(a.) Excelling; surpassing others in some good quality or the sum of qualities; of great worth; eminent, in a good sense; superior; as, an excellent man, artist, citizen, husband, discourse, book, song, etc.; excellent breeding, principles, aims, action.
(a.) Superior in kind or degree, irrespective of moral quality; -- used with words of a bad significance.
(adv.) Excellently; eminently; exceedingly.
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Excellence, and also the Scottish Medicines Consortium, to reject its drug belimumab (brand name Benlysta) in final draft guidance.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.
Osm
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) These preliminary experiments suggest that oSm is similar to IGF-I in its binding characteristics and that primary cultures of skeletal muscle satellite cells possess type I and type II IGF receptors.
(2) IL-6, oncostatin M (OSM) and G-CSF also induce differentiation of M1 cells.
(3) Eggs also hatched readily in 1- to 50-m OsM solutions of urea, sucrose, sodium chloride, and glycerol, but hatching was inhibited at higher concentrations unless the eggs were left in solutions for long periods of time.
(4) We have detected significant similarities in the primary amino acid sequences and predicted secondary structures of OSM, leukemia-inhibitory factor (LIF), granulocyte colony-stimulating factor (G-CSF), and interleukin 6 (IL-6).
(5) Prognostically unfavorable MM and OSM values were found, predicting the possible lethal outcome.
(6) The antibody bound to ovine and bovine submaxillary mucins (OSM and BSM).
(7) We demonstrate that, like LIF, IL-6 and G-CSF, OSM can induce the differentiation of the myeloblastic M1 murine leukemia cells into macrophage-like cells.
(8) In the few hypercalcemic dogs in whom GFR was very low, I believe that injury to, and blockage of medullary tubules could account for most of the reduction in maximum U(Osm).
(9) Carboxymethylated OSM when deglycosylated by this method gives an apomucin with an apparent molecular weight of ca.
(10) The authors compare the efficacies of methods for assessing osmolality (OSM) and analysis of medium molecules (MM) in the prediction of the post-stroke period course in the first 7 days from the stroke onset.
(11) The experimental animals' body weight was significantly lower than that of controls with the same food consumption and their water intake and urine flow were much higher, especially after M. Sodium (and to a lesser extent potassium) excretion was raised at the outset of administration of both the test substances and again after the 5th to 8th dose, but only after M. After three weeks' administration of M. SNa, SK and S(osm) values were within normal limits.
(12) During hypertonic saline infusion plasma AVP levels correlated with P osM (R = .87, P less than .01, n = 8), suggesting some residual osmotic regulation of AVP release.
(13) The respective reflectance photoelectric outputs were used to make an internal calibration curve of the instrument relative to the arterial oxygen saturation values measured with a Co-Oximeter (OSM-3) in five healthy nonsmoking subjects during steady-state hypoxaemia.
(14) A significant change in p-osm caused a significant change in pAVP and vice versa.
(15) The linear viscoelastic and rheological properties of high molecular weight ovine submaxillary mucin (OSM) solution have been investigated in terms of the Newtonian steady-flow viscosity [eta(gamma)], the complex oscillatory viscosity [eta*(omega)], and the storage and loss shear moduli [G'(omega) and G"(omega)].
(16) Operant drinking and lysine vasopressin (LVP) release were investigated in minipigs following intracerebroventricular (ICV) injections of hypertonic equiosmolar (1.4 osM) solutions of NaCl and of sucrose and mannitol dissolved in 0.15 M NaCl or water, and of urea dissolved in 0.15 M NaCl.
(17) The correlation between delta-OsM and serum EtOH was 0.968 in 151 patients in whom EtOH was detected.
(18) MLS 128 bound to mucin glycopeptides from LS 180 cells and their asialo forms to the same extent as well as to ovine submaxillary mucin (OSM) and asialo OSM.
(19) Respiratory compensation of the pH change further increases Osm.
(20) The OSM 3 Hemoximeter gives much more accurate determinations of HbCO than the IL 282 Co-Oximeter in the presence of SHb.