(v. i.) To percolate, trickle, or ooze, as water through a crack.
(a.) Alt. of Siker
(adv.) Alt. of Siker
Example Sentences:
(1) But she noticed Mohamed getting smaller and sicker, until she eventually brought him to the centre, where the nuns give him F-75 – an enriched formula adapted for malnourished children, fortified porridge, plumpy nut, and soup with meat and fish.
(2) As a generalization, younger, more rehabilitatable diabetics have been offered a kidney transplant, while older, often sicker diabetics have been relegated to CAPD, leaving most diabetics in the subset managed by maintenance hemodialysis.
(3) Second, there was a 27% increase in the mortality rate of residents living in the nursing home for 1 to 5 years suggesting that the population had become sicker between 1982 and 1985.
(4) This can lead to what some refer to as a “death spiral” – or a collapse of a local exchange in a place where the insurance pool keeps getting smaller, sicker and more expensive.
(5) It is clear from analyzing the patient profile of this subset of patients from large clinical reviews that in general they are older and sicker and have a higher incidence of cardiovascular risk factors representing more extensive atherosclerosis.
(6) Those payments were established by Obamacare to cover patients that turned out to be sicker than predicted.
(7) He is critically ill, a good deal sicker than our previous patients, and perhaps sicker than any patient that has been transported from west Africa ,” Wilson said earlier.
(8) Regression and correlation analysis of psychopathological and EP measurements in hyperkinetic children revealed the following findings: the shorter the latencies and the higher the amplitudes, the sicker was the child.
(9) Mothers of sicker infants, those who had claimed difficulties with NICU staff, and those who felt less attached to their infant more often described painful reminders of this crisis.
(10) Cost containment efforts which have shifted significant portions of the inpatient population to ambulatory areas have resulted in an inpatient population which is sicker and more procedure-intensive.
(11) In short, they say, "The poor and unemployed get sicker quicker."
(12) Such findings can lead to the conclusion that women are the "sicker sex" in terms of objective health status.
(13) In addition, these patients were sicker on initial unit discharge as manifested by higher heart and respiratory rates and lower hematocrit values.
(14) Just after the turn of the 20th century, a few internships were begun by hospitals in Seattle and Spokane to help with the care of their sicker patients in the tradition of Eastern teaching hospitals.
(15) Thus, the difference between the original treatment groups remained, despite that treatment with enalapril was made available to all surviving patients and that those in the group with enalapril were sicker at baseline than those in the group with placebo.
(16) If you make it harder to go to the doctor, they just get sicker and it costs more.” Both Turnbull and Shorten committed not to privatise Australia Post.
(17) I just kept getting sicker and sicker and I really wasn’t able to see a doctor until I got the insurance.” Facebook Twitter Pinterest Susan Martin: ‘I just kept getting sicker and sicker and I wasn’t able to see a doctor until I got the insurance.’ Photograph: Courtesy of Susan Martin Once she was able to see a doctor, Martin was diagnosed with Lyme disease and two other tick-borne diseases.
(18) Compared to normative data published on the first four devices, the combined patients were far 'sicker' in nearly all comparisons (P less than or equal to 0.01).
(19) The results are consistent with previous research on differences between disciplines and with the flight of psychiatrists from CMHCs but cast doubt on the hypothesis that psychiatrists see sicker patients than psychologists see because of differences in reimbursement between the two disciplines.
(20) Patients with MCS show numerous physiological and biochemical abnormalities and are generally sicker than a control group of allergic patients.
Sticker
Definition:
(n.) One who, or that which, sticks; as, a bill sticker.
(n.) That which causes one to stick; that which puzzles or poses.
(n.) In the organ, a small wooden rod which connects (in part) a key and a pallet, so as to communicate motion by pushing.
(n.) Same as Paster, 2.
Example Sentences:
(1) Facebook Twitter Pinterest A sticker worn on the shirt an attendee at a New York City landmarks commission meeting.
(2) But all that has changed since I discovered the sheer joy of hunting down items with “reduced” stickers at my local Waitrose.
(3) A silent protester cries while wearing a sticker over her mouth signifying the loss in wages from the right-to-work law in Lansing, Michigan, on 12 December 2012.
(4) Following that, they were given a sticker and told that a bigger selection was on its way.
(5) Here, you pass cars with large stickers pronouncing “Real Men Shoot Wolves” to show support for six local poachers who were imprisoned for illegal hunting last year .
(6) Their antennae, which purported to detect explosives, and in other cases narcotics, were not connected to anything, they had no power source and one of the devices was simply the golf ball finder with a different sticker on it.
(7) Various methods of capturing charges for supplies stocked on nursing units have been devised, such as stickers and charge slips attached to the items.
(8) Today, under ice and snow and behind the crowds of shoppers and tourists, little evidence remains of the terror – though on a metal railing on the pavement outside the Forum, a sticker shows a yellow and blue ribbon – the colors of the marathon finish line – and the post-attack slogan “ Boston Strong ”.
(9) Living well with dementia means more than signs and stickers and a memory clinic,” Ward says.
(10) Numerous educational materials were developed including training manuals, counseling booklets, tippee cups, posters, and bumper stickers.
(11) This study assessed the effects of dashboard stickers and signature sheets on safety belt use among occupants of state-owned vehicles in three Florida agencies.
(12) The album comes with a starter pack of 31 stickers, but I usually top it up straight away with an extra five or six packs to stop it looking too empty.
(13) Stickers and posters then began to appear around the New York suburb of Astoria before the organisation opened a branch there.
(14) They have decorated a box with stickers of sunflowers and, as part of Islam’s therapy, they are placing their mother’s possessions in it.
(15) In the meantime other icons of the Confederacy – flags, monuments, markers, license plates and bumper stickers on automobiles – are increasingly drawing petitions around the country.
(16) Others break up bits of old computers and DVD players for recycling, fitting together U-bends, applying stickers on radiator caps, and building bird tables, bug hotels and hedgehog boxes for sale.
(17) That campaign started spontaneously when five Surbiton secretaries volunteered to work an extra half an hour each day without pay in order to boost productivity, and urged the rest of the country to follow their initiative, prompting "I'm backing Britain" stickers and badges across the country in a post World Cup wave of patriotism.
(18) BITS AND BOBS A Colombian teacher has been accused of pilfering stickers from pupils to complete his own Panini World Cup album.
(19) Open 10am-11pm, but closed for refurbishment until July 2012 Purikura no Mecca Photograph: Alamy Having first appeared in the mid-1990s, sticker photo machines, aka purikura or "print club", are now a cultural mainstay – whether on a date or with friends, Japanese teens have become obsessed with posing for snaps in these increasingly ubiquitous booths.
(20) Someone has already put a sticker on the road sign at the entrance of the village celebrating it as Mladic's last home before he was found.