Sentence examples for medical function from inspiring English sources

"It is an example of what we call electroceuticals – small electronic implants that perform a medical function in the body under the remote control of radio signals," he explains.

Similarly, while Mallouk has tested his motors in live cells – where they can stir up the contents of a cell or punch through its membrane – they do not yet have a medical function.

You see the walking wounded everywhere, surgical tape criss-crossing the nose, not that it looks as if it is providing any medical function, but almost like a bandage in a cartoon.

Anabolic steroids had ceased to have an exclusively medical function.

Fig. 1 Positive responses according to medical function from doctors (red), nurses (blue) or auxiliary nurse (yellow).

It puts forward a relatively simple framework for analysing hospital output, in which the medical function is incorporated into a complex system of other constituent services that make use of different types of technologies.

More and more, the psychosocial aspects of childhood and adolescence are muscling out the more traditional medical functions, making the calculus of pediatrics complex.

Elaine Gelman, a leader in the effort to make it legal in New York for specially trained nurses to prescribe drugs and perform other medical functions previously reserved for doctors, died on Tuesday at Calvary Hospital in the Bronx.

The agency's decision to specify the regulatory rules is likely to spur the innovation of apps that perform medical functions, said Dr. Joseph M. Smith, chief medical and science officer at West Health Institute, a nonprofit medical research organization.

At a state appeals court hearing in Denver on Tuesday, Assistant Attorney General LeeAnn Morrill argued that Colorado law clearly permitted doctors to delegate medical functions to advanced practice nurses.

Eventually these devices will converge into the equivalent of Star Trek tricorder that can perform a wide variety of medical functions.