(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.
Week
Definition:
(n.) A period of seven days, usually that reckoned from one Sabbath or Sunday to the next.
Example Sentences:
(1) Brain and ganglia of embryonic Periplaneta americana were grown for 2 to 3 weeks in a chemically defined medium.
(2) There was appreciable variation in toothbrush wear among subjects, some reducing their brush to a poor state in 2 weeks whereas with others the brush was rated as "good" after 10 weeks.
(3) 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.
(4) within 12 h of birth followed by similar injections every day for 10 consecutive days and then every second day for a further 8 weeks, with mycoplasma broth medium (tolerogen), to induce immune tolerance.
(5) After two weeks all animals were killed and autopsies of the animals were performed.
(6) Participants (n=165) entering a week-long outpatient education program completed a protocol measuring self-care patterns, glycosylated hemoglobin levels, and emotional well-being.
(7) In early 2000, during the first months of Vladimir Putin’s presidency, Babitsky was kidnapped by Russian forces and disappeared for many weeks.
(8) The final number of fibers--140,000-165,000--is reached by the sixth week after birth.
(9) After 2 weeks, the native and heterotopic pituitaries were assayed for SP, TSH, PRL, and LH.
(10) Confined placental chorionic mosaicism is reported in 2% of viable pregnancies cytogenetically analyzed on chorionic villi samplings (CVS) at 9-12 weeks of gestation.
(11) Cyanoacrylate and PDS coatings were not detectable after 6 weeks while PHBA and PLLA coatings were still observed after 48 weeks.
(12) Collagen production of rapidly thawed ligaments was studied by proline incubation at 1 day, 9 days, or 6 weeks after freezing and was compared with that of contralateral fresh controls.
(13) In the fall of 1975, 1,915 children in grades K through eight began a school-based program of supervised weekly rinsing with 0.2 percent aqueous solution of sodium fluoride in an unfluoridated community in the Finger Lakes area of upstate New York.
(14) The present findings indicate that the deafferented [or isolated] hypothalamus remains neuronally isolated from the environment if the operation is carried out later than the end of the first week of life.
(15) Mike Ashley told Lee Charnley that maybe he could talk with me last week but I said: ‘Listen, we cannot say too much so I think it’s better if we wait.’ The message Mike Ashley is sending is quite positive, but it was better to talk after we play Tottenham.” Benítez will ask Ashley for written assurances over his transfer budget, control of transfers and other spheres of club autonomy, but can also reassure the owner that the prospect of managing in the second tier holds few fears for him.
(16) Minimal levels were evident 16 weeks after irradiation; Hct then increased, but remained below preirradiation values.
(17) Finally the advanced automation of the equipment allowed weekly the evaluation of catecholamines and the whole range of their known metabolites in 36 urine samples.
(18) Diltiazem monotherapy effectively lowered blood pressure in 60% of patients at 8 weeks.
(19) DI James Faulkner of Great Manchester police said: “The men and women working in the factory have told us that they were subjected to physical and verbal assaults at the hands of their employers and forced to work more than 80-hours before ending up with around £25 for their week’s work.
(20) It comes in defiant journalism, like the story televised last week of a gardener in Aleppo who was killed by bombs while tending his roses and his son, who helped him, orphaned.