(n.) The quality or state of being necessary, unavoidable, or absolutely requisite; inevitableness; indispensableness.
(n.) The condition of being needy or necessitous; pressing need; indigence; want.
(n.) That which is necessary; a necessary; a requisite; something indispensable; -- often in the plural.
(n.) That which makes an act or an event unavoidable; irresistible force; overruling power; compulsion, physical or moral; fate; fatality.
(n.) The negation of freedom in voluntary action; the subjection of all phenomena, whether material or spiritual, to inevitable causation; necessitarianism.
Example Sentences:
(1) The indication of the DNA probe method would be considered in the four cases as follows, 1. necessity of the special equipment to isolate the pathogen, 2. necessity of the long period to isolate the pathogen, 3. existence of the cross reaction among the pathogen and relative organisms in the immunological procedure, 4. existence of the difficulty to identify the species of the pathogen by the ordinary procedure.
(2) Among 159 patients studied, the severity most frequent was Yahr stage 3 (63%) at first examination, indicating the necessity of earlier diagnosis.
(3) When a product is selected for a patient, consideration should be given to necessity, efficacy, adverse effects, and cost-effectiveness.
(4) Discussion deals with the plurality, specificity, variability, perceived necessity, sufficiency, international utility and career significance of British postgraduate qualifications.
(5) As a result of recent environmental changes in the health care industry, marketing has become a vital necessity for the survival of most hospitals.
(6) There is a necessity for early definitive decision-making in the borderline orthognathic surgery patient and the role of orthodontic camouflage is pointed out.
(7) For Kohut, interpretation depends on the prior establishment of a stable, sustaining transference; human connexion is a lifelong necessity and full understanding an achievable aim.
(8) Management and treatment issues are surveyed, such as the necessity to recognize that in some adolescents violence erupts not from narcissitic rage but from strong wishes for affectionate contact.
(9) A prospective study of the necessity of sedation, or analgesia, or both in total colonoscopy was performed.
(10) The authors report on the casuistry of aorto-coronary by-pass operations they performed between April 1971 and December 1974, discussing the criteria which indicate the necessity of operating, the principles of the operative techniques, and the results obtained.
(11) This case, despite the fatal outcome, emphasises the necessity for a comprehensive approach to the diagnosis of atypical pneumonia, including culture for Legionella, especially in immunocompromised patients.
(12) The sonographic method, with a 97.7% specificity and a negative predictive value of 89.5%, proved to be specific enough to eliminate the necessity of routine catheterization for measuring residual bladder volumes of greater than or equal to 150 cm3, thus decreasing the incidence of some major postoperative complications that can occur due to unnecessary catheterization.
(13) The development of gallstones following this procedure, however, has become more problematic in that further opeation becomes a real necessity.
(14) The necessity of using immunohistochemistry in the diagnosis of sinonasal tumours of fibromatous nature is emphasized.
(15) The experience with 1896 restorative operations on injured nerve trunks shows a necessity to consider the problems of diagnosis, prognosis and choice of the treatment, and especially the results of the nerve suture, not in all patients with nerve injury but only in separate groups being comparable with respect to the kind and severity of the trauma.
(16) Clinico-immunological studies on the use of drugs containing synthetic and biological polymers revealed their high immunomodulating activity and necessity of differentiated use of these drugs with relation to the pathogenetic mechanisms of development of bronchopulmonary diseases as well as mechanisms of their immunological action determined by the molecular mass of polymers as constituents of blood substitutes.
(17) We consider that the rarity of stricture rules out the necessity of any change in management, whether or not erosive oesophagitis is observed at endoscopy.
(18) The discrepancy between the judgement of the insurance company based upon the medical records and the patients complaints also 4-7 years after injury as well as the diversification of therapeutical procedures used in the long term patients career are indicating a necessity of prospective study on cervical spine injury.
