(adv.) In a poor manner or condition; without plenty, or sufficiency, or suitable provision for comfort; as, to live poorly.
(adv.) With little or no success; indifferently; with little profit or advantage; as, to do poorly in business.
(adv.) Meanly; without spirit.
(adv.) Without skill or merit; as, he performs poorly.
(a.) Somewhat ill; indisposed; not in health.
Example Sentences:
(1) There was appreciable variation in toothbrush wear among subjects, some reducing their brush to a poor state in 2 weeks whereas with others the brush was rated as "good" after 10 weeks.
(2) However, medicines have an important part to play, and it is now generally agreed that for the very poor populations medicines should be restricted to those on an 'essential drugs list' and should be made available as cheaply as possible.
(3) Inadequate treatment, caused by a lack of drugs and poorly trained medical attendants, is also a major problem.
(4) Clonazepam was added to the treatment of patients with poorly controlled epilepsy in a double-blind trial and an open trial.
(5) "There is a serious risk that a deal will be agreed between rich countries and tax havens that would leave poor countries out in the cold.
(6) The dangers caused by PM10s was highlighted in the Rogers review of local authority regulatory services, published in 2007, which said poor air quality contributed to between 12,000 and 24,000 premature deaths each year.
(7) Maybe the world economy goes tits up again, only this time we punish the rich instead of the poor.
(8) Poor radioresponders of glioblastoma with CEA should be reoperated.
(9) Poor lipophilicity and extremely low plasma concentrations impose severe constraints.
(10) However, each of the studies had numerous methodological flaws which biased their results against finding a relationship: either their outcome measures had questionable validity, their research designs were inappropriate, or the statistical analyses were poorly conceived.
(11) Symptoms were poorly localized in all these IPS osteomyelitis patients.
(12) Prognosis of patients with these autonomic failures is poor.
(13) All patients in Stages I and II (5 out of 26) who developed metastases had poorly differentiated (histological Type III) tumours.
(14) This study provides strong and unexpected evidence that one admission to hospital of more than a week's duration or repeated admissions before the age of five years (in particular between six months and four years) are associated with an increased risk of behaviour disturbance and poor reading in adolescence.
(15) Patients were divided into two groups: poor outcome, defined by the death or a post-operative Karnofsky index less than or equal to 70 (n = 36), and good outcome defined by a Karnofsky index of 80 or more (n = 60).
(16) Improvement of its particularly poor prognosis requires therefore early screening based on reliable biological markers.
(17) It has a poor prognosis prior to the current combined treatment of surgical ablation, radiation to the surgical field, and chemotherapy for microscopic metastases.
(18) Photograph: AP Reasons for wavering • State relies on coal-fired electricity • Poor prospects for wind power • Conservative Democrat • Represents conservative district in conservative state and was elected on narrow margins Campaign support from fossil fuel interests in 2008 • $93,743 G K Butterfield (North Carolina) GK Butterfield, North Carolina.
(19) There were significant differences in the mean erythrocyte transketolase activity of the thiaminase excreting poor animals and the thiaminase free normal animals.
(20) In this material the ultrastructural details are very poorly preserved.
Sophomoric
Definition:
(a.) Alt. of Sophomorical
Example Sentences:
(1) Senior medical students are used as the patient and the preceptor to introduce the fundamentals of history taking and physical examination to sophomore medical students and this technique compared to the established method for teaching basic skills at the University of Iowa.
(2) Seniors had lower avoidance intentions, lower perceived occupational risk, and greater AIDS knowledge than did sophomores.
(3) Sophomore students were instructed to make preparations on an Ivorine block following imprinted outlines.
(4) For the present study, 128 sophomore, senior, and master's degree students were asked to participate and a self-selected convenience sample of 69 was obtained.
(5) The authors examined the effects of four representative boarding schools on 132 Alaskan Eskimo adolescents during their freshman and sophomore years.
(6) The values of all three groups of nurses were strikingly similar, although faculty valued achievement most highly (P = .0001), while sophomore students valued goal orientation most highly (P = .001).
(7) Data from the High School and Beyond panel study indicate that of 13,061 female high school sophomores who responded to both the baseline questionnaire in 1980 and a 1982 follow-up, 41 percent of blacks, 29 percent of Hispanics and 23 percent of non-Hispanic whites said they either would or might consider having a child outside of marriage.
(8) Thirty-six male dental students, 20 freshmen and 16 sophomores, at Case Western Reserve University, participated in the study.
(9) We examined the correlates of self-reported lifetime use of alcohol, marijuana, amphetamines, and cocaine within a sample of almost 7,000 high school sophomores in Arizona and Utah.
(10) Few things in moviegoing are as pleasurable as finding a young, talented film-maker early on in his or her career, and getting to watch them build, in real time, a distinctive body of work, from debut to sophomore outing, on to first decent, non-independent budget and maybe a first studio outing.
(11) Sixty-eight members of the sophomore class at LSU Medical Center in Shreveport participated in a substance use survey.
(12) He talked to one of them, Kofi Manu, a Ghanaian, about finding an apartment in their sophomore year, but instead moved into a place with his Pakistani friend Hasan Chandoo.
(13) Daniel Glass, of Glassnote records, who have the very popular band Mumford & Sons says: "When you have quality and you're in the sophomore stage of this band's career, I think the fear of holding it back is worse than letting it go.
(14) The player himself noted that he had played at a significantly higher weight before arriving at Louisville, but said that jaw surgery in his sophomore year was to blame for him dropping a significant chunk of his muscle mass.
(15) Eating behavior in college was measured at two points, sophomore and senior year, by the Eating Attitudes Test (Garner, Olmsted, Bohr, & Garfinkel, 1982).
(16) Presented for comparison are 53 female neurotics from a Temple University Hospital psychotherapy study, a sample of 65 consecutive female walk-ins of mixed psychiatric diagnosis from the Psychiatric Outpatient Clinic of Temple Hospital, and a group of 35 female college student sophomores from Temple University who comprised the normal sample.
(17) This two-year longitudinal analysis was based on questionnaire data from 3,686 minority youth who were sophomores in 1980 and seniors in 1982.
(18) Herein is presented a detailed description of the materials and methods employed in the conduct of an ongoing system for the independent evaluation (or testing) of individual sophomore medical students, as part of a major sophomore course in anatomic pathology.
(19) This descriptive study, one component of the Carolina Adolescent Health Project (CAHP), measured self-efficacy in a voluntary sample of 432 normal freshmen and sophomore urban high school students.
(20) The critical thinking ability of faculty was not significantly higher than that of sophomore nursing students when the influence of age was controlled statistically.