(n.) The act of focalizing or bringing to a focus, or the state of being focalized.
Example Sentences:
(1) Macroscopic lesions included mild congestion of the gastric mucosa and focal consolidation of the lung.
(2) New indications are still being investigated, for example in focal tremors and spasticity.
(3) These findings may not indicate a redistribution of renal blood flow through resistance changes in specific parts of the renal vasculature but may represent the consequences of focal cortical ischaemia, most prominent in the outer cortex.
(4) Wilder Penfield's development of surgical methods for treating focal cerebral seizures, beginning with his early work in Montreal in 1928, is reviewed.
(5) Initiation of the alternative pathway by the cryptococcal capsule is characterized by a lag in C3 accumulation and the appearance of a limited number of focal initiation sites which resemble those observed when the alternative pathway is activated by zymosan and nonencapsulated cryptococci.
(6) Light microscopy of both apneics and snorers revealed mucous gland hypertrophy with ductal dilation and focal squamous metaplasia, disruption of muscle bundles by infiltrating mucous glands, focal atrophy of muscle fibers, and extensive edema of the lamina propria with vascular dilation.
(7) In this series there were 45 patients (40%) with independent focal interictal EEG epileptic abnormalities over frontobasal cortex (with or without independent spiking over interomedial temporal region).
(8) Out of 50 epileptics in 31 cases temporal-lobe epilepsy was present, in 15 the seizures and EEG changes were generalized, in 4 cases focal non-temporal-lobe epilepsy was recognized.
(9) Focal segmental glomerulosclerosis was diagnosed by strict histologic criteria in 103 patients.
(10) The periodic pattern was assumed as subclinical focal seizure discharges from the right anterior temporal deep structures.
(11) After 40 minutes of coronary occlusion and 20 minutes of reflow, significant cardiac weight gain occurred in association with characteristic alterations in the ischemic region, including widespread interstitial edema and focal vascular congestion and hemorrhage and swelling of cardiac muscle cells.
(12) Subjects with past history of chronic substance abuse, neurologic disease, or focal findings on MRI or CT were excluded.
(13) Shock-wave delivery and focal size of three different generators-electrohydraulic, electromagnetic and piezoelectric--were compared.
(14) Neither temporal dispersion nor focal conduction block occurred.
(15) Chemically induced transformation of the stable heteroploid cell line (F1706) was manifested by an easy to read focal alteration.
(16) Imaging studies had shown no change in his brain stem lesion, which at autopsy was found to be a focal collection of fibrillary astrocytes.
(17) Two-thirds of the respiratory infections occurred in the first 3 postoperative months and were generally localized processes (focal pneumonitis, nodule(s), abscess, or empyema).
(18) On visual inspection the nephrograms showed no focal changes.
(19) Ultrastructurally, the atrial myocardial cells in all three patients were hypertrophied, and two patients had evidence of focal cell degeneration; the atrium was markedly dilated, but atrial arrhythmias were not noted.
(20) However, focal outbreaks in small scale still occurred every year.
Narrative
Definition:
(a.) Of or pertaining to narration; relating to the particulars of an event or transaction.
(a.) Apt or inclined to relate stories, or to tell particulars of events; story-telling; garrulous.
(n.) That which is narrated; the recital of a story; a continuous account of the particulars of an event or transaction; a story.
Example Sentences:
(1) In EastEnders , the mystery surrounding the identity of Kat's secret squeeze continues amid the grinding of narrative levers and the death rattle of overflogged script-horses.
(2) Reading these latest statistics, it’s crucial that our generation – millennials, Gen Y, whatever we want to call ourselves – abandons this preposterous narrative.
(3) The day it opened in the US, three senators – senate select committee on intelligence chairwoman Dianne Feinstein, Carl Levin and John McCain – released a letter of protest to Sony Pictures's CEO, citing their committee's 6,000-page classified report on interrogation tactics and calling on him "to state that the role of torture in the hunt for Osama bin Laden is not based on the facts, but rather part of the film's fictional narrative".
(4) Although the collection was one of Winehouse's major projects over the past year, it was also part of her narrative of relapse and decline.
(5) I still find that trying to weave together into a visual narrative and cutting together two pieces of a film – two different images.
(6) The Russian channel has the specific mission to counter the narrative of the so-called “mainstream media” and often does not even attempt balanced coverage of global events.
(7) Of course, students need to be aware there is a “Jewish story” and an “Arab story”, as Michael Davies’ article points out ( Education , 6 October), just as they need to be aware there are always different narratives in conflict situations, like colonialism.
(8) The review received more than 2,200 documents, the report said, to generate a “narrative” of events.
(9) Narratives of illness in medical records and case presentations in teaching hospitals say surprisingly little about an important matter: what patients understand and feel.
(10) A lot, without it being thrust down their throats.” The app will add more stories over time, with Moore saying American narrators will be included, and ultimately translations into other languages too.
(11) While this is something that gives substance to the familiar cry of “Never again,” it will be up to the countries in the western Balkans, and in particular Bosnia and Herzegovina, to engage in an honest reckoning with the past, rather than narratives based on chauvinism or denial.
(12) Because her achievements chime with bigger narratives.
(13) Events had to be shoehorned into a wider narrative.
(14) You could think the narrator's extreme failures of sympathy are despicable, but this would surely be beside the point.
(15) Can Advanced Warfare shake up the series in narrative terms?
(16) All subjects expressed at least some story content, but only the right hemidecorticate narratives conveyed suggestion and implication as well as explicit statement.
(17) The old narrative is that of segregation, leading to confined form of space and time.
(18) This study examines the use of the co-temporal connectives when, while and as in the elicited narratives of 71 children between 4;10 and 11;11.
(19) He suggested it formed part of a political narrative, justifying Bo's removal because he and his associates were "bad" people.
(20) In its intransigence over Kashmir, the Indian state has, among other things, waged a narrative war, in which it tells itself and its citizens via servile media, that there is no dispute, that it’s an internal matter – and whatever troubles there are in the idyllic valley are the work of jihadis from Pakistan.