(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.
Oncome
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) Due to oncoming traffic he couldn’t and swerved in towards me and my child on a bike seat.
(2) tritaeniorhynchus, with oncoming darkness they become very active, gradually decreasing in activity toward mid night, but slightly increasing toward dawn.
(3) The first shot came back to him off the oncoming Subasic but the ball came back to Giroud and he scored with a right-foot effort that was still rising as it hit the net.
(4) The annual retreat to Jackson Hole, Wyoming , which has in previous years been dominated by discussion about the oncoming collapse of Lehman Brothers in 2008 and the Greek debt crisis, this year focused on what impact a Chinese slowdown could have on the US economy.
(5) The results can be summarized as follows: a. the times of the two main meals show a high stability, both in working and in free-days, at about 1230 for lunch and 1915 for dinner, with a higher variability for the dinner-time; b. there are no relevant differences between men and women; c. there is a progressive advance of the breakfast-time (together with sleeping and waking times) with oncoming age; d. industrial workers advance the breakfast-time, on work days, compared to housewives, clerks, artisans and tradesmen, while the latter delay dinner-time as compared to the others; e. shiftwork breaks up the usual timetables interfering with at least one of the main meals, according to the different shifts (morning, afternoon, night); f. morning types anticipate meal and sleeping times in comparison to evening types, both while working and, above all, on free-days.
(6) The debutant slipped a beautifully weighted pass into Oscar's path and the Brazilian was suddenly running through, stretching out his right boot and poking a shot beyond the oncoming McGregor.
(7) Attempt to lift the ball over the oncoming keeper and put it wide.
(8) Although the majority of pedestrian fatalities to older children have been shown to be due to "dart-outs" into traffic with the child being struck by an oncoming car, pedestrian fatality incident for children less than five tended to occur when the child was backed over in the home driveway by the family van or light truck driven by a parent.
(9) The belief that incontinence signals oncoming incompetence is a cultural construction that is apparent in popular culture, such as literature and movies and reflected in the secrecy attendant on much incontinence in later life.
(10) Before becoming an MP Davey received awards from the Royal Humane Society and the chief constable of the British Transport police in 1994 for rescuing a woman from the path of an oncoming train at Clapham Junction.
(11) Racing back towards the square, Ruqayah saw oncoming armoured bulldozers, with blunt-nosed armoured personnel carriers behind them.
(12) As percussion grenades exploded by the Nile, demonstrators chanted "terrorists" at the oncoming police, though also called on them to join their ranks.
(13) Bird travelled along the valley road, colliding with oncoming vehicles and a stone wall before turning off the road signposted 'no through road' to Doctor Bridge, Boot.
(14) Oncoming car pulled out, flashed his lights to full beam, ignored three “give way” signs on his side, and blasted his way through.
(15) She took her own life, aged 19, by lying down on the tracks in front of an oncoming commuter train.
(16) Froes fell into the path of an oncoming car driven by a 17-year-old on a learner’s permit.
(17) The gradual increase in thyroid hormone concentration in the later half of hibernation may be associated with increased lipolysis and preparation of the oncoming reproductive period.
(18) Subjects made estimates with the dominant and nondominant eye closest to the oncoming ball.
(19) Statistically significant reduction of leukaemic infiltration in examined myelograms was as s rule the sign of oncoming favourable therapeutic result.
(20) Cars still try to overtake with oncoming traffic by passing with a foot or less of my handle bars.