(n.) A loss of advantage, or deduction from profit, value, success, etc.; a discouragement or hindrance; objectionable feature.
(n.) Money paid back or remitted; especially, a certain amount of duties or customs, sometimes the whole, and sometimes only a part, remitted or paid back by the government, on the exportation of the commodities on which they were levied.
Example Sentences:
(1) The drawbacks of the study, such as lack of controls, are discussed.
(2) The use of different theoretical models is discussed, taking into consideration their specific scope and drawbacks.
(3) In order to minimize the drawbacks, some measures have to be taken, f.i.
(4) In order to avoid the drawbacks of the cutting end of the bare optic fibers, it may be covered with sapphire optics which conducts well laser energy.
(5) Although this method has some important drawbacks and is suboptimal as far as foetal signal-to-noise ratio is concerned, it is still very useful when only a foetal trigger is required, as the signal obtained is not a complete FECG.
(6) The immunoreactivity of thymoma epithelial cells with L26, an antibody widely used in the characterization of B-cell lymphomas, can represent a drawback of practical relevance in the differential diagnosis of mediastinal tumors.
(7) This drawback of the unifactorial methods has been overcome by the use of adjusted survival curves which take possible distortions in the data set into account.
(8) The advantages and drawbacks of the different techniques of the prostate needle biopsy are commented.
(9) Overcoming these drawbacks will be useful in improving patients-doctors relations and increasing in quality of medical assistance.
(10) Nowadays, electro-oculography remains the only clinical method for ocular movement recording which is largely used in daily practise, but it has many drawbacks and limits.
(11) The requirement for unfixed tissue is a major drawback in the use of immunohistochemistry for the diagnosis of inflammatory and neoplastic disease.
(12) Because natural language teaching has many strengths, few drawbacks, and produces equal generalization and retention under disadvantageous conditions, it is strongly supported as preferable for people with autism and mental retardation.
(13) Motion artifacts are the major drawback of the present laser Doppler systems.
(14) In order to overcome various drawbacks of the conventional polygraphic study of a relationship between myoclonus and EEG, the EEG preceding and following the myoclonic jerk was simultaneously averaged by the CNV program.
(15) Each treatment has advantages and drawbacks which must be taken into account for the therapeutic choice and the follow-up.
(16) One of the drawbacks to using the intraosseous route as an alternative to IV access has been the persistent need to establish IV access to obtain blood samples.
(17) Sitting in the Khartoum restaurant as the fierce late-afternoon sun intrudes through the windows, Lubna dismisses the notion that western praise might be a drawback in a country like Sudan.
(18) A major drawback of SPE is the batch-to-batch variation of the sorbents.
(19) The double-lung transplantation procedure continued to have significant drawbacks, including intraoperative and postoperative hemorrhage, and cardiac complications due to prolonged cardiopulmonary bypass, ischemic cardiac arrest, and extensive manipulation of the heart.
(20) The only drawback to surgery was an average strength loss of 50%.
Pullback
Definition:
(n.) That which holds back, or causes to recede; a drawback; a hindrance.
(n.) The iron hook fixed to a casement to pull it shut, or to hold it party open at a fixed point.
Example Sentences:
(1) A group of economists told the Wall Street Journal that is exactly what is happening : They blame our lackluster recovery this year on a pullback in spending and investment by US companies, which are afraid that the fallout from a fiscal cliff could compromise their ability to find funding or function normally.
(2) Although an uncommon lesion, when pulmonary stenosis is considered, pulmonary artery and right ventricular pressures should be assessed simultaneously on two-catheter pullback to appreciate the precise location of pulmonary-right ventricular pressure gradients.
(3) Those who have grown pessimistic about a deal with Mahmoud Abbas, the Palestinian president, can nevertheless imagine reaching a bargain with a coalition of Arab states, one that would include an Israeli pullback from occupied Palestinian territory.
(4) Correlation (r = 0.95) between continuous-wave Doppler estimates and catheter pullback pressure gradients across the conduits was excellent.
(5) An extra 3,100 peacekeeping troops will be sent to Congo, the UN Security Council said today, even though rebels said they remained committed to a pullback from the front lines.
(6) Echocardiography confirmed the position of the septostomy catheter before pullback.
(7) Validation studies showed that sphincter imaging based on a stepwise pullback of a catheter with four or eight radial side holes is superior to a rapid motorized pullback.
(8) At specified time points between 1 and 41 days after the initial balloon pullback injury, the iliac arteries were analyzed by angiographic, morphometric, and immunocytochemical techniques.
(9) Other approaches used to determine the mean transaortic valve gradient were less accurate: simultaneous LV-FA (R = 0.991); aligned LV-FA (R = 0.974); averaged simultaneous and aligned LV-FA (R = 0.981); and nonsimultaneous LV-aorta pullback (R = 0.953).
(10) A 22-year-old-man with intermittent obstruction of the subclavian vein at the thoracic outlet was evaluated by a pullback venous pressure gradient measurement and phlebography.
(11) By traversing the inflow tract of the left ventricle on pullback from the left atrium to the aorta, this method served to separate definitively true hypertrophic subaortic stenosis from cavity obliteration.
(12) To examine if any obstruction to LV outflow was caused by the micromanometer, cardiac performance was assessed during pullback from the ventricle to the aorta.
(13) It is determined by computer analysis of continuous-pressure measurements during constant speed pullback of a radially oriented 4- 6- or 8-channel manometry catheter across the LES.
(14) The ceasefire and weapons pullback is to be monitored by the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE).
(15) In 18 patients with AS, the pressure gradient was quantitated from (1) simultaneous left ventricular and ascending aortic pressures (LV-AO), (2) nonsimultaneous LV-AO pullback, (3) LV and femoral arterial (FA) pressures unadjusted for the time delay of the FA tracing (LV-FA unadjusted), and (4) LV-FA adjusted for time delay.
(16) For Lebanon watchers both here and in Washington, the statements have contributed to a long-running belief that an opposition win – even one in which Hezbollah held only a handful of non-security-related cabinet positions – would trigger a broad US pullback from the country, especially as far as funding the Lebanese army is concerned.
(17) We conclude from these preclinical studies that retrograde atherectomy with the Pullback Atherectomy Catheter is a feasible means of performing definitive atherectomy.
(18) IMF director José Viñals said: "Faltering confidence and policy uncertainty have led to a pullback of cross-border private capital flows from the periphery – quite an extraordinary phenomenon within a currency union."
(19) He zips into the box, reaches the byline, and attempts to find Lavezzi with a pullback.
(20) • Despite Thursday's pullback from Salahedin by the FSA, analysts suggest the military balance may be changing .