(a.) Hanging over; overhanging; suspended so as to menace; imminet; threatening.
Example Sentences:
(1) Asked if France had “jumped the gun and didn’t tell us”, Fox said he was notaware of anyone in government who knew about the impending airstrikes.
(2) Insecure infant attachment at 16 months was associated with maternal perception of overcontrol, depressed mood state, and aversive conditioning to the impending cry in the laboratory task at the 5-month period.
(3) In contrast to other methods (ECG, inspection, auscultation, blood gas analysis), it immediately detects an impending lack of oxygen, whatever its cause.
(4) In grade 1, there are mild changes, usually of minor significance; in grade 2 moderate changes which need regular observation, and in grade 3 severe changes which indicate impending failure.
(5) The report continues: "We have established that on 9 December, the circle of knowledge of an impending 'big story' by the same Telegraph team who broke [a major political story about British parliamentary expenses] extended to ... a former Telegraph employee now employed by News International ... [who] works closely at News International with the former Telegraph editor Will Lewis , both of whom have strong motivations to damage the Telegraph.
(6) Our results suggest that immediate coronary angioplasty in acute impending myocardial infarction is effective and avoids the need for prior thrombolytic therapy.
(7) This finding suggests that routine measurement of such an electrogram may be a useful tool in predicting impending lead malfunction.
(8) Somatosensory cortical evoked potential studies (SEPs) following stimulation of the pudendal nerves proved useful in objectively documenting preoperative low sacral root involvement in a 33-year-old postlaminectomy patient, presenting with impending cauda equina syndrome and treated by piriformis muscle release with good clinical results.
(9) The goal of this work was to provide clinicians with objective criteria to augment clinical judgment regarding surgical intervention in the impending compartment syndrome.
(10) Of screening tests performed, only LDH was successful in detecting preclinical relapse, with a sensitivity of 42% and specificity of 85% for impending symptomatic relapse.
(11) Gastric bleeding from stress ulcers in acutely sick infants frequently signals impending mortality.
(12) We report the emergence of an erythematous weeping rash with impending exfoliation three years after the initiation of minoxidil therapy.
(13) Six cases of lung cancer combined with the disease which has needed semi-emergency operation, two cases of unstable angina, two of ileus due to colon cancer, one of impending rupture of abdominal aortic aneurysm and one of purulent cholecystitis with cholelithiasis, were discussed.
(14) Napolitano said there was no indication that Abdulmutallab was "part of anything larger" in terms of impending attacks.
(15) A greater use of allylestrenol in the first global evaluation was explained by a higher incidence in these groups of impending miscarriage and preterm labor, which are indications for allylestrenol therapy.
(16) In one example of the import substitution sought by the Kremlin, Russia's president, Vladimir Putin , said at a meeting with representatives of Russia's military-industrial complex on Monday night that the country would replace imported components for its arms production, and the impending "technological difficulties" would in the end be beneficial for the country.
(17) The idea of cutting corporation tax was floated in the Sunday Express last month as a way of wooing banks considering leaving the UK because of an impending Brexit.
(18) We conclude that the rapid LH test was able to predict impending ovulation.
(19) In BBC News, hundreds of jobs are under threat , mostly reporting roles, due to the domestic newsgathering operation's impending merger with the World Service.
(20) To determine criteria for predicting impending first-trimester loss when a normal fetal heart rate is identified sonographically, the authors studied 16 consecutively examined patients with pregnancies of 5.5-9 weeks gestation, a small sac size, and fetuses with normal cardiac activity.
Stagnant
Definition:
(a.) That stagnates; not flowing; not running in a current or steam; motionless; hence, impure or foul from want of motion; as, a stagnant lake or pond; stagnant blood in the veins.
(a.) Not active or brisk; dull; as, business in stagnant.
Example Sentences:
(1) On land, the pits' stagnant pools of water become breeding grounds for dengue fever and malaria.
(2) Disrupting stagnant fluid films augments peritoneal transport.
(3) When applied as diagnostic tests for the stagnant loop syndrome, the phenol excretion showed 2 false negative results, the p-cresol excretion 3 false negative and 2 false positive results, and the indican excretion 6 false positive results.
(4) phi PS5, a double-stranded DNA bacteriophage of Pseudomonas stutzeri JM604 that adsorbs specifically to the outer-membrane protein NosA, was isolated from stagnant irrigation ditch water.
(5) The need for cleanliness of latrines and removal of stagnant water was emphasized.
(6) Also, the nutritional improvement was probably concentrated during the 1970s, while little, if any, occurred after 1980; prospects for the 1990s point to a stagnant situation.
(7) The Treasury's independent forecaster said growth this year would be 0.6% – half its previous forecast of 1.2%, reflecting the stagnant economy – but said another recession may be avoided.
(8) Flow was stagnant in straight terminal models, with the aneurysm forming an extension of the afferent vessel, as long as the outflow through the branches of the bifurcation was balanced.
(9) With regard to a case report and the review of literature the authors point out that this uncommon but severe infection due to an aero-anaerobia bacteria, existing preferentially in stagnant or running water.
(10) Since IgA glomerular deposition occurred in patients with focal biliary and no hepatocellular dysfunction, it seems that the source of this polymeric IgA is related to its impaired serum clearance by a distorted and stagnant bile duct system.
(11) Hollande, whose government is deeply unpopular as he struggles to revive France's stagnant economy, last week reshuffled the cabinet with Manuel Valls, the dynamic former interior minister, named prime minister.
(12) It's happening because the broadcasters who have traditionally been the biggest investors in original British TV beyond the BBC are fishing in a stagnant or declining pool of advertising.
(13) Absorption of medium chain triglycerides (MCT) was estimated in 10 patients with stagnant loop syndrome (SLS).
(14) Graduate salaries are frozen at an average of £25,000, the first time in the survey's history that starting salaries have remained stagnant for two consecutive years.
(15) The combination of intraluminal bile acid deficiency and steatorrhea was most often encountered in patientswit h hepatic disease, ileal disorders, and in the stagnant loop syndrome.
(16) They also enhance glucose uptake by the various cells, thus allowing them to survive in a viable state in severe conditions such as those of metabolic acidosis characteristic of stagnant tissue fluids.
(17) The patient's first infection leading to bacteremia followed contamination of a mosquito bite by stagnant water.
(18) Special phenomena related to the small caliber of the needle include duct filling from "invisible" radicles, perivenous or periductal dissection of contrast, and pseudolesions in an incompletely decompressed stagnant bile column.
(19) Even when the mean flow was near zero in the critical segment, flow was not stagnant but oscillated in antegrade and retrograde directions throughout the cardiac cycle.
(20) Anoxic lesion in haemorrhagic shock may result in exclusion of the capillary circulation to the point of stagnant hypoxia.