(a.) The science or doctrine of dealing with cases of conscience, of resolving questions of right or wrong in conduct, or determining the lawfulness or unlawfulness of what a man may do by rules and principles drawn from the Scriptures, from the laws of society or the church, or from equity and natural reason; the application of general moral rules to particular cases.
(a.) Sophistical, equivocal, or false reasoning or teaching in regard to duties, obligations, and morals.
Example Sentences:
(1) The authors report on the casuistry of aorto-coronary by-pass operations they performed between April 1971 and December 1974, discussing the criteria which indicate the necessity of operating, the principles of the operative techniques, and the results obtained.
(2) An alternative approach is recommended that involves interpreting moral experience by means once associated with the rhetorical arts--practical reasoning, hermeneutics, casuistry, and thick description.
(3) Anatomy, injury-mechanism and classification will be illustrated with a casuistry of the rate isolated luxation of the ulnar head.
(4) Casuistry is defined, its relationship to rhetorical reasoning and its interpretation of cases, by employing three terms that, while they are not employed by the classical rhetoricians and casuists, conform, in a general way, to the features of their work.
(5) In one part of this casuistry, normal and primitive hypogonadics, we have estimated the response to the intravenous administration of Gn-RH.
(6) They reported the direct experience of personal casuistry and called attention on multiple aspects of preventive medicine.
(7) Beside a casuistry the article contains references to prompt measures--especially for the first-aid doctor-and following tasks for public hygienic executive organs.
(8) Analysing the casuistry of 210 patients with basilar impression, the author has enumerated the type and frequency of the associated anomalies and looked for correlations between them and the various clinical syndromes.
(9) and discusses some problems with casuistry as an 'anti-theoretical' method.
(10) The best known models are those of deductivism, casuistry, and principlism (under one, rather limited interpretation).
(11) The secretion values of the two seric gonadotropins and of plasmatic Testosterone have been estimated in a casuistry of normal males, 114 subjects, subdivided in groups of 8 to 95 years of age.
(12) After a thorough discussion of the etiopathologic factors, there are cited the most common histotypes of MBC, as well as the typical clinical aspects, of basic importance for the compilation of the diagnostic inquiry, which, in uncertainty, makes use of the acuaspiration and of the excisional biopsy, there is referred on the present therapeutic trends, and results of their casuistry are exposed.
(13) However, the parametres considered are quite useful for indicating the variations of ventricular distensibility in homogenous casuistries and are therefore comparable.
(14) On the basis of some casuistries forensic and criminalistic aspects of infanticides will be discussed.
(15) The acute syndroms of the brainstem of cerebral injuried newborns by the birth trauma (casuistry).
(16) In the casuistry are included two cases of the complete perforation of the right ventricle (one of which was fatal) and four cases of partial perforation; in another subject a papillary muscle was perforated.
(17) In conclusion, casuistry is the exercise of prudential or practical reasoning in recognition of the relationship between maxims, circumstances and topics, as well as the relationship of paradigms to analogous cases.
(18) The Authors point out the doppler usefulness for the study of obstructive cerebrovascular pathology specially of the carotids with personal short casuistry.
(19) Combined involvement of the heart, diaphragm, pleura is a casuistry.
(20) The analysis of the casuistry showed predominantly gangliae, bursae and Baker's cysts.
Practical
Definition:
(a.) Of or pertaining to practice or action.
(a.) Capable of being turned to use or account; useful, in distinction from ideal or theoretical; as, practical chemistry.
(a.) Evincing practice or skill; capable of applying knowledge to some useful end; as, a practical man; a practical mind.
(a.) Derived from practice; as, practical skill.
Example Sentences:
(1) This selective review emphasizes advances in neurochemistry which provide a context for current and future research on neurological and psychiatric disorders encountered in clinical practice.
(2) The findings indicate that there is still a significant incongruence between the value structure of most family practice units and that of their institutions but that many family practice units are beginning to achieve parity of promotion and tenure with other departments in their institutions.
(3) An effective graft-surveillance protocol needs to be applicable to all patients; practical in terms of time, effort, and cost; reliable; and able to detect, grade, and assess progression of lesions.
(4) In a debate in the House of Commons, I will ask Britain, the US and other allies to convert generalised offers of help into more practical support with greater air cover, military surveillance and helicopter back-up, to hunt down the terrorists who abducted the girls.
(5) Theoretical findings on sterilization and disinfection measures are useless for the dental practice if their efficiency is put into question due to insufficient consideration of the special conditions of dental treatment.
(6) Whereas strain Ga-1 was practically avirulent for mice, strain KL-1 produced death by 21 days in 50% of the mice inoculated.
(7) In practice, however, the necessary dosage is difficult to predict.
(8) Basing the prediction of student performance in medical school on intellective-cognitive abilities alone has proved to be more pertinent to academic achievement than to clinical practice.
(9) The first phase evaluated cytologic and colposcopic diagnoses in 962 consecutive patients in a community practice.
(10) In this phase the educational practices are vastly determined by individual activities which form the basis for later regulations by the state.
(11) This article is intended as a brief practical guide for physicians and physiotherapists concerned with the treatment of cystic fibrosis.
(12) Practical examples are given of the concepts presented using data from several drugs.
(13) "The proposed 'reform' is designed to legitimise this blatantly unfair, police state practice, while leaving the rest of the criminal procedure law as misleading decoration," said Professor Jerome Cohen, an expert on China at New York University's School of Law.
(14) Beyond this, physicians learn from specific problems that arise in practice.
(15) This observation, reinforced by simultaneous determinations of cortisol levels in the internal spermatic and antecubital veins, practically excluded the validity of the theory of adrenal hormonal suppression of testicular tissues.
(16) Implications for practice and research include need for support groups with nurses as facilitators, the importance of fostering hope, and need for education of health care professionals.
(17) The author's experience in private psychoanalytic practice and in Philadelphia's rape victim clinics indicates that these assaults occur frequently.
(18) Single dose therapy is recommended as the treatment of choice for bacterial cystitis in domiciliary practice.
(19) The cyclical nature of pyromania has parallels in cycles of reform in standards of civil commitment (Livermore, Malmquist & Meehl, 1958; Dershowitz, 1974), in the use of physical therapies and medications (Tourney, 1967; Mora, 1974), in treatment of the chronically mentally ill (Deutsch, 1949; Morrissey & Goldman, 1984), and in institutional practices (Treffert, 1967; Morrissey, Goldman & Klerman (1980).
(20) Reasons for non-acceptance do not indicate any major difficulties in the employment of such staff in general practice, at least as far as the patients are concerned.