(a.) Of or pertaining to the hand; done or made by the hand; as, manual labor; the king's sign manual.
(a.) A small book, such as may be carried in the hand, or conveniently handled; a handbook; specifically, the service book of the Roman Catholic Church.
(a.) A keyboard of an organ or harmonium for the fingers, as distinguished from the pedals; a clavier, or set of keys.
(a.) A prescribed exercise in the systematic handing of a weapon; as, the manual of arms; the manual of the sword; the manual of the piece (cannon, mortar, etc.).
Example Sentences:
(1) A modification of the manual glucose oxidase-gum guaiacum method of Shipton, B., Wood, P.J.
(2) Classical treatment combining artificial delivery or uterine manual evacuation-oxytocics led to the arrest of bleeding in 73 cases.
(3) And this is the supply of 30% of the state’s fresh water.” To conduct the survey, the state’s water agency dispatches researchers to measure the level of snow manually at 250 separate sites in the Sierra Nevada, Rizzardo said.
(4) Excellent correlations were observed between computer and manual methods for both systems.
(5) The reduction is believed due to the currently used pre-prepared disposable or reusable capsules containing the amalgam versus formerly mixing the ingredients manually.
(6) We performed a prospective study on 68 eyes of 68 patients to compare the vertical cup-disk ratio obtained with the video-ophthalmograph to that obtained with manual analysis of black-and-white stereoscopic photographs.
(7) Furthermore, the AMDP-3 scale and its manual constitute a remarkable teaching instrument for psychopathology, not always enough appreciated.
(8) A manual search, derived from the references of these papers, was performed to obtain relevant citations for the years preceding 1970.
(9) Experiments have been performed using CO2 laser-assisted microvascular anastomoses, and they demonstrated the following features, in comparison with conventional anastomoses: ease in technique; less time consumption; less tissue inflammation; early wound healing; equivalency of patency rate and inner pressure tolerance; but only about 50 percent of the tensile strength of manual-suture anastomosis.
(10) The article reflects the experience in the work of the manual therapy consulting-room at the Smela town hospital named after N. A. Semashko in Chernigov Province from November 1985 to December 1987 inclusive.
(11) Although the assay was performed manually, it showed considerable potential for full automation.
(12) Finally, from the published manuals, the common components of these diverse, multi-component treatment packages of different family-intervention studies are identified."
(13) 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.
(14) Manual compression of the bladder elicited urine leakage from the urethra, and the urethral closure pressure was markedly low.
(15) Indirect blood pressure measurement techniques included automated oscillometry, manual auscultation, visual onset of oscillation (flicker) and return-to-flow methods.
(16) Response requirements are manual rather than verbal so that, in addition to monitoring heart rate, subjects' exhaled air may be collected throughout the task in order to determine oxygen consumption.
(17) The modified CIRS was operationalized with a manual of guidelines geared toward the geriatric patient and for clarity was designated the CIRS(G).
(18) We describe a fully enzymic method for manual and continuous-flow colorimetric assay of triacylglycerols (triglycerides) in serum.
(19) The correlations between automated and manual counts for neutrophils, eosinophils, basophils, and lymphocytes were excellent: r = 0.912, 0.945, 0.332, and 0.964, respectively.
(20) Aiming at a particularized functional analysis 70 patients with shoulder-hand syndrome were diagnosed; aspects of reflexotherapy (manual and neural therapy) were taken into consideration on this occasion inclusive a comment on the psychical condition.
Monograph
Definition:
(n.) A written account or description of a single thing, or class of things; a special treatise on a particular subject of limited range.
Example Sentences:
(1) To lay the groundwork for subsequent chapters in this monograph of multiple primary cancers in Connecticut and Denmark, we present a description of the historical significance of previous studies, focusing on key surveys that have enhanced our understanding of the origins of multiple cancers.
(2) The interpretation of the term was a major issue in Konorski's monograph of 1948, and a main point of difference between his views and those of Pavlov.
(3) The monograph summarizes the most important data and experience based on the clinicopathological analysis, histological and histoenzymatic examinations of more than 1000 primary tumours and 400 tumour-like lesions of bones.
(4) Medicines which do not represent a direct or indirect risk for health can be exempted from the need of an individual marketing authorization by monographs of standardized marketing authorizations.
(5) The responses of experimental animals to known and suspected human carcinogens, as evaluated in the IARC Monographs series, were analysed as an indication of the sensitivity of animal tests for predicting human carcinogens.
(6) To determine whether genotoxic and non-genotoxic carcinogens contribute similarly to the cancer burden in humans, an analysis was performed on agents that were evaluated in Supplements 6 and 7 to the IARC Monographs for their carcinogenic effects in humans and animals and for the activity in short-term genotoxicity tests.
(7) She was there in 1929 when her English translation of her husband's 1914 monograph advancing the chromosome theory of cancer was published.
(8) The system was limited by specific constraints to control of the monograph collection.
(9) He published eight monographs, five of which were of eminent importance and at least two exerted considerable influence on European psychiatry for several decades, namely Der sensitive Beziehungswahn (1918) and Körperbau und Charakter (1921).
(10) The National Library of Medicine's (NLM) monographic resources in the medical behavioral sciences (MBS) were examined to assess NLM's ability to support the needs of researchers writing in this area.
(11) T. Yanagita, Studies on Cathinones, NIDA Research Monograph 27, Proceedings of 41st Annual Scientific Meeting of the Committee on Problems of Drug Dependence, 1979, pp.
(12) Seven monographs of tablets admitted to USP(XXII), Ch P (1985, 1990) and JP(XI) were taken as cases in point and the systematic errors of two of them, i.e.
(13) In general, the procedures described in a national or European Pharmacopoeia must be applied if a monograph is available.
(14) His scientific achievements based on higher mathematics included 20 important reports on astronomy and several monographs on mathematics.
(15) If a applicant refers to such a monograph he does not have to present any documentation.
(16) The last of these three monographs was written in 1971; its title is "Polarizing Microscopy in Dental Tissues"; it deals with the ultrastructure of teeth, a subject which never ceased to attract his attention during the more than 50 years of his career as a scientist.
(17) In 1971 the International Agency for Research on Cancer initiated a program on the evaluation of the carcinogenic risk of chemicals to humans, which concentrated on the production of monographs on individual chemicals.
(18) In comparison to the monograph of Hueper from 1963 it is concluded, that until now no critical increase of carcinogenic substances at the workplace has occurred.
(19) All the data contained in the monographs along with the references and the synonyms are stored in a database application computer program.
(20) The fourth premise is expressed succinctly in the 11 principles outlined in the 1983 AAMC monograph "Preserving America's Preeminence in Medical Research," which places important responsibilities for the collective success of the U.S. research program on all of the various components of society.