(n.) The act or result of guiding; the superintendence or assistance of a guide; direction; government; a leading.
Example Sentences:
(1) Results indicated a .85 probability that Directive Guidance would be followed by Cooperation; a .67 probability that Permissiveness would lead to Noncooperation; and a .97 likelihood that Coerciveness would lead to either Noncooperation or Resistance.
(2) Core biopsy with computed tomography (CT) or ultrasound (US) guidance may be such an alternative, particularly when a spring-loaded firing device is used.
(3) GlaxoSmithKline was unusually critical of the decision by Nice, the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence, and also the Scottish Medicines Consortium, to reject its drug belimumab (brand name Benlysta) in final draft guidance.
(4) Think of Nelson Mandela – there is a determination, an unwillingness to bend in the face of challenges, that earns you respect and makes people look to you for guidance.
(5) Nice (the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence) has also published new guidance on good patient experience that provides a strong framework on which to build good engagement practice.
(6) Two mechanisms are evident in chicks' spatial representations: a metric frame for encoding the spatial arrangement of surfaces as surfaces and a cue-guidance system for encoding conspicuous landmarks near the target.
(7) Oocytes obtained by laparoscopy were compared with those obtained under ultrasonic guidance to determine whether CO2 exposure had any adverse effect.
(8) While it’s not unknown to see such self-balancing mini scooters on the pavement, under legal guidance reiterated on Monday by the Crown Prosecution Service all such “personal transporters”, including hoverboards and Segways , are banned from the footpath.
(9) US guidance facilitated placement of a 22-gauge needle by means of a subxyphoid or transthoracic approach.
(10) These findings in a patient with acute leukaemia are strongly suspicious of fungal infection, and percutaneous fine-needle aspiration under ultrasound or computed tomography-guidance is indicated.
(11) Contact guidance has been suggested to direct NC cells ventrally in the trunk, but this has been subject to doubt (see Newgreen and Erickson, 1986, Int.
(12) O'Donnell said he had decided to publish his guidance now to ensure there was clarity before the election.
(13) The Department of Health has argued that the NHS should have local policies on DNR issues, based on the professional guidance from the BMA, Royal College of Nursing and Resuscitation Council .
(14) Its expression is developmentally regulated, and it is sensitive to phosphatidylinositol-specific phospholipase C. These are properties expected for a molecule responsible for the phenomena observed in experiments on in vitro guidance of retinal axons.
(15) His call comes after senior police admitted there was a need for guidance on a consistent approach across the country to the policing of the protests because of the likelihood of further exploration sites being given the go-ahead.
(16) The duration and "growth guidance" aspects of treatment allowed for functional as well as morphologic adaption to the altered hyoid position.
(17) In order to make such difficult decisions, the parents are dependent upon the guidance and counseling of health professionals, especially the physicians most closely involved in each case.
(18) In this paper we argue that private medical care has so far been allowed to develop without guidance and controls, and little use has been made of it to support government health services.
(19) Molecular characterization of such genes could lead to the identification of molecules critical in axonal outgrowth and guidance in higher organisms.
(20) The authors report the case of a patient affected with carcinoma of the pancreas who underwent fine-needle aspiration biopsy under ultrasonic guidance.
Guidepost
Definition:
(n.) A post at the fork of a road, with a guideboard on it, to direct travelers.
Example Sentences:
(1) The initial step in the ultrasonic examination of the pancreas is display of the anatomical detail of the portal vasculature which provides a guidepost to the pancreas.
(2) Specific glial cells may be utilized as guideposts by growing axons, allowing them to recognize the appropriate pathway, or conversely, glial cells may inhibit axons from growing along an inappropriate pathway.
(3) The major nerve branches serving the mandibles, maxillae, and labium are established by peripheral pioneer neurons, which project their axons into the central nervous system via a set of guidepost cells.
(4) Increasing the cell-substratum adhesivity of these guideposts results in an increase in the percentage of neurites spanning a given width of the low-adhesivity substratum.
(5) Their growth cones migrate along a stereotyped pathway, where they encounter a series of guidance cues, including preaxonogenesis afferent neurons (guidepost cells).
(6) The accurate recognition and quantitation of these conditions represent guideposts to treatment and prognosis.
(7) Apparently, filopodial contact with high-adhesivity guideposts enables neurites to extend across intervening low-adhesivity substrata.
(8) When performing a middle fossa approach, the superior semicircular canal, the greater petrosal nerve, and a window through the tegmen tympani into the attic are useful guideposts.
(9) It is concluded that informed decisions about self-care are best made by considering a variety of factors, with age being merely a guidepost.
(10) Calcium concentration measurements along pioneer neurites suggest that calcium ions also are transferred from pioneer neurons to these coupled guidepost cells.
(11) Here, we describe a system, the developing wing of the fruitfly, in which we have tested simultaneously two putative guidance mechanisms, physical constraints to axon growth (channels) and the position of neuronal somata (guideposts), using surgical techniques.
(12) The work of Shatz' laboratory (Chun et al., 1987; Ghosh et al., 1990) suggests that neuropeptide-containing neurons, transiently present, serve as guideposts for thalamocortical axons coming in to innervate specific cortical areas.
(13) Dissociated chick embryo dorsal root ganglion neurons are cultured on a substratum consisting of areas of high-adhesivity substratum-bound laminin (i.e., model adhesive guideposts) separated by a low-adhesivity agarose substratum.
(14) This guidance is effective in the absence of such potential additional cues as guidepost neurons and physical channels.
(15) To test this "guidepost" hypothesis, everting wing discs were raised in vitro to allow surgical manipulation.
(16) For the genetics of neural circuits and behavior, and synaptic guidepost molecules.
(17) The hypothesis implies that high adhesivity between extending axons and guidepost cells facilitates axon extension across low-adhesivity tissues or spaces between guidepost cells.
(18) The oldest children (like the adults) were more likely to prepose when clauses than were younger children, a finding which suggests that with increasing awareness of the information needs of the listener, children begin to use preposed adverbial clauses as information 'guideposts'.
(19) Thus, during the early stages of cerebellar ontogeny, when the migration pathway through the molecular layer is sparsely populated with cells and processes, the vertical process of a granule cell may seek actively a path of least resistance, utilizing 'contacts' with surrounding objects for avoidance, rather than as guideposts imperative for directing migration.
(20) The concepts of neutrality, anonymity, and abstinence, though of importance as guideposts in the conduct of an analysis, have conceptual limitations that not infrequently bind the analyst in a stance that is not useful for the progress of the analysis.