(v. t.) To suffer to enter; to grant entrance, whether into a place, or into the mind, or consideration; to receive; to take; as, they were into his house; to admit a serious thought into the mind; to admit evidence in the trial of a cause.
(v. t.) To give a right of entrance; as, a ticket admits one into a playhouse.
(v. t.) To allow (one) to enter on an office or to enjoy a privilege; to recognize as qualified for a franchise; as, to admit an attorney to practice law; the prisoner was admitted to bail.
(v. t.) To concede as true; to acknowledge or assent to, as an allegation which it is impossible to deny; to own or confess; as, the argument or fact is admitted; he admitted his guilt.
(v. t.) To be capable of; to permit; as, the words do not admit such a construction. In this sense, of may be used after the verb, or may be omitted.
Example Sentences:
(1) The Wales international and Port Vale defender Clayton McDonald both admitted having sex with the victim, – McDonald was found not guilty of the same charge.
(2) In January 2011, the Nobel peace prize laureate was admitted to a Johannesburg hospital for what officials initially described as tests but what turned out to be an acute respiratory infection .
(3) But RWE admitted it had often only been able to retain customers with expired contracts by offering them new deals with more favourable conditions.
(4) 2.35pm: West Ham co-owner David Sullivan has admitted that a deal to land Miroslav Klose is unlikely to go through following the striker's star performances in South Africa.
(5) The hospital whose A&E unit has been threatened with closure on safety grounds has admitted that four patients died after errors by staff in the emergency department and other areas.
(6) Veterans admitted to a 90-day alcoholism treatment program were administered the MMPI, and those who completed the program were retested before discharge.
(7) Of the 138 patients who were admitted to the study, only seventy-one (51 per cent) could be followed for an average of 3.5 years (a typical return rate of urban trauma centers).
(8) A total of 1,268 patients admitted to hospital wards were kept under surveillance by one observer throughout their stay in hospital.
(9) At the trial Arena admitted involvement in criminal activity, but insisted he was innocent of the murders.
(10) The denial of justice to victims of British torture, some of which Britain admits, is set to continue.
(11) An analysis of 249 cases of neontal tetanus admitted to Korle-Bu Teaching Hospital, Accra, between January 1971 and December 1974, has been presented.
(12) Couples applying to in vitro fertilization were admitted into this project when the sperm concentration was greater than 20 million per mL and motility greater than 30 per cent.
(13) All patients with puerperal psychosis admitted to the Royal Edinburgh Hospital within 90 days of childbirth during the periods 1880-90 and 1971-80 were compared.
(14) A 45-year-old woman was admitted to our hospital with complaints of fever and lumbago.
(15) The ratio of male:female students admitted has fallen from 3.4:1 in 1968 to 1.4:1 in 1987.
(16) On 18 March 1996, the force agreed, without admitting any wrongdoing by any officer, to pay Tomkins £40,000 compensation, and £70,000 for his legal costs.
(17) When allegations of systemic doping and cover-ups first emerged in the runup to the 2013 Russian world athletics championships, an IOC spokesman insisted: “Anti-doping measures in Russia have improved significantly over the last five years with an effective, efficient and new laboratory and equipment in Moscow.” London Olympics were sabotaged by Russia’s doping, report says Read more We now know that the head of that lauded Moscow lab, Grigory Rodchenko, admitted to intentionally destroying 1,417 samples in December last year shortly before Wada officials visited.
(18) The findings provide additional evidence that, for at least some cases, the likelihood of a physician's admitting a patient to the hospital is influenced by the patient's living arrangements, travel time to the physician's office, and the extent to which medical care would cause a financial hardship for the patient.
(19) Life events were collected (using the Bedford College method) in 78 women patients aged 15-40 yr, of whom 39 were admitted for the removal of an appendix which proved to be normal at operation and in whom no organic cause for their pain was found, and a matched group of 39 parasuicide patients.
(20) Five of the children presented an "aplastic crisis," for example, a sudden decrease in hemoglobin concentration associated with absence of reticulocytes in the peripheral blood, and four were admitted with unremitting severe pain because of a "vaso-occlusive crisis."
Readmit
Definition:
(v. t.) To admit again; to give entrance or access to again.
Example Sentences:
(1) None of the children in the study showed clinical symptoms of acquired subglottic stenosis before discharge from hospital, and none has been readmitted for this condition subsequently.
(2) The patients were readmitted later to check their renal function.
(3) Among patients discharged alive, 66 (47%) were readmitted within 90 days.
(4) Patients who received thrombolytic treatment had a hospital stay 2 days longer, on average, but were readmitted for shorter periods (10.3 days less).
(5) During the first 2 years, half of the control group was readmitted, compared with less than a third of the study group (P less than 0.005).
(6) The 327 readmissions, including 42 patients who were readmitted more than once during the study period, accounted for 12% of medical admissions.
(7) All new admissions or non-programmed readmitted patients to the hospital during the months of November and December 1990.
(8) Due to persistent mild arthralgia, he had continued to take 5-10 mg of prednisolone and analgesics until 1985 when he was readmitted to our hospital.
(9) The patient described was unable because of his condition to undergo surgical repair of his fistula: when readmitted after 2 months the fistula had closed and the artery was normal.
(10) Three horses that were discharged after surgical correction of LDDLC were readmitted with signs of abdominal pain between 5 weeks and 13 months after surgery.
(11) Patients with more insight were significantly less likely to be readmitted over the course of follow-up.
(12) A significant number of chronic psychotic patients are readmitted to state mental hospitals each year due in large part to their inability or unwillingness to continue taking antipsychotic medication on a voluntary basis.
(13) Scottish Ebola nurse readmitted to hospital in 'serious condition' Read more “We are sad to announce that Pauline Cafferkey’s condition has deteriorated and she is now critically ill. Pauline is being treated for Ebola in the high-level isolation unit at the Royal Free hospital,” a statement said.
(14) Of the 106 patients, only two were readmitted, both as a result of superficial wound separation.
(15) Three months later the patient was readmitted with a new bleeding episode which resulted in a fatal outcome.
(16) In December 1989, she was readmitted because of a pathological fracture of the left humerus.
(17) and at last is readmitted by alcoholic disease of disorder or a different psychiatric disease or disorders (I.C.D.-9.a or D.S.M.-III) in a 37.5% and 16.41% respectively.
(18) She underwent only cholecystectomy and was well without any therapy for the liver tumor up until March in 1991 when she was readmitted to our university hospital due to rapidly progressive liver dysfunction.
(19) One patient was readmitted the day after his discharge because of clotting after bladder biopsies.
(20) About 6 months after surgery, he was readmitted on Oct. 12, 1984 with the chief complaint of general fatigue and headache.