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They use night vision and an acute sense of hearing to find prey in the dark.
A study on the effects of acute dopamine reuptake inhibition on performance.
Appointments during these hours are generally reserved for acute visits and quick rechecks.
By creating analogs of nucleotides, she and her research group made drugs that treat acute leukemia and kidney plant rejection.
The short-fall was made more acute by the fact that the areas in the west of the province had richer soils, and were more abundantly irrigated.
In the camp's acute ward, a young man lies chained to his bed, being fed protein-and-vitamin mush through a stomach tube inserted via a nostril.
The wind was driving the rain at acute angles, and the windows were shuddering from the thunder.
The residents' acute fear of crime is itself a source of real danger, warns Budapest fire chief Peter Bende.
These issues should be addressed in a setting other than the busy, pressured atmosphere of accident and emergency or acute wards.
The acute dearth of primary sources or written documents left by the servants themselves in the colonial period acts as a stumbling block.
Mr Graber, you have acute muscle wastage caused by the steroidal hay-fever medication that you are taking.
In these days when so many men are using cutting torches, the physician must be on the watch for acute lead poisoning.
The situation is rather acute among blue-collar immigrants who migrate to the United States.
In the present scenario, where acute water shortage has become a reality, it is not right to pass the burden on to the people.
The Simon Community, which runs a network of centres around the country for homeless people, is also experiencing acute shortages of volunteers.
Plunged into darkness, practically all of Serbia has been dealing with an acute electricity shortage as generation plants under perform.
There is an acute shortage of housing in Colchester and a great need for first time buyers to get on the ladder.
In several villages and towns dotting the district, acute shortage of potable water has turned into an alarming situation.
Currently, American businesses are experiencing acute shortages of highly skilled IT professionals.
The Army continues to suffer acute shortages of staff and experienced personnel, and that is where the problem is.
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In some areas the situation is particularly acute and the problems are only going to get worse.
The situation is particularly acute in Dublin and in areas classified as disadvantaged.
An acute shortage of respite facilities for autistic children is forcing families to put children into residential care.
Infections with bacteria or viruses can give rise to an acute inflammation of a joint.
In 1965 the focus of care for elderly people was primarily on hospital care for acute illnesses and diseases.
None had acute disease such as other types of infection, heart failure or stroke during the study period.
Heliox is a unique therapy for acute asthma because it decreases airway resistance without changing the diameter of the airway.
This term indicates an acute disease of such severity that immediate surgical intervention must be considered.
In recent years, there has been increased use of dipstick tests for rapid screening and diagnosis of acute malaria in rural endemic areas.
Acute dysentery, typhoid fever and acute hepatitis were the next three most frequently reported diseases.
He said that since the disease broke out, the hospital had treated symptoms like acute diarrhoea, vomiting and dehydration.
This bronchodilator inhaler is used at the discretion of the student for acute symptoms of asthma.
Multiple medications are available to stabilize acute symptoms of bipolar disorder.
Bacterial infection can cause acute arthritis with inflammation, which constitutes an emergency.
Kayser-Jones defined acute illness in the nursing home as a change in health, with specific signs and symptoms of recent onset.
Appropriate treatment controls acute symptoms and reduces the risk of longer term complications.
The discovery of antibiotic drugs has been helpful in treating acute infection associated with chronic bronchitis.
The most severe stages of acute asthma are respiratory failure, cardiopulmonary arrest, and death.
This plant is useful for both acute and chronic respiratory diseases, including acute influenza, earache, sinusitis and sore throat.
Symptoms of acute disease resolve by one to three months, although some persons have prolonged fatigue.
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Above all the health service should operate in a way that keeps patients out of acute hospitals, thus minimising costs.
He highlighted that Waterford Regional is an acute hospital with patients often having an average stay of five or six days.
The hospital is closing ward five, which deals with acute medical patients, until more nursing staff are recruited.
Once the patient leaves the acute hospital, they may be transferred to a rehabilitation unit where they can get more intensive therapy.
However, since then, patients needing urgent acute surgical care have had to travel 15 miles to the nearest hospital in Cashel.
It also said that nursing homes should be used to allow patients be discharged from acute hospitals.
There will be more beds, despite the staffing difficulties, but at the moment what is clogging up the system is long-term patients in acute beds.
