(a.) Destitute of blood, or apparently so; as, bloodless cheeks; lifeless; dead.
(a.) Not attended with shedding of blood, or slaughter; as, a bloodless victory.
(a.) Without spirit or activity.
Example Sentences:
(1) 2 The use of labetalol intravenously produced hypotension and a bloodless operating field in patients undergoing plastic surgery and in those undergoing radical surgery for the removal of carcinoma.
(2) It is then suggested that this method bloodless drainage may be successfully carried out in cases of accidental lesion of the oesophagus without perforation of parietal pleura, caused by peroral endoscopic manoeuvres or dilatation of oesophageal anatomical and functional strictures.
(3) With careful refinements in the pump oxygenator and a nonblood prime, bloodless open heart surgery may be performed almost routinely.
(4) The suture described is simple, easy, quick, bloodless, anchored to three points in the cervical musculature and is passed deep to the cervical blood vessels.
(5) Always performed under local anesthetic with a practically bloodless field, this surgery never induced any general complication.
(6) Canine gastroduodenopancreatic blocks were isolated and perfused ex vivo with oxygenated bloodless fluorocarbon emulsion.
(7) The studies were carried out under the conditions of acute and chronic experiment as the arteria pressure was recorded by blood and bloodless method.
(8) Things start getting out of control when Rocket's younger gang target the clients of a sleazy motel and the raid, intended to be bloodless, becomes a killing spree.
(9) Endotoxin induced large increases in pulmonary artery pressure, pulmonary vascular resistance, alveolar-arterial O2 gradient, alveolar dead-space ventilation, postmortem gravimetric lung weight of bloodless lung, albumin and total protein concentrations in bronchoalveolar lavage fluid, and the number of neutrophils recovered from bronchoalveolar lavage fluid.
(10) Our results demonstrate that bloodless cardiac surgery on bypass is feasible in children as shown in this special group of children of Jehovah's Witnesses.
(11) Red storm Lucas’s films have always been rather bloodless.
(12) There appears to be no evidence supporting the idea that bloodless hypothermic perfusion permanently damages human kidneys or increases the chances of rejection.
(13) The carbon dioxide laser facilitates resection by providing a bloodless field, and reduces the possibility of viral seeding of the conjunctiva by sterilizing the operative site and sealing the lymphatics.
(14) As an aid to accomplishing a safe and bloodless dissection, these vessels have been described--the deep inferior epigastric vein, the iliopubic vein, the rectusial vein, the retropubic vein and the communicating rectusio-epigastric vein, and their relationship into a venous circle.
(15) We developed a novel method which enables bloodless exposure of the levator veli palatini muscle in rat in order to investigate the physiological properties of this muscle.
(16) Performance of a vascular anastomosis or repair requires meticulous, gentle technique and a bloodless operative field.
(17) From these results two equations were derived, one for each of the upper and lower limbs, which give the minimum tourniquet pressures to produce bloodless fields.
(18) Deaths from uncontrollable hemorrhage might be prevented by arresting the circulation under protective hypothermia to allow resuscitative surgery to repair these injuries in a bloodless field.
(19) The concentration of cefotiam (CTM) in the serum and the bloodless lung with time is discussed.
(20) The use of a bloodless solution and high pressure to accelerate microporous membrane oxygenator (MMO) failure was investigated.
Livid
Definition:
(a.) Black and blue; grayish blue; of a lead color; discolored, as flesh by contusion.
Example Sentences:
(1) The lesions were annular or serpiginous and their surface was livid-red to pale-red.
(2) Informed sources in Germany said Merkel was livid about the reports that the NSA had bugged her phone and was convinced, on the basis of a German intelligence investigation, that the reports were utterly substantiated.
(3) While we could suppress the hyperhidrosis with topical therapy, this failed to clear his hyperkeratosis or eliminate the livid color.
(4) Republicans in turn are livid that national Democratic party money has already been spent trying to sway voters in the primary election battle between Tillis and Brannon.
(5) That's a bad hockey play and Rangers fans will be livid.
(6) The external data of lividity, rigor, mechanical and electrical excitability of facial muscles and the chemical excitability of the iris have all been gathered from literature, chronologically arranged and clearly presented.
(7) In our experimental settings we observed appearance of circumscribed linear marks of pallor similar to electric lesions in the region of postmortem lividity of corpses at the same level as bathtub water.
(8) He began to talk to Russian and European space agencies about launching Cobe, but when Nasa got wind of this, its officials were livid.
(9) Acral ischemia with lividity is a well-described dermatologic sign in the myeloproliferative diseases polycythemia vera and essential thrombocythemia.
(10) The hawkish American law professor Alan Dershowitz, livid that Finkelstein had been invited in the first place, inserted himself into the affair, writing a thundering editorial in the Jerusalem Post.
(11) Not only hyperhidrosis was abolished, but associated symptoms, such as lividity of palms or soles, acral hypothermia and edema of fingers or toes, also subsided.
(12) It's worth remembering the details of the Commonwealth Bank of Australia ’s sale for $7.8bn (now valued at $122b n) and its recent $5.8b n dividend for 2013 they are understandably livid towards the insanity of the cult of privatisation.
(13) Symmetrical lividity (SL) was the term coined by Pernet in 1925 for symmetrical, bluish-red plaques on the soles of the feet, accompanied by hyperhidrosis and not corresponding to areas of pressure or patterns of innervation.
(14) The behaviour of post-mortem lividity at the shackle-point and its surrounding areas in some cases may allow to draw a conclusion, if shackle occurred during life or after death.
(15) My roommate chimed in, “Well, if she was that drunk, then she deserved to get raped.” I was livid and vehemently defended the victim, and this was before I had even processed the sexual assault perpetrated against me.
(16) 20 December TB was livid that GB, without any consultation at all, wrote off third world debt – £155m over 10 years – while telling us he could do nothing more for the NHS to pre-empt a winter crisis.
(17) Six weeks after a holiday trip to Yugoslavia, a previously well 48-year-old man developed a reddish-livid, firm nodule, 0.5 cm in diameter, on the proximal joint of the right thumb.
(18) Moreover she had a ;moon face', hypertension, a ;buffalo hump', and livid striae of the loins and hypogastrium.
(19) Some of those yet to receive ballot papers include family members of people working on the leadership campaigns, as well as the Guardian journalist John Harris, who said he was livid about the lack of vote and inability to get through to the party on its helpline.
(20) Thousands of them rattling at once sounds like the stadium is full of livid snakes.