(n.) The act of applying or laying on, in a literal sense; as, the application of emollients to a diseased limb.
(n.) The thing applied.
(n.) The act of applying as a means; the employment of means to accomplish an end; specific use.
(n.) The act of directing or referring something to a particular case, to discover or illustrate agreement or disagreement, fitness, or correspondence; as, I make the remark, and leave you to make the application; the application of a theory.
(n.) Hence, in specific uses: (a) That part of a sermon or discourse in which the principles before laid down and illustrated are applied to practical uses; the "moral" of a fable. (b) The use of the principles of one science for the purpose of enlarging or perfecting another; as, the application of algebra to geometry.
(n.) The capacity of being practically applied or used; relevancy; as, a rule of general application.
(n.) The act of fixing the mind or closely applying one's self; assiduous effort; close attention; as, to injure the health by application to study.
(n.) The act of making request of soliciting; as, an application for an office; he made application to a court of chancery.
(n.) A request; a document containing a request; as, his application was placed on file.
Example Sentences:
(1) He added: "There is a rigorous review process of applications submitted by the executive branch, spearheaded initially by five judicial branch lawyers who are national security experts and then by the judges, to ensure that the court's authorizations comport with what the applicable statutes authorize."
(2) Application of 40 microM NiCl2 reversibly blocked It while leaving Is intact, whereas 20 microM CdCl2 reversibly blocked Is, but not It.
(3) This should not be a serious limitation to the application of the RIA in the detection of venous thrombosis.
(4) An effective graft-surveillance protocol needs to be applicable to all patients; practical in terms of time, effort, and cost; reliable; and able to detect, grade, and assess progression of lesions.
(5) An application is made to the validity of cancer risk items included in a cancer registry.
(6) In this paper, we show representative experiments illustrating some characteristics of the procedure which may have wide application in clinical microbiology.
(7) Furthermore, all of the sera from seven other patients with shock reactions following the topical application of chlorhexidine preparation also showed high RAST counts.
(8) Effects of OT injection and OT application were independent.
(9) After a discussion of the therapeutic relationship, several coping strategies which have been used successfully by many women are described and therapeutic applications are offered.
(10) While stereology is the principal technique, particularly in its application to the parenchyma, other compartments such as the airways and vasculature demand modifications or different methods altogether.
(11) The clinical usefulness of neonatal narcotic abstinence scales is reviewed, with special reference to their application in treatment.
(12) This paper has considered the effects and potential application of PFCs, their emulsions and emulsion components for regulating growth and metabolic functions of microbial, animal and plant cells in culture.
(13) Local application of 8-OH-DPAT (0-5 micrograms) into the median raphe nucleus, facilitated male rat sexual behavior, as evidenced by a decrease in number of intromissions preceding ejaculation and in time to ejaculation.
(14) It was established that nonsurgical methods of transplantation with laboratory animals were less time-consuming and were more readily applicable.
(15) High-dose oral and intrathecal applications of viatamin B12 are also possible in the individual case.
(16) Total body dose of 2,4-D was determined in 10 volunteers following exposure to sprayed turf 1 hour following application and in 10 volunteers exposed 24 hours following application.
(17) Some dental applications of the pressure measuring sheet, such as the measurement of biting pressure and balance during normal and unilateral biting, were examined.
(18) If black people could only sort out these self-inflicted problems themselves, everything would be OK. After all, doesn't every business say it welcomes job applicants from all backgrounds?
(19) Eddy current transducers measured relative displacements under application of static loads, serially applied in the axial, mediolateral, and craniocaudal directions.
(20) Many examples are given to demonstrate the applications of these programs, and special emphasis has been laid on the problem of treating a point in tissue with different doses per fraction on alternate treatment days.
Didactic
Definition:
(a.) Alt. of Didactical
(n.) A treatise on teaching or education.
Example Sentences:
(1) Some didactic implications concerning the significance of the chance set-up and reliance on analogies are discussed.
(2) Although 100 per cent claim that gastrointestinal endoscopy is provided by their program, only 76 per cent have formal endoscopy training, usually centered around the PGY 3 level, with only 23 per cent having didactic lectures in endoscopy.
(3) Graduate courses of medical pedagogy and special didactics at S. Paulo University Medical School are analysed.
(4) The first three months of the program are devoted to didactic training and the remaining six months to acquiring practical experience.
(5) If the steady flow of books which began with Economic Problems Of The Church (1955) can, to some extent, be seen as a succession of more scholarly explorations of the themes sketched out in the early didactic essays, they also reflect the extraordinary sweep of Hill's interests and mind.
(6) The use of the workshop as a didactical method in the presentation of clinical practica to community health nursing students at the distance teaching University of South Africa is described.
(7) Group 1 was given general objectives and information regarding availability of recommended resources, including self-learning materials for the elective, didactic seminars, and viewbox exposure.
(8) Interestingly, this study found that the students' self-assessed changes between post-didactic training and post-clinical training were significant in only one area--their ability to manage the medical emergencies of elderly patients, including a patient's death in the dental chair.
(9) The quality of the training to a great extent depends on the didactic skill, willingness to teach and a not inconsiderable expense of time for the chief physician, the assistant chief physician and the physician in charge of the wards during visits and when working in the ward.
(10) Many general surgeons have incorporated laparoscopic cholecystectomy into their clinical practices, usually after completing a postgraduate didactic and laboratory animal training course.
(11) The didactic value is underlined by color photographs taken of diseased skin and nails with the dermatoscope at various magnifications.
(12) This, also, is a didactic music workshop with a difference - part of an umbrella programme called Discovery, established 20 years ago by the LSO as the orchestra's outreach wing, with a mission not unlike that of Venezuela's Sistema, but streamlined over two decades for application to home ground.
(13) The 30-day hospital training program described includes both didactic material and on-the-job experience.
(14) Many programs (40%) have less than ten hours of didactic training in pediatrics and 41% offer ten hours or less of clinical experience.
(15) Training consisted of didactic presentations on the pathophysiology of alcohol withdrawal syndrome and information on use of the Clinical Institute Withdrawal Assessment for Alcohol (CIWA-A).
(16) This set of objectives may be used to guide a one-month radiology rotation or serve as part of a teaching program integrated with didactic training and emergency department experience.
(17) Didactic purposes and proof of plausibility may require more data than just the final results.
(18) Didactic teaching methods were exchanged for a more creative approach without alteration of the course structure.
(19) To introduce the residents to the principles of surgical techniques in a simulated environment outside the operating room, the program consisted of a combination of two didactic sessions and six "wet labs" taking 3 to 4 hours per week for 8 weeks between January and March each year.
(20) The sessions vary in structure from didactic lecture to group work.