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Addendum


Definition:

  • (n.) A thing to be added; an appendix or addition.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Possible applications of the results to a cardiomyocyte are discussed in Addendum.
  • (2) The data presented here form the experimental basis for the test controlling the composition of gentamicin sulphate in the British Pharmacopoeia 1973: Addendum 1975, and for the introduction into the British Pharmacopoeia of nmr spectrometry as an analytical technique.
  • (3) In February 2015, the Kremlin backed an addendum to the Minsk Agreement to end Ukraine’s war at the exact moment it was also supporting a separatist offensive to capture the strategic town of Debaltseve.
  • (4) Use of a combination of monooxygenase inhibitors and chloroquine therefore appears to be a promising addendum to the chemotherapy of malaria caused by chloroquine-resistant parasites.
  • (5) And Damian has also sent me an addendum in reaction to my earlier post highlighting the two-page document Defra is citing as its evidence for the cull: You are right to highlight to the two-page April 2011 document as the entire basis of the government's argument that science backs its cull.
  • (6) The assay methods used in this study were those described in the United States Pharmacopeia XXI Ed and British Pharmacopoeia 1980, Addendum 1983.
  • (7) The document abrogates the Scaf’s 18 June constitutional addendum - widely interpreted as an 11th hour power-grab on the eve of the presidential election - granting the president full executive and legislative powers, and reasserting his control over the constitution-drafting process.
  • (8) (2) A minor addendum to last week's fact-fest : the last time Dundee and Dundee United both played at home on the same day was as recently as Boxing Day 2012, just weeks ago.
  • (9) An addendum was later made to the main trial to compare the self-teaching booklet to the traditional lecture format in teaching endodontic diagnosis.
  • (10) And they can only survive, he evidently believed, by massive terror – though that addendum was kept secret, and is still not known to loyalists who perceive the ideological enemy as having "gone on the attack" – the near-universal perception, as Kern observes.
  • (11) In the Addendum, an additional group of 17 patients is mentioned with the same result.
  • (12) The data indicate that chlorambucil induced renal hypoplasia results in reductions in renal function that persist for at least the first 3 weeks after birth in the rat and that physiological assessment of developmental toxicity can provide an extremely useful addendum to the more classical morphological criteria.
  • (13) An addendum notes that so far 81 patients have been treated with the drug combination, and the results are characterized as very satisfactory, with no complications related to treatment.
  • (14) Mood was assessed with the Hamilton Depression Scale and an addendum that evaluated fatigue, sociability, appetite, and carbohydrate craving.
  • (15) Nappies An addendum to the report indicates that CIA officers were authorised to force detainees to wear nappies for up to three days on end.
  • (16) The findings of cruel and inhuman treatment are published as an addendum to the special rapporteur's report to the UN general assembly on the promotion and protection of human rights.
  • (17) As an addendum, losing some people in the process makes it all the more delightful for the rest of us.
  • (18) An addendum includes a review of New York State's experience with abortion in its first year of its liberalized abortion law, showing handling of a mass abortion program with increasing safety and efficiency.
  • (19) Quality control data including assay, content uniformity, disintegration and dissolution indicated that both products passed the pharmacopoeial requirements, USP XXI and BP 1980, Addendum 1983.
  • (20) An addendum shows 22 more admission for septic abortion; 18 were treated by the described regimen, and 1 case developed septic shock.

