1 rsening sinus symptoms, and infrequent AECRS
was defined as 0 to 3 episodes.
2 Treatment failure
was defined as (
1) any further surgical procedure relate
3 Failure to cure
was defined as:
1) no surgical resection due to intraope
4 Moderate-to-severe prurigo nodularis
was defined as 20 or more nodules, and severe pruritus w
5 Cases
were defined as 3GC-R-BSI or 3GC-R Gram-negative infecti
6 A universal threshold of 100% G6PD activity
was defined as 9.4 U/g Hb, yielding diagnostic threshold
7 lineage analyses, the digit tip blastema has
been defined as a population of heterogeneous, lineage-r
8 plex containing a mode III interactor, which
is defined as a 14-3-3 interaction with a phosphoserine/
9 OME
is defined as a chronic low-grade inflammation of the mi
10 Frailty
is defined as a clinically recognizable state of increas
11 It
is defined as a dimensional general severity criterion c
12 An emerging phenomenon
is defined as a group of genotypes who exhibit a coheren
13 upling constant in K-type allosteric systems
is defined as a ratio of the binding of substrate in the
14 largest residual of the HC/CO(2) correlation
is defined as a running loss index (RLI) for each measur
15 Although pain
is defined as a sensory and emotional experience, it is
16 Lymphedema
was defined as a >= 10% relative increase in arm volume
17 Progression
was defined as a >=2-step increase in DR severity scale
18 Histologic response
was defined as a 2-point improvement in nonalcoholic fat
19 Mouse allergen reduction
was defined as a 75% or greater decrease in mouse allerg
20 Keratoconus
was defined as a Belin/Ambrosio enhanced ectasia display
21 For this study, lead poisoning
was defined as a blood lead level (BLL) greater than or
22 Adult overweight (including obesity)
was defined as a BMI >=25.
23 Macular edema
was defined as a center macular thickness (CMT) >=240 mu
24 The primary endpoint of confirmed response
was defined as a composite of all patients presenting wi
25 A disease activity-free interval
was defined as a consecutive period in months when treat
26 Worse vision
was defined as a decrease of more than 2 Snellen lines.
27 Equivalence
was defined as a difference of 2.5 points or less for IP
28 Therapy discontinuation
was defined as a gap between doses beyond 120 days, and/
29 TCFA
was defined as a lesion with mean fibrous cap thickness
30 Hypotension
was defined as a mean arterial pressure (MAP) below 65 m
31 d as 20 or more nodules, and severe pruritus
was defined as a mean score of at least 7 for the worst
32 Optimal IS
was defined as a median of Tac, CsA blood trough levels
33 Favourable functional outcome
was defined as a modified Rankin Scale score of 0-2 or a
34 mary outcome, incident noninfectious uveitis
was defined as a new diagnosis code for noninfectious uv
35 Non-invasive progression
was defined as a new IPMN, increased main pancreatic duc
36 Statistical significance
was defined as a p value less than 0.10, due to the smal
37 "new persistent postoperative opioid user,"
was defined as a patient who was opioid-naive before sur
38 Early clearance
was defined as a persistently negative IGRA.
39 Poor platelet recovery
was defined as a platelet count of <=20 000/muL on Day 2
40 Frailty
was defined as a positive response to >=3 of the followi
41 Atopy
was defined as a positive skin prick test result (>=3 mm
42 SPPB impairment
was defined as a score of <=10.
43 Poor cognitive function
was defined as a score of less than 18 on the Chinese ve
44 Metabolic adaptation
was defined as a significantly different (lower or highe
45 Metabolic adaptation
was defined as a significantly lower measured compared w
46 Myopia
was defined as a spherical equivalent of less than or eq
47 ction that exceeded a user-defined threshold
was defined as a time point of head motion, which was fo
48 the year preceding elicitation, and viraemia
was defined as a viral load of 200 copies per mL or more
49 An abnormal CSF diagnosis
was defined as a white blood cell (WBC) count >20/uL, a
50 Major adverse cardiac events (MACE)
were defined as a composite of cardiogenic shock, arrest
51 , and visual acuity recovery and maintenance
were defined as a logarithm of minimal angle of resoluti
52 g-term visual field recovery and maintenance
were defined as a mean deviation of >-3 at 24 months, an
53 Myopia, emmetropia, and hyperopia
were defined as a spherical equivalent of <=-0.5, >-0.5
54 Abnormal neonatal outcome
was defined as abnormal exam and/or abnormal imaging.
