(v. t.) To cover, as a roof, with tiles, slate, lead, or the like.
(v. t.) To make hale, sound, or whole; to cure of a disease, wound, or other derangement; to restore to soundness or health.
(v. t.) To remove or subdue; to cause to pass away; to cure; -- said of a disease or a wound.
(v. t.) To restore to original purity or integrity.
(v. t.) To reconcile, as a breach or difference; to make whole; to free from guilt; as, to heal dissensions.
(v. i.) To grow sound; to return to a sound state; as, the limb heals, or the wound heals; -- sometimes with up or over; as, it will heal up, or over.
(v. t.) Health.
Example Sentences:
(1) Together these observations suggest that cytotactin is an endogenous cell surface modulatory protein and provide a possible mechanism whereby cytotactin may contribute to pattern formation during development, regeneration, tumorigenesis, and wound healing.
(2) The authors conclude that H. pylori alone causes little or no effect on an intact gastric mucosa in the rat, that either intact organisms or bacteria-free filtrates cause similar prolongation and delayed healing of pre-existing ulcers with active chronic inflammation, and that the presence of predisposing factors leading to disruption of gastric mucosal integrity may be required for the H. pylori enhancement of inflammation and tissue damage in the stomach.
(3) Five patients have been examined by defecography before and four after closure of a loop ileostomy performed to cover healing of the pouch and ileoanal anastomoses.
(4) The ulcers on seven of ten legs (70%) treated with Unna's boots and on 10 of 14 legs (71%) treated with elastic support stocking healed.
(5) Grafts of intermediate thickness (M III) showed excellent clinical healing of the donor and the recipient site.
(6) In the controlled wound care group, only three ulcers in three patients achieved complete healing; the remaining 24 ulcers in 20 patients failed to achieve even 50% healing in the stipulated 3-month period.
(7) To investigate the possibility that an abnormality of gastric emptying exists in duodenal ulcer and to determine if such an abnormality persists after ulcer healing, scintigraphic gastric emptying measurements were undertaken in 16 duodenal ulcer patients before, during, and after therapy with cimetidine; in 12 patients with pernicious anemia, and in 12 control subjects.
(8) Survival and healing of "extremely severe" grade intoxication can only be obtained through a surgical intervention within the first hours; a laparotomy will indicate the depth of the lesions, which is not determined by endoscopy, and will consist of Celerier's stripping method and if necessary a gastrectomy, more seldom a cephalic duodeno-pancreatectomy.
(9) It was concluded that a few days delay between trauma and treatment did not necessarily lead to a delayed healing.
(10) Lateral upper and lower lid lysis allows the needed extended period of healing.
(11) Conservatively treated compressed fractures of the distal radius dorsal metaphysis healed despite primarily good reduction and consequent treatment with a decrease in dorsal length.
(12) Both models showed the expected wound-healing defects of the diabetic rats.
(13) The prognosis was adversely affected by obesity, preoperative flexion contracture of 30 degrees or more, wound-healing problems, wound infection, and postoperative manipulation under general anesthesia.
(14) This, however will not result in normal lower leg bones, as can be concluded from the fact that spontaneous fractures have occurred partly even in the locomotor apparatus after the pseudarthroses had healed.
(15) The patient experienced an uneventful recovery and at the 6-week follow-up, the pelvic organs were within the normal limit and all wounds had healed.
(16) No perforations, stenoses or thermic lesions after wound healing were observed.
(17) Instead of healing the nation after a fractious referendum he inflamed the situation.
(18) Adjunctive usage of elastic stockings and intermittent compression pneumatic boots in the perioperative period was helpful in controlling leg swelling and promoting wound healing.
(19) Experiments have been performed using CO2 laser-assisted microvascular anastomoses, and they demonstrated the following features, in comparison with conventional anastomoses: ease in technique; less time consumption; less tissue inflammation; early wound healing; equivalency of patency rate and inner pressure tolerance; but only about 50 percent of the tensile strength of manual-suture anastomosis.
(20) These results suggest that the bacterium may not play an important pathogenetic role in ulcer healing and relapse, when patients are managed using an H2-blocker.
Heald
Definition:
(n.) A heddle.
Example Sentences:
(1) But she did back moves advocated by the Solicitor-General, Oliver Heald, to place a duty on parents to protect their children and make it illegal to permit their daughters to be mutilated.
(2) Initial characterization of variants expressed and isolated from Escherichia coli has been published (Hitchcock-DeGregori, S. E., and Heald, R. W. (1987) J. Biol.
(3) Abuse is being continued, perpetuated, right under the noses of judges and police – the very institutions that should be protecting the vulnerable with every sinew of state power.” Labour MPs repeatedly pressed Heald for a timetable for the introduction of the amending legislation to implement the ban but he could only promise to do so “shortly”.
(4) Biological examples of such conjugation effects have recently been reported, e.g., for the Chl a pi-cation radical (Heald et al.
(5) It is illegal in the criminal courts and I am determined to see it banned in the civil family courts too,” Heald told MPs.
(6) Goodman wrote : "Older MPs such as Eleanor Laing and Oliver Heald, who were active in helping to lead the group, care about the constitution and think about it deeply.
(7) The chronic bilateral renal denervation, which was performed 2-4 wk before the experiment, abolished both the antidiuretic and antinatriuretic responses to heald-up tilt.
(8) The government has now indicated its partial support for his plans, with Oliver Heald, the solicitor general, putting down a joint amendment with him promising a review of the issue.
(9) In the short-term experiments indomethacin inhibited fracture healding (P less than 0.033) and increased the interfragmentary angle as well as fracture instability.
(10) Heald, Garnier's replacement, was seen as more politically acceptable.
(11) The number of appeals to the Attorney General over lenient sentences for sexual offences alone rose to 110 last year from 51 in 2011, the Solicitor General Oliver Heald told the Commons.
(12) Zahawi spoke after Labour published an advertisement for a meeting in Crewe on Wednesday with Hanson and Dr Adrian Heald, the party’s local prospective parliamentary candidate, which features four pointed questions about immigration.
(13) Bacterially expressed alpha-tropomyosin lacks the amino-terminal acetylation present in muscle tropomyosin and binds poorly to actin (Hitchcock-DeGregori, S. E., and Heald, R. W. (1987) J. Biol.
(14) At the same time the justice minister, Sir Oliver Heald QC, brought in a fee-waiver scheme for the lowest paid.
(15) Functionnal healding was satisfactory in 93% of the treated cases by dilatations.
(16) Oliver Heald , the solicitor general, told parliament that the SFO pays Autonomy £664,098 a year to license software used to track down rogue Société Générale trader Jérôme Kerviel.
(17) The government indicated its partial support when Oliver Heald, the solicitor general, put down a joint amendment with Bridgen that promised to review the issue.
(18) 'Constantly terrified': women on facing their abusers in family courts Read more Justice minister Sir Oliver Heald told MPs returning from the Christmas recess that ministers wanted a ban on cross-examination by perpetrators and are prepared to introduce the necessary primary legislation to make the change.
(19) Oliver Heald, the former solicitor general, will receive the more modest domestic KBE.
(20) The justice minister, Sir Oliver Heald QC, said: “Trial by jury is a fundamental part of our world-leading justice system and it is important that our juries reflect today’s society.