(v. t.) To give strength or ability to; to make firm and strong.
(v. t.) To make able (to do, or to be, something); to confer sufficient power upon; to furnish with means, opportunities, and the like; to render competent for; to empower; to endow.
Example Sentences:
(1) In conclusion, the efficacy of free tissue transfer in the treatment of osteomyelitis is geared mainly at enabling the surgeon to perform a wide radical debridement of infected and nonviable soft tissue and bone.
(2) Glucocorticoids have numerous effects some of which are permissive; steroids are thus important not only for what they do, but also for what they permit or enable other hormones and signal molecules to do.
(3) If the method was taken into routine use in a diagnostic laboratory, the persistence of reverse passive haemagglutination reactions would enable grouping results to be checked for quality control purposes.
(4) The approach was to determine the relative importance of predisposing, enabling, and medical need factors in explaining utilization rates among younger and older enrollees of an HMO.
(5) Sonographic images of the gallbladder enable satisfactory approximation of gallbladder volume using the sum-of-cylinders method.
(6) This technique enables the demonstration of an hygienic parameter important for food microbiology within a short time.
(7) The secretary of state should work constructively with frontline staff and managers rather than adversarially and commit to no administrative reorganisation.” Dr Jennifer Dixon, chief executive, Health Foundation “It will be crucial that the next government maintains a stable and certain environment in the NHS that enables clinical commissioning groups (CCGs) to continue to transform care and improve health outcomes for their local populations.
(8) Direct detection of the mutation enables the identification of fragile X negative normal transmitting males and fragile X negative carrier females.
(9) Our results show that paramagnetic enhancement with T1-weighted imaging adds specificity and enables rapid assessment of abnormalities of the blood-brain barrier.
(10) A compensator connected to the section consisting of the pump-main line-operating member and including a pneumatic resistance and a flaxid non-elastic container enables it in combination with the feedback to maintain through the volumetric displacement of the gas, or changing the pump diaphragm position, the stability of the gas volume in the pneumatic transmission element of the assisted circulation apparatus.
(11) Given the liberalist context in which we live, this paper argues that an act-oriented ethics is inadequate and that only a virtue-oriented ethics enables us to recognize and resolve the new problems ahead of us in genetic manipulation.
(12) US clearly images the cartilaginous femoral head and enables accurate assessment of hip size, shape, and symmetry.
(13) These topographies enabled us to observe serial changes in epileptic discharge dynamically by 1 msec.
(14) This remarkably reliable examination showed a predominance of anterior and anterolateral aneurisms (87% of cases), and enables definition of the critical cardiac surface area (about 25%) above which the aneurysm is operable.
(15) A compact attachment for microscope-type instruments is described enabling to introduce, rapidly and qualitatively, minute biological speciments into melted embedding medium and ensuring the safety of optics.
(16) Hence, a priori haplotyping cannot exclude a particular CF mutation, but in combination with population genetic data, enables mutations to be ranked by decreasing probability.
(17) This was overcome by using a continuous subcutaneous infusion pump which also enabled the effective daily dosage to be reduced and thereby adverse reactions to be avoided.
(18) The beads enable us to examine several aspects of the adhesion process with particles having uniform properties that can be varied systematically.
(19) Selective catheterisation enabled opacification under pressure in more than 80 p. cent of cases, with perfect visualisation of the entire tubes and significant peritoneal passage.
(20) One aim was to enable patients to take more responsibility for their own preventive care.
With
Definition:
(n.) See Withe.
(prep.) With denotes or expresses some situation or relation of nearness, proximity, association, connection, or the like.
(prep.) To denote a close or direct relation of opposition or hostility; -- equivalent to against.
(prep.) To denote association in respect of situation or environment; hence, among; in the company of.
(prep.) To denote a connection of friendship, support, alliance, assistance, countenance, etc.; hence, on the side of.
(prep.) To denote the accomplishment of cause, means, instrument, etc; -- sometimes equivalent to by.
(prep.) To denote association in thought, as for comparison or contrast.
(prep.) To denote simultaneous happening, or immediate succession or consequence.
(prep.) To denote having as a possession or an appendage; as, the firmament with its stars; a bride with a large fortune.