(n.) The act of doing that which begins anything; commencement of an action, state, or space of time; entrance into being or upon a course; the first act, effort, or state of a succession of acts or states.
(n.) That which begins or originates something; the first cause; origin; source.
(n.) That which is begun; a rudiment or element.
(n.) Enterprise.
Example Sentences:
(1) The findings indicate that there is still a significant incongruence between the value structure of most family practice units and that of their institutions but that many family practice units are beginning to achieve parity of promotion and tenure with other departments in their institutions.
(2) Typological and archaeological investigations indicate that the church building represents originally the hospital facility for the lay brothers of the monastery, which according to the chronicle of the monastery was built in the beginning of the 14th century.
(3) Anthropometric and nutritional (serum albumin and transferrin) values were normal in both groups both at the beginning and at the end of the treatment period.
(4) In both experiments, Gallus males were placed on a commercial feed restriction program in which measured amounts of feed are delivered on alternate days beginning at 4 weeks of age.
(5) Wilder Penfield's development of surgical methods for treating focal cerebral seizures, beginning with his early work in Montreal in 1928, is reviewed.
(6) A man named Moreno Facebook Twitter Pinterest Italy's players give chase to an inscrutable Byron Moreno, whose relationship with the country was only just beginning.
(7) Right from the beginning, I had been mad about movies.
(8) US presidential election 2016: the state of the Republican race as the year begins Read more So far, the former secretary of state seems to be recovering well from self-inflicted wounds that dogged the start of her second, and most concerted, attempt for the White House.
(9) Patients were examined before and 12 days after the beginning of lithium treatment.
(10) The results indicate that the legislated increase in the age of eligibility for full Social Security benefits beginning in the 21st century will have relatively small effects on the ages of retirement and benefit acceptance.
(11) Beginning with its foundation by Charles Godon in 1900 he describes the growth of the Federation as an organization of the dental profession which continued despite the interruption of two world wars.
(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) The present study observed that a 40-dB hearing loss, beginning at 17 days postpartum, requires 2 days before it induces susceptibility to audiogenic seizures.
(14) Lawmakers across the globe are beginning to recognize the need to deter this destructive conduct.
(15) He strongly welcomes the rise of the NGO movement, which combines with media coverage to produce the beginning of some "countervailing power" to the larger corporations and the traditional policies of first world governments.
(16) These results indicate that AZT treatment does not completely prevent FeLV infection, even when treatment begins before virus challenge, and that immune sensitization to FeLV proceeds during the prophylactic drug treatment period.
(17) The patients age at the beginning of immunosuppressive treatment ranged from 10 to 22 years.
(18) 5.13pm BST "As I remember September 11, 2012, it was a routine day at our embassy," Hicks begins.
(19) Moreover, complete absence of rhythm disturbances right up to the beginning of cardiac arrest was as frequent in the patient groups as in the control series (around 20%).
(20) Thus, we could not detect an embryotoxic effect of 1 h of maternal insulin-induced hypoglycemia beginning at day 10.6 of development.
Incipient
Definition:
(a.) Beginning to be, or to show itself; commencing; initial; as, the incipient stage of a fever; incipient light of day.
Example Sentences:
(1) IgG1 and IgG4 have a similar molecular weight but a different pH (about 9 and 4.6 respectively); a change in their ratio in the urine of diabetic patients may indicate a progressive deterioration of kidney function at the stage of incipient diabetic nephropathy.
(2) By this method, one can screen for potential stroke in its incipient stages.
(3) Phenol chemical lumbar sympathectomy is an additional aid in the management of ischaemic rest pain and incipient gangrene.
(4) Thus, the estimation of the STI proved helpful and reliable in the early detection of incipient heart failure and in the selection of high risk patients in children receiving ADR treatment.
(5) IDDM patients with incipient and overt nephropathy have been found to exhibit an overactivity of RBC sodium-lithium countertransport.
(6) At the present time, the following parameters can be recommended for "early diagnosis" of phosgene overexposure: Phosgene indicator paper badges, to be worn by all persons involved in handling phosgene (these badges permit immediate estimation of the exposure dose in each individual case); Observation of the initial irritative symptoms of the eye and the upper respiratory tract after phosgene inhalation can provide a rough indication of the inhalation concentration and dose; X-ray photographs of the lungs make it possible to detect incipient toxic pulmonary edema at an early stage, during the clinical latent period.
(7) These included one 65-year-old with incipient ARDS at operation, and a 40-year-old with preoperative liver and kidney insufficiency who was transplanted in septicemia.
(8) In six of the ten patients, the presenting complaints were ascribable to incipient gangrene of the toes and several of these patients additionally developed occlusion of tibial and larger arteries while under our observation.
(9) The surface features of incipient caries lesions around bonded orthodontic brackets were assessed longitudinally.
(10) The echocardiograms suggested an incipient dilated myocardiopathy and also atrial septal aneurysm.
(11) However, these specimens have also shown incipient cracks in the acrylic cement that emanate from and connect defects in the cement mantle and at the metal-cement interface.
(12) administration of N-ethyl-N'-nitro-N-nitrosoguanidine (ENNG), and the morphology and modes of cell proliferation in an incipient stage of cancer growth were studied with bromodeoxyuridine (BrdUrd) incorporation.
(13) This distribution of newly synthesized acid mucopolysaccharide at the sites of incipient cleft formation suggests that surface-associated acid mucopolysaccharide is involved in the morphogenetic process.
(14) This deficiency coincided with early clinical signs of sepsis, the severity of which was not clinically apparent prior to overwhelming sepsis and incipient shock.
(15) The pharmacological study of dopamine was conducted on 14 patients: eleven normal patients and three with incipient myocardiopathies.
(16) Already at the stage of incipient nephropathy (microalbuminuria) a moderate but gradually increasing rise in blood pressure is noticeable.
(18) Incipient mental illness and emotional disturbance appear to have contributed substantially to academic failure, poor performance during and after medical school, and premature death.
(19) The pathology study of the last of the 6 ewes followed up for 2 years showed a bridge between both sites of incipient regeneration, indicating bone healing.
(20) On average 1.9 surfaces had frank cavities or recurrent lesions and 13 surfaces had incipient lesions.