(v. t.) To turn before; to precede; to be in advance of (something following).
(v. t.) To come before as an earnest of something to follow; to introduce as a harbinger; to announce.
Example Sentences:
(1) A forerunning study on the relationship between antibodies to the protective antigen (PA) and lethal factor (LF) components of anthrax toxin and protective immunity has been expanded and extended to include the third toxin component, the edema factor (EF).
(2) It is presumed that in the latent period, the functional changes in the nervous system forerun those in the clinical course and blood.
(3) Computer-aided 3-D reconstruction visualized constant spatial transition from such "tumor-related arteriopathies" to media-free intraneoplastic arterioles, showing their forerunning character preceding the development of typical "tumor vessels".
(4) Forerunning reports said the US was sending 100 special forces troops to Iraq.
(5) From this and from the charge for a highly specialized care of patients who life-threateningly fell ill with internal diseases as well as from the duty to create a scientific forerunning results the stringent necessity of the development of the non-operative, in reality internal intensive medicine in the clinics for internal medicine of the county hospitals and university institutions as well as the greater identification of the internist with the subdiscipline in the district hospitals dealing with multidisciplinary intensive medicine.
(6) Although reports published in recent years postulated transducer either of a frequency higher than 3.5 mHz (1, 5, 11, 12, 13, 14, 17, 20, 21, 24, 25, 27) or low-frequency transducers associated with immersion technique (7, 23), in our patients the use of a 3.5 mHz convex scanner with water forerun resulted always in confirming the diagnosis (in conjunction with anamnesis and clinical findings).
(7) Local changes in the defense and injurious factors forerun the development of an inflammation in the uterine cavity whereas systemic changes develop after the manifestation of clinical symptoms of endometritis.
(8) The eye-watering entry on its website reads: "The forerunning Shtokman concept is a floating, disconnectable spar able to dodge roving icebergs of the 2m-tonne variety."
(9) In our experience a transducer of this frequency (3.5 mHz) with water forerun appears to be suitable for routine diagnosis of changes in the scrotum.
Precurse
Definition:
(n.) A forerunning.
Example Sentences:
(1) The peptides vasopressin (VP) and oxytocin are derived from preprohormone precursers encoded by highly homologous linked genes that are expressed in discrete groups of hypothalamic neurons.
(2) New methods are applied treating endocrine active tumors by labelled hormone precursers.
(3) The results of this study suggest that giant cells of GCT are derived from stromal cells of mononuclear phagocyte lineage, and that the stromal precurser cells lose some, but not all, MP-associated antigens as they mature into giant cells.
(4) The same precursive stigmata exist in persons subject ot coronary attacks whether or not immediately fatal.
(5) The role of prostaglandins, their precursers and intermediates in prostaglandin synthesis, in the pathogenesis of asthma is indeed complex.
(6) Nevertheless further informations with regard to precursing AR can be obtained, which may lead to therapeutic consequences in some patients.
(7) Many of the factors regulating the rate of production of this last steroid from its precurser have been evaluated, and the concept that vitamin D functions as a steroid hormone seems to be well established.
(8) The effects of therapy with essential amino acids and their nitrogen-free hydroxy and keto precursers on nitrogen and amino acid metabolism of patients with chronic renal failure were examined.
(9) The availability of cloned tRNA genes and a variety of eukaryotic in vitro transcription systems allowed rapid progress during the past few years in the characterization of signals in the DNA-controlling gene transcription and in the processing of the precurser RNAs formed.
(10) The precurser lesion to such "early carcinoids", as well as to infiltrating carcinoids, is probably hyperplasia of endocrine cells in the atrophic fundic mucosa.
(11) This leads to the conclusion that the pathological activity of the liver cell is reduced more quickly by the constituents of Hepavis than without suitable therapy, and that a more favorable prognosis for the fatty liver as a potential precurser of cirrhosis is to be attained.
(12) Furthermore, precursing palmitoleate, linoleate and oleate permitted the direct biosynthesis of components A, B and C, respectively.
(13) As the (+ anti)-diol-epoxides are thought to be the initiatory compounds for carcinogenesis, the common binding characteristics for the three hydrocarbons may be significant in understanding the molecular interactions precursive to cancer.
(14) Fusion results in the loss of some surface receptors which in turn interferes with the phagocytic performance of polykarya, which is generally less pronounced than their mononuclear precurses.
(15) On the basis of observations that the precursers of the steroidogenic cells differentiate within the sex cords (first proliferation) and separate from them, falling into the stroma, the authors adopt the concept of the mesothelial (epithelial) origin of those cells.
(16) Delayed development of reading skills suggests that precursers of illness may appear early in life before psychosis is evident.
(17) In fasting rats 1,2-propandiol is utilized as a precurser in the synthesis of glycogen and when introduced by the intraperitoneal route it does not influence the rate of the liver glycogen synthesis from glucose.
(18) The results show that there is no precurser pool of outer membrane proteins in the cytoplasmic membrane because first, the incorporation of a [35S]methionine pulse into outer membrane proteins completely parallels its incorporation into cytoplasmic membrane proteins, and second, under optimal isolation conditions, no outer membrane proteins are found in the cytoplasmic membrane, even when the membranes are analysed after being labeled for only 15 s. The [35S]methionine present in the outer membrane after a pulse of 15 s was found in protein fragments of varying sizes rather than in specific outer membrane proteins.
(19) The influence of precursing and concomitant illnesses on the acute signs and sequels of the meningo-encephalitis is stressed upon.
(20) The age at the outbreak of the disease, infection immunity, precursing and concomitant illnesses as well as the onset of medication influence the outcome of the meningo-encephalitis.