(v. t.) To restore, as from weariness, sickness; or the like; to repair.
(v. t.) To be a cure for; to remedy.
(n.) Cure; remedy; recovery.
Example Sentences:
(1) A number of recurring chromosomal abnormalities have been identified in childhood acute lymphoblastic leukemia.
(2) Although patients treated with postoperative radiation therapy showed significantly extended survival rates as compared to those receiving surgical resection alone, the glioblastoma recurred within a 2cm margin of the primary site in more than 90% of the patients and conventional external radiation therapy with a doses of 50-60 Gy did not result in local cure.
(3) Percutaneous tenotomy performed only in patients recurring after temporary cure, drops the rate of recurrences to 13%.
(4) Ventricular tachycardia did not recur and remained noninducible in two of six patients who tolerated oral nadolol alone.
(5) Following the surgery, one patient continued to exhibit PLEDs but clinical seizures were absent PLEDs recurred in the second patient due to inadequate anticonvulsant medication.
(6) It was concluded that enhanced pressure responsiveness to recurring stress might induce or at least sustain LVH in hypertensives, due to enhanced alpha-adrenoceptor responsiveness.
(7) We are reporting the case of a 23-yr-old patient who had recurring episodes of acute pancreatitis characterized by the typical abdominal pain, elevated serum levels of pancreatic enzymes, and enlargement of the pancreas and edema on sonogram.
(8) When the condylomata recur, or when the patient has AIDS, the lesions should be examined histologically for evidence of premalignant or malignant degeneration.
(9) In the first case, the patient initially underwent surgical resection of the mass and received systemic chemotherapy, but the cyst recurred 2 months later.
(10) Spitz's nevi recur uncommonly following initial removal.
(11) In general, group II lesions affected children at an earlier age, were larger at the time of diagnosis, and recurred more frequently.
(12) These spontaneous alpha, response beta, modulatory gamma, and frequency-divided delta rhythms reveal a collateral neuroendocrine hierarchy, characterized by the pineal feedsideward phenomenon, as a feature of interactions recurring with circadian and infradian frequencies.
(13) Conversely, when obesity was permitted to recur by giving the mice free access to food, PRL levels reverted back to the original obese pattern.
(14) Haplotype analysis revealed that the Val----Met mutation has recurred frequently in the population to generate the FAP families of independent origins.
(15) Symptomatic hypercalcemia recurred during lactation after each of two pregnancies, associated with increased bone turnover (rise in ALP, osteocalcin, and urine hydroxyproline excretion) which appeared to be independent of changes in major calcium-regulating hormones.
(16) However, atrial flutter often recurs despite the use of these conventional antiarrhythmic regimens.
(17) After four hours, symptoms recurred much more often in the placebo group.
(18) Intricate is the key word, as screwball dialogue plays off layered wordplay, recurring jokes and referential callbacks to build to the sort of laughs that hit you twice: an initial belly laugh followed, a few minutes later, by the crafty laugh of recognition.
(19) In older patients, these rather poorly differentiated tumors recur locally after excision in 50%-80% of cases depending on the organ site involved.
(20) If the pain recurred a second time, RF lesions were made if the pain was in the second or third division.
Recurve
Definition:
(v. t.) To curve in an opposite or unusual direction; to bend back or down.
Example Sentences:
(1) Acne keloidalis is characterized by infected keloid-like nodules in the short-cut nuchal region probably caused by recurving, ingrowing hairshafts.
(2) The third was an extension that remained pointed at the tip and was recurved to form a hook.
(3) The neonatal head is held in a fixed and reproducible position by means of a mouth bar and a recurved needle hooked into the foramen magnum.
(4) tritaeniorhynchus in that on the lateral plate of the phallosome tritaeniorhynchus teeth are somewhat weakly developed and only gently curved whereas in tritaeniorhynchus summorosus they are strongly developed, considerably longer, and sharply recurved.
(5) In all cases of Huntington's disease the morphology of dendrites of medium-sized spiny neurons was markedly altered by the appearance of recurved endings and appendages, a decrease or increase in the density of spines, and abnormalities in the size and shape of spines.
(6) The most common disorders were valgus and recurvation.
(7) The other cell (type VI) had recurved dendrites with long appendages and no impregnated axon.
(8) The precursors of the macrochaetes and the recurved (chemosensory) bristles of the wing margin divide around and shortly after puparium formation, while those of the microchaetes and the stout and slender (mechanosensory) bristles of the wing margin divide between 9 h and 18 h after puparium formation (apf).
(9) Analysis of the potential risks involved in this pretuberosity operation led us to the conclusion that there is no risk of early epiphysiodesis or bony recurvation, and no risk of patella baja or osteochondrosis of the tuberosity.
(10) The mean shortening was 3.1 cm, the mean varus or valgus deformity 9.5 degrees, the mean anteflexion or recurvation 8.3 degrees, and the mean rotation deformity 8.5 degrees.
(11) Correlation-tests performed for these parameters proved significant correlation only between malpositioning in recurvation and height of nail-insertion at the tibial tuberosity.
(12) The aim was to evaluate the effect of a biofeedback electrogoniometer in the control of recurvation of the knee while walking in patients with neurological diseases.
(13) A small recurvated penis, partially adherent to the scrotum is noticed.
(14) The embryo, which appears structurally normal and lacks visible lesions, ceases to develop at the partially recurved cotyledon stage and does not use the remaining endosperm.
(15) The larva is differentiated by the modified legs II with one long recurved hooklike claw and a shorter curved claw.
(16) The same principles of construction can be applied in making sliding calipers with straight and recurved branches.
(17) Proliferative changes included prominent recurving of distal dendritic segments, short-segment branching along dendrites, and increased numbers and size of dendritic spines.
(18) This showed better results in the correction of axis deformations of the lower limb visualized on a-p X-ray photographs as varus or valgus than of deformations seen as ante- and recurvation of lateral X-ray photographs.
(19) A surgical treatment is carried out in three steps: removal of the internal female organs and testicular prosthesis replacement in the one side after castration, reconstruction of the recurvated penis and replacement of the other testicular prosthesis, and finally construction of the anterior urethra.
(20) Their arborizations could be divided into three different regions based on both their morphological features and their position within the retinal layers: (1) an internal arborization, spreading at the margin between the inner nuclear layer and the inner plexiform layer, composed of long, thick, somatofugal dendrites branching at acute angles, (2) an external arborization in the middle of the inner nuclear layer, formed by short, thin, varicose, recurved, axon-like processes branching at right angles, (3) and one or more scleral process(es), originating either from the cell body or from the internal arborization, running toward the outermost cell row of the INL, some of which reached the outer plexiform layer.