(a.) Preparing the way for anything by previous measures of adaptation; antecedent and adapted to what follows; introductory; preparative; as, a preparatory school; a preparatory condition.
Example Sentences:
(1) Chapter three Administration of the camps The preparatory camp is the first home and school of the mujahid in which his military and jihadi training sessions take place and he undergoes sufficient education in matters of his religion, life and jihad.
(2) Our patients were severely impaired in their school career: Although their average IQ was 112 only 6 out of 59 had completed a college-preparatory program (Abitur), all of them from middle-class families with well-educated parents.
(3) The few preparatory set cells in FEF tested with both auditory and visual stimuli tended to respond preferentially to the visual targets, whereas, in contrast, most set cells in SEF were bimodal.
(4) In order to determine the presence of dermatophytes and saprophytes in healthy toe and finger nails, 120 students (60 male and 60 female) from preparatory schools at Sohag Governorate (Upper Egypt) were studied.
(5) The rationale of this preparatory cytoreduction is discussed critically.
(6) There is great lability of the endocardial surface in response to a classic "holding solution" widely used in preparatory techniques.
(7) Repetitive dysfluencies of speech were elicited by mechanical perturbation of the thalamus in a patient, preparatory to therapeutic lesion placement for chronic pain.
(8) In the area of Tripoli, measles haemagglutination-inhibiting (HI) antibodies were found at a titre of greater than or equal to 1:10 in 97% of the adult population, and in 78%, 100% and 97.1% of schoolchildren of primary, preparatory and secondary schools respectively.
(9) The SMA contained a higher proportion of limb-dependent preparatory cells (40%) than either MC (15%) or putamen (9%).
(10) Nothing in the process of picture-making can be certain, but it would be reasonable to assume that she sees a young man aged 23 or 24 standing a few feet away with a brush in his hand (such a delicate implement compared with a knife fit for cabbage stalks) and dabbing at a piece of canvas or board which is the picture's preparatory sketch.
(11) The intrauterine source can effect pendulous displacements in linear or non-linear patterns without preparatory dilatation.
(12) It is assumed that the preparatory set for response movements is organized in an order, resulting in the differentiation of RT.
(13) Partial advance information was sufficient to trigger preparatory activities specific for the revealed dimension of the ensuing movement.
(14) Preparatory methods for CSF examination are discussed and normal and reactive conditions involving CSF, lymphoma, leukemia, meningeal carcinomatosis and the subarachnoid spread of primary brain tumors are described and illustrated.
(15) Analysis showed that the order of the preparatory sequence was correctly produced after 4 trials under all conditions.
(16) During the preparatory period (PP), either CNV was monitored from 8 scalp leads, or elbow stretch reflexes were tested at selected times using mechanical torque steps as stimuli.
(17) It did not, however, alter the preparatory increase in motoneuronal excitability.
(18) The students were examined during two consecutive periods, each consisting of one preparatory (during which active tooth cleaning measures were carefully practiced) and one main test period (during which mouth rinsings were the only plaque control measure).
(19) Sitting at a long table in a conference room at the whitewashed Nato headquarters, Sārts cannot see the logic of Russia invading Latvia in the near future, as it did Georgia and Ukraine, but he will not beat around the bush: “It is not at all impossible.” Last week the centre of excellence in Riga unveiled the results of research into what it claims is a “ preparatory information war ” in Latvia but with, it emerges, much wider repercussions.
(20) This is consistent with the psychometric findings of higher error scores in target counts and d2-test, and significantly prolonged reaction times after regular preparatory intervals (PIs) in the high-risks.
Propaedeutic
Definition:
(a.) Alt. of Propaedeutical
Example Sentences:
(1) Three personal cases of duodenal cancer treated at the Department of Propaedeutics of Surgical Diseases of the Research Institute of Surgery in Sofia for the period 1981-May 1990 are reported.
(2) Students majoring in Medicine undergo a propaedeutic written test, consisting in a number of multiple choice questions, before proceeding to the oral examination in radiology.
(3) From the very beginning the "Propaedeutic Clinic" was attached to the department, with the initial function of providing the necessary demonstration material for the lectures.
(4) Ludwig Traube (1818-1876), director of the Propaedeutic Clinic of the Charité, analysed the kidney diseases by means of simple clinical and morphological techniques.
(5) An analysis was made of the data necessary to establish a pre-university propaedeutic course in the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Panama, and its qualitative and quantitative evaluation of the results obtained.
(6) 6 cases of suprarenal phaeochromocytoma were operated on at the Department of Special Surgical Pathology and Clinical Propaedeutics of the University of Turin between 1954 and 1975.
(7) Yet, interesting propaedeutical signs suggest some kinds or ranges of glottic dysrhythmia, and allow a rough estimation of jitter and shimmer, both to be considered as fundamental physiopathological parameters.
(8) The department had altogether four directors between 1872 and 1945 (the propaedeutic clinic was dissolved in 1935 already): Philipp Knoll (1841-1900), Heinrich Ewald Hering (1866-1948), Artur Biedl (1869-1933) and Julius Rihl (1879-1961).
(9) Audio-visual and printed teaching and learning aids are used for the instruction in the subject of "propaedeutics of prosthetic stomatology".
(10) A propaedeutic lesson in forensic medicine is given for Vets.
(11) For propaedeutic evaluations of aneurysmal bone cysts 851 cases in world literature are reported.
(12) It has been of value in propaedeutic and clinical instruction.
(13) Personal experience is recorded in the surgical treatment of 12 patients with gastric polyposis at the Department of Propaedeutics of Surgical Diseases of the Research Institute of Surgery, for a period of 10 years (1981-1990).
(14) This evidence for the strong heritability of most psychological traits, sensibly construed, does not detract from the value or importance of parenting, education, and other propaedeutic interventions.
(15) Results indicate that scintiscanning of the liver is a good propaedeutic method in the evaluation of the presence and localization of traumatic hepatic lesion.
(16) From a review study of files, the authors concluded that laparoscopy is a very important propaedeutic method, specially in the oncology department, in the diagnosis of primary tumors and metastatic.
(17) The hypertensive preparation "Tendor" of the Hungarian firm "Chinoin" was applied in the treatment at the Clinic of Propaedeutics of Internal Diseases.