(a.) Exhausted; worn out; having lost energy or motive force.
(a.) Exhausted of spawn or sperm; -- said especially of fishes.
Example Sentences:
(1) The idea that 80% of an engineer's time is spent on the day job and 20% pursuing a personal project is a mathematician's solution to innovation, Brin says.
(2) Finally, the automatized measurement system cuts the time spent by a factor of more than five.
(3) But the amount of time spent above SPA has differed substantially between men and women due to women both living longer, and reaching state pension age earlier.
(4) I believe that truth sets man free.” It was a curious stance for someone who spent many years undercover as a counter-espionage informant, a government propagandist, and unofficial asset of the Central Intelligence Agency.
(5) These animals spent a much greater portion of their SWS in the lighter SWS I, as compared to the control group which showed a predominance of the deeper SWS II.
(6) The solution to these problems would seem either to reduce the time spent in rectangular wires or to change to a bracket with reduced torque, together with appropriate second order compensations in the archwire or the bracket.
(7) Autonomy, sense of accomplishment and time spent in patient care ranked as the top three factors contributing to job satisfaction.
(8) She then spent five years as director of mission and pastoral studies at Cranmer Hall.
(9) The bond strength of the resins did not change with the time spent immersed in water up to 6 months, but decreased with any further increase in time.
(10) He numbered the Kennedy family and Ian Fleming, creator of the James Bond thrillers, among his friends and spent millions on amassing a first-class art collection, featuring works by Manet and Monet, as well as Van Gogh.
(11) The subjects were all apparently healthy, had a mean body weight of 66 kg and had spent the preceding day in the calorimeter performing different fixed physical activity programmes.
(12) Belmar and his fellow commanders spent the week before the grand jury decision assuring residents that 1,000 officers had been training for months to prepare for that day.
(13) He spent just 22 minutes there before heading out again, the building’s surveillance system revealed.
(14) Rayburn, who was also told by his jobcentre he would lose his benefits if he did not work without pay, said he spent almost two months stacking and cleaning shelves and sometimes doing night shifts.
(15) It increases the duration and quality of life without prolonging the time spent in hospital, and it reduces health expenses by 50 to 70%.
(16) Chikavu Nyirenda, a leading political analyst, said: "She neglected to look at the local scene but spent a lot of time to please the west and promote herself."
(17) It is Cruz, a longtime critic of so-called “amnesty” policies, who has spent the greater part of the debate’s aftermath seeking to clarify his position.
(18) One minister said at the tail end of last week that they had spent their final working days spending every last penny they could find in their departmental budget.
(19) Our team of reporters have spent the last week on an intensive bikram yoga course in order to get themselves into the rather awkward position of having their ears to the ground, their eyes to the skies and their fingers on the pulse.
(20) A 44-year-old woman, who had spent much of her life in Fiji and India, was treated with a high dose of prednisolone for rheumatoid arthritis complicated by gold lung.
Stent
Definition:
(obs. p. p.) of Stent
(v. t.) To keep within limits; to restrain; to cause to stop, or cease; to stint.
(v. i.) To stint; to stop; to cease.
(n.) An allotted portion; a stint.
Example Sentences:
(1) During placement of the Fletcher suit one of the ureters is catheterized by a special stent which appears on the X-rays control used for dosimetry.
(2) In one patient with a B-II stomach, the stent could only be inserted by the percutaneous transhepatic route.
(3) There were no cases of stent migration or occlusion due to encrustation of bile.
(4) Veryan has developed a stent – a metal mesh tube inserted in an artery – that mimics the natural swirl of the blood flow, which researchers have found improves outcomes for patients with circulation problems.
(5) The insertion of stent was succeeded in all 4 cases, and the improvement of clinical symptoms and elevation of ankle pressure index were observed.
(6) Nine patients had variably significant ductal changes attributable to pancreatic duct stents.
(7) Titanium-nickel alloy composed of 50% by weight of each metal has unique thermal shape-memory properties, with a transition temperature of 20 degrees C. Each stent consists of one wire with a diameter of 0.9 mm.
(8) Between June 1988 and July 1991, 464 new device interventions (Palmaz-Schatz stent or Simpson directional atherectomy) were performed in 410 patients.
(9) The stent was applied without general anesthesia under mild i.v.
(10) Clogging of endoscopic stents necessitates their replacement in many patients with malignant obstructive jaundice and limits their use in benign strictures.
(11) The stents were inserted by using a 10-12 Fr catheter.
(12) Intravascular stenting has been established as a useful treatment in adults with coronary and peripheral vascular disease.
(13) A variety of interventional endovascular instruments have been produced and used in a wide field of pathologies: balloons for proximal clamping, distal embolization by particles, arterial desobstruction by seeking devices, propping of vascular lumen by stenting, in situ infusion of drugs (fibrinolysis), filters, foreign body retrieval systems.
(14) In spite of the low complication rate, the advisability of clinical application of stents should always be critically considered before the final decision is made.
(15) Additionally, there is promise that stents will enhance the percutaneous treatment of renal artery ostial lesions, infrainguinal arterial lesions, and strictures in large veins.
(16) The average period of follow-up is 65 days, the longest 105 days (silicone stents) respectively 306 days (metallic stents).
(17) We believe that treatment of tracheal stenosis using dilation with stents is a reasonably good alternative in patients whose general condition makes them poor risks for major tracheal surgery.
(18) Treatment by either antegrade placement of ureteral stents or abdominal exploration with deligation or ureteroneocystotomy was successful in all cases.
(19) Antibiotic suppression and stent changes should not be used routinely but rather they should be individualized.
(20) An expandable metal stent inserted via a long term tracheostomy successfully relieved life threatening respiratory obstruction due to benign tracheal stenosis.