(n.) The act of moving from one point to another; progress; passage.
(n.) The ground or path traversed; track; way.
(n.) Motion, considered as to its general or resultant direction or to its goal; line progress or advance.
(n.) Progress from point to point without change of direction; any part of a progress from one place to another, which is in a straight line, or on one direction; as, a ship in a long voyage makes many courses; a course measured by a surveyor between two stations; also, a progress without interruption or rest; a heat; as, one course of a race.
(n.) Motion considered with reference to manner; or derly progress; procedure in a certain line of thought or action; as, the course of an argument.
(n.) Customary or established sequence of events; recurrence of events according to natural laws.
(n.) Method of procedure; manner or way of conducting; conduct; behavior.
(n.) A series of motions or acts arranged in order; a succession of acts or practices connectedly followed; as, a course of medicine; a course of lectures on chemistry.
(n.) The succession of one to another in office or duty; order; turn.
(n.) That part of a meal served at one time, with its accompaniments.
(n.) A continuous level range of brick or stones of the same height throughout the face or faces of a building.
(n.) The lowest sail on any mast of a square-rigged vessel; as, the fore course, main course, etc.
(n.) The menses.
(v. t.) To run, hunt, or chase after; to follow hard upon; to pursue.
(v. t.) To cause to chase after or pursue game; as, to course greyhounds after deer.
(v. t.) To run through or over.
(v. i.) To run as in a race, or in hunting; to pursue the sport of coursing; as, the sportsmen coursed over the flats of Lancashire.
(v. i.) To move with speed; to race; as, the blood courses through the veins.
Example Sentences:
(1) This particular variant of rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is characterized by the presence of subcutaneous rheumatoid nodules, scanty or absent systemic manifestations and a clinically benign course.
(2) A 2.5-month-old child with cyanotic heart disease who required long-term PGE1 infusions; developed widespread periosteal reactions during the course of therapy.
(3) These included bringing in the A* grade, reducing the number of modules from six to four, and a greater attempt to assess the whole course at the end.
(4) Therefore, it is suggested that PE patients without endogenous erythroid colonies may follow almost the same clinical course as SP patients.
(5) Twenty-seven patients were randomized to receive either 50 mg stanozolol or placebo intramuscularly 24 h before operation, followed by a 6 week course of either 5 mg stanozolol or placebo orally, twice daily.
(6) It is followed by rapid neurobehavioral deterioration in late infancy or early childhood, a developmental arrest, plateauing, and then either a course of retarded development or continued deterioration.
(7) In dorsoventral (DV) reversed wings at both shoulder or flank level, the motor axons do not alter their course as they enter the graft.
(8) The program met with continued support and enthusiasm from nurse administrators, nursing unit managers, clinical educators, ward staff and course participants.
(9) Of course the job is not done and we will continue to remain vigilant to all risks, particularly when the global economic situation is so uncertain,” the chancellor said in a statement.
(10) low molecular weight dextran in the course of right heart catheterization.
(11) Community involvement is a key element of the Primary Health Care (PHC) approach, and thus an essential topic on a course for managers of Primary Health Care programmes.
(12) The time-course and dose-response for this modification of pp60c-src paralleled PDGF-induced increases in phosphorylation of pp36, a major cellular substrate for several tyrosine-specific protein kinases.
(13) 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.
(14) The course of urogenital tuberculosis is complicated by unspecific bacterial infections of the urinary tract and nephrolithiasis.
(15) In the course of the syndrome development blood vessel permeability was increased in the anterior chamber of the eye.
(16) Mieko Nagaoka took just under an hour and 16 minutes to finish the race as the sole competitor in the 100 to 104-year-old category at a short course pool in Ehime, western Japan , on Saturday.
(17) The time course of the current potentiation was similar to that seen with beta-adrenergic stimulation.
(18) Such complications as intracerebral haematoma or meningeal haemorrhage may occur during the usually benign course of the disease.
(19) Several dimensions of the outcome of 86 schizophrenic patients were recorded 1 year after discharge from inpatient index-treatment to complete a prospective study concerning the course of illness (rehospitalization, symptoms, employment and social contacts).
(20) The course was further complicated by administration of gentamicin, an antibiotic known to potentiate neuromuscular blocking drugs.
Dialing
Definition:
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Dial
(n.) The art of constructing dials; the science which treats of measuring time by dials.
(n.) A method of surveying, especially in mines, in which the bearings of the courses, or the angles which they make with each other, are determined by means of the circumferentor.
Example Sentences:
(1) Using a 1-stage random-digit dial telephone survey, we estimated the number of pet dogs and cats and cancer case ascertainment in the principal catchment area of an animal tumor registry in Indiana, the Purdue Comparative Oncology Program (PCOP).
(2) Treatment of Xenopus laevis membranes with the 2',3'-dialdehyde of GTP (dial GTP) drastically inhibits their adenylyl cyclase activity.
(3) Somebody rashly asked if he listened to the recently reprieved 6 Music – no – or even Radio 1, which he only caught, he said, when turning the dial between Radios 3 and 4.
(4) For the embattled people of Ali Akbar Dial, a collection of disappearing villages on the southern tip of the island in Bangladesh , the distant trees serve as a bittersweet reminder of what they have lost and a warning of what is come.
(5) This enabled the technologist to dial in each patient's identification number, which then appeared on every frame of the 35-mm film used.
(6) Controls were identified by random-digit dialing and from lists of Medicare recipients.
(7) Dial-A-Flo has no advantage over a standard administration set alone, and should not be used for controlled administration of cardiac drugs.
(8) The effects of barrier and spermicidal methods of contraception on cervical cancer risk were examined by studying 479 cases of histologically confirmed invasive cervical cancer cases and 788 random digit dialing controls.
(9) During trials to increase temperature, subjects were shown a dial indicating temperature of an index finger and were instructed to try to warm their hands.
(10) The 4536 controls were women of similar ages selected by random dialing of households with telephones in the same eight areas.
(11) A factorial design was used to determine the influence of carrier-gas helium concentration, carrier-gas flow rate and vaporizer dial setting on the output of four vaporizers: Ohio Calibrated Enflurane, Ohio Calibrated Isoflurane, Ohmeda Isotec 4, and Dräger Vapor 19.1 Isoflurane.
(12) The use of digital reader boards, displayed in watts rather than an arbitrary dial setting is one example.
(13) The controls were 4676 women selected by random-digit dialing of the population of each area covered by a registry.
(14) Output was converted to % of baseline so that different dial settings could be compared.
(15) Interviews with 478 controls of the same age, identified through telephone random-digit dialing, were conducted twice during the same time period.
(16) Controls were selected by random digit dialing to approximate the case distribution by age, sex, and telephone exchange area.
(17) Control subjects were identified by random-digit dialing from these same regions and were frequency-matched to men with lymphoma by age.
(18) In rabbits anaesthetized with Dial ACh has been collected from the surface of the cerebral cortex during stimulation of the visual pathways.2.
(19) Behind the scenes, shareholders did encourage Reckitt to dial down Becht's rewards in 2007.
(20) A spring-loaded dial indicator produces results that are accurate, precise and reproducible.