(v. t.) To make exact; to fit; to make correspondent or conformable; to bring into proper relations; as, to adjust a garment to the body, or things to a standard.
(v. t.) To put in order; to regulate, or reduce to system.
(v. t.) To settle or bring to a satisfactory state, so that parties are agreed in the result; as, to adjust accounts; the differences are adjusted.
(v. t.) To bring to a true relative position, as the parts of an instrument; to regulate for use; as, to adjust a telescope or microscope.
Example Sentences:
(1) Increased plasmin activity was associated with advancing stage of lactation and older cows after appropriate adjustments were made for the effects of milk yield and SCC.
(2) The difference in HDL and HDL2 cholesterol concentrations between the MI+ and MI- groups or between the MI+ and CHD- groups persisted after adjustment by analysis of covariance for the effect of physical activity, alcohol intake, obesity, duration of diabetes, and glycemic control.
(3) However, this predictive value disappeared when five baseline parameters found to predict the outcome (neopterin, beta 2-microglobulin, p24 antigen, anti-p18 antibody and immunoglobulin A) were adjusted.
(4) Throughout the period of rehabilitation, the frequent changes of a patient's condition may require a process of ongoing evaluation and appropriate adjustments in the physical therapy program.
(5) This modified endocrine activity in brook trout may reflect adjustment to adverse external ionic conditions.
(6) Variables included an ego-delay measure obtained from temporal estimations, perceptions of temporal dominance and relatedness obtained from Cottle's Circles Test, Ss' ages, and a measure of long-term posthospital adjustment.
(7) By adjustment to the swaying movements of the horse, the child feels how to retain straightening alignment, symmetry and balance.
(8) The prevalence of diabetes was 36% higher among San Antonio Mexican Americans than among Mexicans in Mexico City; this difference was highly statistically significant (age- and sex-adjusted prevalence ratio 1.36, P = 0.006).
(9) These reflexes can function to limit forces applied to a leg and provide compensatory adjustments in other legs.
(10) This activity scheme uses as its base, dose potency measured as TD50, the chronic dose rate that actuarially halves the adjusted percentage of tumor-free animals at the end of the study (Gold et al., Environ.
(11) "With the advent of sophisticated data-processing capabilities (including big data), the big number-crunchers can detect, model and counter all manner of online activities just by detecting the behavioural patterns they see in the data and adjusting their tactics accordingly.
(12) Sterilization rates at the time of abortions increased with increasing age and with increasing gravidity, but the total rates, adjusted for age and gravidity of patients, have changed little in the past 15 years.
(13) The adjusted odds ratio of having one or more hospitalization for current drinkers relative to life-long abstainers in females was 0.67 (95 per cent confidence interval 0.57-0.79) and in males was 0.74 (0.57-0.96).
(14) The crude survival rate at 5 years was 83.3% (age-adjusted 96%), and at 10 years 53.8%).
(15) There were no relationships between blood pressure and calorie-adjusted intakes of fats, carbohydrates, sodium, potassium, calcium or magnesium.
(16) In this paper we propose an alternative approach, based on a simple adjustment of the standard Pearson chi-square test for the equality of proportions.
(17) Dose adjustment using 24-hour levels was well tolerated and should help to attain a more rapid response to antidepressant treatment.
(18) Scientists at the University of Trento, Italy, have discovered that the way a dog's tail moves is linked to its mood, and by observing each other's tails, dogs can adjust their behaviour accordingly .
(19) Adjustment for possible mechanisms correlated with social class (marital status, smoking, time of first antenatal visit) decreased the higher occurrence of low birthweight infants in the low educational groups.
(20) An attempt to eliminate the age effect by adjusting for age differences in monaural shadowing errors, fluid intelligence, and pure-tone hearing loss did not succeed.
Scaler
Definition:
(n.) One who, or that which, scales; specifically, a dentist's instrument for removing tartar from the teeth.
Example Sentences:
(1) The titanium alloy strips were treated with citric acid, stannous fluoride, tetracycline HCl, chlorhexidine gluconate, hydrogen peroxide, chloramine T, sterile water, a plastic sonic scaler tip, and an air-powder abrasive unit.
(2) The factory sharpened scalers exhibited metallic extensions from the lateral surface (wire edges).
(3) Results demonstrate that during tooth cleaning direct contact between ultrasound and turbine-operated scalers and tooth and filling surfaces should be prevented.
(4) Investigators using the sonic scaler should indicate the type of scaling tip, the air pressure input, and the application load used to enable meaningful comparisons to be made between the results of different workers.
(5) An analog scaler was placed behind the PM-tubes to reduce dead-time loss.
(6) Consideration of the rationalized activity coefficient as a linear scaler in an expression for surface pressure as a function of depth in the surface phase permits comparison of surface pressure-area data for monolayers with force-distance data for bilayers.
(7) In each patient one side of the dentition was treated with the Sonicflex and the other with the Titan-S sonic scalers.
(8) Since the introduction of scalers in the beginning of the century for the mechanical removal of plaque, instruments with few major modifications are still in clinical use today.
(9) This study compared the effectiveness of two sonic and two ultrasonic scaler tips on artificial calculus removal from the furcations of mandibular first and second molars.
(10) When assessing clinical studies it is often difficult to interpret results from different workers due to the lack of standardization of the ultrasonic scaler.
(11) The clinical investigation included 66 periodontal pockets which were instrumented subgingivally for 10 and 30 s with ultrasonic or sonic scalers.
(12) It also supports the interpretation of the activity coefficient as a scaler and allows its determination solely from bilayer-derived data.
(13) for the magnetostrictive, piezoelectric, or air turbine sonic scalers.
(14) This study has shown that after waterline sterilization, the use of a sterile, disposable membrane filter can eliminate the microflora from the water of an ultrasonic scaler for up to 48 hours.
(15) Only a thin layer of root substance (11.6 microns) was removed by the ultrasonic scaler, compared to the much greater losses sustained with the airscaler (93.5 microns), the curette (108.9 microns) and the diamond bur (118.7 microns).
(16) Group 1; The cutting quality of both types of the scalers was same at 200 strokes.
(17) The oscillatory performance of the sonic scaler differed from that observed previously with ultrasonic scalers.
(18) These values were lower when turbin-operated scalers were used.
(19) The authors' preferred procedure for sharpening scalers and curettes is described in detail; powered rotary stones are used in grinding the sides of the blade.
(20) The ultrasonic scaler works by the vibratory chipping action of the oscillating tip and is assisted by the presence of cavitational activity in the associated cooling water.