(a.) Following in a train; succeeding one another in a regular order; successive; uninterrupted in course or succession; with no interval or break; as, fifty consecutive years.
(a.) Following as a consequence or result; actually or logically dependent; consequential; succeeding.
(a.) Having similarity of sequence; -- said of certain parallel progressions of two parts in a piece of harmony; as, consecutive fifths, or consecutive octaves, which are forbidden.
Example Sentences:
(1) In this study of ten consecutive patients sustaining molten metal injuries to the lower extremity who were treated with excision and grafting, treatment with compression Unna paste boot was compared with that with conventional dressing.
(2) within 12 h of birth followed by similar injections every day for 10 consecutive days and then every second day for a further 8 weeks, with mycoplasma broth medium (tolerogen), to induce immune tolerance.
(3) This study compared the non-invasive vascular profiles, coagulation tests, and rheological profiles of 46 consecutive cases of low-tension glaucoma with 69 similarly unselected cases of high-tension glaucoma and 47 age-matched controls.
(4) The first phase evaluated cytologic and colposcopic diagnoses in 962 consecutive patients in a community practice.
(5) To the remaining patients who suffered from severe insomnia, 7-chloro-5-(2-chlorophenyl)-1,3-dihydro-2H-1,4-benzodiazepin-2-one (chlordesmethyldiazepam, 2 mg orally) was administered for 7 consecutive evenings.
(6) In order to develop a sampling strategy and a method for analyzing the circadian body temperature pattern, we monitored estimates of the temperature in four ways using rectal, oral, axillary and deep body temperature from the skin surface every hour for 72 consecutive hours in 10 normal control subjects.
(7) The sensitivity of ejaculated spermatozoa to ouabain (in inhibitor of Na+-K+ ATPase) was determined on 4 consecutive weeks in November, March-April, and July-August.
(8) Striated muscle fibres were found in each of twenty consecutive pineal glands cultured from individual neonatal rats.2.
(9) One of the proteases obtained was found to catalyse cleavage on the COOH-side of peptide sequences containing consecutive hydrophobic and basic residues.
(10) The results of a prospective inquiry into the aspirin taking habits of a consecutive series of 118 patients admitted to a large general hospital with acute perforation of peptic ulcer are presented.
(11) In 120 consecutive patients who had colonic roentgenologic examination and no depressive sign, two had coccygeal and muscular pain at rectal touch.
(12) Fifty-five consecutive patients evaluated for allergy with MRT Classes 0 or 1 were studied.
(13) The electrophysiologic effects of intravenous propafenone were studied in 15 consecutive patients with accessory pathways.
(14) One hundred consecutive patients with uncomplicated gonorrhea were treated with 800 mg of cefixime.
(15) In a consecutive publication, we are going to report in which way the various nystagmic parameters of patients are being changed by different lesions of the vestibular system.
(16) In a retrospective study 94 consecutive patients with verified empyema caused by pneumonia were admitted to the department of either pulmonary medicine or thoracic surgery.
(17) This study examines both the diagnostic and anatomic etiology of acquired ptosis in 80 consecutive patients.
(18) In a study of 117 consecutive aortic valve replacements in which selective coronary perfusion was routinely employed, four patients developed coronary ostial stenosis (3.5 per cent).
(19) The 83 survivors of a consecutive series of children with spina bifida cystica, born between 1963 and 1971 and treated non-selectively since birth, were assessed by intelligence and developmental testing.
(20) This paper evaluates 94 patients with AAF and 462 patients with GBM treated with radiation therapy with or without BCNU on 3 consecutive randomized protocols of the Radiation Therapy Oncology Group (RTOG) between 1974 and 1983.
Sequent
Definition:
(a.) Following; succeeding; in continuance.
(a.) Following as an effect; consequent.
(n.) A follower.
(n.) That which follows as a result; a sequence.
Example Sentences:
(1) The sequentional changes of some morphometric parameters (lymph node weight, high endothelial venule (HEV)-content) after an antigenic challenge (sheep red blood cell; SRBC) and the alterations of HEV-function (HEV-adhesiveness measured with a HEV binding assay) were studied in rat lymph nodes over a period of seven days with daily measurements.
(2) The view is expressed that the abnormal catecholamine-induced lipolysis is solely due to changes at the level of the adrenergic receptors during fasting, whereas in diabetes mellitus the sequentional activation of lipolysis is disturbed at deeper sites as well.
(3) The method allows to record 64 sequent diffraction patterns with different duration (1--2000 ms).
(4) With joint or sequent use of acid stains of different ionic volume, permeability order of certain tissue elements, their relative permeability can be determined.
(5) One patient sustained a cerebral infarction and recovered with some sequent disability.
(6) In reparative osteogenesis proteoglycans and sialoproteins participated sequently in the management of calcification, as shown by analysis of specific correlations between mineral (calcium, phosphorus, carbonate and citrate) and organic components (collagen, non-collagenous proteins, hexuronic and sialic acids) in demineralized bone as well as in zones of the primary mineral deposition and crystallization, Solubilization of the complex of non-collagenous proteins and calcium phosphate might be important in demineralization of intact bone tissue of the animals studied.
(7) Our parallel program is built using C-Linda, a machine-independent parallel programming language, and was tested on both a 10 CPU Sequent Symmetry and a 64 CPU Intel Hypercube.
(8) We have been studies time sequent stability each on standard human-C-peptide, human-C-peptide antiserum, 125I-tyrosyl human-C-peptide and the assay kit (all reagent) which is necessary in human proinsulin-C-peptide radioimmunoassay(RIA).
(9) It comprised several sequental steps: quick flash, inhibition of the chemiluminescence, slow flash with subsequent steady-state luminescence.
(10) Kinetic parameters of 3H-products elimination estimated by means of sequental logarithmation enabled to suggest that ATCH and its free metabolites were intensively involved in biotransformation of molecules.
(11) The area occupied by cortical cells projecting to the spinal cord expands during the first postnatal week, but the axons of all these additional cells do not appear to invade the lower sequents of the spinal cord.
(12) It is proposed that the MLCK catalyzed phosphorylation of myosin 20 K-Da light chain may be an initial response and if so may influence the sequent reactions in the activation of platelets with collagen.
(13) The sequent testings under identical conditions were made after 3-12 months.
(14) Lipoprotein's separation was carried out by sequently ultracentrifugation and HDL2-HDL3 were isolated at a solvant density of 1.125 and 1.21; cholesterol was measured by enzymatic method.
(15) Type II groove, which appears to be sequent to type I groove, consists of a pair of "sub-grooves" running parallel.
(16) Regional blood distribution was calculated in both, the healthy and infarcted lung tissue by means at the sequental injection of radioactive microspheres.
(17) In sub sequent experiments which measured activity changes and response to the buzzing sound alone, it was found that magnesium pemoline caused a lesser decrease in activity level and a more sustained responsivity to the buzzer's.
(18) The complex genetic systems could be quickly evolving by relay-race principle with sequentional change of limiting genes and without violation of Haldane's dilemma.
(19) The fatty acid composition of the ole-1 and ole-1 petite mutants of Saccharomyces cerevisiae was manipulated by growing the organism in the presence of defined supplements of Tween 80 or by allowing cells that had first been grown in the presence of Tween 80 to deplete their unsaturated fatty acids by sequent growth in the absence of Tween 80.
(20) Consequently, the changes on the part of the subchondral bone tissues of the osteoarthritic femoral heads were the sequent, rather than the cause, of the articular lesions.