(a.) Expressive of command; containing positive command; authoritatively or absolutely directive; commanding; authoritative; as, imperative orders.
(a.) Not to be avoided or evaded; obligatory; binding; compulsory; as, an imperative duty or order.
(a.) Expressive of commund, entreaty, advice, or exhortation; as, the imperative mood.
(n.) The imperative mood; also, a verb in the imperative mood.
Example Sentences:
(1) It is imperative that NPs know how to assess for victimization and safety and that they provide patients with needed information about community services.
(2) Old lefties who have failed to understand the imperatives of electoral politics for 40 years are never going to change their minds.
(3) In order to reduce the devasting effects of enteric diseases among children born to mothers in tropical countries of Africa and Asia, it is imperative that all health workers understand the cultural and social perceptions of their clients towards the disease in question.
(4) Future research imperatives should include differentiating between depressive symptoms and diagnoses, investigating the use of interviewer-administered measures of depression as screening tools, and investigating the relationships between depression, physiologic disease, and use of health services.
(5) What’s imperative from an organizational standpoint, he added, is “understanding where voters are, what their concerns are, and building a sophisticated operation around that.
(6) Emergent management is imperative for convulsive tonic-clonic (grand mal) status epilepticus, but there are nonconvulsive types of status epilepticus in which the problem is more one of correct diagnosis than emergent management.
(7) In order to discriminate between these two activities and optimize potentially therapeutic ribozymes, it is imperative to develop in vivo assays in which the antisense activity of ribozymes is negligible.
(8) Its recognition is imperative in the overall management of the trauma patient.
(9) In short, there is a cultural imperative to love the panda that even the pandapathetic find hard to ignore.
(10) To empower these nurses to respond effectively, it is imperative that the profession be reclarified as a specialty with a distinct philosophy and mission.
(11) She says: "There is a democratic imperative for the arts to show why the hard-pressed taxpayer – struggling with the cost of living crisis – should fund the arts.
(12) Monti introduced balanced budgets into the Italian constitution, effectively neutering its provisions for social need's precedence over market imperatives.
(13) It is imperative that health professionals have accurate knowledge about HIV infection and feel comfortable as they educate parents and children about this major health problem confronting society.
(14) Performance differences between simple and selective response tasks appear to depend not upon differential preparation, but upon selective processing of the imperative signal, which is reflected in the N120 component of the visual evoked response to that signal.
(15) Therefore, early aggressive management of persistently draining wounds after TKA is imperative.
(16) The delay of voiding until imperative desire to urinate must be avoided.
(17) In 3 patients with an imperative indication for conservative surgery a second tumor occurred in the kidney: 2 were treated with further parenchyma sparing operations, while in 1 with poor physical condition no further measures were possible.
(18) Light-emitting diodes (LEDs) were used as the warning stimulus (S1) and the imperative stimulus (S2), and a different electrode was placed on Cz according to the international 10-20 system.
(19) That is to say, besides the obviously imperative therapeutic action, a prophylaxis is also a necessity.
(20) Finally, the rapidly expanding problem of the acquired immunodeficiency syndrome among some minority populations provides both an imperative and an opportunity to learn how model prevention programs should be designed and executed.
Pertinent
Definition:
(a.) Belonging or related to the subject or matter in hand; fit or appropriate in any way; adapted to the end proposed; apposite; material; relevant; as, pertinent illustrations or arguments; pertinent evidence.
(1) Basing the prediction of student performance in medical school on intellective-cognitive abilities alone has proved to be more pertinent to academic achievement than to clinical practice.
(2) This empirical fact has in recent years been increasingly dealt with in pertinent German-language literature, the discussion clearly emphasizing the demand that programmes aimed at the vocational qualification of unemployed disabled persons be provided, along with accompanying measures.
(3) Methods are in development that will allow determination of absolute blood flow in pertinent vessels via IV-DSA.
(4) Among all subgroups, the odds ratios adjusted for pertinent confounders and interactions fluctuated randomly by about 0.9 and showed no consistent trend with increased alcohol consumption.
(5) It seems particularly pertinent to the assessment of the significance of "R on T" type of ventricular extrasystoles in myocardial infarction.
(6) The above observations concerning changes in the system of atrial hormones together with pertinent data in the literature suggest that a factor produced by the system may be involved in the complex mechanism of acceleration-induced effects on the animal body.
(7) Five clinically and microscopically confirmed cases of cardiac tamponade as the first manifestation of pulmonary adenocarcinoma are reported along with a review of pertinent literature.
(8) The pool concentrations are presented as a function of time in conditions in which various pertinent parameters of the system are modified.
(9) Pertinent information concerning impression making, sculpturing, coloring, and processing to insure esthetically and functionally accepted prostheses is presented.
(10) Three long-time and two ore three respectively shorter observations of scoliotics with syringomyelia are presented and the pertinent literature is discussed including the complex etiopathogenesis.
(11) Conventional dietary categories, particularly frugivory, are inadequate for organizing the behavioral and anatomical evidence pertinent to evolutionary adaptation.
(12) The varying potency of the nonoxynols with respect to their IC50 values corresponds to the pertinent lipophilic nature of each compound.
(13) This communication discusses seven cases of plasma cell tumors isolated to the head and neck and reviews the pertinent literature.
(14) Active Surveillance decreases the possibility of misidentifying abuse related deaths as accidental, and allows state agencies to follow abuse fatalities, collecting pertinent information and adjusting policy accordingly.
(15) The basic features of this scheme may be pertinent to the mechanisms by which hormone receptors normally modulate adenylate cyclase.
(16) The system also allows listing of both the radiographic findings pertinent to a specific diagnosis and all diagnoses in which a particular finding or combination of findings occur.
(17) At a time when the intrauterine diagnosis of hydrocephalus is commonplace and pioneering efforts of antenatal therapy are evolving, review of the chronology of treatment of this disorder becomes pertinent.
(18) The case histories are described and the pertinent literature is discussed.
(19) Pertinent data regarding the fate and transport of PCNB in air could not be located in the available literature as cited in the Appendix.
(20) Based on current medical knowledge and on pertinent ethical reasoning, it is argued and recommended that almost always, if possible, aggressive management should be favored.