(v. t.) To treat, work, or operate with the hands, especially when knowledge and dexterity are required; to manage in hand work; to handle; as, to manipulate scientific apparatus.
(v. t.) To control the action of, by management; as, to manipulate a convention of delegates; to manipulate the stock market; also, to manage artfully or fraudulently; as, to manipulate accounts, or election returns.
(v. i.) To use the hands in dexterous operations; to do hand work; specifically, to manage the apparatus or instruments used in scientific work, or in artistic or mechanical processes; also, specifically, to use the hand in mesmeric operations.
Example Sentences:
(1) Similar experimental manipulation has yielded in vitro lines established from avian B-cell lymphomas expressing elevated levels of c-myc or v-rel.
(2) Technical factors that account for increased difficulty in these patients include: problems with guide catheter impaction and ostial trauma; inability to inflate the balloon with adequate guide catheter support; and need for increased intracoronary manipulation.
(3) aeruginosa and Enterococci) were significantly reduced in number during the manipulation (Fig.
(4) By growing purified human cytotrophoblasts under serum-free conditions and manipulating the culture surface, we were able to disassociate morphologic from biochemical differentiation.
(5) It would be "very easy to manipulate and access one of our vehicles", he said.
(6) Technical manipulations to improve resolution were time consuming and added little to the accuracy of the test.
(7) The prognosis was adversely affected by obesity, preoperative flexion contracture of 30 degrees or more, wound-healing problems, wound infection, and postoperative manipulation under general anesthesia.
(8) The intracranial pressure can then be studied and experimentally manipulated.
(9) Results show that responses to motion of cortical cells are particularly sensitive to these manipulations.
(10) Although a similar conjugation of the B polysaccharide failed to substantially enhance its immunogenicity in mice, this could be achieved by further chemical manipulation of the basic structure of the B polysaccharide.
(11) Given the liberalist context in which we live, this paper argues that an act-oriented ethics is inadequate and that only a virtue-oriented ethics enables us to recognize and resolve the new problems ahead of us in genetic manipulation.
(12) Thus, both energy intake and expenditure were manipulated to result in an energy deficit of 50 percent.
(13) The advantages of pars plana approach are the small incision and minimal ocular manipulation during surgery.
(14) For more than half a century, Saudi leaders manipulated the United States by feeding our oil addiction, lavishing money on politicians, helping to finance American wars, and buying billions of dollars in weaponry from US companies.
(15) Hogan-Howe said allegations, from three whistleblowers, that there is widespread manipulation of the figures are currently being investigated.
(16) A preliminary "profile" of the patient with low back pain who would likely benefit from manual therapy included acute symptom onset with less than a 1-month duration of symptoms, central or paravertebral pain distribution, no previous exposure to spinal manipulation, and no pending litigation or workers' compensation.
(17) Especially once the Libor scandal gave a clear signal of how markets could be manipulated.
(18) Micronutrient antioxidants such as alpha-tocopherol, the principal lipid-soluble antioxidant, assume potential significance because levels can be manipulated by dietary measures without resulting in side effects.
(19) Animals in Groups 2 and 3 underwent exposure and manipulation of the right ureter.
(20) Such analysis provides criteria, based on the response of the components to experimental manipulations, for identifying those aspects of the ERP recorded in other species that are analogous to specific ERP components recorded from human subjects.
Therapeutic
Definition:
(a.) Alt. of Therapeutical
(n.) One of the Therapeutae.
Example Sentences:
(1) Treatment termination due to lack of efficacy or combined insufficient therapeutic response and toxicity proved to be influenced by the initial disease activity and by the rank order of prescription.
(2) After a discussion of the therapeutic relationship, several coping strategies which have been used successfully by many women are described and therapeutic applications are offered.
(3) Training in social skills specific to fostering intimacy is suggested as a therapeutic step, and modifications to the social support measure for future use discussed.
(4) Therapeutic possibilities for hepatogenous anaemia of complex genesis are discussed.
(5) No difference in therapeutic activity between CNC-ala-17-E2 and CNC-ala could be observed in a transplanted rat leukemia (L 5222).
(6) Different therapeutic success rates have been reported by various authors who used the same combination of therapy.
(7) SD is shown to have therapeutic and differential diagnostic significance in varying pathological conditions of cerebral dopaminergic systems.
(8) The clinical aspects, the modality of onset and diffusion of the lymphoma, its macroscopic and histopathological features and the different therapeutic approaches are discussed.
(9) Current status of prognosis in clinical, experimental and prophylactic medicine is delineated with formulation of the purposes and feasibility of therapeutic and preventive realization of the disease onset and run prediction.
(10) The following case highlights the diagnostic and therapeutic dilemmas encountered in a middle-aged patient who presented with dementia and apathetic hyperthyroidism.
(11) Local injections of contrykal into the ulcer had inhibited proteinase activity and had a positive therapeutic effect.
(12) These data, compared with literature findings, support the idea that intratumoral BCG instillation of bladder cancer permits a longer disease-free period than other therapeutical approaches.
(13) We report on experiences with diagnostic and therapeutic procedures and the results of vocational rehabilitation.
(14) On the other hand, the patients treated with cimetidine showed a marked, systematic increase in theophylline plasma levels, even exceeding the upper limit of its known therapeutic range in 4 cases.
(15) As novel antibody therapeutics are developed for different malignancies and require evaluation with cells previously uncharacterized as antibody-dependent cell-mediated cytotoxicity (ADCC) targets, efficient description of key parameters of the assay system expedites the preclinical assessment.
(16) Pharmacodynamic relationships are not well established for other therapeutic effects of theophylline, such as attenuation of pharmacologically induced bronchoconstriction.
(17) Intoxications arising from therapeutic activities pertaining to this cult are of the same kind as those encountered in the practice of Modern Medicine.
(18) The combination of an over-distended uterus caused by a multiple-fetus pregnancy with therapeutic bed-rest may cause mechanical ileus.
(19) Finally, these cases support the existence of a therapeutic upper limit for desipramine plasma concentrations, above which clinical deterioration occurs.
(20) How useful is the technique for evaluating therapeutic efficacy?