55 Maintenance of remission
was defined as absence of clinical and histologic relaps
56 Success
was defined as achieving a previously determined target
57 Adherence
was defined as administration of more than 75% of recomm
58 Donor splitting criteria
was defined as age < 40 years, single vasopressor or les
59 Gingival recession defect (GRD) may
be defined as an apical migration of the gingival margin
60 onal area of unitary pooled activity (FAUPA)
is defined as an area in which the temporal variation of
61 " for dejection or negative emotional state)
is defined as an increase in intensity of the constellat
62 Ferroptosis
is defined as an iron-dependent form of regulated cell d
63 AKI
was defined as an absolute or a relative increase in ser
64 Treatment modification
was defined as an addition to or change in drug therapy
65 SAH
was defined as an adult height <= 2 standard deviation s
66 Burnout
was defined as an affirmative response to two single-ite
67 New significant AKI
was defined as an AKI-stage increase of two or more (Kid
68 Immunogenicity
was defined as an anti-drug antibody titer >=10 AU/mL us
69 Treatment resistance
was defined as an antidepressant treatment record level
70 RORA
was defined as an area of (1) hypertransmission, (2) dis
71 ting wave energy; a normal exercise response
was defined as an increase in accelerating wave energy f
72 Intraocular pressure spike complication
was defined as an increase in IOP in the operated eye at
73 Symptomatic KOA progression
was defined as an increase in or remaining in 1 of the 2
74 Functional decline
was defined as an increase in the number of activities o
75 Hospitalization for CVD
was defined as an inpatient or emergency department disc
76 Surgical success
was defined as an intraocular pressure (IOP) of 5-20 mm
77 s, heparin-induced thrombocytopenia negative
was defined as an optical density less than 1.0 and hepa
78 PA consistency
was defined as any combination of >= 75 minutes of vigor
79 BCP
was defined as any detectable first serum PSA value afte
80 Myocardial injury
was defined as any elevation in cardiac troponin at the
81 Failure of SLT
was defined as any further glaucoma procedure post-SLT o
82 Preoperative use
was defined as any opioid prescription filled in the yea
83 Adverse clinical outcomes
were defined as any possible complication of meningitis,
84 Recurrences of VT
were defined as appropriate implantable cardioverter def
85 Persistent asthma
was defined as asthma requiring use of controller medica
86 MM
was defined as at least 3 coexistent morbidities of high
87 Frequent AECRS
was defined as at least 4 episodes over a 12-month perio
88 compliance and rates of noncompliance, which
were defined as at least 1 missed visit or exiting the s
89 Successful collapse of AHP
was defined as being <=10 degrees .
90 Low IS
was defined as below the thresholds of optimal IS.
91 Tumor recurrence
was defined as biopsy-proven vital tumor at the initial
92 Complex fractionated electrograms
were defined as bipolar electrograms with >=5 directiona
93 Bleeding
was defined as Bleeding Academic Research Consortium (BA
94 Procedure-related bleeding
was defined as Bleeding Academic Research Consortium typ
95 Recipient obesity
was defined as body mass index (BMI) >35 adjusted for as
96 Historically, SSCs have
been defined as bone marrow-derived cells with inconsist
97 find that open chromatin regions (OCRs) can
be defined as broadly permissive or dynamic in a locus-s
98 Outcome
was defined as cardiovascular death, heart transplantati
99 Advanced HIV disease
was defined as CD4 of <200 cells/muL or acquired immune
100 Human natural killer (NK) cells
are defined as CD56(+)CD3(-).
