(v. t.) The act of attending; state of being in waiting; service; ministry; the fact of being present; presence.
(v. t.) Waiting for; expectation.
(v. t.) The persons attending; a retinue; attendants.
Example Sentences:
(1) A study of factors influencing genetic counseling attendance rate has been conducted in the Bouches-du-Rhône area, in the south of France.
(2) Twelve patients with South American mococutaneous leishmaniasis who attended the Hospital Amazonico in Peru between February and September 1974 were treated with amphotericin B.
(3) Inadequate treatment, caused by a lack of drugs and poorly trained medical attendants, is also a major problem.
(4) Proving that not all teens are content with being part of a purely digital community, Adele Mayr attended a YouTube meet-up in London’s Hyde Park.
(5) Asthma is probably the commonest chronic disease in the United Kingdom, and its attendant morbidity extends outside the possible scope of the hospital sector.
(6) Of the 16 cases, 14 (88%) were diagnosed as TSS or probable TSS by the attending physician, although only nine (64%) of the 14 diagnosed cases were given the correct discharge code.
(7) After an introductory training program, the students asked the patients arriving at the hospital out-patient clinic for permission to observe them throughout the attendance given.
(8) Aryl hydrocarbon hydroxylase (AHH) inducibility, carbon monoxide in expired air (CO), serum gammaglutamyl-transferase (GGT), and total cholesterol were compared in equal-sized, age-matched samples of healthy middle-aged males born in 1921, 1934-1936, and 1946 attending the ongoing preventive medical population program in Malmö.
(9) Data from 579 medical students from the classes of 1979-80 through 1983-84 attending a midwestern medical college were analyzed via moderated multiple regression.
(10) The first source attended was a private practitioner for 53 % of the patients, another private medical establishment for 4 %, a Government chest clinic for only 11 % and another Government medical establishment for 17 %, 9 % went first to a herbalist and 5 % went to a drug store or treated themselves.
(11) After permeabilization, with attendant partial extraction, the preparation can be fixed, then viewed by either deep-etch replication, or by high-resolution scanning electron microscopy, with structure of interest revealed in deep view.
(12) The level of infection by Chlamydia trachomatis in patients attending different units of urogenital diseases was evaluated.
(13) Information from nurses differs from that provided by attending physicians.
(14) Officers arrested her last month during the protest against oil drilling by the energy firm Cuadrilla at Balcombe in West Sussex – a demonstration Lucas has attended several times.
(15) Simon Cross, 46, his partner Lizzy Gilliland, 42, and their son Gabriel, two, from Nottingham, expressed the views of many attending.
(16) But in a setback to the UK, Somaliland, which broke away from Somalia in 1991, refused British entreaties to attend on the grounds that it would not have been treated as equal to the Somali government.
(17) Finally, the contribution of regular dental attendance to periodontal health is discussed.
(18) It showed that the proportion of patients attending with recurrent herpes had increased from 18% in 1972 to 31% in 1982.
(19) Positive results were rather less common in black patients born in the tropics attending a genitourinary medicine in London and were similar to findings in blood donors in the West Indies.
(20) Why would you want to boost him?” The president is accused of trying to distract from domestic problems – corruption scandals and an exposé showing he plagiarised parts of his law-school thesis – by attending to Trump.
Timekeeper
Definition:
(n.) A clock, watch, or other chronometer; a timepiece.
(n.) A person who keeps, marks, regulates, or determines the time.
(n.) A person who keeps a record of the time spent by workmen at their work.
(n.) One who gives the time for the departure of conveyances.
(n.) One who marks the time in musical performances.
(n.) One appointed to mark and declare the time of participants in races or other contests.
Example Sentences:
(1) This report has focused on the actions of melatonin and how it serves as a timekeeping hormone in the seasonal reproductive process of the ewe.
(2) The period variances of the right and left systems in the 162 instances of absolute coordination were analysed according to a method that assumes that a timekeeper function and a motor implementation function contribute independently to the variance in the periodic timing of a rhythmic movement.
(3) The jobcentre supervisor told the man that his poor timekeeping had become an issue and put him at risk of being "sanctioned".
(4) These results indicate that separate mechanisms are involved in transducing temporal cues from LD and EF cycles in the circadian timekeeping system of these nonhuman primates.
(5) In addition, these rhythms are either interdependent or subject to the same maternal timekeeping mechanism, supporting the hypothesis that the exact time of the day at which birth occurs in the rhesus monkey depends on the maternal circadian system.
(6) These age-related changes are similar to those that characterize photically entrained circadian rhythms and suggest that both components of the rat's multioscillatory circadian timekeeping system deteriorate in parallel over the life span.
(7) Pharmacological manipulations with or without the addition of lighting strategies have been used to analyze the neurochemistry of circadian timekeeping.
(8) Since Fos expression within the SCN oscillates in the absence of photoperiodic time cues and since the peak of this oscillation coincides with the circadian times when light modulates the periodicity of the SCN pacemaker, these data provide further evidence that expression of the c-fos gene may be a molecular signal in the circadian timekeeping mechanism in the SCN and its regulation by photic stimuli.
(9) Musical compositions too apparently evolved originally as a timekeeping device.
(10) It is suggested that cell-cycle timing, by counting subcycles in growing cells, may become dominated by circadian control in slowly growing natural populations and that the same subcycles may be used for circadian timekeeping.
(11) We haven’t got an outstanding candidate for captain and that is a worrying sign.” Asked about Wayne Rooney , who is vying with Robin van Persie to be named United captain by the new manager Louis van Gaal, Robson, speaking at an event in Los Angeles hosted by Bulova (Manchester United’s official timekeeper), said: “You look at it and it is a difficult one.
(12) These results suggest a timekeeping role for social cues for timing onset of the breeding season in an animal that normally relies on photoperiodic signals for temporal regulation of the seasonal reproductive cycle.
(13) This striking uniformity indicates good timekeeping.
(14) The experimental approach presented in this paper is useful because it allows systematic assessment and distinction of the input, pacemaker, and output components of a mammalian circadian timekeeping system in vivo.
(15) The precision of timekeeping is measured by the extent to which embryos, within an initially synchronous population, come to diverge in the course of their development.
(16) The lower the variation the better the timekeeping.
(17) Separable estimates of a central timekeeper component and an implementation component were derived from the total variability scores following a model developed by Wing and Kristofferson (1973).
(18) This has enabled the formulation of strategies for treatment of patients with manic depressive illness and certain sleep disorders in which disorders of circadian timekeeping may be fundamental.
(19) Eventually, Charles Moore, then the paper's editor, lost patience with Johnson's timekeeping and didn't print his column.
(20) The second type of timekeeping involves time-to-flowering.