(1) The sacroiliac joints appear to be relatively noncontributory to problems following lumbar disk surgery.
(2) If special stains are noncontributory, the diagnosis may hinge on supporting evidence from a series of electron micrographs of a properly selected and prepared tumor.
(3) In most of these patients local signs were absent, laboratory investigations were noncontributory, and antibiotic treatment was ineffective.
(4) Although plain CT is usually considered noncontributory in the diagnosis of venous thrombosis, it enabled the differentiation of recent thrombus in these four patients.
(5) Computed tomography has proved most helpful in the initial evaluation of this disorder, especially as roentgenographic plain films have been essentially noncontributory in the past.
(6) No obvious local or systemic etiology was found in our series, and follow-up of 2 to 5 years has been noncontributory.
(7) All the other markers remained negative in both conditions and were thus noncontributory for differentiating xanthoma disseminatum from histiocytosis X.
(8) Otherwise, this view was either noncontributory (95%), of doubtful assistance (3%), or misleading (1%).
(9) Cochlear and labyrinthine studies and neurologic investigations were noncontributory.
(10) In the evaluation of a patient suspected of having lymphoma, lymphocyte marker studies may be essential for a correct diagnosis, helpful but not essential, or entirely noncontributory, depending on the specific clinical setting and histological differential diagnosis.
(11) Diagnosis in all patients was entirely clinical, and serologic investigations were noncontributory.
(12) We conclude from this study that ultracytochemistry is very useful in providing definitive diagnosis and accurate subclassification of some AML FAB M-1 cases, particularly when light microscopic cytochemistry, cytogenetics, and flow cytometric markers are noncontributory.
(13) Faulty needle placement was judged noncontributory in all but one case.
(14) Roentgenographic examinations were noncontributory.
(15) Angiography was noncontributory; computerized tomography (CT) was the main diagnostic test.
(16) Noncontributory data only occurred with cytogenetic analysis in cases that demonstrated normal karyotypes.
(17) Those patients with other infertility factors were included in the study only if the factors were correctable and ultimately determined to be noncontributory.
(18) All other dental findings were unremarkable and their medical histories were noncontributory.
(19) All diagnostic variables were evaluated in each case and were labeled essential, ambivalent, supportive, or noncontributory.
(20) Past medical history was noncontributory with the exception of a bicycle accident at age eight, which resulted in minor facial trauma.
Pension
Definition:
(n.) A payment; a tribute; something paid or given.
(n.) A stated allowance to a person in consideration of past services; payment made to one retired from service, on account of age, disability, or other cause; especially, a regular stipend paid by a government to retired public officers, disabled soldiers, the families of soldiers killed in service, or to meritorious authors, or the like.
(n.) A certain sum of money paid to a clergyman in lieu of tithes.
(n.) A boarding house or boarding school in France, Belgium, Switzerland, etc.
(v. t.) To grant a pension to; to pay a regular stipend to; in consideration of service already performed; -- sometimes followed by off; as, to pension off a servant.
Example Sentences:
(1) The 36-year-old teacher at an inner-city London primary school earns £40,000 a year and contributes £216 a month to her pension.
(2) Adding a layer of private pensions, it was thought, does not involve Government mechanisms and keeps the money in the private sector.
(3) We know that several hundred thousand investors are likely to want to access their pension pots in the first weeks and months after the start of the new tax year.
(4) But the amount of time spent above SPA has differed substantially between men and women due to women both living longer, and reaching state pension age earlier.
(5) Critics of wind power peddle the same old myths about investment in new energy sources adding to families' fuel bills , preferring to pick a fight with people concerned about the environment, than stand up to vested interests in the energy industry, for the hard-pressed families and pensioners being ripped off by the energy giants.
(6) The chancellor confirmed he would bring in a welfare cap of £119.5bn, with the state pension and unemployment benefits exempted from this.
(7) "Their prioritising of pensioner spending over unemployment benefits fits with a picture seen across this generational work: they care about groups they see as being in genuine need and they put particular emphasis on helping those who have contributed."
(8) Pensioners, like those in receipt of long-term social welfare payments or those who can prove they cannot provide their heating needs during winter, are entitled to a means-tested weekly winter fuel allowance of €20 (£ 14.54) per household.
(9) Energy UK said the help offered by its members to pensioners and low-income households was the equivalent of giving shoppers £135 per year.
(10) Rule-abiding parents can get a monthly stipend, extra pension benefits when they are older, preferential hospital treatment, first choice for government jobs, extra land allowances and, in some case, free homes and a tonne of free water a month.
(11) Tata Steel, the owner of Britain’s largest steel works in Port Talbot, is in talks with the government about a similar restructuring for the British Steel pension scheme , which has liabilities of £15bn.
(12) "Statistics released today show that three-quarters of people who apply for employment and support allowance are continuing to be found either fit for work or stop their claim before completing their medical assessment," said the Department for Work and Pensions.
(13) I am one of those retired civil servants who has not received my pension.
(14) Applications from Serbia, which account for 10% of the total, stem mostly from the dissolution of former Yugoslavia: payment of army reservists, access to savings in present-day Bosnia and Herzegovina, pensions in Kosovo.
(15) Arcadia’s pension deficit was measured at £190m in the company’s accounts for the year to August 2015, but is understood to have grown substantially since then.
(16) It combined regular interviews with a study of the impact on each household of benefit changes, pension reforms, social care cuts and fuel price increases.
(17) "We believe BAE's earnings could stagnate until the middle of this decade," said Goldman, which was also worried that performance fees on a joint fighter programme in America had been withheld by the Pentagon, and the company still had a yawning pension deficit.
(18) Colleagues involved in similar Telegraph stings this week included Michael Moore, the Scottish secretary, Ed Davey, a business minister, and Steve Webb, the pensions minister.
(19) At the end of the article the Department for Work and Pensions is quoted as saying that it’s “misleading to link food bank use to benefit delays and sanctions”.
(20) I think it would have been appropriate and right and respectful of people’s feelings to have done so.” There was also confusion over Labour policy sparked by conflicting comments made by Corbyn and his new shadow work and pensions secretary, Owen Smith.