(superl.) Free from harm, injury, or risk; untouched or unthreatened by danger or injury; unharmed; unhurt; secure; whole; as, safe from disease; safe from storms; safe from foes.
(superl.) Conferring safety; securing from harm; not exposing to danger; confining securely; to be relied upon; not dangerous; as, a safe harbor; a safe bridge, etc.
(superl.) Incapable of doing harm; no longer dangerous; in secure care or custody; as, the prisoner is safe.
(n.) A place for keeping things in safety.
(n.) A strong and fireproof receptacle (as a movable chest of steel, etc., or a closet or vault of brickwork) for containing money, valuable papers, or the like.
(n.) A ventilated or refrigerated chest or closet for securing provisions from noxious animals or insects.
(v. t.) To render safe; to make right.
Example Sentences:
(1) The results of the evaluation confirm that most problems seen by first level medical personnel in developing countries are simple, repetitive, and treatable at home or by a paramedical worker with a few safe, essential drugs, thus avoiding unnecessary visits to a doctor.
(2) In conclusion, abdominal Marlex-mesh rectopexy can be recommended as safe and effective treatment for rectal prolapse, despite some patients developing constipation and some remaining incontinent.
(3) In our experience DSA is a safe, specific means of following postoperative grafts and diagnosing their occlusion.
(4) This is an easy, safe, and rapid alternative for the emergent treatment of superior vena caval syndrome.
(5) Our experience indicates that lateral rhinotomy is a safe, repeatable and cosmetically sound procedure that provides and excellent surgical approach to the nasal cavity and sinuses.
(6) Comprehensive regulations are being developed to limit human exposure to contamination in drinking water by the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) under the authority of the Safe Drinking Water Act (SDWA).
(7) Infusion of vincristine may be safely incorporated into multiagent chemotherapy programs of the CHOP type for non-Hodgkin's lymphoma.
(8) The exception to this rule is a cyst which can be safely aspirated under controlled conditions.
(9) Other recommendations for immediate action included a review of the Nursing and Midwifery Council and the General Medical Council for doctors, with possible changes to their structures; the possible transfer of powers to launch criminal prosecutions for care scandals from the Health and Safety Executive to the Care Quality Council; and a new inspection regime, which would focus more closely on how clean, safe and caring hospitals were.
(10) But, we found that the Roux-Y type bypass operation using the pedicled jejumun was a safe and uninvasive procedure for a patient with high risk.
(11) The safe motherhood initiative demands an intersectoral, collaborative approach to gynecology, family planning, and child health in which midwifery is the key element.
(12) All aircraft exited the strike areas safely.” Earlier, residents living near the Mosul dam told the Associated Press the area was being targeted by air strikes.
(13) With attention to proper performance and patient selection, spinal and epidural anaesthesia are safe and efficacious options when choosing anaesthetic technique.
(14) Cryosurgical treatment of chronic vasomotor rhinitis provides a safe, effective and uncomplicated mode of management for this very common otolaryngologic disorder.
(15) Key therapeutic questions are whether beta-lactams can safely replace aminoglycosides for the treatment of gram-negative pneumonia, and whether monotherapy or aminoglycoside and beta-lactam combination antibiotic treatment is superior.
(16) Ceftazidime alone is, therefore, a safe and effective treatment for infections caused by this organism even in the neutropenic patient.
(17) Prophylactic administration of cephalothin sodium (CET) was studied for their safe and adequate serum concentration after open heart surgery in infants and adults.
(18) Studies were undertaken in volunteers to determine whether living adenovirus type 21 (ADV-21) vaccine could be safely administered orally to susceptible young adults.
(19) This information then will allow the physician to determine safe levels of ventilation for a particular work task.
(20) We believe that this unit is quite safe for clinical use and that it will become a new strong support for non-blood open heart surgery.
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.