(adv.) In an accurate manner; exactly; precisely; without error or defect.
Example Sentences:
(1) These results indicated that the PG determination was the most accurate predictor of fetal lung well-being prior to birth among the clinical tests so far reported.
(2) We conclude that first-transit and blood-pool techniques are equally accurate methods for determining EF when the time-activity method of analysis is employed.
(3) The procedure used in our laboratory was not able to provide accurate determination of the concentrations of these binding forms.
(4) The amino acid pools in Chinese hamster lung V79 cells were measured as a function of time during hyperthermic exposure at 40.5 degrees and 45.0 degrees C. Sixteen of the 20 protein amino acids were present in sufficient quantity to measure accurately.
(5) In this review, we demonstrate that serum creatinine does not provide an adequate estimate of glomerular filtration rate (GFR), and contrary to recent teachings, that the slope of the reciprocal of serum creatinine vs time does not permit an accurate assessment of the rate of progression of renal disease.
(6) Although MR imaging can accurately show high-grade chondromalacia patellae, it is less accurate in the detection of low-grade disease.
(7) Fastidious microorganisms were accurately detected on C agar as well as on BA+MK.
(8) Consequently, it is important to predict accurately dose for such fields to ensure adequate coverage of the target region and sparing of healthy tissues.
(9) The proposed method appears to offer a more consistently accurate means of measuring EDV than previously suggested ultrasound methods.
(10) Our experience shows that the most accurate indications are provided by acoustic stapedius reflex, brainstem auditory evoked potentials (BAEPs) and vestibular investigation.
(11) An accurate and reproducible method is described for generating a map of the cobalt sheet source from images of it made in multiple positions with the scintillation camera.
(12) The index estimated the probability of infection more accurately (p less than 0.01) than did clinicians, performed well in each site, and remained accurate when C. trachomatis and N. gonorrhoeae were considered separately.
(13) Second, is it possible - by combining the two technologies of endoscopy and computers - to provide an individual patient with a short-term prognostic prediction sufficiently accurate to affect patient management.
(14) Validation studies, to show that the method is precise, accurate and rectilinear, have been carried out on four linctus formulations and two pastille formulations.
(15) A more accurate fit of T1 data using a modified Lipari and Szabo approach indicates that internal fast motions dominate the T1 relaxation in glycogen.
(16) The quantitative method used for determination of HBDH is reliable, accurate, simple and rapid and therefore has better value in a clinical setting than electrophoresis and adsorption techniques which are laborious and time consuming.
(17) REA is stable, sensitive, accurate and reproducible.
(18) These tests are considered to be less accurate than blood test.
(19) In-situ hybridisation for CMV-DNA provides an accurate and rapid diagnosis of CMV infection, and allows specific antiviral therapy to be used earlier.
(20) Interexaminer reliability studies indicate that a standard method of motion palpation is quite feasible and accurate.
Surveying
Definition:
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Survey
(n.) That branch of applied mathematics which teaches the art of determining the area of any portion of the earth's surface, the length and directions of the bounding lines, the contour of the surface, etc., with an accurate delineation of the whole on paper; the act or occupation of making surveys.
Example Sentences:
(1) These surveys show that campers exposed to mountain stream water are at risk of acquiring giardiasis.
(2) The 1989 results were compared with those of a similar survey performed in 1986.
(3) A survey carried out two and three years after the launch of the official campaign also showed a reduction in the prevalence of rickets in children taking low dose supplements equivalent to about 2.5 micrograms (100 IU) vitamin D daily.
(4) And this is the supply of 30% of the state’s fresh water.” To conduct the survey, the state’s water agency dispatches researchers to measure the level of snow manually at 250 separate sites in the Sierra Nevada, Rizzardo said.
(5) This exploratory survey of 100 patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) was conducted (1) to learn about the types and frequencies of disability law-related problems encountered as a result of having RA, and (2) to assess the respective relationships between the number of disability law-related problems reported and the patients' sociodemographic and RA disease characteristics.
(6) They also note surveys that show British voters becoming more Eurosceptic, not less.
(7) Three types of survey procedure were adopted and blood samples were taken for examination.
(8) The present retrospective study reports the results of a survey conducted on 130 patients given elective abdominal and urinary surgery together with the cultivation of routine intraperitoneal drainage material.
(9) The ratios in both groups were also compared with the ratios of a large group of normal subjects evaluated in a population survey.
(10) Responses to a monthly survey of 450-500 surveyors (usually 250-300 reply).
(11) This survey reviews three-dimensional (3D) medical imaging machines and 3D medical imaging operations.
(12) The last 10 years have seen increasing use of telephone surveys in public health research.
(13) A one point dilution enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) procedure suitable for determining immunoglobulin G (IgG) antibody levels to Toxoplasma gondii (T. gondii) in community seroepidemiological surveys is described.
(14) This paper reports, principally, the caries results of the first three surveys of 5, 12 and 5-year-olds undertaken at the end of 1987, 1988 and 1989, respectively.
(15) This paper presents findings from a survey on knowledge of and attitudes and practices towards AIDS among currently married Zimbabwean men conducted between April and June 1988.
(16) The typology developed in two previous surveys of illicit heroin products is applicable to many of the samples studied in this work, although significant changes have occurred in the chemical profile of illicit heroin products from certain geographical regions.
(17) Fifteen patients of acute intermittent porphyria (AIP) were detected out of 2500 persons of Maheshwari community surveyed.
(18) The first part of this survey which dealt with equipment for the anterior segment was published in a previous issue of this journal.
(19) We used results from the 1986 National Mortality Follow-back Survey to estimate proportions of elderly decedents who were "fully functional" or "severely restricted" in the last year of life.
(20) This week MediaGuardian 25, our survey of Britain's most important media companies, covering TV, radio, newspapers, magazines, music and digital, looks at BSkyB.