(n.) Extreme pain or suffering; anguish of body or mind; as, to suffer distress from the gout, or from the loss of friends.
(n.) That which occasions suffering; painful situation; misfortune; affliction; misery.
(n.) A state of danger or necessity; as, a ship in distress, from leaking, loss of spars, want of provisions or water, etc.
(n.) The act of distraining; the taking of a personal chattel out of the possession of a wrongdoer, by way of pledge for redress of an injury, or for the performance of a duty, as for nonpayment of rent or taxes, or for injury done by cattle, etc.
(n.) The thing taken by distraining; that which is seized to procure satisfaction.
(n.) To cause pain or anguish to; to pain; to oppress with calamity; to afflict; to harass; to make miserable.
(n.) To compel by pain or suffering.
(n.) To seize for debt; to distrain.
Example Sentences:
(1) Perinatal mortality is strongly associated with obstetrical factors, respiratory distress syndrome, and prematurity.
(2) No respiratory-distress syndrome of the newborn occurred when total amniotic-fluid cortisol was greater than 60 ng per milliliter (16 patients).
(3) Early views of the Type A behaviour pattern (TABP) sought to disengage it from either neuroticism or emotional distress.
(4) Sleep alterations in addicted newborns could be related to central nervous system (CNS) distress caused by withdrawal.
(5) For many it had still a moderating effect on distress at the present but appeared to be mainly used out of "psychological dependence".
(6) Marie Johansson, clinical lead at Oxford University's mindfulness centre , stressed the need for proper training of at least a year until health professionals can teach meditation, partly because on rare occasions it can throw up "extremely distressing experiences".
(7) In contrast, the number of distressful childhood experiences reported was generally unrelated to empathy scores.
(8) The lavage model was considered suitable for reproduction of severe respiratory distress.
(9) Twenty-seven infants with respiratory distress and hypoxemia of noncardiac etiology were treated with tolazoline.
(10) A clearly recognizable relationship of SEH to gestational age and clinical status exists in that all SEH occur in premature infants under 2500 g birthweight (although only 56% of all premature infants have SEH) and 95% of SEH occur in infants with the respiratory distress syndrome (although only 60% of infants with the respiratory distress syndrome have SEH).
(11) Four hours after infusion, the animals displayed a clinical and pathological pattern which closely resembled post-traumatic acute respiratory distress syndrome, including hypoxia, hypocarbia, thrombocytopenia, increased pulmonary capillary permeability to albumin, interstitial edema, hypertrophy of alveolar lining cells, and intra-alveolar hemorrhage.
(12) In turn, nursing strategies that are selected as a result of such theoretically based assessments are likely to be effective in preventing spiritual distress.
(13) There is no support in the system and it’s a very frightening and distressing situation to be in.
(14) Therefore, after head injuries we searched for C activation because it could result in the adult respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS).
(15) It has to be assumed that in calves with respiratory distress syndrome--in analogy to pulmonary immaturity--the blood clotting mechanism is not yet fully developed.
(16) At birth, the animals were in no distress but had mild pulmonary hypertension.
(17) If these recordings are repeated before or at the same time as other signs of fetal distress have been found we must think of pathological features such as intrauterine growth retardation, post-maturity, infections, rhesus incompatibility and diabetes.
(18) Sustained intubation (7 days) was necessary in only two infants because of developing respiratory distress as a result of prematurity or recurrent pleural fluid accumulation.
(19) Financial experts aren't immediately sure what to make of the report, but one theory is that the figure includes the 'profits' the European Central Bank has made by buying Greek debt at distressed levels since the crisis began: econhedge (@econhedge) suggestion that this is planned EUR31.5b+ECB profits.
(20) The results do not indicate any disorder in liver and muscle functions in prematurely born calves with or without respiratory distress syndrome.
Wah
Definition:
(n.) The panda.
Example Sentences:
(1) Lau Kong-wah, undersecretary for constitutional affairs, said he had agreed to multiple rounds of discussions conducted on a basis of equality.
(2) The meaty melodies are provided by John Squire, pinning down the guitar surging from caustic feedback to ecstatic wah-wah chugging – all in the space of a song.
(3) The buzz : "Skull-crushing repetition, menacing walls of nuanced guitar noise, feedback magick wah'd from hell to the sky, a sprawling kraut backbone, evil melodies" .
(4) Furthermore, the ratios of N-glycosylations at the three positions are identical in IgD WAH [Takahashi, N. et al.
(5) Even though there was a lot of politically committed music during the late 70s and early 80s, there was also New Romanticism, which was essentially people putting their fingers in their ears and going 'Wah-wah-wah-wah'.
(6) The summit activities of the WAHs (wives and one husband, the German chancellor Angela Merkel's husband, Joachim Sauer, who was absent today) are now as much a media circus as the key political meetings.
(7) The London branch, run by students Julia Gray, 23, and Bryony Beynon, 25, launched last April in conjunction with nail salon WAH (which stands for We Ain't Hoes) in Dalston.
(8) The music chosen for the event seemed poignantly appropriate – Ole Bull's piece for a solo violin entitled In Moments of Solitude, and the performance by Burmese harpist Nei Wah of Aung San Suu Ki's favourite piece, Loving Kindness and the Golden Harp.
(9) Since vitellogenins of chicken and Xenopus have been shown to be structurally similar and evolutionarily related (Nardelli, D., van het Schip, F. D., Gerber-Huber, S., Haefliger, J.-A., Gruber, M., AB, G., and Wahli, W. (1987) J. Biol.
(10) The mean increase in systemic temperature during WAH was 6.4 degrees C for the saline-infused group and 5.1 degrees C for the non-infused group.
(11) Some properties of 21 of these cloned DNAs, ranging in size from 1 to 3.7 kb, have been reported by Wahli et al.
(12) It appears that elevation of the systemic temperature to 40.5 degrees C or more can be safely achieved under conditions where the temperature in the peritoneal cavity is kept below 43.5 degrees C during WAH.
(13) The effects of whole-abdominal hyperthermia (WAH), using an 8 MHz radiofrequency capacitive-heating system, on the intraperitoneal and extraperitoneal distribution of heat and on the functions of visceral organs were studied.
(14) Lai Wah Co, the head of economic analysis at the CBI, agreed that rates were unlikely to rise in the short term, adding that "economic indicators still suggest the UK recovery is on track, although we expect it to be bumpy and slow".
(15) The coda is a total wah-wah freak-out and makes us imagine Jim Morrison in deranged preacher mode shrieking along with Faust.
(16) In one of the songs on the exercise DVD released on Kumamon’s birthday, as he leads his fans through their exertions, they grunt, “Toh-MAY-toes … straw-BEAR-ies … wah-TER-melons” – all agricultural products that are specialities of Kumamoto.
(17) "Better sales growth continued in the high street in early August, and retailers are upbeat about prospects in the coming three months," said Lai Wah Co, head of economic analysis at the CBI.
(18) The effects on the liver of WAH were very marked, as analysed by biochemical and histological techniques.
(19) Visceral organs tolerated heating to less than 43 degrees C by WAH alone.