(a.) Acting against, or in a contrary direction; opposed; contrary; opposite; conflicting; as, adverse winds; an adverse party; a spirit adverse to distinctions of caste.
(a.) Opposite.
(a.) In hostile opposition to; unfavorable; unpropitious; contrary to one's wishes; unfortunate; calamitous; afflictive; hurtful; as, adverse fates, adverse circumstances, things adverse.
(v. t.) To oppose; to resist.
Example Sentences:
(1) There fore, the adverse effects may be induced by such quartz or silicon compounds.
(2) The following is a brief review of the history, mechanism of action, and potential adverse effects of neuromuscular blockers.
(3) This modified endocrine activity in brook trout may reflect adjustment to adverse external ionic conditions.
(4) The AL plus EA produced significantly greater adverse effects than with SFO plus EA.
(5) Mild, significant improvement was noted in one of the hearing components, "attenuation," and an adverse effect was shown on "distortion," owing to noise.
(6) Spontaneous reports of suspected adverse reactions may be the only way of revealing very rare events but they present great difficulties of rational interpretation.
(7) Adverse outcomes were reported more frequently by consultant physicians, by those who 'titrated' the intravenous sedative, and by those who used an additional intravenous agent, but were reported equally frequently by endoscopists using midazolam and endoscopists using diazepam.
(8) Only an extensive knowledge of the various mechanisms and pharmacologic agents that can be used to prevent or treat these adverse reactions will allow the physician to approach the problem scientifically and come to a reasonable solution for the patient.
(9) The prognosis was adversely affected by obesity, preoperative flexion contracture of 30 degrees or more, wound-healing problems, wound infection, and postoperative manipulation under general anesthesia.
(10) One thousand singleton low-risk pregnancies were cross-sectionally studied at 36-40 weeks gestation with continuous-wave Doppler ultrasonography in order to assess its usefulness as an antepartum monitoring technique for the identification of fetuses at risk of developing an adverse outcome.
(11) The relatively high concentrations of desethylchloroquine and bisdesethylchloroquine found during chronic treatment show the need for more information about the therapeutic value and adverse effects of the metabolites.
(12) Urinary incontinence present between 7 and 10 days after stroke was the most important adverse prognostic factor both for survival and for recovery of function.
(13) Long-term treatment with agents that stimulate the beta-receptor (prenalterol and pirbuterol) has not proved to be useful in the treatment of chronic heart failure; moreover, prolonged treatment with beta-agonists (dobutamine and pirbuterol) may adversely affect survival.
(14) Since ASA has a greater potential for adverse effects, paracetamol is increasingly preferred to ASA, particularly in children.
(15) When a product is selected for a patient, consideration should be given to necessity, efficacy, adverse effects, and cost-effectiveness.
(16) The presence of prostatic invasion either into the stroma or involving prostatic ducts and acini only had no adverse effect on outcome.
(17) Oocytes obtained by laparoscopy were compared with those obtained under ultrasonic guidance to determine whether CO2 exposure had any adverse effect.
(18) It is mentioned that the lack of a valuable status for industrial physicians may adversely affect the evolution of training programs in Switzerland.
(19) Alternatively, the data presented herein strongly suggest that diets containing conventional quantities of fat, in which saturated fat is replaced by unsaturated fat and dietary cholesterol reduced, would result in the desired reductions to total and low-density lipoprotein cholesterol concentrations without the adverse effects of increased postprandial glucose and insulin concentrations, increased fasting and postprandial total and very-low-density lipoprotein triglyceride concentrations, and decreased fasting high-density lipoprotein cholesterol concentrations.
(20) "I have to say that it is my expectation that they probably can be, because the data that we have to date is unlikely to show an adverse impact."
Inauspicious
Definition:
(a.) Not auspicious; ill-omened; unfortunate; unlucky; unfavorable.
Example Sentences:
(1) Substitutes Ricardo Quaresma (for Ronaldo, 25) 7 Started inauspiciously, needing treatment after a tackle from Umtiti and after a clash of heads with Evra, but went on to play well on the wing.
(2) And they gave us the word “euphemism” in the first place – “to use a favourable word in place of an inauspicious one”.
(3) In an inauspicious start to talks over awarding Greece a third bailout , international officials have postponed the negotiations after failing to agree with their hosts where they will stay and how they will operate when in Athens.
(4) Marriage delays were also affected by horoscope problems, delays in elder brother's and sister's marriages, poverty of parents, gossip about premarital relations, physical deformities of the girl, and the combination of inauspicious dates.
(5) Carousel , which transferred from the National in 1994, did decently (it won plaudits for being the first mixed-race production to appear on Broadway), but Hytner's next big musical, inauspiciously entitled Sweet Smell of Success , met with disaster.
(6) Similarly inauspicious are concomitant low antigenic activity in tumor and IgC deficit or a marked dysimmunoglobulinemia.
(7) It was by all accounts an inauspicious stateside debut, with the then 24-year-old showing very little that afternoon to indicate he’d be world heavyweight champion in less than three years’ time.
(8) If anyone has the brazen confidence to take on such an inauspicious project, it is Stuart Lipton, a man who exudes the self-assurance you might expect of someone who has built almost 30m sq ft of commercial space in London over the past 30 years.
(9) Both forms verify that in certain cases favourable, compensating components must be taken into account, however, sometimes this effect could be inauspicious.
(10) After this inauspicious start, the Conservatives lost the general election a year later.
(11) The British bronze medal winner’s snowboarding odyssey has taken her from an inauspicious start on a dry slope in Churchill to an Olympic podium finish.
(12) There are certainly headwinds in Australia, magnified by inauspicious foreign currency movements, but we have been consistently cost conscious and are transforming our publishing operations longer-term into multi-platform businesses.
(13) Respiratory infections are particularly frequent in aged subjects and cause severe and often inauspicious complications) such as compromised cell-mediated immunity.
(14) The sale got off to a messy and inauspicious start.
(15) Mark Zuckerberg's baby got off to an inauspicious start; the shares had a teeny blip up after the start of trading but have gone downhill ever since.
(16) BT Sport, launched on Thursday night by its parent company in a bold £1bn bid to take on Sky Sports , will hope that it is not an inauspicious sign that one of its heavily trailed "ambassadors" might be about to trade the Premier League for La Liga.
(17) His resignation added to the inauspicious start for the FPC, a key plank of the coalition's policy to rid the City of the "light-touch" regulation pursued by Labour which proved so disastrous – or "tragic", as US Treasury secretary Timothy Geithner called it last week.
(18) An afternoon that got off to an inauspicious start, when stewards confiscated a banner protesting against Welsh involvement in Team GB at the Olympic Games, ended on a much happier note, as Gary Speed celebrated another highly impressive performance from a side who are growing in confidence with every game.
(19) Dumbarton only managed four draws in that time, as they crashed out of the Scottish First Division and got off to an inauspicious start in the second.
(20) Two goals down against the San Jose Earthquakes in the California Clásico, it looked as if Gerrard’s league debut would offer little respite from the miserable and inauspicious end to his Liverpool career.