(n.) One well versed in the Arabic language or literature; also, formerly, one who followed the Arabic system of surgery.
Example Sentences:
(1) In 1962, aged 30, the unknown Peter O'Toole made one of the most brilliant debuts in Hollywood history, playing the mercurial Arabist and aesthete TE Lawrence in David Lean's monumental Lawrence Of Arabia.
(2) Ford, 67, trained as an Arabist and served in Beirut, Riyadh, Paris and Cairo and was British ambassador to Bahrain as well as Syria from 2003-06.
(3) A Foreign Office spokesman denied that the ambassador to Saudi Arabia had been chosen to lead the inquiry because of any pressure from the Saudi kingdom and said Sir John Jenkins was selected because he was "a top arabist".
(4) Or is freedom only worth supporting when there is no possible conflict with Islam implied by all the romantic Arabist rhetoric?
(5) He is a former North Africa analyst at the International Crisis Group and publishes The Arabist blog
(6) "The verdict shows that they are quite willing to cut off the heads of the regime and throw them to the dogs in an effort to preserve the rest," argued Issandr el-Amrani, a columnist on Egyptian affairs who blogs as the Arabist .
(7) Updated at 10.39am BST 9.53am BST 'Reconfiguring of relationship' The Arabist's Issandr El Amrani writes that the relationship between the president and the military has been reconfigured: The overall impression I get is of a change of personalities with continuity in the institution (Supreme Council of Armed Forces).
(8) Issandr Amrani, who blogs as the Arabist , favours a more simple explanation: "The MB went ahead with this decision because it sees itself as on the brink of actually wielding power for the first time in its history," he argued.
(9) Born in the southern Beirut suburb of Ghobeiry on 6 April 1961, Badreddine had a pronounced limp, believed to have been sustained while he fought alongside pro-Palestinian and pan-Arabist militias during the Israeli invasion of Lebanon in 1982.
(10) When the school's distinguished Arabist, the late Fred Halliday, protested about these links before his death last year, he appears to have been alone.
(11) Noblesse oblige Son of a noted diplomat and Arabist, alumnus of Ampleforth and Cambridge, husband of a former lady in waiting to Princess Michael of Kent — Julian Alexander Kitchener-Fellowes , 61, might be considered perfectly placed to chronicle the moneyed lives and scandalous loves of the English upper classes in a number of screenplays and comic novels.
(12) The Arabist's Issandr El Amrani writes, on the National, that Morsi overplayed his hand domestically after foreign policy success: Where Mr Morsi overstepped is that he formally gave himself open-ended powers to make decrees that are immune from judicial oversight (therefore barring any legal recourse against them), giving himself licence to do pretty much anything else he pleases in the name of national security.
Surgery
Definition:
(n.) The art of healing by manual operation; that branch of medical science which treats of manual operations for the healing of diseases or injuries of the body; that branch of medical science which has for its object the cure of local injuries or diseases, as wounds or fractures, tumors, etc., whether by manual operation or by medicines and constitutional treatment.
(n.) A surgeon's operating room or laboratory.
Example Sentences:
(1) Seventeen patients (Group 1) had had no previous surgery, while 13 (Group 2) had had multiple previous operations.
(2) Peripheral vascular surgery has become an increasingly common mode of treatment in non-university, community hospitals in Sweden during the last decade.
(3) The article describes an unusual case with development of a right anterior mediastinal mass after bypass surgery with internal mammary artery grafts.
(4) The sequential histopathologic alterations in femorotibial joints of partial meniscectomized male and female guinea pigs were evaluated at 1, 2, 3, 6, and 12 weeks post-surgery.
(5) However, low dose heparin prophylasix is relatively ineffective in patients having hip surgery, and has not been evaluated in patients having other types of orthopaidic surgery.
(6) All patients were discharged home from two to six days after surgery (mean (SD) 3.7 (1.2) days).
(7) Patients had improved sitting balance and endurance after surgery.
(8) This mode of treatment remains appropriate for cases where antibiotics are ineffective and surgery impracticable.
(9) Breast conserving surgery in patients with small tumors combined with radiation therapy has gained wide popularity due to better cosmetic results without significant changes in survival.
(10) The present retrospective study reports the results of a survey conducted on 130 patients given elective abdominal and urinary surgery together with the cultivation of routine intraperitoneal drainage material.
(11) Gastro-intestinal surgery is only indicated if haemorrhage persists after a period of observation.
(12) An additional 1.3% of the persons studied needed this operation, but were unfit for surgery.
(13) After a review of the technical development and application of staplers from their introduction to the present day, the indications to the use of this instrument in all gastroenterological areas from the oesophagus to the rectum as well as in chest, gynaecological and urological surgery specified.
(14) In hypertensive patients, intravenous nicardipine in doses of 1 to 2 micrograms.kg-1.min-1 produced normotensive state during surgery accompanied by significant diuresis.
(15) On embryonic day 3.5 (E3.5), 1 day after surgery, there is a 42% average increase in volume of the polyganglia compared with the corresponding DRG on the unoperated side.
(16) Renal arteriography is therefore alone capable of answering two primordial questions: "Must surgery be undertaken and when operating, what surgical tactics to adopt".
(17) For this purpose, five queries may contribute to programming the most suitable surgery.
(18) Eighty four colorectal cancer patients who underwent presumably curative surgery were considered as candidates for control recurrence study.
(19) It is felt that otologic surgery should be done before the pinna reconstruction as it is very important to try and introduce sound into these children at an early age.
(20) It was considered worthwhile to report this case due to the problems which arose concerning the choice of a thoracic rather than abdominal route owing to the impossibility of associating cardiomyotomy with anti-reflux plastica surgery because of the reduced dimensions of the stomach.