(1) The effects of sessions, individual characteristics, group behavior, sedative medications, and pharmacological anticipation, on simple visual and auditory reaction time were evaluated with a randomized block design.
(2) Several interpretations of the results are examined including the possibility that the effects of Valium use were short-lived rather than long-term and that Valium may have been taken in anticipation of anxiety rather than after its occurrence.
(3) However, a recrudescence in both psychotic and depressive symptoms developed as plasma desipramine levels rose 4 times higher than anticipated from the oral doses prescribed.
(4) However, the level of sequence identity between B. nodosus 351 pilin and pilin from strain 265 of serogroup H1 is lower than anticipated for strains within a serogroup and suggests that B. nodosus 265 and B. nodosus 351 should not be classified within the same serogroup.
(5) The morbidity is well known and if properly anticipated can be reduced to a minimum by judicious use of antibacterial agents and early surgical intervention when appropriate.
(6) The ceremony is the much-anticipated shop window for the Games, and Boyle was brought in to provide the creative vision.
(7) The survival time of the lambs was markedly shortened with the bubble oxygenator, although much longer than had been anticipated.
(8) Toxicity has been reported in the fetus of a woman ingesting a huge overdose of digitoxin; the same result would be anticipated with digoxin poisoning.
(9) Early diagnosis and exact resuscitation are the two most important aspects of a plan of treatment which anticipates the need for early surgery.
(10) Intraoperative anesthetic complications can be prevented or minimized if the anesthetist is able to anticipate such problems in the preanesthetic period.
(11) The concept of anticipation, the occurrence of a genetic disorder at progressively earlier ages in successive generations, has been debated from the early years of this century, with myotonic dystrophy as the most striking example.
(12) They anticipated the following scenario: a struggling club fires its manager and enjoys an immediate upsurge.
(13) Thorough knowledge of the modes of ventilatory support and criteria for weaning are essential for the critical care nurse to anticipate patient needs.
(14) We anticipate that Tyr34, whose hydroxyl group is only 5 A from the metal, is involved in the catalytic reaction.
(15) Adjustment of posterior arch width and dental alignment, using semi-rapid maxillary expansion by means of an upper removable appliance, to co-ordinate the anticipated positions for the arches.
(16) The observed degree of efficacy of amoxicillin prophylaxis and of tympanostomy tube insertion must be viewed in light of the fact that study subjects proved not to have been at as high risk for acute otitis media as had been anticipated and in view of the differential attrition rates.
(17) But the bill anticipates the outcome by seeking to widen government powers to enable more people to be given support in the form of direct payments, for services up to and including residential care.
(18) A high incidence of bacteremia and localized bacterial infection should be anticipated in patients with AIDS who receive interleukin-2.
(19) Computerized tomography before anticipated percutaneous stone extraction revealed the colon to be positioned posterior to the left portion of the horseshoe kidney.
(20) If radiation therapy is anticipated, completion of radical hysterectomy followed by radiation therapy appears to offer no advantage over radiation therapy with the uterus in place in patients with early-stage invasive cervical cancer and pelvic lymph node involvement.
Premature
Definition:
(a.) Mature or ripe before the proper time; as, the premature fruits of a hotbed.
(a.) Happening, arriving, existing, or performed before the proper or usual time; adopted too soon; too early; untimely; as, a premature fall of snow; a premature birth; a premature opinion; premature decay.
(a.) Arriving or received without due authentication or evidence; as, a premature report.
Example Sentences:
(1) Perinatal mortality is strongly associated with obstetrical factors, respiratory distress syndrome, and prematurity.
(2) The dangers caused by PM10s was highlighted in the Rogers review of local authority regulatory services, published in 2007, which said poor air quality contributed to between 12,000 and 24,000 premature deaths each year.
(3) Of the 622 people interviewed, a large proportion (30.5%) believed that the first deciduous tooth should erupt between the age of 5-7 months; the next commonly mentioned time of tooth eruption was 7-9 months of age; and 50.3% of the respondents claimed to have seen a case of prematurely erupted primary teeth.
(4) We found that, compared to one- and two-dose infants, those treated with three doses of Exosurf were more premature, smaller, required a longer ventilator course, and had more frequent complications, including patent ductus arteriosus (PDA), intraventricular hemorrhage, nosocomial pneumonia, and apnea.
(5) They urged the Department of Environment, Food and Rural Affairs to make air quality a higher priority and release the latest figures on premature deaths.
(6) Conclusions on phylogenetic trends of sexual dimorphism of skeletal robusticity and the effect of culture on it seem to be premature.
(7) The acetylcarnitine content of tracheal fluid was higher in samples obtained from premature newborns.
(8) The behavior of the retrograde H deflection in respect to the first extra beat following the premature QRS complex helped in excluding bundle branch reentry.
(9) We report the case of a premature infant, small for gestational age, who experienced rostral herniation of a portion of frontal lobe through the anterior fontanel as the result of a hemorrhagic cerebellar infarction followed by a large parieto-occipital intracerebral hemorrhage.
(10) Amiodarone was able to suppress the premature ventricular beats, depress conduction and prolong refractoriness in both, the AV node and accessory pathway to prevent recurrences of atrioventricular reentry.
(11) 1) The incidence of premature rupture of the membranes (PROM), threatened premature delivery, toxemia and abruption placentae were 40.6, 36.4, 7.8 and 3.0%, respectively.
(12) Further significantly positive associations to the incidence of myocardial infarction (MI) were found for the following parameters: Systolic and diastolic blood pressure, family history of premature MI, cigarette smoking, plasma levels of triglycerides, VLDL-cholesterol and blood glucose.
(13) In 27 decerebrate cats under various experimental conditions, we studied the effects of programmed premature ventricular contractions on the impulse activity of preganglionic sympathetic fibres isolated from the third left thoracic ramus.
(14) The gonadally unresponsive patients had either pituitary tumours or premature menopause.
(15) Premature infants possessed 35-50% higher levels of retinal vitamin C than those found in mature retinas.
(16) It is suggested that the limited renal capacity to reabsorb sodium may account for the low bicarbonate threshold in premature infants.
(17) A patient with hypertensive heart disease, in whom atrial premature beats with a decrease in the amplitude and widening of his bundle potential, prolongation of the H-V interval, and right bundle branch block pattern suggested intrahisian longitudinal dissociation, is described.
(18) Findings on cranial ultrasonography strongly suggested the diagnosis of a localized infarct in four premature infants.
(19) Premature birth retarded maturation of hepatic glucuronyl transferase activity.
(20) A clearly recognizable relationship of SEH to gestational age and clinical status exists in that all SEH occur in premature infants under 2500 g birthweight (although only 56% of all premature infants have SEH) and 95% of SEH occur in infants with the respiratory distress syndrome (although only 60% of infants with the respiratory distress syndrome have SEH).