(a.) Set right, or made straight; hence, conformable to truth, rectitude, or propriety, or to a just standard; not faulty or imperfect; free from error; as, correct behavior; correct views.
(v. t.) To make right; to bring to the standard of truth, justice, or propriety; to rectify; as, to correct manners or principles.
(v. t.) To remove or retrench the faults or errors of; to amend; to set right; as, to correct the proof (that is, to mark upon the margin the changes to be made, or to make in the type the changes so marked).
(v. t.) To bring back, or attempt to bring back, to propriety in morals; to reprove or punish for faults or deviations from moral rectitude; to chastise; to discipline; as, a child should be corrected for lying.
(v. t.) To counteract the qualities of one thing by those of another; -- said of whatever is wrong or injurious; as, to correct the acidity of the stomach by alkaline preparations.
Example Sentences:
(1) Standardization is possible after correction by the protein content of each individual section.
(2) Correction for within-person variation in urinary excretion increased this partial correlation coefficient between intake and excretion to 0.59 (95% CI = 0.03 to 0.87).
(3) The significance of minor increases in the serum creatinine level must be recognized, so that modifications of drug therapy can be made and correction of possibly life-threatening electrolyte imbalances can be undertaken.
(4) On the basis of 180 interventions, they describe in detail the use of fibrin glue in myringo- and tympanoplasty for correct fixing of grafts.
(5) However it is important to recognize these cysts so that correct surgical management is offered to the patient.
(6) In the group of high myopia (over 20 D), the mean correction was 13.4 D. In the group with refraction between 0 and 6 D, 88% of the eyes treated had attained a correction between -1 and +1 D 3 months postoperatively.
(7) Cor triatriatum (CT) is a rare congenital defect, surgically correctable, and sometimes difficult to diagnose by cardiac catheterization.
(8) Anytime they feel parts of the Basic Law are not up to their current standards of political correctness, they will change it and tell Hong Kong courts to obey.
(9) The goals of treatment are the restoration of normal gut peristalsis and the correction of nutritional deficiencies.
(10) Four delayed going to a medical facility and six did not have hypotension corrected.
(11) The evidence suggests that by the age of 15 years many adolescents show a reliable level of competence in metacognitive understanding of decision-making, creative problem-solving, correctness of choice, and commitment to a course of action.
(12) The time for 90% of this change in VelCO2 to occur (T90) was measured as an index of the rate of correction of body CO2 imbalance.
(13) If the latter is not readily correctable or if the patient is bleeding actively, anticoagulation with intermittent administration of heparin by the intravenous route is indicated.
(14) Of the 16 cases, 14 (88%) were diagnosed as TSS or probable TSS by the attending physician, although only nine (64%) of the 14 diagnosed cases were given the correct discharge code.
(15) The lower limit (LL) of CBF autoregulation was calculated by a computerized program and tested for different factors for correction of the PaCO2-induced changes in CBF.
(16) SD corrected high serum PTH and low serum testosterone (sT) levels, while pituitary hormones (LH, FSH, PRL) were elevated and did not change.
(17) 3) The first who presumed an independent state of these microorganisms, was Kohlert (1968), from the work of which the epithet for correct name, i.e.
(18) On the other hand, if we correct for the population of HMM with degraded light chain 2, the difference in the binding constants in the presence and absence of Ca2+ may be as great as 5-fold.
(19) Rachitic bone lesions were only partially corrected by the high-Ca diet.
(20) Cytosolic-to-mitochondrial ratios from maximal initial rates after correction for mitochondrial breakage were increased above controls in diabetic hearts for nucleoside diphosphokinase and aspartate aminotransferase.
Corrector
Definition:
(n.) One who, or that which, corrects; as, a corrector of abuses; a corrector of the press; an alkali is a corrector of acids.
Example Sentences:
(1) The Lynn Magnathologic Corrector is an orthopedic mechanical and magnetic traction device designed to enhance the concepts of the Bio-Finisher.
(2) Although it is true that the resistance to parasites and the need to avoid a mutational collapse of the genome are likely to have called for some compartmentation in precellular stages of evolution, no clear demonstration, that the proposed mechanisms (the compartmentalized hypercycle and the stochastic corrector model) do in fact solve the error threshold problem, exists.
(3) Methyl-dopa and pyridoxine served as a corrector of levopa.
(4) It might consist of a field emission source, an electron gun to decelerate the electrons, a condenser lens to produce a parallel beam, a multipole corrector and a short focal length objective lens.
(5) The combination of the metabolic correctors exerted a lesser effect on the fractional composition of hemoglobins, producing a well-defined positive action on erythrocyte function, decelerating the processes of their ageing.
(6) The purpose of this study was to evaluate treatment effects of the magnetic active vertical corrector appliance (AVC) when used to treat anterior openbites in a sample of growing patients.
(7) Neither residual apneas, changes in pulmonary function, change in anatomic dead space, nor changes in ventilatory chemoresponsiveness differentiated the two groups, nor did the last three factors account for return to eucapnia in the correctors.
(8) Researches are being conducted : 1) to obtain long-acting antiparkinsonian correctors ; 2) to find out some form of lithium salts which, after one administration, would allow a stable nycthemeral lithiemy.
(9) The stochastic corrector model is presented as an alternative resolution of Eigen's paradox.
(10) The correspondance computer-corrector is 88 p. 100 for the three principal phases: waking, slow sleep and paradoxical sleep.
(11) The Lynn Magnathologic Corrector is an evolutionary advance in both performance and convenience for the doctor and the patient.
(12) A gamma-camera on-line distortion corrector, based on a fast microprocessor, has been tested on two cameras.
(13) The first French publications upon its use as a neuroleptic corrector date from 1972.
(14) The exertion and risk factors in relation with the state of health, with the psychophysiological reactivity and with the adaptation and fatigue symptomatology were studied by means of complex psychological, psychophysiological, medical) methods in two professional groups that perform an activity implying important mental and sensorial components: monotasterers and correctors, from three polygraphic enterprises and two publishing houses, totalling 167 subjects (74 monotasterers and 93 correctors).
(15) In the article is summarized the experience of treatment of 15 patients with dysplastic lumbar scoliosis of the II and III degree by the method of electrostimulation of dorsal muscles by means of walking corrector.
(16) Practical: prevention by moderated and adapted prescription of neuroleptics, specially for long term treatments and oldest patients; anticholinergic correctors must be cautiously prescribed.
(17) Further advancement of the instrumental performance might be accomplished in different ways, including the use of high coherence conditions combined with image restoration; the use of higher accelerating voltages; the use of aberration correctors; or the use of conditions for incoherent image formation.
(18) Only sodium and potassium interfere at 500-fold concentrations, and their interferences were overcome by using the Deuterium Arc Background Corrector.
(19) Side-effects were frequent: extrapyramidal syndroms, often requiring antiparkinsonian correctors, somnolence, asthenia, and above all (in 30 percent of cases) psychical side-effects, consisting in depressive and anxious modifications of mood, even apart from manic-melancholic psychosis.
(20) The efficacy of rheopolyglucin and complex blood correctors based on it was demonstrated in experiments on 86 albino male rats.