(a.) Of or pertaining to preemption; having power to preempt; preempting.
Example Sentences:
(1) Since VCI was not identified prenatally and many of its sequelae are readily identifiable only during the intrapartum period, the potential for preemptive obstetric intervention appears to be limited.
(2) The actuarial graft survival rates in the preemptive group of 83, 81, 76, 73, and 73 percent at 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5 years were not statistically different from the control group rates, namely 90, 81, 80, 77, and 76 percent.
(3) When the risk of epidemic disease is deemed to be high, preemptive vaccination may be warranted.
(4) The preemptive group included more diabetic patients: 32 versus 15 (P less than 0.01).
(5) Clearly, this legislation was a preemptive strike with the anticipation of a favorable marriage equality ruling,” Kaplan told the Guardian.
(6) Reports said South Korea had prepared a detailed plan for a preemptive strike that would reduce the North’s capital, Pyongyang, to rubble and target the country’s leader, Kim Jong-un.
(7) Documents lodged with the Australian Securities and Investment Commission (Asic) confirm several details of the Wired story, including Wright’s role with a company called Hotwire Preemptive Intelligence.
(8) Athletes in Rio test events have tried many tricks and treatments to avoid falling ill, including bleaching rowing oars, hosing off their bodies the second they finish competing, and preemptively taking antibiotics which have no effect on viruses.
(9) But, by acting preemptively, Greek leaders could have shaped the dialogue.
(10) For 20 years Bundy, the 68-year-old patriarch of a family of 14, has defied federal regulators by refusing to pay grazing fees and ignoring court orders to relocate his herd, insisting he has a "preemptive" right because his Mormon ancestors worked the land decades before the BLM was established.
(11) GMP is preventative, promotive, and preemptive; it focuses on behavioral change; it works with the child's complete environment; and it affords responsibility to the mothers.
(12) The model predicts that (a) when people know the views of the audience and are unconstrained by past commitments, they will rely on the low-effort acceptability heuristic and simply shift their views toward those of the prospective audience, (b) when people do not know the views of the audience and are unconstrained by past commitments, they will be motivated to think in relatively flexible, multidimensional ways (preemptive self-criticism), and (c) when people are accountable for positions to which they feel committed, they will devote the majority of their mental effort to justifying those positions (defensive bolstering).
(13) With a possible swine flu pandemic in the offing, the "vaccine strategy" required is critical, particularly as the medical and public health communities in the United States embark on the first systematic attempt in history to blunt preemptively the impact of a pandemic.
(14) We describe a preemptive strategy for clinicians to determine which journals to read on a regular basis.
(15) The results are arranged for the slow and fast drives, respectively, and were as follows: control initiating windows--49.5, 28.5 ms; preemptive pacing initiation windows--151, 38 ms; preexcitation pacing initiation windows--26, 23.5 ms; preconditioning pacing initiation windows--45.5, 35 ms; combined preconditioning and preexcitation pacing initiation windows--10.0, 2.5 ms.
(16) Variations in background exposure intensity may or may not lead preemptively to changes in the cell's capacity for response to radiation damage.
(17) Under the radical action, the fund will be able to intervene on the secondary markets to buy up the bonds of struggling debtor countries, to take preemptive or "precautionary" action to nip a debt crisis in the bud by, for example, agreeing lines of credit, and to supply loans to struggling eurozone countries who would use the money to shore up and recapitalise their banks.
(18) Earlier this year Pyongyang repeated a threat of preemptive nuclear strikes against the US if it believed that joint military drills by the US and South Korea were putting it at risk.
(19) The author draws together several recommendations made in the literature regarding the careful development and implementation of hospital release procedures, including 1) special consultation at the policy development stage, 2) preemptive judgments regarding the adequacy of hospital policies in relation to the professional standard of care, and 3) the use of videotaped exit interviews with patients at the time of their release.
(20) Preemptive recipients were also more likely than control group patients to be employed fulltime both before transplantation (36 vs. 22, P less than 0.05) as well as after transplantation (38 vs. 20, P less than 0.01).
Prophylaxis
Definition:
(n.) The art of preserving from, or of preventing, disease; the observance of the rules necessary for the preservation of health; preservative or preventive treatment.
Example Sentences:
(1) Early diagnosis (fever, increase of leucocytes and toxic signs in differential blood count, thrombocythemia, decrease of anorganic phosphate), prophylaxis, and treatment are discussed.
(2) Attention is drawn to the desirability of differentiating between supra- and sub-gingival calculus in the CPITN scoring system and to the excessive treatment requirements that arise from classifying everyone with calculus as requiring prophylaxis and scaling.
(3) This combination has been recommended as prophylaxis as well.
(4) This work supports the value of metronidazole but suggests that a single-dose regimen is adequate for prophylaxis.
(5) Isolates from patients who failed to clear the organism from their stools or who had cholera soon after tetracycline prophylaxis had increased minimum inhibitory concentrations of the drug.
(6) The ideal prophylaxis should compensate for the undesired effects of an operation or injury on the coagulation system, without subjecting the patient to the danger of elevated tendency to bleed.
(7) It is now known from several clinical studies that the mean pH values of gastric fluid under sucralfate prophylaxis are considerably lower than under conventional stress ulcer prophylaxis.
(8) It was concluded that combined prophylaxis with HBIG and hepatitis-B vaccine immediately after birth is the best method for prevention of HBV perinatal transmission from HBeAg positive carrier mothers to their infants.
(9) A thorough dental prophylaxis before acid-etching of enamel is often recommended.
(10) We think that carotid endarterectomy carries an even better prophylaxis for the brain as a whole than had been thought.
(11) The marginal cost effectiveness of erythromycin prophylaxis compared to no prophylaxis is $12,900 per quality-adjusted year of life saved.
(12) A vaccine, which was prepared from one of the strains isolated, was used in addition to antibiotic prophylaxis to control the enzootic disease.
(13) A complex scheme of prophylaxis of exacerbation and progression of chronic bronchopulmonary diseases in children was developed.
(14) Ventriculometry in the context of a wider diagnostico-therapeutic regime on the intensive care unit was found to be conducive to target-oriented brain pressure prophylaxis and therapy.
(15) Duration of prophylaxis: Antimicrobial agents must be present in the tissues throughout the operation.
(16) All nine injuries had antibiotic prophylaxis before and after nail removal.
(17) Prophylaxis in urological surgery is usually taken to mean antibacterial agents.
(18) A policy of selective antibiotic prophylaxis is justified and in high risk patients with in-dwelling catheters single dose prophylaxis is highly effective.
(19) The observed degree of efficacy of amoxicillin prophylaxis and of tympanostomy tube insertion must be viewed in light of the fact that study subjects proved not to have been at as high risk for acute otitis media as had been anticipated and in view of the differential attrition rates.
(20) These observations emphasize the need for retargeting prevention of caries in order to provide additional preventive treatment to the high incidence groups while the routine prophylaxis given to the other groups may be decreased.