(a.) Including much; comprising many things; having a wide scope or a full view.
(a.) Having the power to comprehend or understand many things.
(a.) Possessing peculiarities that are characteristic of several diverse groups.
Example Sentences:
(1) The manufacturers, British Aerospace describe it as a "single-seat, radar equipped, lightweight, multi-role combat aircraft, providing comprehensive air defence and ground attack capability".
(2) Comprehensive regulations are being developed to limit human exposure to contamination in drinking water by the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) under the authority of the Safe Drinking Water Act (SDWA).
(3) Further study both of the signaling events that lead to MPF activation and of the substrates for phosphorylation by MPF should lead to a comprehensive understanding of the biochemistry of cell division.
(4) A comprehensive review of the roentgenographic features of calcium pyrophosphate crystal deposition disease (pseudogout) is presented.
(5) What is striking is the comprehensive and strategic approach they have.
(6) This report represents the first comprehensive description of instantaneous and continous phasic blood velocity at the mitral valve during atrial arrhythmias in man.
(7) That’s a criticism echoed by Democrats in the Senate, who issued a report earlier this month criticising Republicans for passing sweeping legislation in July to combat addiction , the Comprehensive Addiction and Recovery Act (Cara), but refusing to fund it.
(8) This paper describes the demographic, clinical, and psychosocial characteristics of a sample of chronically mentally ill clients at a large comprehensive community mental health center.
(9) Subtle cognitive deficits in Inferential Reading Comprehension were detected when Reading Vocabulary was at or better than a twelfth grade level.
(10) Broad-based secular comprehensives that draw in families across the class, faith and ethnic spectrum, entirely free of private control, could hold a new appeal.
(11) Therefore, a comprehensive study of human immunodeficiency virus type 1 report forms was conducted from state-licensed testing laboratories in California.
(12) However, it remains clear that new and innovative techniques are necessary in the therapeutic, adjuvant, and palliative settings in the comprehensive care of the patient with hepatocellular carcinoma.
(13) They include comprehensiveness of participation and of areas for review (the review committee should represent all disciplines and programs, and should be concerned with any aspect of center functioning), a problem-review approach in which subcommittees carry out documented studies of issues or problems, and specific provision for feedback and implementation of the results.
(14) The efficient and reliable assessment of general community health requires the development of comprehensive and parsimonious measures of proven validity.
(15) Understanding pathophysiology, educating patients, and performing comprehensive nursing assessments will be of great importance to this at-risk population.
(16) And that is why we have taken bold action at home – by making historic investments in renewable energy; by putting our people to work increasing efficiency in our homes and buildings; and by pursuing comprehensive legislation to transform to a clean energy economy.
(17) In addition, we will introduce our popular content to new UK audiences and create a comprehensive offering for our commercial partners on-air and online."
(18) The postulated deficit is contrasted to the hypothesis of impairment to the lexical-semantic component, required to explain performance by brain-damaged subjects described elsewhere who make seemingly identical types of oral production errors to those of RGB and HW, but, in addition, make comparable errors in writing and comprehension tasks.
(19) The functional basis of this complex is a block controlling the information input, and it is described comprehensively.
(20) With the new federalism, nutritionists must articulate their role in comprehensive health care and market their services at the state and local levels in addition to the federal level.
Overview
Definition:
(n.) An inspection or overlooking.
Example Sentences:
(1) The individual classes of drugs are first treated separately to highlight specific aspects of their quantification, and this is followed by an overview of those methods permitting the concomitant analysis of two or more antiepileptic compounds.
(2) This report is an overview of the data and has incorporated some additional findings of the influence of the ACTH4-9 analog, Org2766, on neuronal excitation, especially in the hippocampus.
(3) This paper provides an overview of the theory, indicating its contributions--such as a basis for individual psychotherapy of severe disorders and a more effective understanding of countertransference--and its shortcomings--such as lack of an explanation for the effects of physical and cognitive factors on object relatedness.
(4) By scoring every section of a tooth in this way, an overview was obtained of the location of all caries lesions in the occlusal surface.
(5) We have attempted to provide an overview of the Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act as it pertains to animal drugs and feed additives.
(6) This introductory chapter has presented an overview of how retroviruses replicate and how they are classified within the family Retroviridae.
(7) This review attempts to give an overview of present and developing ERCP- and EST-based diagnostic and interventive techniques and their application to the wide spectrum of pancreatobiliary diseases.
(8) In this overview, we will report our experience with balloon dilatation of DMSS in six children.
(9) An overview of laparoscopic sterilization techniques from a historical and practical viewpoint includes instrumentation, operative techniques, mechanical occlusive devices, anesthesia, failure rates, morbidity and mortality.
(10) The surgical procedure is discussed and an overview of the authors' long-term results are included.
(11) We have attempted to give a broad overview of issues of importance to the surgeon that may arise in the management of the immunocompromised patient.
(12) This article is intended to provide an overview of the various methods used to study renal elimination of compounds.
(13) This paper intends to give the reader an overview of the complexity of the relationship of urban stress to behavioral changes and chronic disease.
(14) We will give an overview of the recent achievements in the understanding of protein translocation across mitochondrial membranes.
(15) We arrive also to the conclusion that, in contradiction with what we have seen in the literature overview, it seems that narcissistic personality disorders have no negative effect on literary creation.
(16) An overview is presented of the physiology and so-called pathophysiology of static muscle contractions in the intact living organism.
(17) The present paper, which summarizes the earlier data and reports the most recent findings, provides an overview of the extended behavioral consequences of the original aversive procedures administered five years ago.
(18) This introductory overview highlights the issues that are addressed in this Clinics devoted to non-small cell lung cancer.
(19) The profiles provide a visual overview of the quantitative (doses) and qualitative (test results) data for each chemical.
(20) This study is an overview of 2,515 consecutive autopsies on newborn infants who died during the first 28 days of life at the Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, during the period 1970-1989.