(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.
Perspective
Definition:
(n.) Of or pertaining to the science of vision; optical.
(n.) Pertaining to the art, or in accordance with the laws, of perspective.
(a.) A glass through which objects are viewed.
(a.) That which is seen through an opening; a view; a vista.
(a.) The effect of distance upon the appearance of objects, by means of which the eye recognized them as being at a more or less measurable distance. Hence, aerial perspective, the assumed greater vagueness or uncertainty of outline in distant objects.
(a.) The art and the science of so delineating objects that they shall seem to grow smaller as they recede from the eye; -- called also linear perspective.
(a.) A drawing in linear perspective.
Example Sentences:
(1) Life expectancy and the infant mortality rate are considered more useful from an operational perspective and for comparisons than is the crude death rate because they are not influenced by age structure.
(2) It’s great to observe the beach from that perspective.
(3) Other than failing to get a goal, I couldn’t ask for anything more.” From Lambert’s perspective there was an element of misfortune about the first and third goals, with Willian benefitting from handy ricochets on both occasions.
(4) Technically speaking, this modality of brief psychotherapy is based on the nonuse of transferential interpretations, on impeding the regression od the patient, on facilitating a cognitice-affective development of his conflicts and thus obtain an internal object mutation which allows the transformation of the "past" into true history, and the "present" into vital perspectives.
(5) Don't we by chance come across this reciprocal spiral perspective when two people distrust one another without actually showing it?
(6) "From our perspective our success is mostly a London story.
(7) The whole film is primarily shown from the character's perspective, so 70% of the process involved working with the director of photography [Maxime Alexandre].
(8) The three-dimensional view obtained with scanning electron microscopy provides another perspective on the pathogenetic changes of the RCS retina.
(9) I see the question from a human rights perspective,” interjects Hasan.
(10) The present paper provides a cross-cultural perspective on these problems through description of anthropological and clinical data for a sample (N = 14) of subjects suffering from 5-alpha-reductase deficiency.
(11) The results were discussed from both behavioral and pharmacological perspectives.
(12) She attributes her interest in helping the continent to a "better perspective" on life derived from Kabbalah.
(13) This paper employs a cultural constructivist perspective to deconstruct these nosologies and the classificatory process itself.
(14) We consider this issue from a variety of perspectives.
(15) Two case studies will illustrate from a practical perspective how the change occurred.
(16) His stencils, skewed perspective and wit are recognizable enough to be mocked in the New Yorker .
(17) Analysis of the surgical morbidity, operations, organization of paediatric surgical service, further perspectives.
(18) Dealing with the experience of the Onchocerciasis control Programme in West Africa, we introduce in what perspective, it is possible to establish an environmental monitoring programme in order to minimize the impact of treatments.
(19) The development of the hydrogelic occlusive device called the P-block is described including developmental steps of the design of the device as well as the experience gained concerning the hydrogel of the device, shelf life, animal and human toxicology, insertion techniques, analgesia, check-up for retention in situ, actual efficacy of the method, mode of action of the device, complication rates, patient acceptance, continuation rates, possible reversibility and future perspectives of the method.
(20) The results of this study with regard to treatment times must be considered from the perspective of the quality of the care provided.