(n.) A duplicate book, register, or account, kept to correct or check another account or register; a counter register.
(n.) That which serves to check, restrain, or hinder; restraint.
(n.) Power or authority to check or restrain; restraining or regulating influence; superintendence; government; as, children should be under parental control.
(v. t.) To check by a counter register or duplicate account; to prove by counter statements; to confute.
(v. t.) To exercise restraining or governing influence over; to check; to counteract; to restrain; to regulate; to govern; to overpower.
Example Sentences:
(1) Indicators for evaluation and monitoring and outcome measures are described within the context of health service management to describe control measure output in terms of community effectiveness.
(2) In contrast, arteries which were exposed to CO showed a higher uptake of cholesterol as compared to their corresponding control.
(3) Arda Turan's deflected long-range strike puts Atlético back in control.
(4) During control, no significant difference between systolic fluctuation (delta Pa) and pleural swings (delta Ppl) was found.
(5) This bone could not be degraded by human monocytes in vitro as well as control bone (only 54% of control; P less than 0.003).
(6) Nutritionally rehabilitated animals had similar numbers of nucleoli to control rats.
(7) The rise of malaria despite of control measures involves several factors: the house spraying is no more accepted by a large percentage of house holders and the alternative larviciding has only a limited efficacy; the houses of American Indians have no walls to be sprayed; there is a continuous introduction of parasites by migrants.
(8) Models able to describe the events of cellular growth and division and the dynamics of cell populations are useful for the understanding of functional control mechanisms and for the theoretical support for automated analysis of flow cytometric data and of cell volume distributions.
(9) Intravesical BCG is clearly superior to oral BCG, and controlled studies have demonstrated that percutaneous administration is not necessary.
(10) Spectrophotometric determination of the sulfhydryl content in the animal tissue before (control) and after using 6,6'-Dithiodinicotinic acid is applied.
(11) If the method was taken into routine use in a diagnostic laboratory, the persistence of reverse passive haemagglutination reactions would enable grouping results to be checked for quality control purposes.
(12) The half-life of 45Ca in the various calcium fractions of both types of bone was 72 hours in both the control and malnourished groups except the calcium complex portion of the long bone of the control group, which was about 100 hours.
(13) All subjects completed the Coping Strategies Questionnaire, which measures the use and perceived effectiveness of a variety of cognitive and behavioral coping strategies in controlling and decreasing pain.
(14) Biden will meet with representatives from six gun groups on Thursday, including the NRA and the Independent Firearms Owners Association, which are both publicly opposed to stricter gun-control laws.
(15) The goals in control patients were to attain normal values for all hemodynamic measurements.
(16) After 55 days of unrestricted food availability the body weight of the neonatally deprived rats was approximately 15% lower than that of the controls.
(17) Comparison with 194 age and sex matched subjects, without STD, were chosen as controls.
(18) gamma-Aminobutyric acid (GABA) and glutamate release from the treated side was higher than the control value during the first 2-3 h, a result indicating an important role of glial cells in the inactivation of released transmitter.
(19) Collagen production of rapidly thawed ligaments was studied by proline incubation at 1 day, 9 days, or 6 weeks after freezing and was compared with that of contralateral fresh controls.
(20) 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.
Mesmerism
Definition:
(n.) The art of inducing an extraordinary or abnormal state of the nervous system, in which the actor claims to control the actions, and communicate directly with the mind, of the recipient. See Animal magnetism, under Magnetism.
Example Sentences:
(1) Mesmer, the controversial Austrian doctor, was known for his theory of animal magnetism.
(2) That was brilliant defending, but absolutely mesmeric play by City, especially by Silva and Nasri.
(3) The Medical History Society of New Jersey awarded the Stephen Wickes Prize in the History of Medicine to this original essay on Franz Anton Mesmer.
(4) Will Hughes, Tom Carroll and Forster-Caskey all displayed some mesmeric touches – Carroll’s 60-yard crossfield ball that sent Redmond in was exquisite – but the arrival of Tom Ince to play just off Kane with half an hour to go made a difference.
(5) At the other end of the rink, Jonathan Quick can be inhumanly mesmerizing when called upon by the Kings to save the day.
(6) This handful of live shows spawned a million Facebook likes-worth of hype – given that they were a rare combination of a rock band with the muscle of the American pitbull outside, but built around Brittany's mesmeric, soulful stage presence.
(7) The genesis of the amaurosis, the problem of a real therapeutical influence by Mesmer and, especially, the relationship between the music as a therapeutical medium and the musical personality of the patient are discussed in detail.
(8) And with all the mesmeric revelations at the royal courts, poor Tommy Sheridan sits in his living room , ringed by an electronic tag that forces him home before the moon rises.
(9) This brief note on the history of Bedford Square shows that this part of London was prominent in nineteenth century medicine and, in particular, was involved in the early practice of mesmerism in this country.
(10) Over a minimal, mesmeric loop, our anti-hero wakes up to find his girlfriend not in bed next to him.
(11) But his icy blue eyes were kind and mesmerizing, and the world was brighter when we were together.
(12) When Mesmer reinvented 'animal magnetism' in 1776 as a fashionable term for treatment by suggestion, he appropriated theoretical, technical and social methods from the established ways of the experiments on static electricity.
(13) There was a directness to their pressure and passing that hadn't been there for much of the season, while RSL were not allowed the space to get their usual mesmerizing passing game going.
(14) The musician and composer Maria Theresia Paradis (1759-1824) blind since her earliest childhood was treated in 1777 by the physician Dr. Franz-Anton Mesmer (1734-1815).
(15) Since Mesmer, there has been much confusion about the inter-relationship between an individual's degree of hypnotizability, the personality style of the individual and the importance of the therapeutic strategy.
(16) Gmelin had only recently become interested in mesmerism and tried this procedure with this patient.
(17) To others she is a mentally ill wannabe mesmerized by the idea of victimization.
(18) Built for the most part around the gentle tunes of singer Martin Courtney, and articulated by the complementary melodic lines of lead guitarist Matt Mondanile, Real Estate songs are almost architecturally detailed, their mesmeric repetitions evocative of streets whose layout is calm and unvarying, but within whose borders emotional stories are covertly played out.
(19) The continued presence of this phenomenon in Western psychotherapy from Mesmerism to psychoanalysis is shown.
(20) The homily mesmerized hundreds of thousands beyond the parkway, with Jumbotrons relaying the mass to pilgrims and passersby who gazed, rapt, in the hushed heart of a usually hectic city.