(1) Various medical treatments had been tried with meager results.
(2) Because there is a growing interest in remarriage and the new types of families this social phenomenon creates, we became convinced that the meager number of articles and books in this area would be of interest to others.
(3) By 14 days, the damage to the eye in the my embryos can be quite extensive, and the deposition of glycosaminoglycans was very meager in this situation.
(4) The crisis is often mitigated by the development of collateral circulation, which is nevertheless of rather meager quality, such that the patients are very vulnerable to subsequent slight changes in cardiac output.
(5) This is the paradox that President Obama is facing this fall, as he appears to turn his back on a number of crucial and urgent domestic initiatives in order to spend all of his meager political capital on striking Syria.
(6) The existing body of knowledge concerning pharmacological issues in the Hispanic and Native American ethnic groups, however, is both meager and confusing.
(7) For example, the Pacers lost 107-97 , at home on Tuesday, in a game where their starting center Roy Hibbert's disappearing act reached nearly-comical levels as he racked up 0 points, 0 rebounds, 1 meager assist and four personal fouls in 12 minutes of playing time.
(8) While substrata from adult CNS, which support meager regeneration in vivo (adult rat spinal cord) support little fiber growth in culture.
(9) The humoral antibody response to S. typhi O, H, Vi, and lysate antigens in serum and intestinal fluid was meager.
(10) Microscopic sections of the failed grafts demonstrated meager tissue survival but no evidence of rejection by cellular infiltration.
(11) In nearly all other types of isolated thymic deficiency or combined immunodeficiency there has been only transient or meager restitution and more often than not complete failure.
(12) However, the data suggesting changes in androgen levels or androgen uptake with exercise are so meager and contradictory that no complete answer to any of these problems can yet be offered.
(13) Reliable information on embryonic and fetal development of the human oro-facial system is meager.
(14) The pathogenesis of these changes is unclear, the evidence for an immune complex mechanism meager, and the suggestion that the disease is mediated by a humoral mechanism remains to be explored.
(15) In an effort to add to the meager data on violence in the black community, the authors compiled the results of a victimization screening form obtained from a black outpatient psychiatric population.
(16) Using a hydroxylapatite exchange method for ER, little or no nuclear ER (ERN) could be detected, but with the EIA both cytosolic (ERC) and ERN were detected in almost all specimens, although in meager concentrations.
(17) Meager information exists regarding the morbidity of cancer surgery in obese patients, and it is generally assumed that surgery in the obese patient is attended with increased complications over those found in nonobese patients.
(18) Useful health statistics about the bulk of the population are almost totally lacking, and medical facilities left by the Portuguese are meager and concentrated in the largest towns and cities, with no provision at all for the majority of the population.
(19) There’s Breitbart, the “alt-right” Pepe brigade on Twitter and presumably some within the thinning ranks of his already meager executive branch.
(20) Sera from patients with LTh E. coli infection showed a prominent response with LTh, an intermediate response with LTp, and a meager response with CT. Of 47 persons with clinical LTh-producing E. coli (herein shortened to LTh E. coli) infections, significant rises in antitoxin were detected against LTh in 36 (77%), against LTp in 30 (64%), and against CT in only 13 (28%) patients; seroconversions also occurred in 11 of 14 (79%) patients with subclinical LTh E. coli infections.
Obsolete
Definition:
(a.) No longer in use; gone into disuse; disused; neglected; as, an obsolete word; an obsolete statute; -- applied chiefly to words, writings, or observances.
(a.) Not very distinct; obscure; rudimental; imperfectly developed; abortive.
(v. i.) To become obsolete; to go out of use.
Example Sentences:
(1) Individual tests and batteries of tests should be standardized, employ positive controls, generate results capable of quantitative analyses that may make dichotomous classification as "positive" and "negative" obsolete, be interpreted in light of mechanisms of action, and be cost-effective on a grand scale.
(2) This study suggests that pneumoencephalography may be obsolete and that the diagnosis of olivopontocerebellar degeneration may be established by abnormalities seen during computerized tomography (CT) and by abnormal responses to auditory-evoked potentials (AEPs).
(3) Genomic mapping is proceeding at such a rapid pace that any printed version of the anatomy of the human genome is immediately obsolete.
(4) Handheld computers may make bedside terminals obsolete.
(5) The ambulatory 24 hour pH test may have rendered the AP test obsolete in the assessment of GORD as the cause of NCCP.
(6) Rather than becoming obsolete by 2030, as its designers thought, the barrier will not need to be replaced until 2070, the agency said today.
(7) Will Netflix make traditional TV channels obsolete?
(8) Ratified in 1980, the document is widely seen as obsolete and part of what she hopes to change with her "democratic revolution" – a plan she says could be financed by higher corporation taxes and which works within the boundaries of a constitutional democracy.
(9) The advent of high-resolution contrast CT will probably make obsolete the use of contrast media.
(10) The time needed to review and publish an article or a book dictates that by the time it is published, any statements about current hardware will be obsolete.
(11) The term "fibrositis" for generalized tendomyopathia that can still be found in Anglo-American literature is obsolete.
(12) In all other patients the PAVS is a very valuable instrument in the surgical management of hydrocephalus because it makes shunt revisions for inadequate valve pressure obsolete in individual patients.
(13) The secondary nasal skin envelope asymmetries were studied after unilateral cleft lip repair using the original (obsolete) rotation-advancement (Millard I) and the triangular flap techniques (Bardach's modification).
(14) Gradually these young men and their would-be families become functionally obsolete in society.
(15) Finally, it is imperative that the obsolete Nigerian Children and Young Person's Law be updated.
(16) I do not accept that the great achievements of the left – unionisation, social security – are obsolete.
(17) Some daggers have already been drawn – François Rebsamen , said the revelations showed the entire idea of "première dame", was obsolete, adding that scrapping of the office of the first lady would be progress for democracy.
(18) Here we describe a new method of synthesizing an immunogenic peptide antigen, referred to as multiple antigenic peptide (MAP), which may render the need for a carrier protein obsolete.
(19) The TRH stimulation test is virtually obsolete for the diagnosis of thyrotoxicosis but remains of much interest in the investigation of psychiatric syndromes.
(20) It should be kept in mind that recent changes in OC formulations and use patterns render epidemiologic data now available obsolete.