(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.
Riffraff
Definition:
(n.) Sweepings; refuse; the lowest order of society.
Example Sentences:
(1) The financial regulator is not there to act like a badass new sheriff in town who is going to cleanse it of the riffraff and crack down on loose morals.
(2) "We'll never accept this riffraff," said the leader of the Party of France , Thomas Joly.
(3) The kind of riffraff that behave like militias on behalf of local oligarchs.
(4) These girls were treated like riffraff who were undeserving of the law and not deemed worthy of care – and that was the overwhelming thing we learnt from this story,” said Hogg, adding: “The terrible thing was when the girls came in to tell the police what was happening, the police ignored them because they didn’t believe when they stood up in the witness box they would be believed.” I exposed the Rochdale scandal – Three Girls should be a catalyst for progress | Sara Rowbotham Read more The was a view echoed by Taylor.