(a.) Introductory; previous; preceding the main discourse or business; prefatory; as, preliminary observations to a discourse or book; preliminary articles to a treaty; preliminary measures; preliminary examinations.
(n.) That which precedes the main discourse, work, design, or business; something introductory or preparatory; as, the preliminaries to a negotiation or duel; to take one's preliminaries the year before entering college.
Example Sentences:
(1) Results obtained from animal experiments have been confirmed by preliminary clinical investigations.
(2) Preliminary data also suggest that high-molecular-weight rearrangements of the duplicated region are present in all tissues.
(3) For consistent identification of the normal pancreas, preliminary longitudinal scanning at, or near, the mid-line and subsequent oblique scanning in the long axis are necessary prerequisites in delineating the anatomic outline of the pancreas.
(4) Preliminary rhythmic somatic stimulation has a predominantly facilitating effect on EPs appearing in response to tonal stimuli in the areas A1, S2, S1.
(5) Results of this study provide preliminary evidence that tracheal adherence and HA of B avium are closely related.
(6) These preliminary experiments suggest that oSm is similar to IGF-I in its binding characteristics and that primary cultures of skeletal muscle satellite cells possess type I and type II IGF receptors.
(7) Preliminary studies of different systems suggest several of them may have sensitivity to detect intraepithelial abnormalities in excess of 95%.
(8) This preliminary study compared the level of ego development, as measured by Loevinger's Washington University Sentence Completion Test (SCT), of 30 women with histories of childhood sexual victimization, and 30 women with no history of abuse.
(9) Our preliminary data from this study suggest that 85% trichloroacetic acid is effective treatment of human papillomavirus infection of the cervix without dysplasia.
(10) We present in this preliminary report the early results of therapy for refractory leukemia with an intensive preparative regimen for bone marrow transplantation including etoposide, cytosine arabinoside, cyclophosphamide, and fractionated total body irradiation.
(11) This preliminary study estimates the occurrence of concurrent helminth infection in Africa and Brazil to determine whether such an approach is justified epidemiologically.
(12) Preliminary hearing results of 45 cases show air-bone gap closure of 67% within 10 dB and 98% within 20 dB.
(13) Results in this preliminary study demonstrate the need to evaluate the hazard of microbial aerosols generated by sewage treatment plants similar to the one studied.
(14) These preliminary results suggest that IGIV may be more beneficial and less expensive than plasmapheresis in treatment of GBS.
(15) The preliminary one-time administration of DSIP to animals subjected to a stressor influence also increases the SP content in the hypothalamus.
(16) The resultant scales were administered to a small sample for preliminary empirical testing.
(17) A preliminary study was conducted to determine the effectiveness of therapeutic patient groups in a rehabilitation setting.
(18) To test this hypothesis 30 Wistar rats were subjected to laparotomy and colonic resection and treated with 5-Fluorouracil or Mitomycin C. The bursting strength of the abdominal scars and the colonic anastomotic bursting pressure revealed some interference in the rats treated with 5-Fluorouracil (Student's t test P less than 0.05) but none in the case of Mitomycin C. This preliminary study deserves to be followed up.
(19) A preliminary "profile" of the patient with low back pain who would likely benefit from manual therapy included acute symptom onset with less than a 1-month duration of symptoms, central or paravertebral pain distribution, no previous exposure to spinal manipulation, and no pending litigation or workers' compensation.
(20) Preliminary studies suggested that inhibition of aggregation was not attributable to inhibition of prostanoid synthesis or to raised levels of cyclic 3',5'-adenosine monophosphate.
Provisional
Definition:
(a.) Of the nature of a provision; serving as a provision for the time being; -- used of partial or temporary arrangements; as, a provisional government; a provisional treaty.
Example Sentences:
(1) Provisional restorations were fabricated for the prepared teeth using conventional direct techniques, and the intrapulpal temperature rise was recorded.
(2) This stimulation of uptake was due to a macromolecular serum component, provisionally identified with transferrin.
(3) Speaking about the player, who scored crucial goals for England during qualification for the 2014 World Cup, Hodgson said: “Andros was unlucky to lose his place in the squad when he wasn’t getting a regular game and he’s gone to Newcastle, got a regular game, and done very well there.” Expressing his delight in being selected, Townsend tweeted: “Huge honour to be named in provisional England squad for the euros ... Will give my all over next few weeks to try to make final squad!” Hodgson also declared himself pleased to include Jordan Henderson, who returned to action for Liverpool in Sunday’s 1-1 draw with West Bromwich Albion having been out since early April with damaged knee ligaments.
(4) It is a deal that the Irish government, alongside the Garda Siochana and the RUC, believe could have yielded millions of dollars for the Provisionals.
(5) Porcine strains provisionally named taxon 15 seem to constitute a separate group within the family Pasteurellaceae Pohl 1981, underlining the distinct degree of specificity members of this family show for host species.
(6) It’s a damp squib, a bit of a nothing result,” a leading energy analyst said of a report that is widely expected to endorse provisional findings released in March , and recommend price controls on prepayment meters and setting up a customer database to help rival suppliers target customers stuck on expensive default tariffs.
(7) The contents of nucleoids disperse and collapse into 2 dimensions on the water surface as discrete particles (spreads), which are provisionally equated with metaphase chromosomes.
(8) Twenty-five out of 116 reinvestigated children again showed an elevated value, as based on likewise provisional, age-dependent reference values.
(9) It results in extravasation of fibrinogen that clots to form fibrin, which serves as a provisional matrix and promotes angiogenesis and scar formation.
(10) Nadine adds: According to provisional results from the Federal Statistical Office today, the number of Greeks that immigrated jumped by 78%.
(11) To hear the former chief of staff of the Provisional IRA being depicted as a man whose job as Northern Ireland's deputy first minister is "to administer the Queen of England's writ in Ireland" is, to say the least, ironic.
(12) Alkaline phosphatase (Akp-1) was linked to the locus that encodes the C6 component of complement and this association provisionally defines a new linkage group (LG XI) in the rat.
(13) Fabrication of a provisional restoration to fit the existing clasp assembly requires special consideration.
(14) In all cases, however, the guidelines are provisional and are offered here mainly for purposes of discussion and to encourage similar efforts at policymaking by those who become involved with these forms of testing.
(15) We look forward to many more years of working with Maria.” Sharapova, who has been provisionally banned while the International tennis Federation decides her fate, has thanked her fans for their support and vowed to return to the game.
(16) The authors have gained minimum blood losses when suturing with provisional catgut ligature through the urinary bladder bottom between interureteral fold and internal urethral orifice yet before dessection of adenoma surgical capsule and tumor enucleation.
(17) It is hard to think of a better provisional epitaph than that supplied in the midst of his later troubles by Martin Palouš, one of the first signatories of Charter 77: "Havel was the man who was able to stage this miracle play.
(18) A technique has been described whereby a heat-processed provisional splint was fabricated with the factors of esthetics and long-term serviceability being of prime importance.
(19) As special devices for patients with burns still do not exist provisional solutions had to be developed.
(20) A provisional diagnosis of gastric trichobezoar was made.