(1) Some women have clinically obvious cervical incompetence and may benefit from a cerclage operation, but criteria for early diagnosis are not universally agreed upon.
(2) First, the decrement in the maximal heart rate response to exercise (known as "chronotropic incompetence") found in the sedentary MI rat was completely reversed by endurance training.
(3) All but one patient had clinical evidence of pulmonary incompetence.
(4) Mutant polypeptides have been characterized that are competent and incompetent for association with GRP78-BiP.
(5) The possibility of being liable if an incompetent student becomes registered and causes harm is also discussed.
(6) A differentiation incompetent QM cell derivative was also isolated (QM5DI).
(7) Secondary valvular incompetence occurs from deep venous obstruction or increased venous distensibility (usually secondary to circulating estrogens).
(8) Valvular incompetence developed in 13 patients during the study period.
(9) This implies that degradation of sIgM does not result from the incompetence of 38C cells to polymerize.
(10) (vii) Two deletions within the EBNA-2 gene which rendered EBV transformation incompetent did not transactivate LMP1, whereas a transformation-competent EBNA-2 deletion mutant did transactivate LMP1.
(11) In a randomized placebo controlled parallel double blind study on 40 patients suffering from venous edema in chronic deep vein incompetence, the edema-reducing effect of horse chestnut seed extract vs. placebo, being the main test variable, was demonstrated by hydroplethysmography to be statistically significant.
(12) The etiology of acute severe mitral incompetence resulting from rupture of the chordae is presented and is illustrated by four case reports.
(13) Without the addition of the sRNA, the 7-8-8.5-10 particles were incompetent while the 7-8-8.5-10-RNA particles were competent in DNA packaging.
(14) It is the bonus culture – not high pay, recklessness or incompetence – that has polluted banking's public image.
(15) They shun cost-benefit analysis but soak up aid money, saying Haiti's state is incompetent and corrupt.
(16) Incidence of isolated mitral incompetence and combined heart injuries, valve damage mechanics, and frequent causes of blunt chest trauma are discussed.
(17) Among the special cases considered are: the competent adult patient who refuses treatment on religious or privacy grounds; the incompetent patient whose own wishes were never expressed, but whose family refuses treatment; the incompetent patient who expressed the wish not to be treated before becoming incompetent; and parents who refuse treatment on behalf of their child.
(18) Extensive research among the Afghan National Army – 68 focus groups – and US military personnel alike concluded: "One group sees the other as a bunch of violent, reckless, intrusive, arrogant, self-serving profane, infidel bullies hiding behind high technology; and the other group [the US soldiers] generally views the former as a bunch of cowardly, incompetent, obtuse, thieving, complacent, lazy, pot-smoking, treacherous, and murderous radicals.
(19) The device was implanted around 11 completely incompetent and seven partially incompetent valves in 18 veins of 11 sheep.
(20) It is clear that they are either incompetent or corrupt, and I don’t believe that they are incompetent.
Negligence
Definition:
(n.) The quality or state of being negligent; lack of due diligence or care; omission of duty; habitual neglect; heedlessness.
(n.) An act or instance of negligence or carelessness.
(n.) The omission of the care usual under the circumstances, being convertible with the Roman culpa. A specialist is bound to higher skill and diligence in his specialty than one who is not a specialist, and liability for negligence varies acordingly.
Example Sentences:
(1) Since all human cadaveric tissue is fixed whilst on the skeleton, we may assume that shrinkage of the muscles in such specimens is negligible.
(2) In group C there was a negligible increase of LVSWI despite a marked rise in PCWP.
(3) From this, it was suggested that a negligible amount of oestradiol was released from these compounds and that the oestradiol moiety was useful as a carrier for the nitrogen mustard moiety.
(4) However, the phosphorylation of a 73 kDa double band, which is negligible in the absence of added NaC1, is stimulated by this salt.
(5) Although T cells exposed to antigen in B-depleted LN of mu sm and irradiated mice gave negligible T proliferative responses in vitro, low but significant levels of primed T helper function were detected in a sensitive T helper assay in vivo.
(6) Factors of negligible importance prognostically were: complete sterilization at mammary and axillary level after radiotherapy, persistence of florid cancer tissue at mammary level and histiocytosis of the axillary lymph nodes.
(7) In addition, the trends in the three sets of data for the catalytic subunit indicate that ionic bonds are involved in binding PALA to the active site, and that non-productive binding by L-Asp is negligible under these experimental conditions.
(8) We feel that the above technique is simple and definitive with negligible complications.
(9) Activity peaked during the period corresponding to evening twilight and was negligible during the morning twilight period; in contrast, death feigning peaked during the morning twilight period.
(10) The adverse effects were negligible--one patient had light urticarial rash and pruritus.
(11) In contrast, corticosterone, testosterone, progesterone and oestradiol showed negligible ability to displace [3H]1 alpha,25-(OH)2D3 from its receptor.
(12) Despite its negligible amount, the DIssE RNA in virions appears to serve as the template for the synthesis of DIssE RNA in infected cells.
(13) Facial pain is a very constant phenomenon which does not- or only to a negligible degree--change over an agelong course.
(14) An abrupt decrease of the liver glycogen was found as well as a negligible rise of the blood sugar.
(15) In conclusion, respiratory morbidity is not negligible.
(16) The influence of sample preparation for electrophoresis was found to be negligible.
(17) "This age group feeds Radio 4's core audience and it would in my judgment be negligent not to [look at this]," Liddiment added.
(18) As far as the cardiovascular systems of the fetus and neonate are concerned the effects in the dosage used are negligible.
(19) Desaturation by 4 M MgCl2 indicated that the amount of endogenously bound hormone was negligible in our membrane preparations.
(20) With monoclonal antibody AA1, immunostaining was entirely specific for mast cell granules, and there was negligible background staining in a range of tissues including lung, tonsil, colon, gastric mucosa, skin, and pituitary.