(n.) Spiritual charge; care of soul; the office of a parish priest or of a curate; hence, that which is committed to the charge of a parish priest or of a curate; a curacy; as, to resign a cure; to obtain a cure.
(n.) Medical or hygienic care; remedial treatment of disease; a method of medical treatment; as, to use the water cure.
(n.) Act of healing or state of being healed; restoration to health from disease, or to soundness after injury.
(n.) Means of the removal of disease or evil; that which heals; a remedy; a restorative.
(v. t.) To heal; to restore to health, soundness, or sanity; to make well; -- said of a patient.
(v. t.) To subdue or remove by remedial means; to remedy; to remove; to heal; -- said of a malady.
(v. t.) To set free from (something injurious or blameworthy), as from a bad habit.
(v. t.) To prepare for preservation or permanent keeping; to preserve, as by drying, salting, etc.; as, to cure beef or fish; to cure hay.
(v. i.) To pay heed; to care; to give attention.
(v. i.) To restore health; to effect a cure.
(v. i.) To become healed.
(n.) A curate; a pardon.
Example Sentences:
(1) In all cases the polyarthritis is cured by anti-inflammatory treatment in 1-6 months.
(2) Because of the small number of patients reported in the world literature and lack of controlled studies, the treatment of small cell carcinoma of the larynx remains controversial; this retrospective analysis suggests that combination chemotherapy plus radiation offers the best chance for cure.
(3) The results indicated that roughly 25% of patients treated in this way will become hypothyroid after 5 years and that 85% are cured (need no further therapy during the follow-up period) using a single dose of iodine-131.
(4) We report a retrospective study of 107 cases of carcinoma of the sigmoid colon and upper rectum treated for primary cure at the University of California at Los Angeles Hospital between 1955 and 1970.
(5) HDAra-C in combination with anthracyclines is now considered to be a treatment which may afford some hope of a cure in a certain percentage of cases of adult acute non-lymphocytic leukemia.
(6) Since the plasmid-cured strains did not contain DNA sequences homologous to plasmid DNA, the gene for the free-inclusion protein must be encoded in the chromosome.
(7) In Stage I, seven relapses (relapse rate 6%) occurred after irradiation; three of them were cured with second-line therapies.
(8) Although patients treated with postoperative radiation therapy showed significantly extended survival rates as compared to those receiving surgical resection alone, the glioblastoma recurred within a 2cm margin of the primary site in more than 90% of the patients and conventional external radiation therapy with a doses of 50-60 Gy did not result in local cure.
(9) Percutaneous tenotomy performed only in patients recurring after temporary cure, drops the rate of recurrences to 13%.
(10) Long-term health conditions cannot be 'cured' – interventions are themselves long-term – taking place throughout the life of a patient.
(11) These alterations were not dependent on the prophage integration prior to curing, and no phage DNA was detected in cured cells by blot hybridisation.
(12) About 10% of the patients treated had “complete remission”, with no detectable cancer remaining - considered a cure if the patient is still cancer-free five years after diagnosis.
(13) Fifteen apparently normal patients who had been cured of cryptococcosis were found, as a group, to have impaired responsiveness to skin testing with cryptococcin and mumps, minimal leukocyte migration inhibition when stimulated with cryptococcin or C. neoformans, but normal group responses to cryptococcin in Cryptococcus-induced lymphocyte transformation.
(14) Ultimately, prevention is a better approach than cure.
(15) Nine among 21 patients (42%) who were initially treated by percutaneous puncture were definitively cured: all pseudocysts were smaller than 55 mm.
(16) The median duration of treatment for the clinical cures in osteomyelitis and septic arthritis were 29.5 days and 46 days respectively.
(17) Age at diagnosis (greater than or equal to 60 years vs less than or equal to 60 years), total number of involved sites, tumor bulk (mass size greater than or equal to 10 cm vs less than 10 cm), serum LDH (greater than or equal to 500 Units) and prompt achievement of complete remission following intensive combination regimens appear to be the most important variables predicting for cure in aggressive lymphomas.
(18) Clinical improvement did not occur in treated patients, and microbiologic cure was never obtained.
