(v. t.) To eat into or away; to corrode; as, canker erodes the flesh.
Example Sentences:
(1) Dietary factors affect intestinal P450s markedly--iron restriction rapidly decreased intestinal P450 to beneath detectable values; selenium deficiency acted similarly but was less effective; Brussels sprouts increased intestinal AHH activity 9.8-fold, ECOD activity 3.2-fold, and P450 1.9-fold; fried meat and dietary fat significantly increased intestinal EROD activity; a vitamin A-deficient diet increased, and a vitamin A-rich diet decreased intestinal P450 activities; and excess cholesterol in the diet increased intestinal P450 activity.
(2) The inner table of the skull over the lesion was eroded.
(3) Trabecular bone volume, osteoid amount, and eroded surfaces were measured.
(4) An equal increase in the number of eroded joints in hands and toes was seen in the penicillamine and the gold group.
(5) Whereas a simple tympanoplasty could cure a localized pearl, typically anterosuperior in the mesotympanum, the stapes is fast eroded (7 cases) if progression goes on.
(6) The eroded and now enlarged lacunar surfaces were lined by newly formed bone and osteoblasts.
(7) Treatment with I3C resulted in a 3-fold increase in ethoxyresorufine-O-deethylase (Erod) activity and a 2-fold increase in ethoxycoumarine-O-deethylase (Etco) activity.
(8) Enlargement in an adjacent conjugating foramen forms a tumour which may narrow the spinal canal (1 case diagnosed by CAT) or erode the vertebral body, so compromising the spinal support.
(9) October 23, 2013 And on unemployment: The recent reduction in the unemployment rate [to 7.7%] indicated that slack in the economy was, as anticipated, being eroded as activity picked up.
(10) But surely all this short-form writing is eroding literacy?
(11) For me, this is what needs to change - we need a cultural shift in our attitudes and behaviours and that needs to see all of us standing up and calling out harassment and misogyny, whether it is in the street or the workplace, to erode that normalisation that makes perpetrators feel safe doing it again and again.
(12) Chromatographic fractionation of the RXM indicated that there exist at least four different 13C acid-condensation products in the RXM with the ability to induce EROD.
(13) And indeed, Tony Abbott’s new pension plan, to save $2.4bn over two years and an undisclosed sum beyond that by reversing a Howard government decision that allowed quite wealthy retirees to claim a part-pension, is much fairer than last year’s plan to erode the value of all pensions over time.
(14) In the austerity programme that followed the financial crisis, state support for those at the bottom of society has been eroded.
(15) How about the executive chairman of the company whose software has been crucial in eroding the Canadian company's position in the consumer market?
(16) Backed by the British government, it was controversial among many campaigners in the UK and Europe , because it was seen a template for how multinational businesses wish to erode national regulations in favour of a more unfettered market access.
(17) An unusual post-coarctation mycotic aortic aneurysm that had eroded into the left main stem bronchus was identified and replaced with a Dacron graft.
(18) On the contrary, inactive joints by repeated scanning never eroded.
(19) At operation, the tumour was found to have eroded the stapes.
(20) As low interest rates erode the value of people's hard-earned savings, I would also like to see the chancellor allowing higher ISA limits, so that at least any meagre interest people do earn on their savings will not be taxed as well.
Failure
Definition:
(n.) Cessation of supply, or total defect; a failing; deficiency; as, failure of rain; failure of crops.
(n.) Omission; nonperformance; as, the failure to keep a promise.
(n.) Want of success; the state of having failed.
(n.) Decay, or defect from decay; deterioration; as, the failure of memory or of sight.
(n.) A becoming insolvent; bankruptcy; suspension of payment; as, failure in business.
(n.) A failing; a slight fault.
Example Sentences:
(1) The newborn with critical AS typically presents with severe cardiac failure and the infant with moderate failure, whereas children may be asymptomatic.
(2) The testing of other models and their failure to describe the kinetic observations are discussed.
(3) One of the main components was confirmed to be caffeic acid which had inhibitory effect on renal failure in mice by Ac1-P.
(4) During the procedure, acute respiratory failure developed as a result of tracheal obstruction.
(5) Erythrocyte membrane choline transport is abnormally high in chronic renal failure.
(6) Four patients died while maintained on PD; three deaths were due to complications of liver failure within the first 4 months of PD and the fourth was due to empyema after 4 years of PD.
(7) Fifty-two pairs of canine femora were tested to failure in four-point bending.
(8) Agarose-albumin beads may be useful for removing protein-bound substances from the blood of patients with liver failure, intoxication with protein-bound drugs, or specific metabolic deficits.
(9) Thus the failure to raise anti-Id with internal image characteristics may provide an explanation for the lack of anti-gp120 activity reported in anti-Id antisera raised to multiple anti-CD4 antibodies.
(10) Instead of later renal failure and, of course, mental retardation, it was the histological features of the fetus eyes which permit to diagnose and exhibit both congenital cataract and irido-corneal angle dysgenesis.
(11) Failure to develop an adequate resource will be costly in the long run.
(12) A failure to reach a solution would potentially leave 200,000 homes without affordable cover, leaving owners unable to sell their properties and potentially exposing them to financial hardship.
(13) Prognosis of patients with these autonomic failures is poor.
(14) The failure rates of the 2 regimens to suppress lactation were similar; however, rebound lactation occurred in a small proportion of women treated with bromocriptine.
(15) Lisinopril increases cardiac output, and decreases pulmonary capillary wedge pressure and mean arterial pressure in patients with congestive heart failure refractory to conventional treatment with digitalis and diuretics.
(16) Blood samples from 23 subjects with chronic renal failure and 19 controls were tested using thrombelastography and other hematologic tests.
(17) Cardiac pump function is not affected, even in patients with ventricular dysfunction or heart failure, in whom chronic oral administration of the drug is well tolerated.
(18) The high incidence and severity of haemodynamic complications (pulmonary oedema, generalized heart failure, cardiogenic shock) were the main cause of the high death-rate.
(19) A certain amount of relaparotomies after small bowel surgery is caused by technical failures, such as the technique of suturing the anastomosis and the kind of re-establishing the continuity of the bowel.
(20) Treatment failures tend to occur early in the course of follow-up, permitting easy identification of candidates for alternative therapeutic approaches.