(n.) One who, or that which, dispenses; a distributer; as, a dispenser of favors.
Example Sentences:
(1) With the flat-fee system, drug charges are not recorded when the drug is dispensed by the pharmacy; data for charging doses are obtained directly from the MAR forms generated by the nursing staff.
(2) The surgical procedure, using a dispensable tendon, could be directly associated to the sutures of the proximal injuries of the cubital nerve as a temporary palliative.
(3) Thus, phosphorylation and the 25 carboxy-terminal amino acids appear to be dispensable for protein function.
(4) Those behind it have once again taken the law into their own hands and dispensed a vile form of rough justice.
(5) He was greeted in Kyoto by Abe, with the men dispensing with the formal handshake that starts most head of governments' greetings in favour of a full body hug.
(6) Because contact lenses present a management problem, this method of dispensation will be used only for selected cases.
(7) I have no experience of an actual car club, but I don't see how you can lose by dispensing with it, unless you live somewhere with very poor public transport.
(8) Thus the private sector, which is far from being saturated, has sufficient knowledge available and dispenses care ethically in agreement with institutional recommendations.
(9) A rapid gas chromatographic method has been developed which dispenses with separation operations and measures oxalic acid as a diethylester by means of back-flushing, and using malonic acid as an internal standard.
(10) These two genetic elements are separated by approximately 3,000 bp of R6K sequences which are dispensable for alpha origin activity.
(11) These data suggest that RAP1 is a central regulator of both telomere and chromosome stability and define a C-terminal domain that, while dispensable for viability, is required for these telomeric functions.
(12) There were no differences in the number of voids in the automixed material dispensed using the intra-oral tip or impression syringe.
(13) Regarding the latter problem, a revised method which dispenses with recording paper is under consideration.
(14) Deletion analysis of the LTR indicates that upstream promoter and enhancer elements are dispensible for trans-activation, while sequences 3' of the RNA start site displaying strict orientation and position dependence are required.
(15) Other "speech" regions in the left hemisphere appeared to be dispensable for the production of single oral movements, whether these were verbal or nonverbal movements.
(16) Duodenal flows of total, indispensible and dispensible amino acids were increased (P less than .05) when steers were fed SBM treatments compared with UC, and greater (P less than .05) when steers were fed ET compared with NT.
(17) Oral and rectal dispension of large quantities of the lethal factor does not induce toxic symptoms in rodents.
(18) I don't know much about gardening, but barstool footcare advice I can dispense.
(19) The time and paperwork involved in dispensing by a physician cannot be considered as minimal interruptions in normal office procedure.
(20) It also examined the needs of dispensers of care and relatives (whether mourning or not) of these persons.
Optician
Definition:
(a.) One skilled in optics.
(a.) One who deals in optical glasses and instruments.
Example Sentences:
(1) General practitioners initiated referral in 546 cases (49%) and ophthalmic opticians referral in 439 (39%).
(2) The patients were followed by a team consisting of a paediatric ophthalmologist, a contact lens optician and an orthoptist.
(3) In this cataloguq he does not only mention the memorial and prize medals of ophthalmologists but also those of physicists, physiologists, surgeons, opticians who have made a name in the field of ophthalmology.
(4) After examination of the eyes and consultation of an optician, it was decided to measure the animal for a pair of spectacles.
(5) Among the most important landlord firms Southern Cross will have to win over to survive is London & Regional, the investment empire of former optician Ian Livingstone and his chartered surveyor brother Richard.
(6) NHS Nottinghamshire County wants patients to access primary care services via GPs, pharmacists, dentists and opticians and receive "the right care, in the right place, first time".
(7) In looking to the future of optometry and ophthalmology, the author identifies four interacting components--the public, optometrists, ophthalmologists, and eye-health-care manpower, including opticians--which he evaluates.
(8) The paper utilises direct evidence on a number of single modality screening options, including ophthalmoscopy undertaken by general practitioners or ophthalmic opticians, and non-mydriatic photography.
(9) Cosmus Conrad Cuno, a less well known optician and inventor of microscopes from the second half of the 17th century, published in 1734 at Augsburg his Observationes durch dessen verfertigte Microscopia where along with various observations he communicated salient details pertaining to the biology of the head louse.
(10) Seventy patients had glaucoma or incomplete features of glaucoma, all of them referred by ophthalmic opticians.
(11) Until now, low-vision counseling in Switzerland has been provided mainly by opticians and other paramedical personnel.
(12) General practitioners referred many more patients with disorders of the eyelids and adnexa and ophthalmic opticians many more patients with suspected glaucoma.
(13) An empirical section shows that price is 16 percent higher in states that ban optometric and optician price advertising, when examination length, procedures, and office equipment are held constant.
(14) "So we started with hospital comments and then introduced comments on GP practices, and since then we have rolled it out to pretty much every setting: pharmaceutical practices, opticians and walk-in centres.
(15) (A second group of 198 patients with macular degeneration was handled by the optician alone because either macular degeneration was moderate and the patients could manage with simple optical aids, or the patients were in such a bad mental condition, obvious already from the referral documents, that they were unable to use sophisticated aids in spite of the fact that they would have needed them with regard to their poor vision.)
(16) The refractive status of the twin pairs was ascertained by asking the twins to send their latest prescription for glasses to the authors or the refraction was obtained from the ophthalmologists or opticians of the twins.
(17) Students were asked to define the differences among optometrists, ophthalmologists, and opticians.
(18) The results demonstrate that there is a statistically higher prevalence of the majority of acute and also chronic symptoms among dental technicians than among opticians.
(19) The clinical assistants' referral grades formed the reference standard against which to assess the effectiveness of other screening methods including ophthalmoscopy by primary screeners who were general practitioners (GPs), ophthalmic opticians and hospital physicians, and the assessment by consultant ophthalmologists of non-mydriatic Polaroid fundus photography.
(20) During 18 months of follow up new visual and ocular defects among these children were ascertained through ophthalmology outpatients and from optician records.