(n.) The science which treats of measuring time by regular divisions or periods, and which assigns to events or transactions their proper dates.
Example Sentences:
(1) Under these conditions the meiotic prophase takes place and proceeds to the dictyate phase, obeying a somewhat delayed chronology in comparison with controls in vivo.
(2) In contrast, idiopathic GH deficient girls have an onset of puberty and PHV nearer to a normal chronological age and at an early bone age.
(3) There was no correlation between serum LH and chronological or bone age in this age group, which suggests that the correlation found is not due to age-related parallel phenomena.
(4) We report the treatment of 44 boys with constitutional delay of growth and puberty (CDGP) at a mean chronological age of 14.3 years (range, 12.4-17.1) and bone age of 12.1 years (range, 9.1-15.0).
(5) Although chronologic age may not be a good predictor of pregnancy outcome, adolescents remain a high-risk group due to factors which are more common among them such as biologic immaturity, inadequate prenatal care, poverty, minority status, and low prepregnancy weight, and because factors associated with an early adolescent pregnancy, such as low gynecologic age, may continue to influence the outcome of subsequent pregnancies.
(6) The difference in the timing of the change in FSH and LH concentrations was related not only to chronological age but also to the number of years before the menopause.
(7) Weighed amounts of lyophilized venom from each snake were compared chronologically for variation in isoelectric focusing patterns, using natural and immobilized gradients.
(8) It’s around this point in the film’s chronology that Rodman makes his now infamous appearance on CNN , where he rejected calls to assist in the release of American prisoner Kenneth Bae and shouted at interviewer Chris Cuomo.
(9) However, a review of the literature suggests that chronological age alone does not account for increased toxicity in the elderly.
(10) A chronology of the disaster, involving two helicopter crashes which left 11 dead, is presented.
(11) A chronological subdivision of the swallowing act is needed for a step-by-step analysis.
(12) Sound velocities, breaking strengths calculated from velocities adjusted for estimated soft tissue cover, measured bone mediolateral diameters and cannon diameters minus estimated soft tissue increased as quadratic functions of chronologic age (r greater than .840; P less than .0001).
(13) Chronological observation also showed the change of SLex expression according to the histological change.
(14) Further considerations concern the adaptation of measurements at ad hoc times to values for full, half, and quarterly years of chronological age.
(15) 5(1)-Nucleotidase was found to decrease with increase in the chronological age of the chicks.
(16) It was also a better predictor of viability than chronological age.
(17) A total of 48 children were tested, with eight selected from each chronological age group from four through nine years.
(18) At a time when the intrauterine diagnosis of hydrocephalus is commonplace and pioneering efforts of antenatal therapy are evolving, review of the chronology of treatment of this disorder becomes pertinent.
(19) The chronologic and anatomic expressions of Thy-1 are compatible with a role of Thy-1 in the generation and maintenance of synapses.
(20) His instinct that there was something there in the association beyond simple chronology is rewarded in the details.
Stratigraphy
Definition:
(n.) That branch of geology which treats of the arrangement and succession of strata.
Example Sentences:
(1) People are environmentally aware these days but maybe the information is not available to them to show the scale of changes that are happening.” The international team behind the paper includes several other members of the Subcommission on Quaternary Stratigraphy’s Anthropocene working group, which hopes to present a proposal to the ICS later this year.
(2) The Authors describe the usefulness of the additional radiologic investigations (stratigraphy and computed tomography) in the study of the back acetabular fractures.
(3) The history of the Earth is divided up according to the geological time scale, which is set by the International Commission on Stratigraphy.
(4) The chronometric framework developed for Plio-Pleistocene deposits of the northern Turkana Basin is reviewed in light of recent advances in lithostratigraphy, geochemical correlation, paleomagnetic stratigraphy, and isotopic dating.
(5) Each patient had a complete ophthalmologic examination, with electroretinography and visual-evoked potentials, a complete radiologic examination, including skull stratigraphy (particularly of the sellar and parasellar bony structures), and a computed tomographic scan.
(6) Following this our study presents data concerning the wells in the area, their position, methods of excavation, depth, stratigraphy and capacity of water-supply.
(7) In the light of the results obtained guidelines for the selection of bronchography as a diagnostic procedure are presented, specifying the situations in which stratigraphy, CAT scans or NMR are not adequate substitutes and suggesting what should be the current role of bronchography in paediatrics.
(8) However, by the use of accurate radiography, stratigraphy, bone scan and CAT, a pre-operative accurate diagnosis is usually possible.
(9) Intradermal (Casoni) or serological (Ghedini) tests and scintigraphy for the hepatic localization, and lung stratigraphy or histologic section for the pulmonary one, were the most frequent examinations performed.
(10) Stratigraphy revealed lung metastases not identified by standard radiography in 4 patients (1.8%), while CT revealed metastases not identified by either standard X-rays or stratigraphy in a further 6 cases (2.7%).
(11) What will survive of us is plastic The Anthropocene Working Group of the Subcommission on Quaternary Stratigraphy – a title straight out of Gormenghast – was created in 2009.
(12) The International Commission on Stratigraphy (ICS), the world body that decides on geological time boundaries, is actively considering the question and a working group is due to report on the issue next year.
(13) Twenty-six patients underwent clinical examination, radiography of the skull and neck, lateral stratigraphy of epipharynx, and CT of head and neck.
(14) Like many things in the world of geology, little moves fast at the International Commission on Stratigraphy (ICS), the body that decides the time period we live in.
(15) The physiopathologic implications of electrophysiological data is discussed to illustrate the possibility of using Evoked Potentials to help resolve the problems of functional cerebral stratigraphy in man.
(16) The value of stratigraphy and pulmonary CT in the initial work-up of osteosarcoma of the extremities is assessed with reference to 217 patients encountered in the Bone Tumour Centre of Rizzoli Orthopaedic Institute in May 1983-May 1986.
(17) Its subcommission on quaternary stratigraphy set up a working group on the Anthropocene, filled it with a diverse range of experts, and handed the problem to them.
(18) He added that the study should not be taken as “conclusive statement” that the Anthropocene had arrived, but as “another level of information” for the debate on whether it should be formally declared an epoch by the International Commission on Stratigraphy (ICS).
(19) The radiological (radiography and stratigraphy) finding was significant in 42 of the 61 gallium-positive cases and negative in the remaining 19.