(1) A total of 56 patients were diagnosed as primary myelodysplastic syndrome (MDS) at Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Kaohsiung from April 1986 to December 1991.
(2) From March to November 1991, 24 patients underwent laparoscopic hysterectomies at Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Taipei.
(3) From July 1978 to June 1987, non-Hodgkin's lymphoma was diagnosed in 667 patients at Chang Gung Memorial Hospital.
(4) There’s been a core group of really enthusiastic Norwegians who are just gung-ho for electric cars, and they’ve been an incredible fan group.
(5) Fresh to office, and gung-ho to demonstrate their prowess at cutting, a lot of the Tory ministers were naive or reckless about the impact of cuts.
(6) The opposition have not really had their eye on this, and it’s a pity Andy Burnham [the shadow home secretary] was quite so gung-ho in favour of it.
(7) For the fans, he is one of the most exciting, distinctive voices in world cinema, a gung-ho master of ceremonies who plays the movies as mad opera.
(8) [Obamacare] may have done some good for some people, even for 10 million or whatever ... Alabama senator Richard Shelby Other Republicans were gung-ho about the bill.
(9) Between March 1984 and February 1991, six orthotopic liver transplantations were performed at the Chang Gung Memorial Hospital in Taiwan.
(10) This series analysed 20 cases of pseudomembranous colitis diagnosed at Chang Gung Memorial Hospital between January 1985 and December 1989.
(11) From August 1986 to October 1987, there were 5 cases of primary mycotic aneurysm of the lower abdominal aorta in Chang Gung Memorial Hospital at Kaoshiung.
(12) Running fast and loose with Robert Heinlein's still-controversial novel (where James Cameron also found inspiration for the space marines and the power suits in Aliens), Verhoeven kicks things off with a spectacular battle between men and bugs in gung-ho, action-movie style.
(13) A total of 32 histologically documented cases of heterotopic pancreas was found in a review of the records of the department of pathology at the Chang Gung Memorial Hospital between 1977 and 1987.
(14) Gatwick’s gung ho about expansion Barely had David Cameron got back to Downing Street than the Airports Commission was reopening its consultation on Heathrow versus Gatwick, and publishing new data on the fumes each expanded airport would spew into their neighbourhoods.
(15) The records of 121 patients admitted to the Medical Intensive Care Unit (MICU) of Chang Gung Memorial Hospital with severe chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) requiring mechanical ventilation were reviewed retrospectively.
(16) Ron, very fiery, very charismatic, had been real gung-ho; he re-enlisted for three terms in Vietnam, had been shot and was paralysed from the waist down and was in a wheelchair.
(17) Certainly, when we were in government, Theresa May was, I think, quite clear that she was unhappy about the rather gung-ho approach to Chinese investment that we had, and that George Osborne in particular was promoting and, as I recall, raised objections to Hinkley at that time,” he said.
(18) According to the statistics, she should be gung-ho for Clinton, but no, she’s stuck on the fence.
(19) Radical proposals for pensions tax reform , for which some close to the discussions had said the chancellor was “gung ho” as recently as late February, were abruptly ruled out by his allies last week, amid fears that press speculation was running out of control.
(20) From 1982 to 1984, 189 patients with stage Ib carcinoma of the uterine cervix underwent radical abdominal hysterectomies as primary treatment at Chang Gung Memorial Hospital.
Soft
Definition:
(superl.) Easily yielding to pressure; easily impressed, molded, or cut; not firm in resisting; impressible; yielding; also, malleable; -- opposed to hard; as, a soft bed; a soft peach; soft earth; soft wood or metal.
(superl.) Not rough, rugged, or harsh to the touch; smooth; delicate; fine; as, soft silk; a soft skin.
(superl.) Hence, agreeable to feel, taste, or inhale; not irritating to the tissues; as, a soft liniment; soft wines.
(superl.) Not harsh or offensive to the sight; not glaring; pleasing to the eye; not exciting by intensity of color or violent contrast; as, soft hues or tints.
