(v. t.) To expose to loss or injury; to risk; to jeopard.
Example Sentences:
(1) This tends to protect the myocyte in starvation but jeopardizes the older cell.
(2) Minor technical errors may jeopardize the patency of femoral-popliteal bypass grafts.
(3) Adhesions were formed at the site of the anastomosis to such an extent as to jeopardize the proper position of the bowel.
(4) It has increased costs, jeopardized the delivery of necessary medical services, and corroded the physician-patient relationship with mistrust and poor morale.
(5) Assuming that unrecognized or inadequately corrected hypovolemia results in higher mortality and morbidity rates, we developed a systematic approach to resuscitation that would: 1) identify criteria to aid in the recognition of hypovolemia and ensure the expeditious correction of this defect without interfering with diagnostic workup and management; 2) define criteria to prevent fluid overload which may jeopardize the patient's course, and 3) express these criteria in an explicit, systematic, patient care algorithm, ie, protocol, useful to both the resident and the practicing physician.
(6) Although a noreflow phenomenon was observed in the jeopardized tissue, Gd-DOTA concentration was higher in the subendocardial central ischemic zone than in normally perfused myocardium.
(7) Intrauterine infusion of nutrient supplements and methods to improve fetal acid-base balance may eventually be incorporated into the management protocols of the jeopardized growth-retarded fetus.
(8) Early restoration of flow may salvage the jeopardized myocardium.
(9) Suture anastomotic techniques should be used which minimize endothelial trauma and thus avoid subendothelial tissue reactions which in turn may jeopardize long-term patency and growth at anastomotic sites.
(10) In this paper we present a simple statistical analysis of two networks similar to the Hopfield net, and show that the usage of positive feedback enhances the net recognizing capability without jeopardizing the stability.
(11) Collaterals from PD could be recognized as jeopardized vessels and these collaterals probably participated in the ischemic attack.
(12) This was associated with significant improvement in fractional shortening in the jeopardized zone at 24 hr after reperfusion.
(13) Postoperative complications can jeopardize the results of surgery.
(14) James Bopp, the former chief counsel for the National Right to Life Committee, has written that early bans on abortion could wind up being “a powerful weapon in the hands of pro-abortion lawyers that would jeopardize all current laws on abortion”.
(15) When referred to a surgeon, a pregnant woman with a suspicious mammary mass deserves an expedient histologic diagnosis; delay may jeopardize the chances of survival.
(16) Renewed efforts are under way to apply clinically oriented coronary venous retroperfusion methods for treatment of myocardium jeopardized by major coronary artery obstructions.
(17) For these reasons, physicians have a special opportunity and ethical obligation to resist and oppose torture as well as to support physicians whose lives or professional careers are jeopardized by their refusal to participate in torture.
(18) Four senior government officials” described the content of her emails to New York Times journalists in minute detail “on the condition of anonymity because they did not want to jeopardize their access to secret information”.
(19) In a strictly controlled outpatient programme the need for dilatation and curettage can be greatly reduced without jeopardizing the safety of the patient.
(20) These, and the other departures from normal structure described, must jeopardize monitoring of muscle activity in the manner normally attributed to spindles and their capacity to provide useful proprioceptive information is questionable.
Peril
Definition:
(n.) Danger; risk; hazard; jeopardy; exposure of person or property to injury, loss, or destruction.
(v. t.) To expose to danger; to hazard; to risk; as, to peril one's life.
(v. i.) To be in danger.
Example Sentences:
(1) For his lone, perilous journey that defied the US occupation authorities, Burchett was pilloried, not least by his embedded colleagues.
(2) The mutual exclusions of languages are destined to become perilous.
(3) One of the problems I have with the New Atheism is that it fixates on ethics, ignoring aesthetics at its peril.
(4) Crisis management is more perilous and the international environment is, if anything, less controllable.
(5) After the Scottish referendum, Cameron knew the “perilous fragility of the public’s support for the sensible choice”.
(6) Asylum seekers take perilous boat journeys with their children because they judge the risk of violence, persecution and death where they are to be greater than the risk of getting on that boat.
(7) Sunderland and Middlesbrough in Premier League peril Read more Karanka is not alone in observing that “when Gastón plays well, it makes a big difference to us” but acknowledges he has never quite fulfilled the hype which accompanied his £12m move from Bologna to Southampton four years ago.
(8) Phil Mitchell was far more compelling when he was knocking off his bruvver Grant's wife Sharon than his ill-advised adventure advertising the perils of taking crack.
(9) An early return home is unlikely given the perilous condition of the plant three weeks after the tsunami.
(10) By this time I am off the track and perilously close to slipping over a cliff, which sounds dramatic but there is lots of scrub below to break my fall and bones before I would end up in the water.
(11) It feels like most people who are climbing Everest are having a film crew follow them.” Sherpa review – peril in the shadow of Everest Read more Since April’s earthquake, the Nepalese government have limited access to permits to experienced climbers, hoping that will address concerns about safety and overcrowding.
(12) Richard Overholt issued the first warning signals about the perils of tobacco and served as an indefatigable leader of the antismoking crusade throughout his professional career.
(13) We have a society accustomed to the pursuit of prosperity and individual gratification, often resentful of immigrants, and possessing a perilously skin-deep attachment to democracy.
(14) Mills, who experienced the triumphs and perils of an Olympics firsthand when his native Australia hosted the games in 2000, said he was particularly eager to discuss London 2012 with Hunt, whose department is responsible for the games.
(15) But the ultimate aim of the pro-life movement isn't to make sure that all clinics act within the law: it's to change the law so that most of these clinics' activities become illegal, a situation that would place both women and the children they are forced to bear in perilous situations.
(16) With this threat, the issue became larger than any film, larger than Sony and larger than the entertainment industry: societal and artistic values are in peril.
(17) There are fears that Cameron’s position could be in grave peril at a post-election meeting of the 1922 Committee, which has been brought forward to the Monday after polling day on 7 May, if the Tories fail to get a healthy lead over Labour in the Commons.
(18) The Fox News anchor showed excerpts of clips that had been released by CBS earlier on Monday at his request and claimed they backed up his descriptions of the peril he faced when reporting from the country at the end of the Falklands war.
(19) The delights and perils of the British constitution are that you never quite know.
(20) John Muir, a giant of the conservation movement, summed up the importance of bees to the human race when he said: “When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world.” We harm them at our peril.