(v. i.) The cessation of all vital phenomena without capability of resuscitation, either in animals or plants.
(v. i.) Total privation or loss; extinction; cessation; as, the death of memory.
(v. i.) Manner of dying; act or state of passing from life.
(v. i.) Cause of loss of life.
(v. i.) Personified: The destroyer of life, -- conventionally represented as a skeleton with a scythe.
(v. i.) Danger of death.
(v. i.) Murder; murderous character.
(v. i.) Loss of spiritual life.
(v. i.) Anything so dreadful as to be like death.
Example Sentences:
(1) Direct fetal digitalization led to a reduction in umbilical artery resistance, a decline in the abdominal circumference from 20.3 to 17.8 cm, and resolution of the ascites within 72 h. Despite this dramatic response to therapy, fetal death occurred on day 5 of treatment.
(2) Life expectancy and the infant mortality rate are considered more useful from an operational perspective and for comparisons than is the crude death rate because they are not influenced by age structure.
(3) Electrophysiologic studies are indicated in patients with sustained paroxysmal ventricular tachycardia, ventricular fibrillation or aborted sudden death.
(4) This death is also dependent on the presence of chloride and is prevented with the non-selective EAA antagonist, kynurenic acid, but is not prevented by QA.
(5) Insensitive variants die more slowly than wild type cells, with 10-20% cell death observed within 24 h after addition of dexamethasone.
(6) Whereas strain Ga-1 was practically avirulent for mice, strain KL-1 produced death by 21 days in 50% of the mice inoculated.
(7) The strongest predictor of non-sudden cardiac death was the New York Heart Association functional class.
(8) There was one complication (4.8%) from PCD (pneumothorax) and no deaths in this group.
(9) In the case presented, overdistension of a jejunostomy catheter balloon led to intestinal obstruction and pressure necrosis (of the small bowel), with subsequent abscess formation leading to death from septicemia.
(10) We report a case of a sudden death in a SCUBA diver working at a water treatment facility.
(11) The dangers caused by PM10s was highlighted in the Rogers review of local authority regulatory services, published in 2007, which said poor air quality contributed to between 12,000 and 24,000 premature deaths each year.
(12) Diphenoxylate-induced hypoxia was the major problem and was associated with slow or fast respirations, hypotonia or rigidity, cardiac arrest, and in 3 cases cerebral edema and death.
(13) In addition to the 89 cases of sudden and unexpected death before the age of 50 (preceded by some modification of the patient's life style in 29 cases), 11 cases were symptomatic and 5 were transplanted with a good result.
(14) The four deaths were not related to the injuries of parenchymatous organs.
(15) Four patients died while maintained on PD; three deaths were due to complications of liver failure within the first 4 months of PD and the fourth was due to empyema after 4 years of PD.
(16) There were no deaths attributable to the treatment.
(17) The first patient, an 82-year-old woman, developed a WPW syndrome suggesting posterior right ventricular preexcitation, a pattern which persisted for four months until her death.
(18) The Pan American Health Organization, the Americas arm of the World Health Organization, estimated the deaths from Tuesday's magnitude 7 quake at between 50,000 and 100,000, but said that was a "huge guess".
(19) This death toll represents 25% of avoidable adult deaths in developing countries.
(20) Serum sialic acid concentration predicts both death from CHD and stroke in men and women independent of age.
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.