(superl.) Not harsh or rough in sound; gentle and pleasing to the ear; flowing; as, soft whispers of music.
(superl.) Easily yielding; susceptible to influence; flexible; gentle; kind.
(superl.) Expressing gentleness, tenderness, or the like; mild; conciliatory; courteous; kind; as, soft eyes.
(superl.) Effeminate; not courageous or manly, weak.
(superl.) Having, or consisting of, a gentle curve or curves; not angular or abrupt; as, soft outlines.
(superl.) Not tinged with mineral salts; adapted to decompose soap; as, soft water is the best for washing.
(superl.) Applied to a palatal, a sibilant, or a dental consonant (as g in gem, c in cent, etc.) as distinguished from a guttural mute (as g in go, c in cone, etc.); -- opposed to hard.
(superl.) Belonging to the class of sonant elements as distinguished from the surd, and considered as involving less force in utterance; as, b, d, g, z, v, etc., in contrast with p, t, k, s, f, etc.
(n.) A soft or foolish person; an idiot.
(adv.) Softly; without roughness or harshness; gently; quietly.
(interj.) Be quiet; hold; stop; not so fast.
Example Sentences:
(1) In conclusion, the efficacy of free tissue transfer in the treatment of osteomyelitis is geared mainly at enabling the surgeon to perform a wide radical debridement of infected and nonviable soft tissue and bone.
(2) Bilateral symmetric soft-tissue masses posterior to the glandular tissue with accompanying calcifications should suggest the diagnosis.
(3) None of the other soft tissue layers-ameloblasts, stratum intermedium or dental follicle--immunostain for TGF-beta 1.
(4) The cotransfected cells do not grow in soft agar, but show enhanced soft agar growth relative to controls in the presence of added aFGF and heparin.
(5) It was hypothesized that compensatory restraining influences of surrounding soft tissues prevented a more severe facial malformation from occurring.
(6) After the diagnosis of a soft-tissue injury (sprain, strain, or contusion) has been made, treatment must include an initial 24- to 48-hour period of RICE.
(7) It is a specific clinical picture with extensive soft tissue gas and swelling of the forearm.
(8) Benign and malignant epithelial and soft tissue tumors of the skin were usually negatively stained with MoAb HMSA-2.
(9) The patient, a 12 year-old boy, showed a soft white yellowish mycotic excrescence with clear borders which had followed the introduction of a small piece of straw into the cornea.
(10) In open fractures especially in those with severe soft tissue damage, fracture stabilisation is best achieved by using external fixators.
(11) A distally based posterior tibial artery adipofascial flap with skin graft was used for the reconstruction of soft tissue defects over the Achilles tendon in three cases and over the heel in three cases.
(12) The third patient was using an extended-wear soft contact lens for correction of residual myopia.
(13) Computed tomography (CT) is the most sensitive radiologic study for detecting these tumors, which usually are small, round, sharply marginated, and of homogeneous soft tissue density.
(14) The latter indicated that, despite the smaller size of the digital image, they were adequate for resolving clinically significant soft-tissue densities.
(15) We isolated soft agar colonies (a-subclones) and sub-clones from foci (h-subclones) of both hybrids, and, as a control, subclones of cells from random areas without foci of one hybrid (BS181 p-subclones).
(16) Three of the tumours represented primary soft tissue lesions, while locally recurrent tumour or pulmonary metastases were studied from the 4 skeletal tumours, all of which had been diagnosed previously as Ewing's sarcomas.
(17) The technique is based on a multiple regression analysis of the renal curves and separate heart and soft tissue curves which together represent background activity.
(18) A hospital-based case-control study on soft tissue sarcomas (STS) was conducted in 1983-84 in Torino and in Padova (Italy).
(19) This phenomenon can have a special significance for defining the vitality in inflammation of bone tissue, in burns and in necrosis of soft tissues a.a. of the Achilles tendon.
(20) Thirty patients required a second operation to an area previously addressed reflecting inadequacies in technique, the unpredictability of bone grafts, and soft-tissue scarring.