(v. i.) To emit blood; to lose blood; to run with blood, by whatever means; as, the arm bleeds; the wound bled freely; to bleed at the nose.
(v. i.) To withdraw blood from the body; to let blood; as, Dr. A. bleeds in fevers.
(v. i.) To lose or shed one's blood, as in case of a violent death or severe wounds; to die by violence.
(v. i.) To issue forth, or drop, as blood from an incision.
(v. i.) To lose sap, gum, or juice; as, a tree or a vine bleeds when tapped or wounded.
(v. i.) To pay or lose money; to have money drawn or extorted; as, to bleed freely for a cause.
(v. t.) To let blood from; to take or draw blood from, as by opening a vein.
(v. t.) To lose, as blood; to emit or let drop, as sap.
(v. t.) To draw money from (one); to induce to pay; as, they bled him freely for this fund.
Example Sentences:
(1) The technique is facilitated by an amazingly low tendency to bleeding.
(2) One must be suspicious of any gingival lesion, particulary if there is a sudden onset of bleeding or hyperplasia.
(3) Classical treatment combining artificial delivery or uterine manual evacuation-oxytocics led to the arrest of bleeding in 73 cases.
(4) If the latter is not readily correctable or if the patient is bleeding actively, anticoagulation with intermittent administration of heparin by the intravenous route is indicated.
(5) A neodymium YAG (Nd:YAG) laser was evaluated in a dog ulcer model used in the same manner as is recommended for bleeding patients (power 55 W, divergence angle 4 degrees, with CO2 gas-jet assistance).
(6) A newborn presenting with persistent umbilical stump bleeding should be screened for factor XIII deficiency when routine coagulation tests prove normal.
(7) The conus was found to contribute little to forward flow under ordinary circumstances, but its contribution increased greatly during bleeding or partial occlusion of the truncus.
(8) The antibody-hapten profiles revealed that the DNCB-fed animalss contained predominatly IgG2 in their serum by the time of their initial bleedings, whereas sensitized animals still contained a considerable proportion of more acidic antibodies having marked charge heterogeneity.
(9) As to complications they recorded in one case mucosal bleeding after gastrofiberoptic polypectomy and in one case a covered perforation of the sigmoid at the site of colonoscopic polypectomy.
(10) Prolongation of bleeding time did not correlate with degree of thrombocytosis.
(11) A prospective randomized trial involving 64 patients with bleeding peptic ulcers was performed to assess the efficacy of two modalities of injection therapy.
(12) Earlier recognition of foul-smelling mucoid discharge on the IUD tail, or abnormal bleeding, or both, as a sign of early pelvic infection, followed by removal of the IUD and institution of appropriate antibiotic therapy, might prevent the more serious sequelae of pelvic inflammation.
(13) Following a dosage of 300,000 IU streptokinase the lysis was stopped because of severe bleeding from the urethrotomy scar.
(14) All 15 patients survived, and exploration of the cannulation site for bleeding was required in three patients.
(15) These findings imply that if bleeding occurs following revascularization, in addition to the use of replacement blood products, treatment should be directed at reducing the consumptive coagulopathy and inhibiting fibrinolysis.
(16) Early postoperative problems following aorto-ilio-femoral thrombendarterectomy include occlusion, bleeding and emboli.
(17) The use of the first oversulfation method provides slightly oversulfated derivatives which exhibit strong anticoagulant properties and may constitute effective antithrombotic drugs with no bleeding tendency, a side effect perhaps related to a high rate of sulfation.
(18) Mucosal bleeding and megakaryocytic hyperplasia occurred in all patients.
(19) The ideal prophylaxis should compensate for the undesired effects of an operation or injury on the coagulation system, without subjecting the patient to the danger of elevated tendency to bleed.
(20) A specific central vein catheter for puncture of the brachiocephalic vein has been developed which is provided with a valve by which air-embolism and unwanted bleeding from the catheter are eliminated.
