(v. t.) Full of, or burdened by, import; charged with great interests; restless; anxious.
(v. t.) Carrying or possessing weight or consequence; of valuable content or bearing; significant; weighty.
(v. t.) Bearing on; forcible; driving.
(v. t.) Importunate; pressing; urgent.
Example Sentences:
(1) CT appears to yield important diagnostic contribution to preoperative staging.
(2) This paper discusses the typical echocardiographic patterns of a variety of important conditions concerning the mitral valve, the left ventricle, the interatrial and interventricular septum as well as the influence of respiration on the performance of echocardiograms.
(3) However, medicines have an important part to play, and it is now generally agreed that for the very poor populations medicines should be restricted to those on an 'essential drugs list' and should be made available as cheaply as possible.
(4) Glucocorticoids have numerous effects some of which are permissive; steroids are thus important not only for what they do, but also for what they permit or enable other hormones and signal molecules to do.
(5) Trifluoroacetylated rabbit serum albumin was 5 times more reactive with these antibodies and thus more antigenic than the homologous acetylated moiety confirming the importance of the trifluoromethyl moiety as an epitope in the immunogen in vivo.
(6) IgE-mediated acute systemic reactions to penicillin continue to be an important clinical problem.
(7) However it is important to recognize these cysts so that correct surgical management is offered to the patient.
(8) gamma-Aminobutyric acid (GABA) and glutamate release from the treated side was higher than the control value during the first 2-3 h, a result indicating an important role of glial cells in the inactivation of released transmitter.
(9) Under blood preservation conditions the difference of the rates of ATP-production and -consumption is the most important factor for a high ATP-level over long periods.
(10) This finding is of major importance for persons treated with diltiazem who engage in sport.
(11) Despite of the increasing diagnostic importance of the direct determination of the parathormone which is at first available only in special institutions in these cases methodical problems play a less important part than the still not infrequent appearing misunderstanding of the adequate basic disease.
(12) Because of the dearth of epidemiological clues as to causation, studies with experimental animal models assume greater importance.
(13) The severity and site of hypertrophy is important in determining the clinical picture and the natural history of hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM).
(14) As prolongation of the action potential by TEA facilitates preferentially the hormone release evoked by low (ineffective) frequencies, it is suggested that a frequency-dependent broadening of action potentials which reportedly occurs on neurosecretory neurones may play an important role in the frequency-dependent facilitation of hormone release from the rat neurohypophysis.
(15) Nutritional factors or environmental toxins have important effects on CNS degenerative changes.
(16) Moreover, homozygous deletion of the FMS gene may be an important event in the genesis of the MDS variant 5q- syndrome.
(17) Importantly, these characteristics were strong predictors of subsequent mortality.
(18) As the requirements to store and display these images increase, the following questions become important: (a) What methods can be used to ensure that information given to the physician represents the originally acquired data?
(19) Periosteal chondroma is an uncommon benign cartilagenous lesion, and its importance lies primarily in its characteristic radiographic and pathologic appearance which should be of assistance in the differential diagnosis of eccentric lesions of bones.
(20) As important providers of health care education, nurses need to be fully informed of the research findings relevant to effective interventions designed to motivate health-related behavior change.
Impotent
Definition:
(a.) Not potent; wanting power, strength. or vigor. whether physical, intellectual, or moral; deficient in capacity; destitute of force; weak; feeble; infirm.
(a.) Wanting the power of self-restraint; incontrolled; ungovernable; violent.
(a.) Wanting the power of procreation; unable to copulate; also, sometimes, sterile; barren.
(n.) One who is imoitent.
Example Sentences:
(1) Sexual impotence, the most important lasting complication of total prostatectomy, is present in 23-47% of patients after radiotherapy.
(2) Whether out of fear, indifference or a sense of impotence, the general population has learned to turn away, like commuters speeding by on the freeways to the suburbs, unseeingly passing over the squalor.
(3) Further vegetative signs are impotence and a loss of thermoregulatoric sweat.
(4) The irony of this type of self-manipulation is that ultimately the child, or adult, finds himself again burdened by impotence, though it is the impotence of guilt rather than that of shame.
(5) Psychiatry is criticized for imprecise diagnosis, conceptual vagaries, jargon, therapeutic impotence and class bias.
(6) Adverse effects are mostly those related to hormone withdrawal, namely, impotence, infertility, and lassitude.
(7) Concurrent sphincteric incontinence and organic impotence are not uncommon; they can be caused by many congenital and acquired conditions.
(8) Decreased libido and impotence were more common in patients given primidone.
(9) The cases with 'Dhat' syndrome or with impotence scored maximally on neuroticism and depression scales.
(10) The results demonstrated a good ability of the KCII to accurately identify impotent patients (on the basis of history) who would have positive or negative signs of hormonal factor or neurological factor confirmed by laboratory results or physical examination.
(11) The widely used mineralocorticoid antagonist spironolactone has antiandrogenic activity that may contribute to its side effects of decreased libido, impotence and gynecomastia.
(12) Among 1,236 consecutive impotent patients investigated at our center 5.3% had serum levels of prolactin greater than normal.
(13) Hyperprolactinemia is a recognized cause of impotence.
(14) There is a perfectly illogical explanation for it; polio drops are meant to make us impotent and these programmes are run by the same people who managed to locate Osama bin Laden by running another scam vaccination campaign.
(15) Preoperative evaluation of causes of impotence is particularly important.
(16) This 41-year-old man became impotent and developed decreased pain sensation in his hands, and then sensory loss and muscle wasting in his lower legs, and cardiomyopathy appeared.
(17) Oral prostaglandin E1 was suggested as an additional or alternative therapy in the management of psychogenic impotence.
(18) Of interest to the developing area of diurnal penile tumescence for the etiological diagnosis of impotence was the observation that a significant percentage (37 per cent) of normal subjects were unable to achieve a full erection during visual sexual stimulation under laboratory conditions.
(19) Atherosclerotic vascular changes play an important predisposing role in the development of impotence.
(20) However, most of the patients had been impotent for several years and their successful adaptation may have limited the success of psychotherapy.