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  • Dylan seemed exhausted, self-preoccupied, and morbidly depressed. Touched with Fire
  • Eating disorders, anorexia nervosa, and bulimia nervosa, are characterised by morbid preoccupation with weight and shape and manifest through distorted or chaotic eating behaviour.
  • The term morbid obesity is used to describe people whose body mass index (BMI) -- a measure of weight in relation to height -- is 40 or higher. Canada.com Top Stories
  • This lapidation has sometimes been doubted, and treated as an invention of Rousseau's morbid suspicion. Rousseau (Volume 1 and 2)
  • Prostate cancer is a common malignant tumor in male genitourinary system, it morbidity is increasing in recent years.
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  • I find that the association between gestational diabetes and perinatal death or morbidity was recognized in 1983.
  • In patients with superimposed bacterial infection, septicaemia develops and is associated with increased morbidity and mortality.
  • I didn't see any Western country with so many elements of social morbidity: poverty, beggary and starvation.
  • So great is the danger of such injurious results, few careful practitioners have cared to adopt the heroic "antipyretic" medication recommended by experimenters, preferring to allow their patients to burn with fever, mitigated only by such simple means as are commonly employed by nurses, than to require them to combat the poisonous influences of a drug in addition to the morbid element of the disease. Scientific American Supplement, No. 455, September 20, 1884
  • Sleep returned, and health, with cessation of all the morbid symptoms, the result of overwork and night work, for he used at Cheyne Walk to begin painting in the afternoon, and, lighting a huge gasalier on a standard near his easel, keep at his drawing far into the night, sleeping late the next day. The Autobiography of a Journalist
  • It challenges the seemingly benign interest we have in criminology and forces us to question our morbid fascination with terrible deeds. Times, Sunday Times
  • I am what could be called morbidly obese, and have been for almost the entirety of my life. Rob Kall: Keith Olbermann Terrorized and Gov Tries to Hide it
  • The failing to do this is the greatest mistake of the present generation, for if girls be capable of nothing but morbid sentiment or what we term flirtation, they will naturally look to matrimony as their destiny and as a means of support -- a self-abasement from which no woman can fully recover, even under the most favorable circumstances. How to Train Girls.
  • Malaria morbidity and mortality have been held in check by the widespread availability of cheap and effective antimalarial drugs.
  • Scurfiness, or excessive scurfiness, is the result of morbid action, and may be treated by the frequent use of the fleshbrush or hairbrush, ablution with soap and water, and the use of mild stimulating, astringent, or detergent lotions. The Ladies Book of Useful Information Compiled from many sources
  • There's a lot of overlap with obsessive-compulsive disorder, what they call comorbidity -- depression, eating disorders, sometimes ADHD. CNN Transcript Dec 18, 2009
  • I hop on planes without morbid thoughts. Times, Sunday Times
  • If she do not gravitate too irresistibly towards that class of New-Era people (which includes whatsoever we have of prurient, esurient, morbid, flimsy, and in fact pitiable and unprofitable, and is at a sad discount among men of sense), she may get into good tracks of inquiry and connection here, and be very useful to herself and others. The Correspondence of Thomas Carlyle and Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1834-1872, Vol II
  • Epidemics of influenza are associated with increases in mortality and morbidity.
  • He thought it without morbidity for he had loved his brother dearly. IN LOVE AND WAR
  • n. - morbid fear of thunder and lightning. astringe v. - bind; brace; restrict; constipate. v. - guide (spaceship, etc.); v.i. navigate in space. astrogony Xml's Blinklist.com
  • This adds to the comorbidity, meaning they have more mental health issues, because they can't figure out why they are being invalidated. The Bilerico Project
  • The benefits of this approach must be weighed against the morbidity of the procedure.
  • This is a massacre, or assome one elseposted withmorbid enthusiasm, an example of "beating the crap" out of people. Gaza and Tijuana; What if Rocket Bombs Were Launched from Mexico Into California
  • Out of the side streets opposite the jail they came by scores, drawn for the most part by idle and morbid curiosity.
