(a.) Mixed; mingled; consisting of several things; of diverse sorts; promiscuous; heterogeneous; as, a miscellaneous collection.
Example Sentences:
(1) Other causes were 20 (13%) with cerebrovascular diseases, 30 (20%) hepatic failure and 11 (8%) were of miscellaneous and obscure causes.
(2) Twenty-three fruits, 33 vegetables, 41 grain products, 7 legumes, 4 nuts, and 9 miscellaneous foods were analyzed by an accurate chemical method to determine their dietary fiber content and composition.
(3) The social network remains a niche product, beloved by journalists, celebrities, and a hard core of miscellaneous obsessive users — but few others.
(4) This complete database integrated data from hospital functions such as demographic data obtained at patient registration, outpatient visits and tests, inpatient admission historical data, tests and procedures, newborn data and miscellaneous data required for birth registration.
(5) Mean packed cell quantities gained intraoperatively were: 1275 (1006-2067) ml (descending aortic aneurysm), 1800 (1186-2500) ml (ascending aortic aneurysm), 1524 (1030-1801) ml (single valve rereplacement), 1896 (1398-2368) ml (double valve rereplacement), 946 (800-1050) ml (coronary artery reoperation), 1362 (922-1455) ml (cyanotic heart disease) and 1519 (1194-2066) ml (miscellaneous cardiac operations).
(6) Anti-Sm antibodies were demonstrated in 40% of patients with systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE), in 12% of patients with SJögren's syndrome, in 6% of patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) and in 12% of patients with miscellaneous rheumatic disorders.
(7) The cats were grouped by category of disease (ie, renal disease, congestive heart failure, diabetes mellitus, focal neoplasia, systemic neoplasia, hepatopathy, inflammatory bowel disease, inflammatory pulmonary disease, miscellaneous diseases, or undiagnosed disease), degree of illness (ie, mild, moderate, or severe), survival (ie, lived, died, or euthanatized), and presence or absence of a palpable thyroid gland.
(8) The indications for surgery were: dysthyroid ophthalmopathy, fourth nerve palsy, monocular aphakia with strabismus and miscellaneous conditions.
(9) Among various miscellaneous inhibitors, quercetin, disulfiram, and the Ca-complexing agents arsenazo I and III showed marked activity, the latter exclusively on the arsenical-resistant T. brucei.
(10) Iron was also shown in the duodenal biopsies of 34 of 48 uraemic patients on oral iron supplements, but was present in only 22 of 120 patients endoscoped for miscellaneous conditions (p less than 0.001).
(11) Nine metabolic, behavioral, and miscellaneous conditions are reviewed with reference to six generally accepted screening criteria.
(12) The indications for mammography were a palpable mass in 454 (44.7%), findings at routine screening in 237 (23.3%), lumpiness in 29 (14.9%), unilateral nipple discharge in seven (3.5%), localized breast tenderness in six (5.1%), adenopathy in three (1.9%), diffuse tenderness in two (2.9%), bilateral nipple discharge in two (1.5%), and miscellaneous in four (2.2%).
(13) The requests are classified as following: 74 pharmacological consults (39 about pregnancy, 9 for breast-feeding, 3 neonates or children, 2 about G6PD deficiency, 3 guide-lines after a therapeutic error, 3 requests for treatment of ADR, and 15 miscellaneous).
(14) Of 155 patients with a subsequently confirmed alternative condition, ultrasonography made the correct diagnosis in 140: bacterial ileocaecitis (69), mesenteric lymphadenitis (eight), gynaecological conditions (34), urological conditions (eight), caecal diverticulitis (six), perforated peptic ulcer (six), Crohn's disease (two) and miscellaneous conditions (seven).
(15) The remainder were miscellaneous complications, 6.9%.
(16) These masses were classified into three broad categories: centrally necrotic masses with a large predominantly liquefactive center and higher density periphery (29); multilocular, septated masses with distinct linear bands or striations (21); and miscellaneous masses (9).
(17) Finally, several miscellaneous conditions, including cystic fibrosis, Menetrier's disease, and pancreatic exocrine insufficiency, may benefit from long-term H2-antagonist therapy.
