(n.) The state of being difficult, or hard to do; hardness; arduousness; -- opposed to easiness or facility; as, the difficulty of a task or enterprise; a work of difficulty.
(n.) Something difficult; a thing hard to do or to understand; that which occasions labor or perplexity, and requires skill and perseverance to overcome, solve, or achieve; a hard enterprise; an obstacle; an impediment; as, the difficulties of a science; difficulties in theology.
(n.) A controversy; a falling out; a disagreement; an objection; a cavil.
(n.) Embarrassment of affairs, especially financial affairs; -- usually in the plural; as, to be in difficulties.
Example Sentences:
(1) Technical factors that account for increased difficulty in these patients include: problems with guide catheter impaction and ostial trauma; inability to inflate the balloon with adequate guide catheter support; and need for increased intracoronary manipulation.
(2) To overcome this difficulty, a "hetero-antibody" RIA was studied.
(3) Epidemiological studies on low risks involve a number of major methodological difficulties.
(4) Mild swallowing difficulties occurred in 18 patients (39%), moderate dysfunction in 23 (50%), and severe dysfunction in five (11%).
(5) Reasons for non-acceptance do not indicate any major difficulties in the employment of such staff in general practice, at least as far as the patients are concerned.
(6) Spontaneous reports of suspected adverse reactions may be the only way of revealing very rare events but they present great difficulties of rational interpretation.
(7) The indication of the DNA probe method would be considered in the four cases as follows, 1. necessity of the special equipment to isolate the pathogen, 2. necessity of the long period to isolate the pathogen, 3. existence of the cross reaction among the pathogen and relative organisms in the immunological procedure, 4. existence of the difficulty to identify the species of the pathogen by the ordinary procedure.
(8) The 1-0-methylalduronic-acidmethylesters, obtained by the methanolysis of the polysaccharides, are reduced with boronhydrid to the corresponding methyl glycosides; there are split with acid to the aldoses, which are converted in pyridine with hydroxylamine to the aldoximes and than with acetic anhydride to the aldonitrilacetates, which can be separated by gaschromatography without difficulty.
(9) A control experiment demonstrated that changes in general arousal could not account for the effects of task difficulty on neuronal responses.
(10) In the anatomy laboratory we looked for an alternative approach to the glenohumeral joint which would accommodate these difficulties.
(11) A 27-year-old lady presented with history of discomfort in the throat and difficulty in swallowing for two weeks.
(12) Especially in the old patients (over 70 years) the incisional hernias represents an invalidating pathology whose treatment, for the high incidence of associated diseases of respiratory and cardiocirculatory apparatus in the aged, offers difficulties connected both to surgical methods and to the perioperative evaluation and preparation of patients.
(13) Marked pain and great difficulty in introducing the apparatus made its use limited in respectively 15% and 14.5% of cases.
(14) The tasks which appeared to present the most difficulties for the patients were written spelling, pragmatic processing tasks like sentence disambiguation and proverb interpretation.
(15) In favorable cases, tRNA-DNA hybrids of length about 80 nucleotide pairs can be recognized (although with difficulty).
(16) The patient with the right posterior lesion could not recognize handwriting, was prosopagnosic and topographagnosic, but had no difficulty in reading, lipreading, or in recognizing stylized drawings.
(17) A review of the literature summarises the difficulties of diagnosis.
(18) The major difficulty encountered with the current technique is the danger of neurologic injury during the passage and handling of conventional wires, especially in extensive procedures.
(19) However six equivocal studies were observed in profoundly jaundiced patients with bilirubin levels above 400 mumol l-1 due to difficulties in differentiating extrahepatic obstruction from severe intrahepatic cholestasis.
(20) While mindful of the potential difficulties which attend its introduction into the treatment situation there is an attempt to balance this position through a consideration of the appropriate conditions and modes of operation under which a humor-enriched approach may be efficacious.
Hitch
Definition:
(v. t.) To become entangled or caught; to be linked or yoked; to unite; to cling.
(v. t.) To move interruptedly or with halts, jerks, or steps; -- said of something obstructed or impeded.
(v. t.) To hit the legs together in going, as horses; to interfere.
(v. t.) To hook; to catch or fasten as by a hook or a knot; to make fast, unite, or yoke; as, to hitch a horse, or a halter.
