(n.) Sudden or unexpected appearance; an unforeseen occurrence; a sudden occasion.
(n.) An unforeseen occurrence or combination of circumstances which calls for immediate action or remedy; pressing necessity; exigency.
Example Sentences:
(1) The judge, Mr Justice John Royce, told George she was "cold" and "calculating", as further disturbing details of her relationship with the co-accused, Colin Blanchard and Angela Allen, emerged.
(2) The hospital whose A&E unit has been threatened with closure on safety grounds has admitted that four patients died after errors by staff in the emergency department and other areas.
(3) This is an easy, safe, and rapid alternative for the emergent treatment of superior vena caval syndrome.
(4) The following conclusions emerge: (i) when the 3' or the 3' penultimate base of the oligonucleotide mismatched an allele, no amplification product could be detected; (ii) when the mismatches were 3 and 4 bases from the 3' end of the primer, differential amplification was still observed, but only at certain concentrations of magnesium chloride; (iii) the mismatched allele can be detected in the presence of a 40-fold excess of the matched allele; (iv) primers as short as 13 nucleotides were effective; and (v) the specificity of the amplification could be overwhelmed by greatly increasing the concentration of target DNA.
(5) There was a 35% decrease in the number of patients seeking emergency treatment and one study put the savings in economic and social costs at just under £7m a year .
(6) Axons emerge from proximal dendrites within 50 microns of the soma, and more rarely from the soma, in a tapering initial segment, commonly interrupted by one or two large swellings.
(7) A case is presented of a 35-year-old woman who was brought to the emergency service by ambulance complaining of vomiting for 7 days and that she could not hear well because she was 'worn out'.
(8) Physicians working in the emergency room gained 14.7% during that time of day the PNP was present.
(9) No biologic investigation of the hemostatic impairment could be performed under the emergency conditions of this field study.
(10) Pharmaceutical services were provided from a large tent near the hospital, which consisted of an emergency treatment facility, two operating rooms, and a small medical-surgical ward.
(11) Between the 24th and 29th day mature daughter sporocysts with fully developed cercariae ready to emerge, or already emerged, could be seen in the digestive gland of the snail.
(12) For the non-emergency admissions, the low-load physicians' patients had an average LOS that was 56.2% greater and an average hospital cost that was 58.3% greater than were the LOS and cost of the patients of the high-load physicians.
(13) Last week the WHO said the outbreak had reached a critical point, and announced a $200m (£120m) emergency fund.
(14) Leading clinical candidates have emerged from Smith Kline and French, Lilly, Merck-Frosst, ICI-Stuart and other groups.
(15) In a poll before the debate, 48% predicted that Merkel, who will become Europe's longest serving leader if re-elected on 22 September, would emerge as the winner of the US-style debate, while 26% favoured Steinbruck, a former finance minister who is known for his quick-wit and rhetorical skills, but sometimes comes across as arrogant.
(16) Hamilton said it was uncanny to find themselves in another desperate emergency situation almost exactly one year on.
(17) The greatest stars who emerged from the early talent shows – Frank Sinatra, Gladys Knight, Tony Bennett – were artists with long careers.
(18) Over the past decade, the quinolone antimicrobial class has enjoyed a renaissance with the emergence of the fluoroquinolone subclass.
(19) It happens to anyone and everyone and this has been an 11-year battle.” Emergency services were called to the oval about 6.30pm to treat Luke for head injuries, but were unable to revive him.
(20) Delirium on emergence from anesthesia was not encountered.
Exigency
Definition:
(n.) The state of being exigent; urgent or exacting want; pressing necessity or distress; need; a case demanding immediate action, supply, or remedy; as, an unforeseen exigency.
Example Sentences:
(1) It was the exigencies of World War II that brought about the 1st, largescale systematic promotion of condoms to prevent venereal disease.
(2) Therein lies the mission--and the obligation--of the Catholic hospital, which must continue into the future whatever new forms of organization exigencies may dictate.
(3) By similar methods rational, exigent therapeutic measures are selected (Table 5).
(4) The method was tested against the reference method using suspensions of C. Oedematiens (species demanding strictly anaerobiosis conditions), C. histolyticum (somewhat less exigent) and C. perfringens spores (mean esigence), seeding on the surface of dishes with Willis-Hobbs medium.
(5) At least some of the features of the principal and accessory submandibular glands of the vampire bat may be structural adaptations to the exigencies posed by the exclusively sanguivorous diet of these animals and its attendant extremely high intake of sodium chloride.
(6) Given the exigencies of the politics surrounding the Middle East peace process, only a fool would predict an outcome, not least with some diplomats in Washington assessing only a 10% chance of agreement on a framework document even by the April deadline.
(7) As long as government is allowed to collect all internet data, the perceived exigency will drive honest civil servants to reach more broadly and deeply into our networked lives.
(8) In addition to indicating that negative life situation exigencies, such as poor health and low income are related to lower well-being, the results tentatively indicate that these exigencies create a greater vulnerability to the impact of other negative conditions.
(9) Homosexual behavior among heterosexual women is discussed in terms of responses to different kinds of situational exigencies and the rationalizations used to deal with the experience while insulating the heterosexual self-identification.
(10) The exigencies of a disease-oriented strategy which requires a blend of therapeutic modalities many times require a modification of what would be an ideal modality-oriented strategy geared solely to effectively testing a new agent.
(11) The increasing frequency of chronic cholecystitis makes necessary a more minute diagnosis and exigent surgical indication, pledges for long-term favourable results.
(12) In contemporary psychiatry, neurobiological emphases and the exigencies of positivistic research have tended to standardize the picture of schizophrenia.
(13) Chris Mullin's most exigent friends would have relished its black comedy at a memorial service and then fallen, thanks to the Man Booker, upon an extraordinary saga that has yet to be promoted by Richard and Judy, the Grazia book club and Channel 4's TV Book Club .
(14) Long-run considerations, not short-run financial exigencies, should determine which activities occur in the private sector.
(15) New exigencies require new policies, and it's time to break with the past.
(16) Vertebrate egg envelopes, then, are basically similar; the modifications, including the addition of shell membranes and shells in some groups, reflect adaptations to differing reproductive strategies and to the environmental exigencies with which the egg must cope.
(17) There are five universal exigencies of being human, against which a person's existence can be evaluated: pairbondage, troopbondage, abidance, ycleptance, and foredoomance.
(18) Although the exigency level was not detailed, around 42% of the clinical trials sponsored by the pharmaceutical industry are performed according to GCP.
(19) He explains these deficiencies in terms of the exigencies of interdisciplinary work and the affinity of much early bioethics with policy- or legislatively-oriented "public ethics".
(20) To meet the exigencies of coping with the onset of schizophrenia in the family, caregivers sought out an array of professional and nonprofessional supports.