(n.) Overfullness; especially, excessive fullness of the blood vessels; repletion; that state of the blood vessels or of the system when the blood exceeds a healthy standard in quantity; hyperaemia; -- opposed to anaemia.
(n.) State of being overfull; excess; superabundance.
Example Sentences:
(1) By univariate analysis, each echocardiographic sign was associated with both cardiac tamponade and the combined end point (p less than or equal to 0.01 for comparisons with size and right-sided chamber collapse; p less than or equal to 0.07 for comparisons with IVC plethora).
(2) Brown will argue that the digital revolution will be especially vital in job centres, schools, hospital records and ensuring that, when people move home, they need only inform one website rather than a plethora of government agencies.
(3) Histopathological rearrangement in the small intestine wall is demonstrated as edema of the mucous membrane, as plethora of the vessels, as lymphoid infiltration and as changes of the villi forms.
(4) The work analyzes macroscopical (weight, volume, specific gravity) and microscopical (qualitative -- plethora, content of lipids, foci of cytolysis, mosaity etc.
(5) Peptic ulcer is a common and chronic problem with a plethora of drug treatments available that accelerate healing in the short term.
(6) The widespread usage of ventriculoperitoneal shunts has been followed by a plethora of complications.
(7) Childs also oversaw the launch of a plethora of new BBC Worldwide channels in 2006, such as BBC Entertainment, BBC Lifestyle and BBC Knowledge, which are now available on several continents, including Asia, Europe and South America.
(8) Vascular changes were expressed as congestive plethora, perivascular edema and microfocal hemorrhages.
(9) There is a plethora of receptions at conference and Corbyn is expected to drop in on most of them.
(10) Despite the plethora of models and strategies for addressing issues that surround the chronically mentally ill, there remains a paucity of literature that addresses the specific implications of deinstitutionalization on racial minorities.
(11) "The plethora of indigenous highly pathogenic and virulent agents naturally occurring in India and the large Indian industrial base – combined with weak controls – also make India as much a source of bioterrorism material as a target," diplomats warned.
(12) The plethora of beta blockers that subsequently became available for study led to considerable improvement in both the design and implementation of large clinical trials.
(13) In the control, after ischemia (without radiation) in 45 days venous plethora of the vessels in the intermuscular plexus of the intestinal wall is kept.
(14) More recently, physiological findings have directed investigation toward a plethora of humoral substances and their possible role in disturbances of the secretory processes in CF.
(15) Despite the plethora of information provided by magnetic resonance (MR) imaging that allows differentiation of some substances that are indistinguishable at computed tomography (CT), there are diagnostic problems.
(16) Since 2001, when the Bush administration bluntly told Islamabad it must take sides, be either "for us or agin us" in the newly declared "war on terror", Pakistan has struggled under a plethora of imperious American demands, démarches and impositions that are at once politically indefensible and contrary to the perceived national interest.
(17) I would suggest that we must be innovative in dealing with the plethora of health legislation.
(18) Brown argued that the digital revolution will be especially vital in jobcentres, schools, hospital records and to ensure that when people move home they need only inform one website rather than a plethora of government agencies.
(19) Its target is not just celebrity intrusion but bias, unfairness and gossip in the style of Private Eye and the "off Fleet Street" plethora of news-and-comment websites.
(20) Obama will unveil a plethora of new legislative proposals, together with 19 executive actions that he can introduce without congressional approval, at a White House event on Wednesday morning.
Superfluity
Definition:
(n.) A greater quantity than is wanted; superabundance; as, a superfluity of water; a superfluity of wealth.
(n.) The state or quality of being superfluous; excess.
(n.) Something beyond what is needed; something which serves for show or luxury.
Example Sentences:
(1) The tetracaine component of TAC is superfluous for obtaining topical anesthesia of minor dermal lacerations of the face in children.
(2) If exact indications are present, it can make a surgical intervention superfluous in selected cases.
(3) The surgical coordinates of the targets based on the stereotactic CT study with the Stereoadapter were on average as accurate as those obtained with ventriculography; therefore, ventriculography may become superfluous in functional stereotaxis.
(4) In many cases, the diagnosis is delayed, often being made only after comprehensive superfluous diagnostic procedures, sometimes invasive, and inappropriate treatment.
(5) 62 min Spain make a double substitution: Jesus Navas replaces the superfluous Sergio Busquets, and Fernando Torres replaces the disappointing David Silva.
(6) Tell me what will happen when the majority of mankind has become technologically superfluous."
(7) It is assumed that the neurotizing agent was the superfluous situational (photic) stimulation which presented excessive requirements to the mechanisms regulating the general functional state of the brain.
(8) Seen from the father's point of view, the son, on one hand represents the only solution for continuation of his life, the only possibility of victory over death, on the other hand however, he will substitute him one day, make him superfluous and eventually take his place.
(9) Feathering may be considered as a safety margin against spinal cord damage in medulloblastoma but it is superfluous in leukemia.
(10) In a later press statement, the Department of Health described the change as "a deep clean of superfluous national targets in favour of clearer, simpler standards".
(11) The great advances made in orthopaedic surgery over the last few decades have however not resulted in rehabilitative activity having become superfluous.
(12) Among reasons for inadequate numbers of doctors the author mentions in particular superfluous consulting, examinations in conjunction with assessment of the work capacity, and administrative work done by many doctors.
(13) Why, they ask, spend scarce public money on something that is both superfluous as a transport link and vastly expensive as a park?
(14) The effects of cue-load and cue-type (category and rhyming) on the cued recall of word lists were examined in amnesic and control subjects under conditions where contextual information was either important or superfluous to recall.
(15) For this reason a possible tooth involvement should be ruled out before therapy, loss of dental pulp of various origin and periodontal diseases should be excluded, otherwise the treatment must begin with the cause, after which further intervention is usually superfluous.
(16) Offering to these patients an adrenal autograft represents more than a superfluous medical exercise, since a successful outcome of the graft will relieve them of the burdens and risks of long-term postoperative steroid replacement therapy.
(17) The data obtained are suggestive of some "superfluity" of the protein steroid-binding site which, in turn, ensures the multifunctionality of estrophilic HSD including a possibility of an alternative orientation of steroids in their binding site.
(18) The findings of a questionnaire in 88 patients with 106 prostheses are presented, according to which substitution of the testis with a prosthesis is not a superfluous therapeutic procedure.
(19) Analysis of serial sections, and application of electron microscopic radioautography and histochemistry have suggested that these structures are associated with the nuclear envelope which is necessary for regulating the superfluous chromosome localization in the hybrid nucleus.
(20) Thus, the costly defibrillators delivering 400 to 800 joules now sold by 11 of 14 American manufacturers are superfluous, untested, potentially lethal devices with which to attempt ventricular defibrillation.