101 TNT
was defined as chemotherapy using cycles of induction an
102 onders and mean arterial pressure-responders
were defined as CI >=10% and mean arterial pressure >=10
103 Active clusters
were defined as clusters including internal nodes from 2
104 The CS-CMVi
was defined as CMV viremia and/or disease necessitating
105 programmed death ligand 1 (PD-L1) expression
was defined as combined positive score (CPS) >= 10.
106 Efficacy
was defined as complete response (CR) rate on end-of-tre
107 DUP
was defined as days from first psychotic symptom to firs
108 Poor recovery
was defined as death by 30 days postdischarge or an incr
109 Unfavourable outcome
was defined as death or significant grey matter injury o
110 Symptomatic venous thromboembolism
was defined as deep vein thrombosis, pulmonary embolism,
111 Annualized Delta transformed CACS
was defined as Delta transformed CACS divided by the int
112 Proteinuria
was defined as Delta urine protein >=300 mg/24 h at 1 ye
113 Deviation from chronological age
was defined as "
delta age".
114 Invasive progression
was defined as development of invasive cancer in the rem
115 ived filtering and interpretation procedures
were defined as diagnostic variants.
116 Mean arterial pressure (MAP)
was defined as diastolic BP plus 1/3 (systolic BP - dias
117 terogeneous exposure associations (HEAs) can
be defined as differences in the association of an expos
118 tially reduce chronobiological strain, which
is defined as disruption or misalignment within the circ
119 Among the 1,379 T2 lesions identified, 512
were defined as DPA-active and 258 as DPA-inactive.
120 A reactive hyperemic index <=1.35
was defined as ED.
121 Incident CKD
was defined as eGFR <60 ml/min per 1.73 m(2) with eGFR d
122 Clinically relevant CMV infection
was defined as either plasma CMV DNAemia >= 1000 IU/mL w
123 Heightened stress exposure
was defined as exposure to at least one chronic stressor
124 Induction failure
was defined as failure to achieve a partial response (PR
125 Early COPD
was defined as FEV(1)/FVC less than the lower limit of n
126 Three cohorts
were defined as follows: 1) ICU survivors; 2) one-year s
127 Airway obstruction
was defined as forced expiratory volume in 1-second (FEV
128 Primary outcomes
were defined as frequency of complications following sta
129 e primary care record, and eczema prevalence
was defined as fulfilment of criteria for active eczema
130 Cases
were defined as GAS isolated from a normally sterile sit
131 Invasive disease
was defined as GBS isolated from a normally sterile site
132 Single-parent expression (SPE)
is defined as gene expression in only one of the two par
133 resentation and outcome 1 year after surgery
were defined as good or satisfactory if intraocular pres
134 ibrosis and inflammation, where inflammation
was defined as &
gt;14 infiltrating cells/mm(2).
135 Recurrence
was defined as &
gt;30 seconds of AF, atrial flutter, or atr
136 Frailty
was defined as &
gt;= 3 of the following: low lean mass, exh
137 CHD
was defined as &
gt;=1 inpatient code or >=2 outpatient CHD
138 Adenovirus viremia
was defined as &
gt;=2 consecutive viral loads (VLs) >=1000
139 RIC
was defined as &
gt;=2 encounters per year, >=90 days apart,
140 Elevated FeNO
was defined as &
gt;=25 parts per billion.
141 Anaemia
was defined as haemoglobin less than 130 g/L for men and
142 Frailty
was defined as having >=3 of the following 5 criteria fr
143 Frailty
was defined as having >=3 of the following 5 criteria fr
144 Microcephaly
was defined as having a head circumference Z score <-2 a
145 Severe wasting
was defined as having a weight for length z score (WLZ)
146 Positive depression status
was defined as having any of the following: elevated dep
147 Frailty
was defined as having at least 3 of the following 5 crit
148 Allergy
was defined as having symptoms from at least 1 allergic
149 Cardiometabolic clustering
was defined as having three or more risk factors out of
150 At the time of surgery, hospitals
were defined as having a COVID-19-free surgical pathway
151 Diabetes
was defined as HbA1c of >=6.5% and/or current diabetes m
152 The severity of localized periodontitis
was defined as healthy (n = 42), Stage I (initial) (n =
153 Objective AEs
were defined as hepatic and objective muscular AEs.
