(interj.) Pshaw! pish! -- a word used in contempt or disdain.
Example Sentences:
(1) On the other hand it does not provide more useful information than the Pugh's score for surgical risk in liver resection.
(2) The letter to Florence Nightingale was written by Bernita Decker as part of a nursing course assignment for our Nurse Educator advisor, Betty Pugh.
(3) Applying Cox regression analysis, ICG intrinsic hepatic clearance, Pugh score, previous variceal bleeding, and HVPG were the only significant prognostic determinants of survival.
(4) Data were collected from 56 patients who underwent transplantation for alcohol-related cirrhosis from August 1985 to February 1991 and compared with data from a control group matched for age, sex, Child-Pugh class, and date of transplantation.
(5) Etiology of portal hypertension was portal vein thrombosis in 3 patients and cirrhosis in 64, 44 of whom (65 p. 100) were due to alcoholism (Child-Pugh's class: A: 8 p. 100, B: 42 p. 100, C: 50 p. 100).
(6) Among those who have called for Clegg to think about his future are John Pugh, MP for Southport, and almost 400 Lib Dem activists, including at least 28 councillors.
(7) The receiver-operating-characteristic curves of three discriminant scores were compared with the Child-Pugh classification.
(8) The severity of liver disease was also assessed according to the index of Child and Turcotte as modified by Pugh et al.
(9) The object of this study was to improve the classical Child-Pugh score (CPS) and to test other scores from the literature.
(10) We report the case of a patient with decompensated cirrhosis (Pugh class C) who bled repeatedly from gastric varices despite multiple sessions of sclerotherapy.
(11) Our results suggest that the ICG and the MEGX test are superior to conventional liver function tests and the Pugh score in assessing short-term prognosis in cirrhotics independently from the etiology of the underlying liver disease.
(12) Formal decision-aids were used by half of the survey participants (56%), mainly three scores (Child-Pugh, Best and other indices for inflammatory bowel disease, Ranson) and four classifications (TNM, Forrest, Savary-Miller, Paquet).
(13) Selection criteria included a liver volume of between 1,000 and 2,500 ml, portal perfusion of between 15-30%, no active liver disease and no stenosis of hepatic artery or celiac axis, as well as a good functional Child-Pugh classification (A-B).
(14) Prognostic factors, as determined by uni- and multivariate analysis (Cox model), corresponded to Child-Pugh's score, to the five components, and the occurrence of early bleeding recurrence.
(15) There was no correlation between the endoscopic findings, the clinical gravity of liver cirrhosis (Child-Pugh grade), and the gravity of esophageal varices (Beppu score).
(16) The aim was to obtain objective measurements of cirrhotic patterns that could be correlated with liver function evaluated by the Pugh-Child score, establish the relationship among different morphogenetic features and evaluate the implications of an objective classification of cases by numerical taxonomy in terms of their etiology, liver function and malignant transformation.
(17) As Hunter recorded, it was acquired by a civic dignitary, Mr Alderman Pugh, "who very politely allowed me to examine its structure, and to take away the bones".
(18) LHE correlated with the severity of the disease (Child-Pugh classification) but not with its etiology or with portasystemic shunting.
(19) The hepatic nitrogen clearance was linearly related to the clinical status (Child-Pugh score), to routine liver function tests and to galactose elimination capacity (r = 0.869), a well-established, quantitative, liver function measure.
(20) Systemic and splanchnic haemodynamics were studied in patients with cirrhosis who had been classified in three groups (A, B, and C) according to the degree of liver failure (modified Pugh's classification).
Ugh
Definition:
(interj.) An exclamation expressive of disgust, horror, or recoil. Its utterance is usually accompanied by a shudder.
Example Sentences:
(1) A study was made of twelve cases with uveitis, glaucoma and hyphema (UGH) caused by rigid intraocular posterior chamber implants.
(2) I only put a password on my computer fairly recently, because ugh it’s such a hassle to type it in every time.
(3) Thorn says: ‘ I’ve always thought if Dusty’s voice was a colour, it was silver.’ Photograph: Ian Berry Ugh, all the same old words, and they won’t do, will they?
(4) Posterior iris chafing by the loop or the optic portion of sulcusfixated posterior chamber lens implants may cause a spectrum of disorders that include iris-pigment epithelial "window defects," pigment dispersion with or without elevation of intraocular pressure, intermittent microhyphemas with transient visual obscurations, and the UGH syndrome.
(5) The most common indications for surgery included pseudophakic bullous keratopathy (PBK)--69%, uveitis-glaucoma-hyphema (UGH) syndrome--9%, and IOL instability--7%.
(6) Two groups of sons of alcoholic fathers of differing family pedigrees for alcoholism [multigenerational (MGH) versus unigenerational (UGH)] were compared on measures of cardiovascular reactivity to unavoidable shock under alcohol and no alcohol consumption conditions.
(7) Looking back, I think, ‘Ugh, I probably shouldn’t have done that.’” What was that intention?
(8) The aims of this study were to determine the causes of recurrent upper gastrointestinal hemorrhage (UGH) after distal splenorenal shunting (DSRS) and to summarize our experience in the prevention and management of this complication.
(9) Five patients, all with occluded shunts, underwent surgical treatment for recurrent UGH and three died (60%).
(10) Differences between day, night, and 24-h UGH were studied in 23 children.
(11) Pupillary block glaucoma and UGH syndrome are directly related to the lens.
(12) UGH was significantly higher in acromegalic patients compared with adult controls (p less than 0.001).
(13) The results of a global (general series of 3,270 episodes of upper gastrointestinal haemorrhage (UGH) admitted to our unit between the 15th of April 1983 and the 15th of April 1988 have been analyzed.
(14) You can have your chicken as a quarter, half, whole or wings, with one or two regular sides, such as corn on the cob and coleslaw, or a fino side (ratatouille – ugh!).
(15) We have recently performed lens implant exchange in an eye with cystoid macular edema which suffered recurrent hyphema (UGH syndrome).
(16) Worst game: Ugh – the 1-0 home loss to RSL's reserves late in the season.
(17) To assess the clinical usefulness of urinary growth hormone (UGH) measurements, a UGH determination technique, including dialysis, ultrafiltration, and measurement by polyclonal-coated tube RIA, was established.
(18) He said something along the lines of ‘ugh, you don’t have a beach body.
(19) Occasionally, serious reactions may occur, such as fibrinous exsudates, "toxic lens syndrome", UGH syndrome, and the "intermittent white-out" syndrome.
(20) I often hear people say, "Ugh, the art world is not interested in what I do!"