(n.) The act of anticipating, taking up, placing, or considering something beforehand, or before the proper time in natural order.
(n.) Previous view or impression of what is to happen; instinctive prevision; foretaste; antepast; as, the anticipation of the joys of heaven.
(n.) Hasty notion; intuitive preconception.
(n.) The commencing of one or more tones of a chord with or during the chord preceding, forming a momentary discord.
Example Sentences:
(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.
Anticipatory
Definition:
(a.) Forecasting; of the nature of anticipation.
Example Sentences:
(1) The weeks ahead in Australia will likely be fascinating, exciting, distressing, emotional, anticipatory, and, at times, challenging .
(2) The model's usefulness in anticipatory care is also described.
(3) Excluding anticipatory responses did not eliminate offset-onset effects.
(4) Irrespective of treatment history, mice showed a retest EPM profile of enhanced anxiety, with tail-flick data suggesting a major contribution of anticipatory factors.
(5) In manipulating 'passive' objects, for which the physical properties are stable and therefore predictable, information essential for the adaptation of the motor output to the properties of the current object is principally based on 'anticipatory parameter control' using sensorimotor memories, i.e., an internal representation of the object's properties based on previous manipulative experiences.
(6) Psychological differentiation and uncertainty about receiving a painful noise were examined for their effects on heart rate during the anticipatory, impact and recovery phases of the tone presentation.
(7) These results demonstrate that intense anxiety can be associated with decreased rather than increased cortical perfusion and that ostensibly related states of anxiety (eg, anticipatory and obsessional anxiety) may be associated with opposite effects on regional cerebral blood flow.
(8) Water access time also did not sustain food anticipatory rhythms in animals whose food-water schedules were reversed.
(9) Spearman correlations also indicated that a "monitoring" or information-gathering coping style was associated with more anticipatory anxiety, and more nausea before and during chemotherapy.
(10) Control by the Pavlovian relation was demonstrated under all conditions, and anticipatory contrast was not observed.
(11) The opinions and expectations of newly delivered mothers can be used to develop patient education and anticipatory guidance material to improve teaching and relieve parental anxiety about infant stool habits.
(12) In order to understand the process of executing a voluntary standing movement, the parameters latency (AEA-LT), duration (AEA-DUR) and amplitude (AEA-AMP) of the anticipatory electromyographic (EMG) activity (AEA) in the tibialis anterior muscle, Hoffmann (H) reflex amplitude in the soleus muscle (Sol) prior to the onset of EMG activity in that muscle, and EMG reaction time (EMG-RT) were measured during heel raising from the standing position.
(13) Nitrous oxide appeared to prevent new CRs from being established during its inhalation, but learning evidently took place since anticipatory CRs could be elicited after nitrous oxide inhalation had ceased.
(14) A within-series phase change design (ABABC) was used to evaluate the effect of video distraction and relaxation in the treatment of a 29-year-old male with anticipatory vomiting associated with cancer chemotherapy.
(15) It is concluded that temporal information concerning the precise time of the unloading or the triggering of the load release by a voluntary movement (key press) was not by itself able to induce the anticipatory deactivation of the forearm flexors that was seen with a coordinated voluntary release of the load by the contralateral arm.
(16) The patients did not significantly differ from controls on catch-up saccade amplitude, square wave jerk rate, or anticipatory saccade rate.
(17) Results of multivariate analyses indicate that receipt of anticipatory guidance, access to care during evening hours and having a child in excellent reported health status were significantly associated with at least two of the three dimensions of maternal satisfaction.
(18) Anticipatory care among the general population, not only care of patients, would enhance the effectiveness of primary health care.
(19) Anticipatory finger vasoconstriction in response to the sight of a cigarette may represent a pavlovian conditioning occurring in heavy smokers only.
(20) The results showed clinics to be similar in many aspects, with consistent emphasis on developmental issues and anticipatory guidance.