation; calculation; enumeration; a record of some reckoning; as, the Julian account of time.
(n.) A registry of pecuniary transactions; a written or printed statement of business dealings or debts and credits, and also of other things subjected to a reckoning or review; as, to keep one's account at the bank.
(n.) A statement in general of reasons, causes, grounds, etc., explanatory of some event; as, no satisfactory account has been given of these phenomena. Hence, the word is often used simply for reason, ground, consideration, motive, etc.; as, on no account, on every account, on all accounts.
(n.) A statement of facts or occurrences; recital of transactions; a relation or narrative; a report; a description; as, an account of a battle.
(n.) A statement and explanation or vindication of one's conduct with reference to judgment thereon.
(n.) An estimate or estimation; valuation; judgment.
(n.) Importance; worth; value; advantage; profit.
(v. t.) To reckon; to compute; to count.
(v. t.) To place to one's account; to put to the credit of; to assign; -- with to.
(v. t.) To value, estimate, or hold in opinion; to judge or consider; to deem.
(v. t.) To recount; to relate.
(v. i.) To render or receive an account or relation of particulars; as, an officer must account with or to the treasurer for money received.
(v. i.) To render an account; to answer in judgment; -- with for; as, we must account for the use of our opportunities.
(v. i.) To give a satisfactory reason; to tell the cause of; to explain; -- with for; as, idleness accounts for poverty.
Example Sentences:
(1) These factors might account for the lower systemic bioavailability of these compounds.
(2) Technical factors that account for increased difficulty in these patients include: problems with guide catheter impaction and ostial trauma; inability to inflate the balloon with adequate guide catheter support; and need for increased intracoronary manipulation.
(3) However, some contactless transactions are processed offline so may not appear on a customer’s account until after the block has been applied.” It says payments that had been made offline on the day of cancellation may be applied to accounts and would be refunded when the customer identified them; payments made on days after the cancellation will not be taken from an account.
(4) Even with hepatic lipase, phospholipid hydrolysis could not deplete VLDL and IDL of sufficient phospholipid molecules to account for the loss of surface phospholipid that accompanies triacylglycerol hydrolysis and decreasing core volume as LDL is formed (or for conversion of HDL2 to HDL3).
(5) At the heart of the payday loan profit bonanza is the "continuous payment authority" (CPA) agreement, which allows lenders to access customer bank accounts to retrieve funds.
(6) Thus, it appears that neuronal loss may account for up to roughly half of the striatal D2 receptor loss during aging.
(7) Writing in the Observer , Schmidt said his company's accounts were complicated but complied with international taxation treaties that allowed it to pay most of its tax in the United States.
(8) That is why you will be held relentlessly to account for those choices; why what you said in February invites forensic scrutiny.
(9) This decrease cannot be accounted for by increased turnover of the mRNA in the presence of the drug.
(10) Another important factor, however, seems to be that patients, their families, doctors and employers estimate capacity of performance on account of the specific illness, thus calling for intensified efforts toward rehabilitation.
(11) The issue has been raised by an accountant investigating the tax affairs of the duchy – an agricultural, commercial and residential landowner.
(12) ACh released from the vesicular fraction was about 100-fold more than could be accounted for by miniature end-plate potentials; possible causes of this overestimate are discussed.
(13) And perhaps it’s this longevity that accounts for her popularity: a single tweet from Williams (who has 750,000 followers) about the series will prompt a Game Of Thrones news story.
(14) This study examines the extent to which changes in smoking can account for the decrease in CHD mortality for men and women aged 35-64 years.
(15) Analysis of 156 records relating to patients at the age of 15 to 85 years with extended purulent peritonitis of the surgical and gynecological genesis (the toxic phase, VI category ASA) showed that combination of programmed sanitation laparotomy and intensive antibacterial therapy performed as short-term courses before, during and after the operation with an account of the information on the nature of the microbial associations and antibioticograms was an efficient procedure in treatment of severe peritonitis.
(16) The multiple logistic model, the most commonly used model for the analysis of coronary heart disease studies, does not consider survival time in assessment of the dependent covariates and does not account for the censoring which usually occurs in such studies.
(17) Decreased synthesis rather than increased utilization accounted for the nucleoside effect.
(18) The M&S Current Account, which has no monthly fee, is available from 15 May and is offering people the chance to bank and shop under one roof.
(19) Gradual evolutionary change by natural selection operates so slowly within established species that it cannot account for the major features of evolution.
(20) The term acute allergic colitis seems to be more suitable taking into account the distribution, the cause and the development of this disease.
Symptomatic
Definition:
(a.) Alt. of Symptomatical
Example Sentences:
(1) Symptomatic improvement was obtained in 14 of the 15 hands, and sensory-evoked response improved in 13 hands.
(2) Although antihistamines are widely used for symptomatic treatment of seasonal (allergic) rhinitis, the role of histamines in the pathogenesis of infectious rhinitis is not clear.
(3) There was prompt symptomatic relief and amelioration of signs of nephritis.
(4) In addition to the 89 cases of sudden and unexpected death before the age of 50 (preceded by some modification of the patient's life style in 29 cases), 11 cases were symptomatic and 5 were transplanted with a good result.
(5) To determine the correlation with clinical findings, the patients were divided into three groups: (1) symptomatic with monoclonal immunoelectrophoretic patterns; (2) asymptomatic with monoclonal immunoelectrophoretic patterns; (3) asymptomatic with polyclonal immunoelectrophoretic patterns.
(6) The prevalence of greater than or equal to 1 mm ST-segment depression was 22% (symptomatic in 25%, and silent in 75%) and did not differ between groups with and without cardiac events.
(7) Eight children with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection had symptomatic cardiac dysfunction.
(8) The authors report the clinical case of an 18-year-old patient who presented with a symptomatic mass in the left upper quadrant 6 months after having infectious mononucleosis.
(9) Complete normalization was more common in the idiopathic group (66%) than in the symptomatic group (27%).
(10) All six patients who were symptomatic became asymptomatic within 1-5 months of starting methotrexate.
(11) Cholecystectomy is advocated in symptomatic patients with this condition, even when gallstones are not present.
(12) The plasma zinc level was significantly lower at the time of onset of zinc deficiency than in normal subjects, before the procedure of TPN, or at the time of symptomatic relief achieved by administration of zinc.
(13) Chemotherapy failed to show any significant advantage over symptomatic treatment.
(14) With a minimum review period of 6 months complete remission of synovitis was obtained in 20%, while 63% gained symptomatic relief, with some reduction of synovitis.
(15) The diagnostic efficacy of 935 mammographies from the mammology service for self-referred symptomatic women was assessed for the period of 1975-1988.
(16) Early initiation of adequate antibiotic therapy, as well as symptomatic treatment using transfusion, steroids and anticonvulsants, are important.
(17) If this is the only issue, flight would be fine, but need to make sure that it isn’t symptomatic of a more significant upstream root cause.” Elon Musk (@elonmusk) Btw, 99% likely to be fine (closed loop TVC wd overcome error), but that 1% chance isn't worth rolling the dice.
(18) According to the author's observations in a federal penitentiary, bank robbery more often is a symptomatic act with psychological meaning.
(19) Occasionally symptomatic kinking of the internal carotid artery will require correction.
(20) This therapy resulted in symptomatic and clinical improvement in both patients within several weeks.