(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.
Statistical
Definition:
(a.) Of or pertaining to statistics; as, statistical knowledge, statistical tabulation.
Example Sentences:
(1) The statistical T value calculated for the LP-TAE group showed that the administration of LP, the tumor size, intrahepatic metastasis, portal vein infiltration, and serum total bilirubin and alpha-fetoprotein levels significantly (P < 0.01) affected the patients' survival.
(2) No statistically significant difference was found between sodium hyaluronate and hydroxypropylmethylcellulose (HPMC).
(3) However, there was no statistically significant difference in mean areas under the LH and FSH curves in the GnRH-treated groups.
(4) Statistically significant differences were found mainly in the randomized trial, where during the first and second years, respectively, adenoidectomy subjects had 47% and 37% less time with otitis media than control subjects and 28% and 35% fewer suppurative (acute) episodes than control subjects.
(5) Altogether 47 variables were investigated, and of these 34 gave results which were statistically significant.
(6) Regression curves indicate that although all three types of pulmonary edema can be characterized by slightly different slopes, the differences are statistically insignificant.
(7) The level of significance of the statistical estimate of the change in the number of phonoreactive units (its increase due to deprivation) amounts to 92%.
(8) Statistically significant increases of triglycerides occurred under the combined preparations, of phospholipids under Ovosiston and Deposiston and of the beta-lipoproteins under Ovosiston and Gravistat.
(9) Moreover, the data showed for the first time that DNA synthesis in the bone marrow and spleen and colon were markedly statistically significantly stimulated at specific times after treatment.
(10) = 19) with a very low, but statistically significant, correlation with the AUC, r = 0.35 (p less than 0.05), thus demonstrating a very great individual variation in sensitivity to cimetidine.
(11) There were no statistically significant increases in ABR thresholds for irradiated ears vs. control ears.
(12) Differences between N1 and N2 disease were not statistically significant.
(13) Charge data from the target hospital showed a statistically significant reduction in laboratory charges per patient in the quarter following program initiation (P = 0.02) and no evidence for change in a group of five comparison hospitals.
(14) However, each of the studies had numerous methodological flaws which biased their results against finding a relationship: either their outcome measures had questionable validity, their research designs were inappropriate, or the statistical analyses were poorly conceived.
(15) Are you ready to vote?” is the battle cry, and even the most superficial of glances at the statistics tells why.
(16) The prevalence of diabetes was 36% higher among San Antonio Mexican Americans than among Mexicans in Mexico City; this difference was highly statistically significant (age- and sex-adjusted prevalence ratio 1.36, P = 0.006).
(17) We found no statistically significant difference in one-year, biochemically validated, sustained cessation rates between the group offered the long-term follow-up visits (12.5%) and the group given the brief intervention (10.2%).
(18) The results are analysed statistically and summarized in graphs.
(19) Mononuclear phagocytic cells from patients with either principal form of leprosy functioned similarly to normal monocytes in phagocytosis while their fungicidal activity for C. pseudotropicalis was statistically significantly altered and was more evident in the lepromatous than in the tuberculoid type.
(20) Although statistical analysis did not show dramatic changes in all these parameters, some individual extreme values were substantially altered.