(a.) Firmly established by long continuance; obstinate; deep-rooted; of long standing; as, an inveterate disease; an inveterate abuse.
(a.) Having habits fixed by long continuance; confirmed; habitual; as, an inveterate idler or smoker.
(a.) Malignant; virulent; spiteful.
(v. t.) To fix and settle by long continuance.
Example Sentences:
(1) It is noteworthy that intracardiac evaluation is necessary when there is longstanding and inveterate tachyarrhythmia in otherwise healthy children.
(2) Graham, an inveterate jokester, slightly undermined the moment by joking shortly afterwards: “I feel like I’m on Oprah.” Facebook Twitter Pinterest Lindsey Graham wipes away tears while speaking at the Family Leadership Summit.
(3) Authors describe the operative method of Iselin for the treatment of inveterated extensor tendon injuries over the DIP joint and their results.
(4) Resorting to a series of Ted the swordsman scenes which may merely be the lurid fantasies of the heroine, director Christine Jeffs never makes it clear whether Hughes was a rampaging philanderer whose sexual conquests and general obliviousness to Plath's mounting depression led to her demise, or a man driven into other women's arms by his wife's chronic melancholy - perhaps the most time-honoured excuse of the inveterate tomcat - or both.
(5) The Man Who Can't Keep His Clothes On ( Thursday, 10pm, C4 ) catalogues his achievements while following this inveterate attention-seeker as he plans his testicular swan song.
(6) Cyril Smith , the late Liberal MP, accused since his death in 2010 of being an inveterate child abuser, was said to visit the property.
(7) It is the authors' opinion that, taking into account the late results following operative reduction of inveterate femoral dislocation, the operation of arthrodesis of the coxa is felt to be more rational in such cases.
(8) What the authors mean by locked dislocation of the shoulder is an inveterate posterior dislocation of the humeral head which remains locked within the glenoid cavity as a result of anatomopathological lesion.
(9) This action may prove of value in the treatment of ulcer patients who are inveterate smokers, alcohol users or who are compelled to consume non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs for pain relief from rheumatic and allied diseases.
(10) This method has been used in the complex treatment of 12 patients with acute and inveterate injuries of the thoracic and the thoracolumbar departments of the spinal column and of the spine.
(11) Correction osteotomy of the bones of both forearms with excision of the radial head is recommended for inveterate cases.
(12) This technique, based on transganglionic regulation--a novel neurobiological principle discovered by Csillik and Knyihár-Csillik-, alleviated pain in both fresh and inveterated PHN cases.
(13) Personally, I’ll believe we’re getting somewhere when Channel 4 puts on Corporate-Benefits Street – with White Dee replaced by Amazon founder and inveterate tax-dodger Jeff Bezos.
(14) The authors report 9 cases of acetabular fracture, 6 recent complex and 3 inveterate, treated surgically through the lateral incision of Letournel.
(15) A tall, well-built man with an imposing physical presence, Sherrin was an inveterate first-nighter, always enjoying a couple of stiff Martinis before the show and a good supper afterwards.
(16) A chronic slip of the upper femoral epiphysis (also called by the authors inveterate epiphysiolysis) is a rare, but not an extremely rare, occurrence.
(17) The number of daily cigarettes consumed by inveterate smokers is considerably and lastingly reduced, and 27 p. cent of the patients quit smoking.
(18) Nevertheless, the high incidence of often serious complications makes the combined anterior-posterior approach preferable for severe inveterate fractures of the acetabulum.
(19) The authors present an analysis of the results of operative treatment for inveterate femoral dislocations in 13 patients, in 6 of them open reduction of the dislocation was performed, in 6--arthrodesis of the coxa, in 1--subtrochanteric osteotomy.
(20) In a 25-year-old female patient with right-sided adnex tumour and inveterate infection on the urinary tract a benign cystic teratoma (dermoid cyst) perforated into the lumen of the urinary bladder could diagnosed cystoscopically.
Judicious
Definition:
(a.) Of or relating to a court; judicial.
(a.) Directed or governed by sound judgment; having sound judgment; wise; prudent; sagacious; discreet.
Example Sentences:
(1) He added: "There is a rigorous review process of applications submitted by the executive branch, spearheaded initially by five judicial branch lawyers who are national security experts and then by the judges, to ensure that the court's authorizations comport with what the applicable statutes authorize."
(2) The morbidity is well known and if properly anticipated can be reduced to a minimum by judicious use of antibacterial agents and early surgical intervention when appropriate.
(3) If Lagarde had been placed under formal investigation in the Tapie case, it would have risked weakening her position and further embarrassing both the IMF and France by heaping more judicial worries on a key figure on the international stage.
(4) We now look forward to a judicial process which will apply impartial analysis and clear legal standards."
(5) Although the general guiding principle of pharmacotherapy for anxiety disorders--the lowest effective dose for the shortest possible time--remains, this rule should not interfere with the judicious use of medications as long as the benefits justify it.
(6) He can appoint Garland to the supreme court, and even push through the other 58 federal judicial nominees that are pending.
(7) We urge junior doctors to look at the detail of the contract and the clear benefits it brings.” The judicial review is based on the fact that the government appears to have failed to carry out an equality impact assessment (EIA), as required under the Equality Act 2010, before its decision to impose a new contract on junior doctors in England, the BMA said.
(8) However, there would be a post facto judicial review of revocations that fall in that category.
(9) The current president of the supreme court, Lord Phillips, who steps down at the end of September, welcomed his successor, praising his "wealth of judicial experience" and "ability to lead a collegiate court".
(10) But critics say that bringing the judicial system under political control will do nothing to improve its efficiency, and instead will leave judges dependent on political patronage and subject to political pressure.
(11) She recently collaborated on two damning reports into punitive house burnings and extra-judicial killings in Chechnya, allegedly carried out by Kadyrov's forces.
(12) Judicious use of CPPV may result in an apparent improvement of shock lung in some instances.
(13) Aggressive therapy with intravenous fluids and potassium and the judicious use of insulin, in conjunction with careful monitoring of central venous pressure and urine output, form the mainstays of treatment.
(14) But, in a hearing to decide whether there should be a judicial review against the council, a high court judge found that the council had wide powers to disqualify such people from the housing list.
(15) In 2004, the dispute settlement body , the "judicial branch" of the WTO, ruled that the US had to reform its cotton subsidies or face "retaliation" from Brazil.
(16) The almost-Orwellian technology that enables the government to store and analyze the phone metadata of every telephone user in the United States is unlike anything that could have been conceived in 1979 [...] I cannot imagine a more "indiscriminate" and "arbitrary invasion" than this systematic and high-tech collection and retention of personal data on virtually every single citizen for purposes of querying and analyzing it without prior judicial approval.
(17) Futhermore, these optimal characteristics can be approximated by a judiciously D2O moderated and 10B-filtered 252Cf neutron source.
(18) After a brief presentation of methods for the treatment of carcinomas of the lower lip, the author describes a new surgical technique which is a judicious modification to the procedure indicated by Webster and Bernard.
(19) Transfusions should be used judiciously in patients with symptomatic anemia who are likely to benefit from increased oxygen delivery after transfusion.
(20) In a recent decision, Commonwealth v. Kobrin, the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court ruled that a psychiatrist being investigated for possible Medicaid fraud did not have to turn over all of his notes concerning therapy sessions.