(v. i.) To be maintained with food and clothing; to be supported; to live.
(v. t.) To support with provisions; to feed; to maintain; as, to subsist one's family.
Example Sentences:
(1) Assessment of nutritional status of vitamin B components by plasma or blood levels indicated riboflavin deficiency and possibly thiamine deficiency in Nigerian patients who suffered from tropical ataxic neuropathy and neurologically normal Nigerians who subsisted on predominant cassava diet.
(2) Mr Mutsa, typical of several million subsistence farmers who farm on average just 0.4 hectares (one acre) yet make up 85% of Malawi's agricultural production, cycled 30 miles to bring his daughter to the hospital in Nsanje, in the far south of Malawi, where four nurses work in its nutrition rehabilitation unit.
(3) The results indicate that a gonadotropic potency subsists in the pituitary even after 20 days of isolated culture.
(4) Socioeconomic variation in the growth status of 293 children, 6 through 13 years of age, from a rural subsistence agricultural community in southern Mexico was considered.
(5) RDE: I wouldn't expect the head of Oxfam to subsist on gruel, but I'd like charity workers to see their jobs as vocations rather than a well-paid career providing both generous financial rewards and the opportunity to pontificate from the moral high ground.
(6) They emphasised upon the necessity of evoked potentials, CT-Scan with contrast and eventually MNR examination specially usefull in cholesteatoma when some doubt subsists.
(7) fractures involving the zygoma, the upper jaw or other orbital bone alteraions and deviations of the bony orbital contours and also of the orbital contents can subsist, even after primary operative correction.
(8) Controversy subsists about interpretations of "delayed cholinergic blanch" in atopic dermatitis.
(9) The study population of 130,000 consisted mainly of subsistence cultivators who live in remote hamlets, and included about 27,600 women between the ages of 15 and 49 years.
(10) And he says it certainly did not give him the right to tell African subsistence farmers how to live.
(11) The highest intakes were observed in individuals subsisting on diets rich in whole wheat grain cereal products and seafoods.
(12) The purposes were: (1) to compare the Mesolithic sample with the later Nubian populations; and (2) to evaluate further the hypothesis that change in Nubian craniofacial morphology was due to changing functional demands associated with the progressive change in subsistence adaptation and associated behavior.
(13) For indigenous subsistence harvest communities in Alaska that rely on the availability of seals and whales, that will mean a way of life, and – even more simply – meals on the line.
(14) These physical impairments would have greatly interfered with the individual's participation in subsistence activities and would have been a substantial handicap in a nomadic hunting and gathering group.
(15) It was likely that time demands from subsistence farming and income generating activities also affected service utilization, but the women probably interpreted the question on employment incorrectly.
(16) Subsistance strategies this Toba group has adopted are quite similar to the strategies other marginal or subaltern groups resort to.
(17) However, many thousands have to wait longer than three weeks because of the backlog, so they subsist on the basics and rely on family and friends to help tide them over until the paperwork is complete.
(18) Uddin was facing allegations over a £100,000 claim in allowances, and Lord Clarke of Hampstead, a former party chairman, admitted his "terrible error" in claiming up to £18,000 a year for overnight subsistence when he often stayed with friends in London or returned home to St Albans, Hertfordshire.
(19) Two related Tupí-Mondê-speaking tribes of the Aripuanã Indian Park of western Brazil are compared in terms of their recent contact with Western culture, subsistence patterns, general health, and blood pressure levels.
(20) The quantitative relationships between dietary energy intake and weight gain in pregnancy, birthweight and lactation performance during the first three months of infancy have been studied in such a way as to take account of major differences in the patterns of heavy manual labour at different times of the year in a subsistence farming community.
Survive
Definition:
(v. t.) To live beyond the life or existence of; to live longer than; to outlive; to outlast; as, to survive a person or an event.
(v. i.) To remain alive; to continue to live.
Example Sentences:
(1) Such a decrease significantly biased survival (p = 0.001).
(2) This study was undertaken to determine whether the survival of Hispanic patients with squamous cell carcinoma of the head and neck was different from that of Anglo-American patients.
(3) In this article we report the survival and morbidity rates for all live-born infants weighing 501 to 1000 gram at birth and born to residents of a defined geographic region from 1977 to 1980 (n = 255) compared with 1981 to 1984 (n = 266).
(4) In contrast to previous reports, these tumours were more malignant than osteosarcomas and showed a five-year survival rate of only 4-2 per cent.
(5) The data from this experience as well as others previously reported can yield prognostic indicators of survival in cases of accidental hypothermia.
(6) Tests showed the cells survive and function normally in animals and reverse movement problems caused by Parkinson's in monkeys.
(7) The statistical T value calculated for the LP-TAE group showed that the administration of LP, the tumor size, intrahepatic metastasis, portal vein infiltration, and serum total bilirubin and alpha-fetoprotein levels significantly (P < 0.01) affected the patients' survival.
(8) Systemic corticosteroids (i.e., prednisone, prednisolone or methylprednisolone) have improved the survival rate of patients with moderate and severe ulcerative colitis.
(9) The actuarial 5-year disease-free survival rates were 83% (group 1), 83% (group 2), and 100% (group 3).
(10) However, survival was closely related to the severity of the illness at the time of randomization and was not altered by shunting.
(11) We are pursuing legal action because there are still so many unanswered questions about the viability of Shenhua’s proposed koala plan and it seems at this point the plan does not guarantee the survival of the estimated 262 koalas currently living where Shenhua wants to put its mine,” said Ranclaud.
(12) Survival was independent of the type of clinical presentation and protocol employed but was correlated with the stage (P less than 0.0005), symptoms (P less than 0.025), bulky disease (P less than 0.025) and bone marrow involvement (P less than 0.025).
(13) Since interferon alfa-2b (Intron A) is useful as a single agent, it is important to determine if interferon can be combined with standard chemotherapy to improve both response and survival in patients with cancer.
(14) Many thoracic motoneurons were able to survive up to posthatching stages following transplantation.
(15) No differences in cardiac output were noted in surviving animals.
(16) However, about one-third of the melanomas showed a higher surviving fraction at 2.0 Gy than the highest value measured for the other tumors.
(17) The results show that in TMO-treated animals the time to the onset of convulsions, the time to the onset of NADH oxidation-reduction cycles, and the survival time were significantly longer than in the control group.
(18) Development at two to 15 months of age in the 19 surviving infants was normal in nine, suspect in eight, and severely delayed in two patients.
(19) Breast conserving surgery in patients with small tumors combined with radiation therapy has gained wide popularity due to better cosmetic results without significant changes in survival.
(20) Six of 7 SAO shock rats treated with U74006F survived for 120 min following reperfusion, while none of 7 SAO shock rats given the vehicle survived for 120 min (P less than .01).