(1) The early death of PL mice is related to generalized debilitation from prolonged distal colonic obstruction resulting in a decrease in immunologic integrity and an increased susceptibility to sepsis.
(2) We have modified one of these operations in order to manage debilitating aspiration in a 14-year-old boy.
(3) The clinical and laboratory findings indicate that infections occurred in debilitated as well as nondebilitated individuals.
(4) Hormone replacement therapy (HRT) increases risk, which means that women who take it will need to balance the breast cancer risk against the sometimes distressing and debilitating symptoms of the menopause.
(5) The progressive assumption of personal responsibility for the debilitative mood state is accompanied by a corresponding shift in a locus of control set from externality to internality.
(6) Endocarcial pacing is reserved for the very aged and debilitated patients, patients requiring implantation within 4 to 6 weeks of acute myocardial infarction, and for atrial or atrioventricular sequential pacing.
(7) The water-soluble contrast medium used so far appears to be in need of improvement in respect of "x-ray density", viscosity and osmolarity, the more so since the danger of aspiration is high in the postoperative, debilitated patient.
(8) This block provides profound anesthesia with minimal risk in debilitated, high-risk patients.
(9) The results indicate that many of these symptoms were persistent 18 months later and continued to be significantly debilitating.
(10) Although definitive therapy may need to be delayed and further surgery performed, this is more acceptable in the face of life-threatening disease than the consequences of unnecessary gynecologic surgery or debilitation.
(11) Bacterial infections (27%) and parasitism (27%) were also of major importance in the death and debilitation of Oregon marine mammals.
(12) Four had preceding trauma (ischiorectal abscess, puncture wound, surgery) and four had pre-existing debilitating problems (diabetes, rectal carcinoma, acute lymphocytic leukemia, alcoholic cirrhosis).
(13) The bovine immunodeficiency-like virus (BIV) is morphologically, serologically, and genetically related to the lentivirus subfamily of retroviruses which includes human and simian immunodeficiency viruses and other lentiviruses causally associated with debilitating diseases of domestic animals.
(14) Generalized enlargement of the cortical sulci and ventricles (pattern C) probably reflected atrophic changes from the chronic human immunodeficiency virus infection and prolonged debilitating illness.
(15) Illness in several infants was protracted and debilitating because of the relapsing nature of the infection.
(16) TSD rats had not shown similarly low Tb until just prior to death, but had shown signs of severe pathology, including severely debilitated appearance, disheveled fur, and severe lesions on their tails and on the plantar surfaces of their paws.
(17) Cryptococcosis in patients with the syndrome is a debilitating disease that does not respond to conventional therapy; earlier diagnosis or long-term suppressive therapy may improve the prognosis.
(18) Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) is one of the major chronic debilitating diseases frequently seen in hospital settings.
(19) IORT presents several challenges to the anesthesiologist, including patients who are debilitated from their disease or chemotherapy, operations involving major tumor resections, intraoperative interdepartmental transport of patients, and remote monitoring of patients during electron beam therapy.
(20) The presence of functional debilitation or dementia was associated with a lower likelihood of non-elective readmission compared with the absence of these conditions.
Prostrate
Definition:
(a.) Lying at length, or with the body extended on the ground or other surface; stretched out; as, to sleep prostrate.
(a.) Lying at mercy, as a supplicant.
(a.) Lying in a humble, lowly, or suppliant posture.
(a.) Trailing on the ground; procumbent.
(v. t.) To lay fiat; to throw down; to level; to fell; as, to prostrate the body; to prostrate trees or plants.
(v. t.) to overthrow; to demolish; to destroy; to deprive of efficiency; to ruin; as, to prostrate a village; to prostrate a government; to prostrate law or justice.
(v. t.) To throw down, or cause to fall in humility or adoration; to cause to bow in humble reverence; used reflexively; as, he prostrated himself.
(v. t.) To cause to sink totally; to deprive of strength; to reduce; as, a person prostrated by fever.
Example Sentences:
(1) Symptoms include nausea, vomiting, dizziness, and prostration.
(2) The clinical course was characterized by severe prostration, persistently high spiking fever, and continuous development of enlarged lymph nodes.
(3) This rare esophageal rupture should be suspected in any chest injury patients, especially those characterized by extreme cyanosis, dyspnea, shock, and prostration incompatible with thoracic cage injury.
(4) In 352 patients affected with chronic lymphatic leukemia (CLL) the authors simultaneously detected a solid second tumour 22 times (= 6.22%) (6 cancers of the prostrate, 5 cancers of the skin, 4 cancers of the uterus, 2 cancers of the stomach, 2 cancers of the lung, one case of rectal and mamma cancer each and one case of eye sarcoma).
(5) The cranial tumor disappeared after irradiation but he died of metastases and general prostration.
(6) Severe hypotension, fluid retention, watery diarrhea, and central nervous deficits culminated in a profound prostration as the dose-limiting toxicity.
(7) The specificity, sedimentation coefficient on sucrose gradient, and sensitivity to sulfhydryl reagents and heat of this dihydrotestosterone-binding protein are typical of the cytoplasmic androgen receptor from other androgen target tissues such as prostrate.
(8) Complications were intractable fever, obstruction of the cannula, and prostration, resulting in interruption and discontinuity of this strategy within 11 weeks (in all cases).
(9) Scotland regained the lead after 53 minutes when they played on as a Malta player lay prostrate near the halfway line following a challenge by Hanley and Martin converted a low cross from eight yards.
(10) At variance in all controls, gastrointestinal symptoms were long lasting and associated with major prostration due to electrolyte and fluid loss.
(11) Though farmers comprise just 0.3% of the population of England and 1.4% of the rural population , ministers treat them and their lobbyists as an idol before which they must prostrate themselves.
(12) Administration of .2 ml of LHAS resulted in a significant reduction in the weights of the dorsolateral prostrate, coagulating glands, seminal vesicles, and Cowpers glands compared with intact controls (p. less than .05), and the weights were comparable with those in castrate controls.
(13) I have lots of friends in the Jewish community, and, yes, I can prostrate myself no further, it's just a stupid thing to say, and I didn't even … I accept I said it, and I am conscious that my speech isn't always as balanced as it should be."
(14) Five patients over the age of 55 years showed slight enlargement of the prostrate.
(15) A thousand came to his fringe event, prostrated themselves – a "hot" Tory in the era of austerity!
(16) By contrast, toxic doses of l-homoarginine, l-lysine, l-leucine and ammonium acetate caused dyspnoea, extreme prostration, and in some cases coma in 15-30min., and increased the concentration of ammonia of blood significantly and the concentration of glutamine of brain slightly.
(17) Difficult though it may be, we must prostrate ourselves in the face of public sentiment and continue to do so until there is genuine belief that we regret what has happened and the part we played in it".
(18) But as Theresa May prostrates Britain before her head-chopping friends in Saudi Arabia, her strategy is clear.
(19) Calves fed sporocysts of Sarcocystis isolated from the feces of dogs and coyotes became anorectic, lost weight, and became anemic and prostrate, and died.
(20) The disease was characterised by fever, ataxia, posterior paresis, circling and hyperaesthesia progressing to prostration.