(a.) Relating to the reason; not physical; mental.
(a.) Having reason, or the faculty of reasoning; endowed with reason or understanding; reasoning.
(a.) Agreeable to reason; not absurd, preposterous, extravagant, foolish, fanciful, or the like; wise; judicious; as, rational conduct; a rational man.
(a.) Expressing the type, structure, relations, and reactions of a compound; graphic; -- said of formulae. See under Formula.
Example Sentences:
(1) Our data suggest that a rational use of surveillance cultures and serological tests may aid in an earlier diagnosis of FI in BMT patients.
(2) Consensual but rationally weak criteria devised to extract inferences of causality from such results confirm the generic inadequacy of epidemiology in this area, and are unable to provide definitive scientific support to the perceived mandate for public health action.
(3) We are the generation who saw the war,, who ate bread received with ration cards.
(4) The yeasts amounts used did not protect the test animals from the kidney infiltration with lipids and cholesterol; 12 g of yeasts per 100 g of the ration promoted elevation of sialic acid content in the blood plasma.
(5) Spontaneous reports of suspected adverse reactions may be the only way of revealing very rare events but they present great difficulties of rational interpretation.
(6) The rational surgical methods of treatment in 85 patients with suppurative hepatic echinococcosis penetrating into the abdomen cavity are presented.
(7) Knowledge of these lesions could form the basis for establishing a useful and rational therapy for such cases.
(8) It seams rational to proceed to an earlier total correction in these cases when well defined criteria are fullfilled, as the mortality figures of the palliative and corrective procedures have a tendency to reach each other: (3,2 versus 5,7%).
(9) --The influence of the digestibility of the energy in the ration on the energetic retention effect of BFC is small.
(10) The length of delay is determined by unconscious, non-rational processes, and other factors beyond her control.
(11) But it can be a more rational and better developed approach to long-term care based on the experience and knowledge we have gained in the past 50 years.
(12) The authors further show how test results can be used rationally by clinicians by so-called threshold analysis.
(13) The aetiology remains at present uncertain and therefore rational therapeutic strategies are difficult to plan.
(14) The origin of these substances is unknown, but these findings provide a rational basis for trials of benzodiazepine-receptor antagonists in the management of this disorder.
(15) We reviewed our experience with 245 thyroidectomies to define the spectrum of hypocalcemia, elucidate the mechanisms of hypocalcemia, and formulate a rational basis for its management.
(16) The data obtained can be useful when choosing a rational method for the therapy of gastric scretory disorders.
(17) Willie Spies, its legal representative, said: "Rationality has to return to the debate.
(18) A 35-kg Duroc pig died 3 days after eating a ration containing aflatoxin B1, B2, G1, and G2.
(19) In a Europe (including Britain) where austerity has become the economic dogma of the elite in spite of massive evidence that it is choking growth and worsening the very sickness it claims to heal, there are plenty of rational, sensible arguments for taking to the streets.
(20) The resolution of the cellular events which underlie the development of pancreatitis in combination with the introduction of new therapeutic agents may enable a rational and safe protocol to be developed for the support of patients with pancreatitis.
Sanity
Definition:
(n.) The condition or quality of being sane; soundness of health of body or mind, especially of the mind; saneness.
Example Sentences:
(1) What the film does, though, is use these incidents to build an idiosyncratic but insightful picture of Lawrence, played indelibly by Peter O'Toole in his debut role: a complicated, egomaniacal and physically masochistic man, at once god-like and all too flawed, with a tenuous grip both on reality and on sanity.
(2) As a result, gaslighting is now used to describe a particular type of mental abuse that makes the victim doubt her – and it is often a her – own sanity, memory and perception.
(3) But the character – compounded of piercing sanity and existential despair, infinite hesitation and impulsive action, self-laceration and observant irony – is so multi-faceted, it is bound to coincide at some point with an actor’s particular gifts.
(4) That has been echoed by the Rally for Sanity's cheerleaders in the media.
(5) We have been in touch for several months now and, right from the start, he has always made it clear he had to do this for his own sanity.
(6) It was concluded that psychiatric cases can commit any form of crime and that where the sanity of a criminal, whatever the type, is doubted, he should be referred for psychiatric evaluation.
(7) They raised the issue of Holmes's sanity , a matter that could be key to avoiding the death penalty.
(8) Tensions have erupted in recent days, after Kentucky senator Rand Paul attributed Trump’s surprise lead in recent opinion polls to a “ temporary loss of sanity ” among Republican primary voters and former Texas governor Rick Perry claimed his impact on the race represented a “ cancer ” on conservatism.
(9) Perhaps this is the best one can hope for, that the voices of sanity prevail.
(10) Monroe, who is also a campaigner on health and poverty issues, said she was taking the decision “for my own sanity and also the safety of my seven-year-old son”.
(11) My colleagues and I do what we can to maintain safety, sanity and self-esteem in an academic environment that is still dominated by old boys’ networks, and we hope that things will improve as more women become established and take on senior roles.
(12) "There are times," Cohn wrote, "when this underworld emerges from the depths and suddenly fascinates, captures and dominates multitudes of usually sane and responsible people who thereupon take leave of sanity and responsibility.
(13) In its leader the Mail calls for a privacy law "fit for the 21st century" and one which will "restore freedom of the press and sanity to the law" .
(14) A factory worker of wobbly sanity (Ryan Reynolds) is implicated in the accidental death of a co-worker.
(15) For my sanity, I felt my only option was also to go "on the run".
(16) Simple but clean and well organised, the 400-bed hospital is a haven of sanity in a sick environment.
(17) The magazine's editorial director, Henry Finder, says drily that Remnick 'has something very scarce in this city: an aura of sanity.
(18) William Langewiesche’s 2014 essay on the crash is one of the best things ever written about automation, and serves as a sanity check of the idea that drivers of autonomous road vehicles could simply intervene in the event of a crash.
(19) Often, when people are creating something new, they end up straddling between sanity and insanity,” said Stefansson.
(20) Many of us are still active on climate, fracking, nuclear and social justice, and all of us know that the battle for sanity hasn’t been won yet.” This article was amended on 26 January 2016 to correct Green party candidate Pippa Pemberton’s election details.