(a.) Serving to restrain or limit; restraining; opposing.
(a.) Exercising restraint as to the indulgence of desires or passions; temperate; moderate.
(a.) Abstaining from sexual intercourse; exercising restraint upon the sexual appetite; esp., abstaining from illicit sexual intercourse; chaste.
(a.) Not interrupted; connected; continuous; as, a continent fever.
(a.) That which contains anything; a receptacle.
(a.) One of the grand divisions of land on the globe; the main land; specifically (Phys. Geog.), a large body of land differing from an island, not merely in its size, but in its structure, which is that of a large basin bordered by mountain chains; as, the continent of North America.
Example Sentences:
(1) This report represents the first comprehensive description of instantaneous and continous phasic blood velocity at the mitral valve during atrial arrhythmias in man.
(2) During sixty-six months, 145 Kock pouches were constructed: 79 for continent cutaneous diversion (44 men, 35 women), 54 bladder replacements by men, 12 ileo-rectal diversions (10 women, 2 men).
(3) The continence achieved in this case seems to be in contradiction to some of the accepted concepts of the mechanisms of continence.
(4) Piling refugees on trains in the hopes that they go far, far away brings back memories of the darkest period of our continent,” he told Der Spiegel.
(5) Decreased maximal voluntary squeeze pressures were less severe in continent patients with multiple sclerosis than in incontinent patients with multiple sclerosis.
(6) Persistence in the treatment of these patients is essential because multiple operations often are necessary to achieve continence.
(7) Ninety-two per cent of patients who irrigated their colostomies gained fecal continence.
(8) To overcome the problem of incontinence which failed to respond to standard measures, an animal model was designed for continent diversion without cystectomy.
(9) Stress continence depends upon three factors: proximal urethral support, vesical neck closure, and urethral contractility.
(10) 12 children (38%) showed modifications of bladder-sphincter equilibrium, without acquiring socially sufficient continence.
(11) The Index of Independence in Activities of Daily Living (Index of ADL) is a scale whose grades reflect profiles of behavioral levels of six sociobiological functions, namely, bathing, dressing, toileting, transfer, continence, and feeding.
(12) She attributes her interest in helping the continent to a "better perspective" on life derived from Kabbalah.
(13) By easing these huge flows of hundreds of billions across borders, the single currency played a material role in causing the continent's crisis.
(14) Measurements have been made continously with an electrochemical cell sensitive to oxygen.
(15) About 53% of the continent’s total land mass is used for agriculture.
(16) The potassium concentrations in erythrocytes, serum and urine were continously determined in 3 patients who had taken acetyldigoxin (45 to 100 tablets Novodigal à 0,2 mg) in order to commit suicide.
(17) Besides first follow-up results of patients with bladder substitution or continent urinary diversion, analysis of experimental investigations and functionally comparable clinical conditions enables an insight into potential following physiopathological interrelationships.
(18) We conclude that the Kock continent urostomy offers an important alternative to noncontinent forms of diversion.
(19) On the basis of continence results from these patients, the influence of the primary operation on postoperative anorectal continence is discussed.
(20) Individuals undergoing delayed bladder closure without iliac osteotomy had no notable difference in the incidence of bladder dehiscence (p greater than 0.5) but they had a statistically significant difference in the ability to gain urinary continence (p less than 0.01).
Transcontinental
Definition:
(a.) Extending or going across a continent; as, a transcontinental railroad or journey.
Example Sentences:
(1) Twenty volunteers with experience of transcontinental flights (eight women and 12 men aged 28 to 68).
(2) One of our stalwarts on the Editorial Board has had a unique experience in the last few years; he has been a transcontinental spouse.
(3) With her Keighley directness, she has caused great offence within the Asian community by her pronouncements on issues such as Asian children speaking English in the home and her criticisms of transcontinental marriages.
(4) This attitude is now giving rise to the enemy within, forces that aim to stoke fear and violence, and put an end to any form of transcontinental solidarity and cooperation.
(5) Sexual exposure to men from Central Africa was significantly associated with HTLV-III antibody among prostitutes, suggesting transcontinental spread of the epidemic.
(6) The distribution pattern does not suggest a transcontinental spread; rather, it suggests a contigual and transatlantic spread.
(7) Fifteen cases of cutaneous larva migrans (CLM) diagnosed in transcontinental travellers over a period of 4 years in the Department of Tropical Medicine in Hospital Clinic i Provincial of Barcelona were reviewed.
(8) Increasing transcontinental travel, influx of refugees and those seeking asylum as well as importation of food from South East Asian countries demand greater awareness of these parasitic infections even in Central Europe.
(9) It argues that the only way to tackle the chronic poverty of the Asian community is through education and suggests that the high rate of transcontinental marriages - it is traditional among the Pakistanis to marry a first cousin, usually from Pakistan - is holding back the community.
(10) Basic research into organ preservation has facilitated transcontinental organ procurement.
(11) Poaching dominates our thoughts, but the implications of plans for transcontinental railways, roads and pipelines are massive.
(12) It may be speculated that the new and delayed introduction of HIV infection into Ethiopia is part of the transcontinental spread, caused by migration of refugees, frequent visits to existing harbors by sailors, and the influx of many international organizations to Addis Ababa where prostitution is common.