(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.
Recuperate
Definition:
(v. i.) To recover health; to regain strength; to convalesce.
(v. t.) To recover; to regain; as, to recuperate the health or strength.
Example Sentences:
(1) This paper describes a case with symptomless enlarged submandibular glands, the bioptic findings which were suggesting the diagnosis of sialadenosis, the verification of the underlying disorder by child psychiatry, and the recuperation of the boy during puberty.
(2) The assessment of the infant's capacity to organize positive interaction experiences with a nurturing adult has led us to better understand the plasticity process which permits the neonate's recuperation form damage to the central nervous system (CNS).
(3) Recovery from muscle fatigue after exercise is known to have two beneficial effects: improved blood lactate elimination and a central nervous recuperation of the capacity for exercise.
(4) The above system has aided the parents by showing them that the child can be organized and that its health is recuperable, even after damage to the CNS or premature birth.
(5) Thus the parents can utilize their nurturing capacities in their relationship with the child to bring about the best recuperation possible.
(6) The same results were obtained before day 21 after MPTP in a parkinsonian monkey that did not recuperate.
(7) Informing the parents in question of our observations and approach in order to improve the child's behaviour has resulted in gained confidence and cooperation, and therefore optimum recuperation.
(8) Recuperation of the initial structure is definitively obtained during the 2nd month.
(9) As regards the direction of the recuperation front, it was established that, at any age, the preferential orientation is caudal, with a deviation to the left in a high percentage of the 20 day to 3 month old pigs, and ventral in all individuals.
(10) There was partial restauration of the disc space in 2 cases; the last one presented signs of late collapse after early recuperation.
(11) On a personal note, Madikizela-Mandela continues: "I have been in and out of hospital since the 25th January this year, not even one phone call from Luthuli House [ANC headquarters], instead you gave an interview saying I was recuperating from an ankle operation when you did not even care what kind of an operation I had.
(12) These experiments suggested the possibility that mu-agonists might enhance cardiovascular recuperation following acute hemorrhagic shock.
(13) A government official said Ali Abdullah Saleh, who was badly burned in the attack on 3 June, was discharged in Riyadh on Saturday night and moved to a residence in the city owned by the Saudi royal family to recuperate.
(14) Yemeni officials accuse Mobley of shooting two guards, killing one, at the hospital where he was recuperating from the wound in his leg in what they say was a March 2010 escape attempt.
(15) The sample consisted of 32 mother-infant dyads: 16 having normal DQ (Group A) and 16 having a below normal DQ (Group B) according to Bailey's Test applied to infants who entered a Nutritional Recuperation Center.
(16) The long-term effect of the recuperating stay lasts for 9 months.
(17) This paper reports a case of left hemidiaphragmatic paralysis in an instructor pilot and his later recuperation.
(18) Spontaneous recuperation with less frequent episodes in adolescence is common, and complications are rare, so that we consider symptomatic treatment appropriate, reserving surgical treatment for complicated cases.
(19) Nevertheless, this surgery, while not devoid of complications, permits important functional recuperation in a good number of cases (71.2%).
(20) This seems to be due to powerful adaptive mechanisms in the regulation of deposition and dissociation of excessive amounts of active serotonin as well as to the morpho-functional recuperation in the transcapillary exchange.