Sentence examples for symptomatic focus from inspiring English sources

The imaging strategy usually has a symptomatic focus, as in acute osteomyelitis, but multiple lesions will be shown.

Vygotsky (Minick, 1987) attempted to relate the ZPD and assessment by calling for a change from symptomatic assessment focusing on characteristic behavior of a particular stage in development to diagnostic assessment focusing on understanding behaviors and developing recommendations to foster development.

We wanted to investigate the modifiable risk factors Body Mass Index (BMI) and physical activity, using knee replacement (KR) as a marker for severely symptomatic disease, focusing on the interaction between these risk factors.

The attribution of high mortality figures to problems with coding and the creation of new governance structures as an end in itself were symptomatic of a focus on maintaining organisational processes rather than improving patient safety and outcomes.

Both the capacity and capability of local dental care were raised as issues by regular and symptomatic attenders alike, focussing on long waiting times, both for appointments and at the surgery itself: "Why I don't go with my children...when the waiting time is three hours I don't have three hours to spare.

In other words, a philosophical reading entails a focus on symptomatic discursive events, reflecting basic shifts, tensions or inconsistencies on the level of the philosophemes: a symptomatic reading of the discourses produced by science.

The park is symptomatic of a dispiriting focus on the spectacle as opposed to the history and antiquity of Islam and cultural legacy in general.

Patients were likely to focus on symptomatic conditions such as pain, depression and breathing problems [ 15].

Therefore, the currently available therapies (bisphosphonates, radiotherapy, radiopharmaceuticals, and surgery) for bone metastasis focus on symptomatic management and limiting the progression of established metastatic disease [ 2, 4].

Rather than focusing on antibiotics, clinicians should focus on symptomatic treatment and educating patients at the time of the visit about realistic expectations for the duration of cough, which lasts, on average, three weeks [ 18, 44].

26, 27 Clinical trials focus on symptomatic relief measured by specific scales, such as the Hamilton Depression Score (Hamilton Depression Rating Scale, HAM-D), 28 and define response and remission in relation to these scores.