If the plans go ahead relatives and friends of acute patients from North Norfolk face a potential round trip of 60 miles to visit.
Twenty-four of the dead had been patients of a long-term acute care facility.
Managed clinical networks are in keeping with the increasingly important role primary care has in acute health care.
It is reminiscent of Pessoa's poems on Spring in its acute awareness of the poet's mortality.
It could be denial but I feel more likely it's an acute awareness of the stakes involved.
They've shown initiative, intelligence and an acute awareness of what punters need as they traipse round the stands.
My students articulate an acute awareness, if not a full understanding, of academic labor issues.
After all, he has rightfully gained renown for his prolific writing and acute insight into current affairs.
The originality resides in an acute awareness of how little an artist can dare to do in the course of creating great art.
Hooker displays an acute awareness that the hermeneutical task is not simply the intellectual assent to truth.
They have no rights, but an acute awareness of their responsibilities to the youngest and most vulnerable generation.
Her valuable book offers the reader an acute insight into the origins of our present-day consumer culture.
Tom Hamilton has produced an acute and insightful response to my post on euthanasia, of a kind with which it is a pleasure to engage.
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I have a quite acute sense of smell, even if it is a bit overwhelmed with bleach and antiseptics.
Whenever we see bats, we get quieter because they have an acute sense of hearing, and we don't want to scare them.
The acute sense of smell is important, since the badger's eyes are quite small, and its eyesight is not particularly good.
It has a very acute sense of smell, and it has a natural explorative behavior.
They are keen hunters with acute vision and feed primarily on small birds and mammals, waterfowl, and reportedly, even bats.
I am a sensitive, not in a supernatural sense, but my senses are very acute, my hearing is very acute.
Although suffering from poor vision, its sense of hearing and smell is acute and of primary importance in locating food.
Mrs Cook added that horses have acute hearing and can often hear a helicopter, and sense a disturbance in the air, from miles away.
He still figured it out, although an acute sense of smell might have helped that one.
Its sight is marvellously keen, hearing exceedingly acute, and sense of smell wonderfully perfect.
For instance, a hunting dog that could smell prey reduced the need for humans to have an acute sense of smell for that purpose.
Only Michael's acute sense of hearing saved him, allowing him just enough time to dive out of its path.
Well, I have an acute sense of smell and hearing, which is sometimes good, sometimes bad.
Polar bears have an acute sense of smell, and it is the most important sense for detecting prey on land.
A crocodile's sense of smell is very acute, and its hearing is also excellent.
In order to facilitate comparison among layers, all angles were measured as acute angles relative to the horizontal axis of the body.
The glazed sections of the facade are at acute angles to the ground plane and provide a range of views of the forest.
As Pelonis describes it, many compression ceilings are set at an acute angle to the front wall and are typically very hard.
It has a large posterior auricle that has a concave posterior margin meeting the hinge at an acute angle.
I froze, my lips pursed above my drink, the mug tipped at a dangerously acute angle, not really believing what I was seeing.
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The drawers are side hung and dovetailed, and the moldings are applied to form acute angles.
Saccheri then studied the hypothesis of the acute angle and derived many theorems of non-Euclidean geometry without realising what he was doing.
These lines are usually represented diagrammatically as converging on the point to form an acute angle.
The building is a stepped linear form thrusting at an acute angle towards the sea.
What looked like two scars were running down either side of Joe's back, forming a disconnected acute angle.
But Paul Hartley, having sped down the right flank into the box, sensed glory and drove the ball straight at goal from an acute angle.
When you make the drill, do not make the cutting edges so sharp or too acute.
This patient had overt symptoms of acute abdomen, unlike the four previously mentioned cases.
Acute pancreatitis should always be considered in the differential diagnosis of patients with acute abdomen.
This mental torment may become acute when the judicial verdict is finally set against the accused.
The clinical presentation in all cases was one of an acute abdomen suggestive of appendicitis, resulting in appendectomy as a primary procedure.
When the word has an acute accent over the vowel, it is pronounced with a voice that starts high and then rises sharply.
Our streets are flooded even after short rainfalls due to acute lack of rainwater outlets and clogged storm water drains.
