(v. i.) To slip or glide away; to pass away silently, as time; -- used chiefly in reference to time.
Example Sentences:
(1) Measurable quantities of temefos were found in the snails within 1 day after the first treatment with a 2% granular formulation but 3 weeks elapsed before uptake occurred following treatment with a temefos emulsion.
(2) In the average 13 months elapsed between the start of the treatment and the occurrence of the first recidive, as compared with 7 months in the average for the controls.
(3) The experimental conditions were investigated in detail with regard to the following factors: influence of the number of sensitizing injections on serum antibody production, length of the recovery period which elapsed between sensitization and challenge, and influence of the size of the challenging dose on the severity of the inflammatory response.
(4) These data suggest that, after discontinuing supplemental oxygen in patients with chronic airways obstruction, more than 25 minutes should elapse if a blood gas measurement is to reflect with certainty conditions during room air breathing.
(5) cyclophosphamide, methotrexate, and 5-fluorouracil (CMF) after surgery for primary breast cancer was analyzed according to three administration-related factors: total number of cycles received, time elapsed between surgery and start of chemotherapy, and dose intensity of treatment.
(6) The clinico-audiometric studies have shown that under the influence of acute alcoholic intoxication the normal examinees manifest dysfunction of the acoustic analyzer, whose intensity depends on the time elapsed since the moment of alcohol intake.
(7) The associations were not explained by duration of smoking, by the time elapsed since commencement, or by factors associated with cigarette smoking such as alcohol consumption or oral contraceptive use.
(8) The duration of IUD use did not influence the length of time that had elapsed until the first conception after removal, and the outcome of pregnancies was the same in the study and the local control group.
(9) In sheep, almost 25 minutes elapsed before peripheral neutrophil numbers decreased by 50%, much longer than the time required for LPS sequestration in the lungs.
(10) The aim of the study was to investigate the changes in the size and function of the rat adrenal gland in relation to time-intervals elapsed from postpubertal gonadectomy.
(11) It is shown to increase hyperbolically with the time elapsed since the nerve section.
(12) As time elapsed postoperatively, the difference between two kinds of grafts showed a tendency to diminish by all criteria used in this study.
(13) The time elapsed between RTX and RT was as follows: 25 were performed earlier than 6 weeks, 17 between 6 weeks to 6 months, and 33 after 6 months.
(14) In addition, the tolerance to food deprivation, defined as the time elapsed to reach the end of phase II, should also be improved since this tolerance is known to be critically modulated by protein utilization.
(15) The perioperative mortality rate was lower when at least 4 weeks had elapsed from acute infarction to surgery (10 versus 67 percent) and when the procedure included coronary bypass grafting (13 versus 50 percent), although these differences were not statistically significant (P greater than 0.05).
(16) However, under normal working conditions, taking into account the period of time which inevitably elapses between the patient feeling pain in the kidney and his reaching the Emergency Department and the necessary examinations being carried out which enable the correct diagnosis to be made, the number of hours which have passed make attempts at conservative surgery completely useless.
(17) Looking back over the 57 years that have elapsed since his death, one sees him as an artist who played the most dangerous of all games and played it triumphantly where all his followers have failed.
(18) When the schedule was changed so that the same total amount of food was available after ten shorter fixed intervals, fixed-interval responding resumed within a single session, and when the schedule was changed back so that all food was available only after 2 h had elapsed, fixed-interval responding diminished within a few sessions and virtually no responding occurred for 21 additional sessions.
(19) For patients with yolk sac tumor prophylactic chemotherapy is indicated, particularly if more than 2 months have elapsed between the first detection of a testicular mass and operation.
(20) During the second round, the British government acknowledged that the allegations of murder and torture were true, but argued that too much time had elapsed for there to be a fair trial.
Relapse
Definition:
(v. i.) To slip or slide back, in a literal sense; to turn back.
(v. i.) To slide or turn back into a former state or practice; to fall back from some condition attained; -- generally in a bad sense, as from a state of convalescence or amended condition; as, to relapse into a stupor, into vice, or into barbarism; -- sometimes in a good sense; as, to relapse into slumber after being disturbed.
(v. i.) To fall from Christian faith into paganism, heresy, or unbelief; to backslide.
(v.) A sliding or falling back, especially into a former bad state, either of body or morals; backsliding; the state of having fallen back.
(v.) One who has relapsed, or fallen back, into error; a backslider; specifically, one who, after recanting error, returns to it again.
Example Sentences:
(1) Nine of 14 patients studied for documented clinical relapse had positive repeat studies.
(2) The most common reasons cited for relapse included craving, social situations, stress, and nervousness.
(3) Mitoses of nuclei of myocytes of the left ventricle of the heart observed in two elderly people who had died of extensive relapsing infarction are described.
(4) Due to continued disease relapse in this group (four of eight patients), long-term survivors should not be identified for a minimum of 3.5 years from the time of initial therapy.
(5) The plasma levels of atrial natriuretic factor (ANF) were measured both during relapse and remission in 8 patients with idiopathic, minimal-lesion nephrotic syndrome.
(6) With a median follow-up of 6 years, 32 (20%) of 156 patients who achieved complete remission have relapsed.
(7) In Stage I, seven relapses (relapse rate 6%) occurred after irradiation; three of them were cured with second-line therapies.
(8) The relapse was 80% in the sagittal plane, 70% in the transverse plane, and 12% in the vertical plane.
(9) Therefore, a mortality analysis of overall survival time alone may conceal important differences between the forces of mortality (hazard functions) associated with distinct states of active disease, for example pre-remission state and first relapse.
(10) High concordance was observed between a positive test and relapse during the period of study (chi-square = 27.53, P less than 0.001).
(11) These results suggest that a lowered basal energy expenditure and a reduced glucose-induced thermogenesis contribute to the positive energy balance which results in relapse of body weight gain after cessation of a hypocaloric diet.
(12) Between January 1979 and April 1983, 113 children undergoing their first relapse of acute lymphoid leukemia (ALL) at any site were registered in Pediatric Oncology Group study 7834; 98 were eligible and evaluable.
(13) We measured CSF immunoreactive myelin basic protein (MBP), a marker of acute myelin damage, and sIL-2R levels in the CSF from 11 patients with active relapsing remitting (RR) MS, five with stable RR MS, eight with chronic progressive (CP) MS, five with other neurologic diseases, and three normal controls.
(14) Of all solid tumors only nine occurred in relapse-free patients.
(15) Seven patients relapsed after a CY-induced remission, but 5 of them became steroid responsive.
(16) Many reports of thyroid stimulating immunoglobulins (TSI) in relation to treatment of Graves' disease have been published and with variable results concerning prediction of permanent remission or relapse after therapy.
(17) Surgical and pathologic staging can identify a subset of surgically treated rectal cancer patients at high risk for tumor relapse and death.
(18) These results suggest that the bacterium may not play an important pathogenetic role in ulcer healing and relapse, when patients are managed using an H2-blocker.
(19) Several treatment regimes were assessed, and of these it appeared that sulphamethizole 1g three times a day was most effective, both in terms of a lower rate of relapse of infection and also a low incidence of side effects.
(20) After effective treatment the level fell and rose again 10 months prior to the conventional clinical diagnosis of relapse.