What's the difference between adequate and preconception?

Adequate


Definition:

  • (a.) Equal to some requirement; proportionate, or correspondent; fully sufficient; as, powers adequate to a great work; an adequate definition.
  • (a.) To equalize; to make adequate.
  • (a.) To equal.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) 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.
  • (2) Despite of the increasing diagnostic importance of the direct determination of the parathormone which is at first available only in special institutions in these cases methodical problems play a less important part than the still not infrequent appearing misunderstanding of the adequate basic disease.
  • (3) 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.
  • (4) In the past 6 years 26 patients underwent operation for recurrent duodenal ulcer after what was considered to be an "adequate" initial operation.
  • (5) Consequently, it is important to predict accurately dose for such fields to ensure adequate coverage of the target region and sparing of healthy tissues.
  • (6) Failure to develop an adequate resource will be costly in the long run.
  • (7) Preexistent diseases that could possibly be improved should be treated adequately before operation.
  • (8) Six of eight AD and seven of eight vitamin A-adequate dams carried pregnancy to term (greater than or equal to Day 64).
  • (9) Analysis was performed on all patients who received any amount of therapy (VSG) and on the Adequately Treated Group (ATG), who had received 5000 or more rads radiotherapy, two or more courses of chemotherapy, and had a minimum survival of 8 or more weeks (the interval that would have been required to have received either the radiotherapy or chemotherapy).
  • (10) The primary focus of both nonpharmacologic and pharmacologic therapy should be to control systemic blood pressure in a simple, affordable, and nontoxic fashion that provides an adequate quality of life.
  • (11) Provided that adequate reflection is given and the appropriate moment chosen, it is well tolerated and provides all the necessary information.
  • (12) Even if it does not always provide the solution to a particularly delicate problem, which is often of vital importance, it provides data which, modifiable and better used, should provide an adequate notion of the anatomical and physiopathological state in aortic stenosis.
  • (13) Electron microscopic radioautography is considered as the most adequate method for studying intracellular regeneration.
  • (14) Specific antisera prepared in rabbits or in foot-pad-inoculated chickens were adequate for culture typing.
  • (15) The capacity of granule-cell networks to separate overlapping patterns of activity on their inputs is adequate, with spatial variability in the secretion at synapses, but is improved if there is also temporal variability in the stochastic secretion at individual synapses, although this is at the expense of reliability in the network.
  • (16) Based on the economics of most countries in Africa, their Health Budgets can afford mostly the non-opioid and strong opioid drugs in more or less adequate quantities.
  • (17) In this way complex interpretations can be made objective, so that they may be adequately tested.
  • (18) The latter indicated that, despite the smaller size of the digital image, they were adequate for resolving clinically significant soft-tissue densities.
  • (19) Bone age has been analyzed mixed-longitudinally in a subsample of 370 patients (660 observations) and showed a slight retardation at all ages between 6 and 13 yr. Development of pubic hair of 91 subjects analyzed cross-sectionally was definitely retarded when compared to adequate reference data.
  • (20) The authors are also upfront about what has not gone so well: "We were too slow to mobilise … we did not identify clear leadership or adequate resources for the actions … it is vital to accelerate the programme of civil service reform."

Preconception


Definition:

  • (n.) The act of preconceiving; conception or opinion previously formed.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Sixty-four per cent were infants of gestational diabetic (IGDM) and 36% of preconceptional diabetic mothers (IPDM).
  • (2) A sensitive evaluation of nutritional status in preconceptional period seems to be a positive strategy for prevention of at risk pregnancies.
  • (3) This would suggest the probable advantage of breast-feeding promotion based on woman-to-woman contact during preconception and antepartum periods; such a program might be particularly effective with women of lower educational levels.
  • (4) Thus, the preconceptional counseling is indispensable, and it should ensure that an epileptic embark upon a pregnancy with her epilepsy well controlled by a minimal dose of AEDs, and adequate answers to the questions raised by the patient should be given to prevent a poor compliance.
  • (5) Information about preconceptional sexual habits and contraceptive measures was obtained from 83 selected primigravid patients.
  • (6) Patients suffer irrational fears of damage and death because of erroneous preconceptions of radiation which doctors fail to correct.
  • (7) It was an isolated show of anti-World Cup sentiment at a tournament that left many European visitors ashamed of their preconceptions about crime and social disorder.
  • (8) Exercise therapy should be explored as an additional means to maintain normoglycemia, preconceptionally as well as throughout pregnancy.
  • (9) Our data suggests that subjects with any degree of glucose intolerance in pregnancy should be managed as carefully as established diabetics and preconception counselling for high risk groups may be beneficial.
  • (10) The infants of women with total gestational weight gain below 9 kg have the mean birth weight always lower than those of women with weight gain more than 9 kg in all three categories of preconceptional relative weight (i.e.
  • (11) In 1949, Saul Bellow went to a cocktail party hosted by Cyril Connolly, and found his preconceptions of literary England being undermined: “Although I don’t judge the inverted with harshness, still it is rather difficult to go to London thinking of Dickens and Hardy to say nothing of Milton and Marx and land in the midst of fairies.” Most of the people I’ve mentioned were living their lives more or less openly.
  • (12) The acquisition of data by this verbal process is a clinically sophisticated and difficult medical procedure and a major source of error is the bias or preconception that a clinician brings to his observations.
  • (13) In families with the risk of cleft lip and palate at the Clinic of Plastic Surgery in Prague a preconception and prenatal protective regime (planned conception) is ensured.
  • (14) Restriction of rats to 50% of preconception feed intake during the first 2 wk of gestation was associated with higher body weight of the progeny at 21 wk postpartum than was ad libitum feeding throughout gestation.
  • (15) Data collected preconception and from those who did not conceive within 1 yr were used for control subjects.
  • (16) Doing the research from the point of view of Latvia and Lithuania (our countries) has blown away my student's preconceptions of the subject.
  • (17) During the preconception period almost one third did not attend any medical examination.
  • (18) In acquiring psychoanalytic ideas, psychotherapy trainees are often hampered by preconceptions about what constitutes a psychoanalytic perspective.
  • (19) A matched case-control study of retinoblastoma was conducted by the Children's Cancer Study Group (CCSG) to investigate the hypotheses that postconception exposures affect the risk of the nonheritable (post-zygotic origin) form of this disease and that preconception exposures affect the risk of the sporadic heritable (prezygotic origin) form.
  • (20) Five IDD patients achieved strict preconception glycemic control and then underwent nine IVF-ET cycles.