(a.) Of or pertaining to the beginning; marking the commencement; incipient; commencing; as, the initial symptoms of a disease.
(a.) Placed at the beginning; standing at the head, as of a list or series; as, the initial letters of a name.
(n.) The first letter of a word or a name.
(v. t.) To put an initial to; to mark with an initial of initials.
Example Sentences:
(1) He added: "There is a rigorous review process of applications submitted by the executive branch, spearheaded initially by five judicial branch lawyers who are national security experts and then by the judges, to ensure that the court's authorizations comport with what the applicable statutes authorize."
(2) In January 2011, the Nobel peace prize laureate was admitted to a Johannesburg hospital for what officials initially described as tests but what turned out to be an acute respiratory infection .
(3) Apparently, the irradiation with visible light of a low intensity creates an additional proton gradient and thus stimulates a new replication and division cycle in the population of cells whose membranes do not have delta pH necessary for the initiation of these processes.
(4) 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.
(5) Needle acupuncture did, however, increase the pain threshold compared with the initial value (alpha = 0.1%).
(6) Sixteen patients in whom schizophrenia was initially diagnosed and who were treated with fluphenazine enanthate or decanoate developed severe depression for a short period after the injection.
(7) Other haematological parameters remained normal, with the exception of the absolute number of lymphocytes, which initially fell sharply but soon returned to, and even exceeded, control levels.
(8) Errors in the initial direction of response were fewer in binocular viewing in comparison with monocular viewing.
(9) The results also indicate that small lesions initially noted only on CT scans of the chest in children with Wilms' tumor frequently represent metastatic tumor.
(10) An initial complex-soma inflection was observed on the rising phase of the action potential of some cells.
(11) In the past 6 years 26 patients underwent operation for recurrent duodenal ulcer after what was considered to be an "adequate" initial operation.
(12) Plain radiographs should be the initial screening modality for a suspected foreign body.
(13) In the 153 women to whom iron supplements were given during pregnancy, the initial fall in haemoglobin concentration was less, was arrested by 28 weeks gestation and then rose to a level equivalent to the booking level.
(14) The degree of increase in Meth responsiveness elicited by the initial provocation is a major factor in determining the airway response to a subsequent HS challenge.
(15) At low concentrations of TFIC there is a more or less direct relationship between the amount of the factor and the number of initiated complexes formed.
(16) During the 1st h after induction of the sporulation process, the rate of protein synthesis increased to two times the initial value.
(17) Benefits increase with an individual's initial cholesterol level and decrease with the age at which an intervention is initiated.
(18) Charge data from the target hospital showed a statistically significant reduction in laboratory charges per patient in the quarter following program initiation (P = 0.02) and no evidence for change in a group of five comparison hospitals.
(19) The most pronounced changes occurred during the initial hours of nutrient and energy deprivation.
(20) Damage to this innervation is often initiated by childbirth, but appears to progress during a period of many years so that the functional disorder usually presents in middle life.
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.