(v. t.) To lift up; to raise again, as one who has fallen; to cause to rise.
(v. t.) To cause to seem to rise; to put in relief; to give prominence or conspicuousness to; to set off by contrast.
(v. t.) To raise up something in; to introduce a contrast or variety into; to remove the monotony or sameness of.
(v. t.) To raise or remove, as anything which depresses, weighs down, or crushes; to render less burdensome or afflicting; to alleviate; to abate; to mitigate; to lessen; as, to relieve pain; to relieve the wants of the poor.
(v. t.) To free, wholly or partly, from any burden, trial, evil, distress, or the like; to give ease, comfort, or consolation to; to give aid, help, or succor to; to support, strengthen, or deliver; as, to relieve a besieged town.
(v. t.) To release from a post, station, or duty; to put another in place of, or to take the place of, in the bearing of any burden, or discharge of any duty.
(v. t.) To ease of any imposition, burden, wrong, or oppression, by judicial or legislative interposition, as by the removal of a grievance, by indemnification for losses, or the like; to right.
Example Sentences:
(1) These results show that lipo-PGI2 at a very low dose would be beneficial as a treatment for relieving the clinical symptoms of chronic cerebral infarction and that lipid microspheres are a useful drug carrier for PGI2 analogue therapy.
(2) Current recommendations regarding contraception in patients with diabetes are not appropriate for the adolescent population and therefore tend to support this phenomenon rather than relieve it.
(3) In addition, the menisci increase the femorotibial contact area, thereby relieving some of the pressure.
(4) Arrhythmias were controlled without the need of drug therapy in 2 cases and the clinical symptoms were relieved in 1 case after shocks.
(5) Ultrasonic fragmentation through the pars plana is a quick and easy method for relieving the condition.
(6) The following examinations could be proposed: in high risk cases determined before pregnancy, a chorionic villus sampling should be done between the 9th and 11th weeks of gestation; in low risk cases such as advanced maternal age, a first trimester chorionic villus sampling or a second trimester amniocentesis could be chosen; in the case of Down's syndrome, warning signs, for example ultrasonographic or biological parameters, a second trimester placental biopsy to relieve the parents' anxiety; in high risk cases such as ultrasonographic malformations, late placental biopsy or cordocentesis.
(7) Pain relieved by antacids, age above 40 years, previous peptic ulcer disease, male sex, symptoms provoked by berries, and night pain relieved by antacids and food were found to predict organic dyspepsia with a sensitivity and specificity of approximately 70%, when applied on the observed material.
(8) In spite of this fundamental disagreement, they were both relieved that President Obama has suspended his plan to launch missiles against Syria .
(9) The procedure appears to relieve papilledema by filtering small quantities of cerebrospinal fluid into the orbit.
(10) In 2 cases, sublingual nitroglycerin failed to completely relieve the spasm.
(11) Euthanasia – killing someone painlessly, usually to relieve suffering – is also illegal.
(12) Symptoms were relieved following posterior decompression and fusion from L5 to S1.
(13) The austerity programmes administered by western governments in the wake of the 2008 global financial crisis were, of course, intended as a remedy, a tough but necessary course of treatment to relieve the symptoms of debts and deficits and to cure recession.
(14) He had no business getting to that ball ahead of the full-back, who will be mightily relieved.
(15) Following this combination procedure the patients were relieved completely of obstructive jaundice and right upper quadrant pain, leaving only small trocar insertion scars made during the short course of hospitalization.
(16) The medicinal therapy of osteoarthritis is based on the use of analgesics, NSAIDs and corticosteroids to relieve pain and inflammation.
(17) The characteristic signs and symptoms represent the triad of a pulsatile mass in the upper part of the abdomen, intermittent hemorrhage in the upper part of the gastrointestinal tract and severe epigastralgia not relieved by antacids.
