Sentence examples for provocative tests from inspiring English sources
Sleep deprivation and other provocative tests, including photic (light) stimulation and hyperventilation, can be used to accentuate borderline findings.
After 1 to 6 months, all children underwent reevaluation of GH secretion by means of one of the provocative tests previously used.
Before advances in diagnostic modalities, prone tests were popularly performed in ophthalmology practices as provocative tests for detecting potentially occludable angles.
To investigate the diagnostic performance of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and clinical provocative tests on injuries to the triangular fibrocartilage complex (TFCC), the scapholunate (SL) ligament, and the lunotriquetral (LT) ligament.
Conclusions: We suggest that patients with pathologic GH responses to provocative tests but normal MRI should be reevaluated and followed up before a diagnosis of GHD is firmly established.
The clinical examination included a relevant neurological examination, provocative tests such as Spurling's test, stretching of neck muscles to elicit pain, identification of tender points of greater and minor occipital nerves with or without radiation to forehead, and measurements of passive neck mobility.
United States officials consider a possible rocket launch a provocative test of the North's long-range missile technology.
With its provocative test, China has thumbed its nose at the many satellite-dependent countries.As a purely practical matter, there are better ways of dealing with redundant satellites.
SEOUL — North Korea announced Tuesday it was preparing to send a satellite into orbit in what American and South Korean officials believe will be a provocative test of a long-range missile capable of reaching parts of North America.
But the agreement quickly collapsed when North Korea launched a long-range rocket in April 2012 and the United States, seeing the launching as a provocative test of missile technology, scrapped the food aid and led efforts at the United Nations to tighten sanctions.
Washington says that the launching is a provocative test of a ballistic missile with the potential of carrying a warhead to the western coast of the United States, and that it violates a United Nations resolution that bans the North from all such tests.
