(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.
White
Definition:
(superl.) Reflecting to the eye all the rays of the spectrum combined; not tinted with any of the proper colors or their mixtures; having the color of pure snow; snowy; -- the opposite of black or dark; as, white paper; a white skin.
(superl.) Destitute of color, as in the cheeks, or of the tinge of blood color; pale; pallid; as, white with fear.
(superl.) Having the color of purity; free from spot or blemish, or from guilt or pollution; innocent; pure.
(superl.) Gray, as from age; having silvery hair; hoary.
(superl.) Characterized by freedom from that which disturbs, and the like; fortunate; happy; favorable.
(superl.) Regarded with especial favor; favorite; darling.
(n.) The color of pure snow; one of the natural colors of bodies, yet not strictly a color, but a composition of all colors; the opposite of black; whiteness. See the Note under Color, n., 1.
(n.) Something having the color of snow; something white, or nearly so; as, the white of the eye.
(n.) Specifically, the central part of the butt in archery, which was formerly painted white; the center of a mark at which a missile is shot.
(n.) A person with a white skin; a member of the white, or Caucasian, races of men.
(n.) A white pigment; as, Venice white.
(n.) Any one of numerous species of butterflies belonging to Pieris, and allied genera in which the color is usually white. See Cabbage butterfly, under Cabbage.
(v. t.) To make white; to whiten; to whitewash; to bleach.
Example Sentences:
(1) This study compares the mortality of U.S. white males with that of Swedish males who have had the highest reported male life expectancies in the world since the early 1960s.
(2) Cranial MRI revealed delayed myelination in the white matter but no brain malformation.
(3) Positivity was not correlated with current residence census tract socioeconomic indicators in black or white females.
(4) The urine compositions of the European mole Talpa europaea and of the white rat Rattus norvegicus (albino) kept on a carnivore's diet were compared.
(5) Fluttering in the background was a black flag adorned with white script, the “black flag of jihad”.
(6) The vulvar white keratotic lesions which have been subjected to histological examination in Himeji National Hospital (1973-1987) included 13 cases in benign dermatoses, 4 cases in vulvar epithelial hyperplasia, 3 cases in lichen sclerosus, and 3 cases in lichen sclerosus with foci of epithelial hyperplasia.
(7) Instead, the White House opted for a low-key approach, publishing a blogpost profiling Trinace Edwards, a brain-tumour victim who recently discovered she was eligible for Medicaid coverage.
(8) The flow properties of white cells were tested after myocardial infarction, by measuring the filtration rates of cell suspensions through 8 microns pore filters.
(9) The findings confirm and quantitate the severe atrophy of the neostriatum, in addition to demonstrating a severe loss of cerebral cortex and subcortical white matter in HD.
(10) Tottenham Hotspur’s £400m redevelopment of White Hart Lane could include a retractable grass pitch as the club explores the possibility of hosting a new NFL franchise.
(11) We identified four distinct clinical patterns in the 244 patients with true positive MAI infections: (a) pulmonary nodules ("tuberculomas") indistinguishable from pulmonary neoplasms (78 patients); (b) chronic bronchitis or bronchiectasis with sputum repeatedly positive for MAI or granulomas on biopsy (58 patients, virtually all older white women); (c) cavitary lung disease and scattered pulmonary nodules mimicking M. tuberculosis infection (12 patients); (d) diffuse pulmonary infiltrations in immunocompromised hosts, primarily patients with AIDS (96 patients).
(12) In 60 rhesus monkeys with experimental renovascular malignant arterial hypertension (25 one-kidney and 35 two-kidney model animals), we studied the so-called 'hard exudates' or white retinal deposits in detail (by ophthalmoscopy, and stereoscopic color fundus photography and fluorescein fundus angiography, on long-term follow-up).
(13) African Americans also have more outpatient episodes than whites.
(14) As a Native American I am pretty sensitive to charges of racism and white supremacy,” the Oklahoma congressman added.
(15) The White House denied there had been an agreement, but said it was open in principle to such negotations.
(16) The charges against Harrison were filed just after two white men were accused of fatally shooting three black people in Tulsa in what prosecutors said were racially motivated attacks.
(17) Today, she wears an elegant salmon-pink blouse with white trousers and a long, pale pink coat.
(18) The relative effect of the intramammary infections and of different factors related to the cow (parity, stage of lactation, milk yield) on the individual cell counts, were studied for 30 months on the 62 black-and-white Holstein cows of an experimental herd.
(19) The administration of stable analogue of the leu-enkephalin did not alter the concentration of cortisole and aldosterone in the blood of white male rats whereas this concentration increased after administration of the parathormone.
(20) The patient, a 12 year-old boy, showed a soft white yellowish mycotic excrescence with clear borders which had followed the introduction of a small piece of straw into the cornea.