(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).
Widowhood
Definition:
(n.) The state of being a widow; the time during which a woman is widow; also, rarely, the state of being a widower.
(n.) Estate settled on a widow.
Example Sentences:
(1) A model is developed to use marital history data from the U.S. Current Population Survey and mortality statistics from the federal registration system to estimate color differences in (a) the risk of widowhood among women in the working ages and (by the cumulative duration of widowhood.
(2) These results are discussed in light of changing patterns of divorce and widowhood in later life.
(3) This study seeks to clarify the effect of widowhood on ego identity and psychological functioning.
(4) This paper investigated the relationships of widowhood, sex, and labor force participation with the use of ambulatory physician services by elderly adults.
(5) Age and education, along with community integration, were better predictors of the variables studied than was widowhood.
(6) Mortality from suicides was greater than expected during the first years of widowhood.
(7) Implications for remarriage as a coping mechanism for widowhood and the relation of age to remarriage decisions are discussed.
(8) Self-reported marital separation or divorce and physical disability affecting employment were strongly associated with high depression scores, whereas the normative stresses of aging (widowhood, retirement, social isolation) were not.
(9) This study focused on the use and reporting of sampling procedures found in research on widowhood.
(10) For some women, widowhood brings the freedom to rediscover their identities, establish independent goals, and take on new challenges.
(11) The findings suggest that lower morale scores found among the widowed may be partly attributable to other factors commonly associated with this status and not due to the role of widowhood per se.
(12) Widowhood for women may be complicated by a lack of financial experience or knowledge, further diminishing well-being.
(13) One of the neglected areas in the study of the social structure of the family is that of widowhood, the last stage in the family life cycle.
(14) It was unusual for the hallucinations to have been disclosed, even to close friends or relatives.These hallucinations are considered to be normal and helpful accompaniments of widowhood.
(15) However, periods of singlehood, widowhood, and nuclear family life are perceived as extremely likely, particularly among female adolescents.
(16) Despite the presence of psychological distress in a significant minority, most bereaved individuals report good health, satisfactory work performance and good adjustment to widowhood.
(17) Overall, age and time since widowhood have the strongest and most consistent effects on remarriage rates for different widowed groups.
(18) Taken together, these results suggest that what appears on the surface to be a gender difference in vulnerability to the same life event turns out upon closer examination to occur because widowhood does not affect men and women in the same way.
(19) Analysis of reports of orphanhood and widowhood suggests moderately high levels of mortality.
(20) Ways of coping with problems during the first months of widowhood had significant long-term effects upon the widow's health.