What's the difference between quarterly and trimester?

Quarterly


Definition:

  • (a.) Containing, or consisting of, a fourth part; as, quarterly seasons.
  • (a.) Recurring during, or at the end of, each quarter; as, quarterly payments of rent; a quarterly meeting.
  • (n.) A periodical work published once a quarter, or four times in a year.
  • (adv.) By quarters; once in a quarter of a year; as, the returns are made quarterly.
  • (adv.) In quarters, or quarterings; as, to bear arms quarterly; in four or more parts; -- said of a shield thus divided by lines drawn through it at right angles.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Charge data from the target hospital showed a statistically significant reduction in laboratory charges per patient in the quarter following program initiation (P = 0.02) and no evidence for change in a group of five comparison hospitals.
  • (2) At its vanguard is the historic quarter of Barriera di Milano, which is being transformed by an influx of artists and galleries.
  • (3) Profit for the second quarter was £27.8m before tax but the club’s astronomical debt under the Glazers’ ownership stands at £322.1m, a 6.2% decrease on the 2014 level of £343.4m.
  • (4) The court heard that Hall confronted one girl in the staff quarters of a hotel within minutes of her being chosen to appear as a cheerleader on his BBC show It's a Knockout.
  • (5) All 80 adult cardiac surgery patients undergoing a cardiac operation at one institution during the final quarter of 1983 were included in this prospective study.
  • (6) The pressure is ramping up on Asda boss Andy Clarke, who next week will reveal the chain’s sales performance for the quarter covering Christmas.
  • (7) October 27, 2013 7.27pm GMT Around the league And here’s how things look elsewhere, as we head into the fourth quarter: Cowboys 13-7 Lions Browns 17-20 Chiefs Dolphins 17-20 Patriots Bills 10-28 Saints Giants 15-0 Eagles 49ers 35-10 Jaguars 7.25pm GMT End of 3rd quarter: 49ers 35-10 Jaguars The quarter ends with the Jaguars facing a third-and-one at their own 32.
  • (8) But we sent out reconnoitres in the morning; we send out a team in advance and they get halfway down the road, maybe a quarter of the way down the road, sometimes three-quarters of the way down the road – we tried this three days in a row – and then the shelling starts and while I can’t point the finger at who starts the shelling, we get the absolute assurances from the Ukraine government that it’s not them.” Flags on all Australian government buildings will be flown at half-mast on Thursday, and an interdenominational memorial service will be held at St Patrick’s cathedral in Melbourne from 10.30am.
  • (9) In 1987, The Milbank Quarterly published two special supplements on the health status of blacks in the United States.
  • (10) Among non-Hispanic whites in the 1980s, Catholic total fertility rates (TFRs) were about one-quarter of a child lower than Protestant rates (1.64 vs. 1.91).
  • (11) The exercise comes at a sensitive time for Poland’s military, following the sacking or forced retirement of a quarter of the country’s generals since the nationalist Law and Justice government came to power in October last year.
  • (12) But infrastructure fell for the third consecutive quarter, decreasing by 5.6%.
  • (13) In this work, 139 intra-cranial aneurysms diagnosed at the Egas Moniz Hospital were studied, from 1980 to the first quarter of 1992.
  • (14) Head chef Christopher Gould (a UK Masterchef quarter-finalist) puts his own stamp on traditional Spanish fare with the likes of mushroom-and-truffle croquettes and suckling Málaga goat with couscous.
  • (15) "Statistics released today show that three-quarters of people who apply for employment and support allowance are continuing to be found either fit for work or stop their claim before completing their medical assessment," said the Department for Work and Pensions.
  • (16) Officials at the ONS said it was hard to assess the full impact of June's additional public holiday on GDP in the second quarter, but officials expect a bounce back from the loss of production in the third quarter, when the London Olympics should also provide a boost to activity.
  • (17) -- Three quarters of all cases had been irradiated before.
  • (18) Standing as he explains the book's take-home point, Miliband recalls the author Michael Lewis's research showing that a quarter-back is the most highly paid player, but because they throw with their right arm they can often be floored by an attacker from their blindside.
  • (19) The availability of loans for small businesses, however, only increased slightly in the fourth quarter of last year and banks noted a decline in demand from these quarters.
  • (20) Healthy, midlactation cows were given intramammary infusions of 10 micrograms of endotoxin in two homolateral quarters.

