(a.) Of or pertaining to Proteus; characteristic of Proteus.
(a.) Exceedingly variable; readily assuming different shapes or forms; as, an amoeba is a protean animalcule.
Example Sentences:
(1) Such a need has occurred in New York City, where schistosomiasis, with its protean manifestations has been seen with increasing frequency.
(2) Sarcoidosis is a disease of unknown etiology with protean manifestations.
(3) Cow's milk protein intolerance (CMPI) is recognised as an important cause of protean symptoms in infants.
(4) The symptoms are protean from unilateral headache, Horners syndrome, tinnitus, to cerebral ischemia and hemipareses.
(5) The protean clinical manifestation depends on the site and the extent of the disease and its complications.
(6) Lyme borreliosis is a protean infection caused by B burgdorferi, a recently recognized arthropod-borne spirochete.
(7) The fossil fuel resistance, like the fossil fuel industry, is protean and sprawling – and each win reverberates for decades to come, because that’s how long pipelines and coal mines are built to last.
(8) Congenital intrapericardial aneurysm of the left atrial wall is a rare anomaly with protean manifestations.
(9) It was important for the physician to have a high index of suspicion based on a protean chief complaint, a lack of preceding history of illness, the time of presentation to the ED, and more subtle physical findings such as minor skin bruising, retinal hemorrhage, and distended abdomen.
(10) Amongst the protean extra-intestinal manifestations of inflammatory bowel disease, scant mention is made of muscle involvement.
(11) This adds another entity to the already protean manifestations of M. pneumoniae infection.
(12) The signs and symptoms of the syndrome are protean, and the underlying cancer is often occult.
(13) Widespread drug abuse, a comparatively recent medicosocial phenomenon, presents protean clinical patterns and challenging diagnostic problems daily that mimic classical medical syndromes.
(14) The infants all had multiple skin haemangiomas as well as deep-seated lesions in many different tissues that caused protean clinical manifestations and management problems.
(15) The latter has protean manifestations, but bouts of fever with low parasitaemia and blood disorders are predominant.
(16) Only the subsequent course of the tumor enabled us to identify the site in the sphenoid sinus, an atypical area surrounded by numerous neurovascular structures which, if involved, may give rise to a protean and nonspecific symptom-complex.
(17) While qualitatively normal, these precursors accumulate to cause protean signs and symptoms.
(18) Symptomatology was protean, clinical findings minimal, relapses frequent, and results of laboratory investigations, including virological studies, were generally negative.
(19) Both clinicians and pathologists must be aware of the protean manifestations of AIDS in order to establish an accurate and complete diagnosis.
(20) Although the hallmark of Mycoplasma pneumoniae infection is pneumonia, the organism is also responsible for a protean array of other symptoms.
(1) Labour’s vertiginous decline in Scotland has shrivelled what used to be the primary unionist party north of the border.
(2) We report on the therapeutic effect of a combination of piracetam and dihydroergocristine in 55 vertiginous patients, of both sexes, between 20 and 67 years of age, from different causes (not scheduled for surgery).
(3) Vestibular nerve section, however, converts this active lesion to a static peripheral lesion, allowing for brainstem compensation and cessation of optokinetic-induced vertiginous symptoms.
(4) Peripheral labyrinthine abnormalities are responsible for the majority of vertiginous symptoms.
(5) Its infamous clubs – The Viper Room, Whisky A Go Go – are the backdrops for a thousand rock memoirs; its vertiginous hills contain more celebrity homes per square mile than anywhere else in the world.
(6) • Rorbu for four from £140 a night, svinoya.no Grande Hytteutleige, Geirangerfjord Facebook Twitter Pinterest Waterfalls, vertiginous green slopes and a meandering, idyllic waterway explain why Unesco-protected Geirangerfjord is one of Norway’s premier tourist spots.
(7) In the acute, vertiginous phase of the disease, the VOR time constant was reduced but was almost normalized 1 year later, both among patients who regained normal caloric side-difference and among those who did not.
(8) There is no question that dizziness and vertiginous-like symptoms occur in children.
(9) In this group, the 1985 guidelines indicate that only 35% of the patients had significant relief of their vertiginous symptoms and 47% had hearing loss greater than 10 dB postoperatively.
(10) The case of a sixty years old man with vague vertiginous feeling, headache and moderate ocular troubles is presented.
(11) The test was performed in Ménière's disease (16 cases), other vertiginous disorders (23 cases) and normal subjects (10 cases).
(12) Since the vestibulospinal level of vestibular function is frequently neglected in the evaluation of vertiginous patients, we developed a new posture equilibrometer for recording body swaying X (left-right) and Y (fore-aft) components of angular displacement, velocity, and acceleration with its transducer on the head of the subject.
(13) The movement of the body's center of gravity was calculated in normal subjects and in vertiginous patients by using a strain gauge platform system and a ditigal computer.
(14) Afterwards he drove us into the mountains, taking us along vertiginous dirt roads in his 4x4, to the places where he kept his hives.
(15) Berlin: The Land of Cockaigne by Heinrich Mann Mann, brother of Thomas, wrote Berlin in the tradition of the bildungsroman , and the introduction to the 1929 English edition offers fair summary: “Andrew Zumsee rises steadily, jesuitically, through the coarse social strata of bourgeois Berlin, behind the skirts of women, via boudoir wire-pulling, to an hour of vertiginous triumph, or at least an illusion thereof.” Life, as in many of these novels, is speculative: “I don’t know what it is that they call transacting business; but it certainly doesn’t take much time … It’s a lazy man’s Heaven, a perfect land of Cockaigne.” 10.
(16) But with land prices rising vertiginously in overcrowded Delhi, officials say foreign investors are lining up to take part.
(17) You’re getting sacked in the morning,” also came down, unsparingly, from the most vertiginous part of the Leazes End.
(18) It is also true that the stakes couldn’t be more vertiginous for David Cameron.
(19) We observed the same results in other vertiginous disorders.
(20) These results corresponded with the clinical findings that the degree of Lpi increases prior to vertiginous episodes in Meniere's patients.