(a.) Not producing the proper effect; without effect; inefficient; weak; useless; futile; unavailing; as, an ineffectual attempt; an ineffectual expedient.
Example Sentences:
(1) In repeated reconciliation talks overseen by the UN, the ineffectual GNA has so far failed to reach a political compromise with its Tobruk-based rivals in the east, noticeably Haftar, head of the Libyan National Army.
(2) Our data suggest that 5-FU and ISO, at the doses used, were ineffectual in the treatment of metastatic colorectal carcinoma.
(3) The importance of vigorous contact tracing is underlined by the contrast between the incidence of PPNG strains in the United Kingdom and the larger numbers found in areas where they are hyperendemic and where contact tracing is ineffectual or non-existent.
(4) The US dabbled ineffectually in helping the rebel cause, hobbled by uncertainty over the groups it was dealing with.
(5) From his sickbed in Saudi Arabia, the president agreed to reopen negotiations over the GCC plan – with the aim of drawing out the transitional period – albeit only with the ineffectual opposition parties, not the people.
(6) An uncoordinated and ineffectual sucking reflex is a major manifestation of neonatal narcotic abstinence and may have important consequences for the infant's subsequent well being.
(7) Therefore, SS may represent a situation in which genetically predisposed individuals (i.e., HLA-DR3-DQA4-DQB2) have a persistent but ineffectual T cell immune response against EBV at its site of latency.
(8) When both spouses described their mates as transgressive and themselves as ineffectual responders to transgression, the dysfunction reported by both spouses was pronounced.
(9) Thus the formation of such damage by individual OH radicals formed by ionizing radiation would be similarly ineffectual.
(10) A new government should tear up "ineffectual" lending agreements with Britain's taxpayer-owned banks and force them to lend billions of pounds more to small and medium sized businesses, Liberal Democrat Treasury spokesman Vince Cable said today .
(11) In its turn, interaction is subdivided in three classes (uni-effectual, bis-ineffectual, bis-effectual) in the last of which is placed the most relevant of the interactions, that is synergism, subclassified, at its turn, as additive, super and infra-additive.
(12) The indolent behavior of our six cases, and the finding that the molecular structure of the t(8;14) in these cases does not follow the pattern of breakpoint sites and point mutations defined in other histologic subtypes of NHL with this translocation, suggest that the t(8;14) in these cases is cytogenetically and molecularly distinct from the t(8;14) seen in high-grade NHLs, and is relatively ineffectual in terms of MYC deregulation, or that other genetic elements at these chromosomal sites may be involved.
(13) The unrest is the latest upheaval to rock the troubled central African country , which has been plagued by multiple wars and weakened by ineffectual governance for decades.
(14) Low-molecular-weight nonfucosylated oligosaccharide fragments up to the octasaccharide Glc4Xyl3Gal (obtained by endoglucanase action on tamarind seed xyloglucan) were ineffectual as fucosyl acceptors but inhibited the fucosylation of endogenous as well as of added xyloglucan.
(15) Myners, in his trademark pristine white open-neck shirt and dark suit, is turning his attention to overpaid City bankers, ineffectual City investors and "insidious" pay consultants.
(16) Balotelli was ineffectual and frustratingly lazy whereas Rodgers surely made a mistake selecting Dejan Lovren when Kolo Touré had excelled in the Bernabéu.
(17) It could be said that Michael Carrick's reputation was pummelled but he was abandoned almost entirely by ineffectual colleagues such as Anderson.
(18) The radiologic signs of diabetic gastric neuropathy consist of ineffectual peristalsis, solid gastric residue, elongated sausage-shaped stomach, gastric barium retention, and duodenal bulb atony.
(19) The filtrate is ineffectual against Mycobacteria and Fungi (yeast or mould) at the concentration used.
(20) Winnie, meanwhile, raged ineffectually against the emotional cunning of the woman she called "that concubine".
Tenesmus
Definition:
(n.) An urgent and distressing sensation, as if a discharge from the intestines must take place, although none can be effected; -- always referred to the lower extremity of the rectum.
Example Sentences:
(1) Postoperative minor rectal bleeding and rectal tenesmus resolved in a few days.
(2) Tenesmus, dysuria, hematuria, and pollakiuria occurred in all dogs, but the severity of these signs diminished with time.
(3) The protozoon Blastocystis hominis may cause episodes of diarrhoea with abdominal pain, tenesmus, fever and eosinophilia.
(4) There were no instances of recurrence of hemorrhage, fistulas, perineal pain or tenesmus.
(5) Their clinical features included serious dyschesia demanding longer time and strength, tenesmus, and slender stool.
(6) Thirty-one patients (38 per cent) had ETAR for palliation: in this group rectal bleeding was abolished or improved in 66 per cent of patients, altered bowel habit (diarrhoea) corrected in 77 per cent of patients, faecal incontinence improved in 50 per cent of patients and rectal pain (including tenesmus) improved in 50 per cent of patients.
(7) For the nine patients who received 5-FU at the recommended dose level the median low counts were WBC 3.5 (2.2-4.0), HGB 10.3 (9.0-12.3), and PLT (x 1000) 167 (133-280), and the incidence of any grade greater than or equal to 3 toxicity was 22% diarrhea, 17% tenesmus, and 22% frequent bowel movements.
(8) Common clinical signs included hematuria, altered micturition (pollakiuria, dysuria, urinary incontinence), and tenesmus.
(9) At 6.4 months' follow-up, two patients had recurrent tenesmus and two required a colostomy.
(10) Other examples of pain which may be resistant to treatment with opioid analgesics are bladder and rectal tenesmus, pancreatic pain, and pain associated with decubitus ulcers or other superficial ulcers subjected to pressure or shearing forces.
(11) Blastocystis hominis may sometimes be found in feces in sufficient quantities to cause symptoms of diseases such as diarrhea abdominal pain, nausea, tenesmus, fever, itching and slight acidocytosis.
(12) It seemed that patients with severe side effects such as bladder tenesmus and urinary infection, have a long tumor-free period.
(13) The foremost perioperative consideration beyond the use of effective restraint is the management of tenesmus in horses with rectal tears or prolapses.
(14) Symptoms were tenesmus rectal urge, pain, thin feces and mucosanguinolent discharge.
(15) We describe the case of a woman with rectorrhagia and rectal tenesmus.
(16) A 42-yr-old woman with long-standing ulcerative colitis of the descending colon, sigmoid, and rectum presented with bloody diarrhea, tenesmus, and high fever.
(17) Five patients developed rectal bleeding, tenesmus, and increased frequency of stools, lasting up to 12 days.
(18) The most common symptoms were rectal bleeding (70%), mucus diarrhea (44%), constipation (22%), and tenesmus (19%).
(19) Tenesmus and obstipation began shortly after pelvic injury in 3 cats and 5 to 12 months after injury in the remaining cats.
(20) Three patients in each group were withdrawn because of clinical deterioration but both treatments produced significant clinical improvement with decreases in stool frequency and scores for urgency, bleeding and tenesmus.