(v. t.) To alter; to make different; to cause to pass from one state to another; as, to change the position, character, or appearance of a thing; to change the countenance.
(v. t.) To alter by substituting something else for, or by giving up for something else; as, to change the clothes; to change one's occupation; to change one's intention.
(v. t.) To give and take reciprocally; to exchange; -- followed by with; as, to change place, or hats, or money, with another.
(v. t.) Specifically: To give, or receive, smaller denominations of money (technically called change) for; as, to change a gold coin or a bank bill.
(v. i.) To be altered; to undergo variation; as, men sometimes change for the better.
(v. i.) To pass from one phase to another; as, the moon changes to-morrow night.
(v. t.) Any variation or alteration; a passing from one state or form to another; as, a change of countenance; a change of habits or principles.
(v. t.) A succesion or substitution of one thing in the place of another; a difference; novelty; variety; as, a change of seasons.
(v. t.) A passing from one phase to another; as, a change of the moon.
(v. t.) Alteration in the order of a series; permutation.
(v. t.) That which makes a variety, or may be substituted for another.
(v. t.) Small money; the money by means of which the larger coins and bank bills are made available in small dealings; hence, the balance returned when payment is tendered by a coin or note exceeding the sum due.
(v. t.) A place where merchants and others meet to transact business; a building appropriated for mercantile transactions.
(v. t.) A public house; an alehouse.
(v. t.) Any order in which a number of bells are struck, other than that of the diatonic scale.
Example Sentences:
(1) Once treatment began, no significant changes occurred in Group 1, but both PRA and A2 rose significantly in Groups 2 and 3.
(2) Thirty-two patients (10 male, 22 female; age 37-82 years) undergoing maintenance haemodialysis or haemofiltration were studied by means of Holter device capable of simultaneously analysing rhythm and ST-changes in three leads.
(3) The assembly reaction is accompanied by characteristic changes in fluorescence emission and dichroic absorption.
(4) Although the mean values for all hemodynamic variables between the two placebo periods were minimally changed, the differences in individual patients were striking.
(5) It is concluded that during exposure to simulated microgravity early signs of osteoporosis occur in the tibial spongiosa and that changes in the spongy matter of tubular bones and vertebrae are similar and systemic.
(6) The various evocational changes appear to form sets of interconnected systems and this complex network seems to embody some plasticity since it has been possible to suppress experimentally some of the most universal evocational events or alter their temporal order without impairing evocation itself.
(7) A change in the pattern of care of children with IDDM, led to a pronounced decrease in hospital use by this patient group.
(8) The pattern of the stressor that causes a change in the pitch can be often identified only tentatively, if there is no additional information.
(9) It has been generally believed that the ligand-binding of steroid hormone receptors triggers an allosteric change in receptor structure, manifested by an increased affinity of the receptor for DNA in vitro and nuclear target elements in vivo, as monitored by nuclear translocation.
(10) Changes in cardiac adenosine triphosphate (ATP), phosphocreatine (PCr) and inorganic phosphate (Pi) were followed and intracellular pH (pHi) was estimated from the chemical shift of Pi.
(11) Subsequently, the study of bundle branch block and A-V block cases revealed that no explicit correlation existed between histopathological changes and functional disturbances nor between disturbances in conduction (i.e.
(12) It involves creativity, understanding of art form and the ability to improvise in the highly complex environment of a care setting.” David Cameron has boosted dementia awareness but more needs to be done Read more She warns: “To effect a cultural change in dementia care requires a change of thinking … this approach is complex and intricate, and can change cultural attitudes by regarding the arts as central to everyday life of the care home.” Another participant, Mary*, a former teacher who had been bedridden for a year, read plays with the reminiscence arts practitioner.
(13) As collapse was imminent, MAP increased but CO and TPR did not change significantly.
(14) Then a handful of organisers took a major bet on the power of people – calling for the largest climate change mobilisation in history to kick-start political momentum.