154 re 110 interpreting radiologists, of whom 24
were defined as high-volume readers (ie, those who inter
155 The primary outcome of this analysis
was defined as histopathologically confirmed CIN2+ or ce
156 Cases
were defined as HIV infections diagnosed during 2015-201
157 This fact suggests that RFs of SDs cannot
be defined as homogeneous sensory zone driven by a linea
158 Disproportionately minority hospitals
were defined as hospitals having twice the relative mino
159 Success
was defined as improvement in 3 Early Treatment Diabetic
160 RV recovery
was defined as improvements in central venous pressure,
161 Primary angle closure disease (PACD)
was defined as inability to visualize pigmented trabecul
162 For the primary analysis, remission
was defined as inactive uveitis while off treatment at a
163 Daily numbers of 'crisis episodes'
were defined as incident inpatient, home treatment team
164 Cases
were defined as incident TB or all-cause death within 48
165 Relapse of ME
was defined as increase in macular thickness to >=240 mu
166 A chronic or resolved PAMM lesion
was defined as inner nuclear layer thinning with outer p
167 Adverse outcome
was defined as intensive care unit (ICU) admission or de
168 Conduction delay (CD)
was defined as interelectrode conduction time of 7 to 11
169 CTO-PCI
was defined as intervention of a 100% occluded coronary
170 The cumulative failure of the AADI
was defined as intraocular pressure (IOP) >18 mm Hg or n
171 Success
was defined as intraocular pressure (IOP) between 6 and
172 Poor outcome
was defined as invasive ventilation and/or death.
173 Refractory glaucoma
was defined as IOP >21 mmHg on maximum tolerated glaucom
174 Selective laser trabeculoplasty success
was defined as IOP decrease of 20% or more from baseline
175 year of hospital discharge; postpublication
was defined as January 2017 onward (July 2017 for effect
176 early, whereas those between 16 to 24 hours
were defined as late.
177 Conjunctival biopsy locations
were defined as "
lesional," "perilesional," and "nonaffe
178 Failure
was defined as less than 20% reduction of IOP from medic
179 DAT deficit
was defined as less than 65% of putamen striatal binding
180 maging, and nonalcoholic fatty liver disease
was defined as liver fat fraction >=5.0%.
181 cutoff value for strut coverage by OCT which
was defined as luminal endothelial cells with 2 ablumina
182 LV full recovery
was defined as LVEF >=55%.
183 Diagnostic allergens
are defined as medicinal products in the EU.
184 Metabolic health
was defined as meeting less than 2 of the following 4 cr
185 Microplastics
are defined as microscopic plastic particles in the rang
186 Incident depression
was defined as minimal depressive symptoms at baseline a
187 SR
was defined as modified thrombolysis in cerebral ischemi
188 External migration
was defined as moving (i.e., change in residency) into o
189 ASCVD
was defined as myocardial infarction, coronary or caroti
190 MACE
was defined as myocardial infarction, late (>180 days) r
191 HS
was defined as new onset altered mental status after tra
192 Relapse
was defined as new or reappearing symptoms or worsening
193 Active surveillance
was defined as no definitive treatment within the first
194 Potential off-label use
was defined as no recorded diagnosis of either COPD or a
195 Long non-coding RNAs (lncRNAs)
are defined as non-protein-coding transcripts that are a
196 Myopia
was defined as non-cycloplegic subjective spherical equi
197 POAF
was defined as occurrence of postcardiac surgery atrial
198 tion theory, an efficient retinal code could
be defined as one that reduces redundancy to communicate
199 Rhinitis
was defined as one or more episodes of sneezing, runny a
200 A dominant LAD
was defined as one that was wrapped around the left vent
201 keholder groups combined) results, consensus
was defined as outcomes scoring greater than 90% "critic
202 ransmission by P. duboscqi, this DNA vaccine
was defined as partially protective, in the context of L
203 Isolated traumatic brain injury
was defined as patients with a head Abbreviated Injury S
204 Cases
were defined as patients with at least a four-fold incre
205 Exercise intolerance
was defined as peak oxygen uptake < 85% predicted from m
206 tive therapy, a successful treatment outcome
was defined as peri-implant health with a reduced suppor
207 Beta bursts
were defined as periods exceeding the 75th percentile am
208 CKD, whereas end-stage kidney disease (ESKD)
is defined as permanent kidney failure.
