(adv.) Soon; in good season; seasonably; betimes; as, come early.
(adv.) In advance of the usual or appointed time; in good season; prior in time; among or near the first; -- opposed to late; as, the early bird; an early spring; early fruit.
(adv.) Coming in the first part of a period of time, or among the first of successive acts, events, etc.
Example Sentences:
(1) Furthermore, it had early diagnostic (seven days) as well as prognostic value, as revealed by response to therapy and decrease in COA titer.
(2) It was found that the skeletal muscle enzyme of the chick embryo is independent of the presence of creatine and consequently is another constitutive enzyme like the creatine kinase of the early embryonic chick heart.
(3) We attribute this in part to early diagnosis by computed tomography (CT), but a contributory factor may be earlier referrals from country centres to a paediatric trauma centre and rapid transfer, by air or road, by medical retrieval teams.
(4) It is concluded that during exposure to simulated microgravity early signs of osteoporosis occur in the tibial spongiosa and that changes in the spongy matter of tubular bones and vertebrae are similar and systemic.
(5) Clinical signs of disease developed as early as 15 days after transition to the experimental diets and included impaired vision, decreased response to external stimuli, and abnormal gait.
(6) This study compares the mortality of U.S. white males with that of Swedish males who have had the highest reported male life expectancies in the world since the early 1960s.
(7) 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.
(8) At the early phase of the sensitization a T-cell response was seen in vitro, characterized by an increased spleen but no peripheral blood lymphocyte reactivity to T-cell mitogens at the same time as increased reactivity to the sensitizing antigen was detected.
(9) In early 2000, during the first months of Vladimir Putin’s presidency, Babitsky was kidnapped by Russian forces and disappeared for many weeks.
(10) Early stabilisation may not ensure normal development but even early splinting carries a small risk of avascular necrosis.
(11) These experiments indicated that there were significant differences between the early classical C system of mice and those of human and guinea pig.
(12) A specimen of a very early ovum, 4 to 6 days old, shown in the luminal form of imbedding before any hemorrhage has taken place, confirms that the luminal form of imbedding does occur.
(13) The possibility that both IL 2 production and IL 2R expression are autonomously activated early in T cell development, before acquisition of the CD3-TcR complex, led us to study the implication of alternative pathways of activation at this ontogenic stage.
(14) Recognition of the distinctive morphology of MH and the performance of ancillary studies on cytologic preparations should facilitate the rapid diagnosis and early treatment of this aggressive disease.
(15) We assessed changes in brain water content, as reflected by changes in tissue density, during the early recirculation period following severe forebrain ischemia.
(16) To explore an early step, we synthesized 5 beta-cholest-7-ene-3 beta,6 alpha,14 alpha-triol in tritiated form.
(17) They suggest that an endogenous retinoid could contribute to positional information in the early Xenopus embryo.
(18) Early recognition is facilitated by monitoring of arterial blood gas levels for hypoxemia.
(19) Cook, who has postbox-red hair and a painful-looking piercing in his lower lip, was now on stage in discussion with four fellow YouTubers, all in their early 20s.
(20) This experimental system allows separation of three B lymphocyte developmental stages: early differentiation in vitro, progression to IgM secretion in vivo, and late differentiation dependent upon mature T lymphocytes in vivo.
Infancy
Definition:
(n.) The state or period of being an infant; the first part of life; early childhood.
(n.) The first age of anything; the beginning or early period of existence; as, the infancy of an art.
(n.) The state or condition of one under age, or under the age of twenty-one years; nonage; minority.
Example Sentences:
(1) 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.
(2) Children of smoking mothers had an 18.0 per cent cumulative incidence of post-infancy wheezing through 10 years of age, compared with 16.2 per cent among children of nonsmoking mothers (risk ratio 1.11, 95% CI: 1.02, 1.21).
(3) Aspartylglycosaminuria (AGU) is a hereditary metabolic disorder characterized by slowly progressive mental deterioration from infancy, urinary excretion of large amounts of aspartylglycosamine, and decreased activity of the lysosomal enzyme aspartylglcosamine amido hydrolase in various body tissues and fluids.
(4) Interferon alfa-2a appears to induce the early regression of life-threatening corticosteroid-resistant hemangiomas of infancy.
(5) The excellent short-term results favor the continued application of anatomical repair of TGA with intact ventricular septum in infancy.
(6) The combination of spectroscopy and imaging, still in its infancy, may prove important in this aspect.
(7) Evidence suggests that this lesion is probably a common cause of chronic epilepsy in adults and that often it is probably the result of a severe febrile convulsion in infancy.
(8) Identification of depression in stroke patients and the implications for care interventions are in their infancy.
(9) Antiandrogen therapy for androgen-induced baldness is in its infancy.
(10) The relationship between extreme temperament in infancy and clinical status at 4.7 years of age was studied in temperamentally different groups of infants matched for sex and SES, and subselected from a large birth cohort representative of the general population.
(11) In infancy, focal-unilateral convulsions and infantile spasms were frequently associated with organic damages.
(12) The presence of antiproteases in human milk provided during early infancy may serve to inhibit the absorption of intact proteases, limiting their entry into the portal circulation.
(13) Hereditary tyrosinemia type I presents with either acute hepatic failure in the neonatal period or later in infancy with progressive liver dysfunction secondary to cirrhosis.
(14) Fifteen children who fulfilled the criteria of chronic non-specific diarrhea of infancy were evaluated for intestinal bacterial overgrowth.
(15) During the newborn and suckling age periods the spleen is projected in three regions: in the epigastrum, in the left subcostal and in the left lateral areas of the abdomen, and during early infancy--only in the left subcostal and in the left lateral area of the abdomen.
(16) Radioallergosorbent test (RAST) studies showed that IgE antibodies to Dermatophagoides pteronyssinus (house dust mite), Aspergillus fumigatus and bovine beta-lactoglobulin were significantly elevated in the sera of infants who died as a result of the sudden death in infancy syndrome (SDIS).
(17) Fibrous hamartoma of infancy (FHI) is a rare, self-limiting, benign tumor that occurs in the early years of life.
(18) This diminution of skinfold thickness is more pronounced at the trunk (SIL and SCA) than at the limbs (TRI), indicating a change in distribution of subcutaneous tissue during infancy.
(19) The paper ends by citing the advantages Infancy as a developmental period has in providing reference points for the understanding of cohesion within development.
(20) We assume that PNETs in early infancy are characterized by a particularly wide range of differentiation patterns.