(a.) Serving to introduce something else; leading to the main subject or business; preliminary; prefatory; as, introductory proceedings; an introductory discourse.
Example Sentences:
(1) After an introductory training program, the students asked the patients arriving at the hospital out-patient clinic for permission to observe them throughout the attendance given.
(2) 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.
(3) The results reached are to be considered as an introductory information for further inquiry on the more extensive methodical basis.
(4) This introductory chapter has presented an overview of how retroviruses replicate and how they are classified within the family Retroviridae.
(5) Two hundred and forty-two female college students (53% Mexican-American, 47% Anglo-American), from introductory psychology classes completed a survey concerning violence occurring in dating situations.
(6) This introductory overview highlights the issues that are addressed in this Clinics devoted to non-small cell lung cancer.
(7) In this introductory paper to a series of papers analyzing the specificity of action of the various chemical and biological immunosuppressive agents on the blastogenic responses of T and B lymphocytes, optimal concentrations of cells and blastogenic substances and other parameters were tested, and the kinetics of transformation was investigated in detail.
(8) The former Liverpool, Chelsea and Real Madrid coach made an immediate impact, interrupting a scheduled squad day off by summoning his players for an introductory meeting and training session on Friday afternoon.
(9) These two developments had a catalytic effect: after introductory courses had begun in 1881, a complete medical faculty was established in Lausanne in 1890, enabling the former Academy inherited from the days of Bernese administration to be transformed into a fullscale university (1890).
(10) June 2015 Former Google employee Joanna Shields holds an introductory meeting with the company, weeks after taking up her post as minister for internet safety and security.
(11) The resulting group OSCE (GOSCE) was used as an introductory session in two residential refresher courses for general practitioners.
(12) Following some introductory mention of the physiology of hyperbaric oxygen therapy and some notes on the physiology of postbronchitic emphysema and its cardiac, hepatic, renal and neurological sequelae, a personal method of hyperbaric treatment is described.
(13) Blood samples were taken every 4 h for 24 h during the introductory period and after 24, 51 and 79 days of treatment.
(14) And better late than never, here's a link to Mario Draghi's opening statement explaining why the ECB cut rates: Introductory statement to the press conference .
(15) Now some agents are taking the process a step further with "sale by informal tender" contracts for buyers who make sealed bids – the contracts commit the successful buyer to paying an introductory or finder's fee to the agent, usually around 2-2.5% of the cost of the property.
(16) In a single month the company meets with five ministers: the home secretary, Theresa May, holds bilateral talks; Francis Maude, the minister of state for trade and investment, joins Google at a Tech City event; Lucy Neville-Rolfe, the intellectual property minister, discusses copyright; the international development minister, Grant Shapps, meets with Google Foundation, the firm’s charitable arm, to talk about “innovation in the not-for-profit sector”; and Justin Tomlinson, minister for disabled people, agrees to an introductory meeting.
(17) Her rhetoric hits a modest peak in the introductory remarks: "This book is the result of a long practical experience, a lively curiosity and a real love for cookery.
(18) Q has upped his gadget game Facebook Twitter Pinterest The brooding and sombre Skyfall scored a few points for post-modern playfulness via its introductory scene for the new Q, in which Ben Whishaw might as well have offered Bond a couple of Netflix vouchers and a year’s subscription to Cosmopolitan for all the wow factor his proffered “gadgets” achieved.
(19) However, a Tesco Bank spokesman said that unlike some other rivals, it was not pulling customers in with an introductory interest rate that would expire after a certain period.
(20) Therefore, the course titled 'Introductory Lectures on Occupational and Environmental Health' was planned for the 2nd-year students with the purpose of giving them the motivation to become occupational health physicians.
Propaedeutic
Definition:
(a.) Alt. of Propaedeutical
Example Sentences:
(1) Three personal cases of duodenal cancer treated at the Department of Propaedeutics of Surgical Diseases of the Research Institute of Surgery in Sofia for the period 1981-May 1990 are reported.
(2) Students majoring in Medicine undergo a propaedeutic written test, consisting in a number of multiple choice questions, before proceeding to the oral examination in radiology.
(3) From the very beginning the "Propaedeutic Clinic" was attached to the department, with the initial function of providing the necessary demonstration material for the lectures.
(4) Ludwig Traube (1818-1876), director of the Propaedeutic Clinic of the Charité, analysed the kidney diseases by means of simple clinical and morphological techniques.
(5) An analysis was made of the data necessary to establish a pre-university propaedeutic course in the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Panama, and its qualitative and quantitative evaluation of the results obtained.
(6) 6 cases of suprarenal phaeochromocytoma were operated on at the Department of Special Surgical Pathology and Clinical Propaedeutics of the University of Turin between 1954 and 1975.
(7) Yet, interesting propaedeutical signs suggest some kinds or ranges of glottic dysrhythmia, and allow a rough estimation of jitter and shimmer, both to be considered as fundamental physiopathological parameters.
(8) The department had altogether four directors between 1872 and 1945 (the propaedeutic clinic was dissolved in 1935 already): Philipp Knoll (1841-1900), Heinrich Ewald Hering (1866-1948), Artur Biedl (1869-1933) and Julius Rihl (1879-1961).
(9) Audio-visual and printed teaching and learning aids are used for the instruction in the subject of "propaedeutics of prosthetic stomatology".
(10) A propaedeutic lesson in forensic medicine is given for Vets.
(11) For propaedeutic evaluations of aneurysmal bone cysts 851 cases in world literature are reported.
(12) It has been of value in propaedeutic and clinical instruction.
(13) Personal experience is recorded in the surgical treatment of 12 patients with gastric polyposis at the Department of Propaedeutics of Surgical Diseases of the Research Institute of Surgery, for a period of 10 years (1981-1990).
(14) This evidence for the strong heritability of most psychological traits, sensibly construed, does not detract from the value or importance of parenting, education, and other propaedeutic interventions.
(15) Results indicate that scintiscanning of the liver is a good propaedeutic method in the evaluation of the presence and localization of traumatic hepatic lesion.
(16) From a review study of files, the authors concluded that laparoscopy is a very important propaedeutic method, specially in the oncology department, in the diagnosis of primary tumors and metastatic.
(17) The hypertensive preparation "Tendor" of the Hungarian firm "Chinoin" was applied in the treatment at the Clinic of Propaedeutics of Internal Diseases.