(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.
Twice
Definition:
(adv.) Two times; once and again.
(adv.) Doubly; in twofold quantity or degree; as, twice the sum; he is twice as fortunate as his neighbor.
Example Sentences:
(1) Twenty-seven patients were randomized to receive either 50 mg stanozolol or placebo intramuscularly 24 h before operation, followed by a 6 week course of either 5 mg stanozolol or placebo orally, twice daily.
(2) A commensurate rise in both smoking and adenocarcinoma has occurred in the Far East where the incidence rate (40%) is twice that of North America or Europe.
(3) With the stimulated liver being irradiated, the number of cells synthetizing DNA and entering into mitosis was seen reduced almost twice, whereas DNA synthesis and entering into mitosis were delayed, resp., by 4 and 6 hours.
(4) Lead levels in contents and shells of eggs laid by hens dosed with all-lead shot were about twice those in eggs laid by hens dosed with lead-iron shot.
(5) The overall incidence in patients over 50 years of age was 8.5%; it was more than twice as high in women (11.5%) as in men (4.5%) and rose sharply with age.
(6) Since the molecular weight of IgG is more than twice that of albumin and transferrin, it is concluded that the protein loss in Ménétrier's disease is nonselective in the sense that it affects a similar fraction of the intravascular masses of all plasma proteins.
(7) After friends heard that he was on them, Brumfield started observing something strange: “If we had people over to the Super Bowl or a holiday season party, I’d notice that my medicines would come up short, no matter how good friends they were.” Twice people broke into his house to get to the drugs.
(8) The analgesic activity of morphine was assessed by the hot-plate technique in the offspring of female CFE rats that had received morphine twice daily on days 5 to 12 of pregnancy.
(9) During the couple's 30-year marriage she had twice reported him to the police for grabbing her by the throat, before they divorced in 2005.
(10) Blinded outcomes of depression and cognition were measured initially and twice in each phase.
(11) In a double-blind trial, 50 patients with subcostal incisions performed for cholecystectomy or splenectomy, received 10 ml of either 0.5% bupivacaine plain or physiological saline twice daily by wound perfusion through an indwelling drainage tube for 3 days after operation.
(12) Calves were fed milk replacer twice daily while housed indoors in wooden-slatted floor box crates (metabolism cages).
(13) Administration of 800 mg cimetidine every evening is, consequently, at least as effective as a twice-daily regimen.
(14) In liver, P-450 2E2 mRNA is detectable immediately after birth and reaches slightly greater than the adult level at 2 weeks of age; in contrast, P-450 2E1 mRNA is not detectable until day 14 and increases rapidly to approximately twice the adult level at 5 weeks of age.
(15) The best fertility was obtained by inseminating twice a week with 0.05 ml.
(16) She said that in February 2013 she was asked to assist Pistorius in his first court appearance when applying for bail and sat with him in the cells, where he vomited twice.
(17) In another protocol, fourteen volunteers received calcitriol 0.25 microgram, 0.5 microgram, and 1.0 microgram twice a day each for 14 days with intervening control periods of 2 weeks.
(18) On Days 12-14 each gilt received twice daily infusions of Day 15 pCSP in one uterine horn and SP in the other uterine horn.
(19) After 96 h cells, cultured with 20 and 50 microM-desferrioxamine accumulated 59Fe from bovine transferrin at over twice the rate found with control cells, reflecting the increase in transferrin receptors.
(20) The efflux rate for EB of strains with duplicated ebr genes was twice the rate of strains with a single ebr gene.