(a.) Mature or ripe before the proper time; as, the premature fruits of a hotbed.
(a.) Happening, arriving, existing, or performed before the proper or usual time; adopted too soon; too early; untimely; as, a premature fall of snow; a premature birth; a premature opinion; premature decay.
(a.) Arriving or received without due authentication or evidence; as, a premature report.
Example Sentences:
(1) Perinatal mortality is strongly associated with obstetrical factors, respiratory distress syndrome, and prematurity.
(2) The dangers caused by PM10s was highlighted in the Rogers review of local authority regulatory services, published in 2007, which said poor air quality contributed to between 12,000 and 24,000 premature deaths each year.
(3) Of the 622 people interviewed, a large proportion (30.5%) believed that the first deciduous tooth should erupt between the age of 5-7 months; the next commonly mentioned time of tooth eruption was 7-9 months of age; and 50.3% of the respondents claimed to have seen a case of prematurely erupted primary teeth.
(4) We found that, compared to one- and two-dose infants, those treated with three doses of Exosurf were more premature, smaller, required a longer ventilator course, and had more frequent complications, including patent ductus arteriosus (PDA), intraventricular hemorrhage, nosocomial pneumonia, and apnea.
(5) They urged the Department of Environment, Food and Rural Affairs to make air quality a higher priority and release the latest figures on premature deaths.
(6) Conclusions on phylogenetic trends of sexual dimorphism of skeletal robusticity and the effect of culture on it seem to be premature.
(7) The acetylcarnitine content of tracheal fluid was higher in samples obtained from premature newborns.
(8) The behavior of the retrograde H deflection in respect to the first extra beat following the premature QRS complex helped in excluding bundle branch reentry.
(9) We report the case of a premature infant, small for gestational age, who experienced rostral herniation of a portion of frontal lobe through the anterior fontanel as the result of a hemorrhagic cerebellar infarction followed by a large parieto-occipital intracerebral hemorrhage.
(10) Amiodarone was able to suppress the premature ventricular beats, depress conduction and prolong refractoriness in both, the AV node and accessory pathway to prevent recurrences of atrioventricular reentry.
(11) 1) The incidence of premature rupture of the membranes (PROM), threatened premature delivery, toxemia and abruption placentae were 40.6, 36.4, 7.8 and 3.0%, respectively.
(12) Further significantly positive associations to the incidence of myocardial infarction (MI) were found for the following parameters: Systolic and diastolic blood pressure, family history of premature MI, cigarette smoking, plasma levels of triglycerides, VLDL-cholesterol and blood glucose.
(13) In 27 decerebrate cats under various experimental conditions, we studied the effects of programmed premature ventricular contractions on the impulse activity of preganglionic sympathetic fibres isolated from the third left thoracic ramus.
(14) The gonadally unresponsive patients had either pituitary tumours or premature menopause.
(15) Premature infants possessed 35-50% higher levels of retinal vitamin C than those found in mature retinas.
(16) It is suggested that the limited renal capacity to reabsorb sodium may account for the low bicarbonate threshold in premature infants.
(17) A patient with hypertensive heart disease, in whom atrial premature beats with a decrease in the amplitude and widening of his bundle potential, prolongation of the H-V interval, and right bundle branch block pattern suggested intrahisian longitudinal dissociation, is described.
(18) Findings on cranial ultrasonography strongly suggested the diagnosis of a localized infarct in four premature infants.
(19) Premature birth retarded maturation of hepatic glucuronyl transferase activity.
(20) A clearly recognizable relationship of SEH to gestational age and clinical status exists in that all SEH occur in premature infants under 2500 g birthweight (although only 56% of all premature infants have SEH) and 95% of SEH occur in infants with the respiratory distress syndrome (although only 60% of infants with the respiratory distress syndrome have SEH).
Readiness
Definition:
(n.) The state or quality of being ready; preparation; promptness; aptitude; willingness.
Example Sentences:
(1) The company, part of the John Lewis Partnership, now sources all its beef from the UK, including in its ready meals, sandwiches and fresh mince.
(2) So too his statement that "in Zulu culture you cannot leave a woman if she is ready.
(3) Are you ready to vote?” is the battle cry, and even the most superficial of glances at the statistics tells why.
(4) One of the most interesting aspects of the shadow cabinet elections, not always readily interpreted because of the bizarre process of alliances of convenience, is whether his colleagues are ready to forgive and forget his long years as Brown's representative on earth.
(5) Between the 24th and 29th day mature daughter sporocysts with fully developed cercariae ready to emerge, or already emerged, could be seen in the digestive gland of the snail.
(6) Total costs of building the three missile destroyers in Australia will amount to more than $9bn, approximately three times the cost of buying the ships ready made from Spanish company Navantia, The Australian reported on Friday .
(7) In a clear water reservoir built in ready construction after a working-period of five months quite a lot of slime could be found on the expansion joint filled with tightening compound on the base of Thiokol.
(8) "I felt so relaxed today, I wasn't bouncing off the walls ready to race.
(9) He's ready to go and, in some ways, I don't know if he would trade it."
(10) Once installed, the alliance will become an awkward, obstructionist presence, committed, in the words of the Northern League's Matteo Salvini, to "a different Europe, based on work and peoples and not in the one based on servitude to the euro and banks, ready to let us die from immigration and unemployment".
(11) Ready to be fleeced and swamped, I wandered cautiously along Laugavegur past the lovely independent shops, the clean, friendly streets and ended up in a fun hipsterish bar called the Lebowski, where they serve Tuborg and the craft burgers are named things like The Walter (I ordered The Nihilist).
(12) I've worked so hard and I need to relax and make sure I'm ready for that and I don't think I am.
(13) Anyone still imagining that it was only the defender’s recovery from injury rather than his form that was preventing him from starting (and it’s been clear for a while that’s not the case) might have noted the coach’s instructions to Gonzalez to be ready to play a few minutes when needed, either as an extra defender or even in a pinch as an extra forward.
(14) "With the full backing of British Gymnastics, the trainers who helped take Smith and Tweddle to Olympic glory are ready to turn the nation's pop stars, actors, newsreaders and chefs into heroes of the high bars and titans of the tumble track," it added.
(15) The proportion of people who say they will change their shopping habits – or claim they would buy more fresh meat, cut down on ready meals or avoid products from companies linked to the scare – has dropped from 52% at the height of the furore to 47%.
(16) Rarely has there been a potential presidential candidate so battle-hardened and ready for combat.
(17) This explains its readiness to eliminate any traces of pre-Islamic Assyria.
(18) Clinical signs and symptoms and diagnostic problems are discussed stressing the need for a well-trained team of workers of the Coronary Care Units aware of the possibility of this event and ready to cope with its therapeutical demands--both surgical and conservative--by pericardiocentesis which is a small number of patients can be life-saving.
(19) He says about 22% of his clients stay until he tells them they're ready to leave and, for those clients, the success rate is more than 95%.
(20) We identified specific food and L monocytogenes isolate characteristics--ready-to-eat foods, foods containing higher concentrations of L monocytogenes, and foods containing serotype 4b--which were associated with disease-causing strains.