The benefit of its use was a significant reduction in hospital admissions of patients who did not have acute coronary syndrome.
There can be sudden choking with acute respiratory distress, or there can be delayed symptoms with cough, wheezing, and hemoptysis.
An acute political awareness and a fondness for '50s comic strips inform his odd blend of malevolence and whimsy.
The authors note that acute MIs in their two study groups probably have different etiologies.
The authors conclude that acute adenoviral infection and Kawasaki disease share many clinical manifestations, making the diagnosis difficult.
For patients who have an acute ischemic stroke, the opportunity to limit the neurological damage is very time sensitive.
The theme evokes the acute anxieties, those of the kids portrayed and those of the responsible adults, that attend coming of age.
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Toner rattled the underside of the bar moments later before Bell fired wide from an acute angle on 89 minutes.
They can be very hard on themselves and when exhausted, can lapse into states of hypertension, agitation and acute anxiety.
Short term treatment with antipsychotic drugs carries a significant risk of sedation, acute dystonias, akathisia, and parkinsonism.
Side effects included dystonic reactions, acute dyskinesia, Parkinsonism, akathisia, and autonomic and cardiovascular symptoms.
The drought-like situation prevails in the district due to an acute shortage of water and extended power cuts triggered by delays in the monsoon.
Acute injuries, such as a sudden sprain or muscle pull, seem to happen out of the blue.
Acute lymphoblastic leukaemia is overproduction of immature lymphocytes, called lymphoblasts.
The soil variations are acute enough that they can differ radically from one side of a road to another.
Unlike the recent outbreak of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome, the threat from avian influenza was well understood.
At its widest point, the form is abruptly sliced and then twisted further still, at an acute angle, to face and frame a distant mountain on the horizon.
This would solve the problem of cutting the front bevels, with its fence set at an acute angle to the plane sole and guided by the back of the molded strip.
Both inpatient costs and total costs were significantly higher for nurse led inpatient care compared with standard care of medical patients on an acute ward.
The report, expected to be officially launched next month, will see the controversial redistribution and slimming down of acute hospital services.
Money is better off being spent to care for people in their own homes and in the community rather than being spent on hi-tech services and acute beds in hospitals.
Acute bacillary dysentery is characterized accompanied by fever, abdominal cramps and tenesmus.
They have a keen sense of smell, acute hearing, but poor eyesight.
Acute neonatal hypocalcaemia results in tetany and convulsions, usually at 5 to 14 days of age.
Acute bacterial infections, notably salmonellosis, brucellosis, pertussis, tuberculosis and rickettsial infections, can cause neutropenia.
Acute limb compartment syndrome is a surgical emergency characterised by raised pressure in an unyielding osteofascial compartment.
Acute intestinal coccidiosis results in unthriftiness, diarrhea and considerable mortality.
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Fines will be imposed on councils when a patient remains in an acute hospital bed after they have been deemed fit to be discharged to their own home or to a care home.
In the course of its review, one hospital said it was not uncommon for an acute medical patient to have to wait four or five days before treatment even began.
Widely derided as being out of touch with the country, in fact the prime minister showed an acute awareness of the opposition's weaknesses and how best to exploit them.
In total darkness, the bird relies on its acute sense of hearing.
Acute mountain sickness occurs in travelers making rapid ascents to high altitudes.
Acute dyspnea is a common clinical finding in the emergency department and other urgent care locations.
Acute ulcerative gingivitis, also known as Vincent's disease or trench mouth, is due to a bacterial infection of the gums.
As we will see, his works display an acute awareness of human faults and frailties and his writing exhibits a vividness and an elegance that makes it a pleasure to read.
Toibin writes with acute insight about James's relations with Alice and with Minny Temple, who was a model for several of his most important women characters.
Exploitation of trafficking victims may be most acute in conflict and adjoining regions, but it is not confined to these areas.
He has produced large number of booklets, souvenirs and brochures for many clubs, schools and the cricket board in this country, written with an acute insight of the game.
But she did have an acute awareness of what people need in order to live.
Acute mountain sickness is something that comes on after a day or so at high altitude.
Of all American presidents, Lincoln had the most acute religious insight.
The Renaissance Italians also had an acute insight into the importance of the balance of power for maintaining international order among themselves.
