(v. t.) To relinquish the enjoyment or advantage of; to give up; to resign; to renounce; -- said of a thing already enjoyed, or of one within reach, or anticipated.
(v. i.) To go before; to precede; -- used especially in the present and past participles.
Example Sentences:
(1) The foregoing findings show the different behaviour of these two groups of patients with an incidence of tumor positive adenopathies of 48.2% and 72.7% and tumor-free survival of 35.7% and 9.0% for patients with T4a and T4b, respectively.
(2) In conclusion, shape analysis and pattern recognition techniques can be used to forego dependence on the numerous assumptions and approximations required by traditional wall motion techniques, while providing performance characteristics that are similar to, and in some instances better than, traditional approaches.
(3) In 108 fetuses and 219 neonates resulting from cross-breeding to induce trisomy 19, we found no significant increase in the frequency of the foregoing anomalies.
(4) The second contraction develops already a higher pressure than the first one, during the consecutive beats the systolic pressure increases gradually until a new steady state is reached, which is usually lower than the systolic pressure during the foregoing lower beating rate.
(5) Familiarity with the foregoing recent important studies and reports is fundamental to the planning and delivery of effective and sound health promotion and risk-reduction programs.
(6) As a result of the foregoing sex difference in the early postnatal ontogeny of open loop gonadotropin secretion, circulating FSH to LH ratios in ovariectomized infantile female monkeys (2.3:8.1) were consistently greater than those in agonadal males (0.5:3.8).
(7) Cholesteatoma recurrence (homogeneous soft tissue mass with bony destruction) Based on previous experience we forego an early second-look 1 year later and suggest the following plan: 1.
(8) In view of the foregoing and on the basis of reccent findings on morphogenesis, we confirm the taxonomic position of Espejoia mucicola among Tetrahymenina in the family Glaucomidae.
(9) After a blunt trauma diagnosis between levator aponeurosis desinsertion and neurogenic ptosis is important in planing the treatment: early surgery for the first and foregoing for the later.
(10) 9) The foregoing requirements provide an explanation for self-nonself discrimination.
(11) In the foregoing we have tried to give a broad survey of the parameters which are of importance for irradiation experiments and which can be measured by NMR.
(12) This paper provides a model of LGN neurons that not only accounts for the foregoing observations, but also yields predictions confirmed by direct tests.
(13) The impact of diabetes is greater for women than men and varies depending on the level of the foregoing risk factors.
(14) The foregoing findings indicate that radiotherapy appears to be more effective in destroying the more undifferentiated and deeper urothelial carcinoma.
(15) The foregoing condition was suspected on the basis of the urographic findings.
(16) Nichrome polarizing electrodes of 0.2 mm diameter with an uninsulated tip of 0.3 mm were inserted into the foregoing structures in a packet.
(17) The response was numerically simulated with parameters used in the foregoing paper.
(18) The foregoing results underline the fundamental differences between mammalian and bacterial enzymes, including variations in the binding sites for the purine ring.
(19) These tests were performed with anaerobically growing cultures and with resting cells, incubated aerobically, in media of defined composition indicated in the foregoing papers.
(20) FDCP-2 cells were distinguished by the presence of monosialylated and non-sialylated counterparts of the foregoing tetrasaccharides.
Forgo
Definition:
(v. i.) To pass by; to leave. See 1st Forego.
Example Sentences:
(1) Indeed, there is only a limited understanding of the factors influencing physicians' decisions to forgo or maintain life-sustaining treatments when caring for dying patients.
(2) NHS officials told the Guardian that any individual local council that chose not to engage with NHS partners would forgo the opportunity to join up social care and health services more effectively, but that would be their choice.
(3) The wheels are falling off because the Chinese economy is slowing and commodity prices are falling and because the parliamentary gridlock means governments have been unable to do anything about it.” Richardson joined a growing push for the government to consider savings from the revenue the government forgoes due to the generous treatment of superannuation savings – $30bn in 2014-15 and forecast to rise to close to $50bn in 2017-18.
(4) If you forgo alcohol, incidentally, you could eat one of a handful of the main courses which come in just under £10, such as a special of smoked haddock with summer vegetables, soft poached egg and herb velouté, or the homemade fish fingers with salad and tartare sauce.
(5) Many patients, especially those who are elderly and who have chronic medical illnesses, choose to forgo cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) in case of cardiac arrest.
(6) If the patient is incapable of expressing a preference, the decision to forgo resuscitation may be made by the patient's family or other surrogate decision maker.
(7) Increasing costs would cause “unnecessary harm” and lower high standards of care, as many patients would choose to forgo important tests, Harrison said.
(8) (In the end, Serco paid back £68.5m for the tagging debacle, and agreed to forgo any future profits on its prisoner escort contract.
(9) He has already dispatched 2,500 head office staff to work in its stores for one day a fortnight in the runup to Christmas, and revealed that, when possible, he is forgoing his chauffeur and taking public transport.
(10) Each year Thiel pays a small group of teenagers to forgo or quit university and start their own business.
(11) The BBC has announced that most managers will not receive a bonus this year, and ITV executives agreed to forgo part of their performance-related payments last week.
(12) Only one has been issued so far this century – by Pope Benedict to give Anglicans a way of joining the Catholic church without having to forgo their liturgy and so on.
(13) "We could lose a generation of potential, as more young Americans are forced to forgo college dreams or the chance to train for the jobs of the future," Obama said in the five-minute address.
(14) In the health care setting, team members forgo their personal needs to focus on the needs of patients.
(15) "We listened to our customers in December and so decided to forgo certain deductions which would make us liable to pay £10m in corporation tax this year and a further £10m in 2014.
(16) They forgo electricity or running water in favour of old-fashioned pleasures: you drift off in front of a log fire and awake to birdsong.
(17) Given the possibility that this surveillance could perhaps prevent deaths in the form of terrorist attacks, most Americans are willing to forgo some abstract notion of privacy in favor of the more concrete benefits of security.
(18) Given the unique and challenging Arctic environment and industry’s declining interest in the area, forgoing lease sales in the Arctic is the right path forward.” The move, announced as part of the federal government’s land and ocean leasing program that will run from 2017 to 2022, has been cheered by environmentalists who called for the Arctic to be put off limits for drilling to help slow climate change and avoid a catastrophic oil spill.
(19) The patient information that was collected included age and sex, diagnoses, mental status, location in the hospital length of hospital stay, method of payment, the timing of the first decision to forgo treatment, and the range and sequence of interventions forgone.
(20) As we have seen all too often in international emergency response operations, the stakes are too high to forgo systems of accountability.