(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.
Trickle
Definition:
(v. t.) To flow in a small, gentle stream; to run in drops.
Example Sentences:
(1) It trickled back to me somehow that, ‘Goddammit, Johnny Depp’s ruining the film!
(2) Technology has made workers more productive, but the profits have trickled up, not down.
(3) At its height, flows on the Loire, France’s longest river and home to many nuclear power plants, were reduced to a trickle.
(4) Parasite kinetics were followed in pigs receiving A. suum eggs as repeated trickle inoculations at two dose levels beginning at a body weight of 25 kg until their slaughter at 90 kg (baconers).
(5) However, increased antibody titers were not associated with increased resistance in trickle challenged mice.
(6) More than anything, I started to feel that I was calling my friends less, seeing my friends less and that our friendships were being reduced to a trickle of pictures, comments and quips.
(7) Three-year-old, non-lactating and non-pregnant Merino ewes, raised on pasture under a program of strategic treatment with anthelmintic and found to be extremely resistant to "trickle" infection with Haemonchus contortus, were given single-dose infections with either H. contortus or Trichostrongylus colubriformis or both species together.
(8) An investigation of aerosols emitted by trickling-filter sewage treatment plants revealed that coliforms were indeed emitted and have been sampled to a distance of 0.8 mile (1.2 kilometers) downwind.
(9) The president said: "They've been trying to sell this trickle-down snake oil before."
(10) "Trickle down government ... is not the answer for America," is obviously one of the famous Mitt Romney Zingers that we have promised.
(11) Probes from a trickling-filter outflow, from an oxidation pond and from a small river were tested simultaneously in a Flow-Microcalorimeter (LKB, 2107, Fig.
(12) From there, the Guardian's Paul Harris has filed this: As they trickled into the church – far outnumbered by the hordes of lunchtime office workers and eagerly shopping tourists outside – few expressed anything but acceptance at the once-in-the-last 600 years event.
(13) The tertiary-infection group had a higher average number of adult worms per hamster, but fewer subcutaneous nodules than the trickle infection group.
(14) EPA Gazza’s Italia 90 tears were but a trickling tributary compared with the Amazon of anguish unleashed by the shell-shocked hosts during their mortifying 7-1 loss to Germany.
(15) The trickles leave long, dark stains on the Martian terrain that can reach hundreds of metres downhill in the warmer months, before they dry up in the autumn as surface temperatures drop.
(16) Unless emergency measures are adopted, some of our finest waterways could be reduced to trickles over the next few decades.
(17) Ironically, Ken Livingstone's policy of letting developers build high-density and tall (in exchange for a minuscule trickle of "social" housing) may have helped turf him out of power, a possibility that Labour might do well to ponder.
(18) Food is served once a day to the fighters and supplies have dwindled to a trickle.
(19) Like the majority of his employees – most of whom have now begun trickling back to work – Romualdez was almost washed away by the super storm and only survived by clutching onto roof rafters as the waters rose around him.
(20) "Normally an item is adopted by the style leaders, then copied by retailers and trickles down that way, but with Birkenstocks, everyone is wearing the real thing," says Ursula Hudson, footwear course director at the London College of Fashion.