(1) It facilitated the acquisition of quantitative velocity information with standard Doppler ultrasound techniques by identifying areas of high velocity or turbulent flow and was invaluable in the assessment of anomalous pulmonary venous drainage occurring either as an isolated anomaly or in conjunction with complex intracardiac lesions.
(2) A 1-month stay in Bangladesh at the Dhaka Shishu Hospital, made possible by the Canadian Association of Paediatric Surgeons, afforded an invaluable opportunity to be involved in Pediatric Surgery in such a setting.
(3) With United having failed to claim an invaluable away goal they have to win by a margin of three in the return leg at Old Trafford on 19 March.
(4) Treasury secretary Tim Geithner called her an "exceptional talent" whose broad experience would "provide invaluable leadership for this indispensable institution at a critical time for the global economy".
(5) However, the use of systemic treatment with psychoactive drugs used widely in clinical practice, in carefully controlled, behavioural and and endocrine experiments, is likely to provide invaluable information on where and how to investigate the neural mechanisms involved.
(6) The clinical diagnosis is sometimes difficult and only the computerized axial tomography may be of invaluable help.
(7) The nucleotide sequences presented thus enable us to discriminate the tyrosinase gene from its related sequences and are invaluable for a gene diagnosis of oculocutaneous albinism.
(8) The DNA homology data indicate that phenotypic information alone, including antigenic serotypic data, is not always adequate for species designation among the ureaplasmas and that comparative analyses of the genome provide invaluable data for establishing new species.
(9) The tracer techniques thus provide invaluable information about platelet-fibrin deposition, its organization and dissolution, and for development of less thrombogenic surfaces for use in cardiovascular prostheses.
(10) Surgical evaluations, including examinations under anesthesia, staging laparotomy and second look laparotomy were also invaluable in assessing disease status.
(11) In addition, the ELISA was equally capable of identifying elevated serum EH in patients with HCC, and should prove invaluable in evaluating the effectiveness of serum EH levels as a marker for HCC.
(12) Tottenham must finance their new £400m stadium, into which they intend to move in 2018-19, and so Pochettino’s ability to succeed without heavy backing on the market is invaluable.
(13) The US military source described Mohammed Basardah as an "invaluable" source who had shown "exceptional co-operation", but lawyers for other inmates claim his evidence is unreliable.
(14) Thus, we concluded that CT is not only a highly sensitive and accurate modality, but also an invaluable radiological diagnostic tool in the evaluation of blunt abdominal injury.
(15) This article reviews the conception and development of this invaluable contribution to our understanding of health and disease.
(16) The US military describe him as an "invaluable" source who has shown "exceptional co-operation" and shared his "vast knowledge" with the camp authorities.
(17) The intensity and duration of the interventions, the extensive outreach efforts to the family and the dedication and commitment of the staff are not easily replicated but invaluable in helping providers and researchers understand to what extent the impact of severe deprivations and risk can be mediated and potential damage to the newborn prevented.
(18) The autopsy of victims in such circumstances, if properly conducted, can yield invaluable trace evidence leading to the identification of the explosive device.
(19) In our experience CA-125 is an invaluable indicator of the clinical status of the patient and could be a new tumor marker in patients with MGCT.
(20) This Fogarty International Conference has been invaluable because of the diverse backgrounds of the distinguished participants which it attracted.
Useful
Definition:
(a.) Full of use, advantage, or profit; producing, or having power to produce, good; serviceable for any end or object; helpful toward advancing any purpose; beneficial; profitable; advantageous; as, vessels and instruments useful in a family; books useful for improvement; useful knowledge; useful arts.
Example Sentences:
(1) Previous use of the drug is found in more than 50 per cent of the patients, and it was often followed by a neglected side-effect.
(2) These variants may serve as useful gene markers in alcohol research involving animal model studies with inbred strains in mice.
(3) Therefore, these findings may extend the use of platelets as neuronal models.
(4) All transplants were performed using standard techniques, the operation for the two groups differing only as described above.
(5) The resulting dose distribution is displayed using traditional 2-dimensional displays or as an isodose surface composited with underlying anatomy and the target volume.
(6) It was tested for recovery and separation from other selenium moieties present in urine using both in vivo-labeled rat urine and human urine spiked with unlabeled TMSe.
(7) A study revealed that the percentage of active sperm in semen 30 seconds after ejaculation was 10.3% when a nonoxynol 9 latex condom was used as opposed to 55.9% in a nonspermicidal condom.
(8) A series of human cDNA clones of various sizes and relative localizations to the mRNA molecule were isolated by using the human p53-H14 (2.35-kilobase) cDNA probe which we previously cloned.
(9) We used the polymerase chain reaction (PCR) to amplify the breakpoint area of alpha-thalassemia-1 of Southeast Asia type and several parts of the alpha-globin gene cluster to make a differential diagnosis between alpha-thalassemia-1 and Hb Bart's hydrops fetalis.
(10) The liver metastasis was produced by intrasplenic injection of the fluid containing of KATOIII in nude mouse and new cell line was established using the cells of metastatic site.
(11) Spectral analysis of spontaneous heart rate fluctuations, a powerful noninvasive tool for quantifying autonomic nervous system activity, was assessed in Xenopus Laevis, intact or spinalized, at different temperatures and by use of pharmacological tools.
(12) The hypothesis that proteins are critical targets in free radical mediated cytolysis was tested using U937 mononuclear phagocytes as targets and iron together with hydrogen peroxide to generate radicals.
(13) Questionnaires were used and the respondent self-designation method measured leadership.
(14) At 36 h postsurgery, RBCs were examined by 23Na-NMR by using dysprosium tripolyphosphate as a chemical shift reagent.
(15) Biochemical, immunocytochemical and histochemical methods were used to study the effect of chronic acetazolamide treatment on carbonic anhydrase (CA) isoenzymes in the rat kidney.
(16) Use of the improved operative technique contributed to reduction in number of complications.
(17) Down and up regulation by peptides may be useful for treatment of cough and prevention of aspiration pneumonia.
(18) Our data suggest that a rational use of surveillance cultures and serological tests may aid in an earlier diagnosis of FI in BMT patients.
(19) Using monoclonal antibodies directed against the plasma membrane of Madin-Darby canine kidney (MDCK) cells, we demonstrated previously that a glycoprotein with an Mr = 23,000 (gp23) had a non-polarized cell surface distribution and was observed on both the apical and basolateral membranes (Ojakian, G. K., Romain, R. E., and Herz, R. E. (1987) Am.
(20) Models able to describe the events of cellular growth and division and the dynamics of cell populations are useful for the understanding of functional control mechanisms and for the theoretical support for automated analysis of flow cytometric data and of cell volume distributions.