(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.
Monocle
Definition:
(n.) An eyeglass for one eye.
Example Sentences:
(1) Monoclate was the first essentially pure form of factor VIII available for hemophilia therapy.
(2) Hemofil M, Monoclate HT, and Monoclate P are high-purity Factor VIII concentrates, obtained from plasma by immunoaffinity chromatography with monoclonal antibodies specific for Factor VIII (Hemofil M) or von Willebrand Factor (Monoclate HT and Monoclate P).
(3) Twelve patients were treated in three centers with Monoclate-P. Recovery and survival of factor VIII clotting activity were determined and patients were closely monitored for infusion safety.
(4) Recently, the availability of affinity isolated factor VIII (Monoclate) has allowed for a highly purified preparation for the chronic therapy of hemophilia A.
(5) What a Lovely War, The Monocled Mutineer and Blackadder, as a misbegotten shambles – a series of catastrophic mistakes perpetrated by an out-of-touch elite.
(6) Please, everyone, send all of your spare false beards, monocles and latex fake noses to Holland , care of AFC Ajax.
(7) The liquid pasteurized form of Monoclate represents a new standard for therapy that attempts to eliminate a broad spectrum of viral content in factor VIII preparations.
(8) These values are very similar to those found for Monoclate in previous studies indicating that pasteurized factor VIIIC purified by immunoaffinity chromatography retains satisfactory pharmacokinetic properties with an added margin of viral safety.
(9) His small circle of acquaintances included Hitler's interpreter Paul Schmidt, as well as a sinister-looking, monocled spy called Johann Jebsen.
(10) In the process of isolation of factor VIII from human plasma making use of immunoadsorbents prepared by coupling monoclonal murine antibodies to resins, trace amounts of murine immunoglobulin G (IgG) antibodies are released from the resin into the final Monoclate product.
(11) His article in the Daily Mail last Friday, attacking "leftwing academics all too happy to feed the myths" of Blackadder and The Monocled Mutineer , was clever but unwary journalism.
(12) Screening of sera from adults and children treated with Monoclate showed that in no case were any antibodies produced in response to injection of Monoclate.
(13) There are significant differences in cases with "monocle-haematomas" if the age difference of the haematomas is more than two days.
(14) Nevertheless, we have developed a series of highly sensitive and specific radioimmunoassays for the determination of human antibodies of the IgG, IgM, and IgE classes against the murine monoclonal IgG used for purification of Monoclate.
(15) In particular, 16 of 35 (46%) of patients receiving only monoclonally purified Factor VIII products (Monoclate or Hemofil-M) had a reduced serum haptoglobin value.
(16) When a two-stage assay was used, lower recoveries were calculated and the recovery with Hemofil-M was slightly but significantly lower than that with Monoclate.
(17) Monoclate (which is assayed by the manufacturer using a two-stage method) contained 97% of the labelled potency and Hemofil-M (which is assayed by the manufacturer using a one-stage method) contained 81% of the labelled potency.
(18) And this, contended the chief editor of the Egypt Monocle, Rania al-Malky, was Scaf's plan all along.
(19) Surprisingly, sera from several patients had a high activity against murine IgG both before and after treatment with Monoclate.
(20) What a Lovely War , The Monocled Mutineer and Blackadder .