(n.) Any disease of the human body; a distemper, disorder, or indisposition, proceeding from impaired, defective, or morbid organic functions; especially, a lingering or deep-seated disorder.
(n.) A moral or mental defect or disorder.
Example Sentences:
(1) It shares some characteristics with the maladie dermatophytique of Hadida and Schousboe.
(2) This treatment was given to 11 patients with Huntington's chorea (ChH), 4 with faciolingual dyskinesis (DFL), 3 with torticollis spasmodicus (TS), 3 with maladie des tics (MT) and 8 with dyskinesia following treatment with L-dopa (MP).
(3) The cries were the pain cries of 2 normal newborns, 1 infant with maladie du cri du chat, 1 with Down syndrome, 1 asphyxiated infant with brain damage, and one asphyxiated infant without brain damage.
(4) We are not claiming that this procedure is a cure for CHD; rather, it is a procedure that dramatically slows down the progress of this malady and allows the dog to lead a more normal lifestyle and avoids euthanasia.
(5) These and other maladies and temptations are a danger for every Christian and for any administrative organisation … and can strike at both the individual and the corporate level,” he said.
(6) It is a microcosm of the region’s maladies and the trauma they have wrought on civilian lives – there are people here who have been wounded in sectarian bloodletting, shelling, airstrikes, occupation and crackdowns by dictators.
(7) Acalculous cholecystitis is an unusual but serious variant of a common disorder in which treatable gallbladder disease may masquerade as a less treatable liver malady.
(8) Although high resolution CT is preferable for study of common maladies of the middle ear and optic capsule, MRI is currently the study of choice for evaluation of the internal auditory canal, cerebellopontine angle, and brainstem.
(9) 93% of the subjects suffered from diabetes mellitus as the basal malady, which was comparable to that in Western studies.
(10) In children with known associated severe medical maladies, diagnostic barium enema can serve to reaffirm the diagnosis prior to the hazardous operative intervention.
(11) No mention of how losing weight (and avoiding maladies) through such surgery could save the NHS millions and therefore be classed as relatively cost-effective.
(12) When humans encounter marine creatures a variety of maladies may occur, ranging from dermatitis to life-threatening trauma, allergy, envenomations, or intoxications.
(13) A very high percentage of farm flock poultry maladies can be diagnosed by gross lesions plus a few simple laboratory procedures, such as direct microscopy, Gram's stain, fecal flotation, and aerobic bacteriology.
(14) Nostalgia was the soldiers’ malady – a state of mind that made life in the here and now a debilitating process of yearning for that which had been lost: rose-tinted peace, happiness, loved ones.
(15) Using a double-blind crossover technique in patients suffering from maladies associated with gastrointestinal spasm, sustained-release 40 mg dicyclomine hydrochloride tablets (Merbentyl Dospan) have been compared with 20 mg plain dicyclomine hydrochloride tablets (Merbentyl).
(16) In the majority of cases the grafts were penetrating (105 out of 118 cases), and the overall analysis of the results is dependent on the following factors: -- Grafts performed as primary procedures in one eye or both eyes: if they develop maladie due greffon, it is usually the 'endothelial' form which appears between the first and third month; the prognosis is good (53-66 p. 100 cure with steroid therapy).
(17) This malady accounts for 20 to 30 per cent of all congenital cardiac defects and is representative of a cardiac lesion that increases pulmonary blood flow.
(18) Spirochetes were not isolated in Danbury or New Hartford, areas where this malady is rare.
(19) Nowhere are the symptoms of this malady more visible than in medicine.
(20) » Une résidente du village, Bella Kabatesi, 18 ans, dont les parents sont morts suite à une maladie lorsqu’elle avait quatre ans, a utilisé l’énergie solaire pour alimenter une veilleuse en mémoire du fondateur du village, désormais décédé.
Monster
Definition:
(n.) Something of unnatural size, shape, or quality; a prodigy; an enormity; a marvel.
(n.) Specifically , an animal or plant departing greatly from the usual type, as by having too many limbs.
(n.) Any thing or person of unnatural or excessive ugliness, deformity, wickedness, or cruelty.
(a.) Monstrous in size.
(v. t.) To make monstrous.
Example Sentences:
(1) Rather than an off-plan Oxshott monster-mansion, he moved his family to an elegant Eaton Terrace townhouse in south-west London.
(2) I read somewhere that one of the actresses you admire is Charlize Theron and she's another great beauty who started out modelling but whose breakthrough role came when she uglied up [to play serial killer Aileen Wuornos in Monster ].
(3) It’s the first time the digital monsters have made it on to smartphones – so what do you make of this new venture?
(4) We report here that two other members of this peptide family, rat growth hormone-releasing factor and helodermin H38, a component of Gila monster venom, also increase the rate of dopa synthesis, while glucagon-like peptides I and II and a number of other peptides tested produce no effect.
(5) One of the other studies, not written by Preece, used the word "monster" in its title, unusual language for a scientific report.
(6) Perhaps monstering earns underdog sympathy, with contempt for the press as rife as contempt for conventional politics.
(7) While Mind Candy tries to crack it, Smith said it remains committed to the web-based virtual world that started off the Moshi Monsters phenomenon – "the beating heart of the property" – despite changing habits of children.
(8) He warned that the US federal reserve would need to pull the lever on "monster" quantitative easing [QE]".
(9) I certainly wouldn't have been able to tell you the difference between palaeontologists searching for ancient bones, and the search for the Loch Ness Monster.
(10) The £150m black hole over iPlayer and playback-watching is a monster problem at the very time it’s being solved as George and Tony trade.
(11) Like Dr Frankenstein increasing the dose until the monster comes to life.
(12) The multiple manifestations of systemic lupus erythematosus recall the ancient Greek monster the Hydra.
(13) Cotto is probably at the head of the queue but there are other intriguing options, including the monster of the division, the unbeaten Gennady Golovkin, and Chris Eubank Jr, who looked good stopping the former Saunders victim, Gary “Spike” O’Sullivan in London on 12 December – or even a rematch with Lee.
(14) The game also makes a lot of mileage out of building up razor-sharp tension, reducing the soundtrack to footfalls and creaking doors and then having horrific monsters amble into view as though this is the natural state of things.
(15) Five increasingly anionic variants (Pa1-Pa5) of Ca2+-dependent phospholipase A2 were purified to homogeneity from the venom of the lizard Heloderma suspectum (Gila monster).
(16) The attribution of sympathy became the creative battle in the making of Monster.
(17) The latter is somewhat under the radar for the wider games industry, but Despicable Me: Minion Rush (to give its full title) is something of a mobile monster: 100m downloads in three months on iOS and Android earlier this year.
(18) Following his role in Gods and Monsters, McKellen went on to shoot what would prove his most popular role, as Gandalf in the Oscar-winning Lord of the Rings trilogy .
(19) The club’s new president, Bruno de Carvalho, has denounced as a “menace” and “monster” the funds to whom majority stakes in almost the club’s entire squad were sold before he was elected in March 2013 and he vowed to end the practice.
(20) Indeed, continually depicting Muslims as the supreme evil - even when compared to the west's worst monsters - is par for Harris' course, as when he inveighed : Unless liberals realize that there are tens of millions of people in the Muslim world who are far scarier than Dick Cheney, they will be unable to protect civilization from its genuine enemies."