(a.) Proceeding from, or appointed by, fate or destiny; necessary; inevitable.
(a.) Foreboding death or great disaster.
(a.) Causing death or destruction; deadly; mortal; destructive; calamitous; as, a fatal wound; a fatal disease; a fatal day; a fatal error.
Example Sentences:
(1) Our prospective study has defined a number of important variables in patients with clinical evidence of mast cell proliferation that can predict both the presence of SMCD and the likelihood of fatal disease.
(2) Cardiovascular disease event rates will be assessed through continuous community surveillance of fatal and nonfatal myocardial infarction and stroke.
(3) And, as elsewhere in this epidemic, those on the frontline paid the highest price: four of the seven fatalities were health workers, including Adadevoh.
(4) The four patients treated in our series recovered fully; the single fatal case constituted an unrecognized case of pneumococcal endocarditis.
(5) Because of these different direct and indirect actions, a sudden cessation of sinus node activity or sudden AV block may result in the diseased heart in a prolonged and even fatal cardiac standstill, especially if the tolerance to ischemia of other organs (notably the brain) is decreased.
(6) In spite of antimalaria treatment, with cortisone and then with immuno-depressants, the outcome was fatal with a picture of acute reticulosis and neurological disorders.
(7) Therefore, we examined the relationship between the usual number of drinks consumed per occasion and the incidence of fatal injuries in a cohort of US adults.
(8) The charges against Harrison were filed just after two white men were accused of fatally shooting three black people in Tulsa in what prosecutors said were racially motivated attacks.
(9) Recognition and prompt treatment of this potentially fatal dermatological crisis is stressed.
(10) When the results of the different studies are pooled, however, there is a significant difference between those patients with true infarction, and those in whom infarction was excluded, in terms of overall mortality (12% and 7%; P less than 0.0001) and the development of subsequent non-fatal infarction (11% and 6%; P less than 0.05) when the results are analysed for a period of follow-up of one year.
(11) A retrospective study of autopsy-verified fatal pulmonary embolism at a department of infectious diseases was carried out, covering a four-year period (1980-83).
(12) The major toxicity was neurologic, with 12 patients (41%) reporting at least one episode; four of which were graded as severe and two as fatal.
(13) The 2 patients, who had been transplanted in a replicative state (HBeAg positive) showed a fatal course of hepatitis in the graft.
(14) Asian macaques are susceptible to fatal simian AIDS from a type D retrovirus, indigenous in macaques, and from a lentivirus, simian immunodeficiency virus (SIV), which is indigenous to healthy African monkeys.
(15) And any Labour commitment on spending is fatally undermined by their deficit amnesia.” Davey widened the attack on the Tories, following a public row this week between Clegg and Theresa May over the “snooper’s charter”, by accusing his cabinet colleague Eric Pickles of coming close to abusing his powers by blocking new onshore developments against the wishes of some local councils.
(16) Advances in blood banking and the availability of platelet transfusions have markedly decreased the incidence of fatal haemorrhage.
(18) The notion of life-threatening dermatoses may seem to be a contradiction in terms, but in fact there are a number of serious dermatologic conditions that require prompt attention to prevent fatal consequences.
(19) Slager, 33, was a patrolman first class for the North Charleston police department when he fatally shot Scott, 50, following a struggle that led from a traffic stop when the officer noticed that one of Scott’s car tail lights was broken.
(20) The problem is basically one of differentiating a correctable metabolic disorder from a lesion that can be fatal unless surgically removed.
Natal
Definition:
(a.) Of or pertaining to one's birth; accompying or dating from one's birth; native.
(a.) Presiding over nativity; as, natal Jove.
Example Sentences:
(1) Brain macrophages were studied in dispersed monolayer cultures of post-natal mouse cerebella.
(2) The precise aetiology of AHQS is still unresolved but it is concluded that it probably occurs post-natally and that some pigs have a genetic liability to develop the condition.
(3) We made it clear we don’t support extending hours to do anything other than debate the important issue of Senate voting reform and we won’t do anything to bring on the ABCC legislation,” Greens leader, Richard Di Natale, told ABC TV.
(4) The clinical findings in six natural and two experimental cases of Kikuyu grass poisoning in Natal, South Africa, are described and compared with findings in cases of toxicity reported elsewhere.
(5) In normal rats, insulin-induced adrenal epinephrine secretion increases during the first 10 days of post-natal life.
(6) Two distinct subpopulations of amacrine cells were clearly recognized after post-natal day 6; one was positive for CaBP and the other for PV.
(7) A decreasing birth rate, and pre-natal diagnosis of some major congenital anormalies with the possibility of termination of pregnancy, are likely to prevent further increases to neonatal surgical units.
(8) At post-natal day 3, a primed constant infusion of 3 mg of [15N]glycine day-1 kg-1 was given.
(9) Dealing with the special problem of pregnancy in women with the biological disorder, one ought to consider the literature on the subject, showing the large occurrence of ante- and post-natal accidents.
(10) The marked differences in the lipolytic activities of adipose tissue emphasize the distinct influence of the post-natal nutrition on metabolic functions in the later life and lead to the conclusion that the metabolism of adipose tissue of animals from small nests is directed towards a long-term increased storage of lipids.
(11) The post-natal development of the electrophysiological properties of cortical layer V pyramidal neurons was investigated with intracellular recordings from rat sensorimotor cortical slices, in vitro.
(12) This approach provides a reliable tool for pre- and post-natal diagnosis of all forms of GM2-gangliosidosis without ambiguity.
(13) In a controlled series of 167 circumcised patients, receiving optimal ante-natal and intra-partum care in hospital, we observed only short-term complications at delivery, with no long-term effects on the mother or the baby.
(14) The nurses are talking about people and their status,” a woman from KwaZulu-Natal told the report’s authors.
(15) Both CD4+CD8- and CD4-CD8+ T cell subsets were present in the LN as early as 1 day post-natally with CD4-CD8+ predominating among LN T cells, even though CD3+CD4+CD8- cells predominated over CD3+CD4-CD8+ cells in the thymus.
(16) The highest rate for cancer of the respiratory system was found in Africans from Natal, predominantly Zulu.The findings of this survey confirm those of previous South African surveys.
(17) A decade ago, she was hampered by post-natal depression after six weeks' maternity leave from RBS.
(18) "With devices like [the Xbox] Natal [which is expected to be launched this Christmas] we're really talking about a converged interactive media industry," says Jon Kingsbury, who runs the Creative Economy Innovation Programme at the independent National Endowment for Science, Technology and the Arts (Nesta).
(19) No previous anticonceptive method, 91%; pre-natal control, 69%.
(20) In addition, there was a strong family history of natal teeth, which may suggest a hereditary basis for the development of the odontogenic hamartoma.