(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.
Smokehouse
Definition:
(n.) A building where meat or fish is cured by subjecting it to a dense smoke.
Example Sentences:
(1) And so, through Trove’s archived newspapers, I’ve found Harry – the mission boy who saw the Japanese at Caledon Bay imprison women, girls and old men in the trepang smokehouse, before raping the women in the bush.
(2) It contains brief information on the effect produced by carcinogenic additives in nutritional products upon the cancer involving the gastro-intestinal tract (in workers of meat packing plants and smokehouses).
(3) In the present study, data on the concentration of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAH) in air samples from fish smokehouses (Nordholm et al.
(4) Heslov has been nominated for an Academy Award four times – twice for original screenplay, for Good Night and Good Luck and The Ides of March – and won the big one last year when Argo, which Smokehouse produced, took best film.
(5) The level of exposure to polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAH) from smoking kilns in Danish smokehouses was determined.
(6) The air is thick with fumes; smog seeps out from the hundreds of wood-burning kilns and smokehouses scattered across this community.
(7) Chief Na’Moks stood in the dark of a small smokehouse nestled in the Coast range of British Columbia.
(8) They used a lot of powdered stock, but I now make from scratch, with trout, eel skin from the smokehouse, wild duck if I have any or else chicken bones, and an absolute pile of crayfish.
(9) In a screening programme nine Danish meat smokehouses were randomly selected for measurements on concentration of airborne polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAH).
(10) A skeletonized body, wearing a black leather bondage mask, was found in a Revolutionary War smokehouse cave with two bullet holes in the back of the head.
(11) The smokehouses, and the circuits of importing that bring the fish there to be smoked.
(12) Using small amounts of rock salt and no sugar and followed by a cold-smoking procedure, London Cure is distinctive for its clean, delicate and “mild” flavour, in contrast to the much stronger flavours popular with traditional Scottish smokehouses.
(13) It is a must for fish food lovers with dishes such as delicately cooked whiting fish fingers with tangy pesto-based tartare sauce; or the Connemara Smokehouse board with locally sourced smoked salmon and peppered mackerel accompanied by homemade brown bread.
(14) Next morning, with a hangover lessened somewhat by the country air, I visit The Smokehouse, which has the feel of a Shoreditch hipster bar and is hosting the GAZE LGBT film festival .
(15) It is the last surviving smokehouse in the East End of London , now housed in a startling pale pink building overlooking the Olympic Park that was designed to look like a cross-section – or darne – of salmon.
(16) Total airborne PAH concentration of the stationary air samples calculated as the sum of the concentration of 16 selected PAH compounds, was in general far lower than the total airborne PAH concentration measured in the same manner in smokehouses curing fish (Nordholm et al., 1986).
(17) Calculations of the sensitivity, specificity, positive predictive value and negative predictive value of these potential markers revealed that naphthalene and phenanthrene exhibited the highest sensitivity as markers for total carcinogenic PAH compounds in air samples from smokehouses, whereas fluoranthene and pyrene displayed the highest specificity.
(18) It also has a popular seafood restaurant – owner Kenny smokes his own fish in his little smokehouse behind the hotel.
(19) This is a garden centre with a friendly little cafe serving good coffee, home-made soup, and wonderful smoked-salmon rolls (the salmon is from the smokehouse next door).
(20) Photograph: Claudette Barius Heslov has been so successful as a producer and writer, winning 18 awards in less than a decade, that he confesses to feeling a little disappointed with the reception for August: Osage County, which Smokehouse also produced, even though on the morning we meet it was announced that this film was nominated for two major Oscars: best supporting actress for Julia Roberts and best actress for Meryl Streep.