(n.) The act of emptying, clearing of the contents, or discharging.
(n.) Withdrawal of troops from a town, fortress, etc.
(n.) Voidance of any matter by the natural passages of the body or by an artificial opening; defecation; also, a diminution of the fluids of an animal body by cathartics, venesection, or other means.
(n.) That which is evacuated or discharged; especially, a discharge by stool or other natural means.
(n.) Abolition; nullification.
Example Sentences:
(1) Classical treatment combining artificial delivery or uterine manual evacuation-oxytocics led to the arrest of bleeding in 73 cases.
(2) Midtrimester abortion by the dilatation and evacuation (D&E) method has generated controversy among health care providers; many authorities insist that this procedure should be performed only by a small group of experts.
(3) A therapeutic approach is suggested which emphasizes specific antibiotic regimens appropriate to the primary site of infection and prompt neurosurgical intervention with evacuation of the subdural spaces bilaterally.
(4) Today we have evacuated six bodies from inside the fuselage,” Supriyadi said on Friday.
(5) This is what President Carter did when he raised the spectre of terminating US military assistance if Israel did not immediately evacuate Lebanon in September 1977.
(6) This may be due to changes in the gastroduodenal pressure gradient induced by evacuating the stomach.
(7) We conclude that these good results are due to the short interval between accident and operation as well as to the evacuation of the intraarticular hematoma, together with a stable internal fixation and functional rehabilitation.
(8) "We began planning to evacuate, and took 55 people to the annexe," said Hicks.
(9) One patient required evacuation and open packing of the right upper quadrant and lower right hemithorax.
(10) The Bosnian leadership in Sarajevo warned the UN on 8 July that “genocide against the civilian population of Srebrenica may occur” but did not call for evacuation.
(11) Cavernous hemangiomas of the brain stem are usually discovered accidentally during evacuation of a hematoma, and successful surgical treatment of these lesions is seldom achieved.
(12) Total bacterial counts, nitrate-reducing bacteria and nitrite concentration were determined in fasting gastric juice before and after 4 weeks of treatment with a strong or with a mild antacid drug, a placebo preparation and the spasmolytic agent papaverine which is known to inhibit gastric evacuation.
(13) The postoperative CT images show successful evacuation of the hematoma, and the clinical evaluation also showed satisfactory results.
(14) A removable, stainless-steel tube is present around the heated area, and this particular configuration makes it possible to begin every combustion procedure from room temperature, and consequently, to achieve a complete evacuation of air from the line even for heat-labile samples.
(15) Allen's team has used the new technique to work out whether global warming worsened the UK floods in autumn 2000, which inundated 10,000 properties, disrupted power supplies and led to train services being cancelled, motorways closed and 11,000 people evacuated from their homes - at a total cost of £1bn.
(16) This series suggests that patients with cerebral amyloid angiopathy may safely undergo operative procedures, and patients presenting with intracerebral hemorrhage may show neurologic improvement following evacuation of the hematoma.
(17) In contrast to the broad coverage of the clinical aspects of the aeromedical evacuation, the operational and management control issues have rarely been addressed.
(18) Subdural hematomas were evacuated in 41 newborns during the first 4 days after birth.
(19) Simultaneous opening of the dura mater on both sides with slow evacuation of the contents of the hematomas is an important stage of surgical intervention in BTSH.
(20) The evacuation of breakfast with butter was inhibited almost to the same degree.
Vacuum
Definition:
(n.) A space entirely devoid of matter (called also, by way of distinction, absolute vacuum); hence, in a more general sense, a space, as the interior of a closed vessel, which has been exhausted to a high or the highest degree by an air pump or other artificial means; as, water boils at a reduced temperature in a vacuum.
(n.) The condition of rarefaction, or reduction of pressure below that of the atmosphere, in a vessel, as the condenser of a steam engine, which is nearly exhausted of air or steam, etc.; as, a vacuum of 26 inches of mercury, or 13 pounds per square inch.
Example Sentences:
(1) During a single reversal trial of two 2-wk experimental periods, teats of all glands of 12 Holstein cows were subjected to a milking routine conducive to large vacuum fluctuations and flooded teat cups.
(2) The construction and use of a simple and inexpensive vacuum cassette for this purpose is described.
(3) But no one was sure, and in this information vacuum the virus reached nearby towns and crossed borders.
(4) Once frozen the specimen must be handled in such a way that it becomes vacuum compatible for subsequent analysis.
(5) Increased wear-resistance of microsurgical instruments by facing, electric spark alloying and vacuum surfacing increases the working life of the instruments by 1.5-3 times.
(6) It is concluded that most annulus vacuums are a degenerative phenomenon at the attachment of the annulus to bone.
(7) Measurements were made of their absolute sensitivity and linearity, and their response to various UVR sources was compared to that of Hilger Schwarz FT17 and FT32 vacuum compensated thermopiles.
(8) Monodispersed N- and C-protected linear homo-oligomethionines (n = 2- -7) are studied by measurements of circular dichroism in the vacuum ultraviolet region.
(9) Thirty-nine women were divided into four groups: 7 women were given 400mug 15-me-PGF2alpha extra-amniotically one hour prior to vacuum aspiration; 14 were pretreated with oral indomethacin (50 mg X4) over 24 hours; 7 were given indomethacin (50mg X 6) over 36 hours and 11 served as controls.
(10) The vacuum flask method of using boiling water to decontaminate soft contact lenses is better and less expensive than other ways of using moist heat and can be safely and effectively applied under most domestic circumstances.
(11) The media are more pervasive, seeping everywhere into the vacuum left by the shrinking of the old powers.
(12) It was established that the vacuum treatment of purulent wounds was effective but after surgical treatment.
(13) In following these procedures we opted for a somewhat different approach to applying hypochlorite, water, alcohol, and alkane; namely, eggs were placed between two Nucleopore filters, and the fluids drawn sequentially through the filters by vacuum.
(14) It involved preservation of unstained chromosome slides in a vacuum desiccator up to 18 months, Q-staining, destaining, and treatment in Hanks' solution, pH 5.1, at 85 degrees C for 13 min, and acridine orange staining.
(15) Hens from both strains performed vacuum nest-building behaviour before laying.
(16) • Led to the loss of talented senior NHS leaders by creating an array of new organisations, each responsible for areas such as hospitals or public health, meaning that no one is in overall charge and the NHS now suffers from a leadership vacuum.
(17) Use of a vacuum device on the mixed acrylic resin works as well as pressure polymerizing.
(18) A difference density map obtained from data on purple membrane films at 15% relative humidity in 2H2O, and the same sample after complete drying in vacuum, revealed that about eight of these protons belong to four water molecules.
(19) Vacuuming of carpets showed only a slight reduction in the number of recoverable microorganisms.
(20) Merkel herself has been accused of creating a vacuum on the right due to her consensus style of politics, which the AfD, and now Pegida – to whom the AfD has openly given its backing – have willingly managed to fill.