(a.) Previously required; necessary as a preliminary to any proposed effect or end; as, prerequisite conditions of success.
(n.) Something previously required, or necessary to an end or effect proposed.
Example Sentences:
(1) Confidence is the major prerequisite for a doctor to be able to help his seriously ill patient.
(2) The high participation percentage also shows that the prerequisite of screening, namely, a positive attitude on the part of the population, was as well fulfilled in the present project.
(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) This quantitative characterization of the properties of conduction and refractoriness of both the accessory pathway and ventriculoatrial conduction system and the relation between these characteristics and the accessory pathway location in ART patients provides additional insight into the prerequisites for the initiation and maintenance of this rhythm disturbance.
(5) She has imbued me with the confidence of encouraging other girls to dream alternative futures that do not rely on FGM as a prerequisite.
(6) The prerequisite for all champions is the refusal to cave in, so City's equaliser with only three minutes remaining was pleasing.
(7) To meet these prerequisites we have introduced some technical refinements: (1) computer-controlled rectilinear translations of the target in combination with different angular positions of the source and (2) computer-controlled rotations of the target around a vertical axis in combination with different angular positions of the source.
(8) Binding of the ilvY product at the O1 and O2 operator sites is co-operative and this ilvY protein-DNA complex in the presence of acetohydroxy acid isomeroreductase substrate is a prerequisite for RNA polymerase binding to the ilvC promoter as detected by DNase I protection experiments.
(9) These results point to HPV16 as one potential prerequisite for the first steps in the multistage development of human cervical cancer.
(10) Other experiments further implicated actin in the budding process during virus maturation, as there appeared to be a specific association of actin in vitro only with nucleocapsids that have terminated RNA synthesis, which is presumably a prerequisite to budding.
(11) We conclude that retained gastric peristaltic function is not a prerequisite for a good clinical outcome for swallowing and that despite vagotomy, the stomach continues to produce enough acid to maintain an acidic pH.
(12) The failure of agents which inhibit motility to inhibit capping of the normal lymphocytes suggests that active locomotion is not a direct prerequisite for capping.
(13) Compaction of the morula is a prerequisite for subsequent differentiation of the mouse embryo.
(14) Close cooperation of ophthalmological departments with vitreoretinal centres and early performance of urgent surgery are the basic prerequisites of better functional results of PPV in EHE.
(15) Oximeformation, for which keto acid production is a prerequisite, is discussed as part of the HA-tolerance.
(16) The capacity to sublimate and to foster sublimation in children is a prerequisite for normal motherhood.
(17) In addition, otoscopic accuracy is a prerequisite to optimal patient care.
(18) Such markers are prerequisites for therapeutic trials with potent drugs which are only justified for patients with fulminant hepatitis and patients with progression to chronicity.
(19) The article reviews practical aspects of tissue fixation and embedding protocols as well as methodologic aspects of the protein A-gold technique; careful control of these interrelated factors is the prerequisite for successful application.
(20) As a prerequisite for preparing bispecific antibody conjugates containing anti-tumor and anti-metal chelate binding sites that can be used for pretargeted immunoscintigraphy, monoclonal antibodies (Mabs) have been raised against an octahedral metal chelate synthetized from gallium (Ga) and the hexadentate ligand N,N'bis[2-hydroxy 5-(ethylene beta carboxy) benzyl] ethylenediamine N,N' diacetic acid (Ga-HBED-CC).
Presuppose
Definition:
(v. t.) To suppose beforehand; to imply as antecedent; to take for granted; to assume; as, creation presupposes a creator.
Example Sentences:
(1) Such use presupposes the existence of reference values.
(2) A comparison is made between five irradiation methods, the dose distribution and volume doses of which had been ascertained by means of two phantoms presupposed differently large.
(3) Complete transfer of the LC fraction to GC is presupposed for obtaining the required sensitivity.
(4) This procedure presupposes that changes of pulmonary O2 (VO2) associated with increases of external work reflect accurately the increased muscle VO2.
(5) The concept of diagnosis-free therapeutic trials presupposes, however, that a sufficiently large number of patients are cured and that their need of investigation is permanently eliminated.
(6) This presupposes the presence of glucocorticoid receptors in the cytoplasma.
(7) Passages in the Bible attribute one and the same 'life' ('soul') to both (Book of Proverbs 12: 10) and presuppose 'salvation' or 'preservation' of the two (Psalm 36:7c).
(8) A favorable outcome of pulpotomy combined with the use of calcium hydroxide presupposes that the root pulp is healthy.
(9) Exercise and teaching of musicians presupposes in the individual the constitutive ability to freely execute the finger movements required in the playing of the instrument.
(10) These several observations may be accounted for in terms of a working hypothesis which presupposes a cation carrier complex which pumps K into and Na out of cells of normal volume.
(11) Changes in subjective sensitivity registered in the latter patients did not significantly differ from baseline values and were of opposite direction, which presupposes obligatory combination of EAP with the use of psychoactive drugs during preparation for surgery.
(12) An effective secondary preventive programme to deal with alcohol problems presupposes adequate knowledge of the population's drinking habits, the problems accompanying alcohol abuse, the manner in which the health services encounter the problem drinker, professional expertise in secondary prevention, and the methods shown by research to be effective.
(13) The conceptual organisation of the Knowledge Base presupposes that the framework is structured according to functional, semantic and tier indications, i.e.
(14) The blood supply of horseshoe kidneys is presupposed by evolution.
(15) From the extended period of observation, it can be concluded that pregnancy, birth, puerperium, and lactation do not presuppose any risk of relapse of pulmonary tuberculosis when it is adequately treated even in patients in whom an inactive postchemotherapy cavity persisted.
(16) Public health jurisprudence now presupposes that illness is primarily a matter of individual concern.
(17) In France, though, Rabelais portrayed saints as fools, and coined the phrase: “The wise may be instructed by a fool.” In his great book on Rabelais, Mikhail Bakhtin observes that: “In the eyes of Rabelais’s fool, truth presupposes freedom from personal material interests, from the unholy gift of managing family and personal affairs, but the language of this foolish truth is at the same time earthly and material.” Facebook Twitter Pinterest Illustration by Max Cabanes Modernity and postmodernity have banished this role of Fool.
(18) A quantification of the myocardial hypertrophy by means of the R-potential summation method presupposes a correction of the normal potential decrease in the cardio-electric field.
(19) However, this presupposes that patients entered into such a study are capable of improvement with dietary manipulation.
(20) Most current and past research on the cerebral organization of cognitive functions has presupposed certain specialized hemisphere operations.