(n.) An alarm from a real or threatened attack; a sudden attack; also, a bugle sound to give warning.
Example Sentences:
(1) There are several common clinical signs which should alert the physician to a possible diagnosis of SLE and which should condition him to look for specific clinical and laboratory findings.
(2) Keep it in the ground campaign Though they draw on completely different archives, leaked documents, and interviews with ex-employees, they reach the same damning conclusion: Exxon knew all that there was to know about climate change decades ago, and instead of alerting the rest of us denied the science and obstructed the politics of global warming.
(3) In view of the high mortality every clinical deterioration of patients with cirrhosis should alert the physician of the presence of SBP.
(4) Moreover, it allows the clinician to be alert towards findings which could be missed when not carefully searched for and which may be useful to raise or strengthen the suspicion of this disease.
(5) The data support a hypothesis that medial thalamic structures have alerting functions in learning mechanisms.
(6) The correlation between the spike activity and the waves of surface ECoG was studied in the visual and motor cortex of alert non-immobilized rabbits.
(7) The specific angiotensin receptor antagonist, Sar1, Thr8AII (sarthran), was infused intracerebroventricularly in alert spontaneously hypertensive rats (SHR), and Wistar-Kyoto (WKY) and Sprague-Dawley (SD) normotensive rat strains.
(8) Stimulation using implanted electrodes in conscious rats, within the hypothalamic and midbrain areas described above, elicited typical 'flight' and 'escape' behaviour: thus, the localized regions from which the visceral alerting response is elicited contain neurones or nerve fibres integrating the whole defence-alerting response in the rat, as in other species.
(9) These findings suggest that health professionals, particularly nurses, who work with families in their homes, must be alert and sensitive to cues and circumstances which could indicate suffering, and in so doing, take the necessary steps to ameliorate their situation.
(10) It is understood that counterterrorism police at Heathrow are urgently seeking a meeting with senior UKBA management over the missed alerts.
(11) South Korea was put on high alert a year ago amid fears that the North was about to provoke a clash in the contested waters of the Yellow Sea.
(12) This report alerts clinicians that, although helpful in some patients, clonazepam can cause behavioral disinhibition and worsening of symptoms in other patients.
(13) These indicators included temperature elevation, inability to be consoled, level of alertness, nuchal rigidity, bulging fontanel, decreased appetite, rash, referral, and febrile seizures.
(14) This brief outline of optical identification potentials alerts law enforcement agencies to the early developments in the field.
(15) Immediately after delivery the following should be checked for any possible abnormalities: 1) the patient's alertness, 2) blood pressure, 3) pulse, and 4) body temperature.
(16) The results better define the important behavioral differences existing between the two strains, Long Evans rats showing consistently a higher level of alertness and a better conditioned performance.
(17) This article is intended to alert practicing physicians to the extent of the problem and to familiarize them with the various forms of skin cancer.
(18) Albion rarely threatened, though Tim Howard was alert to Shane Long's first-time shot, but had several chances to punish Everton on the counterattack late on.
(19) Witnesses reported hearing a loud bang coming from the area, which is also close to the Belfast city centre's prime retail centre and the city's courts, hours after a security alert was declared after 9pm.
(20) It was thus found that the predictive efficacy of CASE was increased when it employed a combination of human and artificial intelligence, as exemplified by the CASE analysis of 'structural alerts.
Notify
Definition:
(v. t.) To make known; to declare; to publish; as, to notify a fact to a person.
(v. t.) To give notice to; to inform by notice; to apprise; as, the constable has notified the citizens to meet at the city hall; the bell notifies us of the time of meeting.
Example Sentences:
(1) Case series based on notifiable disease report forms and patient medical records.
(2) Over the 10-year period 1973-82 1958 cases of tuberculosis were notified in Leeds (population 728 000).
(3) A prospective study of notified cases of tuberculosis started on treatment during 1984 in the department of Seine-Saint-Denis situated in the northern suburb of Paris was undertaken with the help of the Ministry of Health, and the National Committee for the Prevention of Tuberculosis.
(4) However, the Iowa Democratic party decided to shift one delegate from Sanders to Clinton on the night and did not notify precinct secretary J Pablo Silva that they had done so.
(5) Data from 1985 and 1986 showed that 85.6% of the bugs captured inside houses were notified by the population, which confirms that the best way to maintain the epidemiologic surveillance of Chagas' disease by the mobilization of local communities for effective participation in vector surveillance.
(6) Irreversible lesions of the bone marrow by cytostatic agents are notifiable unwished effects of drugs.
(7) We surveyed clinical trials of anti-tumour drugs notified to the Norwegian Medicines Control Authority during the period 1982 to 1986.
(8) It’s a wicked thing to do.” Thomson said the federal government had not notified him about approaching boats since 2009.
(9) A survey of all notifications of tuberculosis in children (aged less than 15 years) in England and Wales in 1983 showed a decline of 35% in the estimated annual number of previously untreated children notified since the previous survey in 1978-9.
(10) In April 1984, the US FDA was notified of an unusual clinical syndrome consisting of ascites, liver and renal failure, thrombocytopenia, and death among low birth weight infants exposed to an intravenous vitamin E preparation, E-Ferol.
(11) Patients with a past history of tuberculosis and those who died within one year were less likely to have had their tuberculosis notified.
(12) From the results of this study it is clear that there is no necessity to list chorioptic mange in sheep and goats as a notifiable disease.
(13) The epidemiological approach to occupational accidents and diseases adopted in Brazil is inadequate for many reasons, among them being: 1) the fact that only employers may notify work accidents, thus permitting notorious undernotification of these occupational hazards; 2) the available information does not permit a better understanding of the causal relationship between work accidents and diseases; 3) the official policy exists only for purposes of insurance compensation.
(14) But the regime of Bashar al-Assad, which counts Isis as an opponent in its protracted civil war, confirmed it was notified of the operation in advance and did not offer any resistance.
(15) In this study we analyze the characteristics of 10,338 individuals who initiated a treatment for illegal drug abuse (opiates or cocaine) during 1987 in 224 centres spread along the Autonomous Communities and which had been notified to SEIT.
(16) What bothers me is that a club would contact the manager of a national team without first notifying the Federation.
(17) There is an ethical and legal problem for obstetricians when a pregnant patient, before or during labor, is notified by her physician that the fetus is in danger of dying and in need of surgical intervention, and she does not accept this advice.
(18) From 1962 to 1968 a total of 659 paralytic cases were officially notified.
(19) When I tried a final and third time, the site notified me that it was down due to a large amount of traffic.
(20) From October, 1980, to January, 1981, 788 cases were notified.