The staged contrast reveals an acute awareness of this double bind, this problem of representing mimetic desire while remaining insulated from it.
Acute mountain sickness can be acquired at altitudes greater than 5000 feet above sea level, so you need to be aware of its symptoms.
Infection is a common complication of acute leukemia treatment when the granulocyte scavenger white cells are low spontaneously or after treatment.
Physical examination revealed an afebrile woman in no acute distress.
Study findings have sparked research on the etiology of acute salpingitis, new approaches to treatment, and the immunopathogenesis of C. trachomatis infection in women.
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Acute disseminated encephalomyelitis, a rare demyelinating disease, is usually triggered by infections or immunisations.
Acute rheumatic fever and poststreptococcal glomerulonephritis are the nonsuppurative complications of streptococcal pharyngitis.
Acute diarrhea is an important defense mechanism that enables your body to expel foreign bacteria and parasites quickly.
As the acute, communicable diseases were defeated, attention shifted to the chronic and degenerative afflictions, especially cancer, diabetes, stroke, and heart disease.
Still scrounging for food and blighted by diseases like kala-azar and tuberculosis, many live as bonded labourers, and face acute food shortage and starvation every year.
Studies have clearly demonstrated that key therapies in the acute attack of migraine share the common pharmacologic activity of serotonin receptor agonism.
Acute ulcerative gingivitis results from severe infection of the gums and is extremely painful.
This problem afflicts a quarter of all irrigated land and is most acute in Pakistan, where two million hectares have been lost to high soil salinity.
The bird has extremely acute vision, ranges widely in search of prey, protects its territory without compromise and remains aloft for long periods of time.
Two studies have now been completed observing the care of terminally ill patients during their last six days of life in medical wards in two acute hospitals.
Acute infections that alter hemodynamics and fibrinolytic systems can trigger an ischemic event.
I've taken to wearing 5-spice beef around my neck and it really helps in warding off witches, as well as warlocks, wizards and basically anyone with an acute sense of smell.
Acute attacks may respond to indomethacin or another nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drug in adequate dosages.
The medication may upset your stomach but if you experience acute abdominal pain call your doctor.
Acute appendicitis is the commonest extrauterine indication for laparotomy in pregnancy, and it can occur in any trimester.
Based on the proposed mechanism of action and available experimental data, Rhodiola rosea appears to offer an advantage over other adaptogens in circumstances of acute stress.
The authors collected data related to 54 different causes of death that could be attributed to alcohol, both chronic and acute.
The diagnosis of the acute and chronic forms is made by measuring blood enzymes and by performing abdominal computed tomography, radiography, and ultrasound examinations.
The Pennine Acute Trust said the timing of the letter was a coincidence and not connected to the Observer story.
With the condition of waterworks becoming worse and groundwater level dipping, residents of the nearby villages are facing an acute water shortage here.
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And using an acute accent instead of the correct grave accent is a poignant, pathetic reminder of the potential for humiliation that social climbers expose themselves to.
The distinction between the old grave and acute accents were a help to children and learners to help them pronounce a word which they encountered for the first time.
Stress is written with an acute accent on the stressed vowel.
Wolfe and associates examined the current practice patterns of analgesia administration among emergency department physicians when caring for a patient with an acute abdomen.
In London, the housing crisis is very acute, there is a desperate shortage of social housing and with house prices so unreachable for the majority, few people are able to buy.
Acute fatigue syndromes associated with viral illnesses are very common among teenagers.
Acute or chronic abdominal pain can be the result of many different pathophysiological processes.
It points out that stations where the situation is particularly acute include Crewe, Preston and Carlisle, but the situation is also serious at Oxenholme.
Acute hydramnios leads to labor before 28 wks, or the symptoms become so severe that intervention is mandatory.
An acute shortage of experienced staff is undermining growth, says Wong.
Although local doctors have been warning of an acute shortage of intensive care beds for children, the Department of Health said it did not believe there was a crisis.
One issue that all the various groups on East Riding of Yorkshire Council agree on is the acute shortage of affordable housing throughout the region.
Acute cholecystitis may cause the gall bladder to adhere to the adjacent jejunum or duodenum.
Acute stress is characterised by increased heart and respiration rates, rising blood pressure, sweaty palms, and clammy skin.
