(n.) The act or result of measuring; mensuration; as, measurement is required.
(n.) The extent, size, capacity, amount. or quantity ascertained by measuring; as, its measurement is five acres.
Example Sentences:
(1) Indicators for evaluation and monitoring and outcome measures are described within the context of health service management to describe control measure output in terms of community effectiveness.
(2) Carbon dioxide (CO2) levels, volumes, and temperatures of expired gas were measured from the tracheal and esophageal tubes.
(3) The results indicated that neuropsychological measures may serve to broaden the concept of intelligence and that a brain-related criterion may contribute to a fuller understanding of its nature.
(4) The measure destroyed the Justice Department’s plans to prosecute whatever Guantánamo detainees it could in federal courts.
(5) "We examined the reachability of social networking sites from our measurement infrastructure within Turkey, and found nothing unusual.
(6) However, when first trimester specimens were analyzed, the direct-product measurements were significantly larger than the corresponding 3H2O assay results.
(7) Activity of Na,K-ATPase activity was measured as a functional marker for synaptosomal membranes.
(8) Questionnaires were used and the respondent self-designation method measured leadership.
(9) Cantact placing reaction times were measured in cats which were either restrained in a hammock or supported in a conventional way.
(10) The rise of malaria despite of control measures involves several factors: the house spraying is no more accepted by a large percentage of house holders and the alternative larviciding has only a limited efficacy; the houses of American Indians have no walls to be sprayed; there is a continuous introduction of parasites by migrants.
(11) Theoretical findings on sterilization and disinfection measures are useless for the dental practice if their efficiency is put into question due to insufficient consideration of the special conditions of dental treatment.
(12) Heart rate (HR), pulmonary ventilation (V), oxygen consumption (VO2), carbon dioxide production (VCO2), and respiratory quotient (RQ) were measured.
(13) Participants (n=165) entering a week-long outpatient education program completed a protocol measuring self-care patterns, glycosylated hemoglobin levels, and emotional well-being.
(14) Measurement of the intraspinal monoamine level revealed a decrease in the intraspinal norepinephrine level in the treated animals.
(15) A progressively more precise approach to identifying affected individuals involves measuring body weight and height, then energy intake (or expenditure) and finally the basal metabolic rate (BMR).
(16) All subjects completed the Coping Strategies Questionnaire, which measures the use and perceived effectiveness of a variety of cognitive and behavioral coping strategies in controlling and decreasing pain.
(17) Although measurements are easily obtained with a tape measure, the validity of these measurements is not known.
(18) The goals in control patients were to attain normal values for all hemodynamic measurements.
(19) The fluctuations in [Ca2+]i measured with fura-2 were synchronized among the population of cells observed and were sensitive to extracellular Ca2+ concentration ([Ca2+]o).
(20) The 14C-aminopyrine breath test was used to measure liver function in 14 normal subjects, 16 patients with alcoholic cirrhosis, 14 alcoholics without cirrhosis, and 29 patients taking a variety of drugs.
Thermometry
Definition:
(n.) The estimation of temperature by the use of a thermometric apparatus.
Example Sentences:
(1) This apparatus offers considerable scope for advance in the field of thermometry in anaesthesia.
(2) To date, satisfactory thermal dosimetry during the clinical application of localized hyperthermia can only be achieved using invasive thermometry.
(3) Skin thermometry and reflex vasodilatation was studied in eight cases.
(4) Thermal asymmetry of the lumbar region were revealed in 22 patients by means of contact thermometry.
(5) Finally, we studied the influence of a perfused phantom to the microwave thermometry.
(6) Two temperature probes (a fluoroptic sensor and a metallic thermistor), which are both suitable for stereotaxic implantation, were used in comparative thermometry studies during interstitial microwave heating of the brain in vivo.
(7) Data from animal experiments indicate that the use of thermometry probes within such a catheter provides reliable temperature measurements.
(8) Catheter thermometry was performed at each hyperthermia treatment.
(9) The authors have studied the action of nicotinate of xantinol on the placental, myometrial and cervical circulations using an isotope technique (Indium 113) and anemometric thermometry.
(10) For thermometry multiple catheters (mean 2.7) were inserted into the treatment volume.
(11) A regularity was revealed according to which numerical determination of heat emission in combination with thermometry in characteristic points of the leg and foot was a good test in determining the stage of the disease and a prognostic index of the efficacy of lumbar sympathectomy and rehabilitation of the patient in the immediate and late-term postoperative period.
(12) Thermometry data indicate that for low-power exposures the major error in thermographic measurements obtained after termination of heating is due to thermal diffusion and not evaporative cooling in the opened midplane of the phantom.
(13) Thermometry, thermography, digital plethysmography under hot and cold conditions, videomicroscopy of the nailbed, percutaneous PO2 and laser-doppler tests measure functional parameters, the hemodynamic significance of which require discussion.
(14) Infrared thermometry provided the noncontact measurement of temperature.
(15) These findings indicate that local hyperthermia applied by this method is effective in the treatment of benign prostatic hyperplasia and that improvement of the thermometry system is needed.
(16) Methods of investigating tissue blood flows include skin thermometry, thermal conductance or clearance, transcutaneous PO2, laser doppler flux, and photoplethysmographic techniques.
(17) It was shown that graphic presentation of data of liquid crystal thermography and electron thermometry remarkably facilitates documentation and analysis of the results obtained.
(18) The changes in mean body temperature (delta Tb) measured by thermometry showed a delay of 5-10 min when compared with delta Tb measured by calorimetry.
(19) The state of regional hemodynamics in crural ulcers was studied in 180 patients by means of hemodynamic tests, oscillography, capillaroscopy, thermometry, phlebotonometry, phlebography.
(20) To test this model a series of experiments was carried out in adult dogs in which stereotaxically implanted microwave antennas operating at 2450 MHz, fluoro-optical thermometry probes, and platinum electrodes were used to simultaneously measure CBF by thermal washout and hydrogen clearance techniques.