(a.) Being of advantage; conferring advantage; gainful; profitable; useful; beneficial; as, an advantageous position; trade is advantageous to a nation.
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.
Behovely
Definition:
(a. & adv.) Useful, or usefully.
Example Sentences:
(1) "First, my love," said Mr Darcy, who had become increasingly uxorious over time, "it behoves us to run through the back story for those who are not up to speed with the original.
(2) It's hard to describe [why] because "down-to-earth" usually describes someone who acts more humble than they actually are - because they know that it behoves them to not be an asshole!'
(3) It might behove the congregation to bow its head occasionally in silent contemplation.
(4) "Indeed she can," replied Mr Darcy, "for in these times it behoves a brother to allow his sister to marry for love.
(5) It behoves us to briefly review the clinical features of this condition while presenting the case report.
(6) It surely behoves us as a society to retain those deaths with respect and a degree of reverence.
(7) Those families in which an infant suffers an 'apparently life threatening event' deserve immense understanding and help, and it behoves investigators to exercise extreme care and self criticism in the presentation of new knowledge which may bear upon their management and their morale.
(8) When he was good, he was very good indeed, as behoves one of the best actors of his generation - a performer of real substance, power and sophistication.
(9) But if sustainable products are to win a piece of the fortune at the bottom of the pyramid, it behoves their manufacturers to create something that people want to buy at a price they are willing (and able) to pay.
(10) Asked if there was widespread “cooking of the books”, he added “I am not aware [of it] other than in isolated cases where there is evidence, but the fact there is evidence in a couple of cases behoves us to have a look”.
(11) It behoves workers in all countries which have a significant grazing livestock industry, not only those with an existing resistance problem, to consider how such schemes could be implemented.
(12) However, if she can understand it but wants to employ populist rhetoric just to boost her anti-City credentials for the sake of a cheap dig at the markets, then it ill behoves her to dumb herself down in such a see-through fashion.
(13) It ill behoves him to talk about mismanagement of projects.
(14) "I fear great dishonour has been brought on to the Pemberley estate by a murder, and yet I must ensure my upper lip remains stiff as behoves a man of my class.
(15) To avoid potential hazards it behoves the anaesthetist to remain alert to the possibility of the undiagnosed disease.