(n.) A careful looking or watching for any object or event.
(n.) The place from which such observation is made.
(n.) A person engaged in watching.
(n.) Object or duty of forethought and care; responsibility.
Example Sentences:
(1) As human papilloma virus type 5 is known to have malignant potential, clinicians should be on the lookout for these banal-looking and distinctly non-warty lesions in renal transplant recipients.
(2) The local sheriff, FBI and other law enforcement officials have so far held back from confronting the militia, who are heavily armed and have lookouts on a watchtower.
(3) If you're on the lookout for gristle on a stick, or deep-fried nearly-meat and soggy chips, it's your lucky night.
(4) 10.01pm BST North Avenue Beach From a 95th floor lookout over Chicago's sprawling downtown … to the beach, in under 10 minutes.
(5) It’s windy but the rain has stopped so we decide to brave Intermediate Hill, where a new lookout has been built with 360-degree views of the island.
(6) Photograph: Guardian The lookout from the summit, taking in the Jaws of Borrowdale and still waters of Derwent Isle, was immortalised in the classic book Swallows and Amazons.
(7) A study conducted in the Sioux Lookout Health Zone in northwestern Ontario, Canada analyzed the diagnoses and managements for 139,618 patient visits to three levels of practitioners: physicians, nurse practitioners, and minimally trained health aides.
(8) Pharmacists should be on the lookout for complaints of any side effects experienced by a patient and should recommend that a patient contact her physician to discuss the untoward reactions.
(9) As "Darien", it was the lookout for Ransome's boat‑loving kids.
(10) Here was the perfect sea story for which Poe had been on the lookout.
(11) Meanwhile, the reigning NL Cy Young Award winner, Clayton Kershaw is closer to returning from his first career stint on the disabled list after throwing five innings during a rehab outing for the Dodgers Double-A Chattanooga Lookouts.
(12) In addition, we are all to get used to wearing life jackets, lookouts are to be posted and we will be told where to assemble if foreign soldiers come aboard.
(13) Cleese is currently on the lookout for a director to helm the stage production, which could still be some way from treading the boards.
(14) The proposed protected areas include 196 sq km (122 sq miles) of deepwater coral reef off Cape Lookout, a 83 sq km (52 square mile) area off Cape Fear and more than 37,000 sq km in an elbow-shaped area extending from South Carolina to southern Florida.
(15) We are simply reacting to steps taken by Russia.” The EU's boxers are on the lookout for fighting talk from Theresa May Read more Earlier in the week EU foreign ministers said Russia could be guilty of possible war crimes in Aleppo and agreed to widen sanctions against Syrians implicated in the bombing.
(16) Most white people were on the lookout, we were told, for what they called these basic racial traits.
(17) In order to demonstrate a relationship between visually related learning disabilities and juvenile deliquency, a study was conducted on institutionalized youth at Lookout Mountain School, an educational facility for committed delinquents.
(18) Keying in a password or code 40-plus times a day might seem like a hassle but, says Lookout's Derek Halliday, "It's your first line of defence."
(19) "[They] were constantly on the lookout for an excuse to launch an operation in Lebanon ," he wrote in his 2000 book, The Iron Wall.
(20) Jack Kerouac spent the summer of 1956 as a fire lookout atop Desolation Peak in the North Cascades, surrounded by silence and rocky spires, far from the drink, drugs and distractions of his San Francisco life.
Surveillance
Definition:
(n.) Oversight; watch; inspection; supervision.
Example Sentences:
(1) Clinical surveillance, repeated laboratory tests, conventional radiology, and especially ultrasonography and CT scan all contributed to the preoperative diagnosis.
(2) An effective graft-surveillance protocol needs to be applicable to all patients; practical in terms of time, effort, and cost; reliable; and able to detect, grade, and assess progression of lesions.
(3) Our data suggest that a rational use of surveillance cultures and serological tests may aid in an earlier diagnosis of FI in BMT patients.
(4) In a debate in the House of Commons, I will ask Britain, the US and other allies to convert generalised offers of help into more practical support with greater air cover, military surveillance and helicopter back-up, to hunt down the terrorists who abducted the girls.
(5) The purpose of this paper is to discuss the potential for integrating surveillance techniques in reproductive epidemiology with geographic information system technology in order to identify populations at risk around hazardous waste sites.
(6) These deficiencies in the data compromise HIV surveillance based on diagnostic testing, and supplementary bias-free data are needed.
(7) A total of 1,268 patients admitted to hospital wards were kept under surveillance by one observer throughout their stay in hospital.
(8) Cardiovascular disease event rates will be assessed through continuous community surveillance of fatal and nonfatal myocardial infarction and stroke.
(9) Although this operational classification does not produce etiologically homogeneous groups, it is believed to have pragmatic utility with respect to planning targeted surveillance and management strategies.
(10) These results clearly show the value of cardiac and neurologic surveillance of patients operated on for carotid artery stenosis.
(11) Hemoccult-II (H-II) was performed before 1,244 colonoscopies in patients with previous cancer and before 328 colonoscopies in an adenoma surveillance program.
(12) Albrecht said it would represent a great success for the parliament's investigation into mass surveillance of EU citizens.
(13) Although the debate in the US has led to some piecemeal reforms – including the USA Freedom Act and modest policy changes – many of the most intrusive government surveillance programs remain largely intact.
(14) He is likely to propose increased funding of plant disease experts, the stepping up of surveillance at ports of entry and a Europe-wide "plant passport" system to trace the origins of all plants coming into Britain.
(15) Our results indicate that in recipients of bioprosthetic valves, careful follow-up with closer surveillance of valve and cardiac function and earlier prosthetic replacement might contribute to reducing the risk of reoperation.
(16) He spent just 22 minutes there before heading out again, the building’s surveillance system revealed.
(17) This postoperative surveillance was aimed at discovering benign or malignant neoplastic growth within the remaining large bowel.
(18) The 14-year incidence rates (1969-1982) for coronary heart disease, cerebrovascular disease (stroke), total mortality, and cause-specific mortality were compared between 8,006 examined and 3,130 nonexamined men of the Honolulu Heart Program using identical surveillance procedures.
(19) Surveillance activity must be performed concurrently so that data can be reported in a timely manner and appropriate action can be taken if necessary.
(20) Cluster investigations are expected to be most useful not in etiologic research, but rather in addressing worker concerns and as part of larger surveillance efforts.