(a.) Not judicious; wanting in sound judgment; undiscerning; indiscreet; unwise; as, an injudicious adviser.
(a.) Not according to sound judgment or discretion; unwise; as, an injudicious measure.
Example Sentences:
(1) During the psychosocial dying occurs a continual death of identity, integrity, and relationship, which has the origin in station ideologies, insufficient training of the staff, psychiatric injudiciousness, and in the fail in death-contact.
(2) In view of the natural fluctuation in the number of CD4+ cells it was felt to be injudicious to act upon a single count.
(3) When treatment for cure or significant palliation is not possible, however, the goal should shift to protection of the fetus from damage by the injudicious use of teratogenic cancer therapy.
(4) Injudicious as Neil Hamilton's misdemeanors were, they were only the flotsam on the tide of Tory sleaze.
(5) This study suggests: (1) specific proteins or amino acids may be responsible for different developmental measures; (2) injudicious dietary restrictions in pregnancy should be avoided; (3) the determination of alpha1 globulin and a few amino acids such as glycine, lysine, and histidine in late pregancy may be used as predictors of fetal growth and development.
(6) Unfortunately, injudicious use of intravenous fluids and irrational prescription of antibiotics and anti-diarrheal agents is quite common even in the hands of pediatricians.
(7) Complications of injudicious treatment can be life threatening.
(8) This case is presented to demonstrate that life-threatening events may result after the injudicious use of enemas in children.
(9) The consequential errors led to (a) an injudicious imposition of 'objectivity' at all levels of allocation, (b) an unjustified insistence that the same method be used at each administrative level in an additive and transitive manner, (c) the exclusion of general practitioner services from their considerations, (d) a failure to delineate those decisions which are in fact political decisions, thus to concatenate them, inappropriately, with technical and professional issues.
(10) If applied early and injudiciously, heat may adversely affect resolution of the trauma and prolong the rehabilitation of the athlete.
(11) Greater caution against injudicious sterilization is advised.
(12) These results indicate that injudicious and severe hypocapnic hyperventilation may induce impaired myocardial tissue perfusion and oxygenation although normal cardiac output and arterial blood oxygenation are maintained.
(13) The most common errors involved inadequate fetal monitoring, the injudicious use of oxytocin and the failure to recognize a high-risk pregnancy, such as prematurity or postterm or multiple gestation.
(14) This study supports the findings of previous studies of considerable neurological adverse effects of neuroleptics in this patient group and cautions against their injudicious use.
(15) The injudicious use of heat and cold and electrical appliances of various types usually indicate a therapist in search of a treatment.
(16) Although primary intraperitoneal repair of selected penetrating colon injuries is a feasible method of treatment, injudicious use of this method, especially in wounds of the right colon, led to increased morbidity, in the group of 90 patients studied.
(17) The injudicious use of a systemically administered herb containing psoralens derived from the fruits of Ammi majus in combination with exposure of the skin to the sun caused a severe phototoxic dermatitis in a Moroccan patient with vitiligo.
(18) Thus, on the side of potential therapeutic applications, injudicious use of these vitamins is associated with previously unsuspected toxicity in the fetus and newborn.
(19) But the Clarke report was an investigation into schools that failed to provide a balance or acted injudiciously.
(20) Injudicious sequestrectomy or very severe disease may lead to loss of length of the bone.
Poor
Definition:
(superl.) Destitute of property; wanting in material riches or goods; needy; indigent.
(superl.) So completely destitute of property as to be entitled to maintenance from the public.
(superl.) Destitute of such qualities as are desirable, or might naturally be expected
(superl.) Wanting in fat, plumpness, or fleshiness; lean; emaciated; meager; as, a poor horse, ox, dog, etc.
(superl.) Wanting in strength or vigor; feeble; dejected; as, poor health; poor spirits.
(superl.) Of little value or worth; not good; inferior; shabby; mean; as, poor clothes; poor lodgings.
(superl.) Destitute of fertility; exhausted; barren; sterile; -- said of land; as, poor soil.
(superl.) Destitute of beauty, fitness, or merit; as, a poor discourse; a poor picture.
(superl.) Without prosperous conditions or good results; unfavorable; unfortunate; unconformable; as, a poor business; the sick man had a poor night.
(superl.) Inadequate; insufficient; insignificant; as, a poor excuse.
(superl.) Worthy of pity or sympathy; -- used also sometimes as a term of endearment, or as an expression of modesty, and sometimes as a word of contempt.
(superl.) Free from self-assertion; not proud or arrogant; meek.
(n.) A small European codfish (Gadus minutus); -- called also power cod.
Example Sentences:
(1) There was appreciable variation in toothbrush wear among subjects, some reducing their brush to a poor state in 2 weeks whereas with others the brush was rated as "good" after 10 weeks.
(2) However, medicines have an important part to play, and it is now generally agreed that for the very poor populations medicines should be restricted to those on an 'essential drugs list' and should be made available as cheaply as possible.
(3) Inadequate treatment, caused by a lack of drugs and poorly trained medical attendants, is also a major problem.
(4) Clonazepam was added to the treatment of patients with poorly controlled epilepsy in a double-blind trial and an open trial.
(5) "There is a serious risk that a deal will be agreed between rich countries and tax havens that would leave poor countries out in the cold.
(6) The dangers caused by PM10s was highlighted in the Rogers review of local authority regulatory services, published in 2007, which said poor air quality contributed to between 12,000 and 24,000 premature deaths each year.
(7) Maybe the world economy goes tits up again, only this time we punish the rich instead of the poor.
(8) Poor radioresponders of glioblastoma with CEA should be reoperated.
(9) Poor lipophilicity and extremely low plasma concentrations impose severe constraints.
(10) However, each of the studies had numerous methodological flaws which biased their results against finding a relationship: either their outcome measures had questionable validity, their research designs were inappropriate, or the statistical analyses were poorly conceived.
(11) Symptoms were poorly localized in all these IPS osteomyelitis patients.
(12) Prognosis of patients with these autonomic failures is poor.
(13) All patients in Stages I and II (5 out of 26) who developed metastases had poorly differentiated (histological Type III) tumours.
(14) This study provides strong and unexpected evidence that one admission to hospital of more than a week's duration or repeated admissions before the age of five years (in particular between six months and four years) are associated with an increased risk of behaviour disturbance and poor reading in adolescence.
(15) Patients were divided into two groups: poor outcome, defined by the death or a post-operative Karnofsky index less than or equal to 70 (n = 36), and good outcome defined by a Karnofsky index of 80 or more (n = 60).
(16) Improvement of its particularly poor prognosis requires therefore early screening based on reliable biological markers.
(17) It has a poor prognosis prior to the current combined treatment of surgical ablation, radiation to the surgical field, and chemotherapy for microscopic metastases.
(18) Photograph: AP Reasons for wavering • State relies on coal-fired electricity • Poor prospects for wind power • Conservative Democrat • Represents conservative district in conservative state and was elected on narrow margins Campaign support from fossil fuel interests in 2008 • $93,743 G K Butterfield (North Carolina) GK Butterfield, North Carolina.
(19) There were significant differences in the mean erythrocyte transketolase activity of the thiaminase excreting poor animals and the thiaminase free normal animals.
(20) In this material the ultrastructural details are very poorly preserved.