(a.) No longer capable of producing young, as an animal, or fruit, as the earth; hence, worn out with age; exhausted of energy; incapable of efficient action; no longer productive; barren; sterile.
Example Sentences:
(1) To determine the site of action of rilmenidine, we examined its effets on arterial blood pressure (BP), heart rate (HR) and postganglionic renal sympathetic nerve activity (RSNA) after intracerebroventricular (i.c.v.)
(2) The complete breakdown of organelles in the follicular regions contrastred with the retention of effete nuclei in the scales.
(3) These studies coupled with previous observations in patients following surgery or after severe multiple trauma suggest that reticuloendothelial depression during and after operation mediated by opsonic deficiency may lead to a precarious imbalance between systemic host defense and the dissemination of blood-borne foreign and effete particulate matter such as injured platelets, fibrin microaggregates and immune complexes.
(4) It is postulated that this thread forms because of the excessively exophthalmic conformation of the breed, which prevents the normal access of effete mucus and entrapped debris to the lower conjunctival fornix.
(5) Macrophages ingest foreign materials, effete and damaged tissues, and bacterial products.
(6) Electron microscopy revealed two groups of melanocytes, an effete group and another group with a highly dendritic appearance.
(7) It has been observed that when neurons are acutely damaged by toxic chemicals leading to accumulations of effete materials, glial supporting cells insert cytoplasmic processes into neuronal cytoplasm and appear to transfer this material into themselves.
(8) The image of him being effete was already out there.
(9) One of these methods, which uses biotinylated rabbit erythrocytes, has been used to examine the state of membrane proteins in effete cells.
(10) Tory pundits jeered that the pretty boy, the effete “Dauphin” of Canadian politics, was about to get his famous hair badly mussed.
(11) Plasma fibronectin augments the clearance of blood-borne foreign and effete complexes by mononuclear phagocytes.
(12) The decrease in necrotic cells may be due to a large number of elderly and effete cells, which would normally have undergone degeneration over a period of weeks, dying rapidly after the onset of hypoxia, thus temporarily reducing the daily cell death rate.
(13) After all, it’s probably not hard to turn a neo-Nazi into a potential Republican voter by telling him that a corporatized, authoritarian, nationalistic, militaristic party is the only thing standing between him and effete, war-losing, left-wing elites who are trying to destroy the homeland via a fifth-column of non-native minorities, college professors, “homosexuals” and other cultural degenerates.
(14) Now led by Mance Rayder (Ciaran Hinds), the self-styled King-Beyond-the Wall, the Free People look poised to descend on the sissy south in season three, in a campaign perhaps modelled on Bonnie Prince Charlie's raids into the heartland of the effete sassenachs of yore, or the Vikings marching on Stamford Bridge.
(15) For example, they may ingest effete leptomeningeal cells or fragments of them.
(16) The mechanisms for the recognition of the effete red cell in the aged host and the nature of the membrane alterations that bring about the premature sequestration are not fully understood.
(17) The mechanisms by which mononuclear phagocytes discriminate between self and nonself, recognize foreign materials, senescent, damaged, old, or effete cells, and tumor cells are unknown.
(18) They do not represent effete melanocytes, but they originate from the mesenchym.
(19) This in turn probably depends on the rapid appearance of gross chromosomal defects, the effete cells being eliminated by their incorporation into multinucleate giant cells which then form non-viable polyploid cells.
(20) The circular Torqheel was found to be more effetive, but still corrected only a quarter of the apparent rotatory deformity during gait.
Incontinent
Definition:
(a.) Not continent; uncontrolled; not restraining the passions or appetites, particularly the sexual appetite; indulging unlawful lust; unchaste; lewd.
(a.) Unable to restrain natural evacuations.
(n.) One who is unchaste.
(adv.) Incontinently; instantly immediately.
Example Sentences:
(1) In conclusion, abdominal Marlex-mesh rectopexy can be recommended as safe and effective treatment for rectal prolapse, despite some patients developing constipation and some remaining incontinent.
(2) All of the nude mice developed paraplegia with or without incontinence at 2 weeks and routinely died of inanition 3 weeks postimplantation.
(3) Four patients had previously been diverted and the other six were reconstructed because of intractable incontinence or deteriorating renal function.
(4) There were 13 patients with bladder exstrophy and 2 with incontinent epispadias.
(5) Urinary incontinence present between 7 and 10 days after stroke was the most important adverse prognostic factor both for survival and for recovery of function.
(6) After operation, one man had persistent major stress incontinence.
(7) Decreased maximal voluntary squeeze pressures were less severe in continent patients with multiple sclerosis than in incontinent patients with multiple sclerosis.
(8) To overcome the problem of incontinence which failed to respond to standard measures, an animal model was designed for continent diversion without cystectomy.
(9) Faecal incontinence may be due to a trauma, a rectal prolapse, or a neurological disorder.
(10) This study demonstrates the limitations of the Q-Tip test and reconfirms the need for more sensitive and specific urodynamic investigations of the incontinent woman.
(11) He joined the Coldstream Guards, while Debo and her mother went to Berne to collect Unity, who had put a bullet through her brain but survived, severely damaged; they coped with Unity's resultant moodiness and incontinence through the first year of war.
(12) In recent years, accurate preoperative diagnosis has been increasingly emphasized as an important therapeutic aspect of urinary incontinence in women.
(13) With these scores we expect to facilitate the diagnostic screening, to indicate the way of therapy and to avoid unnecessary surgery for urinary incontinence in cases of motor-urge-incontinence (detrusor instability, unstable bladder), as long as a urodynamic examination is not feasible on every incontinent women.
(14) Urinary frequency was normalized in 6 out of 16 (37.5%), urgency ceased in 6 out of 17 (35.7%) and urgent incontinence disappeared in 9 out of 14 (50%) patients.
(15) Parallel to the traditional lateral cystogram with chain, perineal sonography as was employed as avisual procedure on 50 patients, who presented themselves at our clinic for urodynamic screening for clinical incontinence.
(16) The clinical effectiveness and safety of terodiline hydrochloride and clenbuterol hydrochloride were studied on 51 patients with neurogenic bladder, stress incontinence, unstable bladder and others, the chief complaints of which were urinary frequency or urinary incontinence.
(17) The prevalences of urinary incontinence, difficulty in bladder emptying and irritative bladder symptoms are not known in the noninstitutionalized elderly in this country.
(18) When administered to adult patients with urge incontinence (generally as a 25mg twice-daily dose) terodiline reduces diurnal and nocturnal micturition frequency and incontinence episodes.
(19) Two variations on a test for quantifying urine loss in patients with urinary incontinence were compared.
(20) We feel that GAX collagen injection is a safe and easy method for the treatment of urinary stress incontinence; it has no observable or measurable morbidity.