  • Individual predisposition Psychological factors Most researchers have concluded that the premorbid personality is characterised by substantial emotional instability.
  • My hands burned with the warm, viscid crimson of my father's blood and I found myself morbidly wondering if I would feel such erotic satisfaction each time I took a life.
  • Laughter without air and sunshine becomes morbid, decadent, demoniac. The House Beautiful
  • Possessed by morbid drives that defy easy psychological analysis, they pursued a revolutionary domestic policy, not because they had any faith in its merits but in order to be revenged on their enemies and consolidate their power.
  • It is also often comorbid with other mental illnesses such as bipolar, major depression, anxiety, avoidant personality disorder, OCD, OCPD, to name a few.
  • Depending on the histologic type and tumor grade, the morbidity and mortality can vary greatly.
  • I have a morbid fear of being seen as weak, pathetic or girly.
  • Is it that we are morbidly fascinated with the dead?
  • She was some kind of a morbid Catholic, because that word succubus was unknown to the profane. Là-bas
  • With the growth of anatomical knowledge, the literal hypothesis of the morbidly wandering womb became increasingly untenable.
  • Patients who develop pre-eclampsia at near term are at low risk of maternal and neonatal morbidity.
  • With Wall Street again emerging from the bear cave, morbid fear of double dip is fading in the wake of upside corporate reports. The Aviation Boom Market
  • Also, these medications often are poorly tolerated in elderly patients who have multiple comorbidities.
  • Terry seemed to regard it with awe and wonder, Ellie thought it was desperate, morbid, the stuff of nightmares.
  • I don't doubt that he liked his glass—it's a good man's failing—but he knew how to drink so it didn't poison his brain with morbidness and filth. Archive 2006-12-01
  • Their morbidity, especially on a day so full of possibilities, revolted him. THE GREAT AND SECRET SHOW
  • The overall goal of our current research efforts is to develop methods to evaluate and assess the causal or contributing factors of anergia in order to develop interventions to decrease morbidity and mortality due to this syndrome," Dr. Maurer says. PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories
  • Malnutrition, parasitic infestations, maternal and child morbidity and drug abuse are more important priorities and reflect on the allocation of resources for mental health services.
  • The road has a specific morbid relevance to Howie; it's where his mother was killed, and its concrete expanses hold both repulsion and fascination for him.
  • It entails boy's-adventure jolliness, raffish character comedy, social satire, dialect humor, maybe-metaphorical farce, a parody of morbidly sentimental verse. Books on Southern Humor
  • The trip was made all the worse by Frankie's morbid fear of flying.
  • Things could be worse: count your blessings that you are not a victim of pantophobia -- the morbid dread of everything. VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol X No 1
  • These include epilepsy, fibromyalgia, various interesting respiratory things, a whole passel of cormorbid conditions piggybacking on the fibro, et cetera - but for the purposes of this meme, I'm going to focus on the epilepsy, as it's less common. Friday!
  • Influenza causes substantial morbidity and mortality among nursing home residents.
  • The effectiveness of therapy is likely to depend on the specific problem and on the presence of comorbidities and other contributory factors.
