(a.) A term used by Sir William Hamilton to define propositions having their quantity indicated by a verbal sign; as, all, none, etc.; -- contrasted with preindesignate, defining propositions of which the quantity is not so indicated.
Example Sentences:
(1) Seemingly, proplatelets are fragmented in the lungs at predesignated locations along the proplatelet process.
(2) 96 patients with meningitis due to Neisseria meningitidis and Diplococcus pneumoniae were treated with epicillin or ampicillin according to a predesigned randomization chart.
(3) In addition, "blind" histopathologic evaluation of four predesignate colon locations revealed a dose-related incidence of microscopic preinvasive and invasive colon carcinomas.
(4) The relapse rate after discontinuation of antiepileptic drug treatment was investigated in 146 children with epilepsy, in whom medication was withdrawn according to a predesigned protocol, after a seizure-free period of at least 2 years and normalization of the EEG.
(5) Workers in 22 funeral home franchises were surveyed with a predesigned questionnaire.
(6) Smoking habits of the medical students, both undergraduates and postgraduates, were evaluated by self-administering a predesigned proforma.
(7) Both require a major time commitment to learn and to create custom punctuation files for journals not included in the predesigned punctuation files.
(8) The order-entry pathway allows the research pharmacist to predesign medication labels that are specific to each study and include all required information.
(9) Nevertheless, epithelial cell surface-ECM interaction can be modified in the embryo at particular times to permit predesignated epithelial-mesenchymal transformations, as for example at the primitive streak.
(10) College sophomores and sixth-grade readers were asked to indicate whether or not a predesignated target letter was present in these strings.
(11) A predesigned questionnaire was administered to the mothers to obtain information on age, education, fertility parameters and antenatal care during pregnancy with the index children.
(12) What's different about this new breed of audio-visual entertainer is that what they offer are "custom-branded visuals predesigned to fit specific songs".
(13) The results are interpreted on the basis of a multiple-stage processing model which assumes interaction between stimuli at different levels at different values of t. In experiment 2 the subject's task was to detect the presence or absence of a predesignated form.
(14) At their first prenatal medical appointments, 305 lower socioeconomic status women residing in predesignated lead-hazardous areas of Cincinnati were recruited.
(15) Sequencing of the hgiCIIRM region (carrying predesigned small mutations in the R gene) disclosed three open reading frames (ORFs): one small ORF preceding the methltransferase (MTase)-encoding gene, plus those encoding M.HgiCII (49,620 Da) and R.HgiCII (30,891 Da).
(16) Microbead samples collected after B. subtilis challenge from predesignated depths and locations within the air-fluidized bed at 0.25, 1, 2, 4, 24, and 48 hours were assayed for colony-forming units (CFU) of challenge bacteria by end point dilution and streak-plate assays.
(17) Twenty control subjects were given predesigned exercise programs and told to exercise four times per week for 6 months.
(18) Twenty experimental subjects were given predesigned exercise programs but were monitored by a strength and conditioning specialist for the same period.
(19) Seven building programs were identified as projected, or in predesign or design stages.
(20) In the simultaneous task, two words were not matched as quickly as a single letter and a letter in a predesignated location within a word.
Verbal
Definition:
(a.) Expressed in words, whether spoken or written, but commonly in spoken words; hence, spoken; oral; not written; as, a verbal contract; verbal testimony.
(a.) Consisting in, or having to do with, words only; dealing with words rather than with the ideas intended to be conveyed; as, a verbal critic; a verbal change.
(a.) Having word answering to word; word for word; literal; as, a verbal translation.
(a.) Abounding with words; verbose.
(a.) Of or pertaining to a verb; as, a verbal group; derived directly from a verb; as, a verbal noun; used in forming verbs; as, a verbal prefix.
(n.) A noun derived from a verb.
Example Sentences:
(1) DI James Faulkner of Great Manchester police said: “The men and women working in the factory have told us that they were subjected to physical and verbal assaults at the hands of their employers and forced to work more than 80-hours before ending up with around £25 for their week’s work.
(2) Heart rate, blood pressure and verbal reports of emotional experience were measured.
(3) This paper reports two experiments concerned with verbal representation in the test stage of recognition memory for naturalistic sounds.
(4) In contrast, children who initially have good verbal imitation skills apparently show gains in speech following simultaneous communication training alone.
(5) A group of pregnant women received video and verbal feedback during three ultrasound examinations.
(6) Response requirements are manual rather than verbal so that, in addition to monitoring heart rate, subjects' exhaled air may be collected throughout the task in order to determine oxygen consumption.
(7) Although the greater vulnerability of the verbal intelligence of the younger radiated child and the serial order memory of the child with later tumor onset and hormone disturbances remain to be explained, and although the form of the relationship between radiation and tumor site is not fully understood, the data highlight the need to consider the cognitive consequences of pediatric brain tumors according to a set of markers that include maturational rate, hormone status, radiation history, and principal site of the tumor.
(8) During the initial 6-hour efficacy evaluation, analgesia was measured using verbal and visual scriptors and vital signs, and acute toxicity information was recorded.
(9) A vigorous progressive physical and occupational therapy program producing tangible results does more for the patient's morale than any verbal encouragement could possibly do.
(10) Verbal activity was measured by counting the number of times each patient was MA during the course of the group.
(11) We see a lot of verbal gymnastics by these candidates at public events,” said Paul S Ryan at the Campaign Legal Center.
(12) They are most commonly described as conduct disordered and hyperactive, appear heir to a variety of deficits in verbal and abstract cognition, and perform more poorly in the academic environment.
(13) The verbal coding and recognition of colours of a group of chronic schizophrenics and their normal controls were investigated.
(14) The nonverbal task was administered to the patients with PD, patients with AD and normal control subjects studied with the verbal task.
(15) Neuropsychological functioning in 90 male and female alcoholics and 65 peer controls was examined using both accuracy and time measures for four basic types of neuropsychological functioning: verbal skills, learning and memory, problem-solving and abstracting, and perceptual-motor skills.
(16) Correlations with other measures indicated strong association with tests of spatial visualization and virtually no association with tests of verbal ability.
(17) Verbal feedback training consisted of instructing the patient to squeeze the vaginal muscles around the examiner's fingers and providing her with verbal performance feedback.
(18) This paper presents a comparison between three different modes of simulation of the diagnostic process-a computer-based system, a verbal mode, and a further mode in which cards were selected from a large board.
(19) This more recent system has developed embedded wlithin the posteriorly located analytic and mnemonic cortical tissues and provides for communications between individuals within the species at symbolic, verbal levels.
(20) This correlation appeared strongest for those with high verbal IQ.