(n.) A previous or antecedent condition; a preliminary condition.
Example Sentences:
(1) Calves were tagged in the right ear with the green certified preconditioned for health (CPH) tag of the American Association of Bovine Practitioners.
(2) The precondition for cooperation is intensive medical advice covering the following three aspects: 1. education, 2. motivation to put the acquired knowledge into practice, 3. practicability of the advice given.
(3) 5-HD (150 micrograms.kg-1 x min-1) or vehicle was given by intracoronary infusion into the ischaemic region over 20 min, beginning 15 min prior to the 60 min occlusion period in the presence or absence of preconditioning.
(4) However, growth is considered as a precondition for estimating the effect of therapy.
(5) The increase in agglutinability was obtained if only the a cells were preconditioned and could be induced by highly purified preparations of natural or synthetically prepared alpha-factor, an oligopeptide pheromone released by the alpha cells.
(6) Speech is not only a means of communication but also the basis and precondition of abstract thinking.
(7) Five minutes of hypoxic and ischaemic preconditioning were equipotent in preventing infarction, whereas ischaemic preconditioning caused a greater decrement in postischaemic contractile function.
(8) We suggest that the establishment of parasegment borders, a consequence of eve expression and witnessed by subsequent en expression, is a necessary precondition for homeotic gene expression in the visceral mesoderm.
(9) The sole precondition is that half the flats be let for "affordable" rent (80% of market rate).
(10) Intracerebral injections of a control solution neither altered monoamine levels nor the degree of inhibition by DR preconditioning.
(11) The ability to think in terms of criminalistics and the corresponding working procedures has always been a crucial precondition for the forensic physician, since forensic medicine is the application of medical knowledge for juridical purposes.
(12) These results allow the attempt to preserve meniscus under certain preconditions by means of suture.
(13) Basic theoretical and experimental preconditions for the creation of the so-called "artificial tumour" are examined.
(14) Transferrin saturation increased during the preconditioning and started to return to normal after day +14.
(15) Invasiveness is correlated with and possibly preconditioned by cytotoxic principle(s).
(16) This study was developed to determine if UV-B modulation of BMT is useful for preconditioning recipients for the induction of tolerance to donor islets and heart allografts.
(17) Just as Labour learned (and then unlearned) that economic credibility is a precondition of electoral victory, so the Tories grasped that they must be trusted as custodians of public services.
(18) Exceptional patients require preconditioning to allow donor cell engraftment, an approach that also appears to facilitate reconstitution of humoral immune functions.
(19) Knowledge about prognostic factors for a particular type of cancer is therefore an essential precondition for the correct planning of controlled clinical trials.
(20) These results suggest that myocardial preconditioning in the canine heart is mediated by activation of KATP channels and that these channels may serve an endogenous myocardial protective role.
Presumption
Definition:
(n.) The act of presuming, or believing upon probable evidence; the act of assuming or taking for granted; belief upon incomplete proof.
(n.) Ground for presuming; evidence probable, but not conclusive; strong probability; reasonable supposition; as, the presumption is that an event has taken place.
(n.) That which is presumed or assumed; that which is supposed or believed to be real or true, on evidence that is probable but not conclusive.
(n.) The act of venturing beyond due beyond due bounds; an overstepping of the bounds of reverence, respect, or courtesy; forward, overconfident, or arrogant opinion or conduct; presumptuousness; arrogance; effrontery.
Example Sentences:
(1) Additional presumptive evidence indicated that this resistance phenomenon is not mediated extrachromosomally, but rather chromosomally.
(2) A modified rapid presumptive test to detect salmonellae in food and food ingredients was described by Hoben et al.
(3) Three discrete cell populations were thus defined, differing in mean cell diameter TdT+ 14.8- mu-, 9.5 micron; TdT+ 14.8+ mu-, 10 microns; and TdT- 14.8+ mu-, 11.5 micron, presumptively representing a sequence of cell stages preceding the expression of mu chains in large pre-B cells (TdT- 14.8+ c mu+ s mu-, 11.5 microns).
(4) The presumptive origin of this entity is briefly discussed.
(5) Patients with presumptive Alzheimer's disease (AD) and healthy community volunteers received computed tomographic (CT) brain scans and cognitive tests.
(6) It is now recognized that presumptive positive screening results have to be confirmed by an analytical procedure based on a different chemical technique with greater than or equal sensitivity to the screening test.
(7) In addition, E9 primary cultures contain a transient subpopulation of presumptive mesenchymal stem or progenitor cells that lack density dependent inhibition of growth [contact-insensitive (CS-) cells].
(8) Because the pathophysiology of many drug eruptions is unknown, the presumption that a drug eruption is due to immune mechanisms is often based on clinical features.
(9) The clinical situation presumptive of tentorial herniation included: partial (2 patients) or total (2 patients) secondary third nerve palsy, homolateral to the cerebral lesion; noncomatose state with initial Glasgow verbal score of 3 or greater; slight or no contralateral deficit.
(10) Peripheral processes of dorsomedially situated ganglion cells course dorsally toward the presumptive vibrissa field, and those of ventrolaterally situated ganglion cells project ventrally.
(11) The importance of ectopy in the genesis of cervical malignancy has been derived from the presumption that permissive cervical cells are thus created and exposed to vaginal contents which may harbor the mutagens(s).
(12) Patterns of HA distribution in anterior, posterior and presumptive soft palate were examined in the secondary palatal shelves of CD-1 mouse fetuses that were 30, 24 and 18 h prior to, and at the time of, shelf reorientation.
(13) In other experiments, presumptive GABAergic projections to MD were studied by using 3H-GABA as a retrograde tracer.
(14) The computerized tomography appearance of these meningiomas may mimic that of a glial or metastatic tumor with cystic or necrotic changes, and lead to an incorrect presumptive diagnosis.
(15) The radial component of the rate of movement toward the center of the presumptive prestalk region was calculated.
(16) The middle term attracts the most scepticism, based on the presumption that just because your field isn't professionally accredited, you do not know anything and you can't process information.
(17) In cross-plaque reduction neutralization tests with cloned viruses that represented human pathogens, rabies, Duvenhage, and Mokola, on the one hand, and the presumptive arboviruses Obodhiang and kotonkan, on the other hand, Mokola virus shared common antigenic components with both the nonarboviruses and the arboviruses.
(18) The procedures described are rapid and simple and provide a direct presumptive identification of the gram-negative rods most commonly found in blood cultures.
(19) The first aggregations of presumptive ganglionic cells were observed in 12 day-old embryos.
(20) Utilization of additional cap sites mapping further upstream was also observed in certain cells, most notably thymocytes, and this gave rise to RNA species (4.3-5.6 kb) larger than the presumptive mRNA.