(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.
Incurved
Definition:
(imp. & p. p.) of Incurve
(a.) Bending gradually toward the axis or center, as branches or petals.
Example Sentences:
(1) Basic signs of this syndrome: dwarfism with bilateral tibio-fibula incurvation and sclerosis, are remembered, as well as deafness like associated symptom.
(2) This consists of a flattening or incurvation of the medial boundary of the orbit, best demonstrated by axial tomography.
(3) The radial shaft bands while the hand incurves medially.
(4) The coronal suture incurves around a pivot formed by the lateral orbital pillar and the pterion, giving rise to a set of facial and cranial deformities, variable according to the precocity and the topography of the synostosis.
(5) This therapy was particularly effective in patients with severely incurved nails.
(6) Though well planed in advance, the creation of this man-made lake, illustrates the necessity at the very beginning of a project that will distrub all the ecology of a region, to establish the total disadvantages and health hazards incurved by the people who live there.
(7) The good results are obvious not only on the pain, but also on the induration and incurvation, permitting the resumption of sexual intercourse in more than 75% of cases.
(8) Although a complete recovery was not obtained, pain disappeared and incurvation improved in the majority of patients thus enabling normal sexual activity.
(9) Literature is reviewed and the clinical, radiologic, pathologic and etiopathogenetic features are commented, pointing out the diferent associated abnormalities that other authors did not consign: facial, anacraneal dysplasia, epiphyseal separations and dislocations of radius, and peroneal incurvation.
(10) The histological study of the tendons and ligaments of 4 other wrists, submitted to manoeuvres of stretching, of rupture and of incurvation, reinforces these results.
(11) A case of Russell-Silver dwarfism is described with intrauterine dwarfism, craniofacial disproportion, congenital asymmetry of the body, triangular face, retro- and micrognathia and short incurved fifth fingers.
(12) The geometric, radial arrangement seems to arise from a gradual incurvation and convergence of parallel units in these membranes.
(13) The patient was tall and had markedly incurved little fingers on both hands as well as small testes.
(14) The latero-medial projection of incurvation was correlated with the length of dyschondroplastic lesions.
(15) In a review of the findings in 148 reported cases of the syndrome, abnormalities occurring in over 50% of the cases are short stature, craniofacial dysproportion, low birth weight, term gestation, body asymmetry, incurved fifth digits, normal intelligence, short fifth digits, and down-curved corners of the mouth (shark mouth).
(16) Characteristic US findings were dilatation of the distal ureter, often disproportionate to the appearance of the upper collecting system; lower ureteral hyperperistalsis; and a sharply tapered, incurving, distal adynamic segment, 1-3 cm long.
(17) Specific complications are of a neurological nature (cases of cutaneous hyperesthesia, one severe motor deficit) long-term problems with device and material are uncommon; rupture of sub-laminar wire 8 cases; secondary incurving of frame 1 case.
(18) Clinical signs were microcephaly, hemangiomata, long incurved eyelashes, strabismus, enlarged bridge of the nose, abnormally long philtrum, high-arched palate, low set ears, hexadactyly of the four extremities, umbilical and inguinal hernias, neonatal respiratory distress, psychomotor and growth retardation.
(19) Only two cases of incurvated nails (2) required re-operation.
(20) Mental retardation, short stature, microcephaly, hypertelorism, epicanthus, ptosis, short, broadbased nose, carp mouth, abnormalities of teeth, microretrognathy, big, protruding and low set ears, short neck, pterygium colli, broad chest, incurved fifth fingers, muscular hypotonia and low birth wieght establish a clinical diagnosis of the 18p-syndrome in many instances even before the result of chromosomal analyis is known.