(v. t.) To feed; to nourish; to support; to bring up.
(v. t.) To cherish; to promote the growth of; to encourage; to sustain and promote; as, to foster genius.
(v. i.) To be nourished or trained up together.
(v. t.) Relating to nourishment; affording, receiving, or sharing nourishment or nurture; -- applied to father, mother, child, brother, etc., to indicate that the person so called stands in the relation of parent, child, brother, etc., as regards sustenance and nurture, but not by tie of blood.
(n.) A forester.
(n.) One who, or that which, fosters.
Example Sentences:
(1) Training in social skills specific to fostering intimacy is suggested as a therapeutic step, and modifications to the social support measure for future use discussed.
(2) Implications for practice and research include need for support groups with nurses as facilitators, the importance of fostering hope, and need for education of health care professionals.
(3) A considerably greater increase in the peak plasma OT concentration resulted when hungry foster litters of 6 pups were suckled after the mothers' own 6 pups had been suckled.
(4) Children and adopters are encouraged to meet with foster carers after placement to show the child they are well.
(5) SHR control and in-fostered animals responded similarly in the open field; however, SHR cross-fostered rats (particularly females) tended to be more active than controls.
(6) I had two friends who were fostered, and they went through this.
(7) The approach must create an organizational culture which fosters commitment to overall goals in the system's members.
(8) Endocrinological studies of the time to the 1st ovulatory cycle in early and late maturing girls in Finland (Apter and Vihko, 1983) are contrary to the Bangladeshi results reported by Foster in 1986.
(9) The reform had already been put to me by the excellent John Simmonds at British Association for Adoption and Fostering (BAAF) who – without much success – had been urging this reform for some years.
(10) Procurement has already brought down prices in foster care significantly in recent years, so differences between the costs of placement options may now be marginal.
(11) Secularism is the only way to stop collapse and chaos and to foster bonds of citizenship in our complex democracy.
(12) The capacity to sublimate and to foster sublimation in children is a prerequisite for normal motherhood.
(13) The authors provide an important description of a successful alternative foster parent recruitment effort, including the provision of fiscal incentives for foster parent recruiters.
(14) Lord Foster, the architect, who was ennobled in 1999, and Lord Bagri, the Indian metal magnate, resigned last night.
(15) These courses will provide foster carers with more understanding and new techniques to apply in their fostering.
(16) Six groups of primiparous females were tested for maternal behavior to foster pups presented 9-10 days after Cesarean delivery: three groups were permitted to interact with pups for a 2-h period 36 h after Cesarean delivery; and three groups were separated from pups until testing and were given no maternal experience.
(17) A patient was observed with limited adhesive arachnitis of nontuberculous origin producing Foster-Kennedy syndrome.
(18) The coroner also raised concerns that although the aim of the operation in which Duggan was killed was to take guns off the streets, little attempt was made to seize weapons believed to be held by Hutchinson-Foster.
(19) Training for foster carers often depends on the standards of the local authority or fostering agency in question, and we are lucky to have strong support from our social worker and agency.
(20) We have also shown the influence of age, but not of parity, of foster mothers on DMBA-induced transmammary carcinogenesis in F1 individuals.
Zoster
Definition:
(n.) Shingles.
Example Sentences:
(1) Guillain Barré syndrome following herpes zoster is rare and only 25 cases have been reported to date.
(2) Ten patients developed zoster within the first 6 months following transplant.
(3) The distribution of cases of zoster was comparable with that of HIV infection.
(4) The immune adherence hemagglutination (IAHA) test was compared with the complement fixation (CF) test and fluorescent antibody (FA) test to measure the antibody titer to varicella-zoster virus (VZV) in 70 sera of convalescents 2 to 8 weeks after herpes zoster onset.
(5) These persons also have a greater chance of developing serious neurologic complications after an episode of Herpes zoster.
(6) Four patients with herpes zoster ophthalmicus developed peripheral corneal ulcers with steep central edges.
(7) It was found that gp63 has a region of homology with a herpes simplex virus type 1 (HSV-1) protein, encoded by US7, and also with varicella-zoster virus (VZV) gpIV.
(8) Our studies of in vitro cellular immune responses to herpesviruses have shown that, before treatment, lymphoma patients have decreased transformation to varicella-zoster virus antigen compared to herpes simplex virus and cytomegalovirus antigens.
(9) Oral acyclovir has relatively low bioavailability, which has made the value of this route of administration for the treatment or prophylaxis of herpes zoster infections uncertain.
(10) A homolog of UL49.5 is present in the genome of varicella-zoster virus, located between homologs of UL49 and UL50.
(11) A case of herpes zoster encephalitis which responded very rapidly to acyclovir is presented.
(12) Appropriate use of varicella zoster immunoglobulin to prevent or ameliorate maternal or perinatal infection depends on accurate identification of varicella-susceptible women.
(13) Past episodes of herpes zoster and of skin and genital warts were also associated with significantly increased HD risks.
(14) Patients with negative signals were found to suffer from mycobacterial infection (patient 1) or varicella-zoster virus infection (patient 6).
(15) We consider chronic ocular zoster as a distinct clinical entity, possibly expressing a failing local immune response against VZV.
(16) In the present study patients suffering from facial nerve palsy caused by a herpes zoster oticus were treated with aciclovir.
(17) We examined samples of serum from Japanese patients with unclassified uveitis, iridocyclitis caused by herpes zoster virus, Behçet's disease, Vogt-Koyanagi-Harada syndrome, sarcoidosis, or other conditions (sympathetic ophthalmia, Posner-Schlossman syndrome and acute anterior uveitis with ankylosing spondylitis).
(18) A 35-year-old previously healthy woman developed left hemiparesis sixteen weeks after the onset of right herpes zoster ophthalmicus.
(19) Significant increased risks were associated with a history of herpes zoster infection (odds ratio (OR): 2.3, 95% confidence interval (CI): 1.1-4.9), chicken-pox (OR: 2.1, 95% CI: 1.2-4.1) and mumps (OR: 2.0, 95% CI: 1.1-3.8).
(20) This assumes that vaccine would be administered only once with measles, mumps, and rubella vaccine, that there would be no increase in the number of varicella cases in older persons who are at increased risk for complications, and that there would be no deleterious effect on the occurrence and severity of herpes zoster.