(n.) Act of choosing; the voluntary act of selecting or separating from two or more things that which is preferred; the determination of the mind in preferring one thing to another; election.
(n.) The power or opportunity of choosing; option.
(n.) Care in selecting; judgment or skill in distinguishing what is to be preferred, and in giving a preference; discrimination.
(n.) A sufficient number to choose among.
(n.) The thing or person chosen; that which is approved and selected in preference to others; selection.
(n.) The best part; that which is preferable.
(superl.) Worthly of being chosen or preferred; select; superior; precious; valuable.
(superl.) Preserving or using with care, as valuable; frugal; -- used with of; as, to be choice of time, or of money.
(superl.) Selected with care, and due attention to preference; deliberately chosen.
Example Sentences:
(1) In order to control noise- and vibration-caused diseases it was necessary not only to improve machines' quality and service conditions but also to pay special attention to the choice of operators and to the quality of monitoring their adaptation process.
(2) The highest rate of discontinuation occurred when method choice was denied in the presence of husband-wife agreement on method choice, and the lowest rate occurred when method choice was granted in the presence of such concurrence.
(3) The way we are going to pay for that is by making the rules the same for people who go into care homes as for people who get care at their home, and by means-testing the winter fuel payment, which currently isn’t.” Hunt said the plan showed the Conservatives were capable of making difficult choices.
(4) These findings raise questions regarding the efficacy of medical school curriculum in motivating career choices in primary care.
(5) The evidence suggests that by the age of 15 years many adolescents show a reliable level of competence in metacognitive understanding of decision-making, creative problem-solving, correctness of choice, and commitment to a course of action.
(6) Careful attention must be given to antibiotic choice as well as the dose and duration of therapy.
(7) That is why you will be held relentlessly to account for those choices; why what you said in February invites forensic scrutiny.
(8) There is precedent in Islamic law for saving the life of the mother where there is a clear choice of allowing either the fetus or the mother to survive.
(9) Former lawmaker and historian Faraj Najm said the ruling resets Libya “back to square one” and that the choice now faced by the Tobruk-based parliament is “between bad and worse”.
(10) Single dose therapy is recommended as the treatment of choice for bacterial cystitis in domiciliary practice.
(11) Vancomycin is the antibiotic of choice for serious MRSA infections; PRPs and cephalosporins generally are not effective.
(12) This suggests that hypothalamic NPY might be involved in food choice and that PVNp is important in the regulation of feeding behaviour by NPY.
(13) The choice is partly technical – what kind of trading arrangement do we want with the EU?
(14) True, Syria subsequently disarmed itself of chemical weapons, but this was after the climbdown on bombing had shown western public opinion had no appetite for another war of choice.
(15) It was considered worthwhile to report this case due to the problems which arose concerning the choice of a thoracic rather than abdominal route owing to the impossibility of associating cardiomyotomy with anti-reflux plastica surgery because of the reduced dimensions of the stomach.
(16) While superheroes like “superman” (21st in SplashData’s 2014 rankings) and “batman” (24th) may be popular choices for passwords, the results if they are cracked could be anything other than super – and users will only have themselves to blame.
(17) Because isosmolar albumin solution is easier to prepare than hyperosmolar cryoprecipitated plasma and gives comparable results, it remains our perfusate of choice for continuous perfusion preservation.
(18) They could go out and trade for a pitcher such as the New York Mets’ Bartolo Colón , an obvious choice despite his 41 years, but he would come with an $11m price tag for next season and have to pass through the waiver wires process first – considering the wily mood Billy Beane is in this year, the A’s could be the team that blocks such a move.
(19) Splenectomy is the operation of choice for cysts of the spleen in children.
(20) Staplers were used and therefore the choice between resection or amputation was determined by the degree of loco-regional infiltration of the neoplasm.
Volition
Definition:
(n.) The act of willing or choosing; the act of forming a purpose; the exercise of the will.
(n.) The result of an act or exercise of choosing or willing; a state of choice.
(n.) The power of willing or determining; will.
Example Sentences:
(1) In more than 80% of the cases it was possible to register volitional activity by EMG as well as to elicit an electroneurographic response.
(2) The preceding paper, by Louis Tinnin, challenges us to consider that there is a brain agency responsible for mental unity, volition and consciousness, which the author labels a "governing mental system" (GMS), or "ego," and that the neural substrate for this GMS is Wernicke's Area.
(3) Four forensic psychiatrists were asked to indicate whether they thought 164 defendants met any or all of four insanity tests: 1) the American Law Institute (ALI) cognitive criterion, 2) the ALI volitional criterion, 3) the APA test, and 4) the M'Naghten rule.
(4) Ninety-nine college undergraduates responded to a questionnaire consisting of subscales from the Singer-Antrobus Imaginal Processes Inventory and scales measuring extent of sleep disturbance; measures of response bias and samples of volitional waking fantasy were also obtained.
(5) Test 3 was identical to test 2 but was preceded by 10 min of volitional, isocapnic hyperpnea (85% of peak exercise V.E) at a controlled frequency and tidal volume.
(6) Long-latency stretch reflex and volitional EMG amplitude modulations were assessed as functions of the tracking phase.
(7) Although it indicates that there is no disturbance in the vividness of volitional mental imagery in schizophrenia, the presence of abnormal spontaneous imagery cannot be commented upon.
(8) The authors suggested that the sexual problems of chronic schizophrenics were related to their conditions in the body, rapport with their wives or husbands and the severity of affect, thought and volition disturbances.
(9) Impairment of previous motor deficit has been observed in 3% of cases; volitional and postural dyskinesia seems to be the most curable symptomatology.
(10) The MAX test consisted of incremental treadmill running to volitional exhaustion.
(11) Few defendants met cognitive tests without also meeting the ALI volitional test.
(12) There is a curious behavior observed in the human split-brain experiments in which the subject demonstrates a reflexive and obligatory ownership of the actions initiated by the silent right brain even though the speaking self is ignorant of that volition.
(13) Training consisted of a single set of variable resistance bilateral knee extensions performed to volitional fatigue with a weight load that allowed seven to ten repetitions.
(14) These data suggest that a component of bradykinesia results from a defective coordination of supraspinal reflex and volitional control systems.
(15) The imbalance between mesocortical and nigrostriatal dopaminergic systems might explain the fact that sultopride in our experiment modified spontaneous behavior but not volitional behavior.
(16) The four work loads were set a 25, 50, 60 and 70% of maximal volitional isometric strength (IS).
(17) The eight patients were all aged and showed cerebral infarction, reduced volition, etc.
(18) Only a slight difference was observed between the cardio-ventilatory responses to volitional and passive exercises.
(19) It is "a transgression of a law of nature by a particular volition of the deity, or the interposition of some invisible agent."
(20) Early neurosyphilis was characterized by affective volitional, asthenic, and hypochondriac disorders, whereas late neurosyphilis was manifested in neurosis-like disturbances, partial and total dementia and hallucinational paranoid syndrome.