Sentence examples for defined as predominant from inspiring English sources

Full breast feeding was defined as predominant breast feeding without any formula or solids, but allowing water and vitamins.

The pattern of biochemical liver abnormalities was mainly hepatocellular (defined as predominant increase of AST and/or ALT in comparison with AP and/or bilirubins) in 11 cases; cholestatic (defined as predominant increase in AP and/or bilirubins compared with AST and/or ALT) in 3 and mixed (evidence of both cholestatic and hepatocellular damage) in 8 cases.

A severely altered EEG pattern was defined as a predominant delta frequency, discontinuous, unreactive and/or an isoelectric background.

A diagnosis of IgAN was defined as the predominant mesangial deposition of IgA.

Their context of contact with nonhuman primates was defined as the predominant form of contact at the time of the study.

In their analysis, concordance was defined as "…the predominant pattern observed in the primary tumor is present at the metastatic site".

Of the 4197 COPD subjects, 1687 subjects were defined as emphysema-predominant and 1817 as non-emphysematous (Table  2, Figure  2).

Slow sleep spindles were defined as spindles with predominant frequency between 11 and 13 Hz and fast spindles between 13.1 and 15 Hz.

For the present study, an elongated cell was defined as having a predominant axis length exceeding three times the maximum width of the cell.

A gastric phenotype was defined as tumors having predominant intracytoplasmic mucin of the gastric type, as determined by immunostaining with human gastric mucin (MUC5AC) and/or pyloric gland mucin (MUC6), but with no MUC-2 positive cells.

Nineteen healthy controls (mean age: 48.79 years, SD 12.25, 12 females) and 21 German-speaking patients (mean age: 46.62 years, SD 12.49, 17 females) with chronic pain disorder, defined as a pain-predominant multisomatoform disorder diagnosed by an experienced physician using a modified SCID-I interview, provided informed written consent and participated in the experiment.