  • There's a morbid fascination with knowing celebrities are just like us. Times, Sunday Times
  • From the album "Armchair Apocrypha" (2007) When I was just a little boy I threw away all of my action toys I became obsessed with operation, oh Hearts and minds and certain glands You got to learn to keep a steady hand And thus began my morbid fascination Tore all the spines out from all of these self-help books Made myself a gun that not only shoots but looks real Yeah it shoots through steel with rays of dark matter Rays of dark matter Just the thought of all this red and black Thought of tongues that tasted bad Fill you with the nausea-ausea-ausea-alation Do you wonder where the self resides Is it in the head or between your sides And who would be the one who will decide it's two locations The noose is loosed around our necks made of DNA And everyday it's growing tighter, no matter what you do or say But you can shoot right through with rays of dark matter Right before they kick out, they kick out the ladder Rays of dark matter When I was just a little boy I threw away all of my action toys I became obsessed with operation Hearts and minds and certain glands You got to learn to keep a steady hand And thus began my morbid fascination WN.com - Financial News
  • Not out of loyalty, but morbid curiosity. Times, Sunday Times
  • Then they layer on morbid lyrics, vapory and spooky harmonies and bursts of organ or the peeling of chimes. Low's Hypnotic New Album: 'Drums and Guns'
  • Gerald consented to the filming, hoping it would help others, though to what extent viewers will tune in out of mere morbidness is debatable. Tonight's TV highlights: Celebrity Ghost Stories UK | Dave's One Night Stand | The Chicago Code | Inside The Human Body | The Shadow Line | Psychoville 2
  • Such morbid symptoms include false messiahs, doomsday predictions, UFO sightings, pyramid schemes, and so on.
  • Morbidity associated with theophylline overdose is usually caused by its severe effects on the cardiovascular and central nervous systems. Theophylline
  • She also has the musky and morbid sense of someone who is her own tricoteuse, knitting her own legend.
  • These geriatric patients often have multiple comorbidities, as well as a high risk for post-operative complications.
  • Cheselden at St Thomas's introduced the keeping of accurate records that enabled him to analyse the morbidity and mortality of his lithotomy operation for bladder stones.
  • For these reasons, patients with corrosive strictures often undergo surgery, which carries significant morbidity and mortality.
  • While it is difficult to measure pregnancy-related injuries and disabilities, estimates of maternal morbidity vary from 16 to 50 million annually and include such profoundly disabling conditions as vesico-vaginal fistulae, a condition many consider a fate akin to living death. Jodi Jacobson: Human Rights Council Declares Maternal Death, Illness a Rights Violation
  • I have a morbid fascination for thinking about how to survive without the trappings of modern life. Times, Sunday Times
  • When Carlyle, in the strength of his reaction against morbid introspective Byronism, cried aloud to all men in their several vocation, '_Produce, produce; be it but the infinitesimallest product, produce_,' he meant to include production as an element inside the art of living, and an indispensable part and parcel of it. Critical Miscellanies (Vol. 3 of 3) Essay 5: On Pattison's Memoirs
  • Traumatic bone defects and nonunion a significant source of morbidity and socioeconomic burden in trauma patients.
  • I can't wait to see those fatties… it's funny because they're morbidly obese.
  • He died this week of breathing difficulties, a result of his morbid obesity. Times, Sunday Times
  • Cardiac arrhythmia is a leading cause of morbidity and mortality.
  • The morbidity and mortality associated with donor pneumonectomy pose significant ethical considerations.
  • Emergency surgery is associated with a threefold increase in morbidity and mortality.
  • You teeter on the brink of more serious madness, perhaps as a result of frequent exposure to morbid imagery and bizarre literature.
  • Diseases endemic in Europe, such as typhoid and influenza, became major causes of morbidity and death.
  • He died this week of breathing difficulties, a result of his morbid obesity. Times, Sunday Times
  • Cardiac disease, including left ventricular structural and functional disorders, is an important and potentially treatable comorbidity of early kidney disease.
  • Elective caesarean section and respiratory morbidity in the term and near-term neonate. The Official Lamaze® Guide
  • No change in affective illness morbidity was observed in the group where the lithium dose was not altered.
  • A casual view of some of our articles might suggest a morbid fascination with the dead.
  • But you have a lot of people, especially outside the euro area, who spend a lot of time in what I call morbid speculation, asking 'what if, what if'. BBC News - Home
  • He was morbidly thin and locked along with his sibling in a dungeon-like room.
  • Equally, the morbid science view makes an artist shortsighted.
  • There are widespread negative attitudes that adults who are morbidly obese are weak-willed, ugly, awkward, self-indulgent, and immoral.
  • Conclusion - Large grade differences in sickness absence parallel socioeconomic differences in morbidity and mortality found in other studies.
