(v. t.) To reduce to the smallest part or proportion possible; to reduce to a minimum.
Example Sentences:
(1) Although the mean values for all hemodynamic variables between the two placebo periods were minimally changed, the differences in individual patients were striking.
(2) In the absence of atrial dilatation there was minimal stimulus for ANF secretion.
(3) Minimal levels were evident 16 weeks after irradiation; Hct then increased, but remained below preirradiation values.
(4) One hundred and ninety-nine children aged 7-14 and 177 adolescents in remission and minimal manifestations of rheumatoid arthritis (RA) were examined before and after fangotherapy with allowance for activity of the process, age-related reactivity.
(5) Using serial section electron microscopic reconstructions as a reference, we have chosen as our standard procedure a method that maximizes both the preservation of the cytoskeleton and the proportion of cells staining, while minimizing the degree of nonspecific staining.
(6) The minimal change in gel fiber size caused by slow A release implies that fibrin fiber size is primarily a function of ionic environment and not of the sequence of peptide release.
(7) Methods to minimize bias in the design and implementation of consultation-liaison research are suggested.
(8) The plasma levels of atrial natriuretic factor (ANF) were measured both during relapse and remission in 8 patients with idiopathic, minimal-lesion nephrotic syndrome.
(9) Limitations include the facts that the tracer inventory requires a minimal survival period, can only be done postmortem, and has low resolution for cuts of the vagal hepatic branch.
(10) In the last 2 years at our department we have developed a new technique in which the resorption has up to now been minimal.
(11) In this paper the domain of validity of the unlabelled and labelled minimal models of glucose disappearance is studied.
(12) Minimal breast cancer should include lobular carcinoma in situ (lobular neoplasia) and ductal carcinoma in situ regardless of nodal status, and (tentatively) invasive carcinoma smaller than 1 cm in total diameter, if axillary lymph nodes are not involved.
(13) In minimal-glucose-aminoacids at 37 C after an initial growth, cellular lysis occurred.
(14) Essential characteristics of the composite bone cement included a homogeneous and uniform fiber distribution, and a minimal increase in apparent viscosity of the polymerizing cement.
(15) At 10(-7) M, Iso produced approximately maximal responses at all ages in the ECH but elicited only minimal responses at all ages in the ERH, approximately ten times this concentration being required to produce maximal responses in the ERH.
(16) Each axon had a characteristic head position which was maximally excitatory to it, and a diametrically opposed head position which was minimally excitatory.3.
(17) The patient had experienced repeated spontaneous fractures for 1.5 years such as serial rib fractures, fractures of the sternum and most recently fracture of the neck of the femur after a minimal trauma.
(18) Repeated transient ischemic attacks in the same territory with minimal lesions on arteriography and non-homogeneous plaque on duplex scan; 2.
(19) Defects in the posterior one-half of the trachea, up to 5 rings long, were repaired, with minimal stenosis.
(20) A plasmid carrying this mutation, along with wild-type genes encoding the c and b subunits, was unusual in that it failed to complement a chromosomal c-subunit mutation on succinate minimal medium.
Reinsurance
Definition:
(n.) Insurance a second time or again; renewed insurance.
(n.) A contract by which an insurer is insured wholly or in part against the risk he has incurred in insuring somebody else. See Reassurance.
Example Sentences:
(1) The global fund's reinsurance arm – put at about $3bn (using a high insurance rate) – would facilitate reinsurance coverage for social protection schemes in countries where risks (and the fear of excess demand for support) make it difficult for states to obtain affordable and extensive reinsurance.
(2) The second provision was a sop to unions, and as such was seen as a Democratic ask: a tax on group health care plans – which would fund a reinsurance program to protect against early strain on the system from potentially lots of sick people and no healthy people signing up – was to be delayed.
(3) But reinsurance alone does not reduce the underlying high cost of providing such primary coverage.
(4) It is argued that the rise in malpractice insurance premiums and associated restrictions in availability should be seen against the background of underwriting problems specific to medical liability in conjunction with a general decline in reinsurance cover.
(5) That is why the governments concerned must take over the reinsurance function and use their agencies only to administer the insurance policies.
(6) Taking as an example the life insurance application of a man with conservatively treated ulcerative colitis, risk assessment procedure from the viewpoint of life insurance is analyzed on the basis of the Swiss Reinsurance Company rating guidelines.
(7) Only simple insurance products will be affected, but not big reinsurance contracts and specialist insurance such as marine and aviation, Beale said.
(8) There, reinsurance serves as part of a strategy for requiring that primary insurance be made available to all applicants, regardless of risk.
(9) Private insurers and reinsurers like Germany's Euler Hermes have offered it for years.
(10) Some financial firms, though, were hit – particularly the reinsurance firms that take on risk from individual insurers.
(11) Guarantees of this kind have a peculiar feature: the more convincing they are, the less likely they are to be invoked; the reinsurance is likely to turn out to be largely costless.
(12) The fund would have two functions: to help the 48 least developed countries (LDCs) put in place a "social protection floor"; and to serve as a reinsurance provider to step in if a state's social protection system was overwhelmed by an unexpected event such as extreme drought or flooding.
(13) Like other reinsurers, Munich Re has said it is expecting to face mounting claims in the coming years for damage caused by climate change.
(14) Hodge said: "As individual events, the Australian floods, Cyclone Yasi [in Australia], the Christchurch earthquake and today's Honshu earthquake are unlikely to significantly affect global reinsurance prices.
(15) It was found that admissions can be unreported when another insurer or institution pays (e.g., Medicare, No Fault, Workmen's Compensation, duplicate coverage, school health and liability insurance or VA, military, municipal, and state hospitals); when the HMO does not cover benefits (e.g., cosmetic and oral surgery, experimental procedures, long-term psychiatric, chronic, or rehabilitation stays); and when HMO coverage is denied for procedural reasons (e.g., catastrophic stays covered by reinsurance, newborns, voluntary "leakage," or improper following of HMO procedures).
(16) To do so, they must ensure their financial stability through the support of the insured and through adequate reinsurance, compete effectively with commercial insurance companies, comply with federal regulations regarding reimbursement to hospitals for premiums, and develop effective internal management.
(17) They had bought it for £600m in 2007 from reinsurer Swiss Re, which commissioned it in 2004.
(18) Because the primary carrier mainly wants to protect its solvency against unpredictable variation in claims experience, it normally reinsures only the "high end" of claims risk.
(19) Under conventional private practice, primary health insurers, including self-insured groups and HMOs, voluntarily contract with reinsurers to share some risk and some premiums.
(20) The £4bn loans, some of which appear to be still outstanding, were made to the Swiss banking giant, Credit Suisse; a British reinsurer, Swiss Re plc; and an unidentified US insurer.