(n.) Any condition, circumstance, opportunity, or means, particularly favorable to success, or to any desired end; benefit; as, the enemy had the advantage of a more elevated position.
(n.) Superiority; mastery; -- with of or over.
(n.) Superiority of state, or that which gives it; benefit; gain; profit; as, the advantage of a good constitution.
(n.) Interest of money; increase; overplus (as the thirteenth in the baker's dozen).
(v. t.) To give an advantage to; to further; to promote; to benefit; to profit.
Example Sentences:
(1) Multiple overlapping thin 3D slab acquisition is presented as a magnitude contrast (time of flight) technique which combines advantages from multiple thin slice 2D and direct 3D volume acquisitions to obtain high-resolution cross-sectional images of vessel detail.
(2) From these results it was concluded that FITC-Con A staining method applied to smear specimens is more advantageous in the rapidity and the simplicity for tumor cell diagnosis than section specimen method.
(3) In case of isolated damage of deep flexor tendon of the II-V fingers at the level of the I zone there were made palliative operations of 12 fingers: tenodesis and arthrodesis of distal interphalangeal articulation in functionally advantageous position.
(4) Precipitin tests had considerable advantages over other methods of serological diagnosis of influenza.
(5) Combined hypertension treatment with inhibitors of the converting enzyme (ICE) and diuretocs gives manifold advantages, the most important of them is a synergistic action of both drugs resulting in blood pressure decrease and prevention of hypokaliaemia.
(6) When given chronically over 6 weeks the advantages of adding benserazide (50 mg kg-1 day-1) to levodopa (40 mg kg-1 day-1) were less marked and although more dopamine was present in the striatum than with levodopa given alone (200 mg kg-1 day-1) there was no evidence of any increase in its metabolites (HVA and DOPAC) and therefore of its turnover and utilisation.
(7) Examination of the pharmacokinetic profile of acitretin reveals its main advantage over etretinate.
(8) The greatest advantages of spinal QCT for noninvasive bone mineral measurement lie in the high precision of the technique, the high sensitivity of the vertebral trabecular measurement site, and the potential for widespread application.
(9) This article discusses the advantages, clinical uses, limitations, and legal aspects of this mydriatic antagonist in optometric practice.
(10) Several technical advantages of this method of fusion make this approach particularly useful in patients with rheumatoid arthritis.
(11) While the mouse P388 cells were sensitive to OP in vitro, no effect was seen when OP was administered in vivo, even when schedules designed to take advantage of OP's time-dependent toxicity were used.
(12) The advantages of the incision through the pars plana ciliaris are (1) easier approach to the vitreous cavity, (2) preservation of the crystalline lens and an intact iris, and (3) circumvention of the corneal and chamber angle complications sometimes associated with the transcorneal approach.
(13) To this end, a meiosis-defective mating-type mutation was used as a marker for the plus segment, by taking advantage of its suppressibility by a nonsense suppressor.
(14) Structurally altered polymorphic variants with reduced activity, such as tetrameric interface mutant Ile-58 to Thr, may produce not only an early selective advantage, through enhanced cytotoxicity of tumor necrosis factor for virus-infected cells, but also detrimental effects from increased mitochondrial oxidative damage, contributing to degenerative conditions, including diabetes, aging, and Parkinson's and Alzheimer's diseases.
(15) This indicates that the effective advantage of i.p.
(16) In the UK, George Osborne used this to his advantage, claiming "Britain faces the disaster of having its international credit rating downgraded" even after Moody's ranked UK debt as "resilient".
(17) Advantages over other modes of treatment are discussed.
(18) Both targets were found more quickly in the high-probability location than in the other locations, but the advantage associated with targets in the high-probability location was larger for the inducing target than for the test target.
(19) When foods such as dairy products contain large numbers of egg yolk-negative strains of S. aureus, the PPSA agar has the advantage over egg yolk containing media such as Baird-Parker agar that fewer suspect colonies have to be confirmed.
(20) Survival ranged from 2 to 20 M, with a median survival time of 6 M. Tolerance to the subsequent CT, normal tissue reaction to accelerated RT, and the theoretical advantage of accelerated RT over conventional RT for SCCL were evaluated.
Favorise
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) These properties of the angiotensins favorise the proliferation of the cells which make up the vessel wall and also amplify the vascular dysfunction in the absence of the inhibitory regulations.
(2) The authors analyse the results of the treatment favorising early mobilisation in compressive lumbar spinal fractures and surgical intervention in the patients with neurological deficit.
(3) The prevalence and factors favorising postoperative ventricular arrhythmias in 62 patients undergoing surgical repair of tetralogy of Fallot between 1971 and 1982 were analysed.
(4) The new therapeutic methods based on antibiotics, corticosteroids and immunosuppressors and the new medicosurgical techniques (catheters, monitoring in intensive-care units, open-heart surgery) modify the host, favorise the adaptation and introduction f endogenous and exogenous yeast-like fungi and thus create a new pathology characterized by deep visceral or septicemic infections due to yeasts belonging to the genera Candida, Torulopsis, Cryptococcus, Trichosporon, Rhodotorula, and Saccharomyces.
(5) We looked for the factors favorising the appearance of these potentials in 208 consecutive patients (172 men, 36 women) admitted to hospital for primary myocardial infarction.
(6) Proarrhythmic effects, suggested by an aggravation of an arrhythmia or the induction of a previously undocumented arrhythmia, may be favorised by the presence of an arrhythmogenic substrate (unidirectional lock, delayed conduction, dual conduction pathways, low thresholds of depolarisation or fibrillation, presence of zones of hyperautomaticity...), "triggering" mechanisms (extrasystoles, variations of heart rate, after-depolarisation) and by changes in the cardiac environment (variations of autonomic nervous tone and hormonal changes, electrolytic or metabolic disorders...).
(7) The HIV, known for neurotropism, seems responsible for a psychic fragility factor, favorising psychiatric breakdowns as well as their recurrences.
(8) Antibacterial treatment beginning at birth favorises regression of dilated ureter.
(9) The clinical study of numerous cases showed that the latter used dressing various periodontal surgeries minimized post surgical pain, favorised a better hemostasis and accelerated healing.
(10) On the other hand, the poor compliance of the latter compared with the recipient artery, perhaps favorises late anastomotic rupture.
(11) A hiatal hernia (80%), the ingestion of gastrotoxic drugs (52%) or of excessive alcohol (28%) are favorising factors.
(12) Negative inotropic effects may be directly responsible for a deterioration in the hemodynamic status of patients on antiarrhythmics and indirectly responsible for aggravating arrhythmia by altering the anatomical substrate, so favorising proarrhythmic effects.
(13) It seems however that in some tumours the increased survival time and the repetition of the craniotomy favorises the metastasis.
(14) Various factors such as kyphoscoliosis, multiparity and peristalsis of neighbouring organs favorise the occurrence of volvulus, the role of lithiasis is debatable.
(15) During gastrointestinal bleeding associated with cirrhosis, the presence of blood within the lumen of the gut may cause or favorise the onset of hepatic coma.
(16) However, age at operation was closely related to the other two parameters and a discriminating analysis showed that the age at operation was not a favorising factor for the occurrence of ventricular arrhythmias (p = 0.23), in contrast to the duration of follow-up (p = 0.0015) and age at evaluation (p = 0.0007).
(17) Increased fecundity in this endemically affected flock might represent a form of selection which favorises the occurrence and maintenance of the disease within the flock.
(18) Alterations are observed in the distribution of the different protein-associated long chain polysaccharides, in fatty acids and in calcium bound to these proteoglycans favorising the formation of arteriosclerotic plaques.