(a.) Hard to do or to make; beset with difficulty; attended with labor, trouble, or pains; not easy; arduous.
(a.) Hard to manage or to please; not easily wrought upon; austere; stubborn; as, a difficult person.
(v. t.) To render difficult; to impede; to perplex.
Example Sentences:
(1) Virtually every developed country has some form of property tax, so the idea that valuing residential property is uniquely difficult, or that it would be widely evaded, is nonsense.
(2) Although solely nociresponsive neurons are clearly likely to fill a role in the processing and signalling of pain in the conscious central nervous system, the way in which such useful specificity could be conveyed by multireceptive neurons is difficult to appreciate.
(3) In practice, however, the necessary dosage is difficult to predict.
(4) Cor triatriatum (CT) is a rare congenital defect, surgically correctable, and sometimes difficult to diagnose by cardiac catheterization.
(5) By drawing from the pathophysiology, this article discusses a multidimensional approach to the treatment of these difficult patients.
(6) Past imaging techniques shown in the courtroom have made the conventional rules of evidence more difficult because of the different informational content and format required for presentation of these data.
(7) The way we are going to pay for that is by making the rules the same for people who go into care homes as for people who get care at their home, and by means-testing the winter fuel payment, which currently isn’t.” Hunt said the plan showed the Conservatives were capable of making difficult choices.
(8) In many cases, physicians seek to protect themselves from involvement with these difficult, highly anxious patients by making a referral to a psychiatrist.
(9) The diagnosis of variant- or Prizmetal-angina is difficult because if insufficient specificity of the tests.
(10) The detection of these antibodies is difficult owing to the lack of standardization and of specificity of the laboratory tests.
(11) It was so difficult to keep a straight face when I was filming a sauna scene with Roy Barraclough, who played the mayor of Blackpool.
(12) That is, he believes, to look at massively difficult, interlocking problems through too narrow a lens.
(13) Conversion of the active-site thiol to thiocyanate makes it more difficult to inactivate the enzyme by treatment with Cd2+.
(14) If they end up going to another club that is difficult to take.
(15) Cigarette consumption has also been greater in urban areas, but it is difficult to estimate how much of the excess it can account for.
(16) The most difficult thing I've dealt with at work is ... the terminal illness of a valued colleague.
(17) In that respect, it's difficult to see Allen's anthem as little more than same old same old, and it's probably why I ultimately feel she misses the mark.
(18) This hypothesis is difficult to substantiate with direct measurements using human subjects.
(19) Extrapolation of gestational age from early crown-rump lengths (CRLs) has been difficult because previously established tables of CRL versus gestational age have contained few measurements at less than seven to eight weeks from the first day of the last menses.
(20) Companies had made investments in certain energy sources, the president said, so change could be “uncomfortable and difficult”.
Painless
Definition:
(a.) Free from pain; without pain.
Example Sentences:
(1) The observed clinical findings include scarring of the face and hands (83.7%), hyperpigmentation (65%), hypertrichosis (44.8%), pinched facies (40.1%), painless arthritis (70.2%), small hands (66.6%), sensory shading (60.6%), myotonia (37.9%), cogwheeling (41.9%), enlarged thyroid (34.9%), and enlarged liver (4.8%).
(2) We present a patient with unilateral progressive painless loss of vision leading to optic atrophy and blindness.
(3) A 22-year-old-man was admitted with the chief complaint of painless swelling of the right scrotal content.
(4) Euthanasia – killing someone painlessly, usually to relieve suffering – is also illegal.
(5) Painless recovery of radiopaque substances after positive contrast myelography is often difficult, especially if the initial spinal tap is not made precisely in the midline.
(6) Clinical presentation usually includes loss of vision and gradual, painless proptosis.
(7) The advantages of the method used are the followings: simple, atraumatic, painless.
(8) In this report, a 19-year-old woman having Addison's disease, ovarian failure, painless thyroiditis, and an HLA type characteristic of PGAS II is described.
(9) The irritable colon syndrome comprises two predominant symptom patterns -- "spastic colon" with pain and constipation, and painless "nervous diarrhea".
(10) A 99MTc pertechnetate image demonstrated epididymo-orchitis and a hydrocele in a 15-year-old youth with painless scrotal swelling.
(11) In the group of persons with painless ischemia, the death rate approaches that among patients with a history of myocardial infarction (32 and 39%, respectively).
(12) In addition to the above 145 patients, thirty-five cases of persistent microscopic hematuria classified as symptomatic, with a past history of "acute nephritis", lumbar pain and other complaints; and 11 patients with macroscopic hematuria, painless or associated with "acute nephritis" had similar glomerular lesions.
(13) Respiratory monitoring provides painless, nonpenetrating measurements which are immediately available, and which reduce the incidence of undetected life-threatening respiratory accidents.
(14) An 81-year-old man with a painless enlargement of the right testis which developed 11 years ago was treated with right orchiectomy without any combined therapy in 1981.
(15) Extracorporeal shockwave lithotripsy with piezoelectric shock waves provides painless and efficient gallstone fragmentation.
(16) Invariably, either because of imbedding of the device, perforation into the lower uterine segment, or simply from decay, the string comes off with traction during attempted removal, A simple, relatively painless procedure with the correct instrument is all that is required to remove the IUD.
(17) 24-h ECG monitoring registered painless ST shifts in 75 of them.
(18) In patients who smoked cigarettes, ST-segment depression was more common while smoking, but the incidence of painless ST-segment depression was not altered.
(19) Maxillary myxoma is identified by the appearance of a non-inflammatory and often painless swelling which, in radiological terms, appears to have a zone of multilocular and sometimes unilocular osteolysis.
(20) The gland is painless and histologically demonstrates lymphocytic infiltration.