(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.
Response
Definition:
(n.) The act of responding.
(n.) An answer or reply.
(n.) Reply to an objection in formal disputation.
(n.) The answer of the people or congregation to the priest or clergyman, in the litany and other parts of divine service.
(n.) A kind of anthem sung after the lessons of matins and some other parts of the office.
(n.) A repetition of the given subject in a fugue by another part on the fifth above or fourth below.
Example Sentences:
(1) Intestinal dilatation seemed in all cases a response to elevated CO2 only.
(2) Direct fetal digitalization led to a reduction in umbilical artery resistance, a decline in the abdominal circumference from 20.3 to 17.8 cm, and resolution of the ascites within 72 h. Despite this dramatic response to therapy, fetal death occurred on day 5 of treatment.
(3) Furthermore, it had early diagnostic (seven days) as well as prognostic value, as revealed by response to therapy and decrease in COA titer.
(4) Patients with papillary carcinoma with a good cell-mediated immune response occurred with much lower infiltration of the tumor boundary with lymphocyte whereas the follicular carcinoma less cell-mediated immunity was associated with dense lymphocytic infiltration, suggesting the biological relevance of lymphocytic infiltration may be different for the two histologic variants.
(5) Age difference did not affect the mean dose-effect response.
(6) These channels may, at least in some cases, be responsible for the generation of pacemaker depolarizations, thereby regulating firing behaviour.
(7) Oxyhaemoglobin (4 microns at 0.35 ml.min-1) infused into the tracheal circulation almost abolished the responses to bradykinin and methacholine.
(8) Three categories of UV response have been identified.
(9) LHRH therapy leads to higher plasma LH levels and a lower FSH in response to an intravenous LHRH test.
(10) Bronchial challenge caused an immediate asthmatic response.
(11) Clinical signs of disease developed as early as 15 days after transition to the experimental diets and included impaired vision, decreased response to external stimuli, and abnormal gait.
(12) The telencephalic proliferative response has been studied in adult newts after lesion on the central nervous system.
(13) The combined immediate and delayed responses to fleas in the dog are as observed by other investigators in man and guinea pigs.
(14) In addition, this pretreatment protocol did not modify the recipient immune response against B-lymphocyte alloantigens which developed in unsuccessful transplants.
(15) In dogs, cibenzoline given i.v., had no effects on the slow response systems, probably because of sympathetic nervous system intervention since the class 4 effects of cibenzoline appeared after beta-adrenoceptor blockade.
(16) As a consequence, similar response curves were obtained for urine specimens containing morphine or barbiturates.
(17) At the early phase of the sensitization a T-cell response was seen in vitro, characterized by an increased spleen but no peripheral blood lymphocyte reactivity to T-cell mitogens at the same time as increased reactivity to the sensitizing antigen was detected.
(18) The ability of azelastine to influence antigen-induced contractile responses (Schultz-Dale phenomenon) in isolated tracheal segments of the guinea-pig was investigated and compared with selected antiallergic drugs and inhibitors of arachidonic acid metabolism.
(19) With aging, the blood vessel wall becomes hyperreactive--presumably because of an augmented vasoconstrictor and a reduced vasodilator responsiveness.
(20) Treatment termination due to lack of efficacy or combined insufficient therapeutic response and toxicity proved to be influenced by the initial disease activity and by the rank order of prescription.