(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.
Curve
Definition:
(a.) Bent without angles; crooked; curved; as, a curve line; a curve surface.
(a.) A bending without angles; that which is bent; a flexure; as, a curve in a railway or canal.
(a.) A line described according to some low, and having no finite portion of it a straight line.
(a.) To bend; to crook; as, to curve a line; to curve a pipe; to cause to swerve from a straight course; as, to curve a ball in pitching it.
(v. i.) To bend or turn gradually from a given direction; as, the road curves to the right.
Example Sentences:
(1) As a consequence, similar response curves were obtained for urine specimens containing morphine or barbiturates.
(2) When the data correlating DHT with protein synthesis using both labelling techniques were combined, the curves were parallel and a strong correlation was noted between DHT and protein synthesis over a wide range of values (P less than 0.001).
(3) These observations were confirmed by the killing curves in pooled serum obtained at peak and trough levels.
(4) However, there was no statistically significant difference in mean areas under the LH and FSH curves in the GnRH-treated groups.
(5) Regression curves indicate that although all three types of pulmonary edema can be characterized by slightly different slopes, the differences are statistically insignificant.
(6) In the cannulated group, significant decreases (P less than 0.05) in the area under the elimination curve (AUC), the volume of distribution at steady-state (Vdss) and the mean residence time (MRT) were observed.
(7) The reproducibility of the killing-curve method suggests that at least two different concentrations should be used and that a decrease in viable counts below 2 log10 after 24 hours does not exclude a synergistic action.
(8) The curve of mitoses peaked at the same time as that of TK activity but was only 68% as extensive.
(9) The effect of these drugs was estimated from the cell growth curve and DNA histogram determined by flow cytometry.
(10) However, there was not a relationship between the contraction curve of the gallbladder and the bile flow into the duodenum.
(11) The total "dose" to the tissue of individual metabolites was determined by the area under the curve (AUC).
(12) However, those studies used partial maximal expiratory flow volume (PMEFV) curves to assess lung function.
(13) Blood gas variables produced from a computed in vivo oxygen dissociation curve, PaeO2, P95 and C(a-x)O2, were introduced in the University Hospital of Wales in 1986.
(14) They were more irregularly curved and consisted of various substances.
(15) The duration of action correlated with the elimination half-life of the drug (r = 0.87; P less than 0.003) and area under the plasma concentration curve (r = 0.72; P less than 0.03).
(16) The slope of the thermal inactivation curve of enterotoxin A in beef bouillon (initial pH 6.2) was found to be approximately 27.8 C (50 F) with three different concentrations of toxin.
(17) A relatively new method of estimating that date and constructing a corresponding Kaplan Meier curve is presented.
(18) To know the relation between the signal intensity and sodium concentration, sodium concentration--signal intensity curve was obtained using phantoms with various sodium concentrations (0.05-1.0%).
(19) In testing the contribution of the long, curved stem to the torsional stability of uncemented prostheses by comparing it with other stems, the long, curved stem was the most stable, followed by a shorter straight stem, and a short, proximally curved stem.
(20) After using the OK method to obtain a distance curve for height, we introduce a new method (VADK) to derive velocity and acceleration curves from the fitted distance curve.