(adv.) At frequent or short intervals; many times; often; repeatedly; commonly.
Example Sentences:
(1) Aggregation was more frequent in low-osmolal media: mainly rouleaux were formed in ioxaglate but irregular aggregates in non-ionic media.
(2) For male schizophrenics, all symptom differences disappeared except one; blacks were more frequently asocial.
(3) The extrusion of granules into the intercellular space via exocytosis is frequently observed.
(4) A total of 13 ascertainments of folate sensitive autosomal fragile sites is observed, of which 10q23 fragility appears to be the most frequent.
(5) The secondary leukemia that occurred in these patients could be distinguished from the secondary leukemia that occurs after treatment with alkylating agents by the following: a shorter latency period; a predominance of monocytic or myelomonocytic features; and frequent cytogenetic abnormalities involving 11q23.
(6) Induction of labor, based upon only (1) a finding of meconium in the amniocentesis group or (2) a positive test in the OCT group, was nearly three times more frequent in the amniocentesis group.
(7) Hypertensive disorders in pregnancy are frequently accompanied by deteriorated renal functions and by pathological lesions in the glomeruli.
(8) The results also indicate that small lesions initially noted only on CT scans of the chest in children with Wilms' tumor frequently represent metastatic tumor.
(9) In this study, standby and prophylactic patients had comparable success and major complication rates, but procedural morbidity was more frequent in prophylactic patients.
(10) Throughout the period of rehabilitation, the frequent changes of a patient's condition may require a process of ongoing evaluation and appropriate adjustments in the physical therapy program.
(11) Herbalists in Baja California Norte, Mexico, were interviewed to determine the ailments and diseases most frequently treated with 22 commonly used medicinal plants.
(12) The most frequently recovered beta LPB was Staphylococcus aureus, which was recovered in 356 (47%) patients.
(13) In particular, inflammatory reaction was significantly more frequent and severe in ischemic groups than in controls, independent of the degree of coronary stenosis.
(14) Caries-related bacteriological and biochemical factors were studied in 12 persons with low and 11 persons with normal salivary-secretion rates before and after a four-week period of frequent mouthrinses with 10% sorbitol solution (adaptation period).
(15) The author's experience in private psychoanalytic practice and in Philadelphia's rape victim clinics indicates that these assaults occur frequently.
(16) We found that, compared to one- and two-dose infants, those treated with three doses of Exosurf were more premature, smaller, required a longer ventilator course, and had more frequent complications, including patent ductus arteriosus (PDA), intraventricular hemorrhage, nosocomial pneumonia, and apnea.
(17) Over the years the farm dams filled less frequently while the suburbs crept further into the countryside, their swimming pools oblivious to the great drying.
(18) Following mass disasters and individual deaths, dentists with special training and experience in forensic odontology are frequently called upon to assist in the identification of badly mutilated or decomposed bodies.
(19) Adverse outcomes were reported more frequently by consultant physicians, by those who 'titrated' the intravenous sedative, and by those who used an additional intravenous agent, but were reported equally frequently by endoscopists using midazolam and endoscopists using diazepam.
(20) The most frequent source of the pulmonary circulation thromboembolism was the lower limb veins.
Oftentimes
Definition:
(adv.) Frequently; often; many times.
Example Sentences:
(1) Because of magnification, laparoscopy provides oftentimes superior visualization of the biliary tree.
(2) They oftentimes try to cover up some of these crimes.” Sweden suffered a suicide bombing by an Iraqi-born Swedish citizen in Stockholm in 2010, a year before civil wars began in Syria and Libya and unrest across the Middle East pushed millions of people to flee their homes, many into Europe.
(3) Involuntarily hospitalized patients oftentimes request judicial review of their commitments.
(4) Oftentimes if an active upper gastrointestinal bleeding site is not evident at the time of endoscopy, bleeding is attributed to any esophageal or gastric varices that are present.
(5) So that entire analysis is bogus and is wrong, but gets frequently peddled around here by folks who oftentimes are trying to defend previous policies that they themselves made.” Obama is scheduled to return from his vacation temporarily next Sunday.
(6) Generally, duplicative studies with similar test characteristics add little to the diagnostic process, and oftentimes confuse it.
(7) They expressed their anxiety and their fears and their inability oftentimes to cope.
(8) The authors note that this oftentimes forces the physician to make difficult decisions concerning what information, if any, is to be disclosed to an outsider to the physician-patient relationship.
(9) Marco Rubio, one of the party’s presidential contenders, told CNN: “The majority of people on the no-fly list are oftentimes people that basically just have the same name as somebody else, who don’t belong on the no-fly list.
(10) Pregnancy-related liver diseases are complex in presentation and oftentimes confusing to clinicians, leading to misdiagnoses and unwarranted or delayed therapies.
(11) A recent California Supreme Court ruling in People v. Clark adds legal, clinical, and ethical dilemmas to the oftentimes contentious Tarasoff issue.
(12) Obama said that the commutations are in part motivated by “the inequities of the criminal justice system”, namely “the fact that we spend over $80bn a year in incarcerating people oftentimes who’ve only been engaged in nonviolent drug offenses”.
(13) Oftentimes victims never have the chance to make it as a survivor; they die trying.
(14) Keratoplasty "à chaud" seems to be the most efficient method for treatment of inflammation, the most radical to restore the integrity of the eye, and can give oftentimes an accurate optical result.
(15) Treatment includes appropriate antibiotics and, oftentimes, surgical drainage of the primary focus of infection.
(16) As we have learned following the recent disclosures initiated by Mr Snowden, intelligence agencies – especially the NSA in the United States – have assiduously tried to avoid and get around such oversight, been deliberately unforthcoming and oftentimes disingenuous with even the highest government authorities that are supposed to supervise their activities and prevent abuse.
(17) Acute exposures and chronic conditions resulting from years of exposure to pesticides are oftentimes not attributed to pesticides.
(18) Impedance measurements can provide physicians with objective information about the condition of the middle ear, oftentimes more accurately than either otoscopic examination or standard audiometry.
(19) He added that his two girls, Sasha and Malia, were not included in the clay pigeon shoots at the presidential retreat, but "oftentimes guests of mine go up there".
(20) The implications of this assessment for common medical disorders, such as essential hypertension, and less common but oftentimes more challenging clinical conditions, such as end-stage renal disease, are potentially substantial.