(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.
Semiweekly
Definition:
(a.) Coming, or made, or done, once every half week; as, a semiweekly newspaper; a semiweekly trip.
(n.) That which comes or happens once every half week, esp. a semiweekly periodical.
(adv.) At intervals of half a week each.
Example Sentences:
(1) Levels are determined weekly or semiweekly using a modification of the fluorometric method of Hanson and Warwick.
(2) Biophysical profile testing was performed semiweekly on all patients.
(3) Three drugs, vincristine, vinblastine, and podophyllotoxin, administered semiweekly by ip injection, each inhibited regeneration at doses that did not impair maintenance of response.
(4) To test the hypothesis that diminished cord Wharton's jelly incurs risk of peripartum cord compression in addition to decreased amniotic fluid, 68 patients with confirmed gestational age greater than or equal to 41 weeks were evaluated prospectively with semiweekly nonstress tests and weekly ultrasound examinations.
(5) The ejaculates from nine male rabbits were evaluated semiweekly over a two-month period for ASF concentration, volume, and sperm number.
(6) Ultrasonographic evaluations were conducted on a semiweekly basis.
(7) Semiweekly injections of 1 mg of NX per kg continued to suppress responding up to 4 weeks after implantation of a single morphine pellet.
(8) Twelve patients were treated (8 upper extremities, 4 lower extremities) on a weekly or semiweekly basis.
(9) The campaign consisted of a 52-episode semiweekly radio soap opera, about 60 motivational talks, and two pamphlets about contraceptive methods.
(10) Serial length measurements of normal infants were assessed weekly (n = 10), semiweekly (n = 18), and daily (n = 3) (19 females and 12 males) during their first 21 months.
(11) Forty-six patients with well-established dates were evaluated with semiweekly biophysical profiles and umbilical artery flow velocimetry (characterized by the ratio of the peak systolic to end-diastolic velocity).
(12) Employees at half the corporations also had access to semiweekly self-help group meetings.