(adv.) In an initial or incipient manner or degree; at the beginning.
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.
Preliminarily
Definition:
(adv.) In a preliminary manner.
Example Sentences:
(1) Viral clones mutated in plaque-forming ability or in yield were obtained and preliminarily characterized.
(2) Since HB relationships with craniofacial anatomical structures vary with the positioning of the head, the cephalograms were taken according to the preliminarily tested NHP, thus making the method reproducible.
(3) The effect of NPY in vasospasm after HCVD was preliminarily discussed.
(4) When pH of the incubation medium changes from 6.5 to 7.8 there occurs a rapid release of the preliminarily accumulated Ca2+ from it.
(5) PCR analysis of stage I thymocytes (CD4-CD8-) revealed only faintly detectable bands for two isoforms: one lacking Ex-4, 5, 6 and 7 (a "minus-one" [Ex(-1)] isoform), and a smaller isoform preliminarily characterized as also lacking Ex-8.
(6) The author of this article considers that the reasons for the changes which have taken place during one single decade may preliminarily and hypothetically be attributed to prenatal diagnosis, improved techniques in obstetrics, the introduction of antibiotics in 1948, as well as further noticeable improvements in the medical and social care provided for mentally retarded persons.
(7) The toxin detected in blood serum and feces samples of the sole affected patient was preliminarily typed as a plain type A.
(8) In another group of rats with implanted muscles, it had been verified preliminarily that these thresholds did not vary widely from day to day.
(9) A study of the kinetics of renaturation of the DNP in the nuclei of human peripheral blood lymphocytes with the aid of modified Riglers method showed the absence of renaturation of the preparations preliminarily headed to 65 degrees C. Heating the preparations to higher temperatures (75, 85 and 100 degreesC) led to the appearance of characteristic renaturation profiles with the maximum at a two-minute incubation (direct measurement of the intensity of fluorescence of the nuclei of cells transfered into a cold citrate-salt solution, as a time function).
(10) Moreover, the STEP method makes it possible to measure the resistance by using a sinusoidal stimulation signal which has to be preliminarily compensated by a rectangular signal.
(11) Nine TcsF-producing hybridomas were preliminarily identified by their ability to inhibit the effect of antigen-specific suppressor T-cell factor (TsF) on the adoptive transfer of contact sensitivity.
(12) The investigation intends to estimate the frequency of some Sentinel health events (SHE) in order to evaluate, preliminarily in methodological terms, the applicability of the survey on some probable SHE, which derive from the death certificates sent to Public health board.
(13) A method of automated red cell analysis suitable for the rapid classification of large numbers of red cells from individual blood specimens has been developed, and preliminarily tested on normal bloods and clinically proven cases of anemias and red cell disorders.
(14) Preliminarily, the following conclusions can be made from preclinical and clinical toxicology experience with these first seven drugs.
(15) An increase in dopamine concentration in the perfusion medium (addition of exogenous dopamine 10(-7) M, or cocaine, the inhibitor of uptake of biogenous amines, 10(-6) M) leads to a decrease in K+--induced release into perfusate of 3H--dopamine preliminarily injected into neostriatum.
(16) Protein disc-electrophoregrams of cell-free homogenates have been compared in the "non-adapted" and "preliminarily-adapted" to n-hexane strains of Pseudomonas aeruginosa.
(17) It is established that cellulose acetate membranes may be used for purification from low molecular weight protein and concentration of preliminarily purified culture fluid of Escherichia coli.
(18) Because of the time and expense required by conventional developmental toxicity tests, an abbreviated assay is needed that will preliminarily evaluate otherwise untested chemicals to help prioritize them for conventional testing.
(19) Preliminarily is referred to essential aspects of the aetiology of arteriosclerosis with particular consideration of the disturbed lipoprotein metabolism.
(20) Slow centrifugation of isotonic sucrose medium containing the suspension of hepatocytes, obtained after disaggregation of liver, which has been preliminarily perfused by EDTA solution, results in the formation of two fractions of cells of different colour.