(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.
Water
Definition:
(n.) The fluid which descends from the clouds in rain, and which forms rivers, lakes, seas, etc.
(n.) A body of water, standing or flowing; a lake, river, or other collection of water.
(n.) Any liquid secretion, humor, or the like, resembling water; esp., the urine.
(n.) A solution in water of a gaseous or readily volatile substance; as, ammonia water.
(n.) The limpidity and luster of a precious stone, especially a diamond; as, a diamond of the first water, that is, perfectly pure and transparent. Hence, of the first water, that is, of the first excellence.
(n.) A wavy, lustrous pattern or decoration such as is imparted to linen, silk, metals, etc. See Water, v. t., 3, Damask, v. t., and Damaskeen.
(v. t.) An addition to the shares representing the capital of a stock company so that the aggregate par value of the shares is increased while their value for investment is diminished, or "diluted."
(v. t.) To wet or supply with water; to moisten; to overflow with water; to irrigate; as, to water land; to water flowers.
(v. t.) To supply with water for drink; to cause or allow to drink; as, to water cattle and horses.
(v. t.) To wet and calender, as cloth, so as to impart to it a lustrous appearance in wavy lines; to diversify with wavelike lines; as, to water silk. Cf. Water, n., 6.
(n.) To add water to (anything), thereby extending the quantity or bulk while reducing the strength or quality; to extend; to dilute; to weaken.
(v. i.) To shed, secrete, or fill with, water or liquid matter; as, his eyes began to water.
(v. i.) To get or take in water; as, the ship put into port to water.
Example Sentences:
(1) These surveys show that campers exposed to mountain stream water are at risk of acquiring giardiasis.
(2) 5-Azacytidine (I) stability was increased approximately 10-fold over its stability in water or lactated Ringer injection by the addition of excess sodium bisulfite and the maintenance of pH approximately 2.5.
(3) And this is the supply of 30% of the state’s fresh water.” To conduct the survey, the state’s water agency dispatches researchers to measure the level of snow manually at 250 separate sites in the Sierra Nevada, Rizzardo said.
(4) We report a case of a sudden death in a SCUBA diver working at a water treatment facility.
(5) We assessed changes in brain water content, as reflected by changes in tissue density, during the early recirculation period following severe forebrain ischemia.
(6) The water is embossed with small waves and it has a chill glassiness which throws light back up at the sky.
(7) The reduction rates of peripheral leukocytes, lung Schiff bases and lung water content were not identical in rats depleted from leukocyte after inhalation injury.
(8) And that, as much as the “on water, operational” considerations, is why we are being kept in the dark.
(9) Excretion of inactive kallikrein again correlated with urine flow rate but the regression relationship between the two variables was different for water-load-induced and frusemide-induced diuresis.
(10) The Hamilton-Wentworth regional health department was asked by one of its municipalities to determine whether the present water supply and sewage disposal methods used in a community without piped water and regional sewage disposal posed a threat to the health of its residents.
(11) 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).
(12) Undaunted by the sickening swell of the ocean and wrapped up against the chilly wind, Straneo, of Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, one of the world's leading oceanographic research centres, continues to take measurements from the waters as the long Arctic dusk falls.
(13) Streaming is shown to occur in water in the focused beams produced by a number of medical pulse-echo devices.
(14) The role of adrenergic agents in augmenting proximal tubular salt and water flux, was studied in a preparation of freshly isolated rabbit renal proximal tubular cells in suspension.
(15) These studies also suggest at least two mechanisms for uric acid reabsorption; one sodium dependent, the other independent of sodium and water transport.
(16) Proposals to increase the tax on high-earning "non-domiciled" residents in Britain were watered down today, after intense lobbying from the business community.
(17) The amount of water, creatinine, electrolytes, proteins, and enzymes were higher during the day (up to three fold, p always less than 0.05), while equal amounts of amino acids were excreted in the day and the night period.
(18) It is especially efficacious in evaluating patients with cystic lesions, especially those with complex cysts not clearly of water density.
(19) 'The only way that child would have drowned in the bath is if you were holding her under the water.'
(20) Changes in regional cerebral blood flow (rCBF) were measured over 254 cortical regions during caloric vestibular stimulation with warm water (44 degrees C).