Acute adenoviral infection was diagnosed if a positive culture for adenovirus was identified during medical evaluation.
While the cut in interest rates should alleviate some of the most acute pressures facing the economy, the UK economic climate has worsened and we are facing new dangers.
Acute abdominal pain is a common surgical emergency requiring admission to hospital.
Acute upper gastrointestinal haemorrhage accounts for about 2500 hospital admissions each year in the United Kingdom.
This is an acute sound, which evokes desperate associations.
And my teenage daughters went into the town to shop at cute stores selling cute things at acute prices.
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The proposed layout would result in a vehicle crossing the footway at an acute angle and would therefore constitute a hazard to pedestrians on the public footway.
Acute lathyrism is not an appropriate model for periodontitis which has a chronic origin.
The Acute Pain Service from the Department of Anesthesia manages epidural analgesia.
Acute care nurse practitioners are responsible for routine management of patients in the step-down units.
Acute infectious illnesses are well-known antecedent events in two thirds of patients who suffer from the syndrome.
For the hard granite a chisel with a less acute angle is employed, and flat chisel is then used to smooth out the final surfaces of the stone and for undercutting.
Acute antigen challenge of the airways can lead to rapid edema and appearance of plasma proteins in the airways.
It was because of the acute angle of the area over which he stepped, the acute angle at which the concrete went away from the bridge, that there was no room right there.
Acute diarrhoea was rare in these sections, and no outbreaks of gastroenteritis were recorded.
Acute hepatitis C viral infection may present with very mild intermittent symptoms, or no symptoms at all.
He takes it at a slightly too acute angle, and right there before my eyes, the whole car with its four occupants actually starts tipping onto its side.
In a split-second, Andre De Lisser hooked the ball away from the keeper and, from an acute angle, curled it into the far corner of an unguarded goal.
Acute coronary events occur as a result of rupture of an unstable atheromatous plaque.
This ability results from a well-developed, acute sense of hearing.
The other more virulent form of the disease is found in Southern and Eastern Africa and causes a more acute infection, with symptoms showing after only a few weeks.
This was particularly acute on short haul flights as there was insufficient time to allow the unit to cool before a restart was needed.
Transient, severe hyperlipidemia in patients with acute lymphoblastic leukemia treated with prednisone and asparaginase.
Immunohistologic demonstration of endothelial disruption in acute atherosis in pre-eclampsia.
Acalculous cholecystitis is a form of acute cholecystitis seen more frequently in immunosuppressed and high risk patients.
A satellite accumulation point may contain up to 55 gallons of hazardous waste or one quart of acute hazardous waste indefinitely.
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Giddy Ejeng was suffering from acute abdomen pain and had symptoms of anemia for almost about a year.
Rule out masses and any signs of acute abdomen, including rigidity and tympanic bowel sounds, she said.
The acute abdomen may be defined generally as an intra abdominal process causing severe pain and often requiring surgical intervention.
Clinical significance of minimal residual disease in childhood acute lymphoblastic leukemia.
Ryan has acute lymphoblastic leukemia, a malignant cancer that originates in cells in bone marrow.
According to Castellani, dehydration also made acute mountain sickness worse.
As the CD4 count decreases, the risk of rapidly progressive acute necrotising ulcerative gingivitis and stomatitis increases.
She also explained the acute toxicity and behavioural pattern of her study on drugs.
We are working together on acute toxicity studies in different species of fish, because this information is lacking.
I therefore record ha re att th tox an hat xici nd H that she died from the acute toxicity effects of morphine and alcohol.
Plasma adrenocorticotrophin and cortisol responses to acute hypoxia at rest and during exercise.
Concentrations of air pollutants in many homes exceed health-based standards for chronic and acute exposures.
Mr Richardson was found to have died of acute alcohol intoxication, and Dr Harris recorded a verdict of accidental death.
Alginates are also suitable for use in deep wounds and to control bleeding in superficial acute wounds.
The investigated results showed that alkanoic acid significantly inhibited the carrageenan-induced acute arthritis.
Workaholics and those who persistently suffer acute boredom are also targeted, which is good news for me since I've been a workaholic for years.
Because of its strong help in liver detoxification, it is used allopathically to treat acute acetaminophen poisoning in a hospital setting.
