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Necessitous


Definition:

  • (a.) Very needy or indigent; pressed with poverty.
  • (a.) Narrow; destitute; pinching; pinched; as, necessitous circumstances.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Rapid overgrowth of all cultures with the E. coli necessitated the use of selective media containing antimicrobial agents to which the E. coli was sensitive.
  • (2) There were two postoperative stomal prolapses, one of which necessitated reoperation.
  • (3) Since the early 1960's nasotracheal tubes have been used for neonates with primary respiratory diseases which necessitated positive pressure ventilation.
  • (4) The presence of vital and sensitive organs such as the spinal cord, heart, and lungs makes curative radiotherapy of non-small cell lung cancer difficult to implement and necessitates use of oblique portals.
  • (5) An epidemiological survey carried out in 460 public and private institutions chosen at random country-wide in France made it possible to study injuries whose treatment had necessitated an anaesthetic.
  • (6) Judging from available clinical studies, surgical fusion operations may be useful in properly selected patients with spondylolisthesis or in situations for which the surgical approach has necessitated destabilization by laminectomy and facetectomy.
  • (7) Side effects of carbenoxolone therapy were observed, but they did not necessitate withdrawal of the drug and were readily controlled in every instance.
  • (8) The presence of severe pulmonary disease is the critical factor that might necessitate a staged repair.
  • (9) The influence of preanalytical factors such as food intake, posture, use of tourniquet and freezing and storing samples is great and necessitates standardisation of specimen collection.
  • (10) In the others, serum PTH remained elevated and subsequent symptomatic hypercalcaemia necessitated parathyroidectomy.
  • (11) Shaping and fine working of restorations necessitated by cervical lesions, abrasions at the necks of teeth, or root surface caries can often be arduous to complete.
  • (12) The surgical removal of branchiomeric paragangliomas necessitates preparation of a small saphenous vein bypass in case it is not possible to avoid sacrificing the internal carotid artery.
  • (13) Two patients had mild pancreatitis, which necessitated endoscopic sphincterotomy in one.
  • (14) Reoperation was more frequent after valve replacement with bioprostheses (6.7% per patient year) than after valvuloplasty (4.3% per patient year) and after mechanical valve replacement (1.5% per patient year; P less than 0.02), and was necessitated mainly by residual or recurrent valve dysfunction after valvuloplasty, bland or infected periprosthetic leaks in mechanical valves and degradation of bioprostheses.
  • (15) Estimation of pairwise connectivity is the most common method of determining the neural 'network' but usually necessitates the production of numerous histograms for each pair considered.
  • (16) These lesions might necessitate further surgical treatment as possibly total joint prosthesis.
  • (17) The diagnostic criteria of potentially fatal asthma included at least one of the following four potentially fatal asthma events: 1) mechanical ventilation for respiratory arrest or failure, 2) acute respiratory acidosis that did not necessitate mechanical ventilation, 3) two episodes of acute pneumomediastinum or pneumothorax associated with status asthmaticus, 4) two or more hospitalizations for status asthmaticus in spite of long term oral corticosteroids.
  • (18) The recent discovery of the existence of a second mouse TSP gene necessitates careful examination of the discrete biochemical and functional properties associated with each molecule.
  • (19) Thirteen cases were considered medical treatment failures, and 11 necessitated therapeutic surgery.
  • (20) The classic scoliosis was resistant to brace treatment; bracing failed in 70% of patients, necessitating spinal fusion.

Poor


Definition:

  • (superl.) Destitute of property; wanting in material riches or goods; needy; indigent.
  • (superl.) So completely destitute of property as to be entitled to maintenance from the public.
  • (superl.) Destitute of such qualities as are desirable, or might naturally be expected
  • (superl.) Wanting in fat, plumpness, or fleshiness; lean; emaciated; meager; as, a poor horse, ox, dog, etc.
  • (superl.) Wanting in strength or vigor; feeble; dejected; as, poor health; poor spirits.
  • (superl.) Of little value or worth; not good; inferior; shabby; mean; as, poor clothes; poor lodgings.
  • (superl.) Destitute of fertility; exhausted; barren; sterile; -- said of land; as, poor soil.
  • (superl.) Destitute of beauty, fitness, or merit; as, a poor discourse; a poor picture.
  • (superl.) Without prosperous conditions or good results; unfavorable; unfortunate; unconformable; as, a poor business; the sick man had a poor night.
  • (superl.) Inadequate; insufficient; insignificant; as, a poor excuse.
  • (superl.) Worthy of pity or sympathy; -- used also sometimes as a term of endearment, or as an expression of modesty, and sometimes as a word of contempt.
  • (superl.) Free from self-assertion; not proud or arrogant; meek.
  • (n.) A small European codfish (Gadus minutus); -- called also power cod.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) There was appreciable variation in toothbrush wear among subjects, some reducing their brush to a poor state in 2 weeks whereas with others the brush was rated as "good" after 10 weeks.
  • (2) However, medicines have an important part to play, and it is now generally agreed that for the very poor populations medicines should be restricted to those on an 'essential drugs list' and should be made available as cheaply as possible.
  • (3) Inadequate treatment, caused by a lack of drugs and poorly trained medical attendants, is also a major problem.
  • (4) Clonazepam was added to the treatment of patients with poorly controlled epilepsy in a double-blind trial and an open trial.
  • (5) "There is a serious risk that a deal will be agreed between rich countries and tax havens that would leave poor countries out in the cold.
  • (6) The dangers caused by PM10s was highlighted in the Rogers review of local authority regulatory services, published in 2007, which said poor air quality contributed to between 12,000 and 24,000 premature deaths each year.
  • (7) Maybe the world economy goes tits up again, only this time we punish the rich instead of the poor.
  • (8) Poor radioresponders of glioblastoma with CEA should be reoperated.
  • (9) Poor lipophilicity and extremely low plasma concentrations impose severe constraints.
  • (10) However, each of the studies had numerous methodological flaws which biased their results against finding a relationship: either their outcome measures had questionable validity, their research designs were inappropriate, or the statistical analyses were poorly conceived.
  • (11) Symptoms were poorly localized in all these IPS osteomyelitis patients.
  • (12) Prognosis of patients with these autonomic failures is poor.
  • (13) All patients in Stages I and II (5 out of 26) who developed metastases had poorly differentiated (histological Type III) tumours.
  • (14) This study provides strong and unexpected evidence that one admission to hospital of more than a week's duration or repeated admissions before the age of five years (in particular between six months and four years) are associated with an increased risk of behaviour disturbance and poor reading in adolescence.
  • (15) Patients were divided into two groups: poor outcome, defined by the death or a post-operative Karnofsky index less than or equal to 70 (n = 36), and good outcome defined by a Karnofsky index of 80 or more (n = 60).
  • (16) Improvement of its particularly poor prognosis requires therefore early screening based on reliable biological markers.
  • (17) It has a poor prognosis prior to the current combined treatment of surgical ablation, radiation to the surgical field, and chemotherapy for microscopic metastases.
  • (18) Photograph: AP Reasons for wavering • State relies on coal-fired electricity • Poor prospects for wind power • Conservative Democrat • Represents conservative district in conservative state and was elected on narrow margins Campaign support from fossil fuel interests in 2008 • $93,743 G K Butterfield (North Carolina) GK Butterfield, North Carolina.
  • (19) There were significant differences in the mean erythrocyte transketolase activity of the thiaminase excreting poor animals and the thiaminase free normal animals.
  • (20) In this material the ultrastructural details are very poorly preserved.

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