(v. t.) To make rational; also, to convert to rationalism.
(v. t.) To interpret in the manner of a rationalist.
(v. t.) To form a rational conception of.
(v. t.) To render rational; to free from radical signs or quantities.
(v. i.) To use, and rely on, reason in forming a theory, belief, etc., especially in matters of religion: to accord with the principles of rationalism.
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.
Scientific
Definition:
(a.) Of or pertaining to science; used in science; as, scientific principles; scientific apparatus; scientific observations.
(a.) Agreeing with, or depending on, the rules or principles of science; as, a scientific classification; a scientific arrangement of fossils.
(a.) Having a knowledge of science, or of a science; evincing science or systematic knowledge; as, a scientific chemist; a scientific reasoner; a scientific argument.
Example Sentences:
(1) 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.
(2) Such a science puts men in a couple of scientific laws and suppresses the moment of active doing (accepting or refusing) as a sufficient preassumption of reality.
(3) Only an extensive knowledge of the various mechanisms and pharmacologic agents that can be used to prevent or treat these adverse reactions will allow the physician to approach the problem scientifically and come to a reasonable solution for the patient.
(4) Read more After Monday’s launch at 7.30am (11.30pm GMT), the taikonauts will dock with the Tiangong 2 space laboratory, where they will spend about a month, testing systems and processes for space stays and refuelling, and doing scientific experiments.
(5) potential impact on clinical or scientific concepts) and the current productivity (e.g.
(6) Such lack of attention to matters of scientific methodology does not bode well for the advancement of knowledge in this area.
(7) Retrograde extrapolation is applicable in the forensic setting with scientific reliability when reasonable and justifiable assumptions are utilized.
(8) Armed with this knowledge, the practitioner treating a breakdown injury can work to a solution based on scientific understanding rather than anecdotal information.
(9) As a limited amount of in vivo testing is still required, attempts should be made to improve the method by attention to the scientific principles involved, using current knowledge of inflammatory mechanisms.
(10) In this review, many of the recent scientific advances that have been made in the immunological aspects of the pathogenesis of fungal infections are presented.
(11) We have studied this chapter of our history by analyzing primary documents and articles published at the daily press, political press, and scientific journals of Madrid during 1847 to 1848.
(12) He is, by any measure, one of the biggest scientific frauds of all time.
(13) The revelations did not alter the huge body of evidence from a variety of scientific fields that supports the conclusion that modern climate change is caused largely by human activity, Ward said.
(14) But they should also serve for the understanding of those inflammatory vascular diseases whose special position is based on the new scientific knowledge of immunopathology.
(15) "Decoding the tsetse fly's DNA is a major scientific breakthrough.
(16) When he was prime minister Tony Blair asked Peter Mandelson to tell the Prince of Wales to stop his "unhelpful" attempts to influence policy on GM and Mandelson accused him of being "anti-scientific and irresponsible".
(17) This modern view of man and his world discards the traditional mechanistic paradigm which has been the focus of Western scientific thought and medicine.
(18) No wonder public discussion of this most unexpected scientific development has so far been muted and respectful, waiting for the expert community that discovered the anomaly by accident – the Opera experiment at Gran Sasso was devised to isolate different varieties of neutrino, not to test Einstein – to work out what it all means, or doesn't.
(19) It has arisen from semantic errors, and a belief in ischaemia for which there is no scientific evidence.
(20) It imposes a standard of logical reductionism and methodological purity that not only violates the nature of psychoanalytic knowledge, but imposes an invalid standard of verification and scientific confirmation.