(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.
Sanative
Definition:
(a.) Having the power to cure or heal; healing; tending to heal; sanatory.
Example Sentences:
(1) This work is of great importance because of rearness of the first localization of echinococ cyste, and specially of the rupture of the cyste, while in the second case the importance is in the rare rupture of echinococ cyste in hepatal ways which could conduct to sanation, but it caused, the opstruction of papillae.
(2) For this reason the removal of the diseased kidney also does not in general effect a sanation of the infection.
(3) Chloramphenicol and gentamicin had an inhibitory effect on the growth of the L-forms but produced no sanative effect.
(4) Puncture-perfusion technique has been introduced for subarachnoidal sanative treatment in patients with brain contusions complicated with subarachnoidal hemorrhages.
(5) In some cases, sanation led to the improvement of the patients' status, the occurrence of pregnancy, its favourable course and termination in subjects with sterility and habitual miscarriage.
(6) Analysis of the results made it possible to identify the components of the obstructive syndrome, its dependence on the side and level of injury to the brain, to determine the terms of disappearance of the bronchial obstruction and the number of sanative endoscopies.
(7) The results of the epidemiological control experiment on the efficacy of rifampicin in sanation of meningococci carriers are presented.
(8) The environment was sanated by three-fold disinfections every sixth day with lysol, formalin or veraform, anf fumigation with formaldehyde vapours, resulting in 100 per cent effectiveness.
(9) Clinical and laboratory studies on the effect of antibiotic therapy under the control of the time course of the antilysozyme property of the pathogen in patients with acute dysentery, pyelonephritis and inflammatory processes in the female genitalia showed that the use of the antibiotics increasing this property in the pathogen was not advisable which was confirmed by the absence of significant clinical improvement in the patients and necessity of prolonging the sanative period.
(10) As a result of complex sanation of bronchi, as compared with patients in whom no sanation was performed, or it was limited only by aerosol therapy, there was noted a reliable decrease in the number of postoperative pleural empyemas and bronchial fistulas, as well as an increase in the number of patients discharged with a recovery from 74.3% and 78.7% to 90%.
(11) The authors present the experience they obtained from conservative and operative treatment of the syndrome, and stress that preference is given to the methods aiming at radical sanation of the basic disease.
(12) The performance of endoscopic and surgical interventions which cause minimal injury provides for adequate sanative treatment of the gallbladder in cases in which cholecystectomy is an extremely high risk.
(13) Discussion of the most essential causes of a hypotassemia and emphasizing of a consequent antibiotic sanation also of asymptomatic bacteriurias.
(14) The results of examination of 91 meningococci carriers showed that 4 days after the sanation the specific weight of the persons isolating no meningococci was reliably higher in the experimental group than that in the control group.
(15) Fortunately there have been a very few reports from Africa of such high levels of resistance of Trypanosoma congolense to this normal "sanative pair" of drugs.
(16) Issuing from the pathophysiological fundaments of the incontinence after operative sanation of the outlet of the urinary bladder the principal surgico-prosthetic possibilities for the removal of this complication are describes: 1. artificial systems of the sphincter with arbitrary increase and decrease of the occlusion pressure of the proximal urethra, 2. permanent compression of the bulbar urethra.
(17) In secondary vesico-ureteral reflux by dehiscence of the ostium at adult age the indication to the operative treatment shall be made narrowly, since with the sanation of the infection of the urinary tract the reflux often disappears.
(18) Therefore, it seems important to arrange preflight sanation of the intestinal microflora as a prophylactic method.
(19) When there are urinary fistulas preventing complete sanation of the urinary tracts before operations it is advisable to use combinations of aminoglycosides with carbenicillin.
(20) Sanation of the abdominal cavity, intestinal decompression were performed.