(n.) A brief compilation or composition, containing the principal heads, or general principles, of a larger work or system; an abridgment; an epitome; a compend; a condensed summary.
Example Sentences:
(1) His bestselling book is The Annotated Alice, a timeless compendium of footnotes to the two Alice books, and a decade ago he wrote a sequel to The Wizard Of Oz in which Dorothy and friends go to Manhattan.
(2) We have a few quotations from a compendium of jokes of the first emperor Augustus (not all brilliant: "When a man was nervously giving him a petition and kept putting his hand out, then drawing it back, the emperor quipped, 'Hey, do you think you're giving a penny to an elephant?'").
(3) The resulting compendium of objectives suggests that geriatric dentistry should become integrated into general dentistry, with relatively few competencies reserved for specialists.
(4) Despite significant progress, further advances in intestinal transplantation need to be made, because the small bowel poses unique problems in that it seems to represent a compendium of all the particularities and difficulties of other organ transplantations.
(5) This compendium presents the references by Journal Name.
(6) ‘Will not register works produced by nature, animals, or plants’ “Because copyright law is limited to ‘original intellectual conceptions of the author,’ the Office will refuse to register a claim if it determines that a human being did not create the work,” said the US Copyright Office in its latest compendium of practices published Tuesday .
(7) This compendium provides a quick reference to available tricyclic antidepressants, monoamine oxidase inhibitors, lithium carbonate, and stimulants.
(8) Stewart plays a fake anchor, tirelessly skewering the absurdities of US politics while Oliver plays his fake Senior British Correspondent, a walking compendium of British cliches.
(9) This result suggests that there is a lack of agreement among industrialized countries regarding what amount of information is necessary or appropriate for inclusion in a commercial drug compendium.
(10) The Orange Book contains public information and advice, but it is not an official national compendium; FDA has no position on state regulation of drug product selection by pharmacists.
(11) Dodgy decisions (1992's B-sides compendium, Greatest Misses ) and the explosion of MTV-friendly rap conspired against them their popularity waned.
(12) The purpose of this study was to determine what differences exist in the content of commercial drug compendium monographs available in First World and Third World countries.
(13) A compendium of the clinical experience with methylene chloride poisoning is presented.
(14) Several recent articles in the Compendium have emphasized the importance of differentiating between acute and chronic pain for purposes of appropriate clinical management.
(15) His 1993 collection, United States: Essays 1952-1992, is a huge and majestic compendium that charts not just Vidal's rumbustious life but the culture and politics of the country he could love and hate in the same sentence.
(16) It was found that the sensitivity of this new pyrogen test to bacterial lipopolysaccharides is nearly the same as to sodium nucleinate, which is prescribed as pyrogen standard in the Pharmacopeia of the German Democratic Republic and recommended as such in the Compendium Medicamentorum.
(17) The ILC Compendium is "a snapshot of the older woman's life in the UK today", showing that many women outlive men, and suffer more poverty, illness, violence and abuse, and it calls for young women to campaign and make sure we don't become second-class citizens.
(18) Presented here is a compendium of studies investigating the fate of vascularized bone allografts.
(19) The two reference texts most frequently found in community pharmacists' libraries were Compendium of Pharmaceutical Specialties and Goodman and Gilman's The Pharmacological Basis of Therapeutics, the latter being available to only 49 percent of the pharmacists.
(20) Table 7 presents a compendium of laboratory investigations one should consider using when abnormalities are found in multiple organ systems.
Syllabus
Definition:
(n.) A compendium containing the heads of a discourse, and the like; an abstract.
Example Sentences:
(1) This is fostered by recent syllabuses and guides produced by British statutory bodies responsible for basic and postbasic nursing research.
(2) The role of the nurse in the care of mentally handicapped people is increasingly one of teaching and training using behavioural methods, as witnessed, for example, by the new RNMS syllabus.
(3) Even more welcome is the slimming-down of the syllabus in the new draft, after teachers complained about the overloading of the old one with endless facts and dates; far too many to teach in the time available in schools.
(4) The GCSE would be replaced by an English Baccalaureate certificate, with the first students beginning syllabuses in English, maths and sciences from 2015, with exams in 2017, to be followed by history, geography and languages.
(5) The Guardian revealed in March that draft guidelines for children in key stages 1-3 had removed discussion of climate change in the geography syllabus, with only a single reference to how carbon dioxide produced by humans affects the climate in the chemistry section.
(6) Hull served on the religious education conference that produced the Birmingham Agreed Syllabus of 1975, one of the earliest to move away from traditional ideas of religious instruction.
(7) Barriers to injury prevention are identified and the Prevention of Injury Programme contained in the Health Education Syllabus for primary school children is described.
(8) Given both the limited experience of Undergraduate Teaching in Primary Health Care (PHC) and the lack of contact between different teaching centres, we sought to identify the minimum contents of a potential Syllabus.
(9) National and regional training facilities with a suitably adapted syllabus in radiotherapy and oncology must be a part of these priorities and strategies.
(10) He described the decision to remove Education for Leisure from the syllabus as "absolutely ridiculous.
(11) At the Xth European Congress in Athens 1985 we dealt with the teaching of general pathology in European undergraduate education program in medicine, and both subject content, time, place, pedagogics and the construction of a syllabus guide in general pathology were discussed and defined in detail.
(12) A plastic surgery syllabus for third-year medical students is described.
(13) After a nauseating impromptu public love-in with historian Niall Ferguson , who undermined what had been a persuasive argument on the reorganisation of the history syllabus by suggesting we adopt the US model – was there ever a nation who understood less of the world?
(14) "I like Gove's new syllabus: algebra, divinity, rhetoric, sewing for the girls and a school trip to the workhouse.
(15) "The schools may also be required to teach a standard syllabus, because right now they can teach whatever they want.
(16) During the pilot project, a third-year resident studied a syllabus and reviewed slides, practiced performance skills, and observed colposcopies.
(17) The syllabus was announced by the minister for migration, Mark Harper, who complained that Labour's version featured "mundane information about water meters, how to find train timetables, and using the internet", as well as details of the welfare system.
(18) Syllabus-boundness ('Sylbism') emerges as a relatively independent trait, with a significant negative relationship to work satisfaction in both groups.
(19) • Language experts have welcomed the trend, but say students should be introduced to language study before secondary school • There was a big drop in pupils getting top grades in the sciences , after the introduction of new syllabuses and exams - 53.1% of science entries were awarded between an A* and a C, down from 60.7% last year.
(20) There was a big drop in pupils getting top grades in the sciences , after the introduction of new syllabuses and exams - 53.1% of science entries were awarded between an A* and a C, down from 60.7% last year.