(a.) Of, pertaining to, or having to do with, the art of healing disease, or the science of medicine; as, the medical profession; medical services; a medical dictionary; medical jurisprudence.
(a.) Containing medicine; used in medicine; medicinal; as, the medical properties of a plant.
Example Sentences:
(1) Without medication atypical ventricular tachycardia develops, in the author's opinion, most probably when bradycardia has persisted for a prolonged period.
(2) A group of interested medical personnel has been identified which has begun to work together.
(3) This may have significant consequences for people’s health.” However, Prof Peter Weissberg, medical director of the British Heart Foundation, which funded the work, said medical journals could no longer be relied on to be unbiased.
(4) The rash presented either as a pityriasis rosea-like picture which appeared about three to six months after the onset of treatment in patients taking low doses, or alternatively, as lichenoid plaques which appeared three to six months after commencement of medication in patients taking high doses.
(5) We attribute this in part to early diagnosis by computed tomography (CT), but a contributory factor may be earlier referrals from country centres to a paediatric trauma centre and rapid transfer, by air or road, by medical retrieval teams.
(6) Unfortunately, due to confidentiality clauses that have been imposed on us by the Department of Immigration and Border Protection, we are unable to provide our full names and … titles … However, we believe the evidence that will be submitted will validate the statements that we are making in this submission.” The submission detailed specific allegations – including names and dates – of sexual abuse of child detainees, violence and bullying of children, suicide attempts by children and medical neglect.
(7) The effects of sessions, individual characteristics, group behavior, sedative medications, and pharmacological anticipation, on simple visual and auditory reaction time were evaluated with a randomized block design.
(8) It is the oldest medical journal in South America and the second in antiquity published in Spanish, after the Gaceta de México.
(9) In this study, the role of psychological make-up was assessed as a risk factor in the etiology of vasospasm in variant angina (VA) using the Cornell Medical Index (CMI).
(10) In a climate in which medical staffs are being sued as a result of their decisions in peer review activities, hospitals' administrative and medical staffs are becoming more cautious in their approach to medical staff privileging.
(11) Surgical repair of the rheumatologic should however, is performed rarely, and should be reserved for the infrequent cases that do not respond to medical therapy.
(12) In the past, the interpretation of the medical findings was hampered by a lack of knowledge of normal anatomy and genital flora in the nonabused prepubertal child.
(13) The results of the evaluation confirm that most problems seen by first level medical personnel in developing countries are simple, repetitive, and treatable at home or by a paramedical worker with a few safe, essential drugs, thus avoiding unnecessary visits to a doctor.
(14) Basing the prediction of student performance in medical school on intellective-cognitive abilities alone has proved to be more pertinent to academic achievement than to clinical practice.
(15) 278 children with bronchial asthma were medically, socially and psychologically compared to 27 rheumatic and 19 diabetic children.
(16) The authors empirically studied the self-medication hypothesis of drug abuse by examining drug effects and motivation for drug use in 494 hospitalized drug abusers.
(17) In choosing between various scanning techniques the factors to be considered include availability, cost, the type of equipment, the expertise of the medical and technical staff, and the inherent capabilities of the system.
(18) Inadequate treatment, caused by a lack of drugs and poorly trained medical attendants, is also a major problem.
(19) Medication remained effective during the average observation time of 22 months.
(20) Suggested is a carefully prepared system of cycling videocassettes, to effect the dissemination of current medical information from leading medical centers to medical and paramedical people in the "bush".
Priapism
Definition:
(n.) More or less permanent erection and rigidity of the penis, with or without sexual desire.
Example Sentences:
(1) A new surgical procedure for idiopathic priapism has been used successfully in patients.
(2) A simple method is presented to prevent recurrent tumescence after initial treatment of priapism, irrespective of the etiology.
(3) The mechanism of priapism remained unclear but imbalance of the autonomic nervous system may be a involved.
(4) The authors report two cases of arterial or "high-flow" priapism that were successfully treated with selective transcatheter embolization with autologous clot.
(5) Type II ("high flow priapism") is characterized by arterial hyperperfusion.
(6) If unsuccessful, the choice between pharmacological detumescence (new treatment for priapism) and surgery depends from both the physiopathological mechanisms and mainly the severity of the cavernous tissular suffering.
(7) Nevertheless, in the present series only 3 patients had irreversible damage of cavernosal function as a sequela of priapism of more than 24 h duration.
(8) When possible, the underlying cause of the priapism should be identified.
(9) A case of transitional cell carcinoma of the prostate with penile metastases and priapism is presented.
(10) Administration should be restricted to urologists able to manage the possible complication of priapism.
(11) During the 8 years since inception of a home total parenteral nutrition program in 35 male patients 2 suffered priapism related temporally to the weekly intravenous infusion of 20 per cent fat emulsion.
(12) The dose of metaraminol ranged from 10 to 25 micrograms, much less than that required for the treatment of vasodilator-induced priapism.
(13) The mechanism of phenothiazine=induced priapism is hypothesized as being related to its peripheral adrenergic blockade, perhaps directly blocking the sympathetic impulse for detumescence, although a central nervous system effect must be considered as well.
(14) The patient had priapism and further hematologic evaluation revealed a glucose phosphate isomerase deficiency.
(15) The case is unusual in that most cases of priapism in Nigeria are associated with sickle cell disease and this one was not.
(16) Metastases to the penis from renal cell carcinoma producing priapism are very rare, as only 18 cases have been described since 1964.
(17) We report a case of priapism in a patient with philadelphia positive chronic granulocytic leukemia.
(18) In a therapeutic attempt on an 18-year-old patient with iatrogenic priapism lasting for more than 2 weeks after internal urethrotomy, intracavernous lysis was commenced with 80,000 IU streptokinase per hour.
(19) No patient had priapism, corporeal fibrosis or other serious complications.
(20) Although the mechanism responsible for phenothiazine-induce priapism has as yet not been elucidated, it has been suggested that this might be due to adrenergic block which directly inhibits the sympathetic impulse of detumescence.