(a.) Having determinate limitations; exactly or sharply defined or stated; definite; exact; nice; not vague or equivocal; as, precise rules of morality.
(a.) Strictly adhering or conforming to rule; very nice or exact; punctilious in conduct or ceremony; formal; ceremonious.
Example Sentences:
(1) A progressively more precise approach to identifying affected individuals involves measuring body weight and height, then energy intake (or expenditure) and finally the basal metabolic rate (BMR).
(2) They more precisely delineate the hazard identification process and the factors important in supporting risk decisions for developmental toxicants than does any other document.
(3) The determination of basic levels of TSH is more sensitive and more precise.
(4) The greatest advantages of spinal QCT for noninvasive bone mineral measurement lie in the high precision of the technique, the high sensitivity of the vertebral trabecular measurement site, and the potential for widespread application.
(5) It now seems clear that greater precision can be achieved through modification of the original technique.
(6) Validation studies, to show that the method is precise, accurate and rectilinear, have been carried out on four linctus formulations and two pastille formulations.
(7) Precise excision of the masses was thus accomplished and functional and aesthetic reconstruction aided by the conservation of normal anatomical structures.
(8) Compared to the SRK II-equation the results of the new programme are much more precise.
(9) However, while the precise nature of the city’s dietary problems is hard to pin down, the picture regarding physical activity is much clearer.
(10) Labelling of the albumin with 99mTc ensured an accuracy of measurements only limited by the precision of the weighing.
(11) This noninvasive but precise imaging modality demonstrates the potential value of using MRI to evaluate the diameter of small vessels, including the postoperative monitoring of arterial bypass graft patency in peripheral regions.
(12) These results strongly suggest that urinary GAGs determination is a precise method for ovulation detection.
(13) While the precise function of the MIRP is not known, the availability of this protein in pure and biologically relevant quantities will allow further studies to elucidate its pathobiologic function.
(14) This procedure yields excellent precision and accuracy, as demonstrated by the analysis of a known amino acid mixture and of neonatal plasma.
(15) This gene was previously shown to have a DNase I- and S1-sensitive site for which the boundaries varied with the cell cycle, and we have now precisely mapped these modifications.
(16) The Radio-PAGE and immunoblot typing methods both gave precise identification of Helicobacter pylori strains, but Radio-PAGE was found to give higher resolution and represents a standardised universally applicable fingerprinting method for Helicobacter pylori.
(17) Strict precautions are necessary to prevent the catastrophic events resulting from inadvertent gentamicin injection; such precautions should include precise labeling of all injectable solutions on the surgical field, waiting to draw up injectable antibiotics until the time they are needed, and drawing up injectable antibiotics under direct physician observation.
(18) The great clinical value of the procedure is shown by the following findings:X-ray-negative lesions--including 2 cases of carcinoma--were found in 35 percent of the cases, radiologically demonstrated lesions could be defined more precisely in 18 percent, and the presence of colonic lesions could be ruled out in 11 percent in spite of equivocal X-ray findings.
(19) The precision of measurement using the cancellation technique was found to be high.
(20) The precision obtained with the different methods is similar.
Topography
Definition:
(n.) The description of a particular place, town, manor, parish, or tract of land; especially, the exact and scientific delineation and description in minute detail of any place or region.
Example Sentences:
(1) The data for the eubacterial ribosomes are in full agreement with the model of the 50S protein topography derived from immunological data.
(2) VS had a crude topography, and receptive fields of neurons in VS were relatively large.
(3) Among the epileptic patients investigated by the stereotactic E. E. G. (Talairach) whose electrodes were introduced at or around the auditory cortex (Area 41, 42), the topography of the auditory responses by the electrical bipolar stimulation and that of the auditory evoked potential by the bilateral click sound stimulation were studied in relation to the ac--pc line (Talairach).
(4) These topographies enabled us to observe serial changes in epileptic discharge dynamically by 1 msec.
(5) The topography of the expression on the trophectoderm is striking and novel.
(6) Nevertheless, a wide clinical spectrum was found varying from pictures correlating with the topography and extent of the MRI-detected anomaly to conditions indicating wider cerebral involvement.
(7) Twenty monoclonal antibodies (MAb) against human growth hormone (hGH) were used to establish the antigenic topography of this protein.
(8) To investigate the topography of the clear zone, we performed four- and eight-incision radial keratotomy in eight cadaver eyes.
(9) We have mapped cochlear nerve terminations in the cochlear nucleus with DiI and, using three-dimensional reconstructions, have demonstrated the topography and geometry of the cochlear input.
(10) The classification, when considered together with improved angiographic technique and microsurgery, allows exact preoperative and peroperative definition of topography which in turn enables the avoidance of injury to functionally important typical and atypical central branches of the posterior cerebral artery.
(11) This study showed that digital computerised tomography indicates the extent and topography of the necrosis and provides true histo-radiological sections.
(12) Fibreoptic bronchoscopy enabled the topography to be established more precisely including the degree of compression (in 14 cases) and showed evidence of associated tracheomalacia in 7 cases.
(13) Comparison of the predicted amino acid sequences from HKB3 and MEB3 reveals a high degree of sequence homology (71%) and conservation of the overall topography of the transmembrane domain.
(14) The proximal topography of the left common carotid artery ostium is a useful sign in the diagnosis of this kind of abnormality.
(15) At the same time the data are obtained on variations in topography of the chorda tympani at various form of the intratemporal fossa.
(16) Afferents to the nucleus accumbens have been studied with the retrograde transport of unconjugated wheatgerm agglutinin as detected by immunohistochemistry using the peroxidase-antiperoxidase method, in order to define precisely afferent topography from the cortex, thalamus, midbrain and amygdala.
(17) The topographies of key-pressing and magazine behavior differed; the food tray was not illuminated.
(18) The particularities of the topography and the histological structure of the wall are presented and the diagnostical delimination compared with cysts of other pathogenesis are discussed.
(19) Our computer-based corneal topography analysis system was used to study the keratoscope photographs (keratograms) from two patients with classic pellucid marginal degeneration and a third patient with no inferior corneal thinning, whose keratoscope mire pattern was suggestive of the condition.
(20) These differ in RNA contents, in the distribution pattern of RNA in the cytoplasm, in the intensity of the Feulgen reaction and the topography of DNA in the nucleus, and in the contents and distribution of both the nucleic acids in the kinetoplast.