(n.) Something joined or added to another thing, but not essentially a part of it.
(n.) A person joined to another in some duty or service; a colleague; an associate.
(n.) A word or words added to quality or amplify the force of other words; as, the History of the American Revolution, where the words in italics are the adjunct or adjuncts of "History."
(n.) A quality or property of the body or the mind, whether natural or acquired; as, color, in the body, judgment in the mind.
(n.) A key or scale closely related to another as principal; a relative or attendant key. [R.] See Attendant keys, under Attendant, a.
Example Sentences:
(1) EMLA cream, usually used for skin surface analgesia, was tested as an adjunct to anesthesia in dermabrasion.
(2) CT is useful as an adjunct to the clinical examination in predicting outcome after SAH.
(4) Por the treatment of L.A., adjunction of dialysis and furosemide improved the efficacy of early and massive sodium bicarbonate infusion.
(5) The data document the compliance of adolescent girls with telephone appointments and suggest that this technique may be a useful adjunct for monitoring patients requiring close medical follow-up.
(6) Adjunctive usage of elastic stockings and intermittent compression pneumatic boots in the perioperative period was helpful in controlling leg swelling and promoting wound healing.
(7) This study raises the possibility of lithium carbonate use as an adjunct in the treatment of amphetamine addiction.
(8) Transluminal iliac angioplasty is a valuable adjunct to distal bypass surgery by improving arterial inflow without the requirement for major aorto iliac surgery.
(9) A new approach is presented to the refractive procedure by adding observation, both surreptitious and direct, as an adjunct, an aid and a supplement to differential diagnosis in a refractive examination and in visual analysis.
(10) The efficacy of adjunctive verapamil on psychopathological symptoms and tardive dyskinesia was investigated in 22 chronic schizophrenic patients, who had partially responded to neuroleptics.
(11) Postmortem biochemical indices may provide a useful adjunct to morphological studies in the identification of antemortem brain insult.
(12) immunoglobulin, purified from the plasma of local semi-immune blood donors, as an adjunct to standard treatment for cerebral malaria in Malawian children.
(13) The rationale for the use of exercise as part of the treatment program in type II diabetes is much clearer and regular exercise may be prescribed as an adjunct to caloric restriction for weight reduction and as a means of improving insulin sensitivity in the obese, insulin-resistant individual.
(14) Endoscopic coagulation is a useful adjunct in the treatment of this condition, and is safe, effective, and leaves other options open.
(15) These studies suggest that intraarterial UK may be a useful adjunctive therapy after revascularization of the acutely ischemic limb and that further clinical trials are recommended.
(16) The perfluoropropane gas was used as an adjunct to vitreoretinal microsurgery in 60 eyes of 60 patients with rhegmatogenous retinal detachment complicated by proliferative vitreoretinopathy.
(17) These results show that NSE is almost as sensitive as, but more specific than, S100 protein in discriminating Langerhans-cell from non-Langerhans cell cutaneous histiocytoses, and that it consequently represents a useful adjunct in the immunohistochemical diagnosis of histiocytic skin diseases.
(18) Surgery must be considered the mainstay of therapy for fibrosarcoma, but there is a need for adjunctive therapy.
(19) In addition, most of the studies used HBO as an adjunctive treatment in the management of refractory osteoradionecrosis.
(20) Combined with complete bowel rest, intravenous hyperalimentation can effectively function as the primary treatment or as an adjunct to the surgical management of the complications of inflammatory bowel disease.
Premise
Definition:
(n.) A proposition antecedently supposed or proved; something previously stated or assumed as the basis of further argument; a condition; a supposition.
(n.) Either of the first two propositions of a syllogism, from which the conclusion is drawn.
(n.) Matters previously stated or set forth; esp., that part in the beginning of a deed, the office of which is to express the grantor and grantee, and the land or thing granted or conveyed, and all that precedes the habendum; the thing demised or granted.
(n.) A piece of real estate; a building and its adjuncts; as, to lease premises; to trespass on another's premises.
(n.) To send before the time, or beforehand; hence, to cause to be before something else; to employ previously.
(n.) To set forth beforehand, or as introductory to the main subject; to offer previously, as something to explain or aid in understanding what follows; especially, to lay down premises or first propositions, on which rest the subsequent reasonings.
(v. i.) To make a premise; to set forth something as a premise.
Example Sentences:
(1) Cultures of these isolants were inoculated experimentally into turkeys and produced lesions of chlamydiosis that were indistinguishable from those caused by the strain originally recovered from diseases turkeys on the premises.
(2) A basic premise is that emotional process is not unique to homo sapiens and that human behavior might better be understood by observing this process in the broader context of all natural systems.
(3) There are far too many fast-food premises near schools.
(4) Each case must be assessed on its own premises: the substitution need, the availability of a transplant, the long-term prognosis, and the advantages and disadvantages of a solution with autotransplantation versus solutions without autotransplantation.
(5) Neuronal models in temperature regulation are primarily considered explicit statements of assumptions and premises used in design of experiments and development of descriptive equations concerning the relationships between thermal inputs and control actions.
(6) The effects on gas exchange and hemodynamics were compared with those of CPPV with PEEP, with the premise that CNPV might sustain venous return and improve QT.
(7) The starting premise of the remain campaign was that elections in Britain are settled in a centre-ground defined by aversion to economic risk and swung by a core of liberal middle-class voters who are allergic to radical lurches towards political uncertainty.
(8) The authors note that poison center callers seem to constitute a pool of significantly suicidal persons and reaffirm the premise that poison centers and suicide centers should coordinate their efforts.
(9) To test this premise, 14 healthy, untrained men trained four days per week for 20 weeks on a bicycle ergometer for endurance (END Group, n = 4), on an isokinetic device for increased torque production (ITP Group, n = 5), or on both devices (COMBO Group, n = 5).
(10) If that premise is accepted, there is much that academic institutions can do to foster utilization of their biotechnological discoveries.
(11) Archer, which Reed originally pitched to the FX channel as "James Bond meets Arrested Development" takes this premise – the comedy of displacement activity – and runs with it.
(12) As a smaller, weaker, standalone company, it would struggle to invest as much as it does currently.” The company said the UK was repeatedly ranked the best for broadband speeds in the EU and claimed 90% of UK premises had access to fibre optic connections.
(13) "We regret that Congress was forced to waste its time voting on a foolish bill that was premised entirely on false claims and ignorance," David Jenkins, an REP official, said in a statement.
(14) The higher-cost practices were those that maintained donors on the premises specifically for blood donation purposes.
(15) This paper concentrates on the applications of the Project used in Health Centres, where General Practitioners share premises with District Nurses, Health Visitors, Social Workers and other members of the Community Health Care Team.
(16) As Nick Bostrom, the head of the Future of Humanity Institute at the University of Oxford and a leading transhumanist thinker puts it, transhumanism "challenges the premise that the human condition is and will remain essentially unalterable".
(17) The BBC will then work with the developers Stanhope on a three-year project to turn TV Centre into a new creative hub where the corporation will retain a studio presence alongside planned residential, office and leisure premises.
(18) Alexander Mackendrick's 1955 comedy is Ealing's neatest, and its trippiest; the product of lurid new colour stock (including some alarming back-projection ) and a hallucinatory premise.
(19) Further study is needed to verify this latter premise.
(20) Mr Clarke said tonight that the premises will "now be thoroughly searched, and that is a process that will take some time".