(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.
(1) See the fringed haircut – a bit Uma in Pulp Fiction, a bit Sam Rollinson – and the stance when dealing with the uncouth presence of Chris Pratt complete with a weapon holster and dirty T-shirt.
(2) Everything about him was uncouth, ranging from his entrance on an escalator in Trump Tower to his accusation that the Mexican government was deliberately sending rapists across the border into the US.
(3) How embarrassing that some members of the government appear to have behaved in the manner of uncouth thugs – and towards someone representing the UN, which dared to question the bedroom tax.
(4) She comes across as vapid and totally uncouth without a bit of finesse about her.
(5) For her to accuse Mrs. Oponyo for indiscretions that have clearly arisen from her personal frustrations that her ego has not been massaged by the state is uncouth, and speaks volumes of a musician who desperately thinks she must generate recognition by bullying state officials instead of playing decent music on the stage.
(6) His rival John Constable was relatively generous about him on first meeting, writing that: “he is uncouth but has a wonderful range of mind.” The topographical artist Edward Dayes was harsher: “The man must be loved for his works; for his person is not striking nor his conversation brilliant.” Family Facebook Twitter Pinterest The film show team review Mr Turner Turner lives with Hannah and his father William (Paul Jesson), who had been a barber.
(7) Being 23 years old and relatively uncouth, I asked if it was serious.
(8) But Trump’s campaign has always been longer on talk than substance, and this is a strategically wise picture for Trump to be painting: that he may be brash and uncouth from time to time, but he’s fundamentally a guy who calls it as he sees it.
(9) This, between you and me, will be the destruction of the United States.” The band of loyalists surrounding the property developer and television host have frequently shown themselves to be uncouth, combative and ignorant about the mechanics of American politics – rather like the unorthodox candidate they call their boss.
(10) He can certainly do humble, gentle giant, amoral, uncouth, even thuggish, but critics have always credited him with an underlying sensitivity and intelligence.
(11) Spitting Image always portrayed him as a shouty figure, irredeemably uncouth.
(12) Lothar König, a youth pastor from Jena, said Mundlos was known to have disliked the "uncouth" elements of the rightwing scene.
(13) For Waugh, the club consisted of “epileptic royalty from their villas of exile; uncouth peers from crumbling country seats; smooth young men of uncertain tastes from embassies and legations; illiterate lairds from wet granite hovels in the Highlands; ambitious young barristers and Conservative candidates torn from the London season and the indelicate advances of debutantes; all that was most sonorous of name and title”.
(14) I can summarise every article right here: "Of course we all like unions in principle, but isn't it uncouth when they actually try to do something?"
(15) He is as ugly as sin, long-nosed, queer-mouthed, and with uncouth and somewhat rustic, although courteous manners... [He] seems inclined to lead a sort of Indian life among civilised men - an Indian life, I mean, as respects the absence of any systematic effort for a livelihood."
(16) The question as polls have tightened in recent days is whether voters will end up supporting the uncouth demagogue who has confounded pundits in the past 15 months.
(17) I had taken to reading the austere Le Monde every day and remember the uncouth Jack Valenti, head of the Motion Picture Association in Hollywood, who particularly despised European film directors for pleading with their governments to exclude cinema, and the arts in general, from the negotiations.
(18) In Kuwait, in 1959, with his close friend Abu Jihad, he began publishing a crudely edited magazine, Our Palestine, which, with impetuous and uncouth vigour, lamented the Palestinian refugees' plight and the inaction of Arab regimes, and trumpeted the ideal of the Return, with a full-scale "population liberation war" as the only means of achieving it.
(19) 2.42pm: Meanwhile Amit, James and Tim are surrounded by gibbering, uncouth, flea-ridden specimens: "Just thought we'd drop you a line to say we've just driven to the southern most point of Africa - Cape Agulhas - and are now driving through the desolate wastelands of rural SA to find a bar to watch the game.
(20) Carroll may be uncouth as a footballer but he has an ability to make almost any defender look oafish – Roy Hodgson might just consider that a precious trait when he selects his World Cup squad.