(a.) Closely acquainted or intimate, as a friend or companion; well versed in, as any subject of study; as, familiar with the Scriptures.
(a.) Characterized by, or exhibiting, the manner of an intimate friend; not formal; unconstrained; easy; accessible.
(a.) Well known; well understood; common; frequent; as, a familiar illustration.
(a.) Improperly acquainted; wrongly intimate.
(n.) An intimate; a companion.
(n.) An attendant demon or evil spirit.
(n.) A confidential officer employed in the service of the tribunal, especially in apprehending and imprisoning the accused.
Example Sentences:
(1) In Belfast, the old quarrels just look likely to drag on in their old familiar way.
(2) There are questions with regard to the interpretation of some of the newer content scales of the MMPI-2, whereas most clinicians feel comfortably familiar, even if not entirely satisfied, with the Wiggins Content Scales of the MMPI.
(3) Nursing staff can assist these clients in a therapeutic way by becoming familiar with the types of issues these clients present and the behaviors they manifest.
(4) Stress may increase to an intolerable level with the number of tasks, with higher qualified work and due to the lack of familiarity with fellow workers in ever changing settings.
(5) Both microcomputer use and tracking patient care experience are technical skills similar to learning any medical procedure with which physicians are already familiar.
(6) They have informed, advocated and sometimes goaded participants in a way that will be entirely familiar to people in Europe.
(7) We're all familiar with this approach, which is based around meeting targets, and it's true that it got things done.
(8) The models provide structure and methods that are familiar to practicing nurses so that they may begin to work with colleagues and other researchers in the clinical setting.
(9) All subjects were tested on a variety of automated performance tests including the Matching Familiar Figures (MFF) Task, Auditory-Visual Integration, Short-Term Memory, the Continuous Performance Task (CPT), and Motor Performance.
(10) These results suggest that the exposure-duration effect previously reported in hyperacuity studies is not specific to the localization task per se but rather is a suprathreshold version of the familiar form of spatiotemporal interaction seen in contrast-threshold results.
(11) The increased knowledge of endocrinology, cytobiology and embryology has also made stock farmers familiar with biotechnology.
(12) Read more Clinton spoke before more than a thousand supporters on Saturday at a launch event for “Women for Hillary” in New Hampshire, touching upon many of the familiar themes of her presidential campaign – equal pay for women, paid family leave, raising the minimum wage.
(13) Pediatricians are made familiar with antiviral drugs and are provided with specific recommendations for treatment of viral diseases.
(14) We describe the application of generalized linear model methodology to the problem of testing differences among ligand-receptor interactions, and show that the method is analogous to weighted least squares regression methodology and F tests familiar to many investigators.
(15) Many Iranian women are already pushing the boundaries , and observers in Tehran say women who drive with their headscarves resting on their shoulders are becoming a familiar sight.
(16) Therefore, it is incumbent upon clinicians to know the signs and symptoms of using steroids, and to be familiar with the clinical indications for urine testing.
(17) in conscious, unrestrained rats in a familiar environment.
(18) Unfamiliar-object-dominant neurons (n = 7) responded more to unfamiliar objects than to familiar objects.
(19) Such extravagant claims will be familiar to the scheme's architect, Richard Rogers, whose designs for the office development beside St Paul's Cathedral in the 1980s were torpedoed when Charles implied in a public speech that the plans were more offensive than the rubble left by the Luftwaffe during the blitz.
(20) These results show that transthoracic Doppler echocardiography remains an excellent method of study and surveillance of mechanical valve prostheses but the limitations of the technique should be familiar to all operators.
Recognizable
Definition:
(a.) Capable of being recognized.
Example Sentences:
(1) For the second propositus, a woman presenting with abdominal and psychiatric manifestations, the age of onset was 38 years; the acute attack had no recognizable cause; she had mild skin lesions and initially was incorrectly diagnosed as intermittent acute porphyria; the diagnosis of variegate porphyria was only established at the age of 50 years.
(2) Using an oil painting by G.F. Watts displayed in the National Portrait Gallery of London, we made an attempt to diagnose the dermatological alterations recognizable.
(3) A clearly recognizable relationship of SEH to gestational age and clinical status exists in that all SEH occur in premature infants under 2500 g birthweight (although only 56% of all premature infants have SEH) and 95% of SEH occur in infants with the respiratory distress syndrome (although only 60% of infants with the respiratory distress syndrome have SEH).
(4) Of the 188 males, 19 were found to have the fragile X syndrome, while the remaining 169 males had no recognizable cause of their mental retardation, including normal chromosomes.
(5) Newborn animals already exhibited clearly recognizable crypts of Lieberkühn.
(6) All manipulations were carried out from birth (P0), when no LGN cell layers are evident, to or past the point when layers are recognizable (i.e., 1-2 weeks).
(7) His stencils, skewed perspective and wit are recognizable enough to be mocked in the New Yorker .
(8) If purified nuclei were heated for 45 min at 37 degrees C, the final matrix exhibited well-recognizable nucleolar remnants, an inner network and a peripheral lamina.
(9) From the review of 56 published reports they conclude that triploidy syndrome has a characteristic and recognizable array of phenotype abnormalities.
(10) At medium concentrations (ED50 = 10 ppm) in Mucor mucedor several alterations of ultrastructure are recognizable even after short incubation periods.
(11) Another authentically "abnormal" DNA structure recognizable on transverse pore gradient gels is supercoiled DNA derived from the reaction of topoisomerase with a plasmid.
(12) In contrast, recognizable sensory neurons never exhibited adrenergic properties and did not divide.
(13) This unusual, distinctive synovial neoplasm presents readily recognizable pathological features (Fig.
(14) A corresponding effect after treatment with 5 mg Carazolol was not recognizable (p greater than 0.05).
(15) This study demonstrated that there are appreciable differences in mental and physical status within sibships of daughters of male carriers, as well as recognizable physical alterations and intellectual impairment in the transmitting males.
(16) Because detection of carcinoma in situ, either by cytology or biopsy, depends upon recognizable malignant morphologic characteristics, studies of the lesion tend to be limited to the higher grade or more anaplastic examples.
(17) Nine individuals with intracranial soft matter were recovered and, in five of these, material recognizable as preserved or replaced brain tissue was present.
(18) After angioplasty, no distinct defects were recognizable in 9 of the 12 patients, and in the remaining three, a significant decrease in defects was recognized.
(19) Increased sensitivity to pressor agents and activation of the coagulation cascade occur early in the course of preeclampsia, often antedating clinically recognizable disease.
(20) Three cardiac segments are recognizable embriologically, anatomically and functionally: atria, ventricles and great arteries.