(a.) Deprived of life; -- opposed to alive and living; reduced to that state of a being in which the organs of motion and life have irrevocably ceased to perform their functions; as, a dead tree; a dead man.
(a.) Destitute of life; inanimate; as, dead matter.
(a.) Resembling death in appearance or quality; without show of life; deathlike; as, a dead sleep.
(a.) Still as death; motionless; inactive; useless; as, dead calm; a dead load or weight.
(a.) So constructed as not to transmit sound; soundless; as, a dead floor.
(a.) Unproductive; bringing no gain; unprofitable; as, dead capital; dead stock in trade.
(a.) Lacking spirit; dull; lusterless; cheerless; as, dead eye; dead fire; dead color, etc.
(a.) Monotonous or unvaried; as, a dead level or pain; a dead wall.
(a.) Sure as death; unerring; fixed; complete; as, a dead shot; a dead certainty.
(a.) Bringing death; deadly.
(a.) Wanting in religious spirit and vitality; as, dead faith; dead works.
(a.) Flat; without gloss; -- said of painting which has been applied purposely to have this effect.
(a.) Not brilliant; not rich; thus, brown is a dead color, as compared with crimson.
(a.) Cut off from the rights of a citizen; deprived of the power of enjoying the rights of property; as, one banished or becoming a monk is civilly dead.
(a.) Not imparting motion or power; as, the dead spindle of a lathe, etc. See Spindle.
(adv.) To a degree resembling death; to the last degree; completely; wholly.
(n.) The most quiet or deathlike time; the period of profoundest repose, inertness, or gloom; as, the dead of winter.
(n.) One who is dead; -- commonly used collectively.
(v. t.) To make dead; to deaden; to deprive of life, force, or vigor.
(v. i.) To die; to lose life or force.
Example Sentences:
(1) The number of dead from the bombing has been put at up to 1,654.
(2) As of November, 1988 after a median observation period of 34 months, 174 of the 256 patients (68%) were alive, 11 (4%) dead and 71 (28%) lost to follow-up.
(3) Comparisons of ICR locations were made between flexion and extension, between left and right limbs, and between living and dead dogs, using analysis of variance.
(4) Transient intermediates were distinguished from dead-end metabolites by the rapid formation and disappearance of the former.
(5) A further 23 Syrian Kurds , among them women and children, were shot dead in the nearby village of Barkh Butan, the group said.
(6) Pathologic examination demonstrates calcifications in the dead collagen that makes up catgut suture.
(7) The results of the study suggest that perhaps tobramycin of cefotaxime-impregnated PMMA beads would produce local levels of antibiotic high enough to sterilize a given dead space for a period of 28 days.
(8) One of the most recent was in June last year, when a boatload of anglers came across a dead 23ft squid off Port Salerno on the state's Atlantic coast.
(9) The move was confirmed by a Lib Dem aide, who said Tory claims to be green were "already a lame duck and are now dead in the water".
(10) No names of the dead or injured have been published.
(11) Both of these bills include restrictions on moving terrorists into our country.” The White House quickly confirmed the president would have to sign the legislation but denied this meant that its upcoming plan for closing Guantánamo was, in the words of one reporter, “dead on arrival”.
(12) It was found that the increase of AMI patients admitted to our hospital was due to an increase in the hospitalization rate of AMI patients and the establishment of the coronary care unit (CCU) which allowed the admittance of patients who might have been declared dead out-of-hospital in the past.
(13) He was fighting to breathe.” The decision on her father’s case came just 10 days after a grand jury in Ferguson, Missouri, found there was not enough evidence to indict a white police officer for shooting dead an unarmed black teenager called Michael Brown.
(14) Nine of these patients are dead; four are alive, with three of these having progressive disease.
(15) In 2009, a US army major shot 13 dead in Fort Hood, Texas .
(16) Among the dead were two young young officers, Major Mujahid Ali and Captain Usman, whose life stories the media seized upon, helped by the military's public relations machine.
(17) The Nigerian government has been heavily criticised for failing to protect civilians in an increasingly violent conflict that left about 10,000 dead last year.
(18) Twenty-two per cent of all deaths (10 children who died outside hospital and six who were certified dead on admission) occurred before specialist care was reached.
(19) necrobiotic and dead cells, cell debris and phagosomes appear electively fluorescent.
(20) Byrom had been scheduled to die by lethal injection last week for hiring a man to shoot dead her abusive husband, Edward, at their home in Iuka in June 1999.
Lich
Definition:
(a.) Like.
(a.) A dead body; a corpse.
Example Sentences:
(1) With exact diagnosis and correct surgical technique, the Lich-Grégoir anti-reflux plasty is safe and complications are few--reflux recurrences are rare.
(2) We report on 111 kidney transplants performed at the San Juan Veterans Administration Hospital in 85 of whom urinary continuity was restored with a Politano-Lead-better ureteroneocystostomy, 23 with the Lich-Grégoir operation, and 3 with extravesical urinary, diversions.
(3) As performed by us, it is a modification of the technique of Witzel, Sampson, and Lich.
(4) The frequency of urological complications was lower with the Lich-Gregoire technique (4.1%) which we have currently adopted.
(5) They constituted about 8% of all LICH cases (n = 37) operated upon in our institute (DUSM) during the past 3 years.
(6) The efficiency of the Lich-Gregoir antireflux procedure has to be judged by its results.
(7) VUR occurred in 36% of patients; highest in LICH-1 (79%), intermediate in L-P (22%), and lowest in LICH-2 (9%).
(8) It combined the principles of the Wallace conjoined ureterointestinal conduit with the Lich extravesical ureteroneocystostomy.
(9) She had been a student in Lich primary school, in Unity state, when the war began.
(10) We present our experience in 149 antireflux repair operations with a technique first described by Lich and Gregoir in 1961.
(11) On the other hand, in the late postoperative stage, ureteral stenosis requiring further surgery occurred in 1 ureter in the transitional region to the urinary bladder in 1 patient 2 months after surgery by the Lich-Gregoir method.
(12) The rate of success was all 87 ureters (100%) for the Politano-Leadbetter method and 6 out of 7 ureters (85.7%) for the Lich-Gregoir method.
(13) The mean age of the recipients was 34.6 years (16.8 to 67.6 years) Ureteric reimplantation was initially performed by uretero-ureteric anastomosis (19%), then into the bladder according to the Leadbetter-Politano technique (69%) and subsequently according to the Lich-Gregoire extra-vesical technique (10%).
(14) Other methods were the combined method in 2 patients (three ureters), the Glenn-Anderson method in 1 (2 ureters), the Cohen method in 1 (1 ureter) and the Lich-Gregoir method in 5 patients (7 ureters).
(15) A tabulated comparison between the intravesical procedure (Politano-Leadbetter) and the extravesical procedure (Lich-Grégoir) reveals an overall success rate of 80%.
(16) In a ten years period 186 extravesical antireflux operations (Lich-Gregoir) were performed in 145 children.
(17) Three operated cases of lobar intracerebral hemorrhage (LICH) related to cerebral amyloid angiopathy (CAA) were studied clinicopathologically.
(18) The operative technique used was generally that of Cohen (335 cases), more rarely that of Leadbetter-Politano (118 cases) and very exceptionally that of Lich-Gregoir (7 cases).
(19) Discussion and evaluation of other repair methods are reviewed but, in our opinion the Lich-Gregoir technique, because of its simplicity, should be the method of choice and should be used more by urologists.
(20) An anterior extravesical technique modified from Witzel, Sampson, and Lich was used to reimplant the ureter.