(a.) Passing through; as, thorough lights in a house.
(a.) Passing through or to the end; hence, complete; perfect; as, a thorough reformation; thorough work; a thorough translator; a thorough poet.
(adv.) Thoroughly.
(adv.) Through.
(n.) A furrow between two ridges, to drain off the surface water.
Example Sentences:
(1) 2.39pm BST The European Union called for a "thorough and immediate" investigation of the alleged chemical attack.
(2) Before carrier vaccines are applied, these risks must be thoroughly evaluated case-by-case.
(3) To study these changes more thoroughly, specific monoclonal antibodies of the A and B subunits of calcineurin (protein phosphatase 2B) were raised, and regional alterations in the immunoreactivity of calcineurin in the rat hippocampus were investigated after a transient forebrain ischemic insult causing selective and delayed hippocampal CA1 pyramidal cell damage.
(4) A careful history, a thorough physical examination, and an appropriate selection of tests will identify these patients.
(5) Thorough clinical investigation of the patient revealed sarcoid involvement of the skin, lungs, liver and lymph nodes and an extensive retroperitoneal surgically-verified lymph tumour.
(6) Sift the cocoa powder over the top and lightly but thoroughly fold it in with the metal spoon.
(7) A thorough nursing assessment is essential to detect and correct drug misuse and to diagnose drug abuse.
(8) Fetal activity throughout pregnancy has been thoroughly studied.
(9) A high index of suspicion of bilateral tumors and a thorough work-up resulted in the early diagnosis of small tumors.
(10) Results indicate that laryngeal paralysis following severe trauma can be a very early sign of aortic injury and requires prompt and thorough investigation.
(11) A thorough dental prophylaxis before acid-etching of enamel is often recommended.
(12) A thorough family history and an extensive investigation of bleedings in the neonatal period should make early diagnosis possible.
(13) The diagnosis in all patients was made on the base of a thorough clinical examination, the results from the electrocardiography and the selective coronarography.
(14) Xu, the ABP chairman, disputed any claims of impropriety, and said his company went through a “robust and thorough” tender process.
(15) Thorough knowledge of the modes of ventilatory support and criteria for weaning are essential for the critical care nurse to anticipate patient needs.
(16) Similarities and differences in the sensitization induced by cocaine and amphetamine (which are though to have different mechanisms of actions although common behavioral outcomes) have not been thoroughly studied.
(17) It is advisable to examine horses thoroughly during training and to use the results of training for the evaluation of their condition before difficult races.
(18) The requirement for technical reliability of the implantable device for patient safety requires a thorough understanding of all technical and medical details of the therapeutic device.
(19) If LTP is to be effective, thorough coagulation with tender blanching effects is mandatory.
(20) A thorough review of the literature concerning the Frey syndrome is reported.
Thoroughgoing
Definition:
(a.) Going through, or to the end or bottom; very thorough; complete.
(a.) Going all lengths; extreme; thoroughplaced; -- less common in this sense.
Example Sentences:
(1) In Stage III a thoroughgoing keratectomy parallel to the limbus was performed, in combination with cataract extraction and coreplasty.
(2) However, no one can genuinely believe in or live by this kind of thoroughgoing scepticism for one moment.
(3) The Greens have many admirable policies, but we look in vain for a thoroughgoing analysis for fundamental change.
(4) Despite its thoroughgoing Englishness, it won admirers in Australia, Canada and Europe.
(5) Our claim is based on what we describe as a thoroughgoing commonwealth involvement in the detention, such that it has become a commonwealth detention.” Transfield’s lawyers also gave evidence to the court on Thursday in defence of the validity of its contract.
(6) But this may be seen as part of a much more thoroughgoing transformation.
(7) Our experience with the ileal-neobladder with non-reflux uretero-intestinal implantation described by LeDuc, and Kock's the thoroughgoing application principles to form a low pressure reservoir for bladder substitution, encouraged us to believe that a good long-term prognosis with respect to renal function can be expected.
(8) In the formulation of policy, however, the principle should be applied in a thoroughgoing way and, if it is, it will not have some of the counterintuitive consequences it may have in interpersonal situations.
(9) He has ordered Conservatives to do this during the interim period before the publication of a thoroughgoing review of the expenses system by Sir Christopher Kelly's committee on standards in public life at the end of this year.
(10) He simply says that he has changed with the times and that he is now a thoroughgoing democrat.” But other analysts suggest that Buhari’s heavy-handed past might be exactly what the country needs.
(11) More thoroughgoing restorers might despise the gimcrack painted floorboards in the long gallery (they can still be detected by the attentive eye today), but his creation in the Suffolk countryside was sensational in its day and was a forerunner of many such conversions.
(12) A thoroughgoing bias in Western culture impairs the psychiatric and non-psychiatric medical care of the obese person.
(13) The recommendations reflect a thoroughgoing analysis of the subjects discussed and are a valuable contribution to improvement of the teaching of preventive medicine.
(14) By a thoroughgoing use of odds ratios and higher-order odds ratios, it nevertheless provides a technically accurate account of the key concepts of higher-order interactions among variables, and of models being hierarchical.
(15) At the water treatment works, the temporary flood defences erected last year remain "semi-permanent", with a more thoroughgoing barrier aimed at being completed before 2012.
(16) Moreover, there is no loss of stain since the fugitive surface impregnation, obtained by the Mulligan method, is replaced by a thoroughgoing block-staining procedure with the nonfading copper phathalocyanine dye astra blue.
(17) It promotes a high-wage, high-value economy, powered by an active and thoroughgoing democracy – and aims to provide a counter to some of the "tax-competitive" and mogul-tickling tendencies of the SNP leadership.
(18) What’s happening with Jeremy is that we’re just reclaiming our own policies.” Young April Cummings, who might just become the poster-child for resurgent Scottish Labour as did Mhairi Black for the SNP, introduced Corbyn in Edinburgh as “this wonderful man,” and a Miss Stewart – “Ms, actually” (this was Edinburgh) – who left Labour “decades ago” – had travelled to give her thoroughgoing approval to Mr Corbyn.
(19) Partly, I think, by not being overly concerned with logic and thoroughgoing consistency.
(20) It adds: "The inescapable conclusion from the committee's work is that the UN organisation needs thoroughgoing reform - and needs it urgently."