What's the difference between leperous and poisonous?
Leperous
Definition:
(a.) Leprous; infectious; corrupting; poisonous.
Example Sentences:
(1) Supporting this opinion, the author reports his observations at Madagascar, where no leper of the leper-houses of Madascar center, a plague focus still to-day but very active between 1922 and 1936, contracted plague.
(2) The reason is that both are key members of David Cameron's Eurosceptic caucus in the European parliament and the sort of people whom David Miliband, the foreign secretary, says make him sick: political lepers who should not be seen in civilised company because of their views on the second world war.
(3) He felt, he said later, “like the representative of a leper colony attending the annual garden party of a colonial governor”.
(4) The data obtained should be considered during therapy of lepers to predict and control an unfavorable complication like specific polyneuritis.
(5) This rapid examination is particularly valid during neurologic investigation of the hand in lepers in countries where this disease is endemic, and it forms part of the 10 tests that the author has selected for exploration, within 2 or 3 minutes, in a standing patient, of the facial, ulnar, median, superficial peroneal and posterior tibial nerves.
(6) The relevance of these findings to previous studies of the children of lepers in India is discussed.
(7) Black and Morgan claimed they were treated like lepers as a result of their sexuality.
(8) He thinks that lepers' death was secondary to that of the monks who, at this time, cared for these outcases, and thanks to their self-sacrifice permitted these lepers' survival.
(9) He looked out at the admiring eyes trained on him on Sunday night (the room was considerably more rammed than it had been eight years previously) before heading to the champions' dinner in a flash London hotel he would probably avoid as if it were a leper colony on any other occasion, and he said thanks.
(10) A study of 260 male patients in the Alexandria leper colony showed that 15% of them had uni- or bilateral perception deafness.
(11) "It is like we were treated as lepers in the worst possible way."
(12) The highest prevalences were observed in female prostitutes (7.4%), patients with neurologic syndromes (5.8%), and lepers (13.7%).
(13) It is both the old, sadly familiar experience of plague and disease, of lepers isolated as unclean, of smallpox decimating the American Indians, of a Black Death sweeping medieval Europe, of the 1918 influenza.
(14) Lemur macaco macaco from Ambanja region was found polyparasitized by four different species of Plasmodium: --Plasmodium coulangesi recently described by lepers et al.
(15) The monks were more exposed to contagion; obliged by their vocation and by pope's command to help the dyings and to give them sacraments, they were obliged to leave lepers to their fate.
(16) He grew up in the village of Green Hill Quarry near the Yila Mission, an American Baptist mission hospital and leper colony, according to a lifelong friend and former neighbor, Thomas Kwenah.
(17) The stigma surrounding it contributed, throughout the times, to make the "leper" identified as someone who brought with him danger and death, justifying discriminatory procedures.
(18) The establishment, instead, of an isolated leper colony at the run-down plantation at Carville, 85 miles up-river, was the result of community indifference, misunderstanding of the nature of the disease, and expected depreciation of property values.
(19) Advice have been taken exactly in the leper villages in which the attendance rate is of 98%; this rate varies between 47 to 70% in the all-purpose dispensaries.
(20) The author disproves the opinion of those who think that lepers died from plague.
Poisonous
Definition:
(a.) Having the qualities or effects of poison; venomous; baneful; corrupting; noxious.
Example Sentences:
(1) Resistance to antibiotics have been detected in food poisoning bacteria, namely Salmonella typhimurium, Staphylococcus aureus and Clostridium perfringens.
(2) It can induce acute cholinesterase poisoning, which is rapidly reversible on discontinuation of exposure.
(3) There is a disparity between the number of reported cases of poisoning and the number of chemical analyses performed for the identification and quantitative determination of a particular poison.
(4) A case is presented of deliberate chewing of the flowers of henbane (Hyoscyamus niger) in the hope of producing euphoria, and an account is given of the poisoning so produced.
(5) "Our black, Muslim and Jewish citizens will sleep much less easily now the BBC has legitimised the BNP by treating its racist poison as the views of just another mainstream political party when it is so uniquely evil and dangerous."
(6) Extrapyramidal syndromes after ischemic anoxia are rare, when compared to their relative frequency after carbon monoxide poisoning.
(7) Concern about the safety of the patient and dental personnel does exist, however, due to the possibilities of mercury poisoning.
(8) Excess levels of selenium (2.5 and 5 ppm) in the vitamin E-deficient diet had little or no effect on spleen size or hematocrit of rats not receiving lead, but partially prevented the splenomegaly and anemia of red cells from either non-poisoned or lead-oisoned vitamin E-deficient rats, but not as effectively as vitamin E. These results show that vitamin E status of rats is more important that selenium status in determining response to toxic levels of lead.
(9) Toxicity has been reported in the fetus of a woman ingesting a huge overdose of digitoxin; the same result would be anticipated with digoxin poisoning.
(10) Three esterase inhibitors, phenylmethylsulfonyl fluoride, bis-(p-nitrophenyl)-phosphate, and diisopropylfluorophosphate, had no effect on the antidote effectiveness of N-acetylcysteine, although each provided partial protection against acetaminophen poisoning.
(11) The deaths were due to: hanging (41 cases), poisoning (17 cases), leaping from a height (7 cases), and others (11 cases including one case of self shooting).
(12) In vivo the administration of captopril prevented the toxic effects of mercury poisoning on membrane permeability, oxidative phosphorylation and Ca++ homeostasis.
(13) Large doses of dsFab are efficacious in the treatment of dysrhythmias in this canine model of N oleander cardiac glycoside poisoning.
(14) A recent report indicated that an arrow poison used by the native Indians of Rondonia, Brazil, to kill small animals was associated with profuse bleeding.
(15) When Hayley Cropper swallows poison on Coronation Street on Monday night, taking her own life to escape inoperable pancreatic cancer, with her beloved husband, Roy, in pieces at her bedside, it will be the end of a character who, thanks to Hesmondhalgh's performance, has captivated and challenged British TV viewers for 16 years.
(16) Zelaya's food comes separately and is prepared by his daughter because he fears being poisoned.
(17) Characteristics of the poisoning include a delay between exposure and onset of symptoms; early systemic toxicity with congestive changes in the lungs and oliguric renal failure; prominent cerebellar and Parkinsonian neurologic symptoms as well as seizures and coma in severe cases; and psychiatric disturbances that can last from months to years.
(18) A method of poisoning cats with thallium is described.
(19) They were given individually to guinea pigs prior to poisoning with 2 x LD50 soman to test their efficacy against organophosphorus-induced convulsions, brain damage, and lethality.
(20) This incident prompted the poison center to evaluate our emergency response capabilities.