(n.) A fixed point or station; a basis or fundamental principle; a position from which objects or principles are viewed, and according to which they are compared and judged.
Example Sentences:
(1) From a clinical standpoint, it is clear that psychiatrists caring for anxious patients must be aware of the possibility of secondary alcohol abuse.
(2) Pathogenesis of acute osteomyelitis is analyzed from the standpoint of disorders in the bone microcirculation.
(3) Intramuscular administration of rCD4-IgG appears to be inferior to intravenous dosing from a pharmacokinetic standpoint, with lower peak concentrations and variable absorption.
(4) Undoubtedly because new theories remain speculative when viewed from our own standpoint.
(5) The main signs are, from the clinical standpoint, a diffuse haemorrhagic syndrome and, from the biological standpoint, a haemolytic anemia, renal failure and thrombopenia.
(6) From the standpoint of computational vision, these phenomena are difficult to process, yet nonretarded persons perceive them effortlessly and without error.
(7) From the standpoint of breakeven facts and resource efficiency the minicenter and clinic-on-wheels were similar and superior to the other two.
(8) What’s imperative from an organizational standpoint, he added, is “understanding where voters are, what their concerns are, and building a sophisticated operation around that.
(9) From the psychologic standpoint, plastic surgeons are now challenging their patients to help themselves in such an overall program to forestall the effects of aging.
(10) This paper looks at the controversy from the standpoint of both patient and PD staff.
(11) This question was answered, from the standpoint of human postures, by observing the antagonistic postures exhibited by a bus-driver and a passenger, and also by the findings in postrotatory eye nystagmus (an indication of artificial motion sickness) which was varied according to the three different positions of the head.
(12) A review of the literature is included and the standpoints concerning the nosological entities are discussed.
(13) The results suggest that (i) the SOS response of E. coli and the SOB response of B. subtilis are strikingly similar from both a phenotypic and a regulatory standpoint and that RecA and LexA protein analogs exist in B. subtilis, (ii) the Recbs protein is capable of regulating its own production, and (iii) SOS-inducing (RecA-activating) signals are generated in B. subtilis following either DNA damage or the development of physiological competence.
(14) From the standpoint of an augmented version of the World Health Organization model of disablement, the life satisfaction of persons with spinal cord injury appears to be influenced, albeit indirectly, by selective aspects of their social role performance (handicap), but not by their degree of impairment or disability.
(15) The results were analysed from the standpoint of grammar of clauses and their informative contents.
(16) The biological and medical significance related to the phenomenon is discussed, standing upon immunochemical, phylogenical, and immunogenetical standpoints of complement research.
(17) The results allowed the expediency of using laser resection techniques and Pirogov's single-row suture to be substantiated from new standpoints (standpoints of higher biological air-tightness of the anastomoses).
(18) Whilst the vital prognosis is rarely threatened in dento-maxillo-facial orthopaedic procedures, the responsibility of practitioners involved in this discipline is nevertheless an everyday consideration from both a medical as well as an orthodontic standpoint (1 and 2).
(19) Complications of therapy were uncommon and neither regimen demonstrated a significant advantage from an economic standpoint.
(20) From the standpoint of prevention, carcinogenic factors can be investigated according as they apply to collective or individual life, according to their relative etiological importance, and to the incidence rate and gravity of cancers involved.
Viewpoint
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) Ectopias of grey matter are recognised foci of epilepsy, but from an epileptological and a clinical viewpoint little attention has been given to these disorders.
(2) "A common viewpoint is that the radio side of the regulator is just not up to the job.
(3) From a practical viewpoint, this approach to prevention is less than ideal because it results in considerable costs as health care providers monitor for possible hepatotoxic effects and because it is difficult to maintain compliance for 12 months.
(4) The stainless steel 316 mesh tray with cancellous bone offers a method of mandibular reconstruction which theoretically is appealing from the viewpoint of basic osseous healing.
(5) But we can add that there is no competition, from the economical viewpoint, between the post-oedipal sublimation, type political involvement, and the preoedipal sublimation, type literary creation.
(6) An overview of laparoscopic sterilization techniques from a historical and practical viewpoint includes instrumentation, operative techniques, mechanical occlusive devices, anesthesia, failure rates, morbidity and mortality.
(7) It is shown that from a theoretical viewpoint the consideration of extra-Poisson variation is needed for descriptive epidemiological applications.
(8) Accordingly, under the diagnostic viewpoint, must be considered as a multidisciplinary illness.
(9) From the viewpoint of behavioral biology, however, the method of periodic abstinence is not obviously natural.
(10) These models for diffusive and carrier-mediated transport are compared and discussed from both physiological and experimental viewpoints.
(11) The fascinating pathogenetic, clinical, biological and therapeutic resemblances between the present syndrome and the post-infarctual syndrome of Dressler and Johnson's post-pericardiotomic syndrome are pointed out and it is suggested that complications of medical nature already described as being secondary to the installation of pacemakers, such as endocarditis and pericarditis, should be looked at from an autoimmune type of pathogenetic viewpoint.
(12) The failure of prognostic indicators to predict more than about 25% of the outcome variance for this group of "poor prognosis" patients supports the viewpoint that "good" and "poor" prognosis schizophrenia are two different entities.
(13) These data are considered from the viewpoint that ethanol, other drugs such as methadone and prenatal stress (malnutrition) may cause delayed cerebellar maturation by reducing serum T4 levels in the early postnatal period (day 5-14).
(14) The relationship between the pituitary and the ovary has been discussed from various viewpoints and the secretions of the ovarian chromaffin tissue and the interrenal are suggested as the possible mediators in the process of maturation and ovulation in the teleost fishes.
(15) Reports of interactions, in vivo and in vitro, between Ni and Mg in humoral and cellular immunity, hypersensitivity and inflammation, and in tumourigenesis are explored from a mechanistic viewpoint.
(16) The problem of estimating viral activity from pock counts that exhibit a substantial degree of overdispersion is revisited from the viewpoint of quasilikelihood with unknown parameters in the variance function.
(17) In regard to this clinical viewpoint it seems that the syndrome is not as rare as may be assumed according to the relevant autopsy findings.
(18) The results are discussed from the viewpoint of regulation of amidases in these bacterial cells.
(19) These findings are discussed from the viewpoint of the differences of skin temperatures of the extremities between Type A and Type B.
(20) From this viewpoint a combination of controlled fistulization and percutaneous oesophageal intubation under radiological control is a valuable alternative.