(a.) Of or pertaining to Australasia; as, Australasian regions.
(n.) A native or an inhabitant of Australasia.
Example Sentences:
(1) This paper relating to future educational standards and requirements discusses briefly the development and formation of the Section of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery within the Royal Australasian College of Dental Surgeons and looks at the present situation and hopefully into the future.
(2) We examined the correspondence between spoken and signed English when used simultaneously by teachers in Australia to determine whether the difficulties reported with other systematic sign systems are also relevant for the Australasian version.
(3) The Royal Australasian College of Physicians (RACP) says that the tight timeframe means it is unlikely that asylum seekers arriving by boat will receive adequate medical assessment, meaning they could face "significant health issues" once transferred.
(4) The guidelines for accreditation of training programmes and positions in Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery are now established within the Royal Australasian College of Dental Surgeons.
(5) The major sources of error between laboratories performing estrogen receptor measurements in tissue samples were identified for 17 participating laboratories in a trial conducted by the Australasian Quality Assurance programme.
(6) Questionnaires were sent by the Australasian College of Dermatologists to all 204 practising Fellows in Australia.
(7) The Royal Australasian College of Surgeons is however, now to introduce a system of re-certification which will involve a demonstration of continuing education, the maintenance of an audit and a periodic physical examination.
(8) Australasian host species are also all lizards: 6 agamids, 9 skinks, 2 lacertids, one (or two?)
(9) A seroepidemiological study of 16 842 human sera, collected in 1981 and 1982 from all health regions of New South Wales, was carried out using the haemagglutination-inhibition (HI) test and eight Australasian flaviviruses: Murray Valley encephalitis (MVE); Kunjin (KUN); Alfuy (ALF); Stratford (STR); Kokobera (KOK); Edge Hill (EH); Sepik (SEP); and Saumarez Reef (SRE).
(10) Attempts to infect species that are restricted in range to the Australasian region have been unsuccessful.
(11) Interestingly, the same allele was reported earlier in another Australasian tribe--the Korkus of central India.
(12) He met his Beijing-born wife in those classes and they moved to Perth to take up the job at Australasian Resources.
(13) This is despite “warnings from key medical bodies such as the Royal Australasian College of Physicians regarding the likely consequences of prolonged detention in this vulnerable group”.
(14) A survey was conducted to find what type of general practice teaching is offered to Australasian undergraduates.
(15) The Continuing Education Unit of the Royal Australasian College of Physicians played a facilitatory role in this development, especially in the first five to six years.
(16) A questionnaire has been completed by 16 practising Radiation Oncologists from 10 centres in Australia and New Zealand which confirms that considerable variation in dose normalisation and specification practices exists between Australasian centres.
(17) An Australasian sera study has identified two subsets of DQw3, the DQ allele in linkage disequilibrium with DR4, one of which (DQw3S) is present in 95.2% of diabetic DR4 compared with 58.1% of normal DR4 individuals (p less than 0.0005).
(18) The dermatoglyphic distributions of New Guinea as a whole are discussed in terms of those of the other Australian populations with comments on the dermatoglyphic comparisons between the Australasians and the other major human groups, Amerindians, Orientals, Asian Indian, Caucasians and Negroes.
(19) The Final Examination for Fellowship of the Faculty of Anaesthetists, Royal Australasian College of Surgeons has been functioning since 1956.
(20) Chris Turney, head of the Australasian Antarctic Expedition, says in an article in the Observer that despite the rescue of those on board the Akademik Shikolskiy , the expedition's research ship that has been trapped in ice since Christmas Eve, there was a "growing sense of frustration over what appears to be a misrepresentation of the expedition in some news outlets and on the internet".
Surrounding
Definition:
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Surround
(a.) Inclosing; encircling.
(n.) An encompassing.
(n.) The things which surround or environ; external or attending circumstances or conditions.
Example Sentences:
(1) Such was the mystique surrounding Rumsfeld's standing that an aide sought to clarify that he didn't stand all the time, like a horse.
(2) The lesion (10.6 X 9.8 mm) was a well-defined ellipsoid granuloma due to a foreign body with a central zone of necrosis surrounded entirely by a fibrous wall.
(3) It was hypothesized that compensatory restraining influences of surrounding soft tissues prevented a more severe facial malformation from occurring.
(4) Their receptive fields comprise a temporally and spatially linear mechanism (center plus antagonistic surround) that responds to relatively low spatial frequency stimuli, and a temporally nonlinear mechanism, coextensive with the linear mechanism, that--though broad in extent--responds best to high spatial-frequency stimuli.
(5) "I was eight in 1983, but I remember a plane that flew low over our Bulawayo suburb and army loud-hailers screaming: 'You are surrounded.'
(6) The usefulness of the proposed method is obvious in cases where the composition of a precipitate on LM scale is to be compared with the LM appearance of the surrounding tissue.
(7) Degraded visual acuity had a significant effect on cadence, foot placement, and foot clearance, but visual surround conditions did not.
(8) Computed tomography does not allow differentiation between these lesions and surrounding normal tissues.
(9) The efficacy of the process is dependent on immersion medium, while the degree of surrounding tissue damage is dependent on energy dose.
(10) In cat, DARPP-32-immunoreactive cell bodies identified as Müller cells were demonstrated in the inner nuclear layer (INL) with processes closely surrounding the cell soma of photoreceptors in the outer nuclear layer.
(11) In the univariate life-table analysis, recurrence-free survival was significantly related to age, pTNM category, tumour size, presence of certain growth patterns, tumour necrosis, tumour infiltration in surrounding thyroid tissue and thyroid gland capsule, lymph node metastases, presence of extra-nodal tumour growth and number of positive lymph nodes, whereas only tumour diameter, thyroid gland capsular infiltration and presence of extra-nodal tumour growth remained as significant prognostic factors in the multivariate analysis.
(12) Surrounding intact ipsilateral structures are more important for the recovery of some of the language functions, such as motor output and phonemic assembly, than homologous contralateral structures.
(13) The dual-probe system incorporates a central collimated probe for monitoring activity in the LV surrounded by an annular detector collimated in such a manner as to provide simultaneous real-time monitoring of the LV background activity.
(14) This technique is sensitive to the optical anisotropy within the muscle, including that due to intrinsic properties of the protein molecules as well as that due to the regular arrangement of proteins in the surrounding medium.
(15) Surrounding parenchyma may be partially compressed.
(16) The stage of a given malignancy, representing the degree of spread of the tumor to its local surroundings or distant sites, is the best predictor of long-term survival.
(17) At this stage of the observation period the labeling index was very low in surrounding liver, but still high in the gamma-glutamyltranspeptidase-positive areas.
(18) The third effect was a shift in center-surround balance towards a more dominant center.
(19) Although sound pressure levels are high, they are probably reduced before reaching the cochlea of the fetus because of the surrounding amniotic fluid and the fluid in the middle ear.
(20) Glial siphoning can distribute the potassium preferentially toward the blood vessels in the area, leading to an elevation in potassium concentration in the ECF surrounding the vascular smooth muscle of the arterioles.