(a.) Subject to death; destined to die; as, man is mortal.
(a.) Destructive to life; causing or occasioning death; terminating life; exposing to or deserving death; deadly; as, a mortal wound; a mortal sin.
(a.) Fatally vulnerable; vital.
(a.) Of or pertaining to the time of death.
(a.) Affecting as if with power to kill; deathly.
(a.) Human; belonging to man, who is mortal; as, mortal wit or knowledge; mortal power.
(a.) Very painful or tedious; wearisome; as, a sermon lasting two mortal hours.
(n.) A being subject to death; a human being; man.
Example Sentences:
(1) Perinatal mortality is strongly associated with obstetrical factors, respiratory distress syndrome, and prematurity.
(2) This study compares the mortality of U.S. white males with that of Swedish males who have had the highest reported male life expectancies in the world since the early 1960s.
(3) Life expectancy and the infant mortality rate are considered more useful from an operational perspective and for comparisons than is the crude death rate because they are not influenced by age structure.
(4) The LD50 of the following metal-binding chelating drugs, EDTA, diethylenetriaminepentaacetic acid (DTPA), hydroxyethylenediaminetriacetic acid (HEDTA), cyclohexanediaminotetraacetic acid (CDTA) and triethylenetetraminehexaacetic acid (TTHA) was evaluated in terms of mortality in rats after intraperitoneal administration and was found to be in the order: CDTA greater than EDTA greater than DTPA greater than TTHA greater than HEDTA.
(5) Importantly, these characteristics were strong predictors of subsequent mortality.
(6) There appears to be no risk of morbidity or mortality.
(7) The introduction of intravenous, high-dose thrombolytic therapy during a brief period has markedly reduced mortality of patients with acute myocardial infarction.
(8) The hospital mortality was 2.4% in group A and 2.6% in group B.
(9) The mortality data were derived from the reports by Miyagi Prefectural Government.
(10) The medium time of admission (8.98 vs 9.5 days) and mortality rate (6.3% vs 7.1%) did not change.
(11) Our results underline the importance of patient-related factors in MVR, and indicate that care is needed in comparing the quality of MVR from different institutions with respect to mortality and morbidity.
(12) It was found that preterm infants (delivered before 38 weeks of gestation) had nine times the early neonatal mortality of term infants, irrespective of growth retardation patterns.
(13) High mortality, severe destruction of pancreatic B-cells and presence of sporadic mononuclear infiltrations in islets and around excretory ducts were observed.
(14) As many girls as boys receive primary and secondary education, maternal mortality is lower and the birth rate is falling .
(15) In contrast, the association of serum cholesterol with mortality due to causes other than coronary heart disease changed during follow-up (interaction of cholesterol with follow-up period: p = 0.004).
(16) Mortality, blood clearance and organ distribution of 125I labelled Escherichia coli were determined.
(17) In Stage II patients, chemotherapy has an impact on disease mortality for ER-positive and ER-negative premenopausal women and possibly ER-negative postmenopausal patients.
(18) It was found that there was a substantial increase in mortality rates in the area under the jets where there was large noise radiation.
(19) The positive predictive accuracy of a biophysical profile score of 0, with mortality and morbidity used as end points, was 100%.
(20) We conclude that heparin plus AT III partially prevents the endotoxin-induced generation of PAI activity which seems to correlate with the reduced presence of fibrin deposits in kidneys and with a reduced mortality.
Prominent
Definition:
(a.) Standing out, or projecting, beyond the line surface of something; jutting; protuberant; in high relief; as, a prominent figure on a vase.
(a.) Hence; Distinctly manifest; likely to attract attention from its size or position; conspicuous; as, a prominent feature of the face; a prominent building.
(a.) Eminent; distinguished above others; as, a prominent character.
Example Sentences:
(1) These studies led to the following conclusions: (a) all the prominent NHP which remain bound to DNA are also present in somewhat similar proportions in the saline-EDTA, Tris, and 0.35 M NaCl washes of nuclei; (b) a protein comigrating with actin is prominent in the first saline-EDTA wash of nuclei, but present as only a minor band in the subsequent washes and on washed chromatin; (c) the presence of nuclear matrix proteins in all the nuclear washes and cytosol indicates that these proteins are distributed throughout the cell; (d) a histone-binding protein (J2) analogous to the HMG1 protein of K. V. Shooter, G.H.
(2) Findings on plain X-ray of the abdomen, using the usual parameters of psoas and kidney shadows in the Nigerian, indicate that the two communities studied are similar but urinary calculi and urinary tract distortion are significantly more prominent in the community with the higher endemicity of urinary schistosomiasis.
(3) In some experiments heart rate and minute ventilation (central vactors) appear to be the dominant cues for rated perceived exertion, while in others, local factors such as blood lactate concentration and muscular discomfort seem to be the prominent cues.
(4) These findings may not indicate a redistribution of renal blood flow through resistance changes in specific parts of the renal vasculature but may represent the consequences of focal cortical ischaemia, most prominent in the outer cortex.
(5) Phospholipid changes occurring at later stages in the lytic cycle of infected bacteria are more prominent than those at earlier time intervals.
(6) Although the brain AP50 is prominently phosphorylated by an endogenous protein kinase in isolated coated vesicle preparations, the neuronal AP50 was not detectably phosphorylated in intact cells as assessed by two-dimensional non-equilibrium pH gradient gel electrophoresis of labeled cells dissolved directly in SDS-containing buffers.
(7) T-cell lymphopenia with B-cell lymphocytosis was a prominent feature.
(8) We treated a 62-year-old man with intermittent polyarthritis whose neck pain was prominent.
(9) Evidence is presented which suggests that these plasmid-mediated, temperature-inducible surface fibrillae are responsible for autoagglutination and are related to production of one prominent, Sarkosyl-insoluble polypeptide of ca.
(10) ERGs of high amplitude and of normal wave form were recordable with prominent oscillatory potentials.
(11) Moreover, a prominent reduction in serum Apo A-1 was found in dialysed diabetic patients.
(12) Can somebody who is not a billionaire, who stands for working families, actually win an election into which billionaires are pouring millions of dollars?” Naming prominent and controversial rightwing donors, he said: “It is not just Hillary, it is the Koch brothers, it is Sheldon Adelson.” Stephanopoulos seized the moment, asking: “Are you lumping her in with them?” Choosing to refer to the 2010 supreme court decision that removed limits on corporate political donations, rather than address the question directly, Sanders replied: “What I am saying is that I get very frightened about the future of American democracy when this becomes a battle between billionaires.
(13) Urinary urate crystalluria was prominent in each infant in the first few days after the onset of diuresis, during which normal serum urate concentrations and normal renal function were established.
(14) Prominent use-dependent depression of Vmax was noted.
(15) The gastrocolic response of monkeys to feeding is most prominent in the right and transverse colon in both duration and frequency of contractions.
(16) "I know the man, and I know he betrays everyone who gets close to him," said one prominent Lebanese politician.
(17) (A later mayor rose to prominence as one of her prosecutors: Rudy Giuliani.)
(18) All the iodinated proteins except the very prominently labeled high molecular weight protein (greater than 200,000 daltons) were located in a fraction identified enzymically and compositionally as plasma membrane.
(19) The inhibitory effect on the PHA response, however, was less prominent.
(20) The terminal web was prominent and the lateral plasma membranes were highly interdigitated.