(a.) Not sanitary; unhealthy; as, insanitary conditions of drainage.
Example Sentences:
(1) Insanitary conditions have been the norm for Haiti's poor for a long time.
(2) Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch have detailed a string of cases where workers are toiling for little pay in unsafe and insanitary conditions.
(3) Of three Caucasians diagnosed, one was a war veteran, but the other two did not have significant travel histories; all three had lived or worked under insanitary conditions.
(4) Some residents used the water to dump their rubbish and their sewage, resulting in a foul-smelling, insanitary and unsightly network of rivers and canals that also contributed to the city’s chronic floods, as their waters could not drain properly and their flow was narrowed by the encroachment of homes and factories.
(5) Extreme insanitary conditions, large aggregation of uncontrolled population and probably consumption of infected ice candies were responsible for the outbreak of cholera.
(6) So much of its Victorian legacy was disgusting – overcrowded, insanitary, decrepit houses that had been a scandal for most of the 20th century.
(7) For the poor, the options were drinking gin in a boiling hot bath, or seeking a backstreet abortion by a woman – probably with no training – working in insanitary conditions.
(8) The sale has led the series creator and writer, Heidi Thomas, to base the programme's Christmas special on the sudden need to rehouse the midwives in more modern surroundings, as the show moves from the grim insanitary slums of the 1950s towards the start of the swinging 60s.
(9) Major conflicts in history have yielded an equal number of medical casualties as those injured in battle, and no more common a problem exists in the insanitary conditions of war as dysentery.
(10) They gain entry into milk and milk products through the water supply, equipment, and insanitary and unhygienic conditions of production and handling.
(11) The prisoners – British, Australian, Indian and Malayan - were initially force-marched to Changi, which rapidly became an overcrowded and insanitary concentration camp.
(12) Investigations by the Guardian, Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch have revealed cases of workers toiling for little pay in unsafe and insanitary conditions.
(13) Investigations by the Guardian, Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch have revealed widespread cases of workers toiling for little pay in unsafe and insanitary conditions.
(14) Subsequent storage and insanitary practices during processing increased the APC and introduced coliforms.
(15) Irregular menstruation and insanitary mentrual pads were also risk factors.
(16) Eight blocks – two have been pulled down – were built in the modernist style in the 1960s to move 4,700 people from insanitary slums.
(17) When both groups were combined, no significant relationship was found between the presence of the antigen and sex, age, marital status, level of education, occupation, income, and a presumed exposure to the antigen from injections, dental treatment, blood tests, surgical operations, blood donations, tribal, (medicinal), tattoo and cosmetic marking, insanitary disposal of faeces, doubtful sources of water supply, and exposure to mosquitoes.
(18) Police have moved more than 2,000 refugees and migrants off the streets of Paris, where they had been sleeping rough for weeks in squalid and insanitary conditions.
Unhealthful
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) Monday's ruling didn't just undercut the mayor's farewell gesture, a capstone in his crusade against unhealthful or just distasteful public behavior, which he was planning to trumpet on Letterman that night.
(2) In the present study the subjective experience of health and unhealth was studied in a defined population of patients with insulin dependent diabetes mellitus (IDDM).
(3) These personality characteristics are implicated in the high rate of mental unhealth in mentally retarded persons.
(4) One photograph was of a "healthful" food or activity, and the other was "unhealthful."
(5) When health is defined from a holistic view, traditional measures of control in diabetes, such as analysis of blood glucose or HbA1c, are of limited use as indicators of health and unhealth.
(6) Arthritis tends to promote inactivity, and inactivity tends to promote an unhealthful constellation of blood abnormalities that increases the risk of heart attack and stroke.
(7) Entering medical students currently report positive attitudes toward the concept of preventive cardiology but express a lack of confidence in the physician's ability to change unhealthful habits of their patients.
(8) Nevertheless, such interventions would be worthwhile if they prevented unhealthful life styles from gaining a foothold in these countries.
(9) The series has featured a group of volunteers who are at high risk of diseases because of their unhealthful habits and two health educators who counsel the studio group and the viewers to make changes in health behaviors.
(10) These findings suggest that prevention programs incorporate strategies to maximize peer support for healthful behavior and to counteract the effects of unhealthful behavior modeled by peers.
(11) On the other hand, evaluation of attitudes and certain personality variables might provide guidance both in discovering unhealth and in creating individual self-care programmes for its treatment.
(12) Students frequently indicated, however, that it is "extremely difficult" to change patients' unhealthful habits and that "physician encouragement" may not be sufficient to help patients achieve more healthful behaviors.