(n.) A manuscript, especially of the New Testament, written in small, connected characters or in a running hand; -- opposed to uncial.
Example Sentences:
(1) The higher incidence in early grades was related to the earlier introduction of cursive style writing in the German sample.
(2) Most of patients with cursive seizures showed temporal lobe epileptiform discharge in EEG.
(3) At the end of the first year or the beginning of the second, they are then introduced to the cursive script and its loopier letters, which join together in a prescribed fashion.
(4) Seven cases of cursive and two cases of gelastic manifestations of epileptic seizures are presented.
(5) Reading and writing performance was observed in 30 adult aphasic patients to determine whether there was a significant difference when stimuli and manual responses were varied in the written form: cursive versus manuscript.
(6) In Experiment 1, response deprivation was used to improve the cursive writing of six EMR children, using math as the contingent response.
(7) Number of words correctly read, number of words correctly written, and number of letters correctly written in the proper sequence were tallied for both cursive and manuscript writing tasks for each patient.
(8) They will continue to teach block capitals, but the subtleties of cursive writing will no longer be transmitted outside the elite.
(9) Repeating endless cursive letters along wide-spaced, pale blue lines.
(10) Patients were asked to read aloud 10 words written cursively and 10 words written in manuscript form.
(11) Both seem to have emerged in the Bronze Age, when patterns of artistry and cursive writing became fixed; but, by the time the alphabet was invented, the patterns became complicated by human perversity and racial rivalries, with an interesting, often damaging, legacy to the civilisations and cultures that followed.
(12) The effects of EMG biofeedback training on cursive handwriting were investigated for 4 girls and 5 boys in Grade 4.
(13) When the most prominent ictal symptom in an epileptic seizure is laughing or running the condition has been termed respectively gelastic or cursive epilepsy.
(14) Grace Owens of Brunswick, Georgia, wearing a hat that read “deplorable” in cursive script and a T-shirt that proclaimed America First, thought neither candidate won the debate.
(15) The collection includes 14 notebooks filled with research notes in small cursive handwriting, letters to Einstein's contemporaries on his physics research, and a handwritten explanation of his theory of relativity and its summarising equation e=mc2.
(16) Chelsea Manning joins Twitter and gets over 1,000 followers before posting Read more In the tweeted note, written in small cursive handwriting in black ink on lined paper, she said that she had asked a friend, Trevor FitzGibbon , a few weeks ago to set up the Twitter account.
(17) Written towards the end of his life in England, where he was born, there is no hint of the monster in the curlicues of a neat, cursive hand.
(18) They were then asked to write on dictation 10 words responses using cursive writing and 10 words using manuscript writing.
(19) The basic task was to write the words 'poppy' and 'wood' cursively five times, the first time in their normal size and then with four size transformations.
(20) The children only began working on them yesterday but they’re already miniature masterpieces – the pictures are bright and intricate, the writing is elegant cursive and the stories are dramatic, with speech bubbles and exclamation marks.
Successive
Definition:
(a.) Following in order or in uninterrupted course; coming after without interruption or interval; following one after another in a line or series; consecutive; as, the successive revolution of years; the successive kings of Egypt; successive strokes of a hammer.
(a.) Having or giving the right of succeeding to an inheritance; inherited by succession; hereditary; as, a successive title; a successive empire.
Example Sentences:
(1) Multiple stored energy levels were randomly tested and the percent successful defibrillation was plotted against the stored energy, and the raw data were fit by logistic regression.
(2) By presenting the case history of a man who successively developed facial and trigeminal neural dysfunction after Mohs chemosurgery of a PCSCC, this paper documents histologically the occurrence of such neural invasion, and illustrates the utility of gadolinium-enhanced magnetic resonance scanning in patient management.
(3) Previous attempts to purify this enzyme from the liquid endosperm of kernels of Zea mays (sweet corn) were not entirely successful owing to the lability of partially purified preparations during column chromatography.
(4) Recently, it has been shown that radiation therapy, alone or combined with chemotherapy, can be successful.
(5) The most successful dyes were phenocyanin TC, gallein, fluorone black, alizarin cyanin BB and alizarin blue S. Celestin blue B with an iron mordant is quite successful if properly handled to prevent gelling of solutions.
(6) An association of cyclophosphamide, fluorouracil and methotrexate already employed with success against solid tumours in other sites was used in the treatment of 62 patients with advanced tumours of the head and neck.
(7) The availability and success of changes in reproductive technology should lead to a reappraisal of the indications for hysterectomy, especially in young women.
(8) After a discussion of the therapeutic relationship, several coping strategies which have been used successfully by many women are described and therapeutic applications are offered.
(9) In this study, standby and prophylactic patients had comparable success and major complication rates, but procedural morbidity was more frequent in prophylactic patients.
(10) The result of this study demonstrates that both the "hat" and "inverted" type grafts are highly successful and satisfactory procedures.
(11) Different therapeutic success rates have been reported by various authors who used the same combination of therapy.
(12) The success in these two infertile patients who had already undergone lengthy psychotherapy is promising.
(13) Compared with conservative management, better long-term success (determined by return of athletic soundness and less evidence of degenerative joint disease) was achieved with surgical curettage of elbow subchondral cystic lesions.
(14) Fitch said there was “material risk to the success of the restructuring”.
(15) While they may always be encumbered by censorship in a way that HBO is not, the success of darker storylines, antiheroes and the occasional snow zombie will not be lost in an entertainment industry desperate to maintain its share of the audience.
(16) Attempts to eliminate congenital dislocation of the hip by detecting it early have not been completely successful.
(17) Thus, successful thrombolysis decreases the frequency of ventricular ectopic activity and late potentials in the early postinfarction phase.
(18) The successful treatment of the painful neuroma remains an elusive surgical goal.
(19) A previous trial into the safety and feasibility of using bone marrow stem cells to treat MS, led by Neil Scolding, a clinical neuroscientist at Bristol University, was deemed a success last year.
(20) First treatment consisted of six-hour infusions on six successive days.