Sentence examples for empty prior from inspiring English sources

Locke did not believe, however, that the mind is literally blank or empty prior to experience, and almost no other empiricist has taken such an extreme position.

This is highly likely to cause a serious pneumonia and is entirely avoidable by making sure her stomach is empty prior to the procedure.

The first approach was connected with bowel emptying prior to planned surgery (according to the standard procedure of surgical wards), and the second one according to the protocol proposed by the authors.

The trial protocol was changed following the first 6 participants to mandate use of a MICROLAX® enema to be administered and the rectum emptied prior to the 4 h scan to reduce error due to excreted tracer in the rectal lumen.

Firstly, the lake might have emptied prior to the landslide collapses, as the 3 Ga or older dating for the outflow event proposed by Warner et al. (2013) would suggest; secondly, the lake lifetime (or lifetimes in the case of repeated ponding) could have been much shorter than landslide recurrence time, implying a higher probability of landslide collapse during the longer periods of water absence.

Urinary catheters will be emptied, prior to measurement.

Containers were twice partly filled with sample water (~33 mL), tightly capped, shaken vigorously and emptied prior to collection to the upper edge of the container.

Store operated channels, however, would not be activated under the present experimental conditions, since the Ca2+ stores were not emptied prior to measurement.

The bladder was emptied prior to beginning each new short collection; thus, each short collection represented the total volume of urine produced during a determined time interval.

The flow in the test section of the wind tunnel is surveyed for the empty condition prior to testing models.

Eight mice were injected with the drug and 8 control mice were injected with empty micelles prior to their infection.