(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.
Urgency
Definition:
(n.) The quality or condition of being urgent; insistence; pressure; as, the urgency of a demand or an occasion.
Example Sentences:
(1) Results in May 89 emphasizes: the relevance and urgency of the prevention of AIDS in secondary schools; the importance of the institutional aspect for the continuity of the project; the involvement of the pupils and the trainers for the processus; the feasibility of an intervention using only local resources.
(2) By no means is this a new theme, but it has taken on an added sharpness and urgency after the conferences.
(3) In acute indications for discontinuing the treatment with antithrombotics depending on the clinical urgency a gradually different discontinuation by stages should be striven for, in order to avoid thromboembolic relapses.
(4) Throughout the decade that it took GM to recall the Cobalt, there was a lack of accountability, a lack of urgency, and a failure of company personnel charged with ensuring the safety of the company's vehicles to understand how GM's own cars were designed.
(5) Miles Shipside, Rightmove director, said: "The number of new sellers is slightly up on the same period last year, though perhaps as a reflection of their urgency to sell, or to compensate for the distraction of the achievements served up by Team GB, they have dropped their asking prices more aggressively than summer sellers in previous years."
(6) It was becoming entertaining too, a match that was swift and direct, the ball moved rapidly and with a sense of urgency.
(7) Urinary frequency was normalized in 6 out of 16 (37.5%), urgency ceased in 6 out of 17 (35.7%) and urgent incontinence disappeared in 9 out of 14 (50%) patients.
(8) European foreign ministers and EU leaders have lined up this weekend to impress on Britain the need for urgency .
(9) Interstitial cystitis (IC) is a sterile, inflammatory bladder condition characterized by urinary frequency and urgency, as well as burning and suprapubic pain, which occurs more frequently in women who may suffer for years before diagnosis.
(10) Patients who complain of increased frequency, urgency and incontinence but pass normal stool volumes often have an abnormality in the motor activity of the anorectum.
(11) My fundamental beliefs didn’t change so much as they projected themselves with greater volume and urgency .
(12) An unwanted pregnancy is one more nightmare for a displaced woman; campaigners argue that contraception and access to safe abortion should be treated with the same urgency as water, food and shelter.
(13) After low colo-rectal or colo-anal anastomosis there is in 25% a degree of urgency and increased bowel movements.
(14) The sweeping proposals are a sizeable step up in scale and urgency for a mayor who has for years emphasised the threat climate change poses to the city, which has 520 miles of coastline.
(15) Pearson product moment correlation was used to determine agreement between parent and physician urgency ratings.
(16) Vascular urgencies in childhood are rare and various in presentation.
(17) Using a three-level approach based upon the patient's requirements for basic, advanced, or specialized medical care and the urgency of transport, the subcommittee was able to derive medical categories necessary for the selection and utilization of air ambulance services.
(18) It needs to be directed with pressing urgency: ice sheets are melting, sea levels rising and farmland is turning to desert across the globe as temperatures rise.
(19) Famine is stalking Somalia after a year of poor rains and heavy fighting, with more than a million lives at risk and little sense of urgency from the international community, the top UN envoy to the country warned.
(20) Among 1128 students and hospital employees that we surveyed, urgency was reported in 14.4%, fecal soiling in 5.3%, and diarrhea in 9.0%.