What's the difference between outset and stillborn?

Outset


Definition:

  • (n.) A setting out, starting, or beginning.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) From the outset, FK506 was used with low-dose steroids to treat 110 primary liver, 30 heart, and 66 kidney graft recipients.
  • (2) AIDS, having presented itself as a sporadic and ill defined entity, remained unrecognized in Central Africa until the outset of the present outbreak.
  • (3) "The absence of clear assessments of intended benefits at the outset of the projects means there is no baseline against which to measure achievements.
  • (4) Twenty-five percent of the patients had radiographic degenerative changes at the knee at the outset.
  • (5) From the outset the former Leicester University economics professor has made no secret of the fact this his “dysfunctional relationship” with Anastasiades and other central Bank board members had hindered his role in the post.
  • (6) In the meantime, Malaysia Airlines’ overwhelming focus will be the same as it has been from the outset – to provide the families with a comprehensive support programme.
  • (7) But this is fairly typical of the flat-footed and lackadaisical attitude that we’ve seen from the outset.
  • (8) Of this group, two had a single isolated episode of AF for which a specific precipitating factor was implicated, three had recurrent paroxysmal AF of which one progressed to chronic persistent AF, and three had chronic persistent AF from the outset.
  • (9) We had input from the company … We listened very carefully and thought about what they [BP] were saying.” From the outset, Wildsmith had made clear that the activist coalition she had been building since 2011 wished to create a “new normal” for shareholder resolutions.
  • (10) Initial evaluation, which included air and bone conduction audiometry, speech discrimination, electronystagmography (ENG), frequency of vertigo attacks per month, and disability, showed both groups to be comparable at the outset.
  • (11) In 3 cases of acrodermatitis enteropathica duodenal biopsy performed at the outset of treatment showed a similar abnormality of the intestinal mucosa.
  • (12) Patients who are not in shock and who are sufficiently strong to drink at the outset nearly always can be rehydrated with oral fluids alone.
  • (13) Philip French championed Boyle's career from the outset, describing his debut feature film, Shallow Grave , as "a good piece of storytelling... Hitchcock would have admired its ruthlessness and cruel humour."
  • (14) Ocado's float plan has been criticised from the outset, with analysts and institutional investors insisting the business was overvalued.
  • (15) Conceived in Washington DC during the Depression, the GNP (as it was then) was flawed from the outset.
  • (16) A model is proposed to guide empirical research aimed at identifying non-device users from the outset of treatment so that interventions to improve ATD use may be initiated or alternative interventions implemented.
  • (17) Orient, the League One leaders, dominated from the outset but paid for their profligacy in front of goal.
  • (18) It was obvious from the outset that Tulisa should never have had to go to court.
  • (19) All subjects completed body image measures at the outset of the study and 43 subjects completed measures again to determine trait stability of body image at 1 year.
  • (20) I suspect his lawyer advised him to back down and apologise at the outset, which would have been the cheapest and quickest solution, but it seems Wilmshurst has chosen to fight on despite all the adversities that the English justice system throws at him.

Stillborn


Definition:

  • (a.) Dead at the birth; as, a stillborn child.
  • (a.) Fig.: Abortive; as, a stillborn poem.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Aplasia of the trachea associated with multiple congenital anomalies is described in a stillborn male foetus with single umbilical artery.
  • (2) Among infants weighing less than 2 500 g, perinatal mortality was higher in the local hospital than in the university hospital, the higher mortality being due to the higher rate of stillborn infants.
  • (3) The presence or absence of the heterophile transplantation antigen was sought in renal tissue from stillborn infants, primary cell cultures, and several organs from adult human cadavers.
  • (4) Five normal infants were delivered by cesarean section, and one stillborn infant was delivered vaginally.
  • (5) A stillborn girl, with external signs of trisomy 18 syndrome, was subsequently shown to have a mosaic pattern in both the lymphocytes and the placenta.
  • (6) Two infants with previously abnormal or suspicious FAT, OCT, and intrapartum fetal heart tracings were stillborn.
  • (7) Three stillborn infants were assessed as SGA, even when gestational age was estimated from the last occasion when fetal heart sounds were registered.
  • (8) A stillborn male child with anencephaly and multiple malformations was found to have the karyotype 46,XY,r(13) (p11q21.1).
  • (9) The third fetus was mildly hydropic, attributed to hemorrhage, and was stillborn.
  • (10) In a total sample of 105 triploid spontaneous abortions and live-born and stillborn infants, the parental origin could be determined in 77%.
  • (11) This study ascertained 164 males with non-communicating hydrocephalus in live or stillborn patients in Victoria.
  • (12) Intravascular "mulberry-like" bodies in a stillborn female infant with moderate maceration are reported.
  • (13) An increase was also seen in the number of fetal resorptions and stillborn pups per number of implantation sites in the exposed specimens as compared to the sham and cage controls.
  • (14) Bacteriological and pathological examinations of all 73 stillborn infants and 96 infants dying soon after delivery in Västerås, Sweden during the period 1971-1974 are reported.
  • (15) The agalactic sows farrowed a larger number of stillborn piglets, which indicates an early establishment of the disease.
  • (16) A detailed examination of a stillborn fetus with Apert's syndrome showed several unexpected findings, which prompted a reevaluation of the heretofore generally accepted hypotheses regarding the cause of the dysmorphic craniofacial features in this syndrome.
  • (17) Abortions, stillborn calves, neonatal mortalities and excessive numbers of weak, slow-starting newborn have contributed to significant losses within the valuable breeding herds at the Roman L. Hruska U.S. Meat Animal Research Center.
  • (18) The strongest association was with exposure to stillborn kittens--11 of 51 cases vs. none of 102 controls (P less than .00000)--and with exposure to parturient cats (odds ratio, 10.3; 95% confidence interval, 3.5-31.8).
  • (19) A stillborn male with skeletal anomalies resembling achondrogenesis with remarkably sclerotic bones is reported.
  • (20) It is postulated that breathing alters lung-tissue elasticity during the neonatal period, as demonstrated by a significant increase in Vmax in specimens from foals breathing for more than 24 hr compared with those from stillborn foals or those aged less than 24 hr.

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