(a.) Causing dissatisfaction; unable to give content; unsatisfactory; displeasing.
Example Sentences:
(1) Treatment for median knee-joint instability with a case history long time back may occasionally be time-consuming and dissatisfactory to patient and doctor.
(2) For similar reasons also higher concentrations of tannin and phenol solutions were found dissatisfactory for the pretreatment of lymphocytes.
Unsatisfactory
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) Further development of drug formulary concept was discussed, primarily for the drugs paid by the Health Insurance, as well as the unsatisfactory ADR reporting in Yugoslavia.
(2) Combining data on cows with productive and salvaged outcomes as satisfactory outcome, and terminal as unsatisfactory outcome, total correct classification was 90.7% for the admission model and 93.2% for the surgical model.
(3) There were a further eight cases (16%) whose management appeared to have been unsatisfactory but who would have been expected to die even if given optimal treatment.
(4) The unsatisfactory smear showed atypical spindle cells.
(5) In the first experiment, mongrel and ddS mice produced under an unsatisfactory control of proximate environment were purchased, and acute toxicity tests of thiamine hydrochloride (B1HCl) and isonicotinic acid hydrazide (INAH) were practiced at two different conditioned rooms.
(6) Results with Brain Heart Infusion broth were unsatisfactory.
(7) The results of single modality treatment using surgery or radiotherapy alone in advanced head and neck cancers are known to be unsatisfactory.
(8) Considerations of different ways of obtaining informed consent, determining ways of minimizing harm, and justifications for violating the therapeutic obligation are discussed but found unsatisfactory in many respects.
(9) The unsatisfactory result in a case of paraspinal AVM was due to its wide extension with multiple feeding arteries.
(10) Twenty-five patients (27%) subsequently developed unsatisfactory courses, but 48 (52%) patients remained well through the 30-day period.
(11) Predictive value of a negative ECC was 100% in patients with satisfactory colposcopy, and 98% for unsatisfactory colposcopy.
(12) Their well-being remains obviously unsatisfactory and becomes even worse and threatening for single cases after the move.
(13) There were 16% where liquor was not obtained at the first attempt, and a further 7% where cell growth or biochemical testing was unsatisfactory.
(14) A review of 103 surgically closed pressure sores shows unsatisfactory results.
(15) There has been a deeply unsatisfactory culture in Fifa for many years,” he said.
(16) As the result of differences in drug intake by individual calves, a pelleted feed additive given as top dress on chopped alfalfa hay gave an unsatisfactory mean anthelmintic response.
(17) Nevertheless, the range of motion remains more or less unsatisfactory.
(18) Total of unsatisfactory samples reached 4812 (28.7 per cent).
(19) The results of surgical therapy have been unsatisfactory in the past because of poor long-term left pulmonary artery patency and failure to address concomitant primary tracheobronchial stenoses.
(20) A comparison of acid-base variables from fourteen canine arterial, venous and capillary blood samples revealed in most cases that venous and capillary blood samples showed unsatisfactory agreement with corresponding arterial blood samples.