(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Excellence, and also the Scottish Medicines Consortium, to reject its drug belimumab (brand name Benlysta) in final draft guidance.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.
Transcendent
Definition:
(a.) Very excellent; superior or supreme in excellence; surpassing others; as, transcendent worth; transcendent valor.
(a.) Transcending, or reaching beyond, the limits of human knowledge; -- applied to affirmations and speculations concerning what lies beyond the reach of the human intellect.
Example Sentences:
(1) In fact, it is only by moving to this level that we transcend the paradox of man knowing and explaining himself.
(2) It was also, because it transcended family and clan interests and involved defining what the realm was, the starting point of the modern state.
(3) Common environmental questions encourage people to come together, transcending regional, political or ethical differences.
(4) Click here to watch the trailer Pfister, a long-term collaborator of Christopher Nolan , looks to have implanted some of Nolan's ideas into Transcendence.
(5) QPR lost Nedum Onuoha and Sandro to injuries – the latter had forced Mignolet into a reflex save early in the second half – but Sterling came to transcend the afternoon.
(6) That means transcending their own need for status and recognition, facing the wrath of those seeking to maintain the status quo and doing what they know in their hearts to be right.
(7) Rattle said his performances in these later years were transcendent.
(8) This tendency to blame the victim appears to transcend fundamental philosophic differences which have traditionally distinguished some collectivist and individualist societies.
(9) We just don’t believe the argument or the rationale is strong enough to transcend what has been around for thousands of years.” Facebook Twitter Pinterest Jarica Jordan (right), Raven Knight (center) and a friend in downtown Fargo during the gay pride parade.
(10) The corps has in many ways enjoyed a strength in inclusivity; a brotherhood that transcends immediate political loyalties.
(11) Keating made the comments on ABC’s 7.30, a program also featuring his successor John Howard , who said that, despite his concerns about Trump, the strength of the US-Australia alliance and shared values meant it transcended individual leaders.
(12) This dialectic is defined as the synthesis of the antithetical strategies of Dealing With It and Keeping It in Its Place in which people are able to transcend each strategy and sustain hope.
(13) Some considerations are made on the importance of clinical, information and its transcendence in medical research, as well as on the ethical value of a qualitatively correct data treatment.
(14) This presentation includes many of the important pioneers and their contributions, as well as a chronicle of arthroscopy's most primitive roots and its transcendency into an accurate surgical instrument.
(15) The Starfire, Allure III, and Transcend brackets had the highest fracture resistance values.
(16) Might The Good Dinosaur be the new Cars – hugely popular with merchandise makers but Pixar’s least effective movie in terms of concept and realisation – or can Peter Sohn’s film about a 70-foot tall Apatosaurus who befriends a human boy transcend its slightly hackneyed storyline?
(17) But the students have persisted, which suggests, again, that their campaign transcends a battle over Rhodes’s legacy.
(18) The Lord of the Rings transcended the thing of simply being films.
(19) Their Prom in 2007 was the event of the decade in this country: a gig that transcended all the usual boundaries of a classical concert, such was the interest generated by the story behind the orchestra, and the commitment of its players.
(20) In fact, I think critics have missed the point about Kafka's talking beasts: like the nameless ape in the story "Report to the Academy", they are absolutely human, and the means by which Kafka asserts that it is our inclinations to the political and the transcendent that must always be provisional, while our physicality cannot be brooked.