  • For example, masking a patient who is morbidly obese is difficult because of the need for high pressure to overcome the weight of the chest and abdomen when the patient is supine.
  • I think there would be something morbid about sitting there, watching it. The Sun
  • I felt unable to stop this horrible declaration of my most morbid thoughts, but the man nodded, looking at me pensively. Deadly
  • Finally, early enteral feeding may reduce septic morbidity after abdominal trauma and pancreatitis.
  • Often patients undergoing carotid endarterectomy also have comorbid conditions, such as coronary artery disease, hypertension, or diabetes.
  • Perinatal asphyxia is one of the leading causes of morbidity and mortality in the neonatal period.
  • We stayed out of morbid curiosity to see what would happen.
  • While Harris Interactive refers to those who surf the web for medical or health-related information as "cyberchondriacs", this is not exactly correct as the portmanteau derives from hypochondriasis, which is a morbid obsession with imaginary physical ailments whereas the adults surveyed in the poll merely admitted to looking online for health information. Silicon Republic - News
  • About 12 million people are classified as morbidly obese, defined as having a BMI over 40. Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion
  • Moreover, chronic diseases of kidneys, lung, brain, liver, joints, etc., and stress related psychosomatic illnesses cause significant morbidity in the general public.
  • I chuckled to myself as my morbid preoccupations melted away, replaced by a deep joy.
  • Not as warm as Los Angeles, it also lacks the cachet, fashionable coastlines and morbidly appealing plasticity of its downstate counterpart.
  • Deep puncture wounds from animal bites become morbid if not promptly tended and closely followed.
  • Unfortunately, circumcision is often delegated to the most junior surgeons and its potential morbidity underestimated.
  • Critically ill, morbidly obese patients present serious challenges to physicians treating them.
  • There is a morbid nostalgia in the desire to draw death back into our everyday lives.
  • One becomes convinced that he never suffered any morbid, soul-shaking experience such as besetting religious doubt brings with it, or the pangs of despised love; that on the contrary he moved among men and women with a serene and godlike tread, neither self-indulgent nor ascetic, with mind and senses ever alert to every form of beauty. Translations of Shakuntala and Other Works
  • Everyone in my family recognised my morbid interest in drama. Times, Sunday Times
  • An appreciable proportion of these cases was associated with high morbidity and mortality.
  • What was most striking about the run-up to the peace deal was the morbid fixation on the physical and mental exhaustion of the parties.
  • For the locals who are eagerly googling for morbid details: this has nothing to do with the crushed ancle. Multimedia message
  • For want of a better name they are called sentimentalists, and they are among men what the morbid females who bring bouquets and sympathy to fiendish murderers are among women. Primitive Love and Love-Stories
  • Hospitalization is required for patients with serious comorbidities and/or limited capacity for home care.
  • The juxtaposition of my somewhat flatly morbid work with the life and vitality of the farm is quite provoking.
  • It was the mysterious, evil forest, a charnel house of silence, wherein naught moved save strange tiny birds -- the strangeness of them making the mystery more profound, for they flitted on noiseless wings, emitting neither song nor chirp, and they were mottled with morbid colours, having all the seeming of orchids, flying blossoms of sickness and decay. Chapter 25
  • This morbid disposition is the parent of a continual apprehensiveness which is shown upon all sorts of occasions. Poise: How to Attain It
  • Nevertheless, uncertainties remain regarding several important aspects including impact on patient quality of life, impact of surgeon experience on outcome, late complications leading to reoperation, duration of comorbidity remission, and resource utilisation. Dr. Sharma’s Obesity Notes » Blog Archive » UK Report Confirms Cost-Effectiveness of Bariatric Surgery
  • What do you do when you’re the morbidly obese fake winner of a reality show, and you’re sick and tired of being upstaged in your seemingly inexistant music videos by the skinny struggling dancers grinding all up in your grill? HEADLINES FROM HELL: Ruben Studdard Starts Modeling Agency | Best Week Ever
  • Hence bromide of potassium -- or bromide of sodium, which is possibly somewhat safer still though not quite so certain in its action -- is used as a hypnotic, as the standard anaphrodisiac, as a sedative in mania and all forms of morbid mental excitement, and in hyperaesthesia of all kinds. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3 "Brescia" to "Bulgaria"
  • Persons with comorbid conditions, such as diabetes, immunodeficiency, or impaired circulation, are at increased risk.
