(v. i.) To drivel, or drop saliva; as, the child drools.
Example Sentences:
(1) Any method employed for the control of drooling must still allow a sufficient volume of flow for mastication, deglutition and oral hygiene.
(2) These results are discussed and compared to the alternative drug and surgical approaches to treatment that have been the primary focus of recent research on drooling.
(3) The efficacy of a feeding program to decrease drooling and increase vocalizations by promoting mouth closure was explored in two boys with cerebral palsy through the use of oral facilitation techniques.
(4) Unhappily, drooling also may lead to several unfortunate medical and psychosocial outcomes for the affected patient.
(5) We conclude that drooling, agitation, and absence of cough are predictors of epiglottitis, but clinical findings alone cannot exclude epiglottitis in every child who appears to have laryngotracheitis.
(6) I report a series of 20 patients who had excellent results from this, with amelioration of the drooling and minimal postoperative complications.
(7) In the case study described, transdermal scopolamine patches were found to be effective for controlling drooling in a traumatic brain-injured patient for whom more conservative methods failed.
(8) The calf initially drooled blood-tinged saliva and drank with difficulty.
(9) Transposition of the corner of the mouth utilizing the Z-plasty technique has proven to be an effective method to correct the drooling and garbled speech associated with facial paralysis.
(10) The bare statistics he provided in various tests and drills left the scouts drooling.
(11) At a time when centre-left parties are struggling all across Europe, with the German social democrats reduced to a mere 26% of the vote and Norway's social democratic government pushed into opposition less than two months ago (in spite of a massive oil-based sovereign wealth fund that has Scottish nationalists drooling with envy), Scotland's progressive societal argument based on Nordic and continental models may seem too fanciful for comfort.
(12) A tender Théophile wipes the drool from the corner of his mouth, then cries with his mother.
(13) He was alert and speaking without difficulty but was drooling, gagging, coughing, and unable to swallow.
(14) Transdermal scopolamine patches (1.5 mg) were used to control drooling in a two-year-old boy with severe spastic quadriparetic cerebral palsy and developmental delay.
(15) At this point, venture capitalists are drooling over bitcoin and its possibilities,” says Roger Ver, a bitcoin investor and evangelist whose philanthropic donations earned him the nickname “ Bitcoin Jesus ”.
(16) This type of medication appears to be useful in the treatment of drooling.
(17) We present a case in which troublesome postoperative drooling at the commissures was corrected by a local muscle reconstruction and interdigitation to recreate the normal muscular forces at the angles.
(18) We report a 10-year experience with 123 patients who had the surgical treatment for drooling originally described by Wilkie.
(19) Simply because he is not begging on a street corner (except when he's busking, which he does with glorious chutzpah) or drooling with a spent needle hanging from his arm, you presume he is doing fine.
(20) The surgical procedure resulted in a dramatic decrease in drooling and odor levels.
Smolder
Definition:
(v. i.) Alt. of Smoulder
(v. t.) Alt. of Smoulder
(n.) Alt. of Smoulder
Example Sentences:
(1) For smoldering and chronic cases, no chemotherapy is recommended.
(2) The proviral DNA was positive and the diagnosis of smoldering ATL was made.
(3) However, smoldering disease may cause pathological changes in the ocular structures through direct invasion of virus, secondary inflammation, and alterations of autoimmune mechanisms.
(4) Smoldering resentment, chronic anger, self-centeredness, vindictiveness, and a constant feeling of being abused ultimately produce a miserable human being who, as well as being alienated from self, alienates those in the interpersonal sphere.
(5) According to these data, we diagnosed the patient as smoldering adult T cell leukemia with pneumocystis carinii pneumonia.
(6) Our recently proposed prognostic strategy combining bone marrow histologic type, SB2M level, and signs of organ failure was tested for its ability to (1) diagnose the early and smoldering variants; (2) facilitate decisions on the time of initiation, the type and duration of initial induction therapy in the pretreatment phases (active and rapidly progressive phases); and (3) characterize variations in tumor regression and tumor-host interactions during chemotherapy (early treatment, plateau, relapse, transition, and refractory phases).
(7) Although, at the first examination, the first two had smoldering type ATL and the third case was an HTLV-I carrier, all three developed overt ATL 14-16 months after the onset of opportunistic infection.
(8) A typical case of smoldering acute leukemia has been followed up for long-standing course.
(9) We classified the 95 patients with ATLL into four types according to clinicopathological features (smoldering leukemia, chronic leukemia, acute leukemia, and lymphoma types).
(10) Even in chronic and smoldering ATL, respiratory diseases were found in high frequency.
(11) Using an enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay, we measured the level of soluble interleukin-2 receptors (sIL-2Rs) in the serum of 50 normal controls, 48 human carriers of T cell leukemia virus type I (HTLV-I) antibody who had no symptoms, 11 patients with HTLV-I-associated myelopathy (HAM), and 39 patients with adult T cell leukemia (ATL) (four smoldering, 10 chronic, nine lymphoma, and 16 acute type).
(12) Upon learning that several air-crew members were still trapped inside the smoldering wreckage, he unhesitatingly and with complete disregard for his personal safety while fully aware of the personal dangers involved, entered the wreckage to provide medical care to the injured during a 4-hour period.
(13) In contrast, no mutation was detected in 4 cases with less aggressive types of ATL (3 chronic and 1 smoldering ATL cases).
(14) However, clonal integration has been reported in patients with adult T-cell leukemia (ATL), including that in the smoldering, chronic, and acute states, indicating clonal expansion of infected cells.
(15) The persistent white edge maintained (without advancement or smoldering) for an average of 11.6 weeks (range, 4 to 41 weeks).
(16) From these changes of scintigram during the course of the disease and biopsy findings, this case appeared to be one of "smoldering" or "chronic recurrent" myocarditis.
(17) But when it continues to show positive, acute myocarditis seems to be "smoldering" and transferring to DCM.
(18) The highest levels of sIL-2R were observed in patients with acute and lymphoma-type ATL, as opposed to those with chronic and smoldering-type ATL.
(19) A diagnosis of scleredema and smoldering myeloma was made.
(20) These two latter cases were similar to the so-called smoldering type of ATL.