(a.) Beginning; expressing or indicating beginning; as, an inceptive proposition; an inceptive verb, which expresses the beginning of action; -- called also inchoative.
(n.) An inceptive word, phrase, or clause.
Example Sentences:
(1) Inception rate of persons was 0.73 versus 0.48, and point prevalence rates 0.002 versus 0.001, whilst period prevalence rates were 0.016 versus 0.011 for the study and control factories respectively.
(2) These are the first western depictions of our animals, and what they represent are the inception of the specific cultural politics which your nation forced on my continent, its land and its people with unhesitating colonial brutality.
(3) Its instrumentation and organisation are described and a consecutive sample of 1000 ECGs culled from the 50,000 computerised since its inception are discussed.
(4) Even the most popular Shia cleric, Sayyed Mohammed Fadlallah , a man who has deeply affected the thinking of key Hezbollah leaders and cadres since the party's inception, now says in no uncertain terms that Shias and the country as a whole want to see, and should see, a strong Lebanese army as the nation's sole protector; and that the perpetually unstable confessional system must be ended as soon as possible.
(5) This usually occurs 10 to 25 days after the inception of high-dose intravenous therapy and resolves when the penicillin therapy is discontinued.
(6) For each major diagnostic caterogy, with the exception of reactive depression and paranoid states, the inception rates are significantly higher among West Africans than West Indians.
(7) To identify prognostic factors in acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS), the authors studied an inception cohort of 45 patients in a non-endemic area (Group I).
(8) Since the inception of sexology as an academic discipline a century ago, the boundary between sexology, the science, and sexosophy, the philosophy of sex, has been poorly demarcated, especially with respect to the principles of sex-reform movements.
(9) Two or more years after the inception of therapy, only half of these patients were still using the insulin infusion pump.
(10) Since its inception, occupational therapy has recognized the importance of both preventive action and the promotion of wellness.
(11) Almost since its inception, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has been using analytical techniques related to the concept of balancing benefits and costs.
(12) The findings demonstrate an increased use of family planning services in Saradidi following the inception of CBD.
(13) A Guardian Australia analysis of assessments made under the federal Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation (EPBC) Act since its inception in 2000 shows that 96.2% of projects – which include mining, ports and other infrastructure – have been given the green light, with conditions.
(14) Since its inception in July 1978, the Extramural Associates (EA) Program exemplifies the NIH effort to promote entry and participation of underrepresented minorities and women in biomedical and behavioral research.
(15) In the PSE cases, only clinical worsening was correctly classified by a high GHQ score at inception, age and poor coping abilities.
(16) This thesis deals with aetiology and mechanism of choleperitoneum inception during hemorrhagic pancreatitis.
(17) During the 8 years since inception of a home total parenteral nutrition program in 35 male patients 2 suffered priapism related temporally to the weekly intravenous infusion of 20 per cent fat emulsion.
(18) Nodular melanomas extend vertically from inception and often are not detected until they have penetrated to relatively deep levels.
(19) Future research in the aluminum industry needs to concentrate on longitudinal studies, preferably with an inception cohort for the investigation of potroom asthma.
(20) A survey was done in June 1983 in Saradidi, Kenya, one year after the inception of a community-based malaria control programme to determine if people were obtaining malaria treatment from volunteer village health helpers (VHH's) chosen by the community.
Initiatory
Definition:
(a.) Suitable for an introduction or beginning; introductory; prefatory; as, an initiatory step.
(a.) Tending or serving to initiate; introducing by instruction, or by the use and application of symbols or ceremonies; elementary; rudimentary.
(n.) An introductory act or rite.
Example Sentences:
(1) The longer gene variant after the ATG initiatory codon contained a TGT TAC TGC sequence, which was absent in the shorter gene.
(2) Structually patterned archetypal collective symbols gain direct access to the young person's unconscious when skillfully transmitted in the initiatory psychodrama of death and rebirth.
(3) Treatment of rats with low doses of hepatocarcinogens is associated with a number of phenomena, including nuclear enlargement and altered nucleocytoplasmic compartmentation, which potentially reflect initiatory changes.
(4) In other cases, the changes in AT-LPL may be adaptive rather than initiatory and may be permissive of behaviors rather than necessary antecedents.
(5) Specific dietary deficiencies (vitamins and minerals) may create a sensitized "environment" for the combined activities of initiatory and promotional factors.
(6) It was concluded that peroxide damage of the lens fiber membranes may be the initiatory cause of cataract development.
(7) The optimal conditions for initiatory activity of this protein (the initiator) were 30 C in 0.01 to 0.04 m NaCl and 0.01 m tris(hydroxymethyl)aminomethane (pH 8.5).
(8) Lipid peroxidation was shown to be an initiatory cause of cataract development in some cases.
(9) Oesophageal carcinogenesis involves the combined action of predispositional, initiatory, and promotional factors.
(10) The writers, in this first part of the oxygen story, intend availing themselves of a language different from the biochemists' initiatory one in dealing with the physiopathological presuppositions of what can be generically defined as oxygen pathology, and propose it in a guise more legible by clinicians.
(11) As the (+ anti)-diol-epoxides are thought to be the initiatory compounds for carcinogenesis, the common binding characteristics for the three hydrocarbons may be significant in understanding the molecular interactions precursive to cancer.
(12) Integration of HBV-DNS into the hepatic cell DNS is considered to be an initiatory step in hepatocarcinogenesis.
(13) In this model the initiatory step of energy metabolism, in which the initial substrate S is activated at the expense of ATP molecule energy, is catalyzed by an oligomeric enzyme E dissociable at high ATP concentration to monomers E1.
(14) The Yaka of southwestern Zaire and the capital, Kinshasa, practise some ten major healing cults with initiatory treatments.
(15) Initiatory factors such as nitrosamines or their precursors in the diet are also considered.
(16) The available data lead to the following hypothesis: multiple sclerosis is a disease which requires the following factors for the production of demyelinating lesions of the central nervous system: a genetically determined susceptibility, an environmental, probably viral, probably immune-mediated initiatory event producing a symptomless systemic illness, a subsequent alteration of the blood-brain barrier resulting from diverse mechanisms including trauma or a second, immune-mediated event, a myelinoclastic plaque-forming mechanism which is operative only in the central nervous system.