(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Excellence, and also the Scottish Medicines Consortium, to reject its drug belimumab (brand name Benlysta) in final draft guidance.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.
Pristine
Definition:
(a.) Belonging to the earliest period or state; original; primitive; primeval; as, the pristine state of innocence; the pristine manners of a people; pristine vigor.
Example Sentences:
(1) He knew that the find presented the country with perhaps its last chance to develop in the traditional way, but he also knew it would push the oil frontier deeper into the Amazon, release 400m tonnes of climate-changing gases and make the destruction of a vast and pristine area inevitable.
(2) A British oil firm will tomorrow announce that it has struck oil off Greenland, a find that could trigger a rush to exploit oil reserves in the pristine waters of the Arctic.
(3) Djami Marika stood at the edge of a pristine Arnhem Land beach and shook his head at the boat moored across the channel.
(4) The one-cell mouse embryo bioassay was utilized to test the embryotoxicity of three brands of powerless surgical gloves; Pristine, Ansell, and BioGel.
(5) Environment groups are opposed to the drilling and claim it puts a pristine area of biodiversity at risk.
(6) The pitch on which Iceland train, favoured in the past by Monaco and Nantes for summer getaways, sits beneath Mont Veyrier and is cocooned a few hundred metres from pristine lakeside beaches and disrobed holidaymakers.
(7) Colbeck told the Australian the protected listing was a “sham” because it locked up areas of plantation timber, as well as pristine old-growth forest.
(8) Harboured by the remote and pristine forests in the north of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and on the border of the Central African Republic , the chimps were completely unknown until recently – apart from the local legends of giant apes that ate lions and howled at the moon.
(9) Mineralization half-lives for naphthalene in microcosms ranged from 2.4 weeks in sediment chronically exposed to petroleum hydrocarbons to 4.4 weeks in sediment from a pristine environment.
(10) Just 53 people live on the islands, many descendents of the sailors behind the famous mutiny on the Bounty in 1790, but it is the marine life that attracted National Geographic’s Pristine Seas expedition .
(11) But surely no machinist could bunk off their punishing workload to script these complaints in pristine English, stitch them in and whisk them past a pin-sharp inspector.
(12) This is what we imagined: the becalmed beauty of the Whitsunday Passage, that spectacular collection of islands protectively nestled inside the Great Barrier Reef, safe from prevailing winds; bright blue languid days gliding over turquoise waters, taking turns at the tiller in our togs; finding our own private cove as the sun goes down; diving into warm pristine waters; the tinkling of intimate laughter; the fizz of champagne and the sizzle of prawns on the barbie.
(13) I opened my eyes to see the pristine beach glistening in the clean dawn air.
(14) A nimal, vegetable and mineral, a pristine tropical coral reef is one of the natural wonders of the world.
(15) Maslin told the FA’s website: “We strive to deliver the best possible surface, so I’m slightly disappointed that the surface isn’t as good as it should be but I’m confident it will be back to its pristine state after a winter renovation.
(16) Today the archipelago’s sparsely populated islands remain pristinely beautiful while some of its underwater landscapes present scenes of utter devastation.
(17) The outsider might have thought that the US had preserved all its wildernesses in national parks long ago, but it was during the 1950s that concern about damming of the Colorado river highlighted the threat to many pristine and unprotected areas.
(18) The once pristine Boulevard Mobutu has lost its lustre.
(19) The residents of Sani Isla expressed relief that a confrontation with Petroamazonas did not take place on Tuesday as anticipated , but said the firm is still trying to secure exploration rights in their area of pristine rainforest.
(20) This time, it’s casual Chuka: skinny jeans with micro turn-ups, blue suede shoes, pristine white shirt, jacket.