(n.) A sore on the back or hips caused by lying for a long time in bed.
Example Sentences:
(1) In the cervical vertebral-myelic trauma a high incidence of bronchopulmonary, metabolic, thromboembolic complications and bedsores is present.
(2) The use of the flexor hallucis longus tendon as an additional landmark has been tested in 71 patients scheduled for surgery on the foot (emergency trauma surgery, amputations, ingrowing toe-nails, removal of bedsores, verrucas).
(3) Our results suggest that the increased density of collagen fibrils may protect the skin of ALS patients from pressure ischemia, a major cause of bedsore formation.
(4) Failure of rods in 6 cases (of 461 detected) and 5 cases of inflammation of soft tissues (skin bedsores-type).
(5) There are frequent reports of the chronic nature of skin ulcers of varying etiology (burns, bedsores, wound diastasis, etc.
(6) Dynamic spine fitting not only enables the patient to accept his disability, take interest in vocational and social rehabilitation sooner than conventional methods, but also prevents the typical psychological and physiological complications, such as depression, neurasthenic status, urological complications and bedsores.
(7) Patients dying at home were (a) more likely to be fully alert shortly before death (P < 0.05); (b) less likely to be suffering from vomiting, incontinence, or bedsores (P < 0.001); and (c) less likely to have unrelieved physical distress (P < 0.05).
(8) All 5 cases of bedsores were the result of paraplegia.
(9) After that, the bedsore has been treated by Gebencream (1% Cream of Sulfadiazine silver) as usually.
(10) The drugs-mixture, as mentioned above, has been scattered over its bedsore before the usual traditional treatment.
(11) The main complications affecting the skin comprise the dermatologic toxicity of anticancer therapy, bedsores, malignant ulcers, sores due to nonmetastatic cancer, pruritus, and infections.
(12) This case of a malignant sacrococcygeal teratoma, usually a tumour of early childhood, presented as a bedsore in the lower end of the nuchal cleft of a 69-year-old man and proved to be malignant with a trophoblastic element.
(13) From 1984 to 1991, 5 cases of bedsores and 1 case of ulcer resulted from irradiation in gluteal region were repaired with gluteus maximus musculocutaneous flaps.
(14) The use of catheters for evacuation and lavage enables fast regeneration of intestinal peristalsis and rapid patient recovery thus preventing possible bedsores.
(15) We have measured and compared the mechanical properties of the skin, muscles and of a cushion designed to prevent bedsores.
(16) The authors report the results of a two years monitoring program focused on patients at risk of and with bedsores in the general hospital of Castelfranco Veneto.
(17) Out of 200 infections due to Bacteroides fragilis occurring over a period of three years 133 were related to the intestinal tract, 55 to the genitourinary tract, and the remainder were in bedsores and ulcers; 56% occurred in patients undergoing major intestinal surgery.B.
(18) The causes of bedsores and their complications are described, along with the preventive and surgical, medical and physiotherapeutic measures used in their treatment.
(19) The results suggest that these patients are best managed within their familiar environment, that femoral head replacement arthroplasty is appropriate for high fractures and that the prevention of bedsores in conservatively treated patients is of great importance.
(20) Mechanical stresses developed in the tissue during sitting or reclining could cause bedsores in paralyzed individuals.
Infirm
Definition:
(a.) Not firm or sound; weak; feeble; as, an infirm body; an infirm constitution.
(a.) Weak of mind or will; irresolute; vacillating.
(a.) Not solid or stable; insecure; precarious.
(v. t.) To weaken; to enfeeble.
Example Sentences:
(1) The thrust of health care "solutions" in the press and in Congress focus on the infirm.
(2) Those allocated a diagnosis of dementia were most impaired and confused, and those living in specialist homes for the mentally infirm were more impaired than other residents.
(3) Photograph: Eamonn Mccabe I is for Italy He lived for many years in a mountain-top retreat in Ravello on the Amalfi coast until he became too infirm to cope with the hills.
(4) Anyone who is pregnant, breastfeeding or infirm should talk to a GP before taking the herb.
(5) The cell bodies of the AVCN did not seem altered infirming a rapid, direct or indirect, neurotoxic effect of the drug.
(6) This paper describes one of the first attempts at an economic evaluation of a community care initiative for elderly mentally infirm people and their carers.
(7) It appears to become more severe with advanced age and other infirmities, such as immobility.
(8) It was one of at least half a dozen such unionist experiments, with a variety of partners, which foundered on the rocks of the would-be partners' infirmity of purpose, fear, suspicion and disdain of this bizarre, arrogant, impetuous upstart.
(9) While the courts welcome Russian oligarchs whose disputes have nothing to do with this country, they close their doors to the cheated, the battered and the infirm from the native poor.
(10) Swing your gaze from the aged and infirm to your fit and healthy peers here and abroad embracing fascism and poor-bashing.
(11) Other factors included pre-existing locomotor disorder or mental infirmity, unmanageable incontinence of urine after catheterisation, and institutional disorientation.
(12) The increasing infirmity of the aged often associated with tiredness, dyspnea and dizziness even without treatment requires careful instruction of the patient about effects and side effects of the prescribed medication.
(13) 11.01am BST Lord Norman Tebbit , the Tory former cabinet minister, says he worries such a bill would bring great pressure on the old, infirm or disabled to consider ending their lives so as to not be a financial burden on others.
(14) If "pain" in the broad sense of the term lends itself to objective evaluation with difficulty, it is not the same with respect to infirmity.
(15) The results of one such arrangement where a geriatrician was involved in the weekly review of the elderly mentally infirm patients are described.
(16) The dual rating system eliminates the problem of declining knee scores associated with patient infirmity.
(17) Neurotic applicants for an infirmity-pension belong to the group of problem patients for attending general practitioners and specialists alike.
(18) Please do not let us remember only the sick and infirm.
(19) Yet every local authority in the land allows men like these as well as our sick, elderly and infirm to be left to the tender mercies of profiteers and cowboys.
(20) Now staff and volunteers hunched over the infirm, dispensing sips of water and fanning them with bits of cardboard.