(a.) More than is wanted or is sufficient; rendered unnecessary by superabundance; unnecessary; useless; excessive; as, a superfluous price.
Example Sentences:
(1) The tetracaine component of TAC is superfluous for obtaining topical anesthesia of minor dermal lacerations of the face in children.
(2) If exact indications are present, it can make a surgical intervention superfluous in selected cases.
(3) The surgical coordinates of the targets based on the stereotactic CT study with the Stereoadapter were on average as accurate as those obtained with ventriculography; therefore, ventriculography may become superfluous in functional stereotaxis.
(4) In many cases, the diagnosis is delayed, often being made only after comprehensive superfluous diagnostic procedures, sometimes invasive, and inappropriate treatment.
(5) 62 min Spain make a double substitution: Jesus Navas replaces the superfluous Sergio Busquets, and Fernando Torres replaces the disappointing David Silva.
(6) Tell me what will happen when the majority of mankind has become technologically superfluous."
(7) It is assumed that the neurotizing agent was the superfluous situational (photic) stimulation which presented excessive requirements to the mechanisms regulating the general functional state of the brain.
(8) Seen from the father's point of view, the son, on one hand represents the only solution for continuation of his life, the only possibility of victory over death, on the other hand however, he will substitute him one day, make him superfluous and eventually take his place.
(9) Feathering may be considered as a safety margin against spinal cord damage in medulloblastoma but it is superfluous in leukemia.
(10) In a later press statement, the Department of Health described the change as "a deep clean of superfluous national targets in favour of clearer, simpler standards".
(11) The great advances made in orthopaedic surgery over the last few decades have however not resulted in rehabilitative activity having become superfluous.
(12) Among reasons for inadequate numbers of doctors the author mentions in particular superfluous consulting, examinations in conjunction with assessment of the work capacity, and administrative work done by many doctors.
(13) Why, they ask, spend scarce public money on something that is both superfluous as a transport link and vastly expensive as a park?
(14) The effects of cue-load and cue-type (category and rhyming) on the cued recall of word lists were examined in amnesic and control subjects under conditions where contextual information was either important or superfluous to recall.
(15) For this reason a possible tooth involvement should be ruled out before therapy, loss of dental pulp of various origin and periodontal diseases should be excluded, otherwise the treatment must begin with the cause, after which further intervention is usually superfluous.
(16) Offering to these patients an adrenal autograft represents more than a superfluous medical exercise, since a successful outcome of the graft will relieve them of the burdens and risks of long-term postoperative steroid replacement therapy.
(17) The data obtained are suggestive of some "superfluity" of the protein steroid-binding site which, in turn, ensures the multifunctionality of estrophilic HSD including a possibility of an alternative orientation of steroids in their binding site.
(18) The findings of a questionnaire in 88 patients with 106 prostheses are presented, according to which substitution of the testis with a prosthesis is not a superfluous therapeutic procedure.
(19) Analysis of serial sections, and application of electron microscopic radioautography and histochemistry have suggested that these structures are associated with the nuclear envelope which is necessary for regulating the superfluous chromosome localization in the hybrid nucleus.
(20) Thus, the costly defibrillators delivering 400 to 800 joules now sold by 11 of 14 American manufacturers are superfluous, untested, potentially lethal devices with which to attempt ventricular defibrillation.
Supernumerary
Definition:
(a.) Exceeding the number stated or prescribed; as, a supernumerary officer in a regiment.
(a.) Exceeding a necessary, usual, or required number or quality; superfluous; as, supernumerary addresses; supernumerary expense.
(n.) A person or thing beyond the number stated.
(n.) A person or thing beyond what is necessary or usual; especially, a person employed not for regular service, but only to fill the place of another in case of need; specifically, in theaters, a person who is not a regular actor, but is employed to appear in a stage spectacle.
Example Sentences:
(1) Based on the findings of our recent longitudinal study on the abnormalities of the dentition in cleidocranial dysplasia (CCD), a hypothesis has been proposed, which makes it possible to predict time of onset of formation of supernumerary teeth and their location in the jaws.
(2) In the remaining patients congenital and acquired osseous alterations, supernumerary scalene muscle, congenital fibrous bands were the etiologic factors.
(3) Examples include the specific pattern of hypodontia seen before the development of iris dysplasia in Rieger syndrome, and the presence of supernumerary teeth and facial osteomas preceding malignant transformation of intestinal polyps in Gardner syndrome.
(4) Osteopetrosis is diffuse and is associated with important metaphyseal widening as well as epiphyseal irregularities and often carpal and tarsal supernumerary bones.
(5) Thirty four individuals showed the standard karyotype 2K = 26M + 10A + (M)X + (A)Y + Bs (2n = 38 + Bs), where Bs are supernumerary chromosomes.
(6) The purpose of the present investigation was to describe the formation, maturation and eruption of the dentition, including supernumerary teeth in a sample of patients with cleidocranial dysplasia.
(7) Brilliantly fluorescent supernumerary chromocenters indistinguishable from the Y-chromatin have been often found electively in the thyroid nuclei.
(8) For differential diagnosis rudimentary supernumerary digit, cutaneous horn and granuloma pyogenicum are to be considered.
(9) They review the different symptoms, varietes and frequencies of supernumerary hepatic lobes.
(10) Supernumerary teeth were formed lingually and occlusally to the normal teeth.
(11) Previous studies have indicated that pregnant animals treated acutely with toxic levels of a variety of pharmacologically unrelated chemicals produced litters without a recognizable syndrome of defects, except for an increased incidence of supernumerary ribs (SNR).
(12) In 6 patients with proved supernumerary glands, total ischemia of the graft was not followed by significant changes in intact PTH.
(13) Only children who had both supernumerary teeth and congenitally missing teeth outside the area of the cleft alveolus were included.
(14) These are characterized by: (I) hyperdiploid karyotypes including one or more supernumerary ring chromosomes (5 cases); (II) diploid karyotypes with mostly balanced rearrangements involving 12q13-14 (13 cases), including the rearrangement t(3;12) (q27-28;q13-14) in 4 cases; (III) hypodiploid or diploid karyotypes with other aberrations than ring chromosomes or rearrangements of 12q13-14 (8 cases); and (IV) normal karyotypes (9 cases).
(15) Therefore, both types of voltage-dependence for sperm entry are present in oocytes, although the depolarization caused by a single sperm is not large enough to permit its entry, nor is the depolarization caused by many sperm sufficient to prevent the entry of supernumerary sperm.
(16) These results demonstrate that in the immature rat more than 50% of PCs are each innervated by at least two distinct CFs; later on, the disappearance of the supernumerary synapses between CF and PC leads, as early as day 15, to the one-to-one relationship between CF and PC.
(17) Report of a supernumerary extra chromosome der(11;22)(q23;q12) resulting from a balanced translocation in the mother.
(18) Recurrent hyperparathyroidism (four patients) was the major late postoperative complication, but was more frequently the result of a supernumerary or previously overlooked fourth parathyroid gland (three), than due to hyperplasia of residual parathyroid tissue (one).
(19) A supernumerary valvula of the pulmonary semilunar valve was found in a 51-year old, male Japanese.
(20) In order to directly evaluate the effects of sperm antibodies in human in vitro fertilization (IVF), the authors preincubated donor sperm in female sera containing sperm antibodies and then inseminated supernumerary human oocytes from a gamete intrafallopian transfer (GIFT) program.