(a.) Wanting; void; free; destitute; -- used with of.
(a.) Destitute of property or means of comfortable subsistence; needy; poor; in want; necessitous.
Example Sentences:
(1) Therefore, we established models of fetal growth in a southern, indigent, predominantly black patient population.
(2) A chart review was undertaken to document the prevalence of asymptomatic HBV infection in a high-risk, predominantly minority, indigent, and immigrant family practice clinic population and to evaluate the frequency of accepted known risk factors for those subjects with positive hepatitis B surface antigen (HBsAg) screening tests.
(3) A strong commitment of the Mississippi State Board of Health to provide prenatal care to indigent women may be responsible for the large increases in use of prenatal care among Mississippi women.
(4) The Early and periodic screening, diagnosis, and Treatment Program (EPSDT) is a preventive health program under Medicaid designed to improve the health of indigent children.
(5) Even though the program has been slow in evolving, it is taking an expanding role in all phases of indigent child health care, including vision care.
(6) This study of compliance was performed to determine whether a medically indigent population with breast carcinoma that has been neglected is an appropriate group for inclusion in an aggressive combined treatment program.
(7) Neither race nor indigent status differed in endometriosis patients as compared to the other women.
(8) The intimacy between community members and the doctor's own friendships with families, the distance to specialized services and the hardship travel might cause for patients, the economic risks in treating indigents in an already financially strapped small facility, and the physician's role as a citizen as well as health care provider are factors that cannot be ignored in treatment decisions.
(9) There's a piece in the [ New York] Times today about how the Republicans are indigant because they point out that was their energy strategy.
(10) The present study analyzed a group of 113 sexually active, indigent female adolescents attending a family planning clinic, for age, ethnic, or racial trends in the recovery of Neisseria gonorrhoeae, Chlamydia trachomatis, Mycoplasma species, and Ureaplasma urealyticum.
(11) Toxigenic Corynebacterium diphtheriae was grown from skin lesions of 44 indigent patients seen at the emergency or out-patient departments of this hospital, 43 of them within the last 16 months of the study period.
(12) Results of comparative antibiotic trials in indigent patients undergoing cesarean section demonstrated differing rates of successful antibiotic prophylaxis: piperacillin, 98%; cefoxitin, 91%; cephalothin and ceftazidime, 82%; cefotaxime, 80%; and ampicillin, 77%.
(13) Indigency of the procedure described in the literature for determination of antibiotic solubility according to the dry weight of the filtrate on addition of large excesses of the solid phase to the system was shown.
(14) This study describes fatal and nonfatal interpersonal violence-related injury events over 1 year in an indigent African-American community in Philadelphia.
(15) The public agency served a larger proportion of indigent and Medicaid clients.
(16) The new Medi-Cal regulations provide for prospective contracts with hospitals for inpatient services, the transfer of "Medically Indigent Adults" to the responsibility of county governments and various other straightforward funding cutbacks.
(17) Access to health care for the medically indigent has emerged as a major policy issue throughout the United States.
(18) The results of this study indicate the need for routine screening of our medically indigent pregnant population.
(19) Most residents perceived the welfare system as lacking; 83 percent agreed the poor are caught in a "cycle of poverty," 82 percent agreed welfare benefits cause the poor to be dependent upon the system, and 48 percent believed indigent women become pregnant and have babies so they can collect welfare support.
(20) Although ostensibly instituted to render care to "female paupers," the matronized nursing service was readily expanded, and subsequently delivered care to the entire, predominantly indigent patient population.
Pauper
Definition:
(n.) A poor person; especially, one development on private or public charity. Also used adjectively; as, pouper immigrants, pouper labor.
Example Sentences:
(1) Finally, a postscript offers a parallel between the writings of Charles Dickens and the pauper cemetery.
(2) "What this and every government has to understand is that Greeks aren't willing to pauper themselves to pay off debt for which they are not to blame.
(3) Although ostensibly instituted to render care to "female paupers," the matronized nursing service was readily expanded, and subsequently delivered care to the entire, predominantly indigent patient population.
(4) Powell's world is well supplied with pubs without being beery, and there are times when the streets are thronged with well-born paupers conscientiously dodging their creditors.
(5) Psychological, ethical and political issues of the HIV and AIDS epidemic on one part, the pauperization of people with AIDS on the other have given birth to AIDS organizations and to a creative solidarity amongst PWA.
(6) A state-subsidised boom for inner London; a neglected pauperism for the Humber.
(7) The free TV licences, the free bus passes, the winter fuel allowance, whether pauper or billionaire, the lucky pensioner will keep the lot.
(8) Meanwhile, Channel 5 has developed its own pauper-baiting programme, On Benefits & Proud , and its cousin, Gypsies On Benefits & Proud .
(9) Manet certainly painted the city's darker corners: the paupers, prostitutes, vagrants and the places they frequented, but it was with the eye of an observer, says Stéphane Guégan, curator of the 2011 Manet exhibition at the Musée d'Orsay in Paris.
(10) The economics are simple: all taxpayers - princes and paupers alike - will be paying for a few lucky souls to treat themselves to a new car.
(11) The club itself, though, is no pauper; it is owned by Vichai Srivaddhanaprabha via his King Power duty free monopoly in Thailand, who wrote off £101m loans in 2014.
(12) Le Dantec Paupers' Hospital, which admits an average of 10.000 patients per year to its surgical, medical, specialized medical and paediatric units.
(13) In the circumstances, the paupers raised their game to a degree that reflected great credit on themselves, and in particular their alchemist of a manager.
(14) Clair has pointed out that when it was suggested by Joseph Ignace Guillotin in 1789, the idea of making mechanical decapitation the uniform means of France's execution stemmed not from barbarity but from a desire to make death as quick and painless as possible for the victim, whether a prince or a pauper.
(15) And it’s make-do-and-mend time again – perhaps not in your house, but down here among the paupers, which means knitting is vital.
(16) Chaplin plays both a Jewish barber and a comically paranoid and ruthless dictator called Adenoid Hynkel; riffing on Mark Twain's The Prince and the Pauper, each man is mistaken for the other.
(17) Among the incidents explored in the chapter, which focuses on the fate of those who went missing or were forcibly disappeared, investigators found that members of the armed forces detained an unknown but probably large number of civilians at a checkpoint on a road south of Cairo who have not been seen again; detained and tortured protesters in the Egyptian Museum before moving them to military prisons, killing at least one person, and delivered to government coroners in the capital at least 11 unidentified bodies, believed to be former prisoners, who were buried in paupers' graves four months later.
(18) The return of the pauper’s funeral to austerity Britain Read more Increasingly families in the UK are choosing to exercise other freedoms too.
(19) If this just means throwing more money at private developers, for private buyers, with the proviso of a few social units that can be accessed through a pauper’s entrance , that’s not going to help.
(20) The brochure was promoting a scheme where you take waif kids and kids of the pauper class and the slums before they could be corrupted by the poverty and crime of England and send them to Australia for education and opportunity in schools like Fairbridge, where we would become strong and long-limbed by working the farms,” Hill says.