(n.) The quality or state of being important; consequence; weight; moment; significance.
(n.) Subject; matter.
(n.) Import; meaning; significance.
(n.) Importunity; solicitation.
Example Sentences:
(1) CT appears to yield important diagnostic contribution to preoperative staging.
(2) This paper discusses the typical echocardiographic patterns of a variety of important conditions concerning the mitral valve, the left ventricle, the interatrial and interventricular septum as well as the influence of respiration on the performance of echocardiograms.
(3) However, medicines have an important part to play, and it is now generally agreed that for the very poor populations medicines should be restricted to those on an 'essential drugs list' and should be made available as cheaply as possible.
(4) Glucocorticoids have numerous effects some of which are permissive; steroids are thus important not only for what they do, but also for what they permit or enable other hormones and signal molecules to do.
(5) Trifluoroacetylated rabbit serum albumin was 5 times more reactive with these antibodies and thus more antigenic than the homologous acetylated moiety confirming the importance of the trifluoromethyl moiety as an epitope in the immunogen in vivo.
(6) IgE-mediated acute systemic reactions to penicillin continue to be an important clinical problem.
(7) However it is important to recognize these cysts so that correct surgical management is offered to the patient.
(8) gamma-Aminobutyric acid (GABA) and glutamate release from the treated side was higher than the control value during the first 2-3 h, a result indicating an important role of glial cells in the inactivation of released transmitter.
(9) Under blood preservation conditions the difference of the rates of ATP-production and -consumption is the most important factor for a high ATP-level over long periods.
(10) This finding is of major importance for persons treated with diltiazem who engage in sport.
(11) Despite of the increasing diagnostic importance of the direct determination of the parathormone which is at first available only in special institutions in these cases methodical problems play a less important part than the still not infrequent appearing misunderstanding of the adequate basic disease.
(12) Because of the dearth of epidemiological clues as to causation, studies with experimental animal models assume greater importance.
(13) The severity and site of hypertrophy is important in determining the clinical picture and the natural history of hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM).
(14) As prolongation of the action potential by TEA facilitates preferentially the hormone release evoked by low (ineffective) frequencies, it is suggested that a frequency-dependent broadening of action potentials which reportedly occurs on neurosecretory neurones may play an important role in the frequency-dependent facilitation of hormone release from the rat neurohypophysis.
(15) Nutritional factors or environmental toxins have important effects on CNS degenerative changes.
(16) Moreover, homozygous deletion of the FMS gene may be an important event in the genesis of the MDS variant 5q- syndrome.
(17) Importantly, these characteristics were strong predictors of subsequent mortality.
(18) As the requirements to store and display these images increase, the following questions become important: (a) What methods can be used to ensure that information given to the physician represents the originally acquired data?
(19) Periosteal chondroma is an uncommon benign cartilagenous lesion, and its importance lies primarily in its characteristic radiographic and pathologic appearance which should be of assistance in the differential diagnosis of eccentric lesions of bones.
(20) As important providers of health care education, nurses need to be fully informed of the research findings relevant to effective interventions designed to motivate health-related behavior change.
Secondarily
Definition:
(adv.) In a secondary manner or degree.
(adv.) Secondly; in the second place.
Example Sentences:
(1) In addition, DDT blocked succinate dehydrogenase and the cytochrome b-c span of the electron transport chain, which also secondarily reduced ATP synthesis.
(2) It appeared that ratings by supervisors were influenced primarily by the interpersonal skills of the residents and secondarily by ability.
(3) The bony elements of both adjacent vertebral bodies are secondarily involved.
(4) Histopathology examination from the margin of the ulcerative area confirmed the diagnosis of basal cell carcinoma, which was infested secondarily with larvae of flies.
(5) It is hypothesized that the first group contains predominantly or exclusively "primary" vocalization substrates; the second group is thought to be composed mainly of structures whose stimulation yields vocalization secondarily due to stimulus induced motivational changes.
(6) This group includes the typical ankylosing spondylitis as well as atypical spondylopathies such as those occurring in psoriasis, Reiter's disease and chronic inflammatory enteropathies, which attack mainly the spine and secondarily the peripheral joints.
(7) Stimulation of heme biosynthesis increases tryptophan pyrrolase, whereas enhancement of heme binding by apotryptophan pyrrolase secondarily increases the formation of delta-aminolevulinic acid synthetase, the rate-limiting enzyme in heme formation.
(8) Lymphopenia was associated with anti-Ro (SS-A) and, secondarily, with anti-single-stranded DNA.
(9) If the epileptic discharge spreads throughout both cerebral hemispheres, the child will have a secondarily generalized tonic-clonic convulsion.
(10) Secondarily marked structures were the posterior part of the lateral reticular formation, the caudato-putamen area and the prefrontal and frontal cortex.
(11) However according to the authors' experience physical tiredness can legitimately be suspected to have produced this aggravation in 47.06 % of cases of a secondarily aggravated hepatitis.
(12) Finally the principal targets of RNase III are YpR sequences and secondarily YpY sequences.
(13) All animals manifested an electrical focus and overt seizures, but the drug monkeys had only partial seizures whereas the placebo monkeys exhibited secondarily generalized tonic-clonic seizures.
(14) The efficacy of fresh tumor-primed cells, as well as primed cells secondarily sensitized in vitro, in adoptive chemoimmunotherapy of advanced tumor was diminished by concurrent inoculation of cultured normal cells.
(15) Disruption of microtubules may interfere with the movement of Golgi-derived vesicles, and the resulting accumulation of collagen precursors in the Golgi complex may lead secondarily to an inhibition of synthesis.
(16) Valuable scientific gains can be yielded secondarily from the data collection.
(17) The EEG did not recover or was secondarily suppressed in 12 animals after a few hours.
(18) Regions contralateral to and primarily or secondarily innervated by the sutured eye had a reduced rate of cerebral blood flow in comparison to the corresponding ipsilateral regions.
(19) It is very difficult to secondarily repair an orbit that is contracted owing to loss of volume from an orbital blow-out fracture.
(20) Before that time the treatment of flexor tendon injuries was mainly performed secondarily.