Alternate


Definition:

  • (a.) Being or succeeding by turns; one following the other in succession of time or place; by turns first one and then the other; hence, reciprocal.
  • (a.) Designating the members in a series, which regularly intervene between the members of another series, as the odd or even numbers of the numerals; every other; every second; as, the alternate members 1, 3, 5, 7, etc. ; read every alternate line.
  • (a.) Distributed, as leaves, singly at different heights of the stem, and at equal intervals as respects angular divergence.
  • (n.) That which alternates with something else; vicissitude.
  • (n.) A substitute; one designated to take the place of another, if necessary, in performing some duty.
  • (n.) A proportion derived from another proportion by interchanging the means.
  • (v. t.) To perform by turns, or in succession; to cause to succeed by turns; to interchange regularly.
  • (v. i.) To happen, succeed, or act by turns; to follow reciprocally in place or time; -- followed by with; as, the flood and ebb tides alternate with each other.
  • (v. i.) To vary by turns; as, the land alternates between rocky hills and sandy plains.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The rash presented either as a pityriasis rosea-like picture which appeared about three to six months after the onset of treatment in patients taking low doses, or alternatively, as lichenoid plaques which appeared three to six months after commencement of medication in patients taking high doses.
  • (2) The rise of malaria despite of control measures involves several factors: the house spraying is no more accepted by a large percentage of house holders and the alternative larviciding has only a limited efficacy; the houses of American Indians have no walls to be sprayed; there is a continuous introduction of parasites by migrants.
  • (3) But in 2017, to borrow another phrase from across the pond, there simply is no alternative.
  • (4) This modulation results from repetitive, alternating bursts of excitatory and inhibitory postsynaptic potentials, which are caused at least in part by synaptic feedback to the command neurons from identified classes of neurons in the feeding network.
  • (5) These authors, therefore, conclude that this modified surgical approach is a viable alternative to the previously described procedures for resistant metatarsus adductus.
  • (6) The possibility that both IL 2 production and IL 2R expression are autonomously activated early in T cell development, before acquisition of the CD3-TcR complex, led us to study the implication of alternative pathways of activation at this ontogenic stage.
  • (7) This is an easy, safe, and rapid alternative for the emergent treatment of superior vena caval syndrome.
  • (8) Core biopsy with computed tomography (CT) or ultrasound (US) guidance may be such an alternative, particularly when a spring-loaded firing device is used.
  • (9) In both experiments, Gallus males were placed on a commercial feed restriction program in which measured amounts of feed are delivered on alternate days beginning at 4 weeks of age.
  • (10) The method used in connection with the well known autoplastic reimplantation not only presents an alternative to the traditional apicoectomy but also provides additional stabilization of the tooth by lengthing the root with cocotostabile and biocompatible A1203 ceramic.
  • (11) While the majority of EU member states, including the UK, do not have a direct interest in the CAR, or in taking action, the alternative is unthinkable.
  • (12) Many examples are given to demonstrate the applications of these programs, and special emphasis has been laid on the problem of treating a point in tissue with different doses per fraction on alternate treatment days.
  • (13) Initiation of the alternative pathway by the cryptococcal capsule is characterized by a lag in C3 accumulation and the appearance of a limited number of focal initiation sites which resemble those observed when the alternative pathway is activated by zymosan and nonencapsulated cryptococci.
  • (14) In our efforts to explore alternative treatment regimens for multidrug-resistant tumors we have examined the sensitivity of MDR tumor cell lines to lymphokine activated killer (LAK) cells.
  • (15) Following treatment with reserpine or alternatively with a combination of phenothiazines (Randolektil, Majeptil) a drug-induced parkinsonoid reaction was provoked in rats.
  • (16) Review of the records of five patients with CPSE treated with radiologic occlusion procedures showed that these are suitable alternatives to surgery.
  • (17) Being the decision-making agent, the rehabilitee must therefore be offered typical situational fragments of a possible educational and vocational future, intended on the one hand to inform him of occupational alternatives and, on the other, to provide initial experience.
  • (18) This study suggests that the BD VACUTAINER agar slant is an acceptable alternative to the Septi-Chek system for routine blood cultures.
  • (19) Treatment failures tend to occur early in the course of follow-up, permitting easy identification of candidates for alternative therapeutic approaches.
  • (20) In view of many ethical and legal problems, connected in some countries with obtaining human fetal tissue for transplantation, cross-species transplants would be an attractive alternative.