(a.) Going before in time; prior; anterior; preceding; as, an event antecedent to the Deluge; an antecedent cause.
(a.) Presumptive; as, an antecedent improbability.
(n.) That which goes before in time; that which precedes.
(n.) One who precedes or goes in front.
(n.) The earlier events of one's life; previous principles, conduct, course, history.
(n.) The noun to which a relative refers; as, in the sentence "Solomon was the prince who built the temple," prince is the antecedent of who.
(n.) The first or conditional part of a hypothetical proposition; as, If the earth is fixed, the sun must move.
(n.) The first of the two propositions which constitute an enthymeme or contracted syllogism; as, Every man is mortal; therefore the king must die.
(n.) The first of the two terms of a ratio; the first or third of the four terms of a proportion. In the ratio a:b, a is the antecedent, and b the consequent.
Example Sentences:
(1) Single-case experimental designs are presented and discussed from several points of view: Historical antecedents, assessment of the dependent variable, internal and external validity and pre-experimental vs experimental single-case designs.
(2) The development of pulmonary edema in high-altitude residents with upper respiratory infections and no antecedent low-altitude journey is consistent with the presence of other factors such as inflammation, which may play a role in the pathogenesis of the edema.
(3) The favorable prognosis is due solely to the fact that women with an IUD have far less negative antecedents and that the EP probably occurred due to impaired ciliary action, reversible when the IUD is removed.
(4) The literature concerning the possible effects of tetracyclines on hemostasis with or without antecedent anticoagulation therapy is reviewed and the speculated mechanisms for such an interaction are discussed.
(5) The results suggest that ventriculomegaly, observed even as early as the first week of life, might be a significant antecedent of later motor abnormalities among the survivors of periventricular-intraventricular hemorrhage.
(6) These non-pregnant patients without any antecedent autoimmune disease were explored for the presence for autoantibodies especially lupus anticoagulant.
(7) The results suggest that patients with shoulder capsulitis should be investigated to exclude diabetes mellitus particularly when there is no history of antecedent trauma.
(8) Each patient had subacute pelvic pain without antecedent trauma.
(9) The following factors of these patients were analyzed: age, sex, civil status, socio-economic level, occupation, family antecedents, personal antecedents, smoking, alcoholism, presence of cardiac murmurs, arrhythmias, and electrocardiogram.
(10) A series of seven experiments related amplitude and latency of the pigeon's startle response, elicited by an intense visual stimulus, to antecedent auditory and visual events in the sensory environment.
(11) During the acute index episode, adult family (household) contacts, compared with control adults, had a greater rate of oropharyngeal EBV excretion and high serum antibody responses, which suggested a recent antecedent reactivation of an old EBV infection.
(12) A randomly selected group of 224 women with breast cancer responded to an anonymous survey that addressed the presence of menopause, antecedent therapies, symptoms related to estrogen deficiency, concerns about osteoporosis or heart disease, attitude about ERT, and perception about ERT-related cancer risk.
(13) An interview was applied to the fathers of the children of the study group in order to determinate hygiene oral habits, eating and familiar antecedents that could influence in the process of the ordinary and rampant caries and to compare between them.
(14) Preoperative factors such as location of lesion, antecedent surgery, and previous radiation therapy were assessed and compared to the patients who underwent "emergency" laryngectomy in an attempt to further define risk factors involved in peristomal recurrence.
(15) The equivalency of results and the lower cost of the radiologic study indicate that the double-contrast barium enema is the technique of choice for the examination of asymptomatic patients or symptomatic individuals without known antecedent disease.
(16) Comparison of the risk of muscle invasion using pathological tumor grade at diagnosis, highest grade at any cystoscopic biopsy before the diagnosis of muscle invasion or highest grade at cystoscopic biopsy immediately antecedent to the cystoscopy at which muscle invasion was diagnosed all showed similar probability of muscle invasion.
(17) We show, analyze and discuss their social and demographic features, antecedents, onset and course, acquiring behaviours and its consequences, diagnosis, gnosographic features, results of the psychodiagnostic tests, evolutive relationships with the psychiatric diagnosis and treatment undergone.
(18) Fetal abuse may be one antecedent of child abuse, and this paper attempts to transpose the known correlates of child abuse into an antenatal time framework.
(19) In both sexes, at all ages, all-cause, cardiovascular, and coronary mortality rates increased progressively in relation to antecedent heart rates determined biennially.
(20) No inhibition was detected for activated plasma thromboplastin antecedent (factor XIa), plasma kallikrein, or C1 esterase.
Hypothetical
Definition:
(a.) Characterized by, or of the nature of, an hypothesis; conditional; assumed without proof, for the purpose of reasoning and deducing proof, or of accounting for some fact or phenomenon.
Example Sentences:
(1) The pathomechanism, how C. pylori facilitates the development of peptic ulcer is since hypothetical.
(2) The model is based on the concept that a cell with hypothetically unlimited replicative potential--i.e.
(3) Blight responded with a hypothetical, telling Ludlam if the ASD asked a foreign agency to get material about Australian citizens it could not access under Australian law, the IGIS would know about it and flag it in its annual report.
(4) The possible roles of the sorbitol pathway and of hypothetical regulatory sites for the glucose molecule ("receptors") are briefly discussed.
(5) By analysis of the three sequences we were able to delineate a hypothetic model for region X domain evolution and discussed the origin of genetic variability within and without strains.
(6) For now, it is a hypothetical danger and England cannot be doing too badly if the worst controversy about Hodgson's squad is who goes as reserve left-back.
(7) On the basis of these data, a hypothetical molecular mechanism of vestibular efferent modulation of the primary afferent pathway is proposed.
(8) A hypothetical scheme is presented that pursues the processes involved in invasion from the biochemical events generated by attachment of the parasite, to the steric rearrangement of red cell membrane proteins, which culminates in invasion.
(9) Samples taken by Monte Carlo means from a hypothetical in vitro population were compared with clonal survival data obtained experimentally.
(10) A hypothetical model is proposed in which prevention of ulcer formation or accelerated healing of ulcers by conventional therapies may be FGF dependent.
(11) In Experiment 1, subjects exposed to a sound representing their heartbeat made greater self-attributions for hypothetical outcomes than did subjects exposed to the same sound identified as an extraneous noise.
(12) The hypothetical pattern is regenerative and shows how epithelial cell patterns where cells divide might arise.
(13) First-year student nurses attributed less pain to the hypothetical patient than third- and fourth-year student nurses and registered nurses.
(14) Problems which have arisen and considerations on the hypothetic future interventions are considered.
(15) The authors surveyed primary care physicians in Missouri to determine the presence and extent of standards of care for 12 hypothetical cases.
(16) A hypothetical view of the relationship between these cell types is presented.
(17) In assessing the autoradiographs, two methods were compared, the circle analysis and the recently described hypothetical grain analysis.
(18) Hypothetically a blockade of the surface of T-lymphocytes by products of the immediate reaction, for example immune complexes, is suggested.
(19) The loss of threshold showed a large inter-individual variability, with a rapid increase above a hypothetic threshold dose.
(20) From the data obtained a hypothetical sequence of phosphorylation and 18O-exchange reactions in myofibril action has been suggested.