209 Modes of DAPT cessations
were defined as physician-guided DAPT discontinuation, b
210 Coagulopathy
was defined as platelets lower than 150 x 109/L, interna
211 Respiratory failure
was defined as PO(2)/FiO(2) ratio of <=40 kPa.
212 ve predictive value (PPV) occurred when iPET
was defined as positive if the Deauville score was 4-5 (
213 Complications
were defined as postoperative events due to the GDD that
214 A case
was defined as PPV23 serotype-specific pneumococcal pneu
215 Hypertension
was defined as prescription of blood pressure-lowering d
216 outcome was time to progression; progression
was defined as PSA level of 10 ng/mL or greater, PSA dou
217 not failed but required glaucoma medications
were defined as qualified successes.
218 itive and consensus-negative interpretations
were defined as qualitative agreement in at least 3 of t
219 Treatment success
was defined as rCDI prevention through 8 weeks after tre
220 Early pubertal maturation
was defined as reaching a certain pubertal stage earlier
221 Pouch phenotype
was defined as recurrent-acute pouchitis (n = 6), chroni
222 De-escalation
was defined as reduction in either the number of antibio
223 Following this view, LCRs can also
be defined as regions showing composition bias.
224 Inactivity
was defined as requirement for assistance with activitie
225 USBR
was defined as resection within 6 months of diagnosis.
226 Single surgery anatomic success (SSAS)
was defined as retinal attachment without ongoing tampon
227 The global test-retest variability
was defined as root mean square deviation (RMSD) of TD v
228 Oropharyngeal testing policy
was defined as routine universal testing when >=85% of c
229 TC
was defined as same-nodule histologic malignancy.
230 Allergic rhinitis
was defined as sensitisation and self-reported nasal sym
231 Immune response
was defined as seroconversion from seronegative (<1:8) a
232 Severe neurodevelopmental impairment
was defined as severe cerebral palsy or a composite moto
233 The diagnosis of endophthalmitis
was defined as severe intraocular inflammation that nece
234 Anion foldamers
are defined as single- or multistrand complexes-often he
235 Severe acute kidney injury
was defined as stage 2/3 acute kidney injury.
236 The primary outcome of BP control
was defined as systolic BP level lower than 140 mm Hg an
237 ADHF
was defined as systolic or diastolic dysfunction requiri
238 An AUC24/MIC of >=125
was defined as target ratio.
239 Vaccine failure
was defined as TBE despite adherence to the recommended
240 Fast VT
was defined as TCL <333 milliseconds (rate >180 bpm).
241 Significant liver fibrosis
was defined as TE >=7.1 kPa.
