(n.) A sheet of paper, pasteboard, or the like, on which information is exhibited, esp. when the information is arranged in tabular form; as, an historical chart.
(n.) A map; esp., a hydrographic or marine map; a map on which is projected a portion of water and the land which it surrounds, or by which it is surrounded, intended especially for the use of seamen; as, the United States Coast Survey charts; the English Admiralty charts.
(n.) A written deed; a charter.
(v. t.) To lay down in a chart; to map; to delineate; as, to chart a coast.
Example Sentences:
(1) Patient care data for patients treated at the medical center are first recorded on paper charts and then coded and transferred to computer.
(2) Attention should be paid to the circumstances under which the chart is applied, as normal micturition behaviour seems to be highly dependent on social factors.
(3) Prof Bryan Williams, chair of the working party that developed the chart, said: "Many changes in healthcare are incremental but this new National Early Warning Score (News) has the potential to transform patient safety in our hospitals and improve patient outcomes.
(4) Meanwhile, Brighton rock duo Royal Blood top this week's album chart with their self-titled album, scoring the UK's fastest selling British rock debut in three years.
(5) The results of pathohistologic investigations are objectively demonstrated through a chart of morphological traits, thus facilitating the identification of the diagnostical morphological traits caused by different industrial dusts.
(6) The utility of a life charting approach is emphasized in delineating past and present course of illness, considering the relevance of cycling pattern and past treatment efficacy in selection of present pharmacological interventions, and helping to formulate a multifactorial concept of the interplay of biological and psychosocial factors in the evolution or exacerbation of mood disorders.
(7) During interview and chart audit, the physicians were found to have consistently underestimated, misinterpreted, or neglected psychiatric aspects of care among a majority of patients in the study.
(8) 96 patients with meningitis due to Neisseria meningitidis and Diplococcus pneumoniae were treated with epicillin or ampicillin according to a predesigned randomization chart.
(9) Standard additions are unnecessary; Pt concentrations are read from a calibration chart of peak heights, which is linear up to 1.6 mg per liter.
(10) The budget red book contained a chart which suggested that the rich were indeed facing a bigger hit than anyone else, and Liberal Democrats were today pointing to this to justify the austerity package.
(11) Clinical information was obtained by chart review, and all biopsy and surgical specimens were reviewed microscopically without knowledge of HPV type.
(12) To determine the risks of performing major surgical procedures on patients with chronic renal failure, the charts of twenty-nine hemodialysis patients who underwent thirty-eight elective and nine emergency operations were reviewed.
(13) In his review of the charts, the author found that a great deal of the data necessary for the analysis either were unavailable or were presented in a way that prevented accurate or reliable interpretation.
(14) Mean number of blood glucose values charted by the computer group (58 per week) was significantly (p less than 0.01) greater than the number charted by the standard group (51 per week).
(15) The system described in this article features real-time data collection from up to eight ventilators, automated patient charting, graphic trending, and configurable modes for viewing graphic trends.
(16) Who else in American politics would be so audacious as to have one spouse accept money from foreign governments and businesses while the other charted American foreign policy?” Schweizer asks.
(17) fbi justified homicide chart Academics and specialists have long been aware of flaws in the FBI numbers, which are based on voluntary submissions by local law enforcement agencies of paperwork known as supplementary homicide reports.
(18) The direct radial artery pressures were recorded on a strip chart and the ranges of pressures were obtained for systolic, diastolic, and mean pressures.
(19) After a second baseline period, a cueing procedure was introduced, using a chart specifying on-task behavior.
(20) A retrospective analysis of charts from 15 patients treated with DNR-AraC was used to identify 228 items of cost, including general cost, diagnostic, supportive care, and chemotherapy.
Isobar
Definition:
(n.) A line connecting or marking places upon the surface of the earth where height of the barometer reduced to sea level is the same either at a given time, or for a certain period (mean height), as for a year; an isopiestic line.
(n.) The quality or state of being equal in weight, especially in atmospheric pressure. Also, the theory, method, or application of isobaric science.
Example Sentences:
(1) The mean spread of sensory blockade with isobaric bupivacaine was 16.95 segments (T6).
(2) Model predictions based upon these data compare favorably with published reports of isobaric inert gas supersaturation, as well as several previously unpublished observations.
(3) The appearance of isobaric HPNS during the switch might be due to the disappearance of the narcotic substance which suppressed or masked the clinical symptoms; it might also be due to the sudden increase in the partial pressure of He, which was equivalent to a fast compression.
(4) These results suggest that pre-existing hypertension can be recognized as an important factor to explain blood pressures changes during isobaric bupivacaine spinal anesthesia in elderly patients.
(5) This paper is concerned with the theretical background and implications of isobaric supersaturation and bubble formation in the microcirculation following an abrupt shift from one inspired inert gas to another.
(6) We suggest the results can be explained on the basis of the time-varying elastance concept: systolic elastance is the same for isovolumic and isobaric beats but depends on contractility.
(7) The decrease in mean arterial pressure was significantly more severe in the hyperbaric (30%) than in either the isobaric (18%) or hypobaric (14%) groups.
(8) These ions, which are referred to as (B-16) ions, permit differentiation between the isobaric amino acids lysine and glutamine in peptide mass spectra.
(9) The upper margin of analgesic zone at 15min and 60min after the subarachnoid injection of bupivacaine was higher in the hyperbaric groups, but it receded thereafter and significant differences were found at 120min compared with the isobaric group.
(10) Sixteen animal exposures (8 dives, 2 animals per dive) to a sudden isobaric gas switch from saturation on N2 to He were conducted; 8 saturations occurred at 132 fsw and 8 at 198 fsw.
(11) Group 1 patients received 3 ml of 0.5% isobaric bupivacaine.
(12) The duration of analgesia and the cardiovascular changes during anesthesia of spinal blockade with isobaric bupivacaine were examined in 36 patients between 21 and 75 years old undergoing percutaneous nephro-ureterolithotomy.
(13) In addition 3 ml isobaric bupivacaine in doses of 7.5 mg (0.25%), 15 mg (0.5%) and 22.5 mg (0.75%).
(14) These further signals may be useful in differentiating peptides containing lysine from those containing the isobaric glutamine.
(15) Individual diameter- and compliance-pressure curves extrapolated from the measured diameter and mean pressure point with a logarithmic elastic model permitted calculation of isobaric diameter and compliance at the same pressure in each subject.
(16) At isobaric intervals, compliance did not differ between control and myopathic ventricles.
(17) Because of the absence of a defined zone of analgesia, the small volumes required and the "ready for use" preparation, intrathecal isobaric morphine therapy will lead to easy self-administration via an implanted pump in the future.
(18) However, by measuring arterial compliance at the same pressure, its isobaric values were found to be unchanged.
(19) The 9 former premature received 0.6 ml isobaric bupivacaine 0.5%, and the child born on term with diaphragmatic hernia 0.8 ml isobaric bupivacaine 0.5%.
(20) Overall, measured isobaric diameters and measured compliance correlated with systolic, diastolic, and mean blood pressure values (p less than 0.001), whereas isobaric compliance correlated only with systolic (p less than 0.05) and pulse (p less than 0.01) pressure values.