Effects of acute treatment and long-term treatment with MK-801 against amygdaloid kindled seizures in rats.
He developed acute respiratory distress, involuntary myoclonic movements, anasarca, marked oliguria, and persistent atrial fibrillation.
A teenager with angiographically normal epicardial coronary arteries and acute myocardial infarction after butane inhalation.
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Exceptions to those rules are indicated by an acute accent mark over the vowel of the stressed syllable.
None of the patients had acute postoperative azotemia or statistically significant elevation of serum creatinine.
Anti-inflammatory and anticoagulative effects of paeonol on LPS-induced acute lung injury in rats.
Acute leukemia frequently has been described as a late complication of chemotherapy with alkylating agents in patients treated for multiple myeloma.
Acute lung injury induced by saline solution lavage, in contrast to that induced by oleic acid, is known to be stable for a 2-to 4-h period after stabilization.
Acute eosinophilic pneumonia, a rare and often fatal form of the disease that has developed in soldiers serving in and near Iraq, mimics community-acquired pneumonia.
The Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome epidemic in China is a modest measure of what might occur after serious biological weapon attack in the United States.
Acute exposure to repetitive hypoxia has been shown to result in habituation that is expressed as a decreased frequency of arousal in response to the same stimulus.
Acute and catatonic forms of the illness were more prevalent in developing countries, whereas hebephrenic and chronic forms were more frequently seen in developed countries.
Thus, approachers are more likely than avoiders to make threat appraisals and become upset as a result following intense acute stress.
Effects of immature recruitable collaterals on myocardial blood flow and infarct size after acute coronary occlusion.
Acute pulmonary edema is a medical emergency and requires immediate care.
It is considered to be biphasic, the primary acute phase is correlated with the release of histamine, serotonin, kinins and some mediators.
Zipes, Optical mapping of the functional reentrant circuit of ventricular tachycardia in acute myocardial infarction.
It's a politically acute film that does not oversimplify the issues.
In the assessment of substances for toxic characteristics acute toxicity is usually a first step in providing information on relative toxicity.
The patient was diagnosed after displaying both aerophobia and acute hydrophobia.
They recommend that such depressions be treated with antidepressants whether evolved from the depressoid state of acute grief or not.
This remedy will be found speedily efficious in hoarseness due to excessive action of the vocal cords or resulting from an acute cold.
The gonydeal angle is large and acute, and the bill is long and almost raptorially hooked.
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Bats host many high-profile viruses that can infect humans, including severe acute respiratory syndrome and Ebola.
Night after night his disappointment is acute, but hope springs eternal in the scholastic breast, and he follows me again to-morrow.
This only made the dilemma more acute, with consequent continual litigation in the secular and ecclesiastical courts.
Exceptions to this rule are indicated by placing an acute accent on the stressed vowel.
Trace eyeblink conditioning is likewise affected by acute stress and is associated with female impairments and male enhancements in acquisition.
Tolkien was 12, his mother died of acute diabetes at Fern Cottage in Rednal, which she was renting.
All he had to do was replicate his near-indecipherable microscript, originally developed in response to an acute paper shortage.
A more extensive system of social welfare benefits was established by the Attlee Government, which did much to reduce acute social deprivation.
These proteins appear to be distant relatives of the Tet1 oncogene that is involved in the pathogenesis of acute myeloid leukemia.
It is difficult to get resources out of acute care without closing buildings, which is a political problem particularly in rural areas.
The Sherlock Holmes stories helped marry forensic science, particularly Holmes' acute observation of small clues, and literature.
Recently, more and more attention has been drawn to neurorestorative therapies, which possess far longer time window than acute neuroprotection.
The evidence suggests that both acute and chronic laryngeal changes occur more frequently among cheerleaders than among noncheerleaders.
It is nonobtuse if none its dihedral angles is obtuse, and acute if additionally none of them is right.
This was particularly acute as Caernarfon was made the centre of government in the northern part of the country.
The acute attacks have been given a wide range of explanations, from epilepsy to some form of cardiovascular disease.
The city's acute hospital is the Royal Stoke University Hospital run by the University Hospitals of North Midlands NHS Trust.
This is because it feeds on immobile bottom dwelling mollusks and hence does not need acute vision.