(19) Through small and large acts of deprivation and destruction we follow the process: the removal of hope, of dignity, of luxury, of necessity, of self; the reduction of a man to a hoarder of grey slabs of bread and the scrapings of a soup bowl (wonderfully told all this, with a novelist's gift for detail and sometimes very nearly comic surprise), to the confinement of a narrow bed – in which there is "not even any room to be afraid" – with a stranger who doesn't speak your language, to the cruel illogicality of hating a fellow victim of oppression more than you hate the oppressor himself – one torment following another, and even the bleak comfort of thinking you might have touched rock bottom denied you as, when the most immediate cause of a particular stress comes to an end, "you are grievously amazed to see that another one lies behind; and in reality a whole series of others".
(20) In light of the AIDS epidemic and the necessity for safe-sex practices, the topic of caution and prevention is an emerging and critical discourse for the sexual encounter.
Possibility
Definition:
(n.) The quality or state of being possible; the power of happening, being, or existing.
(n.) That which is possible; a contingency; a thing or event that may not happen; a contingent interest, as in real or personal estate.
Example Sentences:
(1) However, as other patients who lived at the periphery of the Valserine valley do not appear to be related to any patients living in the valley, and because there has been considerable immigration into the valley, a number of hypotheses to explain the distribution of the disease in the region remain possible.
(2) Standardization is possible after correction by the protein content of each individual section.
(3) The significance of minor increases in the serum creatinine level must be recognized, so that modifications of drug therapy can be made and correction of possibly life-threatening electrolyte imbalances can be undertaken.
(4) The possibility that the ventral nerve photoreceptor cells serve a neurosecretory function in the adult Limulus is discussed.
(5) In Patient 2 they were at first paroxysmal and unformed, with more prolonged metamorphopsia; later there appeared to be palinoptic formed images, possibly postictal in nature.
(6) However, medicines have an important part to play, and it is now generally agreed that for the very poor populations medicines should be restricted to those on an 'essential drugs list' and should be made available as cheaply as possible.
(7) The various evocational changes appear to form sets of interconnected systems and this complex network seems to embody some plasticity since it has been possible to suppress experimentally some of the most universal evocational events or alter their temporal order without impairing evocation itself.
(8) Coronary arteritis has to be considered as a possible etiology of ischemic symptoms also in subjects who appear affected by typical atherosclerotic ischemic heart disease.
(9) This induction is sensitive to actinomycin D but not to protein synthesis inhibitor puromycin, indicating an effect of estradiol at the transcriptional level, possibly mediated by the estrogen receptor.
(10) This new observation offers good possibilities to study the metabolism of tryptophan at the cellular level.
(11) From these data it is possible to predict theoretically the apparent temperature difference as seen by an infrared scanner or radiometer with a detector of which the spectral detectivity, D (lambda), is known.
(12) This is a fascinating possibility for solving the skin shortage problem especially in burn cases.
(13) Since 1987, it has become possible to obtain immature ova from the living animal and to let them mature, fertilize and develop into embryos capable of transplantation outside the body.
(14) These cells contained organelles characteristic of the maturation stage ameloblast and often extended to the enamel surface, suggesting a possible origin from the ameloblast layer.
(15) Four cytotoxic antibiotics, bikaverin, duclauxine, PSX-1 and vermiculine, were examined with respect to their interference with glycolysis and respiration and their possible ionophoric or cytolytic activity.
(16) These results are discussed in relation to the possible existence of enzyme-bound intermediates of nitrogen fixation.
(17) For viewers in the US, you get the worst possible in-game managerial interview in Mike Matheny, one that's so bad, it's actually great!
(18) A possible role for mitochondria in myocardial adenosine production is discussed.
(19) Together these observations suggest that cytotactin is an endogenous cell surface modulatory protein and provide a possible mechanism whereby cytotactin may contribute to pattern formation during development, regeneration, tumorigenesis, and wound healing.
(20) Results suggest that Cd-MT is reabsorbed and broken down by kidney tubule cells in a physiological manner with possible subsequent release of the toxic cadmium ion.