(n.) Measurement of life; calculation of the probable duration of human life.
Example Sentences:
(1) Some of them may be obtained from complex macro- and microscopical investigations with the use of biometry and mathematical statistics.
(2) Biometry of different ganglial structures was performed by G.G.
(3) 8 dystrophic neonates with a biometry that revealed IUGR were compromised by perinatal asphyxia.
(4) In this framework it is the responsibility of biometry to both to guarantee the use of a valid study design to assure interpretation of the results and to quantify the reliability of pharmacological and clinical considerations.
(5) Growth and remodelling of the first cervical vertebra were studied in the rat by means of biometry, vital staining (alizarin red S and oxytetracycline), and histology.
(6) It was shown that the surveying echography, biometry and acoustic orbitonometry facilitate the task of differential diagnosis, allow the localization and size of the tumor to be detected and help to control the results of the treatment.
(7) The changes of the intraocular distances provoked by oculopression (10 min, 40 mm HG) were explored by ultrasonic biometry.
(8) Preoperative ultrasonic biometry is indispensible in cataract surgery in order to calculate the power of the intraocular lens to be implanted.
(9) The variation in results due to inaccurate biometry are statistically assessed.
(10) For biometry an Ocuscan DBR 400-ST unit is used; the corneal refraction (r0) is measured with an automatic keratometer (Humphrey).
(11) The possibilities of ultrasound biometry for determining gestational age were presented.
(12) If fetal biometry rather than last menstrual period were used to determine gestational age, four of the 19 (21.0%) cerebellar measurements were greater than 2 SD below the mean.
(13) Renal biometry of the fetus was carried out on 1200 women when exogenous difference between renal and surrounding tissue became distinct.
(14) To define more precisely both the clinical and sonographic parameters associated with IUGR, we studied the following variables: routine fetal biometry (biparietal diameter, head circumference, abdominal circumference, and femur length), fetal weight percentile, amniotic fluid volume, and an antenatal scoring system for IUGR.
(15) If retinoscopy is impossible due to pin-point pupils, ultrasonic biometry to determine the axial length is recommended.
(16) Examination included standard biometry, blood pressure measurement, 12-lead (centrally Minnesota coded) electrocardiography, and central laboratory measurement of serum cholesterol and creatine.
(17) Using dissection, biometry, and two three-dimensional mechanical models, the postnatal changes of the rabbit masticatory muscles were studied by analyzing their three-dimensional orientation, their strength and fiber lengths, and certain functional consequences of these changes.
(18) Details of tissue and biometry are largely enhanced.
(19) Several unexpectedly high refractive errors occurred in the group of patients who did not have biometry.
(20) Sonographic biometry and the knowledge about the uncomplicated postoperative course render postsurgical monitoring easier and more reliable.
Biostatistics
Definition:
(n.) Vital statistics.
Example Sentences:
(1) We conclude that a journal club is a powerful motivator of critical house-staff reading behavior and can help teach epidemiology and biostatistics to physicians-in-training.
(2) The USDA license requirements for present and future veterinary biologics remain essentially unchanged for acceptable rationale and biostatistically significant data establishing consistency of satisfactory production, purity, safety, efficacy and potency.
(3) Indeed, after carefully examining of the microbiological content of these lipsticks, their biostatistical efficiency was also determined.
(4) Since the dependent variable was time to greyout (failure), two contemporary biostatistical modeling procedures (proportional hazard and logistic discriminant function) were used to estimate risk, given a particular subject's profile.
(5) The people under study were the 490 students registered in the first year of Medicine and doing the Biostatistics course.
(6) Through a mailed survey, 588 leaders in CHN service and education identified the following as the most important to include in the core CHN curriculum: a practicum experience; epidemiology; community health assessment and diagnosis; administration and management, including public health administration, management theory, program planning and evaluation, financial management and budgeting, and quality assurance; research methods and biostatistics; health promotion and disease prevention; intervention at the aggregate level; and leadership theory.
(7) The iron balls technique was shown to be the method of choice with regard to biostatistical consistency.
(8) A Biostatistical Monitoring Committee was established to review periodically the procedures and performance of the data coordinating center of the National Cooperative Gallstone Study.
(9) To evaluate blood group (and HL-A) findings biostatistically, one uses the BAYES' Theorem with ESSEN-MOLLER's frequencies X and Y (in two-hypothesis cases).
(10) A possible accidental exchange of the child could be excluded by biostatistical calculations of the probabilities of motherhood, fatherhood and parenthood, and the descent from the parents was proven in both generations.
(11) The alleged father could not be excluded from the paternity in 25 additional blood group marker systems (biostatistical probability of paternity W greater than 99.75%).
(12) From biostatistical evaluation of 21 genetic markers, including HLA phenotypes, a high value of probability for paternity, maternity and parentage was found between the child, the child's mother, the accused man and his mother.
(13) Nightingale proposed widespread changes in the reporting of military health status and biostatistics, in sanitary engineering, and in self-care activities.
(14) "Ultimately, it would be very exciting to develop therapy interventions to reset the clock and hopefully keep us young," said Steve Horvath , professor of genetics and biostatistics at the University of California in Los Angeles.
(15) In the biostatistical evaluation of the results of examinations of blood-groups the role of the ADA system seems to be important.
(16) Medical students and doctors need training in biostatistics.
(17) We performed a prospective controlled trial of a monthly journal club to determine if it would increase pediatric residents' knowledge of clinical epidemiology and biostatistics.
(18) Modern imaging techniques, methodology, and biostatistics have identified risk factors and refined clinical trials such that we question all previous studies of stroke management.
(19) In criminal cases a DNA-profile derived from four single-locus probes always leads to a very high value of discrimination and in paternity testing the probability of paternity always exceeds 99.9% regardless to the reference population used for biostatistical evaluation.
(20) The methodological survey below reviews the present state of this development and is intended to promote further research into biostatistical issues and methods of analysis.