(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.
Vivacity
Definition:
(n.) The quality or state of being vivacious.
(n.) Tenacity of life; vital force; natural vigor.
(n.) Life; animation; spiritedness; liveliness; sprightliness; as, the vivacity of a discourse; a lady of great vivacity; vivacity of countenance.
Example Sentences:
(1) There were occasional bursts of vivacity: the comment, when the Tory government economised on a booster station for the BBC World Service, that "Nation shall murmur unto nation"; shrewd opposition to entry into the ERM "at an unsustainable rate"; and an early warning to Nigel Lawson, in 1988, of the looming economic crisis.
(2) The vivacity of the visitors made a further goal likely and after Frank Lampard lost possession cheaply in the 42nd minute, Kewell was put through on the right and he shook off Ferdinand before rounding James to finish.
(3) This team has some very good players who are recapturing the traditional Algerian vivacity,” says Merzekane, who singles out Yacine Brahimi and Abdelmoumene Djabou.
(4) Algeria may have less defensive rigour than the South Americans but the present team is in the process of relaunching Algerian football using the skill and vivacity with which we have always tried to play.
(5) "We went out to attack them, to play with our style: Algerian vivacity," Merzekane says, who personified this style more than anyone, forcing Breitner on to the back foot with barnstorming breaks from deep.
(6) "The memory of poverty and of those tedious subway rides has faded with time, whereas what I recollect most vividly is the incredible vivacity with which we all confronted the dismal 1930s," Kristol recalled.
(7) Most savvy luxury managers are well aware of this which is why, quite deliberately, they regularly try to inject a bit of scandal and vivacity into the brand.
(8) Her voice is plump and pleasure-seeking, prodding and caressing a song until it yields more delights than its author had intended, bringing a spark of vivacity and a measure of cool to even the hokier material.
(9) I hope, too, that no company could be as cynical to see the death of manufacturing in the Rhondda Valley and the dissolution of a community as a matter of 'scandal and vivacity'.
(10) One could almost have felt that the vivacity of conversation, animated gestures and full-blooded life-force around the tables were out of place at the end of a solemn week that had seen the murder of staff and cartoonists at Charlie Hebdo , and others.
(11) He writes that these were "held very precious for the vivacity that Titian's colouring has lent to the figures, which seem truly real and alive".
(12) Villa should have anticipated that, too, but the hosts’ early vivacity seemed to take the visitors by surprise.
(13) Noah is apathetic, lacks vivacity, yet God, in choosing him, shows an irrationality we have seen before in Genesis (favouring Abel's offering over Cain's and setting up the first motive for murder, for example).
(14) It now, however, seems the group most likely to provide a welcome spark of vivacity.
(15) Algeria recovered their vivacity for the final group game against Chile and quickly swept into a 3-0 lead.