(n.) A thing or person coming from without; an immigrant.
Example Sentences:
(1) Finally, before the advent of the third-party payment, operations were avoided because of the financial burden.
(2) "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.
(3) The advent of transgenic technology, in which foreign genetic information is stably introduced into the mammalian germ line, has dramatically enhanced our basic knowledge of physiologic and pathologic processes.
(4) With the advent of the polymerase chain reaction (PCR), molecular biology is at last poised to enter the clinical microbiology laboratory.
(5) The advent of cyclosporine A provides the dermatologist with a new therapeutic strategem in the management of psoriasis, although the long-term safety of such interventional therapy remains to be discerned.
(6) Accurate reproducible measurements of the rate of gastric emptying have only been possible since the advent of external radionuclide detection techniques.
(7) However, the advent of the polymerase chain reaction, coupled with a boom in funding for human immunodeficiency virus research have moved retroviral research apace, raising questions as to whether novel contributions would be realized.
(8) With the advent of advancing methodology and monoclonal antibodies the new models support nuclear localisation of the receptor, the clinical significance of this in cancer treatment is far from clear.
(9) The advent of what is called the chemotherapy of mental diseases goes back to the early fifties, when a series of clinical observations led medical research to reconsider this field, that at the time was not particularly developed.
(10) Since the advent of modern methods of neonatal care, intracranial hemorrhage in premature infants, which is usually intraventricular, is probably not as uniformly fatal as generally admitted and the survivors are likely to develop post-hemorrhagic hydrocephalus.
(11) With the advent of colour coding in electro-optical displays, the need for a detailed quantification of focusing responses to chromatic stimuli is particularly important because of the influence of the chromatic aberration present in ocular optics on the focusing response of the eye.
(12) The latter has been used infrequently since the advent of antibiotics, except recently for treatment of cancer.
(13) Two technical developments, the advent of supercomputing as a routine tool in quantum solid-state material science and molecular dynamics on the one hand, and molecular biology on the other hand, have created--perhaps for the first time-the possibility of directly linking a more realistic description of the radiation field to observable events at biomolecular level.
(14) Breakthroughs in the areas of serology (e.g., removal of IgM antibodies and the use of CLL cells for serum screening), strategy (use of a calculated cumulative probability of transplantability to determine the necessary donor pool size), and therapy (the use of Staph A immunosorbent columns to remove IgG from the patient's serum and the advent of recombinant erythropoietin) are rapidly evolving to the point where there is promise of substantially improving the chances of transplanting highly sensitized patients.
(15) According to these criteria, cholecystectomy (removing not only the stones but also the offending gallbladder)--in particular with the advent of the laparoscopic approach--is the therapy of choice.
(16) The advent of electron microscopy has repeatedly confirmed Whipple's original postulate that bacterial infestation might be the cause of intestinal lipodystrophy (Whipple's disease).
(17) However the advent of computer-based image analysers offers a more straightforward, although less direct, method of making such measurements.
(18) The advent of stroboscopy has proved to be a breakthrough for the laryngologist studying the voice.
(19) The recurrent crises explain why a range of figures, from Blake to Gandhi , and Simone Weil to Yukio Mishima, reacted remarkably similarly to the advent of industrial and commercial society, to the unprecedented phenomenon of all that is solid melting into thin air, across Europe, Asia and Africa.
(20) Prior to the advent of liposuction, there were a number of reports in the medical literature about significant complication rates from facelifting, ranging in frequency from 1 to 8%.
Naturalized
Definition:
(imp. & p. p.) of Naturalize
Example Sentences:
(1) The results indicated that neuropsychological measures may serve to broaden the concept of intelligence and that a brain-related criterion may contribute to a fuller understanding of its nature.
(2) In Patient 2 they were at first paroxysmal and unformed, with more prolonged metamorphopsia; later there appeared to be palinoptic formed images, possibly postictal in nature.
(3) We conclude that the priming effect is not a clinically significant phenomenon during natural pollen exposure in allergic rhinitis patients.
(4) Quantitative determinations indicate that the amount of PBG-D mRNA is modulated both by the erythroid nature of the tissue and by cell proliferation, probably at the transcriptional level.
(5) The severity and site of hypertrophy is important in determining the clinical picture and the natural history of hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM).
(6) Here, we review the nature of the heart sound signal and the various signal-processing techniques that have been applied to PCG analysis.
(7) To investigate the immunomodulating properties of cis-diamminedichloroplatinum (II) (CDDP), we studied the drug's effects on natural killer (NK) lymphocyte cytotoxicity.
(8) Examined specific relationships, as they occur in nature, between particular dietary variables or groups of variables and specific MMPI subscales.
(9) Natural tubulin polymerization leads to the formation of hooks on microtubular structures.
(10) Trichostatin C is presumably the first example of a glucopyranosyl hydroxamate from nature.
(11) The present study was undertaken to find out the nature of enzymes responsible for the processing of DV antigen in M phi.
(12) The cyclical nature of pyromania has parallels in cycles of reform in standards of civil commitment (Livermore, Malmquist & Meehl, 1958; Dershowitz, 1974), in the use of physical therapies and medications (Tourney, 1967; Mora, 1974), in treatment of the chronically mentally ill (Deutsch, 1949; Morrissey & Goldman, 1984), and in institutional practices (Treffert, 1967; Morrissey, Goldman & Klerman (1980).
(13) The nature of the putative autoantigen in Graves' ophthalmopathy (Go) remains an enigma but the sequence similarity between thyroglobulin (Tg) and acetylcholinesterase (ACHE) provides a rationale for epitopes which are common to the thyroid gland and the eye orbit.
(14) Further exploration of these excretory pathways will provide interesting new insights on the numerous cholestatic and hyperbilirubinemic syndromes that occur in nature.
(15) In this way they offer the doctor the chance of preventing genetic handicaps that cannot be obtained by natural reproduction, and that therefore should be used.
(16) The nature, intracellular distribution, and role of proteins synthesized during meiotic maturation of mouse oocytes in vitro have been examined.
(17) Natural killer cells (CD8+CD57+) as well as activated T cells (CD3+HLA-DR+) were significantly increased in patients with sarcoidosis.
(18) In certain cases, the effects of these substances are enhanced, in others, they are inhibited by compounds that were isolated from natural sources or prepared by chemical synthesis.
(19) Analysis of 156 records relating to patients at the age of 15 to 85 years with extended purulent peritonitis of the surgical and gynecological genesis (the toxic phase, VI category ASA) showed that combination of programmed sanitation laparotomy and intensive antibacterial therapy performed as short-term courses before, during and after the operation with an account of the information on the nature of the microbial associations and antibioticograms was an efficient procedure in treatment of severe peritonitis.
(20) There is no convincing evidence that immunosuppression is effective, also because the natural history of the disease is characterised by a spontaneous disappearance of the factor VIII-C inhibitor.