(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.
Reserve
Definition:
(v. t.) To keep back; to retain; not to deliver, make over, or disclose.
(v. t.) Hence, to keep in store for future or special use; to withhold from present use for another purpose or time; to keep; to retain.
(v. t.) To make an exception of; to except.
(n.) The act of reserving, or keeping back; reservation.
(n.) That which is reserved, or kept back, as for future use.
(n.) That which is excepted; exception.
(n.) Restraint of freedom in words or actions; backwardness; caution in personal behavior.
(n.) A tract of land reserved, or set apart, for a particular purpose; as, the Connecticut Reserve in Ohio, originally set apart for the school fund of Connecticut; the Clergy Reserves in Canada, for the support of the clergy.
(n.) A body of troops in the rear of an army drawn up for battle, reserved to support the other lines as occasion may require; a force or body of troops kept for an exigency.
(n.) Funds kept on hand to meet liabilities.
Example Sentences:
(1) Surgical repair of the rheumatologic should however, is performed rarely, and should be reserved for the infrequent cases that do not respond to medical therapy.
(2) It is suggested that the normal cyclical release of LH is inhibited in PCO disease by a negative feedback by androgens to the hypothalamus or the pituitary, and that wedge resection should be reserved for patients in whom other forms of treatment have failed.
(3) The use of functional test with the ACTH administration demonstrated organic affection of the CNS to sharply aggravate the weakening and even the exhaustion of the functional reserves of the glomerular and the reticular zones of the adrenal cortex developing during thyrotoxicosis, and also the reserve possibilities of the sympathico-adrenal system.
(4) Then, the delta Fract (coronary flow reserve index) map was obtained for each subject.
(5) Administration of one of the precursors of noradrenaline l-DOPA not only prevented the decrease in tissue noradrenaline content in myocardium, but restored completely its reserves, exhausted by electrostimulation of the aortic arch.
(6) We conclude that, whereas an identical protocol of acute ND had no significant effects on diaphragm muscle structure and function in adult rats, adolescent animals exhibit significantly less nutritional reserve.
(7) Further analysis of these changes according to smoking history, age, preoperative weight, dissection of IMA, and aortic cross-clamp time showed that only IMA dissection affected the postextubation changes in peak expiratory flow rate (p less than 0.0001), whereas the decreases in functional residual capacity and expiratory reserve volume at discharge were affected by IMA dissection (p less than 0.05) and age (p = 0.01).
(8) A golden toad (Bufo periglenes) in Monteverde Cloud forest reserve in Puntarenas province of Costa Rica.
(9) Queen Alexandra's Royal Army Nursing Corps, Army Reserve.
(10) That, however, is reserved for the most serious cases and the indications are that a fine is the likely outcome.
(11) Overall, the differences in skeletal muscle energy state during rest and the corresponding changes in concentration of high-energy phosphates during mild exercise suggest a very limited energy reserve in the hypotonic muscle of VLBW infants.
(12) Parenteral cyclophosphamide or corticosteroid pulses should be reserved for cases with vasculitis or refractoriness to conventional drugs.
(13) Calcium supplementation should be reserved for patients with clear clinical signs of hypocalcemia and dialysate calcium should be adjusted to prevent excessive positive calcium balance.
(14) In June, a notorious elephant poacher led a gang of bandits in an attack on the Okapi wildlife reserve in DRC, killing seven people.
(15) Spiramycin, though not constantly effective, is reserved for immunosuppressed patients.
(16) It suggested that the decrease of pituitary reserve might probably be the pathogenesis of Kidney deficiency.
(17) A monoclonal antibody specific for columnar epithelium (RGE 53) gave a positive reaction in endocervical columnar cells and in some immature metaplastic cells but was negative in subcolumnar reserve cells, squamous (metaplastic) cells, dysplastic cells, and most cases of carcinoma in situ.
(18) But the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA), in a submission to a parliamentary inquiry into housing that was established by Hockey, backed the need to review negative gearing.
(19) Chronic ingestion of alcohol is associated with a diminished marrow granulocyte reserve and may lead to neutrocytopenia.
(20) The loss of coronary reserve was less than that previously observed after a 15-min occlusion, suggesting that the magnitude of the postischemic vascular abnormalities increases with the duration of the ischemic insult.