(a.) Capable of being attained or reached by efforts of the mind or body; capable of being compassed or accomplished by efforts directed to the object.
(a.) Obtainable.
Example Sentences:
(1) The goals in control patients were to attain normal values for all hemodynamic measurements.
(2) In the group of high myopia (over 20 D), the mean correction was 13.4 D. In the group with refraction between 0 and 6 D, 88% of the eyes treated had attained a correction between -1 and +1 D 3 months postoperatively.
(3) Seven patients were treated with combination chemotherapy, consisting of CHOP (cyclophosphamide, doxorubicin, vincristine, prednisone) or MOPP (chloromethine, vincristine, procarbazine, prednisone), in some cases followed by non-cross-resistant second line chemotherapy, if no complete response was attained.
(4) Radioactivity attained in different tissues at different times after a single intraperitoneal injection of 3H-gentamicin into male rats was determined using scintillation counting.
(5) When cultures were pulse labeled for 15 min and then incubated under chase conditions for 105 min, the amount of degraded collagen attained a value equal to approximately 20% of the amount synthesized during the labeling period; the data were fit with a simple exponential function that had a 40-min rise time and a 12-min lag time.
(6) The amount of 15N incorporated into the proteins in 1 litre plasma attained up to 3% of the given dose.
(7) In males, the percentage of animals having mucous cells increased with sexual maturation and attained 100 per cent at age six months.
(8) The mechanism by which such high levels were attained was primrily a combination of arterial hypoxia and a high carbon monoxide yield from tobacco.
(9) However, when it has attained a length of about half the cell body diameter, it becomes SUP GLU+ and 6-11B-1+.
(10) One patient attained a complete response, two a partial response, and two showed progressive disease.
(11) Dose adjustment using 24-hour levels was well tolerated and should help to attain a more rapid response to antidepressant treatment.
(12) In contrast, T lymphocyte cytolytic activity developed more slowly in regressing sarcomas and attained peak levels coincident with the beginning of tumor regression.
(13) Experimental photogenic epilepsy attained by creating GPIE in the EGB with the aid of TT, is proposed as a model for studying the mechanism of epileptogenesis and testing the efficacy of anticonvulsive drugs.
(14) The surgical approach used for each type of complication is discussed, underlining the end-result to be attained in relation to the patient's future.
(15) In particular, poorly differentiated carcinomas at this site should be treated as germ cell tumors, and so long-term survival will be attainable.
(16) ODC attained maximum activity in controls on day 11, increasing by more than an order of magnitude above the activity found on day 9.
(17) As many as 25 turnovers of the transport cycle per monomer can occur prior to attainment of steady state.
(18) Nearly 30% of students scored A or A*, whereas across the UK only 26% attained these grades.
(19) During well-coordinated neurological and psychiatric treatment the laughing seizures (spontaneous, event-related, psychogenic) decreased and a considerable improvement in psychiatric and psychosocial problems was attained.
(20) An arrest of a depressive syndrome in manic-depressive psychosis in old age can be attained by an introduction of 150-200 mg of azafen daily.
Feasible
Definition:
(a.) Capable of being done, executed, or effected; practicable.
(a.) Fit to be used or tailed, as land.
Example Sentences:
(1) Results in May 89 emphasizes: the relevance and urgency of the prevention of AIDS in secondary schools; the importance of the institutional aspect for the continuity of the project; the involvement of the pupils and the trainers for the processus; the feasibility of an intervention using only local resources.
(2) Such an approach to investigations into subclinical mastitis is not feasible by means of either single- or double-parameter techniques.
(3) Current status of prognosis in clinical, experimental and prophylactic medicine is delineated with formulation of the purposes and feasibility of therapeutic and preventive realization of the disease onset and run prediction.
(4) A previous trial into the safety and feasibility of using bone marrow stem cells to treat MS, led by Neil Scolding, a clinical neuroscientist at Bristol University, was deemed a success last year.
(5) Both demonstrated concurrent validity and feasibility.
(6) We studied the feasibility of using RNA and DNA from autopsies for Northern and Southern blot analysis.
(7) Interexaminer reliability studies indicate that a standard method of motion palpation is quite feasible and accurate.
(8) The feasibility of estimating these parameters, demonstrated by the present study, suggests that a recursive least squares estimation procedure could be used to recover the time variation of each parameter during exercise stress testing of subjects with normal or nearly normal gas exchange.
(9) In blood, ablation of porcine aorta was feasible at a distance of 3 mm.
(10) Therefore, it is feasible that there is a good correlation with alteration of insulin sensitivity and insulin binding.
(11) It appears that irrespective of the elucidation of the nature of the putative aetiological factor (presumed to be viral) in MS, the arrest and reversal of T cell-related events within the CNS in this devastating condition represent feasible goals and should remain a major target for some time to come.
(12) The signals after lyophilization reflect biochemical differences between tumour and muscle; spectroscopic data indicate that it is feasible to determine the molecular basis of these differences.
(13) If, as in most cases, the feasibility of various methods (exposure to chemical products, monoclonal antibodies and complement-dependent cytolysis, immuno-magnetic procedures) has been confirmed, no study to date has shown the efficacy.
(14) The direct measurement of adiposity, using hydrostatic weighing and other techniques, is not feasible in studies involving young children or with large numbers of older subjects.
(15) The feasibility of using fluorescent ISH for sexing biopsied embryos in couples at risk of X-linked disease and for the preimplantation diagnosis of chromosome abnormalities is discussed.
(16) The DRG principle, however, is feasible and has important management benefits; it is recommended that locally determined DRG weightings be developed, and that other hospitals explore their use in peer review of resource management, costing and pricing.
(17) The feasibility of early discharge on the day following surgery was studied in a prospective manner in 29 consecutive breast cancer patients; 27 underwent unilateral modified radical mastectomy and 2 bilateral mastectomies by a single surgeon.
(18) Because of the relatively high levels of endogenous TH in tadpoles during climax, the use of an in vivo saturation assay employing [125I]T3 was not feasible.
(19) The identification of high-risk patient subgroups is possible, and it is feasible to link this data base with clinical and biochemical data.
(20) Significantly, their derivation demonstrates the feasibility of immortalizing differentiated neurons by targeting tumorigenesis in transgenic mice to specific neurons of the CNS.