(n.) The act or process of making clear or transparent, by freeing visible impurities; as, the clarification of wine.
(n.) The act of freeing from obscurities.
Example Sentences:
(1) Many problems at the macroscopic level require clarification of how an animal uses a compartment of suite of muscles and whether morphological differences reflect functional ones.
(2) It is concluded that laparoscopy is an extremely useful procedure for the clarification of pelvic pain and other gynecological symptoms.
(3) For the clarification of the site of action of CsA, Ca2+ influx and endocytosis of receptors after stimulation with anti-CD3 antibody were monitored in the presence of CsA, and no significant effects of CsA were observed.
(4) Unresolved etiological issues requiring clarification in the near future include the following: (1) Are stressful events important in the development of panic, or are they more incidentally related?
(5) The differential solubilization of PL- and GH-binding sites may facilitate purification of the two distinct receptors and clarification of their respective roles in the regulation of fetal and postnatal growth.
(6) The Guardian has asked for clarification of the retailer's position and is awaiting a response.
(7) Clarification of responsibility within the various federal agencies and application of available knowledge and technology are essential.
(8) In these cases the procedure of arthroscopy can be recommended for preoperative clarification of cases of obscure posttraumatic wrist symptoms.
(9) The biological significance of MBP adherence to immune cells still needs clarification.
(10) Lastly, we can expect greater clarification about the importance of various 11q13 genes found coamplified in nearly 20% of primary breast cancers, and pursuit into the intriguing possibility that a cyclin-encoding gene represents the overexpressed locus of real interest in this amplicon.
(11) Clarification: Jirehouse Capital and Stephen Jones - see Clarification and footnote Jailed British property developer Scot Young, an associate of Russian oligarch Boris Berezovsky, constructed a secret network of offshore companies to hold his assets during a multimillion-pound divorce battle, according to the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ's) research.
(12) Greater clarification has resulted since the discussion at the 38th Stomach Cancer Research Meeting on the frequency of a cancer developing in the remaining portion of a stomach after excision of a previous gastric cancer.
(13) When applied to the intact cornea, BAC with or without Na2EDTA caused only slight clarification of the endothelial cytoplasm, whilst in a few mitochondria the cristae were displaced.
(14) determination could make a contribution to the etiological clarification of, for example, immediate-type uveitis cases and intra-ocular parasitosis and serve as an appropriate model to study intra-ocular immunomechanisms.
(15) Although the molecular basis for the selective activation by contact and respiratory allergens of TH1 and TH2 cells, respectively, awaits clarification, these qualitative differences in immune response provide opportunities for the identification and evaluation of chemical sensitizers.
(16) The ambiguity of a solitary lung shadow (or at the most two or three opacities) with a known primary breast cancer requires clarification without delay as to its histologic nature so that proper treatment can be instituted and an accurate prognosis given.
(17) I can’t think of any reason to justify a 1.5% levy on businesses for childcare purposes.” The Australian Industry Group also called for a clarification that the levy was not going to be redirected.
(18) The large proportion of negative samples within 24 hours of intercourse in this and other studies needs clarification.
(19) The concept of the primal scene is in need of redefinition and clarification.
(20) "You always seemed so straight," she said by way of clarification.
Feculent
Definition:
(a.) Foul with extraneous or impure substances; abounding with sediment or excrementitious matter; muddy; thick; turbid.
Example Sentences:
(1) On one microscopic examination of sputum, the presence of feculent material was suspected.
(2) Soon after admission the patient sustained a massive feculent vomit and died.
(3) BLS was suggested by abdominal pain, feculent vomiting, steatorrhea, and hypoalbuminemia.
(4) DPL may be useful in the unstable patient to be sure the abdomen is the site of bleeding before starting an emergency laparotomy and occasionally, in more stable patients with ongoing abdominal pain, to rule out an associated bowel injury with perforation (e.g., recovery of bilious or feculant material).
(5) The presence of feculent debris that interfered with the colonoscopic examination was similar in both groups: simethicone 5 of 14 or 35% and placebo 7 of 12 or 58%.
(6) A review of 46 of the 63 reported cases of gastric and duodenal fistulization indicated that patients with gastric fistulas commonly present with vomiting (39%), and with histories of feculent eructations or frank feculent vomiting (44%), but that patients with duodenal fistulas rarely present with vomiting (3.6%), and never have feculent vomiting or eructations.
(7) These complications include (a) pain, feculent vomiting, and diarrhea; (b) gastrointestinal hemorrhage; and (c) peritonitis.
(8) Later, the predominant symptoms are diarrhea, weight loss and feculent vomiting.
(9) The typical symptoms are pain, diarrhea, weight loss, foul eructation, and feculent vomiting.
(10) Rarely encountered, these lesions are characterized by diarrhea, weight loss, abdominal pain, anemia, and sometimes feculent vomiting.
(11) At the time of admission, the scrotum was partly necrotic with repulsive feculent pus discharge and there was crepitus on palpation of involved areas.
(12) Six of the ten paracenteses that documented this condition were traumatic (bloody or producing feculent material).
(13) The only pathognomonic clinical features were feculent vomiting, eructations, or odor.
(14) Eighty percent (four of five) of patients with feculent debris in the rectosigmoid colon had diverticulosis, and 50% (four of eight) patients with diverticulosis had feculent debris in the rectosigmoid.
(15) Routine sinography revealed fistulous communications to the colon in nine patients (47 percent), but only three (16 percent) had grossly feculent drainage.
(16) These data indicate that (a) the combination of simethicone plus Colyte administered the night before colonoscopy improves visibility by diminishing bubbles; (b) this dosage of simethicone is not effective in diminishing haziness when administered the night before colonoscopy; and (c) patients with diverticulosis are likely to have feculent debris in the rectosigmoid colon, and a precolonoscopy enema may be helpful when the diagnosis is known.
(17) The effectiveness of a night-prior administration of Colyte to clean the colon of feculent debris was also examined.
(18) Patients with benign duodenocolic fistulas usually complain of diarrhea, and occasionally nausea and feculent vomiting.
(19) Abdominal pain, diarrhea, weight loss, vomiting, foul eructation, feculent vomiting and melena are among the presenting symptoms of patients with a gastrocolic fistula.