242 he group recommended that effective coverage
be defined as the proportion of a population in need of
243 (1/2) and delta(RA)/(3)(1/2), with delta(RA)
being defined as the difference between the maximum and
244 Recurrent pregnancy loss
is defined as the failure of two or more clinically reco
245 e proton affinity (PA) of a neutral molecule
is defined as the negative of the enthalpy change for th
246 The term diabetic cardiomyopathy
is defined as the presence of abnormalities in myocardia
247 e implementation, where the outcome variable
is defined as the ratio of total sickness hours over the
248 The fidelity of quantum transport
is defined as the transmission performance of an ensembl
249 Radiomics
is defined as the use of automated or semi-automated pos
250 The Environmental Biosafety Criterion (EBC)
was defined as the absence of fungal and bacterial conta
251 Metabolic flexibility
was defined as the change in 24-h RQ from EBL during fas
252 surgery, and early brachial artery dilation
was defined as the change in postoperative arterial diam
253 The optimal ELN threshold
was defined as the cut-point associated with a 95% proba
254 h all measurements were grouped and baseline
was defined as the day of injection, and thus the pharma
255 Incident visual loss
was defined as the development of or worsening of visual
256 Response to naltrexone
was defined as the difference in craving and the differe
257 Change in EDSS
was defined as the difference in EDSS between attack and
258 Eczema incidence
was defined as the first-ever diagnosis of eczema record
259 Elevated Lp(a)
was defined as the highest race-specific quintile.
260 The date of diagnosis
was defined as the index date.
261 ne, and nitric oxide synthase (NOS) activity
was defined as the inverse of FBF reserve to N(G)-monome
262 Noninferiority of GMT ratios
was defined as the lower bound of the 2-sided 95% confid
263 Noninferiority
was defined as the lower limit of the 95% CI for the dif
264 Cognitive impairment
was defined as the lowest tertile in the main analysis a
265 Anatomical success
was defined as the maintenance of retinal reattachment w
266 MaxLCBI(4mm)
was defined as the maximum LCBI within any 4-mm-long seg
267 For each participant, the index episode
was defined as the most recent syphilis episode for whic
268 Extubation failure
was defined as the need for mechanical ventilation withi
269 Home time
was defined as the number of days alive and spent outsid
270 Worsening traction after treatment
was defined as the occurrence within 6 months of worseni
271 Superiority
was defined as the posterior probability of an odds rati
272 A true-positive finding
was defined as the presence of a pathology-confirmed can
273 Family history of AF
was defined as the presence of AF in a first-degree rela
274 Plateau iris
was defined as the presence of all the following UBM cri
275 UMI
was defined as the presence of late gadolinium enhanceme
276 The PPV
was defined as the proportion of patients who had true-p
277 GA perimeter-adjusted growth rate
was defined as the ratio between GA area growth rate and
278 EFS
was defined as the time from random assignment to the da
279 Vasopressor dosing intensity
was defined as the total vasopressor dose infused across
280 -term variability during a particular period
was defined as the variability in IOP measurements obtai
281 Long-term variability
was defined as the variability in IOP measurements obtai
282 Cut-off points for symmetry
were defined as the 95th percentile of the absolute inte
283 Changes to costs
were defined as the cost of implementing the bundle minu
284 SAE
were defined as the occurrence of >=1 moderate, major, o
285 High mutation rates
were defined as the top 10% of the mutation rate, utiliz
286 Responders
were defined as those alive without HF hospitalization a
287 Super-responders
were defined as those alive without HF hospitalization a
288 High-impact journals
were defined as those in the top 5% of all journals.
289 Patients with confirmed COVID-19
were defined as those with a positive SARS-CoV-2 test.
290 Health care-associated infections
were defined as those with onset in a health care facili
291 Pulmonary-specific inflammation
was defined as total glycolytic activity (TGA) on [18]F-
292 A meaningful difference in ICD failure rate
was defined as twice (or more) the lead failure rate obs
293 Asymptomatic bacteriuria
is defined as two consecutive voided specimens (preferab
294 Hypercoagulable thromboelastography
was defined as two or more hypercoagulable parameters.
295 Allergic rhinitis to grass pollen (ARg)
was defined as upper airway symptoms during grass pollen
296 Household air pollution exposure
was defined as use of polluting fuels (coal, wood, charc
297 Serum 25(OH)VD levels < 30 ng/mL
were defined as VD insufficiency/deficiency.
298 Visual impairment
was defined as visual acuity (VA) of > 0.3 logarithm of
299 PV
was defined as Vt <=8 ml/kg predicted body weight and po
300 A cICA-PO
was defined as when single phase computed tomography ang