Sentence examples for deprivation test from inspiring English sources

Norton, who presents a Friday-night chatshow on BBC1 and Saturday-morning show on Radio 2, said he had suggested the "deprivation test" in a letter to BBC director general Tony Hall.

The "deprivation test" follows the publication of the government's green paper on the future of the BBC which suggested it could focus on a more narrow range of services with a consequent cut in the licence fee.

The water deprivation test assesses the individual's capacity to produce ADH and the sensitivity of the renal concentrating mechanism to circulating ADH.

During a fluid deprivation test, patients with diabetes insipidus continue to excrete large volumes of urine, and administration of vasopressin causes a decrease in urine volume, an increase in urine osmolality, and a decrease in serum osmolality.

Diagnosis of central diabetes insipidus is based on the presence of high serum osmolality and low urine osmolality and on the results of a fluid deprivation test, with measurements of serum osmolality and urine output and urine osmolality when fluids are restricted.

In the search of novel neuroprotective agents with higher potency than our previously identified anti-ischemic stroke drug candidate 1, a series of novel dicarbonyl piperazine derivatives were synthesized and evaluated on their neuroprotective activity via oxygen glucose deprivation test in the neuron-like PC12 cells, hypoxia tolerance model in mice and focal cerebral ischemia model in rats.

CT scans, EEGs, sleep deprivation tests, blood tests, vision tests.

When tragedy befalls Billy, the fall from grace is pitted with betrayals, deprivation, tests of character, found friendship and, of course, the opportunity for redemption.

The proband and her father were subjected to water deprivation testing and direct DNA sequencing of the coding regions of the AQP2 and AVP genes.

These tubular lesions often require special investigations to diagnose; assays for low molecular weight proteinuria (e.g. retinol binding protein), urinary acidification tests to diagnose dRTA and water deprivation tests to diagnose NDI may not be available outside of specialist centres.

In these patients copeptin had a superior diagnostic accuracy to detect an insufficient activity of the posterior pituitary, offering an alternative to the laborious and ambiguous water-deprivation test [ 5].