(15) Type 1 changes (decreased signal intensity on T1-weighted spin-echo images and increased signal intensity on T2-weighted images) were identified in 20 patients (4%) and type 2 (increased signal intensity on T1-weighted images and isointense or slightly increased signal intensity on T2-weighted images) in 77 patients (16%).
(16) No significant change occurred in the bacterial population of our hospital unit during the period of the study (more than 3 years).
(17) The availability and success of changes in reproductive technology should lead to a reappraisal of the indications for hysterectomy, especially in young women.
(18) The epidemiology of HIV infection among women and hence among children has progressively changed since the onset of the epidemic in Western countries.
(19) The present study examined whether the lack of chronic hemodynamic effects of ANP in control rats was due to changes in vascular reactivity to the peptide.
(20) The pancreatic changes are unlikely to be an artefact, but rather a direct toxic effect of the alcohol as confirmed by the biochemical changes.
Demography
Definition:
(n.) The study of races, as to births, marriages, mortality, health, etc.
Example Sentences:
(1) All persons were sent a 12-page questionnaire dealing with matters of health, employment, social support, demography, medical economics, expressed needs, and relationship with the rehabilitation agency.
(2) Two competing models of age demography were tested.
(3) Patients in both groups were of comparable demography.
(4) Without a large number of stably integrated neighbourhoods, without an influx of new immigrants, without a substantial drop in violent crime and without any trust between the police and the community, the new chapter of urban demography and racial conflict in the northwest suburbs of St Louis looks a lot like the old chapter in the city itself.
(5) The increased attention in US medicine to medical ethics reflects in large part the "new" demography of a growing elderly population and the conflict of whether decisions regarding medical care should be based on cost-effectiveness or "human-effectiveness."
(6) The method is applied to the HIV epidemic among IV drug users in the Latium region of Italy, using available data on the length of the incubation period before the onset of AIDS, on the infectivity of infected individuals during that period, and on the demography of drug users.
(7) The demand for care at home is set to grow rapidly – changing patterns of disease and demography will see more us with long-term conditions and frailty in older age.
(8) On the other hand, very little is known about the epidemiology and demography odontogenic tumours.
(9) In comparing these drugs, the following issues are important: pathophysiology, patient demography, mechanism of drug action, long-term efficacy, and metabolic effects.
(10) These children were selected from a total of 242,596 proportionally chosen with respect to demography of each of the twelve regions in the area with weight, height and bicipital, tricipital, subscapular and abdominal skin folds being measured.
(11) A unified approach is developed for the evolutionary structure of mammalian life histories; it blends together three basic components (individual growth or production rate as a function of body size, natural selection on age of maturity, and stable demography) to predict both the powers and the intercepts of the scaling allometry of life history variables to adult size.
(12) The treatment groups appeared identical in terms of patient demography, underlying disease and other risk factors, though patients with a clinical site of infection responded more slowly than those without.
(13) This article is a comprehensive review of the demography, pathophysiology, treatment, and prevention of near-drowning, an accident that affects approximately 6,000 to 7,000 Americans per year.
(14) Thirty healthy, drinking young adult sons of alcoholics were matched with 30 sons of nonalcoholics on demography, drug use, and alcohol use histories.
(15) The institutions actually performing carotid endarterectomies differ from the clinical trials in their demography and perioperative mortality rates.
(16) (1) The age-adjusted gastric cancer mortality rate (the demography of Japan in 1965 was used for the standard population) began to decline in 1968, and the mean mortality rates were 60.5 per 100,000 population in 1958-1967 and 38.6 in 1981, showing 21.9 decrease in 14 years in Niigata Prefecture.
(17) Women co-infected with C. trachomatis were similar to those with gonococcal infection alone in terms of demography, type of sexual contact, previous sexually transmitted disease, genitourinary symptoms, and clinical signs.
(18) AIDS and HIV-1 infection may have a significant impact not only on public health, but also on the demography and socioeconomic conditions of some developing countries.
(19) A review of the profession's stand at that time, and changes in demography of the elderly population since then, suggests that the position of the profession arrived at in the 1960's needs to be reexamined.
(20) This paper uses stochastic demography to analyze the fluctuating population structure produced by environmental uncertainty.