(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.
Propaedeutic
Definition:
(a.) Alt. of Propaedeutical
Example Sentences:
(1) Three personal cases of duodenal cancer treated at the Department of Propaedeutics of Surgical Diseases of the Research Institute of Surgery in Sofia for the period 1981-May 1990 are reported.
(2) Students majoring in Medicine undergo a propaedeutic written test, consisting in a number of multiple choice questions, before proceeding to the oral examination in radiology.
(3) From the very beginning the "Propaedeutic Clinic" was attached to the department, with the initial function of providing the necessary demonstration material for the lectures.
(4) Ludwig Traube (1818-1876), director of the Propaedeutic Clinic of the Charité, analysed the kidney diseases by means of simple clinical and morphological techniques.
(5) An analysis was made of the data necessary to establish a pre-university propaedeutic course in the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Panama, and its qualitative and quantitative evaluation of the results obtained.
(6) 6 cases of suprarenal phaeochromocytoma were operated on at the Department of Special Surgical Pathology and Clinical Propaedeutics of the University of Turin between 1954 and 1975.
(7) Yet, interesting propaedeutical signs suggest some kinds or ranges of glottic dysrhythmia, and allow a rough estimation of jitter and shimmer, both to be considered as fundamental physiopathological parameters.
(8) The department had altogether four directors between 1872 and 1945 (the propaedeutic clinic was dissolved in 1935 already): Philipp Knoll (1841-1900), Heinrich Ewald Hering (1866-1948), Artur Biedl (1869-1933) and Julius Rihl (1879-1961).
(9) Audio-visual and printed teaching and learning aids are used for the instruction in the subject of "propaedeutics of prosthetic stomatology".
(10) A propaedeutic lesson in forensic medicine is given for Vets.
(11) For propaedeutic evaluations of aneurysmal bone cysts 851 cases in world literature are reported.
(12) It has been of value in propaedeutic and clinical instruction.
(13) Personal experience is recorded in the surgical treatment of 12 patients with gastric polyposis at the Department of Propaedeutics of Surgical Diseases of the Research Institute of Surgery, for a period of 10 years (1981-1990).
(14) This evidence for the strong heritability of most psychological traits, sensibly construed, does not detract from the value or importance of parenting, education, and other propaedeutic interventions.
(15) Results indicate that scintiscanning of the liver is a good propaedeutic method in the evaluation of the presence and localization of traumatic hepatic lesion.
(16) From a review study of files, the authors concluded that laparoscopy is a very important propaedeutic method, specially in the oncology department, in the diagnosis of primary tumors and metastatic.
(17) The hypertensive preparation "Tendor" of the Hungarian firm "Chinoin" was applied in the treatment at the Clinic of Propaedeutics of Internal Diseases.