(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.
Spontaneous
Definition:
(a.) Proceding from natural feeling, temperament, or disposition, or from a native internal proneness, readiness, or tendency, without constraint; as, a spontaneous gift or proportion.
(a.) Proceeding from, or acting by, internal impulse, energy, or natural law, without external force; as, spontaneous motion; spontaneous growth.
(a.) Produced without being planted, or without human labor; as, a spontaneous growth of wood.
Example Sentences:
(1) Spectral analysis of spontaneous heart rate fluctuations, a powerful noninvasive tool for quantifying autonomic nervous system activity, was assessed in Xenopus Laevis, intact or spinalized, at different temperatures and by use of pharmacological tools.
(2) Hypothyroidism complicated by spontaneous hyperthyroidism is an interesting but rare occurrence in the spectrum of autoimmune thyroid disorders.
(3) Spontaneous locomotor activity was lower in naloxone-infused rats on day 3 only.
(4) administration of the potent short-acting opioid, fentanyl, elicited inhibition of rhythmic spontaneous reflex increases in vesical pressure (VP) evoked by urinary bladder distension.
(5) Sample processing appears effective in avoiding spontaneous oxalogenesis.
(6) Thus, B cells that grow spontaneously from the peripheral blood of SS patients spontaneously produce a B-cell growth factor.
(7) They can rarely be detected spontaneously but most often are provoked.
(8) The ACTH deficiency recovered spontaneously, with normal cortisol responses to depot Synacthen (greater than 1380 at 6 h) and hypoglycemia (peak, 590) 14 and 18 months postpartum, respectively.
(9) The number of peripheral blood lymphocytes (PBL) producing IgM (spontaneous and pokeweed mitogen (PWM) stimulated) at the end of a seven day culture period was similar in PBC patients and control subjects while the amount of IgM synthesized (spontaneous and PWM stimulated) during this period was significantly greater in the patient group, implying that the amount of IgM produced per B cell was increased in PBC.
(10) In in vitro preparations GABA (10(-7) - 10(-3) M) elicited a dose-dependent relaxation; a decrease in the spontaneous contractions was sometimes observed.
(11) Fractures which occur near the base of the dens have a low propensity to unite spontaneously.
(12) The cell fermentation culture with a stabilized pH value was better than the culture with the pH value changing spontaneously on saponin content, growth rate and biomass.
(13) Recovery was spontaneous and no antimicrobial agents were required.
(14) Over a period of 9 months a 12-year-old girl spontaneously developed a palpable cystic tumor in the upper eye lid which led to an indentation and downward displacement of the globe.
(15) In the dark the 6-azidoflavoproteins are quite stable, except for L-lactate oxidase, where spontaneous conversion to the 6-amino-FMN enzyme occurs slowly at pH 7.
(16) Spontaneous reports of suspected adverse reactions may be the only way of revealing very rare events but they present great difficulties of rational interpretation.
(17) In addition, spontaneous platelet aggregation is increased when vegetations are present on cardiac valves.
(18) Media made hyperosmotic with sucrose increase the frequency of spontaneously released quanta of transmitter, or miniature excitatory postsynaptic potentials (MEPSPs).
(19) There is no convincing evidence that immunosuppression is effective, also because the natural history of the disease is characterised by a spontaneous disappearance of the factor VIII-C inhibitor.
(20) By contrast, the concentrations of IgA1 kappa and IgA1 lambda in PBMC culture supernatants, both spontaneous and PWM-stimulated, were identical in patients and controls.