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Fosterage


Definition:

  • (n.) The care of a foster child; the charge of nursing.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The legal measures covering protection and care in connection with legislation governing guardianship and fosterage involving medical nursing, which have remained unchanged in principle since 1896, increasingly create the risk of obstructing and hampering the treatment and rehabilitation of mental patients.
  • (2) This paper examines the relationships between fosterage and child feeding practices and children's access to Western medical care.
  • (3) Mammary glands obtained from MCA1-treated rats on day 5 of fosterage had markedly lower mean weight than controls.
  • (4) Furthermore, unlike controls, there was no observable postpartum nipple development in MCA1-treated rats by day 5 of fosterage.
  • (5) Although both MCA1-treated rats and control rats exhibited a high incidence of maternal behavior after cesarean delivery, mean pup weight and incidence of live pups declined markedly during days 1-5 of fosterage in MCA1-treated rats compared to controls.

Fostering


Definition:

  • (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Foster

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.

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