(a.) Of fundamental importance; preeminent; superior; chief; principal.
(a.) One of the ecclesiastical princes who constitute the pope's council, or the sacred college.
(a.) A woman's short cloak with a hood.
(a.) Mulled red wine.
Example Sentences:
(1) A possible role for Id for IgM Ab as cardinal autoantigens is discussed.
(2) Father Vincent Twomey said that given the damage done by Smyth and the repercussions of his actions, "one way or another the cardinal has unfortunately lost his moral credibility".
(3) From our data on symptomatology, family history and course of 538 such patients, several findings emerge of cardinal relevance to genetic studies.
(4) That diary was published in 2005 by Limes, a serious Italian magazine, which did not identify the cardinal.
(5) After the action-packed opening two innings the Cardinals, and particularly Wainwright, settled and the runs dried up.
(6) He did not speculate about when that would be, and he did not rebut Cardin’s claim that it could be next month.
(7) Updated at 4.05am BST 4.00am BST Dodgers 3 - Cardinals 0, top of 9th And so it's all up to Yadier Molina, the Cardinals catcher who is looking to get a rally going, no easy task against Jansen who looks to have his best stuff tonight.
(8) 4.11am BST Dodgers 2 - Cardinals 2, bottom of 7th Jay bunts!
(9) Updated at 3.53am GMT 3.50am GMT Red Sox 4 - Cardinals 2, bottom of the 9th Matt Carpenter takes a ball and a called strike.
(10) 1.20am GMT Cardinals 0 - Red Sox 3, top of the 4th Lackey gets ahead of Freese 1-2, if he could work around the error it would be- Freese takes strike three!
(11) The thymus is the first organ in the body to age, which seems incongruent considering its cardinal role in the immune system.
(12) The Democratic US Senator for Maryland, Ben Cardin, tried to enlist the State Department's help but was brushed aside.
(13) It derives from remnants of the left cardinal vein system.
(14) This list gives the Latin first names of all 115 cardinals.
(15) 2.10am BST Cardinals 3 - Dodgers 0, top of 4th Yadier Molina hits the first pitch to center field for the first out.
(16) After visiting the H-blocks, the Catholic archbishop Cardinal Tomás Ó Fiaich compared the conditions to "the sewer pipes in the slums of Calcutta".
(17) Freese is down to his last strike with a chance to tie it for the Cardinals.
(18) A month later, the papal conclave chose as his successor 76-year-old Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio, the archbishop of Buenos Aires, elevating the son of Italian immigrants to the highest office in the church.
(19) Now they await the results of the American League Championship Series to see whether this year's World Series will be a rematch of 2004, when the Cardinals were swept by the curse-reversing Boston Red Sox, or 2006, when the Cardinals defeated the Detroit Tigers and became one of the worst teams to win the World Series in MLB history .
(20) The cardinal signs and symptoms are given in detail, particularly those at the onset.
Essential
Definition:
(a.) Belonging to the essence, or that which makes an object, or class of objects, what it is.
(a.) Hence, really existing; existent.
(a.) Important in the highest degree; indispensable to the attainment of an object; indispensably necessary.
(a.) Containing the essence or characteristic portion of a substance, as of a plant; highly rectified; pure; hence, unmixed; as, an essential oil.
(a.) Necessary; indispensable; -- said of those tones which constitute a chord, in distinction from ornamental or passing tones.
(a.) Idiopathic; independent of other diseases.
Example Sentences:
(1) However, medicines have an important part to play, and it is now generally agreed that for the very poor populations medicines should be restricted to those on an 'essential drugs list' and should be made available as cheaply as possible.
(2) The results of the evaluation confirm that most problems seen by first level medical personnel in developing countries are simple, repetitive, and treatable at home or by a paramedical worker with a few safe, essential drugs, thus avoiding unnecessary visits to a doctor.
(3) Nucleotide, which is essential for catalysis, greatly enhances the binding of IpOHA by the reductoisomerase, with NADPH (normally present during the enzyme's rearrangement step, i.e., conversion of a beta-keto acid into an alpha-keto acid, in either the forward or reverse physiological reactions) being more effective than NADP.
(4) Community involvement is a key element of the Primary Health Care (PHC) approach, and thus an essential topic on a course for managers of Primary Health Care programmes.
(5) No significant fatty acid binding by proteins was detected in S. cerevisiae, even when grown on a fatty acid-rich medium, thus indicating that such proteins are not essential to fatty acid metabolism.
(6) The UK's standard position on ICC indictees is to avoid all contact unless "essential".
(7) In spite of important differences in size, chemical composition, polymer density, and configuration, biological macromolecules indeed manifest some of the essential physical-chemical properties of gels.
(8) Most cis AB sera have anti-B activity, essentially at 4 degrees C. In saliva A and H substances are found in normal amounts but B substance is only evidenced by inhibition of autologous cells agglutination.
(9) Treatment with trypsin gave essentially one radioactive peptide, the active site peptide, of approximately 2300 molecular weight.
(10) We conclude that this enzyme is essentially identical to the native enzyme and should be very useful in the future study of this important hydroxylase.
(11) Thus serum ionized calcium in untreated essential hypertensive patients may predict the blood pressure response to the slow calcium channel blocker verapamil.
(12) The effects of supervised mild aerobic exercise at the work load of the blood lactate threshold for 10 weeks on serum lipids and apolipoproteins were studied in 24 patients with essential hypertension.
(13) No other essential regulatory sequence is located further upstream.
(14) Based on the results of the Community AIM Exploratory Action, further collaborative work is required at EEC level to create an Integrated Health Information Environment (IHE) allowing essentially for integration, modularity and security.
(15) Ovarian vein sampling for androgen was essential in locating this patient's microscopic tumor.
(16) After approximately 20 in vitro passages, Chinese hamster kidney (CHK) cell cultures transformed upon exposure to different strains of SV 40 can show a diploid modal chromosome number of 22 with chromosome counts exclusively or essentially in the diploid range (20-25).
(17) An official from Cafcass, the children and family court advisory service, tried to persuade the child in several interviews, but eventually the official told the court that further persuasion was inappropriate and essentially abusive.
(18) Of 55 new open reading frames analysed by gene disruption, three are essential genes; of 42 non-essential genes that were tested, 14 show some discernible effect on phenotype and the remaining 28 have no overt function.
(19) Essential characteristics of the composite bone cement included a homogeneous and uniform fiber distribution, and a minimal increase in apparent viscosity of the polymerizing cement.
(20) The median blood levels were lower in hyperacidic subjects and higher in hypoacidic patients; the urinary excretion of the digitalis compound showed no essential differences.