(v. i.) To come or go near, in place or time; to draw nigh; to advance nearer.
(v. i.) To draw near, in a figurative sense; to make advances; to approximate; as, he approaches to the character of the ablest statesman.
(v. t.) To bring near; to cause to draw near; to advance.
(v. t.) To come near to in place, time, or character; to draw nearer to; as, to approach the city; to approach my cabin; he approached the age of manhood.
(v. t.) To take approaches to.
(v. i.) The act of drawing near; a coming or advancing near.
(v. i.) A access, or opportunity of drawing near.
(v. i.) Movements to gain favor; advances.
(v. i.) A way, passage, or avenue by which a place or buildings can be approached; an access.
(v. i.) The advanced works, trenches, or covered roads made by besiegers in their advances toward a fortress or military post.
(v. i.) See Approaching.
Example Sentences:
(1) A progressively more precise approach to identifying affected individuals involves measuring body weight and height, then energy intake (or expenditure) and finally the basal metabolic rate (BMR).
(2) In a climate in which medical staffs are being sued as a result of their decisions in peer review activities, hospitals' administrative and medical staffs are becoming more cautious in their approach to medical staff privileging.
(3) It involves creativity, understanding of art form and the ability to improvise in the highly complex environment of a care setting.” David Cameron has boosted dementia awareness but more needs to be done Read more She warns: “To effect a cultural change in dementia care requires a change of thinking … this approach is complex and intricate, and can change cultural attitudes by regarding the arts as central to everyday life of the care home.” Another participant, Mary*, a former teacher who had been bedridden for a year, read plays with the reminiscence arts practitioner.
(4) Other approaches to the diagnosis of pancreatic pseudocysts are reviewed.
(5) These authors, therefore, conclude that this modified surgical approach is a viable alternative to the previously described procedures for resistant metatarsus adductus.
(6) By drawing from the pathophysiology, this article discusses a multidimensional approach to the treatment of these difficult patients.
(7) In the second approach, attachment sites of DTPA groups were directed away from the active region of the molecule by having fragment E1,2 bound in complex, with its active sites protected during the derivatization.
(8) Community involvement is a key element of the Primary Health Care (PHC) approach, and thus an essential topic on a course for managers of Primary Health Care programmes.
(9) Thus, mechanical restitution of the ventricle is a dynamic process that can be assessed using an elastance-based approach in the in situ heart.
(10) This approach is suitable for the quantitative detection of proteins.
(11) Differentiation between these two types of lesions is of utmost importance since the surgical approach will be different.
(12) Our experience indicates that lateral rhinotomy is a safe, repeatable and cosmetically sound procedure that provides and excellent surgical approach to the nasal cavity and sinuses.
(13) Such an approach to investigations into subclinical mastitis is not feasible by means of either single- or double-parameter techniques.
(14) The clinical aspects, the modality of onset and diffusion of the lymphoma, its macroscopic and histopathological features and the different therapeutic approaches are discussed.
(15) Instead, the White House opted for a low-key approach, publishing a blogpost profiling Trinace Edwards, a brain-tumour victim who recently discovered she was eligible for Medicaid coverage.
(16) The in vivo approach consisted of interspecies grafting between quail and chick embryos.
(17) It is time to start over with an approach to promoting wellbeing in foreign countries that is empirical rather than ideological.
(18) The stepped approach is cost-effective and provides an objective basis for decisions and priority setting.
(19) The approach was to determine the relative importance of predisposing, enabling, and medical need factors in explaining utilization rates among younger and older enrollees of an HMO.
(20) These data, compared with literature findings, support the idea that intratumoral BCG instillation of bladder cancer permits a longer disease-free period than other therapeutical approaches.
Methodology
Definition:
(n.) The science of method or arrangement; a treatise on method.
Example Sentences:
(1) Epidemiological studies on low risks involve a number of major methodological difficulties.
(2) However, each of the studies had numerous methodological flaws which biased their results against finding a relationship: either their outcome measures had questionable validity, their research designs were inappropriate, or the statistical analyses were poorly conceived.
(3) The methodology, in algorithm form, should assist health planners in developing objectives and actions related to the occurrence of selected health status indicators and should be amenable to health care interventions.
(4) If, indeed, there is an immunologic basis for pre-eclampsia, it is more subtle than the methodology used in this study is capable of detecting.
(5) However, two methodologic factors might account for the covariation of these 'schizophrenia spectrum' personality traits and measures of brain function.
(6) The use of 100% oxygen to calculate intrapulmonary shunting in patients on PEEP is misleading in both physiological and methodological terms.
(7) The latter appears to reflect methodological problems since both fat-free determinations depend upon TBW rather than somatic proteins.
(8) Thus, this culture system should be helpful in establishing standard methodology for in vitro work with P. carinii.
(9) There was one (4%) maternal death, consistent with predicted mortality (TRISS methodology).
(10) Recently developed analytical methodology permits large numbers of human urine samples to be analyzed and a wide variation is observed.
(11) From the subcutaneous transplanted tumors a large number of MLuC1-positive tumor cells could easily be recovered, thus indicating the validity of the in vivo methodology.
(12) Further it is argued that there is a need to amalgamate the substantive, conceptual, and methodological facets of research.
(13) Current methodology for the in vitro determination of aortic and large artery stiffness is reviewed and involves three approaches: (1) the estimation of distensibility by pulse wave velocity measurement; (2) the estimation of distensibility from the fractional diameter change of a given arterial segment by imaging techniques (e.g., angiography, Doppler ultrasound) against pressure change; (3) the estimation of compliance by determining volume change against pressure change in the arterial system during diastolic runoff from the Windkessel model of the circulation.
(14) For the purpose of contributing methodologically to experimental research on epilepsy, we investigated whether a difference exists in kindling development between acute and chronic preparations using identical species of animals, kindled brain tissues, stimulus intervals, and intensities.
(15) 3. an up-to-date review of the principal methods and systems used to measure the sedimentation rate--Automation of the Westergren initial methodology.
(16) Such lack of attention to matters of scientific methodology does not bode well for the advancement of knowledge in this area.
(17) Methodological difficulties inherent in incidence and prevalence studies of native Canadians are examined.
(18) The methodology of microbiological evaluation of disinfectants in permanently being questioned because the laboratorial protocols do not correspond to the real conditions under which these products are used.
(19) A specific high-affinity site for [125I]angiotensin II was measured both by traditional methodology using whole cells and by autoradiography.
(20) For each ejaculate the ratio of X- and Y-bearing sperm was analysed before and after sephadex filtration using three different methodologies: sperm chromosome analysis after fusion of human sperm with hamster oocytes, deoxyribonucleic acid analysis using the Y-preferential probe pS4 and the fluorescent Y-body test.