(n.) A remedy for all diseases; a universal medicine; a cure-all; catholicon; hence, a relief or solace for affliction.
(n.) The herb allheal.
Example Sentences:
(1) Because of a reduction in cancelled cycles, patients might reduce their total costs in time and gonadotrophin used, however this treatment is not a panacea for the true low order responder.
(2) The present tendency to consider the psychiatrists as a panacea and, therefore, able to solve all the problems of today's man is discussed.
(3) While planing is not a panacea for the premalignant skin, this study suggests that it is of prophylactic value in the control of this condition in a reasonable proportion of cases.
(4) Although certain naivete about the likely panacea property of Cy occurred early, major adjustments in the original immunosuppressive protocol were required and included the use of rescue ATG, the measurement of Cy levels in the blood, the use of less Cy, and the perioperative avoidance of Cy.
(5) Almost daily a new method of weight reduction appears as a panacea for a weight conscious public.
(6) Although by themselves hospital systems are no panacea in dealing with the challenges facing hospitals today, many such arrangements offer more opportunities than problems in coping with the rapid changes currently facing the health care industry.
(7) No single type of prevention program should be viewed as a panacea, and a comprehensive system of programs will undoubtedly be needed.
(8) In the treatment of rotatory instability of the knee, no single approach has proved to be a panacea.
(9) At the outset, the concept of team care was suggested not as a panacea but perhaps as a better approach to acquiring help in areas of expertise not held by the physician.
(10) Cummings says they may have produced better results but "they are no panacea and the successes of a small number of brilliant organisations are not necessarily scaleable".
(11) Newer agents have been accompanied by a great deal of interest and hope but fail to be the panacea or "cure."
(12) At the same time, it is not the intent of this article to imply that the use of elastomer polymers is the panacea for all prosthodontic problems or that fundamental principles can be neglected.
(13) Public health can articulate this to a public sector which has been seduced by the over-extended promise of nudge, which has its place but is not a panacea and the counsel of despair that we can't plan long-term.
(14) While interpretation of transference is neither a panacea nor uniquely mutative with adolescents and young adults, the authors believe it has an important role to play in expressive psychotherapy if used judiciously and with foresight.
(15) This program has been in not, however, been a panacea for all residents.
(16) CBT and exercise have their disciples, but clearly aren’t panaceas.
(17) With patience and careful evaluation,,the correct place for the procedure will be found and, though it is not quite the panacea once claimed for patients with coronary artery disease, aortocoronary bypass surgery will remain an important and valuable therapeutic tool, perhaps the most significant development in cardiovascular treatment of the past decade.
(18) Clearly, with today's technology, IVF-ET is not a panacea of infertility, but in selected cases it may provide a child where other forms of therapy have failed.
(19) We will have to be much more creative in aligning resources across these boundaries as the Barker Commission recommended but integration alone is not a panacea.” Osborne : “The purse will never be as big as the aspiration, but I think the best protection for the sector lies in us all working together to recognise and support what is an outstanding workforce.
(20) In particular, I would like to encourage a more widespread and explicit recognition of the special merits of the mobile barrier type of mechanism (Mitchell, 1957, 1987), not as a panacea, but to explain the translocation of the characteristically hydrophilic and somewhat bulky solutes that are the main substrates of solute porters and of some osmoenzymes in bacterial membranes.
Personification
Definition:
(n.) The act of personifying; impersonation; embodiment.
(n.) A figure of speech in which an inanimate object or abstract idea is represented as animated, or endowed with personality; prosopop/ia; as, the floods clap their hands.
Example Sentences:
(1) He was a convert to Islam and the personification of Black Pride.
(2) And surviving that moment of iconoclasm early on 9 May , the personification of Labour’s failure.
(3) Alien limb sign includes failure to recognise ownership of one's limb when visual cues are removed, a feeling that one body part is foreign, personification of the affected body part, and autonomous activity which is perceived as outside voluntary control.
(4) This found its personification in the disappointing Ross Barkley, whose burst from near his area before an awry pass was indicative of his contribution throughout.
(5) Ahmed Wali Karzai , who was gunned down in his home in Kandahar by a bodyguard, was in many ways the personification of modern-day Afghanistan – corrupt, treacherous, lawless, paradoxical, subservient and charming.
(6) The abundant data indicate that the shamanistic priest, who was highly placed in the stratified society, guided the souls of the living and dead, provided for the transmutation of souls into other bodies and the personification of plants as possessed by human spirits, as well as performing other shamanistic activities.
(7) The presenters' personification of nursing leadership and management concepts, as well as the descriptions of specific "how to" strategies, provided a valuable ingredient for reinforcing the theoretical concepts.
(8) In the same breath, my body cannot bring itself to believe it is the personification of power, though it evidently is in any rational accountancy of social status.
(9) Nancy Pelosi , the Democratic minority leader, said Giffords was the "personification of courage".
(10) From this is abstracted the idea of 'father' both as a component of the self representation and as the personification of the urge towards continuing development.
(11) That potency was intensified by the media’s eagerness to style him as the personification of Isis malevolence.
(12) In a matter of days Erdoğan has become the personification of all the corrupt despotism and violence of the old Kemalist Turkey he was elected to sweep away.
(13) There is also a concern that she has become the personification of Burmese democracy and this is dangerous.
(14) Simplified to a yellow skull on a shrouded body curved in an S shape, thin, serpentine hands against the emaciated cheeks and covering its ears, the personification of unhappiness stretches its mouth open in a vertical oval, and screams.
(15) Hokhma too was a victim of what might be called the "study-hall syndrome" – when a phalanx of scholarly men elected to write the personification of female wisdom out of the centre and into the margins.
(16) This Mason was Mr Elocution, if you like, the personification of affectation and lingering insult or innuendo.
(17) Cardiff huffed and puffed in response but a top-notch save by Adrián at Fraizer Campbell's expense denied them equality and Mark Noble, the personification of dreadnought spirit, doubled the margin with a smart finish in added time.
(18) Mr Cooke himself even described the late BCCI chairman Agha Abedi as "the living personification of Uriah Heep".
(19) One critic labelled him the "personification of the new amorality of avaricious, red-top, vulgar new Britain".
(20) I'd completely remove the personification in terms of the celebration.