(v. i.) To act between parties with a view to reconcile differences; to make intercession; to beg or plead in behalf of another; to mediate; -- usually followed by with and for; as, I will intercede with him for you.
(v. t.) To be, to come, or to pass, between; to separate.
Example Sentences:
(1) Overall, the six neurotoxins were shown to be composed of highly conserved amino acid domains interceded with amino acid tracts exhibiting little overall similarity.
(2) It is unusual for an official of Dai's rank to intercede.
(3) With few exceptions, pulmonary complications in the immunocompromised host will proceed to death unless the clinician intercedes.
(4) This may be the opportunity for the profession to proceed with controlled quality assessment before outside agencies intercede.
(5) This technique also eliminates circumferential compression of the interceding tissues as well as providing easy access to the wound for daily care.
(6) Asked by Jon Snow whether he had interceded with the Saudis over the planned execution of the Shia activist Ali Mohammed al-Nimr, Cameron admitted he himself had not raised the issue directly but the foreign secretary and the embassy had.
(7) These data were interpreted to indicate that: (a) the effect(s) of trypsin in reversing (or preventing) tolerance at the cellular level does not depend necessarily on the susceptibility of the tolerogenic moiety to the action of the enzyme, and (b) the generation of the tolerance-inducing signal involves metabolic cellular processes that can be delayed somewhat by low temperature leaving such cells relatively more susceptible to intercedent manipulations such as trypsinization.
(8) Andreotti, who had interceded on behalf of endless supplicants like a true padrino (godfather), did not use his power to pursue personal wealth or to enhance the prospects of his closest relatives.
(9) The data provided offer further evidence that these homologues can intercede in blood coagulation.
(10) These results suggest that some patients with arteriovenous malformations and without clinical deficits who are near a critical level of "near ischemia" may be thrown out of balance by an acute interceding event.
(11) Because children with CLP have additional difficulties (i.e., facial disfigurement, speech and language deficits, multiple surgeries), professionals should intercede to prevent or interrupt negative psychosocial outcomes, particularly for adolescent girls.
(12) New adjuncts include two promising surgical barriers, one absorbable (oxygenated regenerated cellulose, or Intercede) and one nonabsorbable (polytetrafluoroethylene, or Gore-Tex).
(13) Thus it is possible to suppress both clinical signs and pathology by interceding at several steps of the cell-mediated immune reaction.
(14) She calls for other closet prolifers to become involved by praying and interceding, becoming informed by contracting prolife groups, spreading the word, voting for prolife candidates, and educating local media and elected officials.
(15) Treatment efforts in the past have focused on attempts to prevent such injury by interceding during labor in term infants and improving neonatal care in preterm infants.
(16) Both local and long-distance dependencies were explored, as well as the effects of additional interceding words.
(17) A decade later, during a long siege involving the Montana Freemen in 1996, outside intermediaries were so common the FBI allowed a clutch of them, including a couple who went off script and were never invited to intercede again.
(18) The ability of traditional sex therapy to intercede successfully in these problems is discussed.
(19) Ordinary Russians do the same to Putin during a yearly phone-in (in this year’s show, he gave a schoolgirl a puppy, and offered to intercede for a young man whose girlfriend wouldn’t marry him).
(20) The proper use of new diagnostic tests may permit the physician to intercede effectively if these life-threatening diseases are suspected.
Intervention
Definition:
(n.) The act of intervening; interposition.
(n.) Any interference that may affect the interests of others; especially, of one or more states with the affairs of another; mediation.
(n.) The act by which a third person, to protect his own interest, interposes and becomes a party to a suit pending between other parties.
Example Sentences:
(1) In dogs, cibenzoline given i.v., had no effects on the slow response systems, probably because of sympathetic nervous system intervention since the class 4 effects of cibenzoline appeared after beta-adrenoceptor blockade.
(2) On the basis of 180 interventions, they describe in detail the use of fibrin glue in myringo- and tympanoplasty for correct fixing of grafts.
(3) As important providers of health care education, nurses need to be fully informed of the research findings relevant to effective interventions designed to motivate health-related behavior change.
(4) 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.
(5) Benefits increase with an individual's initial cholesterol level and decrease with the age at which an intervention is initiated.
(6) Many features of CFTR activity suggest that pharmacological interventions may be possible.
(7) The methodology, in algorithm form, should assist health planners in developing objectives and actions related to the occurrence of selected health status indicators and should be amenable to health care interventions.
(8) In conclusion, autoimmune thyroiditis in an animal model can be prevented by reducing thyroidal iodine or its metabolism and optimal effects require intervention at the embryonic stage.
(9) We found no statistically significant difference in one-year, biochemically validated, sustained cessation rates between the group offered the long-term follow-up visits (12.5%) and the group given the brief intervention (10.2%).
(10) The experiences with short-time psychotherapies described here are encouraging and confirm results of other groups demonstrating the efficiency of psychotherapeutic interventions with the elderly.
(11) Survival and healing of "extremely severe" grade intoxication can only be obtained through a surgical intervention within the first hours; a laparotomy will indicate the depth of the lesions, which is not determined by endoscopy, and will consist of Celerier's stripping method and if necessary a gastrectomy, more seldom a cephalic duodeno-pancreatectomy.
(12) Occupational income per patient was higher in intervention patients than in the usual care group in the 6 months after AMI ($9,655 vs $7,553).
(13) The morbidity is well known and if properly anticipated can be reduced to a minimum by judicious use of antibacterial agents and early surgical intervention when appropriate.
(14) Ex-patients of a dental fear clinic were found to have significantly reduced, yet still high, dental anxiety scores in comparison with the pre-intervention scores.
(15) After an introductory note on primary preventive intervention of breast cancer during adulthood, the author defends and extends a hypothesis that relates most of the known risk factors for this disease to the development of preneoplastic lesions in the breast.
(16) It is concluded that based on readily available clinical criteria at the time of admission, a subgroup of patients at low risk for developing life-threatening complications requiring coronary care unit interventions can be identified and admitted directly to an intermediate-care unit.
(17) A therapeutic approach is suggested which emphasizes specific antibiotic regimens appropriate to the primary site of infection and prompt neurosurgical intervention with evacuation of the subdural spaces bilaterally.
(18) The need for follow-up studies is stressed to allow assessment of the effectiveness of the intervention and to search for protective factors, successful coping skills, strategies and adaptational resources.
(19) Families were randomly assigned to one of two forms of conjoint therapy: an Insight-oriented treatment (N = 10) or a Problem-Solving intervention (N = 10).
(20) Implications for assessment intervention and prevention were discussed and further research suggested.