(18) A propranolol-glucagon test was evaluated in 24 control normal children, 21 pituitary dwarfs, 15 patients with constitutional short stature, 2 with chromosome aberration and 4 with miscellaneous diseases.
(19) The natural colorant area can be subdivided into anthocyanins, betalains, chlorophylls, carotenoids, flavonoids, polyphenols, Monascus, hemes, quinones, biliproteins, safflower, turmeric, and miscellaneous.
(20) Arrhythmias were analyzed in 50 patients undergoing cardiac surgery: 27 with valve surgery, 15 with coronary artery bypass (CAB), 5 with CAB and valve surgery, and 3 with miscellaneous procedures.
Ragbag
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) Moreover, for all its recent adoption of the odd leftwing populist policy (its sudden opposition to the bedroom tax, for instance), Ukip is still a ragbag of free-marketeers and continuity Thatcherites who might bond with their voters thanks to their social conservatism and antipathy to immigration – but have little meaningful to say about the economic reality of their lives.
(2) The putative bill has already been dismissed as a "ragbag of retreats" by some of those MPs on select committee responsible for scrutinising the bill, in their view botching the reform of the dual legal and political roles of the attorney general.
(3) The paranoid police have pursued a homosexual witch-hunt on this issue, egged on by media, Labour MPs and a ragbag of internet fantasists.” Scotland Yard declined to comment on Proctor’s press conference, although detectives had previously issued a statement saying officers found Nick’s allegations to be “credible and true”.
(4) With the mainstream meekly united behind that lost cause, it is no surprise if voters hunt around for ragbag alternatives.
(5) ), speech pathology (what is the ragbag called "hypertenseness"?
(6) It was in fact a ragbag of policy reheats and vague aspirations, an acknowledgement of defeat and a sign of panic.
(7) Popularly viewed as a motley ragbag of racist colonialists, Vichy sympathisers, antisemites and oddball royalists, Le Pen’s party was dismissed as a nasty coalition of history’s losers.
(8) A primary school teacher by day, his debut show, Spontaneous Comedian (Pleasance) , is a lovely ragbag of absurd juxtapositions and left-field observations.
(9) The new bill covers a ragbag of anti-crime measures including new rules on the retention of the DNA profiles of the innocent, stronger powers to tackle antisocial behaviour, the scrapping of stop and search forms and the introduction of a licensing regime for private wheelclamping businesses.
(10) I wanted to back-project rigour but start with a ragbag."
(11) They bring a welcome voice of sanity after a disastrous failure of planning intelligence about how to make a coherent place out of this ragbag of parts.
(12) Their departure has left a ragbag of contenders doing battle for the bedsit record player turntable.
(13) The Ladykillers tells the story of a ragbag group of criminals, led by the scheming Professor Marcus, who lodge with Mrs Wilberforce while planning a bank heist.
(14) It seemed an almost comic ambition for a party that was then still – as its leader cheerfully conceded – a ragbag of embarrassing “eccentrics”.
(15) A follower of Gurdjieff , the Russian mystic who introduced the west to a ragbag of eastern mysticism in the first part of the 20th century, Travers was more interested in excavating the archetypes that underpinned esoteric Christianity than dreaming up nursery pap.
(16) The Tories dismiss the ragbag of clauses – from treaty ratification to demos in Parliament Square – as pointless and cynical displacement activity by a dying regime.
(17) Yet somewhere between these performances, the long-ago knowing innocence of Rita and the ragbag of grotesques in which TV has so often cast her, there is another Julie Walters.
(18) The measures have been dismissed as a "ragbag of retreats" by some MPs, botching reform of the role of the attorney general.
(19) A ragbag collection of footsoldiers in the self-proclaimed "People's Army" of Ukip is struggling to keep pace as Roger Helmer strides through the back streets of Bingham, a Nottinghamshire market town once named as the best place in Britain to raise a family.
(20) The current ragbag of foundation trust governors, lay members of CCGs and patient participation groups is inadequate and Stevens really should be requiring a better game on citizen engagement.