Trimester


Definition:

  • (n.) A term or period of three months.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) However, when first trimester specimens were analyzed, the direct-product measurements were significantly larger than the corresponding 3H2O assay results.
  • (2) Little difference exists between the proportion of programs that offer training in first-trimester techniques and the proportion that train in second-trimester techniques.
  • (3) There were 4 spontaneous first trimester abortions and 21 live-born neonates without major problems related to the treatment or to the maternal disease.
  • (4) In an effort to understand the regulation of the onset of testosterone formation in the human fetal testis we measured adenylate cyclase activity in response to hCG stimulation in homogenates of fetal testes obtained from first and second trimester human abortuses.
  • (5) A case of mixed congenital abnormalities in a fetus demonstrated ultrasonographically during the second trimester of pregnancy in an uncontrolled insulin-dependent diabetic mother is presented.
  • (6) There were two spontaneous abortions, both in the first trimester, which occurred two weeks after the overdose which may be related to the paracetamol.
  • (7) The following examinations could be proposed: in high risk cases determined before pregnancy, a chorionic villus sampling should be done between the 9th and 11th weeks of gestation; in low risk cases such as advanced maternal age, a first trimester chorionic villus sampling or a second trimester amniocentesis could be chosen; in the case of Down's syndrome, warning signs, for example ultrasonographic or biological parameters, a second trimester placental biopsy to relieve the parents' anxiety; in high risk cases such as ultrasonographic malformations, late placental biopsy or cordocentesis.
  • (8) Sixteen pregnant patients with pelvic masses detected with ultrasound (US) were studied with magnetic resonance (MR) imaging at 0.35 T. Two patients were in their first trimester, eight in the second, and six in the last.
  • (9) The results of natural PGs and their analogues by systemic and intrauterine administration for the purposes of postcoital contraception, menstrual regulation, first and second trimester abortion, preoperative dilatation of the cervix, and delivery of patients with death in utero are presented.
  • (10) Amniotic fluid was retrieved by amniocentesis from 148 women: patients at term with and without labor, patients with preterm labor with and without intraamniotic infection, and women in the second trimester of pregnancy.
  • (11) It is suggested that arginine vasopressin secretion increases to assist natriuresis following dietary sodium loading in the second trimester of human pregnancy.
  • (12) Intraamniotic instillation of prostaglandin F2 alpha (PGF2 alpha) is considered by many to be safer than instillation of hypertonic saline for second-trimester abortion.
  • (13) A particularly marked decrease was found in those cases in which spontaneous mid-trimester abortion occurred.
  • (14) I report a patient with placental chorioangioma producing third trimester polyhydramnios.
  • (15) The usefulness of ultrasonography in detecting fetuses with Down syndrome in the second trimester has been the subject of considerable debate during the past 3 years.
  • (16) In the late 3rd trimester plasma levels of CRH (P less than 0.001), ACTH (P less than 0.02), beta-endorphin (P less than 0.05), cortisol (P less than 0.025), as well as GHRH (P less than 0.002) and human placental lactogen (hPL) (P less than 0.001) were increased in comparison to early 3rd trimester, whereas 3 days after delivery CRH and GHRH became undetectable and those of ACTH and cortisol decreased significantly.
  • (17) Early pregnancy had little effect on leucocyte ascorbic acid concentrations but values decreased in the second trimester.
  • (18) Plasma concentrations of thyroxine (T4) and thyroxine-binding globulin (TBG) as well as triiodothyronine uptake (T3U) were measured in 32 proteinuric pre-eclamptic patients and 24 normotensive pregnant women at similar gestations in the third trimester.
  • (19) EPI levels in the third trimester of pregnancy were slightly higher than in nonpregnant women.
  • (20) The results indicated significant negative correlations between maternal plasma zinc and albumin-bound zinc concentrations and plasma copper concentration in the third trimester of pregnancy and mid-arm circumference and ponderal index.

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