(a.) Having life, in opposition to dead; living; being in a state in which the organs perform their functions; as, an animal or a plant which is alive.
(a.) In a state of action; in force or operation; unextinguished; unexpired; existent; as, to keep the fire alive; to keep the affections alive.
(a.) Exhibiting the activity and motion of many living beings; swarming; thronged.
(a.) Sprightly; lively; brisk.
(a.) Having susceptibility; easily impressed; having lively feelings, as opposed to apathy; sensitive.
(a.) Of all living (by way of emphasis).
Example Sentences:
(1) As of November, 1988 after a median observation period of 34 months, 174 of the 256 patients (68%) were alive, 11 (4%) dead and 71 (28%) lost to follow-up.
(2) He was burnt alive along with three customers as flames from the car set his carpet shop ablaze.
(3) Seven patients have not shown evidence of dissemination, and five are alive 1--15 years (median 9 years) after diagnosis.
(4) Nine of these patients are dead; four are alive, with three of these having progressive disease.
(5) In two patients with extensive marrow necrosis, the diagnosis of marrow necrosis was established by morphologic and radioisotopic studies, and the extent of involvement was accurately assessed by marrow scanning with technetium Tc 99m sulfur colloid while the patients were still alive.
(6) Sharif Mobley, 30, whose lawyers consider him to be disappeared, managed to call his wife in Philadelphia on Thursday, the first time they had spoken since February and a rare independent proof he is alive since a brief phone call with his mother in July.
(7) Approximately 16,000 people were diagnosed with multidrug-resistant tuberculosis in 2012 but were not given the treatment they needed to stay alive and prevent the spread of the disease, the World Health Organisation (WHO) has said.
(8) To this day, 10 patients (31%) are alive with a functioning kidney transplant, 16 (50%) are still treated by CPD awaiting a transplant, 5 have died (16%) and one went back to hemodialysis (3%).
(9) Six patients (30%) were alive without evidence of recurrent disease at follow-up ranging from 1 to 12 years.
(10) Only 13 patients were operable and only four are presently alive.
(11) Of the 5985 infants born alive under sole care of a midwife, 3.8% were admitted to hospital.
(12) Lion cubs fathered by Cecil, the celebrated lion shot dead in Zimbabwe , may already have been killed by a rival male lion and even if they were still alive there was nothing conservationists could do to protect them, a conservation charity has warned.
(13) In classical psychosomatics dualism in medicine is kept alive by considering only so-called "psychosomatic diseases".
(14) And if the fathers of Europe, Jean Monnet and Robert Schuman , were alive today, they would see that their aim, to get Europe to move to a proper union through a series of crises, has moved a step closer.
(15) At 5 years postoperatively, 122 patients (34.7%) were alive with a better New York Heart Association functional classification than preoperatively.
(16) Landrace sows lost less weight during lactation (P less than .05) when fed diet F than when fed diet N. The total number of pigs born, born alive, and alive at 21 d and at weaning were higher (P less than .01) for S-line Duroc sows, and litter size at 21 d and at weaning was higher (P less than .01) for S-line Landrace sows than for C-line litters within each breed.
(17) On December 14, 1990, the gastrostomy tube which had kept Nancy alive since the accident was removed and she died 11 days later.
(18) So why did the police officers not even leave one of them alive to ask him this question?” Why was he killed?
(19) All 15 patients were alive and asymptomatic at the time of writing.
(20) Of the 52 patients, 31 survived to leave hospital and all patients known to be alive are leading active and useful lives.
Mortal
Definition:
(a.) Subject to death; destined to die; as, man is mortal.
(a.) Destructive to life; causing or occasioning death; terminating life; exposing to or deserving death; deadly; as, a mortal wound; a mortal sin.
(a.) Fatally vulnerable; vital.
(a.) Of or pertaining to the time of death.
(a.) Affecting as if with power to kill; deathly.
(a.) Human; belonging to man, who is mortal; as, mortal wit or knowledge; mortal power.
(a.) Very painful or tedious; wearisome; as, a sermon lasting two mortal hours.
(n.) A being subject to death; a human being; man.
Example Sentences:
(1) Perinatal mortality is strongly associated with obstetrical factors, respiratory distress syndrome, and prematurity.
(2) This study compares the mortality of U.S. white males with that of Swedish males who have had the highest reported male life expectancies in the world since the early 1960s.
(3) Life expectancy and the infant mortality rate are considered more useful from an operational perspective and for comparisons than is the crude death rate because they are not influenced by age structure.
(4) The LD50 of the following metal-binding chelating drugs, EDTA, diethylenetriaminepentaacetic acid (DTPA), hydroxyethylenediaminetriacetic acid (HEDTA), cyclohexanediaminotetraacetic acid (CDTA) and triethylenetetraminehexaacetic acid (TTHA) was evaluated in terms of mortality in rats after intraperitoneal administration and was found to be in the order: CDTA greater than EDTA greater than DTPA greater than TTHA greater than HEDTA.
(5) Importantly, these characteristics were strong predictors of subsequent mortality.
(6) There appears to be no risk of morbidity or mortality.
(7) The introduction of intravenous, high-dose thrombolytic therapy during a brief period has markedly reduced mortality of patients with acute myocardial infarction.
(8) The hospital mortality was 2.4% in group A and 2.6% in group B.
(9) The mortality data were derived from the reports by Miyagi Prefectural Government.
(10) The medium time of admission (8.98 vs 9.5 days) and mortality rate (6.3% vs 7.1%) did not change.
(11) Our results underline the importance of patient-related factors in MVR, and indicate that care is needed in comparing the quality of MVR from different institutions with respect to mortality and morbidity.
(12) It was found that preterm infants (delivered before 38 weeks of gestation) had nine times the early neonatal mortality of term infants, irrespective of growth retardation patterns.
(13) High mortality, severe destruction of pancreatic B-cells and presence of sporadic mononuclear infiltrations in islets and around excretory ducts were observed.
(14) As many girls as boys receive primary and secondary education, maternal mortality is lower and the birth rate is falling .
(15) In contrast, the association of serum cholesterol with mortality due to causes other than coronary heart disease changed during follow-up (interaction of cholesterol with follow-up period: p = 0.004).
(16) Mortality, blood clearance and organ distribution of 125I labelled Escherichia coli were determined.
(17) In Stage II patients, chemotherapy has an impact on disease mortality for ER-positive and ER-negative premenopausal women and possibly ER-negative postmenopausal patients.
(18) It was found that there was a substantial increase in mortality rates in the area under the jets where there was large noise radiation.
(19) The positive predictive accuracy of a biophysical profile score of 0, with mortality and morbidity used as end points, was 100%.
(20) We conclude that heparin plus AT III partially prevents the endotoxin-induced generation of PAI activity which seems to correlate with the reduced presence of fibrin deposits in kidneys and with a reduced mortality.