(18) Examination of the inhibitory effect of ATP using oligo(dA)12-18 as well as activated DNA as primers revealed that (a) ATP inhibition is not due to its addition onto a 3'-OH primer terminus ad judged by the lack of incorporation of labeled ATP, although under similar conditions incorporation of GTP can be demonstrated, (b) a consistent degree of inhibition was noted independent of primer or enzyme concentration; (c) addition of ATP to an ongoing reaction promptly reduces the rate of polymerization; (d) kinetic studies indicate a competitive (with respect to substrate deoxy triphosphate) pattern of inhibition; (e) addition of excess deoxyribotriphosphate promptly relieves the inhibition.
(19) The results suggest that the pantethine relieves the effect of dosed AL on the drug-metabolizing system in rat liver.
(20) "Richard only finished the music today," said Croall, who seemed deeply relieved that he'd made the deadline on Saturday.
Salvage
Definition:
(n.) The act of saving a vessel, goods, or life, from perils of the sea.
(n.) The compensation allowed to persons who voluntarily assist in saving a ship or her cargo from peril.
(n.) That part of the property that survives the peril and is saved.
(a. & n.) Savage.
Example Sentences:
(1) Combining data on cows with productive and salvaged outcomes as satisfactory outcome, and terminal as unsatisfactory outcome, total correct classification was 90.7% for the admission model and 93.2% for the surgical model.
(2) Four of the eight CR patients had received an amsacrine-containing salvage regimen (ATA) prior to administration of the present moderate-dose cytosine arabinoside and mitoxantrone regimen; this indicates the lack of absolute clinical cross-resistance between the present combination and the daunorubicin- or amsacrine-containing regimens.
(3) (1) The results of re-irradiation as salvage treatment were poor.
(4) Immediate limb salvage was achieved in 31 of 36 limbs (86 percent).
(5) Early surgery in hydronephrosis may be indicated to salvage kidney function.
(6) Simple reperfusion of the infarcted myocardium, however, does not necessarily guarantee myocardial salvage, and preliminary studies have been somewhat confusing as to its beneficial effects.
(7) We suggest that emergency staple transection is an effective salvage treatment for this high-risk group.
(8) No homologous blood was transfused in TURP when salvaged autologous blood with or without preserved blood was retransfused to the patient.
(9) The outcome of salvage mastectomy depends on the disease-free interval from initial breast-conserving surgery and radiation therapy to local-regional recurrence.
(10) These data support the aggressive use of reoperation with graft salvage when F-AKP or extra-anatomic graft failure reproduces critical ischemia.
(11) The use of the iron chelator desferrioxamine (DFX) did not benefit the endothelium or improve salvage of ischaemic flaps.
(12) Ten patients undergoing femoral-popliteal and femoral-tibial in situ saphenous vein bypass for limb salvage were studied to determine the effects of side branch arteriovenous fistulae on flow through the distal end of the graft into the outflow artery.
(13) [14C]Formate and [U-14C]glycine are also incorporated, but de novo synthesis is clearly lower than synthesis from salvage precursors, although similar to de novo synthesis in liver.
(14) In our view, the surgical procedure of choice for a salvage elbow is an elbow arthrodesis.
(15) Forty-four patients with Hodgkin's disease (HD) which relapsed after chemotherapy were treated with salvage radiotherapy (S-RT) with curative intent.
(16) The nucleoside transport inhibitor dipyridamole can potentiate the cytotoxicity of methotrexate by a mechanism that was thought to be related to the inhibition of thymidine salvage.
(17) There was no significant difference when patients were stratified for diabetes (log rank = 2.213, p = no significance [NS]), operative indication (disabling claudication vs. limb salvage) (log rank = 0.0005, p = NS), or outflow (no profundaplasty vs. profundaplasty) (log rank = 2.011, p = NS).
(18) Other pharmacologic agents, including lidocaine, nitrates, calcium channel blockers, beta-blockers, and aspirin, have been used acutely in myocardial infarction in the hopes of preventing death and salvaging myocardium.
(19) Biosynthetic activities of nucleotides in the salvage pathway were about 100-300 times higher than those in the de novo pathway.
(20) We have used the Haemonetics Cell-Saver autotransfusion technique in over 6,500 cases since 1979, salvaging more than 11,000 units of packed red blood cells.