(n.) The act of preconceiving; conception or opinion previously formed.
Example Sentences:
(1) Sixty-four per cent were infants of gestational diabetic (IGDM) and 36% of preconceptional diabetic mothers (IPDM).
(2) A sensitive evaluation of nutritional status in preconceptional period seems to be a positive strategy for prevention of at risk pregnancies.
(3) This would suggest the probable advantage of breast-feeding promotion based on woman-to-woman contact during preconception and antepartum periods; such a program might be particularly effective with women of lower educational levels.
(4) Thus, the preconceptional counseling is indispensable, and it should ensure that an epileptic embark upon a pregnancy with her epilepsy well controlled by a minimal dose of AEDs, and adequate answers to the questions raised by the patient should be given to prevent a poor compliance.
(5) Information about preconceptional sexual habits and contraceptive measures was obtained from 83 selected primigravid patients.
(6) Patients suffer irrational fears of damage and death because of erroneous preconceptions of radiation which doctors fail to correct.
(7) It was an isolated show of anti-World Cup sentiment at a tournament that left many European visitors ashamed of their preconceptions about crime and social disorder.
(8) Exercise therapy should be explored as an additional means to maintain normoglycemia, preconceptionally as well as throughout pregnancy.
(9) Our data suggests that subjects with any degree of glucose intolerance in pregnancy should be managed as carefully as established diabetics and preconception counselling for high risk groups may be beneficial.
(10) The infants of women with total gestational weight gain below 9 kg have the mean birth weight always lower than those of women with weight gain more than 9 kg in all three categories of preconceptional relative weight (i.e.
(11) In 1949, Saul Bellow went to a cocktail party hosted by Cyril Connolly, and found his preconceptions of literary England being undermined: “Although I don’t judge the inverted with harshness, still it is rather difficult to go to London thinking of Dickens and Hardy to say nothing of Milton and Marx and land in the midst of fairies.” Most of the people I’ve mentioned were living their lives more or less openly.
(12) The acquisition of data by this verbal process is a clinically sophisticated and difficult medical procedure and a major source of error is the bias or preconception that a clinician brings to his observations.
(13) In families with the risk of cleft lip and palate at the Clinic of Plastic Surgery in Prague a preconception and prenatal protective regime (planned conception) is ensured.
(14) Restriction of rats to 50% of preconception feed intake during the first 2 wk of gestation was associated with higher body weight of the progeny at 21 wk postpartum than was ad libitum feeding throughout gestation.
(15) Data collected preconception and from those who did not conceive within 1 yr were used for control subjects.
(16) Doing the research from the point of view of Latvia and Lithuania (our countries) has blown away my student's preconceptions of the subject.
(17) During the preconception period almost one third did not attend any medical examination.
(18) In acquiring psychoanalytic ideas, psychotherapy trainees are often hampered by preconceptions about what constitutes a psychoanalytic perspective.
(19) A matched case-control study of retinoblastoma was conducted by the Children's Cancer Study Group (CCSG) to investigate the hypotheses that postconception exposures affect the risk of the nonheritable (post-zygotic origin) form of this disease and that preconception exposures affect the risk of the sporadic heritable (prezygotic origin) form.
(20) Five IDD patients achieved strict preconception glycemic control and then underwent nine IVF-ET cycles.
Rational
Definition:
(n.) A rational being.
(a.) Relating to the reason; not physical; mental.
(a.) Having reason, or the faculty of reasoning; endowed with reason or understanding; reasoning.
(a.) Agreeable to reason; not absurd, preposterous, extravagant, foolish, fanciful, or the like; wise; judicious; as, rational conduct; a rational man.
(a.) Expressing the type, structure, relations, and reactions of a compound; graphic; -- said of formulae. See under Formula.
Example Sentences:
(1) Our data suggest that a rational use of surveillance cultures and serological tests may aid in an earlier diagnosis of FI in BMT patients.
(2) Consensual but rationally weak criteria devised to extract inferences of causality from such results confirm the generic inadequacy of epidemiology in this area, and are unable to provide definitive scientific support to the perceived mandate for public health action.
(3) We are the generation who saw the war,, who ate bread received with ration cards.
(4) The yeasts amounts used did not protect the test animals from the kidney infiltration with lipids and cholesterol; 12 g of yeasts per 100 g of the ration promoted elevation of sialic acid content in the blood plasma.
(5) Spontaneous reports of suspected adverse reactions may be the only way of revealing very rare events but they present great difficulties of rational interpretation.
(6) The rational surgical methods of treatment in 85 patients with suppurative hepatic echinococcosis penetrating into the abdomen cavity are presented.
(7) Knowledge of these lesions could form the basis for establishing a useful and rational therapy for such cases.
(8) It seams rational to proceed to an earlier total correction in these cases when well defined criteria are fullfilled, as the mortality figures of the palliative and corrective procedures have a tendency to reach each other: (3,2 versus 5,7%).
(9) --The influence of the digestibility of the energy in the ration on the energetic retention effect of BFC is small.
(10) The length of delay is determined by unconscious, non-rational processes, and other factors beyond her control.
(11) But it can be a more rational and better developed approach to long-term care based on the experience and knowledge we have gained in the past 50 years.
(12) The authors further show how test results can be used rationally by clinicians by so-called threshold analysis.
(13) The aetiology remains at present uncertain and therefore rational therapeutic strategies are difficult to plan.
(14) The origin of these substances is unknown, but these findings provide a rational basis for trials of benzodiazepine-receptor antagonists in the management of this disorder.
(15) We reviewed our experience with 245 thyroidectomies to define the spectrum of hypocalcemia, elucidate the mechanisms of hypocalcemia, and formulate a rational basis for its management.
(16) The data obtained can be useful when choosing a rational method for the therapy of gastric scretory disorders.
(17) Willie Spies, its legal representative, said: "Rationality has to return to the debate.
(18) A 35-kg Duroc pig died 3 days after eating a ration containing aflatoxin B1, B2, G1, and G2.
(19) In a Europe (including Britain) where austerity has become the economic dogma of the elite in spite of massive evidence that it is choking growth and worsening the very sickness it claims to heal, there are plenty of rational, sensible arguments for taking to the streets.
(20) The resolution of the cellular events which underlie the development of pancreatitis in combination with the introduction of new therapeutic agents may enable a rational and safe protocol to be developed for the support of patients with pancreatitis.