(n.) The quality of being expedient or advantageous; fitness or suitableness to effect a purpose intended; adaptedness to self-interest; desirableness; advantage; advisability; -- sometimes contradistinguished from moral rectitude.
(n.) Expedition; haste; dispatch.
(n.) An expedition; enterprise; adventure.
Example Sentences:
(1) Labs that produce new legal highs use the simple expedient of giving them to their mates to test.
(2) The expediency of this system has been recognised at an international level.
(3) The expedience of using the reference and recent years of isolates of parainfluenza type 1 viruses for serodiagnosis was demonstrated.
(4) We can never sacrifice fundamental fairness for political gain, and we should never value expediency over justice – especially in matters of life or death.
(5) There were definite benefits achieved by avoiding cancellation of elective operations, by using operating room personnel more efficiently and by expediating the surgical schedule.
(6) When evaluating the results of functional tests, it is expedient to use a combination of the parameters of spirography, the curve of forced expiration flow-volume and general plethysmography and in the choice of method preference should be given to the registration of the curve of forced expiration flow-volume.
(7) The results allowed the expediency of using laser resection techniques and Pirogov's single-row suture to be substantiated from new standpoints (standpoints of higher biological air-tightness of the anastomoses).
(8) Similarly, many pitfalls may be circumvented by the simple expedient of close collaboration between urologist and radiologist, and by the reluctance of either to accept urography that is suboptimal by current standards.
(9) The data obtained are indicative of the expediency to use biohemosorption for treatment of children with purulent septic diseases.
(10) It seems expedient to carry out further screening of different reagents and combinations thereof capable of significantly increasing HIV virus reproduction in cell cultures which would serve as the antigen for diagnostic systems.
(11) The author proposes the extrapleural-extraperitoneal access through the bed of the resected XI rib as an expedient one in most cases.
(12) When a pacing lead becomes infected, the most expedient and successful therapy is its removal.
(13) These results have evidenced the expedience of using these criteria for correct identification of leukemic cells.
(14) Although acute aortic dissection is not commonly seen at community hospitals, expedient management of such patients can have a major impact on their survival.
(15) On the ground of a research into the influence produced by the administered doses and the density of the aerosol on the therapeutic activity the expediency of employing aerosol generators based upon pneumatic atomization by using the principle of ejecting an additional volume of air, as units yielding a substantial curative effect, is demonstrated.
(16) When referred to a surgeon, a pregnant woman with a suspicious mammary mass deserves an expedient histologic diagnosis; delay may jeopardize the chances of survival.
(17) The expediency of introducing P. aeruginosa strains of different serotypes into the collection of cultures used for the production of pyocyaneum has been shown.
(18) On the basis of clinical examinations and treatment of 174 patients the authors substantiate the importance of using special and instrumental means of diagnosis as well as the expediency of exploratory laparotomy for establishing the real cause of the disease.
(19) The rule of law collapses into expediency unless judges are independent and self-confident, and the evidence of such judges in Putin's Russia are scant indeed.
(20) The clinical outcome of the injury is directly related to the expediency with which treatment is begun.
Opportunist
Definition:
(n.) One who advocates or practices opportunism.
Example Sentences:
(1) Patients were chronically ill homosexual men with multiple systemic opportunistic infections.
(2) Infection with opportunistic organisms, either singly or in combination, is known to occur in immunocompromised patients.
(3) The conventional explanation for the high fatality rate due to cytomegalovirus (CMV) pneumonitis among allogeneic transplant recipients is that immunosuppression renders the host unable to control replication of this opportunistic agent.
(4) In addition, the system should provide a resource for opportunistic prevention in primary care and a way of monitoring the emergence of new concerns about health.
(5) The literature of intraocular mixed opportunistic infections is reviewed.
(6) With the City's regulatory framework being tightened by the coalition government, which is disbanding the FSA and handing control of bank oversight to the Bank of England , there is concern in London that the US politicians are being opportunistic.
(7) Clinically, this correlates with more intact cell-mediated immunity and the absence of opportunistic infections and Kaposi's sarcoma in this patient group.
(8) Former Tory minister Edwina Currie has tweeted that she had "no sympathy" for food bank users, that they were just "opportunists".
(9) Studies in severe combined immunodeficient mice that were engrafted with selected lymphocyte subpopulations show that B cells, and hence anti-Cryptococcus antibodies, are not necessary for the CD4+ T cell-dependent responses that isolate and subsequently destroy this opportunistic pathogen in the lung parenchyma.
(10) Since toxoplasmosis is a potentially treatable opportunistic infection, diagnosis allows the swift institution of anti-Toxoplasma therapy.
(11) The possible reasons for the vulnerability of the retina to opportunistic infections are discussed.
(12) There were no significant differences in median survival, frequency of development of opportunistic infections, median T4-cell counts, or serum p24 antigen levels during therapy among the three groups.
(13) These results justify the use of high-intensity regimens, but only for patients without opportunistic infection and with a WHO performance index below 3.
(14) Fifteen bone marrow transplant (BMT) patients who received three 0.12% chlorhexidine digluconate (CHX) mouthrinses daily for eight weeks were monitored weekly for the occurrence of oral opportunistic Gram-negative bacilli (GNB).
(15) Opportunistic blood pressure screening was undertaken of all patients aged 20-69 attending practices for whatever reason.
(16) We conclude that aspergillosis is not an AIDS-related opportunistic infection.
(17) The Authors present the extracerebral pathology of 27 cases of AIDS observed at the Department of Pathology of Milan and the cerebral pathology of 80 cases of AIDS collected by three Institutes (Department of Pathology of Milan, Department of Pathology of Rimini and Department of Neuropathology of Münster) with particular emphasis on the pathology of the opportunistic infections.
(18) Although some of the features of the TTE-RAS data base were not satisfactory, we consider this new miniaturized system to be a very valuable tool for the rapid identification of the most frequently isolated opportunistic bacteria.
(19) Excretion of these metabolites by preterm babies can be explained by increased intestinal permeability, unabsorbed lactose in the colon, and colonisation with certain opportunistic micro-organisms prevalent in neonatal units, including klebsiella, serratia, and enterobacter.
(20) The significant increase of these suppressor cells among the BMT patients was not correlated with clinical syndromes such as chronic GVHD or opportunistic viral infections, which argues against the notion of in vivo profound immunodeficiency coexisting with these cells.