(19) The present findings imply that patients in whom an apparent cure has been brought about by conservative treatment may harbor latent malignancy.
(20) Oral potassium iodide therapy resulted in complete cure.
Curl
Definition:
(n.) To twist or form into ringlets; to crisp, as the hair.
(n.) To twist or make onto coils, as a serpent's body.
(n.) To deck with, or as with, curls; to ornament.
(n.) To raise in waves or undulations; to ripple.
(n.) To shape (the brim) into a curve.
(v. i.) To contract or bend into curls or ringlets, as hair; to grow in curls or spirals, as a vine; to be crinkled or contorted; to have a curly appearance; as, leaves lie curled on the ground.
(v. i.) To move in curves, spirals, or undulations; to contract in curving outlines; to bend in a curved form; to make a curl or curls.
(v. i.) To play at the game called curling.
(v.) A ringlet, especially of hair; anything of a spiral or winding form.
(v.) An undulating or waving line or streak in any substance, as wood, glass, etc.; flexure; sinuosity.
(v.) A disease in potatoes, in which the leaves, at their first appearance, seem curled and shrunken.
Example Sentences:
(1) Hazard, nominated for the Ballon d’Or earlier in the day, broke away from his industrious defensive running to curl a shot on to the base of the far post early on while Willian struck the crossbar with a free-kick just after the interval.
(2) Peak oxygen uptake was reduced to the greatest extent in patients with heart failure for large muscle mass work (-13% for curl, -32% for one arm and one leg cycle ergometry and -37% for two leg cycle ergometry; p less than 0.05 versus the normal group for the three modes of ergometry).
(3) 4.02am GMT 90 mins Costa Rica get another free kick wide left and they can curl one in.
(4) The Curling's ulcer is a special form of the stress ulcers which occurs in the stomach and duodenum in 2.0-25%.
(5) The Koreans were so well organised that, by half-time, only Maicon's curling from the right shot had tested Ri Myong-guk.
(6) Gough, as the degenerate black sheep of an English family trying to blackmail an American adulterer, would curl a long lip into a sneering smile, which became a characteristic of this fine actor's style.
(7) The home side dominated the opening quarter of an hour as Argentina struggled to find their feet but the tide turned when Di Maria curled a right-footed shot past Claudio Bravo for the equaliser 10 minutes later.
(8) Kroos curls it in from the right, Mertesacker heads it clear again.
(9) There is energy in the room, lots of it, but it’s curled up like a tiger.
(10) The subtle sign of malposition is a slightly curled catheter tip.
(11) In the absence of such accumulations in the cell apices, the reverse curling exhibited by Xenopus ectodermal explants is attributed rather to a separation of the cells' lateral borders.
(12) Liverpool were restricted to shots from the edge of the area throughout the opening half, mainly from Alberto who went close with one curling effort and had fierce drive parried by the goalkeeper Mark Oxley.
(13) Danny takes on a high-pitched, raspy tone when he speaks in Tony's voice, and he curls one of his index fingers up and down in time to Tony's lines.
(14) One test he passed: he could say he loved his country, its values and its spirit without causing a toe-curling cringe.
(15) A syndrome of scanty, fine, curled hair, thin dysplastic nails, taurodontic molars, hypoplastic-hypomature enamel, dysplasia of dentin, and hypohidrosis segregating as an autosomal dominant trait is described in a Japanese family.
(16) The gait of surviving chicks was affected for at least 6 weeks and marked by toes curling under.
(17) Swansea, for whom Jefferson Montero was outstanding, levelled when Gylfi Sigurdsson curled a sublime 25-yard free-kick into the top corner, after Kieran Gibbs had cynically brought down Modou Barrow, the Swansea substitute.
(18) Robert Lewandowski takes Bayern Munich eight clear with win over Köln Read more After Griezmann curled his free-kick over the wall and just inside the post, the 2014 champions were content to cede Sporting the ball and lock down their defence.
(19) Malta, bottom of the group with one point, nearly took a sensational lead just before the half-hour when Alfred Effiong curled a shot just wide of Gianluigi Buffon’s far post.
(20) However, R. leguminosarum 1020 did cause branching, moderate curling and other deformations of root hairs.