(a.) Closely examining, or inquiring; careful; sctrict.
Example Sentences:
(1) Peter Schweizer – whose book scrutinizing donations to the Clinton Foundation has earned sharp rebukes from Hillary Clinton’s campaign and liberally aligned groups – confirmed on Thursday plans to investigate Bush’s past financial dealings.
(2) He scrutinizes the credentials of these candidates and discusses the problem of using autoantibodies to identify causative antigens in a T-cell-mediated disease.
(3) The general late sequelae and the functional and aesthetic repercussions of circatrization were scrutinized and compared with the method of treatment and the postoperative course.
(4) The FECGs were recorded on magnetic tape and later analysed by scrutinizing each QRS complex prior to the trigger of a rate meter.
(5) The protein sequence searching program Scrutineer has been modified to search for targets from a file.
(6) The radiologic and clinical records were scrutinized to determine the actual effect of the radiologic examination on management of the patient.
(7) The primary care physician should recognize that: the natural history of this disease is variable and unpredictable; symptomatic disease in the elderly patient may be easily overlooked; and therefore, older patients who have vague and varied nonspecific neuromuscular, GI, and constitutional complaints or acquired behavior disturbances should be carefully scrutinized.
(8) The authors scrutinize in details the structural scheme of organization of patient's search-and-rescue work and suggest, that main principles of planning and management of search-and-rescue operations in aviation could be applied in a decision of problems, which arise in medical assistance to the victims of the natural disasters and accidents.
(9) Eighteen studies (13 equivocal, 5 misinterpretations) were scrutinized to determine the limitations of venous duplex scanning compared to phlebography and are the focus of this analysis.
(10) Studies of culture-specific disorders, service utilization and patient population studies, psychiatric epidemiological studies, and studies designed to test the validity of certain diagnostic instruments are scrutinized for evidence of the nature of the role of indigenous cultures in the manifestations of psychiatric disorders among these populations.
(11) In addition, Scrutineer still accepts targets typed in interactively but can now write them out in the format required as input.
(12) To scrutinize the fidelity of this stoichiometric form of chromatin reconstitution, we use circular dichroism, nuclease digestion, thermal denaturation and the sensitive electric birefringence method.
(13) The procedural skills of internists have been scrutinized recently because of concern for quality of care and because of economic and liability issues.
(14) In 100 consecutive deaths from a coronary care unit, the coronary arteries were examined microscopically in longitudinal sections (serial and semi-serial) so that the entire extramural part of each artery was scrutinized.
(15) The inclusions are typically near vacuoles and a minimum of three vacuolated fibres must be scrutinized to detect them with confidence.
(16) It is suggested that all known methods of integrated worm control should be scrutinized and the most promising methods be tested under practical farming conditions in the country to reduce our dependence on anthelmintic compounds for worm control.
(17) Physicians have been advised to scrutinize these patients carefully with a variety of diagnostic tests and to treat their conditions vigorously if bacteremia is seriously considered or proved.
(18) Hospital records were scrutinized and 179 of 180 (99 per cent) were included in the evaluation.
(19) Scrutinized statistical analysis revealed not only the well-known predictive value of the number of myeloblasts, but also a significant prognostic impact for the percentages of polymorpho-nuclear granulocytes, eosinophils and basophils.
(20) Pacemaker therapy, though widely accepted, currently is being scrutinized to determine its impact on cost as well as quality.
Strict
Definition:
(a.) Strained; drawn close; tight; as, a strict embrace; a strict ligature.
(a.) Tense; not relaxed; as, a strict fiber.
(a.) Exact; accurate; precise; rigorously nice; as, to keep strict watch; to pay strict attention.
(a.) Governed or governing by exact rules; observing exact rules; severe; rigorous; as, very strict in observing the Sabbath.
(a.) Rigidly; interpreted; exactly limited; confined; restricted; as, to understand words in a strict sense.
(a.) Upright, or straight and narrow; -- said of the shape of the plants or their flower clusters.
Example Sentences:
(1) Mindful of their own health ahead of their mission, astronauts at the Russia-leased launchpad in Kazakhstan remain in strict isolation in the days ahead of any launch to avoid exposure to infection.
(2) Focal segmental glomerulosclerosis was diagnosed by strict histologic criteria in 103 patients.
(3) Neurospora crassa mitochondrial deoxyribonucleic acid shows strict uniparental inheritance in sexual crosses, with a notable absence of mixtures and recombinant types that appear frequently in heteroplasmons.
(4) Primary vaccination should be carried out as early as possible, while strictly observing the contraindications.
(5) Though no strict relationship could be observed between titers in the IH test and the time it took mice to die from the intravenous inoculation of mice (IIM test), results of the supernatants examined by both methods demonstrated that the IH test was more sensitive than the IIM one.
(6) Strict fundamentalists oppose music in any form as a sensual distraction - the Taliban, of course, banned music in Afghanistan.
(7) Neither assertion was strictly accurate, but Obama was on a rhetorical roll.
(8) They continuously produced heteropolymeric G6PD and showed strictly additive patterns of silver staining of both parental sets of nucleolar organizing chromosomes.
(9) Strict precautions are necessary to prevent the catastrophic events resulting from inadvertent gentamicin injection; such precautions should include precise labeling of all injectable solutions on the surgical field, waiting to draw up injectable antibiotics until the time they are needed, and drawing up injectable antibiotics under direct physician observation.
(10) Orbital hypertelorism, strictly defined as an increase in bony interorbital distance, is not itself an isolated syndrome, but is instead an anomaly that may occur as either part of a syndrome or malformation sequence.
(11) There must also be strict rules in place to reduce the risks they take with shareholders' funds.Yet the huge cost of increasing capital and liquidity is forgotten when the Treasury urges them to increase lending to small and medium businesses.
(12) The occurrence of paresis or paralysis in ischemic processes strictly situated in the thalamus, however, is discussed: the deficit may be limited to parts of limbs; most often, it is not associated with pyramidal symptomatology; recovery is observed in the hand before the inferior limb.
(13) Active sites for thiosulphate are probably strictly connected with cell membranes.
(14) Indications for operation must be strict, for unless there are specific signs and symptoms of appendiceal disease, appendectomy will often be of no benefit.
(15) The uptake of acetyl-L-carnitine was not strictly substrate-specific; gamma-butyrobetaine, L-carnitine, L-DABA, and GABA were potent inhibitors, hypotaurine and L-glutamate were moderate inhibitors, and glycine and beta-alanine were only weakly inhibitory.
(16) The absence of strict restrictions for the feeding on unusual species of hosts has caused the domination of polyphagy and oligophagy over monophagy among ixodid ticks.
(17) Given his background, Boyle says, growing up in a council house near Bury, with his two sisters (one a twin) and his strict and hard-working parents (his mum worked as a dinner lady at his school), he should by rights have been a gritty social realist, but that tradition never appealed to him.
(18) The low amount of 100000-dalton protein and lack of 4-nm surface particles in sarcoplasmic reticulum vesicles obtained from fetal and newborn rabbits are strictly correlated with the low activity of Ca2+-dependent ATPase and the ability to take up Ca2+.
(19) Sensitizing drugs must be strictly avoided to prevent such recurrences: their presence in drug mixtures must be guarded against.
(20) The lack of a strict correlation between the changes in tubulin composition and changes in organization of microtubular structures indicates that accumulation of beta 2-tubulin and disappearance of alpha 3-tubulin isotypes are not sufficient to bring about reorganization of microtubules during development.