(n.) The act of describing; a delineation by marks or signs.
(n.) A sketch or account of anything in words; a portraiture or representation in language; an enumeration of the essential qualities of a thing or species.
(n.) A class to which a certain representation is applicable; kind; sort.
Example Sentences:
(1) Descriptive features of the syndrome in children, adults and adolescents are given based on the respective work of Pine, Masterson and Kernberg.
(2) A comparison of chest pain description was performed between MI and non-MI subjects.
(3) Madonna has defended her description of the leak of 13 unfinished demos from her forthcoming album as “a form of terrorism” and “artistic rape”.
(4) As novel antibody therapeutics are developed for different malignancies and require evaluation with cells previously uncharacterized as antibody-dependent cell-mediated cytotoxicity (ADCC) targets, efficient description of key parameters of the assay system expedites the preclinical assessment.
(5) This paper provides a description of the cerebellar-vestibular-determined (CV) neurological and electronystagmographic (ENG) parameters characterizing 4,000 patients with learning disabilities.
(6) This report represents the first comprehensive description of instantaneous and continous phasic blood velocity at the mitral valve during atrial arrhythmias in man.
(7) Studies of diarrhoeal disease have been limited mainly to descriptive epidemiological investigations.
(8) In our laboratory we have contributed to these studies with the description of: a) the regulatory activity of different neuroendocrine substances on interferon-gamma production; b) the characterization of the immune regulation exercised by the muscarinic cholinergic system; c) the in vitro activity of the indoleamines, serotonin and melatonin on the immune response, and the production of these indoleamines by lymphocytes and monocytes, thus establishing a model of paracrine regulation.
(9) Five psychrophilic and five mesophilic phage were selected for a description of some of their biological properties.
(10) The molar refractivity has been shown to be a superior parameter for the description of the activity of sulphonamides than the sum of electronegativities of atoms making up a heterocyclic substituent in the sulphonamide molecule and molecular weight of the substituent.
(11) However, it was concluded that the biochemical models fail to give a complete description of photosynthesis in plants using the C4-dicarboxylic acid cycle.
(12) This review of androgenetic alopecia (AA) in women provides a summary of hair physiology and biochemistry, a general discussion of AA, and a brief description of other types of hair loss in women.
(13) The calculation, based on analytical expression derived by Cowley, has been shown previously to give an almost quantitative description of kinematical diffraction from linear chain systems.
(14) This short paper includes extracts from the original translations of Leeuwenhoek's descriptions of the histology of teeth, investigates his findings and demonstrates that in addition to describing dentinal tubules, he may have identified the presence of calcospherites within that tissue.
(15) We report a descriptive study of 56 cases of HIV infection in a primary care center to evaluate its impact on the population on care, the practices at risk, the associated infections and the difficulties for control.
(16) In addition to descriptions of variants of the root appearance for hairs removed from follicles in the three classical growth phases, several other commonly occurring root configurations are described and illustrated with photomicrographs.
(17) A brief description of suggested treatment and management regimens for the various forms of AIDS-related psychopathology then follows.
(18) Lazarus' phenomenological theory of stress and coping provided the basis for this descriptive study of perceived threats after myocardial infarction (MI).
(19) A descriptive case study approach was used to analyze findings.
(20) This is the first description of a restriction enzyme from a mycoplasma.
Overview
Definition:
(n.) An inspection or overlooking.
Example Sentences:
(1) The individual classes of drugs are first treated separately to highlight specific aspects of their quantification, and this is followed by an overview of those methods permitting the concomitant analysis of two or more antiepileptic compounds.
(2) This report is an overview of the data and has incorporated some additional findings of the influence of the ACTH4-9 analog, Org2766, on neuronal excitation, especially in the hippocampus.
(3) This paper provides an overview of the theory, indicating its contributions--such as a basis for individual psychotherapy of severe disorders and a more effective understanding of countertransference--and its shortcomings--such as lack of an explanation for the effects of physical and cognitive factors on object relatedness.
(4) By scoring every section of a tooth in this way, an overview was obtained of the location of all caries lesions in the occlusal surface.
(5) We have attempted to provide an overview of the Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act as it pertains to animal drugs and feed additives.
(6) This introductory chapter has presented an overview of how retroviruses replicate and how they are classified within the family Retroviridae.
(7) This review attempts to give an overview of present and developing ERCP- and EST-based diagnostic and interventive techniques and their application to the wide spectrum of pancreatobiliary diseases.
(8) In this overview, we will report our experience with balloon dilatation of DMSS in six children.
(9) An overview of laparoscopic sterilization techniques from a historical and practical viewpoint includes instrumentation, operative techniques, mechanical occlusive devices, anesthesia, failure rates, morbidity and mortality.
(10) The surgical procedure is discussed and an overview of the authors' long-term results are included.
(11) We have attempted to give a broad overview of issues of importance to the surgeon that may arise in the management of the immunocompromised patient.
(12) This article is intended to provide an overview of the various methods used to study renal elimination of compounds.
(13) This paper intends to give the reader an overview of the complexity of the relationship of urban stress to behavioral changes and chronic disease.
(14) We will give an overview of the recent achievements in the understanding of protein translocation across mitochondrial membranes.
(15) We arrive also to the conclusion that, in contradiction with what we have seen in the literature overview, it seems that narcissistic personality disorders have no negative effect on literary creation.
(16) An overview is presented of the physiology and so-called pathophysiology of static muscle contractions in the intact living organism.
(17) The present paper, which summarizes the earlier data and reports the most recent findings, provides an overview of the extended behavioral consequences of the original aversive procedures administered five years ago.
(18) This introductory overview highlights the issues that are addressed in this Clinics devoted to non-small cell lung cancer.
(19) The profiles provide a visual overview of the quantitative (doses) and qualitative (test results) data for each chemical.
(20) This study is an overview of 2,515 consecutive autopsies on newborn infants who died during the first 28 days of life at the Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, during the period 1970-1989.