(n.) A property possessed by a moving body in virtue of its weight and its motion; the force with which any body is driven or impelled; momentum.
(n.) Fig.: Impulse; incentive; vigor; force.
(n.) The aititude through which a heavy body must fall to acquire a velocity equal to that with which a ball is discharged from a piece.
Example Sentences:
(1) The impetus for the creation of an epidemiology of mental illness came from the work of late nineteenth century social scientists concerned with understanding individual and social behavior and applying their findings to social problems.
(2) Although major reforms are underway in many total institutions to humanize treatment procedures, innovative alternatives to custodial care are gaining impetus in the community.
(3) Thus shifts in the marital structure between 1961 and 1971 could have provided little impetus to a decline in the CBR of the country.
(4) The introduction and acceptance of percutaneous nephrostomy as a safe and effective alternative to surgical nephrostomy served as the impetus for the development and expansion of an ever-increasing number of techniques that are encompassed by the term "interventional uroradiology."
(5) Two concepts are presented which attempt to clarify the pathogenesis of FIPV and at the same time may serve as an impetus for further research.
(6) It is intended to provide you with an impetus to work within your state nurses' association to learn more.
(7) Second, the impetus for change may come from unexpected sources, including those high-flying corporate women, some of whom are beginning to show promising signs of rebellion.
(8) Appropriate effort toward minimizing insult of the right ventricle could result in significantly decreasing the incidence and severity of perioperative right ventricular failure before the impetus of the continuing clinical problem dictates improvement in techniques to more appropriately treat this frequently preventable problem.
(9) The relative clinical significance of lead III Q waves and the effect of inspiration has received added impetus after the finding that Q waves have predictive value for coronary artery disease and asynergy.
(10) This question provided the impetus for the descriptive study presented here.
(11) Nevertheless, the improvement in survival provides impetus to refine and improve the procedure so that survival can reach that attained by recipients of other major organ allografts.
(12) The impetus to discover cementless techniques for fixing implants to bone is the result of the high failure rates of cemented arthroplasty in young, active patients.
(13) The development and refinement of osseointegration have had primary impetus in treatment of the totally edentulous patient.
(14) Much of the impetus to the work has come from medical requirements.
(15) Enoxacin, in common with other new oral 4-quinolones, has a broad spectrum of antimicrobial activity which includes most pulmonary pathogens (with the exception of Streptococcus pneumoniae, against which its activity is poor); this spectrum has provided the impetus for investigation of its potential in the treatment of respiratory infections.
(16) Renewable energy developers and green campaigners fear that without a similar target for 2030, the impetus to invest in renewables will be lost to fossil fuels such as gas .
(17) Brooks has long had an interest in research on the mind and the brain, but the impetus of The Social Animal came from an unlikely source.
(18) The impetus for this article was the observation of vestibular dysfunction in 15 clinical cases (12 dogs and 3 cats), in 8 of which it was confirmed that the ear canal had been rinsed with this drug combination in the presence of a ruptured tympanic membrane.
(19) The Oxford International Symposium on myocardial preservation provided an appropriate milestone and impetus to survey one aspect of operative myocardial preservation, namely blood cardioplegia, and to contrast it with the more popular crystalloid cardioplegia.
(20) Although assessment of families as guided by nursing conceptual models is gaining impetus in the field of nursing, the incorporation of psychometrically sound clinical research measures into assessment protocols is a relatively recent phenomenon in family health nursing.
Lucid
Definition:
(n.) Shining; bright; resplendent; as, the lucid orbs of heaven.
(n.) Clear; transparent.
(n.) Presenting a clear view; easily understood; clear.
(n.) Bright with the radiance of intellect; not darkened or confused by delirium or madness; marked by the regular operations of reason; as, a lucid interval.
Example Sentences:
(1) After sulfentanil analgesia the patients were more rapidly awake and lucid, than after fentanyl-analgesia.
(2) Further reductions in psychotropic medications and the addition of the anticonvulsant medication resulted in continued rapid deceleration of rate of occurrence of maladaptive behaviours with a concomitant increase in lucid statements and independent functioning.
(3) The woman snaps out of bed and opens her eyes, absurdly conscious and alive, wonderfully lucid.
(4) The mortality related to deficits following a lucid interval was 44 per cent, whereas the mortality of immediate deficit was 13 per cent.
(5) (3) Some patients go into delirium after being lucid for as long as a week and have hallucinations, illusions, and motor excitation for a few days-or over several weeks.
(6) In contrast, the mechanism of injury, the verbal Glasgow Coma Scale score during the lucid interval, and the length of time until deterioration or until operative intervention did not influence the final result.
(7) While still a close run thing, the statistics now appear to favour the back foot.” His non-cricket explanation did little to increase the speech’s lucidity average.
(8) After 45 minutes, Ethiopia's troubles had slipped away and a sense of wellbeing, alertness, euphoria and lucidity took over.
(9) He gave a lucid and thoroughly depressing talk on "China's Role in the Global Climate Game," describing a number of unpleasant options China, the United States, and the rest of the world will have to face in dealing with climate changes already underway.
(10) A questionnaire was developed to assess adult recall for a range of transpersonal experiences throughout childhood and adolescence (mystical experience, out-of-body experience, lucid dreams, archetypal dreams, ESP), as well as nightmares and night terrors as indicators of more conflicted, negative states.
(11) In the technically complex world of F1 his triumph can be explained in the most lucid of terms: he was faster than his most serious rival, his Mercedes team-mate, Nico Rosberg.
(12) The patient emerged from anesthesia comfortable and lucid and experienced no perioperative anesthetic complications.
(13) The majority of particles visualized by immune electron microscopy had electrondense appearance, while electron-lucid particles were only occasionally encountered.
(14) A single subject, a proficient lucid dreamer experienced with signaling the onset of lucidity (reflective consciousness of dreaming) by means of voluntary eye movements, spent 4 nonconsecutive nights in the sleep laboratory.
(15) The study of a series of brains from patients who had a severe head injury and died within 72 h without a lucid interval showed that there was a step-wise progression in the development of retraction balls.
(16) When I went up to the spot I was pretty lucid, as much as one can be in that kind of situation.
(17) Ed Miliband's greatest strength – more than either his undoubted intellect or obvious lucidity – is the courage of his conviction.
(18) The detection of skull fracture or of a lucid interval was not prognostically useful.
(19) The patient's age, the course of consciousness before operation (whether there was a lucid interval), and the clot location did not correlate with the final outcome.
(20) Nurses interact significantly less with confused than lucid patients.