(1) The authors discuss the treatment of recurrent dislocation of the shoulder joint in a synthetic review of methods so far proposed and tried out; the they offer a critical description of the method currently representing the best one available according to their experience made at Milan's Istituto Ortopedico G. Pini.
(2) Healthy children are identified by a PINI value less than 1 whereas sick patients are characterized by a progressive rise above 1 as the conditions worsens.
(3) CRP, orosomucoid, albumin and prealbumin are considered the most valuable indicators; from their values the so-called PINI index can be calculated and the patients can be divided into five prognostic zones.
(4) We consider that the PINI index is useful as a predictive and evolutive parameter, and it can be used in children with a chronic illness.
(5) This study compared the efficacy of the PINI versus its individual determinants as potential prognostic indicators of infection or death in patients with burns.
(6) We have used the index proposed by Ingenbleek (PINI = prognostic inflammatory and nutritional index) in which nutritional scoreboards and biochemical inflammatories correlate.
(7) The patterns of correlation between PINI items and GRASP and Medicus scores indicated that these two classification systems do not measure nursing resource use in the same way.
(8) The psychometric assessment of a new measure of nursing intensity, The Patient Intensity for Nursing Index (PINI) is reported.
(9) The results of these measurements were used to calculate the prognostic inflammatory and nutritional index (PINI).
(10) PINI scores were significantly related to medical severity of illness, length of hospital stay, disposition at discharge, number of secondary medical diagnoses and specialty consults, and scores on three different hospital classification systems used for staffing.
(11) In one line they evolved into single-pored species such as R. pollinis-pini, then to Chytridium and tendochytrium-like chytrids and to polycentric chytrids such as Nowakowskiella and Cladochytrium.
(12) The clinical impression shows that the classification by groups of risk obtained according to the value of the PINI is very near to reality.
(13) Dosthistromin, an anthraquinone derivative produced by the pine-blight fungus, Dothistroma pini, inhibits the growth of Chlorella pyrenoidosa and Bacillus megaterium.
(14) The Prognostic Inflammatory and Nutritional Index (PINI = [alpha 1-acid glycoprotein x C-reactive protein] divided by [albumin x prealbumin]) has been proposed as a means of predicting morbidity or mortality in hospitalized patients.
(15) He should go to Chelsea, and demand £150k a week - Speaking of Chelsea, he’d just had a call from super agent Pini Zavi (spelling, sorry, we all know who he means!)
(16) Dothistromin is a metabolite produced by Dothistromin pini and Cercospora arachidicola.
(17) The authors review the cases of Ledderhose's disease come to their observation at the "Gaetano Pini" Orthopedic Clinic of Milan.
(18) The PINI was positively correlated with CRP concentration (r = 0.72, p = 0.0001) and negatively correlated with PA concentration (r = 0.56, p = 0.0004 and nitrogen balance (r = -0.51, p = 0.0018).
(19) "It's incredibly significant to have a prime minister powerfully state that she has experienced sexism and even more powerfully state that she will refuse to ignore it any longer," Pini said.
(20) The PINI value correlated positively with the burn area given in per cent (for day 5 of follow-up, the regression line equation was y = 9.346 + 1.65 x).
Pity
Definition:
(n.) Piety.
(n.) A feeling for the sufferings or distresses of another or others; sympathy with the grief or misery of another; compassion; fellow-feeling; commiseration.
(n.) A reason or cause of pity, grief, or regret; a thing to be regretted.
(v. t.) To feel pity or compassion for; to have sympathy with; to compassionate; to commiserate; to have tender feelings toward (any one), awakened by a knowledge of suffering.
(v. t.) To move to pity; -- used impersonally.
(v. i.) To be compassionate; to show pity.
Example Sentences:
(1) The voters don’t do gratitude, self-pitying politicians are wont to moan.
(2) With grievous amazement, never self-pitying but sometimes bordering on a sort of numbed wonderment, Levi records the day-to-day personal and social history of the camp, noting not only the fine gradations of his own descent, but the capacity of some prisoners to cut a deal and strike a bargain, while others, destined by their age or character for the gas ovens, follow "the slope down to the bottom, like streams that run down to the sea".
(3) "); hopeless self-pity ("Nobody said anything to me about Billy ... all day long") and rage ("You want to put a bench in the park in Billy's name?
(4) Indeed, mainstream economics is a pitifully thin distillation of historical wisdom on the topics that it addresses.
(5) Would you really feel any pity if one of those dots stopped moving forever?” It is there to remind him that the dots are worth fighting for.
(6) Last year, Amnesty International described the world’s response as “pitiful” and earlier this week, the UN special rapporteur on the human rights of migrants called on the EU to deliver a proper resettlement programme.
(7) April's family had to endure the "spectacle of your hypocritical sympathy for their loss and of your tears", the judge told Bridger, saying any tears were motivated purely by self-pity.
(8) And this is the mainspring of so many of his stories, novellas, and his one novel, Beware of Pity : the clash between propriety and desire.
(9) It’s actually a pity that there’s now a break because I wanted to continue playing games,” said the Italian.
(10) In his final fight, against the journeyman boxer Kevin McBride, he was a pitiful figure - slumped in a corner, legs splayed, unable or unwilling to stand himself up.
(11) Other negative emotions – self-pity, guilt, apathy, pessimism, narcissism – make it a deeply unattractive illness to be around, one that requires unusual levels of understanding and tolerance from family and friends.
(12) He said it was a “pity” that the UK prime minister “wasn’t able to express the British position at the press conference with Donald Trump standing next to her”.
(13) As the turbulent commercial radio sector enters another new phase, Park wants to sweep away the thinking that has left too many of his colleagues wallowing in self-pity, and turn his fire on a familiar target.
(14) Broadly defined, this sort of behaviour involves procrastination, stubbornness, resentment, sullenness, obstructionism, self-pity and a tendency to create chaotic situations.
(15) It is a pity we did not take our chances,” the Ukraine coach, Mykhailo Fomenko, said.
(16) "This depressing morning has now got me questioning my pitiful existence," sobs James Dodge.
(17) Foreign dignitaries were invited to attend for the first time and it is a pity that from Europe only Javier Solana chose to take the offer up.
(18) Men convicted of rape are often pitied in the media and, like Evans, quickly vault back to positions of fame .
(19) But after the strange denials that this old, sick man is dying I want to talk not with pity but of his power.
(20) Staff here dread the welfare reform bill, waiting for debts, arrears, evictions and pitiful hardship to wash up on their doorstep.