What's the difference between prescribed and supernumerary?

Prescribed


Definition:

  • (imp. & p. p.) of Prescribe

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Among them, the coumarins, rutins, Centella asiatica extracts, procyanoside oligomers are the most prescribed.
  • (2) However, a recrudescence in both psychotic and depressive symptoms developed as plasma desipramine levels rose 4 times higher than anticipated from the oral doses prescribed.
  • (3) Regulators concerned about physician behavior and confronted by demands of nonphysicians to prescribe controlled substances may find EDT a good solution.
  • (4) Patients were also rated with regard to their pulmonary function and clinical status, including medication prescribed.
  • (5) Whenever you are ill and a medicine is prescribed for you and you take the medicine until balance is achieved in you and then you put that medicine down.” Farrakhan does not dismiss the doctrine of the past, but believes it is no longer appropriate for the present.
  • (6) The Hindu belief system accommodates this by prescribing use in such a way that this effect becomes beneficial.
  • (7) Auranofin (AF), D-penicillamine (D-pen) and thiola are prescribed as disease-modifying drugs in the treatment of rheumatoid arthritis (RA).
  • (8) The rationale for the use of exercise as part of the treatment program in type II diabetes is much clearer and regular exercise may be prescribed as an adjunct to caloric restriction for weight reduction and as a means of improving insulin sensitivity in the obese, insulin-resistant individual.
  • (9) An analysis of drug prescribing over six months in a random sample of 146 elderly patients showed that 42% were receiving one or more medicines long term.
  • (10) Although there is no direct evidence that favorable lipoprotein changes produced by OCs are cardioprotective, the physician prescribing an OC should minimize adverse lipoprotein effects by prescribing a balanced low-dose, low-impact formulation.
  • (11) These 2 information sources were compared to obtain agreement rates between prescriber- and patient-reported OC histories.
  • (12) To prevent possible relapses, an oral maintenance regimen of amoxicillin and clavulanic acid was prescribed for a period of three months.
  • (13) In contrast, none of 16 women who had reached menopause and only two of 21 men required oral absorption of dietary or prescribed iron for the amount of blood iron donated.
  • (14) A variety of commonly prescribed drugs can produce a positive direct antiglobulin test, but the incidence of actual drug-induced hemolytic anemia is low.
  • (15) The level of prescribing of opioid painkillers – Percocet in Geni’s case – has soared, and with it the incidence of addiction, and addiction’s grim best friend: fatal overdoses.
  • (16) If you must take a suitcase, don't exceed the prescribed dimensions or weight limits.
  • (17) In addition, eight patient questionnaires were used to assess prescribing habits regarding benzodiazepines.
  • (18) Primary care physicians frequently prescribe antidepressant medications to their patients.
  • (19) The prescribing of antidepressants by general practitioners might be expected to reflect the incidence of depression in the community.
  • (20) For a long time the results were disappointing, and in a randomized study none of the therapeutic regimens prescribed could improve the patients' survival.

Supernumerary


Definition:

  • (a.) Exceeding the number stated or prescribed; as, a supernumerary officer in a regiment.
  • (a.) Exceeding a necessary, usual, or required number or quality; superfluous; as, supernumerary addresses; supernumerary expense.
  • (n.) A person or thing beyond the number stated.
  • (n.) A person or thing beyond what is necessary or usual; especially, a person employed not for regular service, but only to fill the place of another in case of need; specifically, in theaters, a person who is not a regular actor, but is employed to appear in a stage spectacle.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Based on the findings of our recent longitudinal study on the abnormalities of the dentition in cleidocranial dysplasia (CCD), a hypothesis has been proposed, which makes it possible to predict time of onset of formation of supernumerary teeth and their location in the jaws.
  • (2) In the remaining patients congenital and acquired osseous alterations, supernumerary scalene muscle, congenital fibrous bands were the etiologic factors.
  • (3) Examples include the specific pattern of hypodontia seen before the development of iris dysplasia in Rieger syndrome, and the presence of supernumerary teeth and facial osteomas preceding malignant transformation of intestinal polyps in Gardner syndrome.
  • (4) Osteopetrosis is diffuse and is associated with important metaphyseal widening as well as epiphyseal irregularities and often carpal and tarsal supernumerary bones.
  • (5) Thirty four individuals showed the standard karyotype 2K = 26M + 10A + (M)X + (A)Y + Bs (2n = 38 + Bs), where Bs are supernumerary chromosomes.
  • (6) The purpose of the present investigation was to describe the formation, maturation and eruption of the dentition, including supernumerary teeth in a sample of patients with cleidocranial dysplasia.
  • (7) Brilliantly fluorescent supernumerary chromocenters indistinguishable from the Y-chromatin have been often found electively in the thyroid nuclei.
  • (8) For differential diagnosis rudimentary supernumerary digit, cutaneous horn and granuloma pyogenicum are to be considered.
  • (9) They review the different symptoms, varietes and frequencies of supernumerary hepatic lobes.
  • (10) Supernumerary teeth were formed lingually and occlusally to the normal teeth.
  • (11) Previous studies have indicated that pregnant animals treated acutely with toxic levels of a variety of pharmacologically unrelated chemicals produced litters without a recognizable syndrome of defects, except for an increased incidence of supernumerary ribs (SNR).
  • (12) In 6 patients with proved supernumerary glands, total ischemia of the graft was not followed by significant changes in intact PTH.
  • (13) Only children who had both supernumerary teeth and congenitally missing teeth outside the area of the cleft alveolus were included.
  • (14) These are characterized by: (I) hyperdiploid karyotypes including one or more supernumerary ring chromosomes (5 cases); (II) diploid karyotypes with mostly balanced rearrangements involving 12q13-14 (13 cases), including the rearrangement t(3;12) (q27-28;q13-14) in 4 cases; (III) hypodiploid or diploid karyotypes with other aberrations than ring chromosomes or rearrangements of 12q13-14 (8 cases); and (IV) normal karyotypes (9 cases).
  • (15) Therefore, both types of voltage-dependence for sperm entry are present in oocytes, although the depolarization caused by a single sperm is not large enough to permit its entry, nor is the depolarization caused by many sperm sufficient to prevent the entry of supernumerary sperm.
  • (16) These results demonstrate that in the immature rat more than 50% of PCs are each innervated by at least two distinct CFs; later on, the disappearance of the supernumerary synapses between CF and PC leads, as early as day 15, to the one-to-one relationship between CF and PC.
  • (17) Report of a supernumerary extra chromosome der(11;22)(q23;q12) resulting from a balanced translocation in the mother.
  • (18) Recurrent hyperparathyroidism (four patients) was the major late postoperative complication, but was more frequently the result of a supernumerary or previously overlooked fourth parathyroid gland (three), than due to hyperplasia of residual parathyroid tissue (one).
  • (19) A supernumerary valvula of the pulmonary semilunar valve was found in a 51-year old, male Japanese.
  • (20) In order to directly evaluate the effects of sperm antibodies in human in vitro fertilization (IVF), the authors preincubated donor sperm in female sera containing sperm antibodies and then inseminated supernumerary human oocytes from a gamete intrafallopian transfer (GIFT) program.