(a.) Large in quantity or amount; plentiful; abundant; fruitful.
Example Sentences:
(1) Continuous, parasympathetic nerve stimulation, at frequencies varying from 1 to 10 Hz, caused a copious flow of saliva.
(2) Although, as she said in her statement to MPs, there were no deaths and no miscarriage of justice, there is copious evidence that the police at the least mislaid the rule book in their attempt to break the miners’ strike.
(3) Megakaryocytes without copious cytoplasm may be regarded as normally occurring cells in the peripheral venous blood.
(4) The majority of the choline acetyltransferase-immunoreactive neurons had fusiform, oval, or polygonal somata with somatic diameters greater than 20 microns and contained deeply invaginated nuclei surrounded by copious cytoplasm.
(5) Suspensions of cells from colons of F344 rats always contained copious mucoid gel that was partially eliminated by washing the cells three times in culture medium with 10% fetal calf serum.
(6) The role of copious irrigation and drainage in the treatment of tuboovarian abscess (TOA) is crucial, especially for the patients who want to remain fertile.
(7) Copious fistulae output led to extensive wound breakdown, dehydration, and failure to thrive.
(8) Under treatment with erythromycin the clinical picture of intense swelling of the lid and the copious purulent discharge abated during the following 2 days.
(9) Ninety single-rooted teeth with mature apices were prepared chemomechanically by the stepback technique using files and copious irrigation with 2.5 per cent sodium hypochlorite.
(10) Two types of the viral DNA were found that differ only in four nucleotides (nt) in the 5' noncoding part and whose sizes are 4009 nt (more copious) and 4012 nt, respectively.
(11) Mesenchymal hamartoma of the liver is a rare benign tumour of childhood, characterised by an admixture of ductal structures within a copious loose connective tissue stroma.
(12) The bad news is that we may also learn a lot more about him (particularly from copious investigations by the Times , chronicling the high jinks and low politics of Nigel and his followers in Strasbourg).
(13) Reported effects of balding reflected considerable preoccupation, moderate stress or distress, and copious coping efforts.
(14) This produces a more copious precipitate of calcium antimonate than fixation without oxalate.
(15) We achieved our lowest rate of serious complications following surgery for pediatric perforated appendix with the use of aggressive fluid resuscitation, broad-spectrum antibiotic therapy, copious peritoneal irrigation, and delayed wound closure and without drainage.
(16) Such cells have copious cytoplasm known to be rich in peptides such as enkephalins.
(17) Surface zone cells formed two types of cell cluster; one that was highly cellular with little extracellular matrix, and the other less frequent, which formed copious amounts of fibrillar matrix.
(18) It is, for example, entirely warranted vis-à-vis anyone who posts copious "inspirational" quotes online; anyone who plays Farmville; and anyone who posts pictures of themselves with firearms.
(19) After copious irrigation and débridement, small superficial burns may be treated without dressings or topical therapy.
(20) On the other hand, maitotoxic compounds were detected in all 7 strains in copious amount, especially in clone GTH2.
Superfluous
Definition:
(a.) More than is wanted or is sufficient; rendered unnecessary by superabundance; unnecessary; useless; excessive; as, a superfluous price.
Example Sentences:
(1) The tetracaine component of TAC is superfluous for obtaining topical anesthesia of minor dermal lacerations of the face in children.
(2) If exact indications are present, it can make a surgical intervention superfluous in selected cases.
(3) The surgical coordinates of the targets based on the stereotactic CT study with the Stereoadapter were on average as accurate as those obtained with ventriculography; therefore, ventriculography may become superfluous in functional stereotaxis.
(4) In many cases, the diagnosis is delayed, often being made only after comprehensive superfluous diagnostic procedures, sometimes invasive, and inappropriate treatment.
(5) 62 min Spain make a double substitution: Jesus Navas replaces the superfluous Sergio Busquets, and Fernando Torres replaces the disappointing David Silva.
(6) Tell me what will happen when the majority of mankind has become technologically superfluous."
(7) It is assumed that the neurotizing agent was the superfluous situational (photic) stimulation which presented excessive requirements to the mechanisms regulating the general functional state of the brain.
(8) Seen from the father's point of view, the son, on one hand represents the only solution for continuation of his life, the only possibility of victory over death, on the other hand however, he will substitute him one day, make him superfluous and eventually take his place.
(9) Feathering may be considered as a safety margin against spinal cord damage in medulloblastoma but it is superfluous in leukemia.
(10) In a later press statement, the Department of Health described the change as "a deep clean of superfluous national targets in favour of clearer, simpler standards".
(11) The great advances made in orthopaedic surgery over the last few decades have however not resulted in rehabilitative activity having become superfluous.
(12) Among reasons for inadequate numbers of doctors the author mentions in particular superfluous consulting, examinations in conjunction with assessment of the work capacity, and administrative work done by many doctors.
(13) Why, they ask, spend scarce public money on something that is both superfluous as a transport link and vastly expensive as a park?
(14) The effects of cue-load and cue-type (category and rhyming) on the cued recall of word lists were examined in amnesic and control subjects under conditions where contextual information was either important or superfluous to recall.
(15) For this reason a possible tooth involvement should be ruled out before therapy, loss of dental pulp of various origin and periodontal diseases should be excluded, otherwise the treatment must begin with the cause, after which further intervention is usually superfluous.
(16) Offering to these patients an adrenal autograft represents more than a superfluous medical exercise, since a successful outcome of the graft will relieve them of the burdens and risks of long-term postoperative steroid replacement therapy.
(17) The data obtained are suggestive of some "superfluity" of the protein steroid-binding site which, in turn, ensures the multifunctionality of estrophilic HSD including a possibility of an alternative orientation of steroids in their binding site.
(18) The findings of a questionnaire in 88 patients with 106 prostheses are presented, according to which substitution of the testis with a prosthesis is not a superfluous therapeutic procedure.
(19) Analysis of serial sections, and application of electron microscopic radioautography and histochemistry have suggested that these structures are associated with the nuclear envelope which is necessary for regulating the superfluous chromosome localization in the hybrid nucleus.
(20) Thus, the costly defibrillators delivering 400 to 800 joules now sold by 11 of 14 American manufacturers are superfluous, untested, potentially lethal devices with which to attempt ventricular defibrillation.