(a.) Preceding as a precursor or harbinger; indicating something to follow; as, precursory symptoms of a fever.
(n.) An introduction.
Example Sentences:
(1) The results of these two parameters showed that Chinese medicinal herbs with Jian Pi Li Qi action are effective in inhibiting the precursory lesions of liver cancer in rats.
(2) Thus, at least from the viewpoint of cell junctions, it is suggested that the main precursory cells of the luteal cells are the theca interna cells, although there is a general agreement that the luteal cells are derived from the granulosa cells.
(3) The application of Alcian Blue staining techniques and enzymatic degradations permitted to reveal in both species that in earlier stages of cerebellar development hyaluronic acid is present throughout neuropile of entire cerebellum but it accumulated preferentially at the medullary region and around precursory Purkinje cells where it showed a mucoid-like appearance.
(4) Some problems of the modern tissue preservation, the collagen synthesis occurring in the active fibroblasts, the secretion of the collagen precursory substance into the extracellulary space, as well as the formation, the structure and the constitution of the newly synthesized collagen fibres--forming the transplant--are discussed by the authors.
(5) SI is a syndrome which includes all clinical manifestations with imminent potential of transformation into shock condition, and represents the stage precursory to the setting up of shock.
(6) Precursory albumen forms in the tubular glands of the oviduct.
(7) (4) It was considered that the electron-dense materials were the main toxic or precursory substances in the Euproctis spicules.
(8) Linoleic acid (LA) is an essential component of cellular membranes and plays, therefore, an important role in cells; moreover, it plays a functional part on account of its precursory position of eicosanoids.
(9) This particular change has been attributed to the formation of an activated complex that is immediately precursory to phosphorylation and indicates here that this complex cannot be properly formed until the metal has been chelated by the enzyme.
(10) We speculate that these changes are precursory to the pathogenesis of glomerular sclerosis in patients with sickle cell disease.
(11) These results may still favor TEE as a semi-invasive diagnostic procedure after a precursory screening transthoracic echogram in suspected aortic dissection, but they establish MRI as an excellent method to avoid false-positive findings.
(12) Lentigo malignant melanoma (LMM) is a precursory lesion.
(13) Before the appearance of the morphological primordium of the nervous system, its precursory cells carry the necessary information to put in action the basic characteristics of cell differentiation and structural organization, even isolated from the influence of mesoblastic cells.
(14) The overlap in patterns is presumptive evidence that the angioimmunoblastic pattern at times may be a precursory expression of the stem cell lymphoma.
(15) In contrast to a precursory screening transthoracic echogram, the sensitivities of both MRI and TEE were 100% for detecting a dissection of the thoracic aorta irrespective of its location.
(16) In the latter instance, the disease may be localized or, most often, be a precursory lesion to regional or systemic disease.
(17) This study's objectives were to determine the influence of age and occupational factors on cardiovascular disease (CVD) incidence among U.S. Navy pilots diagnosed with CVD during a 12.5-year time period (n = 150) and to identify precursory diseases associated with CVD.
(18) These intestinal metabolites may represent precursory stages in the overall metabolism of crufomate.
(19) It is also suggested that the conformational effect extends to a significant distance from the nucleotide binding site and may be a precursory step to Ca2+ translocation.
(20) In one group of three cases, multifocal glioblastomas appeared to be emerging in the background of a better differentiated, and presumably precursory, astrocytic neoplasm.
Premonitory
Definition:
(a.) Giving previous warning or notice; as, premonitory symptoms of disease.
Example Sentences:
(1) Clinical features of premonitory warning signs were compared with symptoms of 78 patients without a history of minor leak and clinical grade 1 (according to the criteria of Hunt & Hess) at admission.
(2) Report on a case in which a protracted foreign body in the esophagus (chicken bone) had perforated the wall in the cervical area and had led to premonitory bleeding and finally to massive hemorrhage.
(3) There was no premonitory clinical history of cerebrovascular attacks.
(4) A premonitory transient hemoptysis occurred in 4 of the 8 patients.
(5) However, a review of the prenatal histories of 33 infants showed that only a minority had premonitory features such as prolonged rupture of membranes, prolonged labour or maternal fever.
(6) The early appearance in the postoperative period, of fluid retention, azotemia, oliguria, inability to eat, and the early appearance of the symptoms of portal encephalopathy were premonitory of short-term survival.
(7) However, the period of premonitory symptoms preceding FCA was at a 5% level significantly shorter than in AMI, provided that the unstable angina was the first symptom of IHD.
(8) In 5 out of 10 dogs verapamil (5 to 10 mg) delivered into the septal artery caused an abrupt onset of ventricular fibrillation without premonitory dysrhythmias.
(9) The duration of the pre-clinical and clinical phases together ranged from 5.5 to greater than 55 h. The duration of the clinical phase alone ranged from 1.25 to greater than 24 h, except for a minority of mice in which death occurred suddenly from apparent heart failure with no premonitory signs 4.75-31 h after dosing.
(10) Primary ventricular fibrillation especially occurs during the first hours after acute myocardial infarction and is often not preceded by premonitory ventricular premature beats.
(11) Of these 22, 13 (57%) found the premonitory urges more bothersome than the tics themselves, and 12 (55%) thought the premonitory urges enhanced their ability to suppress tics.
(12) Disinhibition-complex behaviors the subject knows are dangerous or inappropriate but feels incapable of refraining from--was found in 10 (36%) of the 28 subjects and occurred only in subjects experiencing premonitory urges.
(13) There were premonitory symptoms suggesting cerebral ischemia.
(14) A "premonitory hematemesis" of bright red blood had occurred eight hours before admission.
(15) Oral candidiasis is one of the earliest premonitory signs of HIV infection and may present as erythematous, pseudomembranous, hyperplastic, or papillary variants, or as angular cheilitis.
(16) In many cases, jaundice was the premonitory symptom of pancreatic cancer.
(17) Seventy-one percent of the runners with coronary artery disease had premonitory symptoms, and most ignored such symptoms and continued to train or race.
(18) Ventricular bigeminy is a premonitory sign of TP in patients using class 1A antiarrhythmic drugs.
(19) Splenectomized patients must be informed of the possibility of a serious, potentially fatal infection and its premonitory symptoms.
(20) It is therefore suggested that the premonitory and precipitating features are more specific in the diagnosis of convulsive syncope.