(v. i.) To speak extempore; especially, to discourse without special preparation; to make an offhand address.
(v. t.) To do, make, or utter extempore or off-hand; to prepare in great haste, under urgent necessity, or with scanty or unsuitable materials; as, to extemporize a dinner, a costume, etc.
Example Sentences:
(1) We compared the results obtained in the treatment of bronchospastic conditions in two groups of 20 patients, one treated with an extempore combination of salbutamol (2 mg tablets) and oxatomide (30 mg tablets) and the other with salbutamol (2 mg tablets) alone.
(2) Extemporizing on Syrian president Bashar al-Assad’s use of chemical weapons against a civilian population, Spicer explained why the Syrian dictator is more evil than Hitler.
(3) Binary adsorbents synthesized extempore and based on carbon matrices and biospecific ligands are described.
(4) Forty outpatients with skin diseases were treated with an extempore combination of three creams, the respective bases of which were beclomethasone dipropionate, sodium fusidate and ketoconazole.
(5) The possibility of performing an extempore intraoperative histological examination makes it possible to obtain a correct diagnosis of endocrine neoplasm and thus to proceed with surgery which could not be contemplated in adenocarcinomatous forms at an equivalent stage.
(6) Sixty-five patients, 25 with acute bronchopulmonary respiratory tract diseases and 40 with acute exacerbations of chronic respiratory tract infections, were treated by means of intramuscular injection of an extempore combination of 1 g of cefuroxime and 300 mg of acetylcysteine.
(7) Ampicillin-sodium was applied in the form of 5 per cent solution, and ampicillin-trihydrate--in the form of a 5 per cent water suspension prepared extempore prior to their administration.
(8) It was a small insight in some ways – everyone knows Clinton can't stick to a script – but a big lesson if you compare it to the Eastwood debacle of the week before: there is no amount of acting experience, and extemporizing what to say, that can compensate for knowing what people want to hear.
(9) Forty out-patients suffering from a variety of skin diseases were treated over a period of 7 to 14 days (mean 9.6 days) with twice-daily applications of an extempore combination of sodium fusidate, clobetasone butyrate and ketoconazole creams.
(10) The spontaneous proliferative activity in cells obtained extempore varied widely.
(11) Forty-one patients with skin diseases of various origins were treated with an extempore combination of three creams containing clobetasone butyrate, sodium fusidate and ketoconazole.
(12) The preparation was proposed as a new extemporal pharmaceutical form of levomycetin for intravenous administration.
(13) Forty patients with bronchospasm of various origins were treated with an extempore combination of a bronchodilator, salbutamol, and an antihistamine agent, oxatomide.
(14) Forty patients suffering from asthmatic conditions, often accompanied by emphysema, were treated either with an extempore combination of salbutamol syrup plus 30-mg oxatomide tablets or with 30-mg oxatomide tablets alone for purposes of comparison.
(15) At every school he visited, Gove peppered everyone within earshot with these questions and more, as well as pitching in with an extempore history lesson at Orchard Gardens with a group of 10-year-olds.
(16) Besides which, even if the cartoonist was intending to speak from a script rather than extempore, there could obviously be no guarantee that he would stick to a censored script.
Prior
Definition:
(a.) Preceding in the order of time; former; antecedent; anterior; previous; as, a prior discovery; prior obligation; -- used elliptically in cases like the following: he lived alone [in the time] prior to his marriage.
(a.) The superior of a priory, and next below an abbot in dignity.
Example Sentences:
(1) Combination therapy was most effective in patients receiving HCTZ prior to enalapril.
(2) These results indicated that the PG determination was the most accurate predictor of fetal lung well-being prior to birth among the clinical tests so far reported.
(3) Prior to oral feeding, little or no ELA was detected in stools and endotoxinemia was ascertained in only six of 45 infants (13%).
(4) Release of 51Cr was apparently a function of immune thymus-derived lymphocytes (T cells) because it was abrogated by prior incubation of spleen cells with anti-thymus antiserum and complement but was undiminished by passage of spleen cells through nylon-wool columns.
(5) Prior to joining JOE Media, Will was chief commercial officer at Dazed Group, where he also sat on the board of directors.
(6) The secretion of GH as measured by increased plasma level, in response to oral administration of 500 mg L-dopa or 30 min-infusion of arginine, was not modified by prior intravenous administration of 200 micrograms GH-releasing hormone (GHRH).
(7) In a double-blind, crossover-designed study, 9 male subjects (age range: 18-25 years) received 25 mg orally, four times per day of either S or an identically-appearing placebo (P) 2 d prior to and during HA.
(8) The remainder of the radioactivity appeared chromatographically just prior to the bisantrene peak, indicating that compounds more polar than the parent were present as transformation products.
(9) The number of gastrin-immunoreactive cells actually decreases just prior to weaning but then increases at and after, weaning.
(10) Sephadex LH-20 column chromatography was used for the separation of the steroid prior to assay.
(11) Blood samples were collected from an antecubital vein at sea level (S1), in a base camp at 1515 m prior to the summit ascent (S2), on the summit at 3285 m after 6.5 hours of climbing (S3), at base camp immediately after the descent (S4), and at sea level following a trail descent from the base camp (S5).
(12) A direct radioimmunoassay method using highly specific antisera without prior deconjugation has been developed for determination of estradiol 17-glucuronide and estriol 16-glucuronide in human plasma.
(13) Multiple operations were done in 7 patients prior to the appropriate diagnosis and treatment.
(14) Symptoms consistent with major affective disorder were present in one half and depressive spectrum diagnoses were made in one fourth of the cases prior to final diagnosis.
(15) In the genitourinary clinic setting, clinical diagnosis prior to biopsy was found frequently to be inaccurate.
(16) None of these were apparent on prior roentgenograms of the chest.
(17) It has a poor prognosis prior to the current combined treatment of surgical ablation, radiation to the surgical field, and chemotherapy for microscopic metastases.
(18) The flow cytometric measured DNA content (i.e., DNA index), S-fractions, and histopathologic malignancy grades were studied for ninety uterine cervical squamous cell carcinomas using tissue biopsies taken prior to radiotherapy.
(19) The consequences of proved hypersensitivity in patients with metal-to-plastic prostheses, either present prior to insertion of the prosthesis or evoked by the implant material, are not known.
(20) However, the effect of prior jaw motion and the effect of the recording site on the EMG amplitudes and on the vertical dimension of minimum EMG activity have not been documented.