(n.) A portion of time as limited and determined by some recurring phenomenon, as by the completion of a revolution of one of the heavenly bodies; a division of time, as a series of years, months, or days, in which something is completed, and ready to recommence and go on in the same order; as, the period of the sun, or the earth, or a comet.
(n.) A stated and recurring interval of time; more generally, an interval of time specified or left indefinite; a certain series of years, months, days, or the like; a time; a cycle; an age; an epoch; as, the period of the Roman republic.
(n.) One of the great divisions of geological time; as, the Tertiary period; the Glacial period. See the Chart of Geology.
(n.) The termination or completion of a revolution, cycle, series of events, single event, or act; hence, a limit; a bound; an end; a conclusion.
(n.) A complete sentence, from one full stop to another; esp., a well-proportioned, harmonious sentence.
(n.) The punctuation point [.] that marks the end of a complete sentence, or of an abbreviated word.
(n.) One of several similar sets of figures or terms usually marked by points or commas placed at regular intervals, as in numeration, in the extraction of roots, and in circulating decimals.
(n.) The time of the exacerbation and remission of a disease, or of the paroxysm and intermission.
(n.) A complete musical sentence.
(v. t.) To put an end to.
(v. i.) To come to a period; to conclude. [Obs.] "You may period upon this, that," etc.
Example Sentences:
(1) Without medication atypical ventricular tachycardia develops, in the author's opinion, most probably when bradycardia has persisted for a prolonged period.
(2) Disease stabilisation was associated with prolonged periods of comparatively high plasma levels of drug, which appeared to be determined primarily by reduced drug clearance.
(3) Although the mean values for all hemodynamic variables between the two placebo periods were minimally changed, the differences in individual patients were striking.
(4) It was shown in experiments on four dogs by the conditioned method that the period of recovery of conditioned activity after one hour ether anaesthesia tested 7 to 7.5 days.
(5) Under blood preservation conditions the difference of the rates of ATP-production and -consumption is the most important factor for a high ATP-level over long periods.
(6) No significant change occurred in the bacterial population of our hospital unit during the period of the study (more than 3 years).
(7) The secondary leukemia that occurred in these patients could be distinguished from the secondary leukemia that occurs after treatment with alkylating agents by the following: a shorter latency period; a predominance of monocytic or myelomonocytic features; and frequent cytogenetic abnormalities involving 11q23.
(8) Sixteen patients in whom schizophrenia was initially diagnosed and who were treated with fluphenazine enanthate or decanoate developed severe depression for a short period after the injection.
(9) During the study period four family outbreaks and seven recurrences of infection were observed.
(10) After a period on fat-rich diet the patient's physical fitness was increased and the recovery period after the acute load was shorter.
(11) During this period he developed autoimmune haemolytic anaemia, a rare complication of myelofibrosis.
(12) Pituitary weight, mitotic index and chromosomes were studied in male rats following a single or repeated dose of estradiol-benzoate for a total period of 210 days.
(13) Most thyroid hormone actions, however, appear in the perinatal period, and infants with thyroid agenesis appear normal at birth and develop normally with prompt neonatal diagnosis and treatment.
(14) Maximal aberration yields were observed for 2,4-diaminotoluene, 2,6-diaminotoluene and cytosine beta-D-arabinofuranoside from 17 to 21 h, eugenol from 15 to 21 h, cadmium sulfate from 15 to 24 h and 2-aminobiphenyl, from 17 to 24 h. For adriamycin at 1 microM, the % aberrant cells remained elevated throughout the period from 9 to 29 h, while small increases at 0.1 microM ADR were found only at 13 and at 25 h. For most chemicals the maximal aberration yield occurred at a different time for each concentration tested.
(15) Accuracy of discrimination of letters at various preselected distances was determined each session while Ortho-rater examinations were given periodically throughout training.
(16) During electrophysiologic study, the effect of propafenone on the effective refractory period of the accessory pathway was determined, as well as its effect during orthodromic atrioventricular (AV) reentrant tachycardia and atrial fibrillation.
(17) Time-series analysis and multiple-regression modeling procedures were used to characterize changes in the overall incidence rate over the study period and to describe the contribution of additional measures to the dynamics of the incidence rates.
(18) Throughout the period of rehabilitation, the frequent changes of a patient's condition may require a process of ongoing evaluation and appropriate adjustments in the physical therapy program.
(19) Anthropometric and nutritional (serum albumin and transferrin) values were normal in both groups both at the beginning and at the end of the treatment period.
(20) Analysis of conjugated discharges ACHs showed that they appeared predominantly periodically (87% of cases).
Semester
Definition:
(n.) A period of six months; especially, a term in a college or uneversity which divides the year into two terms.
Example Sentences:
(1) Twenty-six female students in either their first or fourth (i.e, final) semester of the occupational therapy curriculum were assessed with the Attitudes Toward Disabled Persons Scale (ATDP) (Yukor, Block, & Younng, 1966).
(2) "We would have taken him home and made him miss a semester to get this looked at," his family told the panel's investigators.
(3) Record reviews completed at the conclusion of each semester from December 1973 to December 1976 showed a statistically significant increase in diaphragm acceptors.
(4) The sample consisted of 340 1st or 2nd semester college freshmen (58.5% males and 41.5% females) entering a required health education course at a midwestern college.
(5) Evaluation of the teaching program on caries and periodontal prophylaxis for students in the first preclinical semester in the dental school shows that after four evaluation steps with a total of 159 pro-bands the final test was answered to more than 80%, that it may be expected that about 65% of the knowledge is memorized after one and a half years, and that teaching a patient how to clean his teeth may be regarded as promising with the students having behaved correctly with regard to more than 70% of the most important criteria.
(6) "I was in the process of getting all my pre-reqs done and then I had to take off a semester.
(7) Moreover, the lower his A-Trait anxiety score at the time of admission, the greater his likelihood of earning a higher first semester GPA.
(8) Subjects were 112 freshman females enrolled in a midwestern university during their first semester.
(9) Beyond the control measures, factors that may interfere in the application of those measures were also studied, the diverse phases of field operations, the work methodology and results obtained in the first semester of 1991.
(10) The results of calorie balance studies were compared with the roper data of FS infants in I trimester and II semester of life, which were described in our previous paper.
(11) Students in these programs are required to take three to six semester hours of computer literacy classes.
(12) Ss were college freshman who were not enrolled in a foreign language course or had not previously taken more than one semester of a foreign language.
(13) Three groups were compared over grades as follows: (a) an at-risk experimental group of low-socioeconomic status (SES) students for whom teachers implemented classwide peer tutoring (CWPT) beginning with the second semester of first grade continuing through Grade 3; (b) an equivalent at-risk control group; and (c) a non-risk comparison group of students of average- to high-SES.
(14) This issue is not so clear-cut,” says Kelvin Rodrigues, a second-semester medical student at UFPel who is critical of the evaluation committee, even if he supports expelling those who commit blatant racial fraud.
(15) The prevalence of anemia in the first trimesters (3.6%) was significantly smaller than that found in the second (20.9%) and third semesters (32.1%).
(16) Rational Beliefs Inventory, and the Reasons for Living Inventory at the beginning of the semester.
(17) The median correlation coefficients between the three ACT-PEP tests and the semester grade point averages ranged from .36 to .56.
(18) The number of abnormal records was referred to the three periods of the first year of life: first and second trimester, and the second semester of the first year of life, and also to treatment.
(19) Analysis with chi square (p less than .05) compared pre-semester responses (no.
(20) The LSI was administered during the first semester of professional studies.