(v. t.) To meet or fall in with, as something inconvenient, harmful, or onerous; to put one's self in the way of; to expose one's self to; to become liable or subject to; to bring down upon one's self; to encounter; to contract; as, to incur debt, danger, displeasure/ penalty, responsibility, etc.
(v. t.) To render liable or subject to; to occasion.
(v. i.) To pass; to enter.
Example Sentences:
(1) We conclude that mortality rates in the elderly could be improved by encouraging elective surgery and avoiding diagnostic laparatomy in patients with incurable surgical disease.
(2) The prime minister and chancellor threaten legal action over any losses incurred by British citizens as banks are nationalized.
(3) Domino’s had been in touch with Driscoll on Thursday morning and was “working to make it up to him ... and to ensure he is not out of pocket for any expenses incurred”.
(4) Lesion of the central nervous system in man is generally believed to be incurable.
(5) This lack of alteration in mitochondrial function was in spite of the fact that these rats consumed an identical amount of ethanol as those which incurred mitochondrial dysfunction.
(6) Given the megadoses of steroids taken by some athletes and the large forces incurred by power-trained musculature, the integrity of tendinous tissue in these athletes may be at significant risk of compromise if steroids do, in fact, exert a destructive effect.
(7) In patients with coronary artery disease, rapid ventricular rates require adequate treatment since disturbed oxygen balance and ischemia may be incurred.
(8) Therefore the usual time for incurring congenital anomalies (or the first trimester of foetal life) could be the commonest time for initiating childhood cancers.
(9) Partial peripheral splenic embolization can be performed in case of incurable thrombocytopenia due to hypersplenism without following splenectomy.
(10) A series of 83 patients with incurable cancer of the pancreatic head were analysed.
(11) Early neurological indicants based on information from the hospital admission clinical examination were studied in a group of patients who had sustained accident-incurred traumatic head injuries.
(12) The median number of days lost from practice to defend a malpractice suit was three to five, and 6 percent of the physicians surveyed incurred some out-of-pocket expenses.
(13) You are hunting for signs of the assembly of injuries - a broken nose, knocked-out teeth, fractured eye socket - incurred by falling face-first down a fire escape in Michigan while high on crystal meth, crack cocaine and cheap wine.
(14) Astrocytoma, the most common brain tumor in humans, is usually malignant and virtually incurable.
(15) The Natural Death Act amendments authorize the withholding and withdrawal of life-sustaining procedures from patients with incurable or irreversible conditions if death will result within a relatively short time without use of such procedures.
(16) By discounting the relevance of child sexual trauma, psychiatric clinicians and theoreticians overlook not only the therapeutic needs of many survivors but the opportunity to reconceptualize the role of trauma in the etiology and treatment of conditions presumed to be incurable.
(17) This is in contrast to regular monthly premium payments which incur no further cost to the consumer if cancelled.
(18) The cranial ultrasound scan features correlated well with the neuropathological findings and may be helpful in the early detection of this incurable condition.
(19) We concluded that the more biodegradable a tube, the more likely it was to incur distortion and luminal narrowing.
(20) The author answers "No" and explains why he thinks (1) that medicine should become more oriented toward providing care, preventing premature death, and improving the quality of people's lives for a reasonable span of years (for example, until 80) and less toward saving lives of the very old and incurably ill at great cost; (2) that rationing and priority setting are inevitable because of limited resources; and (3) that the claims of children may on occasion need to be placed before those of the elderly.
Incus
Definition:
(n.) An anvil.
(n.) One of the small bones in the tympanum of the ear; the anvil bone. See Ear.
(n.) The central portion of the armature of the pharynx in the Rotifera.
Example Sentences:
(1) The observed pattern of development in nonirradiated specimens was the following: hypertrophy of the rostral process and endochondral-type ossification, fibrous atrophy in the midsection, and mineralization of the malleus and incus.
(2) The suitability for grafting of homograft incus, cartilage and fascia we believe to have been demonstrated.
(3) The reshaped incus is repositioned between the malleus handle and oval window when the stapes is fixed and there also exists a lateral ossicular chain defect.
(4) The short process prosthesis is used with an intact stapes, whereas the notched incus with long process carries the sound pressure directly to the stapedial footplate.
(5) In the polyethylene tube group, 1 ear showed the growth of new bone into the lumen of the tube and 1 showed minor resorption of the long process of the incus.
(6) Since 1981, we have used the stapes allograft, singly or in combination with homograft incus, in 20 cases of tympanoplasty and in 7 cases of fixed stapes.
(7) To achieve better hearing after incus replacement surgery, the ossicle-cup prosthesis is introduced.
(8) Incus, incus-stapes, and total ossicular replacement prosthesis results were similar, but partial ossicular replacement prosthesis results were poorer.
(9) Measurements of tympanic membrane surface area; depth of the tympanic membrane cone; the lengths of the malleus and incus long processes; and stapes footplate, annular space, and oval window areas were obtained using video micrographs and computer digitization techniques.
(10) The stapes was extracted from the vestibulum the same day and was fixed to the incus with fibrin sealant in an anatomical position.
(11) For each of four implant designs (incus, incus-stapes, PORP, and TORP), the head is constructed from hydroxylapatite and the shaft from Plasti-Pore.
(12) Mitochondrial volume density (% cytoplasm) was lower in dog than in mouse cells or cells of the incus.
(13) We report on a 5-year experience with 44 patients (1980-1985) with incus interposition using a modelled or sculptured incus, either autograft or homograft, to correct ossicular discontinuity when a functional malleus and stapes are present.
(14) A stapes prosthesis is placed on the long process of the incus.
(15) The results of this assembly, judging by different methods of analysis, are the same as in 45 ears having approximately the same pathologic condition treated by an autograft or allograft incus as the columella between the footplate and eardrum.
(16) A case of a Gorlin-Goltz-syndrome with anomalies of the stapes and incus of one ear is described for the first time.
(17) A theory is suggested in which an elongated capsule allows incus motion without energy transmission to the stapes.
(18) To measure these effects in the area of the oval window, in isolated temporal bones the stapes was removed and substituted by a piece of plastipore, attached to the incus.
(19) Hearing success was defined as a postoperative puretone average air-bone gap of < or = 15 dB for incus prostheses and partial ossicular replacement prostheses (PORPs) or < or = 25 dB for incus-stapes prostheses and total ossicular reconstruction prostheses (TORPs).
(20) The long-term results of this assembly, judging by different methods of analysis, are still somewhat better than those of 98 ears with approximately the same pathologic condition treated by an allograft incus as the columella between the footplate and fascia.