(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.
Recondition
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) A pony-tailed local businessman, Hall rose to prominence during the referendum campaign when he used a reconditioned Green Goddess fire engine to distribute pro-independence literature.
(2) Relative to conditioning and reconditioning, extinction effected larger IRTs and smaller GSP amplitudes.
(3) In addition, cardiopulmonary reconditioning exercises are initiated to increase overall activity tolerance.
(4) She was treated successfully with a 600 k.cal diet and a 26-day physical reconditioning programme.
(5) The goal is to create an environment in which returning workers can rebuild psychological self-confidence and physical reconditioning by replicating their work routine.
(6) One of the pitfalls of describing Fry is the tendency to veer towards language that is recondite.
(7) It was demonstrated that the use of an FSOT column gives only a small decrease in the detection limit compared with a packed column; reconditioning of the FSOT column is, however, a disadvantage in routine measurements.
(8) During reconditioning, in the case of the sexually already mature pups, the weakest performance was observed in the offspring of mothers having received oral alcohol treatment.
(9) In 1961, based on results obtained with the particulate tracer ferritin, Farquhar, Wissig and Palade [15] proposed a functional model for the glomerulus and defined a role for each of its components in the filtration process: a) the basement membrane as the main filter; b) the endothelium as a valve, which by the number and size of its fenestrae, controls access to the filter; c) the epithelium as a monitor which partially recovers proteins that leak through the filter; and d) the mesangium which serves to recondition and unclog the filter by incorporating and disposing of filtration residues which accumulate against it.
(10) Summer and winter recondition camps are organized for children aged 6 to 17 years.
(11) A combination of aversive therapy and orgasmic reconditioning failed to produce the expected changes in sexual activities and arousal patterns.
(12) The capability for de- and reconditioning is a characteristic and unique property of precipitation membranes, not found in other membrane systems.
(13) Along with physical reconditioning, the cardiac rehabilitation program provides an opportunity to address risk factor modification, return to work, return to sexual activity, management of depression and anxiety, and the presence of risk factors in the patient's family.
(14) Early detection and treatment of possible complications and institution of a comprehensive plan for rehabilitation and reconditioning can improve the chances for a successful outcome.
(15) Low intensity exercise is effective in cardiac reconditioning and should be favored at least during the initial stages of a training regimen in view of the decreased orthopedic problems, added safety, high adherence level and tolerable working rate.
(16) This has been due both to the availability of automated reconditioning machines and powerful chemical cleaning and disinfecting agents.
(17) However, only eight subjects completed eight weeks of reconditioning.
(18) This includes physical therapy with breathing retraining, clapping and postural drainage, and exercise reconditioning, occupational therapy with attention to energy conservation in activities of daily living, psychological considerations, and vocational rehabilitation.
(19) Physical therapy with postural drainage, exercise reconditioning, and occupational therapy deserve attention.
(20) The motives of reproduction in women--the reasons why they want to have children--are experienced on three different levels: (1) as an elementary and universal human event which, however, event on casual observation betrays its recondite and complex motivation.