(n.) A question proposed for solution; a matter stated for examination or proof; hence, a matter difficult of solution or settlement; a doubtful case; a question involving doubt.
(n.) Anything which is required to be done; as, in geometry, to bisect a line, to draw a perpendicular; or, in algebra, to find an unknown quantity.
Example Sentences:
(1) The evidence suggests a multifactorial etiology for this problem.
(2) Technical factors that account for increased difficulty in these patients include: problems with guide catheter impaction and ostial trauma; inability to inflate the balloon with adequate guide catheter support; and need for increased intracoronary manipulation.
(3) Tests showed the cells survive and function normally in animals and reverse movement problems caused by Parkinson's in monkeys.
(4) IgE-mediated acute systemic reactions to penicillin continue to be an important clinical problem.
(5) Recent data collected by the Games Outcomes Project and shared on the website Gamasutra backs up the view that crunch compounds these problems rather than solving them.
(6) This is a fascinating possibility for solving the skin shortage problem especially in burn cases.
(7) The results of the evaluation confirm that most problems seen by first level medical personnel in developing countries are simple, repetitive, and treatable at home or by a paramedical worker with a few safe, essential drugs, thus avoiding unnecessary visits to a doctor.
(8) Hoursoglou thinks a shortage of skilled people with a good grounding in core subjects such as maths and science is a potential problem for all manufacturers.
(9) Despite of the increasing diagnostic importance of the direct determination of the parathormone which is at first available only in special institutions in these cases methodical problems play a less important part than the still not infrequent appearing misunderstanding of the adequate basic disease.
(10) Inadequate treatment, caused by a lack of drugs and poorly trained medical attendants, is also a major problem.
(11) Other articles in the series will look at particular legal problems in the dental specialties.
(12) The problem of treatment oneside malocclusions of adult patients needs to concern of anchorange.
(13) This exploratory survey of 100 patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) was conducted (1) to learn about the types and frequencies of disability law-related problems encountered as a result of having RA, and (2) to assess the respective relationships between the number of disability law-related problems reported and the patients' sociodemographic and RA disease characteristics.
(14) Psychiatry unlike philosophy (with its problem of solipsism) recognizes the existence of other minds from the nonverbal communication between doctor and patient.
(15) The evidence suggests that by the age of 15 years many adolescents show a reliable level of competence in metacognitive understanding of decision-making, creative problem-solving, correctness of choice, and commitment to a course of action.
(16) Many problems at the macroscopic level require clarification of how an animal uses a compartment of suite of muscles and whether morphological differences reflect functional ones.
(17) Fourteen representative cases of the problem are reported.
(18) In addition to the phase diagrams reported here for these two binary mixtures, a brief theoretical discussion is given of other possible phase diagrams that may be appropriate to other lipid mixtures with particular consideration given to the problem of crystalline phases of different structures and the possible occurrence of second-order phase transitions in these mixtures.
(19) This study examines the costs of screening patients for alcohol problems.
(20) Diphenoxylate-induced hypoxia was the major problem and was associated with slow or fast respirations, hypotonia or rigidity, cardiac arrest, and in 3 cases cerebral edema and death.
Question
Definition:
(n.) The act of asking; interrogation; inquiry; as, to examine by question and answer.
(n.) Discussion; debate; hence, objection; dispute; doubt; as, the story is true beyond question; he obeyed without question.
(n.) Examination with reference to a decisive result; investigation; specifically, a judicial or official investigation; also, examination under torture.
(n.) That which is asked; inquiry; interrogatory; query.
(n.) Hence, a subject of investigation, examination, or debate; theme of inquiry; matter to be inquired into; as, a delicate or doubtful question.
(n.) Talk; conversation; speech; speech.
(n.) To ask questions; to inquire.
(n.) To argue; to converse; to dispute.
(v. t.) To inquire of by asking questions; to examine by interrogatories; as, to question a witness.
(v. t.) To doubt of; to be uncertain of; to query.
(v. t.) To raise a question about; to call in question; to make objection to.
(v. t.) To talk to; to converse with.
Example Sentences:
(1) Recently, the validity of the American Thoracic Society (ATS) standards for selection of spirometric test results has been questioned based on the finding of inverse dependence of FEV1 on effort.
(2) Theoretical findings on sterilization and disinfection measures are useless for the dental practice if their efficiency is put into question due to insufficient consideration of the special conditions of dental treatment.
(3) Collins said she asked Sullivan several questions, including who the women were.
(4) A remarkable deterioration of prognosis with increasing age rises the question whether treatment with cytotoxic drugs should be tried in patients more than 60 years old.
(5) As the requirements to store and display these images increase, the following questions become important: (a) What methods can be used to ensure that information given to the physician represents the originally acquired data?
(6) These findings raise questions regarding the efficacy of medical school curriculum in motivating career choices in primary care.
(7) We are pursuing legal action because there are still so many unanswered questions about the viability of Shenhua’s proposed koala plan and it seems at this point the plan does not guarantee the survival of the estimated 262 koalas currently living where Shenhua wants to put its mine,” said Ranclaud.
(8) The Bohr and Root effects are absent, although specific amino acid residues, considered responsible of most of these functions, are conserved in the sequence, thus posing new questions about the molecular basis of these mechanisms.
(9) The Department of Health referred questions to Monitor.
(10) However, each of the studies had numerous methodological flaws which biased their results against finding a relationship: either their outcome measures had questionable validity, their research designs were inappropriate, or the statistical analyses were poorly conceived.
(11) testosterone, fentanyl, nicotine) may ultimately be administered in this way, important questions pertaining to pharmacology (tolerance), toxicity (irritation, sensitisation) and dose sufficiency (penetration enhancement) remain.
(12) Renal arteriography is therefore alone capable of answering two primordial questions: "Must surgery be undertaken and when operating, what surgical tactics to adopt".
(13) Tap the relevant details into Google, though, and the real names soon appear before your eyes: the boss in question, stern and yet oddly quixotic, is Phyllis Westberg of Harold Ober Associates.
(14) In our opinion, a carcinologically "malignant" metastatic myxoma remains a questionable pathological entity.
(15) Gwendolen Morgan, the lawyer at Bindmans dealing with the case, said: "We have grave concerns about the decision to use this draconian power to detain our client for nine hours on Sunday – for what appear to be highly questionable motives, which we will be asking the high court to consider.
(16) There are questions with regard to the interpretation of some of the newer content scales of the MMPI-2, whereas most clinicians feel comfortably familiar, even if not entirely satisfied, with the Wiggins Content Scales of the MMPI.
(17) Patients' and therapists' discourses can be analysed from tape recordings or from their responses to open-ended questions.
(18) The question addressed by this study is whether patients with other pharyngeal pouch malformations could also have immunologic abnormalities.
(19) Movies such as Concussion , about the dissatisfactions of a bourgeois lesbian marriage, are already starting to ask these questions.
(20) What if the court of justice refuses to answer the question?