(adv.) For nothing; without fee or recompense; freely; gratuitously.
Example Sentences:
(1) In fact, not only have the teams that failed to qualify not been invited to play, for if they were that would contradict the elitist terms of the qualification that are disavowed so cunningly here by Pitbull, but also in reality, only Fifa functionaries, Brazilian bureaucrats and half the BBC will get into Brazil's stadiums gratis this summer.
(2) This method is simple, safe, and the patch is gratis.
(3) Similar concentrations were determined for a second sample from the same source (Sample B), which was a gratis sample procured approximately nine years after Sample A.
(4) Breakfast (€6 extra) runs late and good espresso (rare in Madrid) is available gratis.
(5) Reports are submitted gratis to contributing pathologists and dermatologists.
(6) Meanwhile, the state pension – currently up to £115.95 a week, but rising to up to £155 for new pensioners as of April 2016 – is now linked to earnings, and despite occasional noise about such universal pensioner benefits as free prescriptions, gratis bus travel and the winter fuel allowance, they look set to remain in place.
(7) Nude F(1)mice that simultaneously received thymus gratis from both parents developed spleen cells restricted to both parental H-2 types.
(8) She worked there gratis because she hoped one day to be taken on by a museum or gallery.
(9) You don’t get much for free in Manhattan, and so when life offers you the chance to spend two hours in a church hall learning how to breastfeed twins simultaneously – gratis!
(10) Moviegoers' collective so-what response found an echo the following week, when Fox Searchlight Pictures lost in court to two unpaid interns who worked on Black Swan and sued for back pay, a potentially precedent-setting ruling that might put paid to the obscene phenomenon of the unpaid intern, a type ranging from the much put-upon digital field-hand whose "apprenticeship" is neither paid nor an apprenticeship, or the rich-kid digi-scab who can afford to work gratis, thinning out the workforce until it resembles the trust-funded lineup of The Strokes.
(11) That, along with tax-free pay and gratis accommodation.
(12) The care is gratis to advanced cancer patients and is based on the palliative philosophy of treatment of the symptoms and the person within the framework of continuity of care permitted by the oncologic approach.
(13) This paper discusses factors affecting dystocia and birth weight in Grati cattle in three villages in the Pujon district, East Java.
(14) The peer reviewing that ensures quality in these publications is likewise provided gratis by you and me, because the researchers who do it are paid from public money.
Obstructed
Definition:
(imp. & p. p.) of Obstruct
Example Sentences:
(1) We have previously shown that intratracheally instilled silica (quartz) produces both morphologic evidence of emphysema and small-airway changes, and functional evidence of airflow obstruction.
(2) Evaluation revealed tricuspid insufficiency, a massively dilated right internal jugular vein, and obstruction of the left internal jugular vein.
(3) A segment of vas deferens was transplanted to the contralateral deferens with the intention of improving treatment for certain cases of infertility caused by obstruction.
(4) In the case presented, overdistension of a jejunostomy catheter balloon led to intestinal obstruction and pressure necrosis (of the small bowel), with subsequent abscess formation leading to death from septicemia.
(5) During the procedure, acute respiratory failure developed as a result of tracheal obstruction.
(6) Intranasal challenge of allergic subjects with the allergen to which they are sensitive rapidly produces sneezing, rhinorrhea, and airway obstruction.
(7) Delineation of the presence and anatomy of an obstructed, nonfunctioning upper-pole duplex system often requires multiple imaging techniques.
(8) Therefore, the measurement of the alpha-antitrypsin content plays the crucial part in differential diagnosis of primary (hereditary determined) and secondary (obstructive) emphysema.
(9) In 2 patients who had received cadaveric renal allograft, ureteral obstruction was detected six and one-half and five and one-half years after transplantation.
(10) Two cases are presented of bilateral ureteral obstruction and uremia due to pressure from nodes involved in disseminated lymphoma.
(11) The occurrence of episodes of desaturation during sleep in patients suffering from chronic airflow obstruction is well known.
(12) Keep it in the ground campaign Though they draw on completely different archives, leaked documents, and interviews with ex-employees, they reach the same damning conclusion: Exxon knew all that there was to know about climate change decades ago, and instead of alerting the rest of us denied the science and obstructed the politics of global warming.
(13) Tubal obstruction could be demonstrated in only one of these patients.
(14) Schistosomal obstructive uropathy was studied by clinical, laboratory epidemiologic and pathologic analysis in 155 Egyptian patients treated surgically.
(15) For obstruction of greater than or equal to 50% of the pulmonary vascular cross-sectional area and pulmonary hypertension thrombolytic therapy should be given and insertion of an inferior caval filter can be considered.
(16) Regression of the tumor occurred during an episode of mechanical small bowel obstruction.
(17) Comparison with 99Tc-pyrophosphate uptake in infarcted dog heart, induced by selective obstruction of a coronary artery, suggest that the 111In-labelled F(ab')2 localizes specifically in infarcted myocardium only.
(18) In case of biliary and pancreatic duct obstruction with pure pancreatic reflux, both oedema and inflammatory infiltrations were evident, whereas, in the presence of biliary reflux too, more serious histological features were detected.
(19) We recently treated a patient in whom HPVG was caused by intestinal pseudo-obstruction.
(20) In patients with acute exacerbations of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, although either sympathomimetic or anticholinergic therapy provides bronchodilatation, no further benefit could be demonstrated from combination therapy.