(a.) Promotive of, or contributing to, some beneficial purpose; beneficial; advantageous; as, a salutary design.
Example Sentences:
(1) The latter results demonstrate that methylprednisolone-sodium succinate is less effective than ibuprofen in inhibiting arachidonic acid metabolism and suggest other salutary actions.
(2) We conclude that dopamine results in a predominantly efferent glomerular vasodilation and, therefore, may be salutary in lowering intraglomerular hypertension.
(3) However, extensive research is needed to discriminate between the beneficial effects of increased attention to all aspects of patient care, including wound management, and the salutary effects of dressing materials.
(4) Nevertheless, the results of preliminary studies in experimental animal models and in human transplant recipients suggest that calcium antagonists exert salutary effects on renal function in clinical settings characterized by impaired renal hemodynamics.
(5) The salutary hemodynamic response to oral enoximone was sustained for 6 to 8 hours and was not associated with subacute drug tolerance.
(6) Protection from arrhythmias seems to be related to the combined presence of a noncompetitive adrenergic blockade associated with salutary effects on coronary circulation.
(7) A salutary effect on the kidney will remain high on the list of important characteristics to be considered in choosing one of these agents.
(8) The salutary response of atrial fibrillation to flecainide may be due to enhancement of drug action by the rapid atrial activation rates characteristic of this arrhythmia.
(9) This paper begins with an analysis of an important subset of these studies--those 27 which operationalize 'religiosity' as religious attendance--and which, taken as a whole, point to a consistent salutary effect for frequent attendance.
(10) These salutary effects of alginase in vivo were paralleled by the ability of the enzyme to remove the exopolysaccharide from the surface of mucoid pseudomonal cells within cardiac vegetations, as assessed by transmission electron microscopy.
(11) This data suggests that reducing the infiltrating glomerular and cortical interstitial macrophage burden with XI during acute PA nephrosis, unaccompanied by any hypolipidemic effect, produces not only early salutary effects on renal function but also a significant amelioration of the progressive glomerulopathic features of this model.
(12) The salutary effects of enalapril may have involved a reduction in delta P coupled to a nonhemodynamic action, possibly restriction of glomerular growth or lowering of serum cholesterol.
(13) The salutary effects of all drugs were reversed in the presence of the A1 receptor antagonist 1,3-dipropyl-8-cyclopentylxanthine (0.5 microM).
(14) With exercise to ischemia, nicardipine preserved the salutary effects on left ventricular function seen at rest and significantly blunted the increase in left ventricular end-diastolic pressure observed in the control setting.
(15) Among all antihypertensive drugs, this class of agents, and especially prazosin, has produced the most consistently salutary lipid and metabolic effects.
(16) Norethandrolone (NE) and other androgenic steroids have been shown to be renotropic in various species and have also been reported to have salutary effects in patients with diminished renal function.
(17) Regression analyses considering contextual-motivational factors for drinking showed that at Time 1 quitters were less likely than controls to have consumed alcohol during evenings out (p = .008), in family-home settings (p = .013), or for salutary reasons (p = .084); conversely, they were more likely to have consumed alcohol to reduce negative affect (p = .011).
(18) However, it remains unknown whether such agents have any salutary effects on the depressed active hepatocellular function and hepatic blood flow in a nonheparinized model of trauma and hemorrhage.
(19) The possible mechanisms of the previously reported salutary benefits of high-dose i.v.
(20) Preliminary experimental studies indicate salutary effects of leukotriene inhibitors and antagonists in endotoxin shock and in models of acute pulmonary injury.
Wholesome
Definition:
(superl.) Tending to promote health; favoring health; salubrious; salutary.
(superl.) Contributing to the health of the mind; favorable to morals, religion, or prosperity; conducive to good; salutary; sound; as, wholesome advice; wholesome doctrines; wholesome truths; wholesome laws.
(superl.) Sound; healthy.
Example Sentences:
(1) If teen stars Gomez (a former girlfriend of Justin Bieber and the star of Disney's The Wizards of Waverly Place) , Benson ( Pretty Little Liars ) and Hudgens (Gabriella Montez in the High School Musical series) wanted to obliterate their wholesome reputations, this was one way to do it.
(2) Having demonstrated the wholesomeness of irradiated food, then scientists had to prove that nutritional impact of food irradiation was minor.
(3) It was watching his films that had made Waters want to try to evoke in California "the sunny good feelings of another world that contained so much that was incomplete or missing in our own – the simple, wholesome, good food of Provence, the atmosphere of tolerant camaraderie and great lifelong friendships, and a respect for both the old folks and their pleasures and for the young and their passions".
(4) Based on current knowledge, more wholesome dietary traditions for chronic disease prevention in most countries can be developed.
(5) What's staggering is that boredom still has such a wholesome, desirable image.
(6) Papers they have co-authored give a flavour of their stance: "If relativist philosophy is acceptable, then sadomasochism, bestiality and self-abuse are to be considered as wholesome activities," runs one.
(7) Anyway, many of the small-batch manufacturers are naturally producing a more wholesome end product.
(8) In spite of several quality control procedures used by Australia to ensure the wholesomeness of export meat, a number of pesticide residue violations were identified in the Australian product exported to the USA in May 1987.
(9) Only with knowledge of a system, an open attitude, and an international perspective of caring, can attempts be made to make the north-south relationship between North America and South America a wholesome experience of reality.
(10) Last month a paper in the BMJ stated that replacing saturated animal fats, which are traditionally thought of as bad, with omega-6 polyunsaturated vegetable fats, found in wholesome margarine, actually increased deaths among people who already had heart disease.
(11) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Not so X-rated: wholesome Silhouette Underwear fro the 1960s.
(12) The major problems involved in producing safe, wholesome and nutritious shellfish are primarily those of sanitation and adequate preservation of the foods until they finally reach the consumer.
(13) Chemical parameters obtained for 280 samples randomly selected from a variety of ready-to-eat meat products were used to assess nutritional value and wholesomeness.
(14) We're all familiar with the classic noir detective – fresh-faced, clean living and teetotal, with his wholesome family life and penchant for golf and the Sunday roast … oh, wait a minute.
(15) Now, there’s nothing wholesome about that now is there.
(16) In 5-6 or 10-11 weeks the animals were decapitated and the Na,K-ATPase activities in the wholesome erythrocytes, their ghosts, and the cortex and medulla of kidneys were studied.
(17) For optimum health, balanced, wholesome meals are recommended.
(18) That we demand a contest as satisfyingly unwholesome and rancorous as Cain and Abel, not something as nauseatingly wholesome and harmonious as Abel and Cole?
(19) Indirect methods of mechanical injury evaluation, based on weight loss and CO2 emission differences between bruised and wholesome fruits are also briefly discussed.
(20) This organisation sets the rules all football must follow, and claims to itself the wholesome values to which the sport has always aspired.