(v. t.) To move with hitches; as, he hitched his chair nearer.
(n.) A catch; anything that holds, as a hook; an impediment; an obstacle; an entanglement.
(n.) The act of catching, as on a hook, etc.
(n.) A stop or sudden halt; a stoppage; an impediment; a temporary obstruction; an obstacle; as, a hitch in one's progress or utterance; a hitch in the performance.
(n.) A sudden movement or pull; a pull up; as, the sailor gave his trousers a hitch.
(n.) A knot or noose in a rope which can be readily undone; -- intended for a temporary fastening; as, a half hitch; a clove hitch; a timber hitch, etc.
(n.) A small dislocation of a bed or vein.
Example Sentences:
(1) But there is one hitch: the four-storey building in Hammersmith is already home to more than 20 voluntary groups working with refugees, the homeless, former young offenders and a range of ethnic minorities including Kurds, Iranians and Iraqis – and they will have to move.
(2) One bleeding of 200 ml from a wounded intercostal vessel ligated with a clip was the sole operative hitch.
(3) If the deal is completed without a hitch the winger will join his team-mates in Hong Kong, where André Villas-Boas's side will compete in the Asia Trophy.
(4) Successful reconstruction of a neoureter was performed easily with the Boari bladder flap coupled with nephropexy and a psoas hitch.
(5) Follow-up observations revealed the presence of VUR in 2 patients who underwent surgery by the initial form of Boari's method and in 1 patient who underwent surgery by the psoas-hitch method.
(6) It is suggested that spontaneously occurring cryptic lesions that are themselves unable to induce the SOS system are subject to translesion synthesis under these conditions and trigger a burst of hitch-hiking mutations that are therefore effectively umuC dependent.
(7) They – we – had come by bus, plane, train, car and hitch-hiker's thumb to demonstrate to ourselves and a watching world that there was a better, more righteous America than the Birmingham of Bull Connor who had set the dogs and fire hoses on black children.
(8) Nine patients underwent adjunctive procedures in addition to bladder augmentation, including a Young-Dees-Leadbetter procedure in 4, an artificial urinary sphincter in 3, transureteroureterostomy and psoas hitch in 1, and a Mitrofanoff procedure and bladder neck closure in 1.
(9) We can’t complain if we’re not involved.” Buhari, the first opposition candidate with a realistic chance of defeating a sitting Nigerian president, was accredited without a hitch using the card reader in his hometown of Daura, in northern Katsina state.
(10) When I asked “What about the women?” I was told I could hitch a ride in a team car and watch.
(11) In most instances, DM are noncentromeric and distributed by a 'hitch-hiking' mechanism at mitosis; in one colcemid-resistant SEWA line, however, we have shown that the DM carry active centromeres.
(12) Combining the bladder-psoas hitch Boari-flap technique makes it possible to replace the entire ureter.
(13) George Osborne has had to go to China to get them to bail out this project, hitching our nuclear energy future to the Chinese state for 100 years,” he said.
(14) All this meant it had finally found a consistent identity and could hitch a ride as digital radio’s takeup grew.
(15) Nine patients with injury to the pelvic portion of the ureter successfully underwent the psoas-bladder hitch procedure and tunnelization as an antireflux measure.
(16) Simon Burnton is taking over for a while, you can email him at simon.burnton@the guardian.com Updated at 8.15pm BST 8.10pm BST Herrera is still on, just a technical hitch AS English (@English_AS) Man Utd's reps have just left the LFP offices without leaving Herrera's buy-out clause, apparently they need to sort out more paperwork.
(17) The acting director of the Australian Antarctic division of the department of environment, Jason Mundy, said the rescue was carried out without a hitch and it was a relief to have all passengers on board the Aurora Australis.
(18) Wing Commander Matt Radnall, 42, the very last British serviceman to depart, said: “To see the Afghans step up to the plate without any hitch or delay, as briefed, as rehearsed and as expected, it was just fantastic.” From that moment of the helicopters’ departure, the base was under Afghan command – a prospect that many believe will lead to the Taliban attempting to breach its 24-kilometre perimeter.
(19) The psoas hitch procedure is a simple and effective alternative in the management of distal ureter length defects.
(20) Continuity and good functional result was achieved with a Boari flap and psoas hitch to the renal pelvis.