(a.) Occurring or appearing once every two weeks; fortnightly.
(n.) A publication issued every two weeks.
Example Sentences:
(1) Thirty-six stabilized schizophrenic outpatients were randomly assigned to receive either 5 or 25 mg of fluphenazine decanoate biweekly and were followed up for two years.
(2) Biweekly subcutaneous injections of SQ 20858 reduced the blood pressure in the chronic renal hypertensive animals.
(3) Ten subjects were assigned to a weekly shift group and another ten to a biweekly shift group engaged in a semi-continuous shift schedule (sunday off) with a backward direction; that is, morning-evening-night shift.
(4) A total of 4 men with benign prostatic hypertrophy who underwent medical castration therapy with a long-acting gonadotropin-releasing hormone agonist (leuprolide) for more than 6 months elected to add an estrogen transdermal patch (0.05 mg. to the skin biweekly) to the leuprolide regimen.
(5) At each 7 biweekly evaluations, the patient's cumulative bronchodilator dose-response to inhaled isoproterenol (0.1 to 0.64%) was measured, and venous blood was collected to quantitate, in vitro, the polymorphonuclear leukocyte (PMN) beta-adrenergic receptor's 125Iodo-cyanopindolol (125I-CYP) ligand binding and the PMN cyclic AMP response to isoproterenol and procaterol.
(6) Sixty liver transplant patients were studied for the first 30 days postoperatively, with daily serum bilirubin and liver enzyme levels, white blood cell counts and differential counts, and biweekly core liver biopsies.
(7) Patients were randomly assigned to active treatment or placebo groups and received weekly or biweekly injections over a 3 to 4-month period.
(8) During biweekly studies, the muscle was stimulated in four modes against preloads varying from 20 to 120 mm Hg.
(9) Whole blood samples with known glucose levels were distributed to all nursing units for analysis on a biweekly basis.
(10) For 8 years biweekly ambulance critique review sessions have evaluated performance and discussed management of cases brought to our hospital by ambulance.
(11) The intervention group received nutrition instruction and behavioral counseling largely in permanent groups of 12 to 15 participants meeting weekly, then biweekly, and finally monthly.
(12) The current study patients were treated monthly, on 2 successive days (or biweekly, later on).
(13) No difference in inhibitory influence was observed when mice were injected weekly rather than biweekly with the complex.
(14) The steady-state plasma concentrations of FLUNO in patients receiving a daily oral dose of 5 to 20 mg of FLU dihydrochloride ranged from 13 to 378% of that of FLU, whereas this value ranged from 10 to 214% in plasma samples from patients treated with a biweekly intramuscular (i.m.)
(15) Seven patients with ANLL and 7 patients with neuroblastoma received the drug biweekly.
(16) The treatments were carried out weekly or biweekly depending on the availability of patient and acupuncturist.
(17) Biweekly breaks, of less than 10 minutes each, largely counteract the effects of isolation.
(18) Biweekly colonoscopic biopsies of the descending colon were performed for 29 wk in control and dimethylhydrazine-treated rats.
(19) In both strains the response exhibits a very slow rise in cytotoxic antibody levels reaching a maximum only after 3 months of biweekly injections.
(20) Twenty-nine patients were followed through the ragweed season with daily symptom diaries and biweekly physician examinations.
Fortnightly
Definition:
(a.) Occurring or appearing once in a fortnight; as, a fortnightly meeting of a club; a fortnightly magazine, or other publication.
(adv.) Once in a fortnight; at intervals of a fortnight.
Example Sentences:
(1) They then entered, on a randomized and double-blind basis, a cross-over trial of two 16-week periods, blood pressure being measured fortnightly.
(2) A fortnight ago the two countries signed a US$27 million deal to tackle deforestation on the island of Sumatra - a key problem in Indonesia where 80 per cent of emissions come from deforestation, both by legal and illegal loggers.
(3) Cuadrilla's admission comes after more than a fortnight's protests at the Balcombe site, which have attracted international attention.
(4) Aspects of health were studied in a sample of factory workers who changed their pattern of working from 'fortnight about' to three advancing shifts.
(5) In the past fortnight protesters have found themselves caught in the middle of fierce gun battles between regime forces and defected soldiers who have been guarding the main protest camp since March.
(6) The social services minister has not ruled out moving people from the disability pension on to the Newstart allowance, which would cut their income by hundreds of dollars a fortnight.
(7) The Tribe triumphed in Critics' Week, while Love at First Fight won the top gong at the Directors' Fortnight.
(8) As was the case against Chelsea's two buses a fortnight ago, Liverpool struggled to find solutions against the visitors' 5-4-1 formation, trailed to Martin Skrtel's fourth own goal in one season, a Premier League record, and could have been further behind when Yoan Gouffran raced through only to be denied by Simon Mignolet.
(9) It is, rather, whether those applying for help will have an income they can sustainably use, as the credit will pay benefits at monthly rather than fortnightly intervals, as at present.
(10) Jints fans, suddenly optimistic about their postseason chances, forgot how bad their team was over the fortnight - today they are being reminded.
(11) Most children developed AWB symptoms before the age of 7 years, with 20% reporting moderately severe symptoms and 10% having more than one attack per fortnight.
(12) Endoscopy was repeated fortnightly to 4 weeks in each of four participating centres.
(13) No title won over seven five-set matches in a fortnight is a fluke.
(14) Questions about Davidson's involvement with Norris were first raised in a Guardian article in 2002, with the same allegations being made by the BBC in 2006, and a third news organisation a fortnight ago.
(15) Heathrow is hoping an 11th-hour push pegged to Brexit will secure approval to build a third runway , with a final verdict from the government expected within a fortnight.
(16) A UN spokeswoman said the review was launched because it was due, rather than in response to a particular concern, though representatives from Just Fair , a consortium of 70 UK charities and NGOs, met the CESCR in Geneva a fortnight ago to discuss concerns about the erosion of rights to food and housing and the economic and social rights of disabled people.
(17) Photograph: Tomas Matousek Sunday, 2 October is the final day of British Food Fortnight (BFF).
(18) "I don't think it is a lot to ask both sides of politicians to lay off for that fortnight."
(19) According to Sergei Markov, a Kremlin-linked analyst who has been taking part in official meetings with local politicians in Crimea, the initial plan was not to annex Crimea, and the final call to do so was taken only a fortnight ago.
(20) Indonesian divers have found the black box flight recorders of the AirAsia plane that crashed in the Java Sea a fortnight ago with 162 people on board, the transport ministry has said.