(v. t.) To represent by drawing; to draw a plan of; to delineate; to trace or mark out; as, to describe a circle by the compasses; a torch waved about the head in such a way as to describe a circle.
(v. t.) To represent by words written or spoken; to give an account of; to make known to others by words or signs; as, the geographer describes countries and cities.
(v. t.) To distribute into parts, groups, or classes; to mark off; to class.
(v. i.) To use the faculty of describing; to give a description; as, Milton describes with uncommon force and beauty.
Example Sentences:
(1) Indicators for evaluation and monitoring and outcome measures are described within the context of health service management to describe control measure output in terms of community effectiveness.
(2) All transplants were performed using standard techniques, the operation for the two groups differing only as described above.
(3) In January 2011, the Nobel peace prize laureate was admitted to a Johannesburg hospital for what officials initially described as tests but what turned out to be an acute respiratory infection .
(4) The taxonomic relationship of strains H4-14 and 25a with previously described Xanthobacter strains was studied by numerical classification.
(5) Models able to describe the events of cellular growth and division and the dynamics of cell populations are useful for the understanding of functional control mechanisms and for the theoretical support for automated analysis of flow cytometric data and of cell volume distributions.
(6) The testing of other models and their failure to describe the kinetic observations are discussed.
(7) A group I subset (six animals), for which predominant cultivable microbiota was described, had a mean GI of 2.4.
(8) On the basis of 180 interventions, they describe in detail the use of fibrin glue in myringo- and tympanoplasty for correct fixing of grafts.
(9) Local embolism, vertebral distal-stump embolism, the dynamics of hemorrhagic infarction and embolus-in-transit are briefly described.
(10) This article describes a number of syndromes affecting the nail unit.
(11) King also described how representatives of every country at this month's G7 meeting in Canada seemed to be relying on an export-led recovery to revive their economies.
(12) Some commentators have described his ship, now facing more delays after a decade in development, as little more than a Heath Robinson machine.
(13) The small units described here could be inhibitory interneurons which convert the excitatory response of large units into inhibition.
(14) A disease in an IgD (lambda) plasmocytoma is described, where after therapy with Alkeran and prednisone a disappearance of all clinical and laboratory findings indicating an activity could be observed.
(15) These authors, therefore, conclude that this modified surgical approach is a viable alternative to the previously described procedures for resistant metatarsus adductus.
(16) It was the purpose of the present study to describe the normal pattern of the growth sites of the nasal septum according to age and sex by histological and microradiographical examination of human autopsy material.
(17) Each profile is described by a simple sequence of band transitions (BT-sequence).
(18) 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.
(19) The article describes an unusual case with development of a right anterior mediastinal mass after bypass surgery with internal mammary artery grafts.
(20) One rare case of blind-ending branch originating in the upper third of the ureter are described.
Ethnography
Definition:
(n.) That branch of knowledge which has for its subject the characteristics of the human family, developing the details with which ethnology as a comparative science deals; descriptive ethnology. See Ethnology.
Example Sentences:
(1) Making use of ethnography provides family physicians with a greater array of research methods compatible with clinical practice.
(2) The source and nature of the ethnography of the important eighteenth century thinker Johann Gottfried Herder can in large part be understood through his relationship to his own society and especially through his part in the German cultural nationalist movement of the day.
(3) They also present some of the major conceptual foundations of cultural psychiatry, which include ethnography, emic and etic approaches, the cross-cultural approach, and the study of subjective culture.
(4) This study is an ethnography of the ethics of one pediatric bone marrow transplant team.
(5) It outlines the advantages and limitations of such data sources as surveys, indicators, and ethnography, and briefly explores the work and utility of local, national, and international drug surveillance networks.
(6) Building on this theoretical background, an approach to ethnography is illustrated through an analysis of suffering in Chinese society.
(7) The findings of this analysis lead the author to argue, in contrast with recent ethnographies which treat discourses on emotions as rhetorical strategies rather than as reflections of personal or communal experience, that we need an integrative approach which focuses on the relationship between language and experience, politics and felt emotion.
(8) A longitudinal, clinical ethnography formed the basis of this study.
(9) This paper contrasts ethnography with a randomized clinical trial design addressing the same question.
(10) An overview of the purpose, methodology, strengths, and limitations of ethnography is presented.
(11) These matters concern the epistemological basis of ethnography, and the reliability of ethnographic research methods.
(12) A longitudinal, descriptive ethnography formed the basis of the study described in this article, in which 120 interviews were conducted over a period of 6 months with 13 individuals who had experienced lacunar infarcts of the internal capsule of the brain.
(13) In response to this concern, this study presents a framework of analysis based on ethnography as narrative of the old and the new.
(14) This research uses ethnography and grounded-theory methods to develop a model of recovering alcoholics' goal progression.
(15) Issues in family medicine such as patient compliance, doctor-patient relationships, and patients' subjective experience of illness may be optimally studied with ethnography.
(16) Ethnography is a qualitative research design that has relevance for clinical research in occupational therapy.
(17) Clinical ethnography as an alternative method of studying stroke recovery is described.
(18) Ethnography presents the researcher with a methodology for studying meaning carefully; a process for going beyond what is seen or heard to infer what people know by careful listening and observation of behavior, environment, and context.
(19) Qualitative research methods dominate in the humanities (history, literature), theology, law and some social sciences (ethnography).
(20) Medical anthropologist Daisy Deomampo, who has written an ethnography of surrogate mothers in Mumbai, argues that this image of the “deceitful surrogate” has helped doctors and parents conceal the power imbalance that made foreign surrogacy possible.