(a.) Incapable of being reduced, or brought into a different state; incapable of restoration to its proper or normal condition; as, an irreducible hernia.
(a.) Incapable of being reduced to a simpler form of expression; as, an irreducible formula.
Example Sentences:
(1) This, in principle, is similar to creating an irreducible hernia.
(2) Three infants presented with acute scrotal swelling, erythema, and a tender irreducible firm mass within the scrotum.
(3) IVP in both the cases of irreducible prolapse and retention of urine revealed hydroureter and hydronephrosis bilaterally.
(4) Among the problems that have arisen in testing for pregnancy by hCG determination are the interference of proteinuria with urine pregnancy tests, an irreducible level of technical error, the tendency of certain drugs to produce a false-positive result, and quality control.
(5) The authors present a case report of a 65-year-old male with a two-day history of a painful irreducible right inguinal mass; he denied abdominal pain, nausea, vomiting, fever, or chills.
(6) This severe spasticity was associated with irreducible flexion contracture in 49 cases and hyperextension in 3 others.
(7) An exact understanding of the damaged structures and causes of irreducibility frequently makes this an injury often requiring open reduction and selective repair of damaged soft tissue structures.
(8) The case is different from the classic picture in that it is revealed late, by its cardiac manifestations which dominate the clinical picture and lead to an irreducible cardiac insufficiency requiring a heart transplant.
(9) This essay argues that gender is an irreducible category of clinical observation and theorizing, as crucial to the family therapy paradigm as the concept of "generation."
(10) A case of irreducible complete dorsoulnar dislocation of the proximal phalanx of the thumb is presented.
(11) In the paper, the errors in diagnosis of strangulated irreducible hernias are analysed.
(12) The second neurovascular glaucoma, an irreducible complication of the ischemic capillaropathy was for 22% of the studied cases.
(13) Operation was reserved, in general, for patients with irreducible dislocations and incomplete neurological lesions, open reduction and internal fixation being the commonest procedure.
(14) An irreducible sacroiliac dislocation of the pelvic ring with resultant caudal displacement of the injured hemipelvis occurred in a 15-year-old female.
(15) These lesions progress slowly and may eventually result in complete and irreducible trismus.
(16) Of the 50 joints assessed, arthrography demonstrated 39 (78%) with irreducible meniscal displacement and 11 (22%) with reducible displacement.
(17) Irreducible intussusceptions were created in eight adult mongrel dogs.
(18) We report a case of an irreducible volar dislocation of the distal radioulnar joint following open anatomic reduction of the radius.
(19) Four patients in the enteric group had resection; one for neoplasm and three for irreducibility.
(20) As far as irreducible tinnitus are concerned, as anxiety is the most pejorative parameter, not discouraging the patient is very important.
Simpler
Definition:
(n.) One who collects simples, or medicinal plants; a herbalist; a simplist.
Example Sentences:
(1) The pattern of results in simpler tasks is more difficult to interpret.
(2) Speaking in the BBC's Radio Theatre, Hall will emphasise the need for a better, simpler BBC, as part of efforts to streamline management.
(3) Incomplete penetrance of the simpler pattern suggests that this genetic locus interacts in a probabilistic manner with epigenetic mechanisms involved in morphogenesis of the cerebellum.
(4) Our results show that although kriging is a statistically optimal method, it is not markedly better than simpler interpolation algorithms, though it is considerably more complex to use.
(5) The relatively heavy computing effort required is emphasized, and contrasted with the rather simpler calculations associated with traditional statistical methods.
(6) The flanking segments also show homology to a simpler 30 nucleotide sequence from which they likely originated.
(7) Peter Travers, film critic at Rolling Stone, offered a simpler explanation: "Why is The Lone Ranger such a huge flop at the box office?"
(8) With k-valued characters and, especially, with large trees, the types of configuration sets (events) used in the simpler examples are too rare (i.e., their predicted frequencies are too low) to be useful, and the construction of meaningful pairs of independent events becomes an important and nontrivial task in designing invariants suited to testing specific hypotheses.
(9) Instead it said that the changing of the settings – which previously required users to navigate through up to 150 different settings to control who could see their data, to a simpler four-tiered version plus a "customise" option – was "merely a red herring".
(10) But once installed the couple must decide how to live their daily lives: surrounded by butlers, dressers, cooks and cleaners, or more akin to the simpler life they have so far enjoyed.
(11) HSBC sold around 7,000 of a simpler type of interest rate product.
(12) The method of plasma exchange we used was simpler and cheaper than the conventional method.
(13) An enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) is proposed which is simpler and less expensive than RIA.
(14) Thoresen said: "We think the system needs to be fairer, and needs to be simpler and easier for people to understand.
(15) For H(+) ion blockage, a simpler model, in which H(+) enters the channel only from the bathing medium, is found to be sufficient.
(16) In many biomedical applications, such as electronic implantable devices, these simpler techniques have greater utility because of the reduced requirements on power, logic complexity and sampling speed.
(17) This method is a more direct, simpler and more accurate one for the assessment of rehabilitation effectiveness in clinics than the more widely used direct measurement of energy cost by indirect calorimetry.
(18) Making data collection simpler creates added public health value: on one occasion, 12 overdose reversals were reported in one location during a 24-hour period.
(19) Enzymatic syntheses of nucleosides can be simpler and quicker than syntheses carried out by chemical methods.
(20) Cutting up carcasses is the simpler of the two techniques but there are circumstances in which beetle digestion would be advantageous.