Ingestion or inhalation of large amounts may cause acute radiation poisoning and possibly death.
Radiation exposure can produce effects ranging from skin redness and hair loss, to radiation burns and acute radiation syndrome.
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These health effects include premature death, acute respiratory illness, aggravated asthma, chronic bronchitis and decreased lung function.
Although it is not well studied, single benzene exposure events have been linked to acute carcinogenesis.
Brown rats have acute hearing, are sensitive to ultrasound, and possess a very highly developed olfactory sense.
The possibility was considered that it was caused by an acute form of encephalomyelitis, which was first observed in captive bred silver foxes.
Although their sense of smell is acute, their eyesight is monochromatic as has been shown by their lack of reaction to red lanterns.
Olfaction is probably the wolf's most acute sense, and plays a fundamental role in communication.
Runaway lending continues, bad debts mount even higher, and the need for more cash to paper over losses becomes that much more acute.
Crocodiles have acute senses, an evolutionary advantage that makes them successful predators.
But they lived through these times of acute social disturbance, and we did not.
Other illnesses fit the symptoms, including acute pancreatitis and West Nile virus.
With their acute eyesight and hearing, common ostriches can sense predators such as lions from far away.
In addition to superb eyesight and hearing, zebras also have acute senses of smell and taste.
The acute and ponderous mind of Dr. Johnson was not always right in its decisions.
Deforestation, often the result of illegal logging, is an acute problem in the Philippines.
Its hearing is about as acute as that of a human, and its vision is also good at long distances.
In older printed editions of Old English works, an acute accent mark was used to maintain cohesion between Old English and Old Norse printing.
During the late 17th century, the piecemeal approach to road maintenance caused acute problems on the main routes into London.
Providence is home to eight hospitals, most prominently Rhode Island Hospital, the largest general acute care hospital in the state.
Angular drainage patterns form where bedrock joints and faults intersect at more acute angles than rectangular drainage patterns.
In cattle, bracken poisoning can occur in both an acute and chronic form, acute poisoning being the most common.
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My early years were a mix of acute loneliness and great freedom.
Stem abbreviated, terete-cylindric, to 1 cm long, monophyllous, completely concealed by papyraceous, subancipitous, acute sheaths to 1 cm long.
Dr. H. S. Sullivan, for example, is known to many for his acute understanding of the postural tonuses of his patients.
After this acute period, it has been previously shown, in a cat model, that transventricular absorption of CSF occurs.
These are reasons that trayline assembly is popular in healthcare, especially for acute care environments.
Moreover, 2 of 4 patients with secondary diagnosis of acute interstitial nephritis showed tubulitis, a feature associated with tubular injury.
For the patient with unifocal colonization, he was admitted to SICU for septic shock secondary to acute cholangitis.
The known toxic effect of biguanides is lactic acidosis in acute and chronic use.
Human adenoviruses are the cause of a wide spectrum acute and chronic diseases.
The patient was reintubated for acute respiratory failure, and her anuria persisted.
It has been noted after vestibulitis, furuncles, and acute and chronic coryza.
In 1968 an outbreak of acute nonbacterial gastroenteritis occurred in elementary school students in Norwalk, Ohio.
Minor manifestations include arthralgia, fever, elevated acute phase reactants in blood, and a prolonged PR interval on electrocardiography.
The therapeutic focus will be on acute bleeding in the lungs and if successful Serendex Pharmaceuticals might be able to offer breakthrough therapy in this indication.
Herein, we present a case of inferior myocardial infarction associated with tonsillectomy and adenoidectomy complicated by acute stent thrombosis and major bleeding.
There has been a particularly acute white backlash or 'whitelash' in the United States against affirmative action programmes which promote women and black men.
On the eve of the big encounter, news reached Welsh that Wolgast had been taken to hospital with acute appendicitis and would be unable to fight for three months.
Texanol is readily biodegradable and is unlikely to persist in the environment, and laboratory studies have shown that Texanol has low acute toxicity by an routes of exposure.
There is no evidence that eating a few seeds would cause acute toxicity.
While estimates vary, it is though that upwards of 400 children died of acute lead poisoning making this perhaps the largest lead poisoning fatality epidemic ever encountered.

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