(v. i.) To grow better; to meliorate; as, wine ameliorates by age.
Example Sentences:
(1) There was prompt symptomatic relief and amelioration of signs of nephritis.
(2) One patient had amelioration of his symptoms, 5 experienced no change and in 5 their symptoms became worse.
(3) We infer from these results that endotoxin ameliorates the cyclical changes in blood cell counts by regulating hematopoietic proliferative activity at the stem cell level.
(4) Mild amelioration of sleep-wakefulness cycles and impulse and drive functions could be observed clinically in both groups.
(5) In the present experiment, cholinergic-rich grafts implanted into either the neocortex or the hippocampus of aged rats are shown to reinnervate the host neocortex and hippocampus, respectively, and to provide a significant amelioration of the host animals' short-term memory impairments.
(6) over at least 3 days can ameliorate 5-fluorouracil (FUra) toxicity; to avoid Urd-induced phlebitis in the peripheral veins of patients, a central vein is used.
(7) In spite of technical improvements, there has been no persistent amelioration of results of coronary angioplasty over time.
(8) This finding suggests that intracerebral administration of neurotrophic factors may become a generally valuable approach when attempting to ameliorate age-related neuronal deficits in experimental animals and humans.
(9) Levothyroxine therapy lowered the monoiodotyrosine and diiodotyrosine levels, ameliorated all her endocrinopathies, started her periods, and shrank the goiter.
(10) These findings suggest that health professionals, particularly nurses, who work with families in their homes, must be alert and sensitive to cues and circumstances which could indicate suffering, and in so doing, take the necessary steps to ameliorate their situation.
(11) We conclude that the fall in PaO2 that occurs with acetate hemodialysis is due to decreased ventilation secondary to decreased VCO2 and that exercise can ameliorate the fall in PaO2 by increasing ventilation.
(12) Prophylactic treatment by intra-articular injections twice weekly for 4 weeks caused amelioration of canine cartilage erosions.
(13) As management of HIV infection becomes more proactive, early identification of persons at risk for PCP and initiation of preventive therapy will become more routine, and the clinical impact of P. carinii may be ameliorated.
(14) Ultimately, the ideal treatment for the AIDS patient with KS will be a combination of antiretroviral therapy to suppress further effects of HIV, biological therapy to reverse the immunologic defects, chemotherapy to control tumor development, and hematopoietic growth factors to ameliorate treatment toxicities.
(15) Large randomized trials now confirm that myelosuppression after intensive chemotherapy can be substantially ameliorated, reducing infections and decreasing hospital days, risks, and costs.
(16) Appropriate use of varicella zoster immunoglobulin to prevent or ameliorate maternal or perinatal infection depends on accurate identification of varicella-susceptible women.
(17) This letter-writer argues that the salient action of mood elevation is a result of the supplemental pyridoxine (vitamin B) which ameliorates the deficiency induced by oral contraceptive use that leads to depression resulting from inhibition of synthesis of biogenic amines in the central nervous system.
(18) A near-total thyroidectomy resulted in rapid amelioration of thyrotoxicosis.
(19) The purpose of this study was to examine the possibility that the graft-derived 5-HT hyperinnervation is governed by target-related effects present in the host neostriatum and the question of whether grafts rich in 5-HT cells can ameliorate the drug-induced motor asymmetry resulting from unilateral 6-OHDA lesions.
(20) In this article are considered the multiple instruments today employed in cars, in order to prevent or ameliorate the lesions caused to the occupants in case of road accident.
Deteriorate
Definition:
(v. t.) To make worse; to make inferior in quality or value; to impair; as, to deteriorate the mind.
(v. i.) To grow worse; to be impaired in quality; to degenerate.
Example Sentences:
(1) It is followed by rapid neurobehavioral deterioration in late infancy or early childhood, a developmental arrest, plateauing, and then either a course of retarded development or continued deterioration.
(2) Hypertensive disorders in pregnancy are frequently accompanied by deteriorated renal functions and by pathological lesions in the glomeruli.
(3) A remarkable deterioration of prognosis with increasing age rises the question whether treatment with cytotoxic drugs should be tried in patients more than 60 years old.
(4) "There is … a risk that the political, trade, and gas frictions with Russia could lead to strong deterioration in economic relations between the two countries, with a significant drop in Ukraine's exports to and imports from Russia.
(5) This suggests that there was a deterioration of the vasoconstrictor response and indicated a possible effect of heat at the receptor or effector level.
(6) Four patients had previously been diverted and the other six were reconstructed because of intractable incontinence or deteriorating renal function.
(7) Finally, these cases support the existence of a therapeutic upper limit for desipramine plasma concentrations, above which clinical deterioration occurs.
(8) In view of the high mortality every clinical deterioration of patients with cirrhosis should alert the physician of the presence of SBP.
(9) The authors present a boy with a sudden onset a large intracranial hematoma causing rapid neurologic deterioration.
(10) The data suggest late hemodynamic deterioration after 48 hours of IABC.
(11) Aspartylglycosaminuria (AGU) is a hereditary metabolic disorder characterized by slowly progressive mental deterioration from infancy, urinary excretion of large amounts of aspartylglycosamine, and decreased activity of the lysosomal enzyme aspartylglcosamine amido hydrolase in various body tissues and fluids.
(12) The dilemma focuses on whether the obliteration or removal of the cystic areas will benefit or cause further deterioration of the patient's condition.
(13) Bacteriuria was not associated with deteriorating renal function determined by serial plasma creatinine estimations.
(14) The deteriorating situation would worsen if ministers pressed ahead with another controversial Lansley policy – that of abolishing the cap on the amount of income semi-independent foundation trust hospitals can make by treating private patients.
(15) During a postoperative follow-up period of 1 to 3 years, no further deterioration has been observed and magnetic resonance studies have demonstrated a space filled with cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) around the lumbosacral cord.
(16) Use of sunglasses that block all ultraviolet radiation and severely attenuate high-energy visible radiation will slow the pace of ocular deterioration and delay the onset of age-related disease, thereby reducing its prevalence.
(17) Sechin warned the west earlier this week that expanding sanctions over Russia's annexation of Ukraine's Crimea region would only make the political situation deteriorate further, according to Reuters.
(18) Rates of clinical deterioration and frequencies of attacks were not significantly different between treated and control groups.
(19) In a follow-up of 17 HIV-positive subjects, nine presented deteriorated reflexes in the tests and higher IgG immune complex levels.
(20) However, these good results deteriorated on longer follow-up and were not expected to be permanent.