(a.) Having the quality of injuring or killing; destructive; very mischievous; baleful; malicious; wicked.
(a.) Quick; swift (to burn).
Example Sentences:
(1) To investigate the possibility that an abnormality of gastric emptying exists in duodenal ulcer and to determine if such an abnormality persists after ulcer healing, scintigraphic gastric emptying measurements were undertaken in 16 duodenal ulcer patients before, during, and after therapy with cimetidine; in 12 patients with pernicious anemia, and in 12 control subjects.
(2) Urinary excretion of (60)Co radioactivity in pernicious anemia patients after oral administration of (60)Co-vitamin B(12) bound to freshly prepared (125)I-labeled IF was similar to that obtained with noniodinated intrinsic factor.
(3) Antibodies to parietal cells were found in 5 cases and 4 patients with pernicious anemia were detected.
(4) Reticulocytes of patients with pernicious anaemia on treatment and with haemolytic anaemia were shown to have higher folate levels than their corresponding mature cells.
(5) Immunofluorescence tests on 94 human sera reacting with rat gastric parietal cells revealed that 41 (44%) of the sera contained antibody to a rat parietal cell antigen that was distinct from the pernicious anaemia autoantigen.
(6) In pernicious anaemia the amount of enzyme is reduced and on this hypothesis the regulatory function impaired.
(7) Six patients without nervous system involvement had normal EEGs, 10 patients with spinal cord or peripheral nervous system involvement had normal or minimally abnormal EEGs, 17 of 19 patients with evidence of mental dysfunction had abnormal EEGs with the most consistent finding being an excess of theta slowing, and 19 patients with pernicious anemia and other neurologic diseases showed EEG findings reflecting the complicating disease process.
(8) This article details the pernicious odontostomatological effects provoked by antitumorous and immunosuppressive medication.
(9) This week, the resilience of Italy’s most pernicious problem – the mafia – was exposed once again when it was announced that Corleone’s town council was being dissolved by the order of Rome because it had been infiltrated by organised crime.
(10) Thus the Type A pattern of gastritis (autoimmune) seen in patients with pernicious anaemia is only rarely associated with Campylobacter like organisms.
(11) Thus, the processing of progastrin adjacent to the active site of gastrin is more restrictively controlled than N-terminal processing during G-cell hypersecretion associated with pernicious anemia.
(12) The early improvement in marrow morphology in patients with pernicious anaemia was greater with 1000 mug than with 5 mug doses of cyanocobalamin.
(13) They were found to have pernicious anemia (PA) and normal adrenal functions.
(14) The EEG was also a good indicator for detecting and confirming other intracranial disease processes unrelated to pernicious anemia.
(15) The endocrine tumours corresponded to the gastric carcinoids found in patients with long-lasting hypergastrinaemia due to pernicious anaemia or with a gastrinoma as part of the MEN I syndrome.
(16) Two vitiligo patients were hypergastrinaemic suggesting latent pernicious anaemia.
(17) 27 patients with pernicious anaemia, followed for a long period, were consecutively treated with three different vitamin B12 preparations, while during intervening period no therapy was given until signs of B12 deficiency developed.
(18) Sixteen control subjects, 13 patients with pernicious anaemia, and four who had had total gastrectomy were studied.
(19) And so while it’s particularly pernicious that some parents pay for months, sometimes years, of tutoring to get their child through an exam that they might well otherwise fail, I know it’s because they are desperate to secure for their child any extra benefit going in a country that is becoming ever more unequal.
(20) This policy, which prevents many travellers and overseas residents from benefitting from one of the most effective prophylactic treatments on the market today, thereby indirectly causing a number of pernicious cases of malaria, is based on the unfounded, unproved premise that wide use of this drug would foster the development of méfloquine-resistance or on side-effects, which are in fact rarely of any consequence and always curable.
Resolute
Definition:
(v. t. & i.) Having a decided purpose; determined; resolved; fixed in a determination; hence, bold; firm; steady.
(v. t. & i.) Convinced; satisfied; sure.
(v. t. & i.) Resolving, or explaining; as, the Resolute Doctor Durand.
(n.) One who is resolute; hence, a desperado.
(n.) Redelivery; repayment.
Example Sentences:
(1) Direct fetal digitalization led to a reduction in umbilical artery resistance, a decline in the abdominal circumference from 20.3 to 17.8 cm, and resolution of the ascites within 72 h. Despite this dramatic response to therapy, fetal death occurred on day 5 of treatment.
(2) Thyroid replacement led to resolution of both apnea and depression.
(3) Multiple overlapping thin 3D slab acquisition is presented as a magnitude contrast (time of flight) technique which combines advantages from multiple thin slice 2D and direct 3D volume acquisitions to obtain high-resolution cross-sectional images of vessel detail.
(4) The RNA polymerase activity was tested after the solubilization and chromatographic resolution of the three types of polymerases with exogenous template.
(5) Technical manipulations to improve resolution were time consuming and added little to the accuracy of the test.
(6) We are pleased to see the process moving forward and look forward to its resolution,” a Target spokeswoman, Molly Snyder, said in an emailed statement.
(7) It is commonly assumed that the visual resolution limit must be equal to or less than the Nyquist frequency of the cone mosaic.
(8) Limitations include the facts that the tracer inventory requires a minimal survival period, can only be done postmortem, and has low resolution for cuts of the vagal hepatic branch.
(9) There was immediate resolution of paresthesia following mobilization of the impinging vessel from the nerve.
(10) The probable reaction mechanisms prevailing in both cases are discussed in accordance with the low and high resolution mass spectral data presented.
(11) It is found that, whereas the spatial resolution achievable with such a system is only dependent upon its temporal resolution, the scattering characteristics of the tissue being imaged will strongly affect the ultimate imaging performance of such a system.
(12) After permeabilization, with attendant partial extraction, the preparation can be fixed, then viewed by either deep-etch replication, or by high-resolution scanning electron microscopy, with structure of interest revealed in deep view.
(13) The data collection scheme for the scanner uses multiple rotations of a linearly shifted, asymmetric fan beam permitting user-defined variable resolution.
(14) The model electron density map, calculated to a resolution of approximately 35 A, shows an unusually high protein content in the membranes.
(15) A technique is therefore described using 3-D images and reconstruction of high-resolution films, which allows rapid examination of the menisci in optimal planes.
(16) Analysis of Alu repeat polymorphism should be useful in construction of a high-resolution map and also in identifying genotypes of individuals for clinical and other purposes because the repeats are ubiquitous and the technique for their detection is simple.
(17) The most controversial part of the resolution is the stop and search powers.
(18) For application to mammalian cells, however, two serious problems require resolution: (1), correction of TPP+ binding to intracellular constituents and (2), estimation of the considerable TPP+ accumulation in mitochondria.
(19) Two high-resolution (Hi-Res) ECG systems (MAC-12, Marquette Electronics, Inc (MEI), Milwaukee, WI and LVP101, Arrhythmia Research Technology (ART), Austin, TX) were tested on 143 subjects (13 controls and 130 cardiac patients, 21 of whom were tested for inducible ventricular tachycardia [VT]).
(20) The spatial resolution of a NaI(T1), 25 mm thick bar detector designed for use in positron emission tomography has been studied.