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SHORT-TERM
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Relating to or extending over a limited period
Example:
short-term credit
Synonyms:
short-run; short-term
Classified under:
Similar:
short (primarily temporal sense; indicating or being or seeming to be limited in duration)
Context examples:
Fortunately, when oxygen levels were restored, most ocean creatures recovered some visual function, indicating that short-term periods of low oxygen may not cause permanent damage.
(Low ocean oxygen levels can blind sea creatures, National Science Foundation)
Also, a range of cognitive tests were performed related to short-term memory, verbal comprehension and knowledge, psychomotor speed, visual processing, long-term storage and retrieval, and cognitive processing speed.
(Brain benefits of aerobic exercise lost to mercury exposure, NIH)
Although caloric restriction has not been demonstrated experimentally to increase human lifespan, short-term changes in physiological measures like insulin responsiveness have been observed.
(Longevity Pathway, NCI Thesaurus/BIOCARTA)
Includes patients with unstable angina or Non-STEMI who have high risk features for short-term risk of death or nonfatal MI.
(Percutaneous Coronary Intervention for High Risk Non-ST Elevation Myocardial Infarction or Unstable Angina, NCI Thesaurus/ACC)
A self-administered questionnaire designed to measure the short-term impact of nausea, emesis, and retching on patients receiving emetogenic chemotherapy.
(Osoba Nausea and Emesis Module, NCI Thesaurus)
Immediate, short-term counseling (talking with a professional counselor) to stop a critical emotional incident (e.g., attempted suicide or drug overdose) from getting worse.
(Crisis intervention, NCI Dictionary)
Previous randomised trials have shown low carbohydrate diets are beneficial for short-term weight loss and improve cardiometabolic risk.
(Moderate Carbohydrate Intake May be Best for Health, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)
Previous research used satellite-based measurements of vegetation greenness to investigate changes in the Amazon rainforest, notably the effects of severe short-term droughts in 2005 and 2010.
(NASA finds drought may take toll on Congo rainforest, NASA)
A 25-item screening test for dementia that provides quantitative assessment on attention, concentration, orientation, short-term memory, long-term memory, language abilities, visual construction, list-generating fluency, abstraction, and judgment.
(Cognitive Abilities Screening Instrument, NCI Thesaurus)
A high-dose exposure to domoic acid can lead to amnesic shellfish poisoning, a potentially fatal condition marked by seizures and short-term memory loss.
(Scientists discover genetic basis for how harmful algae blooms become toxic, National Science Foundation)