Let
Definition:
(v. t.) To retard; to hinder; to impede; to oppose.
(n.) A retarding; hindrance; obstacle; impediment; delay; -- common in the phrase without let or hindrance, but elsewhere archaic.
(n.) A stroke in which a ball touches the top of the net in passing over.
(imp. & p. p.) of Let
(v. t.) To leave; to relinquish; to abandon.
(v. t.) To consider; to think; to esteem.
(v. t.) To cause; to make; -- used with the infinitive in the active form but in the passive sense; as, let make, i. e., cause to be made; let bring, i. e., cause to be brought.
(v. t.) To permit; to allow; to suffer; -- either affirmatively, by positive act, or negatively, by neglecting to restrain or prevent.
(v. t.) To allow to be used or occupied for a compensation; to lease; to rent; to hire out; -- often with out; as, to let a farm; to let a house; to let out horses.
(v. t.) To give, grant, or assign, as a work, privilege, or contract; -- often with out; as, to let the building of a bridge; to let out the lathing and the plastering.
(v. i.) To forbear.
(v. i.) To be let or leased; as, the farm lets for $500 a year. See note under Let, v. t.
Example Sentences:
(1) First results let us assume that clinically silent TIAs also (in analogy to clinically silent brain infarctions) could be detected and located.
(2) Since 1987, it has become possible to obtain immature ova from the living animal and to let them mature, fertilize and develop into embryos capable of transplantation outside the body.
(3) I’m not in charge of it but he’s stood up and presented that, and when Jenny, you know, criticised it, or raised some issues about grandparent carers – 3,700 of them he calculated – he said “Let’s sit down”.
(4) But both for malaria and Aids we’re seeing the tools that will let us do 95-100% reduction.
(5) • This article was amended on 1 September 2014 because an earlier version described Platinum Property Partners as a buy-to-let mortgage lender.
(6) Data are shown for both mutagenesis and carcinogenesis, indicating that, in this respect, even the smallest average organ absorbed dose can be effective, particularly for high-LET radiation.
(7) The law would let people find out if partners had a history of domestic violence but is likely to face objections from civil liberties groups.
(8) She said that even as she approached the gates, she was debating with the boy’s father whether to let the first-grader enter.
(9) Western diplomats acknowledge that the capture of Qusair is likely to have emboldened President Bashar al-Assad , making him less likely to consider concessions – let alone stepping down.
(10) We are drawing back the curtains to let light into the innermost corridors of power."
(11) I am rooting hard for you.” Ronald Reagan simply told his former vice-president Bush: “Don’t let the turkeys get you down.” By 10.30am Michelle Obama and Melania Trump will join the outgoing and incoming presidents in a presidential limousine to drive to the Capitol.
(12) His arm was being held by Muntari who let go of it as he entered the penalty area.
(13) A rubber cuff was fixed on the metal cylinder and let an opening of 8 cm, simulating the cervix uteri.
(14) It took years of prep work to make this sort of Übermensch thing socially acceptable, let alone hot – lots of “legalize it!” and “you are economic supermen!” appeals to the balled-and-entitled toddler-fists of the sociopathic libertechian madding crowd to really get mechanized mass-death neo-fascism taken mainstream .
(15) And they have no intention of letting it out of their grasp.
(16) American Horror Story is a paean to the supernatural whose greatest purpose is letting washed-up actors and pop stars chew the scenery on the way to winning awards .
(17) "Getting a 95% loan to value mortgage lets you speculate on the expected house price increases a lot more than a 75% mortgage," he said.
(18) Once installed, the alliance will become an awkward, obstructionist presence, committed, in the words of the Northern League's Matteo Salvini, to "a different Europe, based on work and peoples and not in the one based on servitude to the euro and banks, ready to let us die from immigration and unemployment".
(19) How, in the name of all that is decent and honest in this world did we let this happen?
(20) This was determined by letting the cultured cells phagocytize Latex particles.