(n.) The quality of being excellent; state of possessing good qualities in an eminent degree; exalted merit; superiority in virtue.
(n.) An excellent or valuable quality; that by which any one excels or is eminent; a virtue.
(n.) A title of honor or respect; -- more common in the form excellency.
Example Sentences:
(1) This excellent prognosis supports a regimen of conservative therapy for these patients.
(2) It was concluded that metoclopramide and dexamethasone showed an excellent antiemetic effect on acute drug-induced emesis, as well as on delayed emesis, induced by cisplatin.
(3) Our experience indicates that lateral rhinotomy is a safe, repeatable and cosmetically sound procedure that provides and excellent surgical approach to the nasal cavity and sinuses.
(4) Excellent correlations were observed between computer and manual methods for both systems.
(5) GlaxoSmithKline was unusually critical of the decision by Nice, the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence, and also the Scottish Medicines Consortium, to reject its drug belimumab (brand name Benlysta) in final draft guidance.
(6) Although there was already satisfaction in the development of dementia-friendly pharmacies and Pride in Practice, a new standard of excellence in healthcare for gay, lesbian and bisexual patients, the biggest achievement so far was the bringing together of a strategic partnership of 37 NHS, local government and social organisations.
(7) Nice (the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence) has also published new guidance on good patient experience that provides a strong framework on which to build good engagement practice.
(8) Grafts of intermediate thickness (M III) showed excellent clinical healing of the donor and the recipient site.
(9) "If you look at the price HP paid, it was an excellent deal for the Autonomy shareholders.
(10) An excellent correlation was found between pulmonary artery systolic pressure measured by CW Doppler and catheterization (r = 0.98).
(11) Among patients in whom the neuroma had been operated on once previously (first recurrence group), 88% achieved good to excellent pain relief with the technique described in this article.
(12) The diagnosis of an arterial injury may be readily apparent, but the excellent upper-extremity collateral circulation may create palpable distal pulses despite a significant proximal arterial injury.
(13) All 4 patients subsequently had excellent subjective responses to MPA treatment, lasting for several months.
(14) The prognosis of meningococcal arthritis is excellent and joint sequelae are rare.
(15) These lesions had an excellent prognosis with a control rate of 100%.
(16) Patients treated with ciprofloxacin may need added coverage for anaerobes, but the drug's excellent activity against nosocomial pathogens and its availability in oral form allow for an early change to oral therapy without compromising effectiveness coupled with added savings and convenience.
(17) This procedure yields excellent precision and accuracy, as demonstrated by the analysis of a known amino acid mixture and of neonatal plasma.
(18) Thus, in spite of its excellent activity and unquestionable effectiveness, rifampicin should be used with caution in severe staphylococcal infections.
(19) This study was designed to compare these levels in hirsute women, normal premenopausal and postmenopausal women, and in men and to correlate each measurement with skin 5 alpha-reductase activity (5 alpha-RA), an excellent correlate of androgenicity.
(20) Computed tomography gave excellent visualization of prostate morphology and pelvic anatomic relationships.
Paradigmatic
Definition:
(a.) Alt. of Paradigmatical
(n.) A writer of memoirs of religious persons, as examples of Christian excellence.
Example Sentences:
(1) The kind of president, like Ronald Reagan, Lyndon Johnson or Franklin Roosevelt, who ushers in a paradigmatic shift in American politics or society, or both.
(2) The proportion of paradigmatic responses varied with the grammatical class of the stimulus word and with the vocabulary level of the subject, but not with age.
(3) The Medical Directive delineates four paradigmatic scenarios, defined by prognosis and disability of incompetent patients.
(4) It is argued that natural selection was for Darwin a paradigmatic case of a natural law of change -- an exemplar of what Ghiselin (1969) has called selective retention laws.
(5) The authors present paradigmatic clinical cases in order to demonstrate the different phonatory capabilities achieved by patients who had undergone either cordectomy or cordectomy extended to the ventricle and false vocal cords.
(6) Regarding the onset near that age period of capacity to use and comprehend the relational nature of opposition, supporting evidence derives from experimental data on the syntagmatic-paradigmatic shift.
(7) It is proposed that that the dual-track theorem generally and the Siamese-twin configuration (with the Moebius-strip twist) specifically offer a unique and useful paradigmatic perspective that allows us to organize and integrate the characteristics and functions of the brain-mind continuum.
(8) It is recognized that the relationship between the referring pediatric nephrologist and the transplant physician is paradigmatic of the association that develops between a general practitioner and a specialist.
(9) The SKE is taken to be paradigmatic for how the visual system perceives depth when observing small object rotations that occur in everyday situations.
(10) The interaction between helper T cells and B cells, leading to the production of antibody to thymus-dependent antigens, was the first cell interaction clearly defined in the immune system; it remains both paradigmatic and controversial.
(11) Mogwai's Stuart Braithwaite is probably paradigmatic: "I somehow forgave Bowie for the Placebo collaboration.
(12) The second way of analyzing semantic components of English pain involved a grammatical analysis of paradigmatic sentences which realize pain descriptions.
(13) In addition to normal values, changes in subjects suffering from thalassemia are used as a paradigmatic example of structural and morphological erythrocytic changes without other associated diseases.
(14) In three paradigmatical cases the problem of the diagnosis "atypical face pain" is discussed.
(15) The interrelated units were more frequently lexical than propositional, with more paradigmatic than syntagmatic relationships in report pairs from both sequences of awakenings.
(16) It is argued that the validity of the questionnaire is not established in the literature and that paradigmatic and conceptual ambiguity militate against a clear understanding of that literature.
(17) Proponents of rational suicide have consistently offered the terminally ill cancer patient in intractable pain as the paradigmatic case on which their position rests.
(18) Detailed studies have been pursued for paradigmatic heme proteins, including myoglobin, hemoglobin, cytochrome c, horseradish peroxidase, and cytochrome oxidase.
(19) Cycles are found which are both slower and faster than the paradigmatic 90 min ultradian rhythm.
(20) The authors discuss the physiopathological aspect of the case which is a paradigmatic example of the problems related to dual-chamber pacing.