(n.) The act or process of instituting; as: (a) Establishment; foundation; enactment; as, the institution of a school.
(n.) Instruction; education.
(n.) The act or ceremony of investing a clergyman with the spiritual part of a benefice, by which the care of souls is committed to his charge.
(n.) That which instituted or established
(n.) Established order, method, or custom; enactment; ordinance; permanent form of law or polity.
(n.) An established or organized society or corporation; an establishment, especially of a public character, or affecting a community; a foundation; as, a literary institution; a charitable institution; also, a building or the buildings occupied or used by such organization; as, the Smithsonian Institution.
(n.) Anything forming a characteristic and persistent feature in social or national life or habits.
(n.) That which institutes or instructs; a textbook; a system of elements or rules; an institute.
Example Sentences:
(1) The findings indicate that there is still a significant incongruence between the value structure of most family practice units and that of their institutions but that many family practice units are beginning to achieve parity of promotion and tenure with other departments in their institutions.
(2) We determined whether serological investigations can assist to distinguish between chronic idiopathic autoimmune thrombocytopenia (cAITP) and immune-mediated thrombocytopenia in patients at risk to develop systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE); 82 patients were seen in this institution for the evaluation of immune thrombocytopenia.
(3) 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.
(4) Historical analysis shows that institutions and special education services spring from common, although not identical, societal and philosophical forces.
(5) Results in May 89 emphasizes: the relevance and urgency of the prevention of AIDS in secondary schools; the importance of the institutional aspect for the continuity of the project; the involvement of the pupils and the trainers for the processus; the feasibility of an intervention using only local resources.
(6) The "rehabilitation" and "institutional" meanings of the patient's admission to the clinic have been distinguished.
(7) Our results underline the importance of patient-related factors in MVR, and indicate that care is needed in comparing the quality of MVR from different institutions with respect to mortality and morbidity.
(8) They also demonstrate the viability of a family support service which relies on inmate leadership, community volunteer participation, and institutional support.
(9) Undaunted by the sickening swell of the ocean and wrapped up against the chilly wind, Straneo, of Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, one of the world's leading oceanographic research centres, continues to take measurements from the waters as the long Arctic dusk falls.
(10) Clinical pharmacists were required to clock in at 51 institutions (15.0%), staff pharmacists at 62 (18.2%), and pharmacy technicians at 144 (42.9%).
(11) The cyclical nature of pyromania has parallels in cycles of reform in standards of civil commitment (Livermore, Malmquist & Meehl, 1958; Dershowitz, 1974), in the use of physical therapies and medications (Tourney, 1967; Mora, 1974), in treatment of the chronically mentally ill (Deutsch, 1949; Morrissey & Goldman, 1984), and in institutional practices (Treffert, 1967; Morrissey, Goldman & Klerman (1980).
(12) After these two experimental years, a governmental institute for prevention of child abuse and neglect was organized.
(13) GlaxoSmithKline was unusually critical of the decision by Nice, the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence, and also the Scottish Medicines Consortium, to reject its drug belimumab (brand name Benlysta) in final draft guidance.
(14) Mechanical ventilation was soon instituted and several antibiotics and acyclovir were administered intravenously, with marked effects.
(15) Nice (the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence) has also published new guidance on good patient experience that provides a strong framework on which to build good engagement practice.
(16) The use of fresh semen is possible, since results of appropriate cultures could be available and treatment instituted before clinical disease occurs.
(17) They derive from publications of the National Insurance Institute for Occupational Accidents (INAIL) and refer to the Italian and Umbrian situation.
(18) The mothers of 87 male and female adolescents accepted at a counseling agency described their offspring by completing the Institute of Juvenile Research Behavior Checklist.
(19) All 80 adult cardiac surgery patients undergoing a cardiac operation at one institution during the final quarter of 1983 were included in this prospective study.
(20) The experimental results for protein preparations of calmodulin in which Ca2+ was isomorphically replaced by Tb3+ were obtained by a spectrometer working at the Institute of Nuclear Physics.
Intramural
Definition:
(a.) Being within the walls, as of a city.
(a.) Being within the substance of the walls of an organ; as, intramural pregnancy.
Example Sentences:
(1) Principles and technique for selecting material from the human heart ventricular walls to study stereometrically their intramural arterial bed are described.
(2) Affected lymph nodes from 3 patients with Crohn's disease were homogenised and inoculated intramurally into the distal ileum of five piglets.
(3) The succession of excitation spreading about the cardiac ventricles was studied in 28 dogs using the intramural multipolar technique.
(4) Marked diffuse involvement of the intramural coronary arteries by amyloid deposits resulted in severe luminal compromise of numerous medium and small vessels.
(5) More adequate talks and correspondence by letter or through the telephone, a better compensation for the prison work, the convict representation in some sectors of intramural life, the measures as an alternative to enprisonment, all these actions represent the practical results of the reform achieved so far in a rather satisfactory way.
(6) A new provocative test for chronic mesenteric ischemia is described, based upon the demonstration of a fall in the intramural pH of the small bowel after introduction of a test meal into the stomach.
(7) If both estimated centers lie within the projected luminal contour, the mass arises intramurally.
(8) When present, thickening of the gallbladder wall, intramural abscess, pericholecystic fluid, and the presence of gallstones may be more specific than MR characterization of gallbladder bile.
(9) Nine groups of experiments were conducted on 120 rats and 55 dogs to study the morphological changes and the density of cholinergic nerve fibres in the intramural nerve apparatus of the stomach after cooling of the vagus nerves at various temperatures and time regimens of the exposure (-35-45 degrees, -70-80 degrees for 2-3 sec., 15 sec in one, two, and three exposures).
(10) Intramural newly-formed capillaries in thickened hyalinized vessels were observed in 68 per cent of the specimens.
(11) The authors present a case of intramural hematoma of the small intestines during anticoagulant treatment.
(12) Fourteen patients with post-traumatic obstructing intramural duodenal hematoma were reviewed.
(13) Out of those 8 patients 6 presented with mainly infectious complications while only 3 had an inadequate perioperative urine output and none presented with signs of arterial or of gastric intramural acidosis.
(14) Thus, vasa vasorum were shown to elongate their intramural segments in response to the changes of microenvironment in which the medial cells are placed, meeting the demand by the cells for increased supply of oxygen and nutrients.
(15) Peroxidase does not traverse the endothelium of intramural arteries and arterioles of controls over the 10-minute period of observation.
(16) The criteria of viability of the stomach after vagotomy are thought to be data of the intramural AP not lower than 40 mm Hg with the pulse oscillation amplitude not less than 0,5-1 mm.
(17) The gastric motility was inhibited by both vago-vagal and splanchno-vagal reflexes through the activation of non-adrenergic inhibitory nerve fibers and by splanchno-splanchnic reflex through the inactivation of the intramural cholinergic excitatory neurons.
(18) Systolic retinal and ciliary perfusion pressures were higher directly after oculopression, whereas the systolic and diastolic ocular blood pressures (intramural pressures) were lower.
(19) Gross pathologic examination revealed polypoid intramural growths ranging from 2.5 to 7.0 cm in greatest dimension.
(20) In two dogs, the reentrant circuit was located intramurally in close proximity to a patchy septal infarction.