(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Excellence, and also the Scottish Medicines Consortium, to reject its drug belimumab (brand name Benlysta) in final draft guidance.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.
Toledo
Definition:
(n.) A sword or sword blade made at Toledo in Spain, which city was famous in the 16th and 17th centuries for the excellence of its weapons.
Example Sentences:
(1) A prospective randomized study was undertaken to compare compliance efficacy and cost of the elastic nylon pressure garment (Jobst Institute, Inc., Toledo, Ohio) with the cotton elastic pressure garment (Tubigrip, SePro Healthcare Inc., Montgomeryville, Penn.).
(2) On Friday websites reported that when news of the 2005 recording broke, Trump running mate Mike Pence – who was eating a chili dog with his daughter at a campaign stop in Toledo, Ohio – abruptly dropped the pool of reporters who were following him, thereby avoiding any questions on the matter.
(3) Seven consecutive patients with total anomalous pulmonary venous drainage were operated at the Medical College of Ohio at Toledo and long-term follow-up is reported on their rhythm status.
(4) Naturally seropositive volunteers also developed clinical and laboratory evidence of infection after challenge with 1,000 pfu of Toledo but resisted 10 or 100 pfu.
(5) The incidence of autonomic dysreflexia crisis is observed in 178 patients suffering cervical spinal cord lesions of the Hospital Nacional de Parapléjicos, Toledo.
(6) Corporal Francisco Javier Soria Toledo, 36, from Málaga, died on Wednesday after being wounded during an exchange of fire between Israeli forces and Hezbollah fighters .
(7) Although the spatial pattern of the elderly in Toledo, Ohio, is dissimilar from that of the nonelderly, they are widely distributed throughout the city.
(8) After 170 years, his rehabilitation is complete, and for Toledo his elongated figures and pungent colours are now an object of civic pride, as Gaudí is for Barcelona.
(9) Toledo officials issued the warning early on Saturday after tests at one treatment plant showed two sample readings for microcystin above the standard for consumption, possibly because of algae on Lake Erie, the shallowest of the five Great Lakes.
(10) My trucks are a couple of years old and I'm going to have them for the next 10 years, probably," he told the Toledo Base newspaper.
(11) The Medical Social Service in the 'Centro Nacional de Rehabilitación de Parapléjicos' of Toledo is briefly explained.
(12) The prevalence of several neurological diseases has been estimated in eighteen-year-old males living in the central provinces of the Iberian Peninsula (Avila, Badajoz, Caceres, Ciudad Real, Cuenca, Guadalajara, Madrid, Toledo and Segovia).
(13) A lower rate of accidents at work was observed in Toledo than in the rest of Spain (47.68 per 1,000 workers as against 66.44 per 1,000; chi 2 = 806.45).
(14) Perched dramatically on a rocky mountain, the small city of Toledo overlooks a bend in the Tagus river.
(15) However Toledo showed higher mortality (0.35% as against 0.20%; chi 2 = 40.71) and a higher percentage of time off work (81.56% as against 68.77%; chi 2 = 483.93).
(16) Two thirds of the investigated patients (207) were autochthonous of Pedro de Toledo.
(17) This work was undertaken in the municipality of Pedro de Toledo (São Paulo State, Brazil) in 1987, to clarify aspects related to the transmission levels of Schistosoma mansoni in a human population where the snail host is Biomphalaria tenagophila.
(18) To evaluate the quality of the care provided for low-level urinary infections in the Toledo Health Area.
(19) Soon, there will be new cars on the streets of Seoul imported from Detroit, and Toledo, and Chicago.
(20) We were 14 when he took me to the 1983 St Francis de Sales homecoming dance in Toledo, Ohio.