  • Many people, it is true, are morbidly fascinated by deadlocks and stand-offs and cling to them as old friends and comforters.
  • I can't think of a single reason to buy this album except for morbid curiosity.
  • The rest was recovery. Conclusion:Early diagnosis, effective haemostasis and reconstruction of carotid artery are the keys to reduce the mortality and decrease the morbidity of neurological deficit.
  • I watched all the big fish with morbid fascination.
  • Pre-eclampsia is a multisystem disorders specifically occurred in pregnancy, it is a leading cause of perinatal morbidity and mortality of mother and infant.
  • I think there would be something morbid about sitting there, watching it. The Sun
  • This guy ... doesn't prescribe Lyrica, since it's a "newer drug that I don't know much about" (to which I was like, um, is it not your job to keep up on the newer drugs? and also Lyrica's been around for quite a while and is the medication most often used to treat my condition, dude), and doesn't prescribe "any sleep aids" (despite the very high comorbidity of insomnia). Friday!
  • The narrative structure of the policier is thus morbidly suited to the Algerian tragedy, and for a nation desperate for answers, the appeal of the genre could hardly be more plain.
  • His nerves are stronger, for we need not decide whether they should be called coarser or less morbid. Hours in a Library, Volume I. (of III.)
  • His work reveals a powerful imagination and an often morbid interest in themes of love and death.
  • Put it down to a morbid fascination with sport and the way it is portrayed. Times, Sunday Times
  • Our experienced pediatric surgeons can safely perform a thoracotomy and lobectomy in infants with minimal risk of morbidity, and thoracoscopic resection has been performed. Bronchopulmonary sequestration and Congenital Cystic Adenomatoid
  • morbid interest in death
  • Giardia is a common human parasite that can cause significant morbidity.
  • Our experienced pediatric surgeons can safely perform a thoracotomy and lobectomy in infants with minimal risk of morbidity, and thoracoscopic resection has been performed. Bronchopulmonary sequestration and Congenital Cystic Adenomatoid
  • he was morbidly fascinated by dead bodies
  • The author of novels which, with all their luxurious splendour, can only be called hothouses of morbid sentiment, has become the apostle of Italian imperialism, and more than any other single man provoked Italy to throw herself into the great adventure of the War. Recent Developments in European Thought
  • D&E/D&X are preferred over labor induction, hysterotomy and hysterectomy procedures, where they are possible, specifically because they have documented lower morbidity and mortality rates. Abortion on demand and without apology (Kiwi edition)
  • Percutaneous cholecystostomy is a minimally invasive procedure that can benefit patients with serious comorbidity who are at high risk from major surgery.
  • There is almost no feature, article of dress, attitude, act," Dr. Stanley Hall has truly remarked, "or even animal, or perhaps object in nature, that may not have to some morbid soul specialized erogenic and erethic power. The Task of Social Hygiene
  • The public showed a fascination in the morbid during the year. Times, Sunday Times
  • However, studies with girls and violence report concern in several unique areas, including an understanding of intrapersonal conflict as reflected in a comorbidity of self-harm and suicidal ideation with physical aggression.
  • Each location and set is opulent, textured and rich, portraying a period feel while keeping a morbid and often gothic atmosphere.
  • In these enthusiasts we shall find striking examples of one of the morbid forces of human nature; yet in candor let us do honor to what was genuine in them, -- that principle of self-abnegation which is the life of true religion, and which is vital no less to the highest forms of heroism. The Jesuits in North America in the Seventeenth Century
  • He was on his way home; he could put behind him all the morbid philosophizing and the chimeric appearance of his mother. SOMEWHERE EAST OF LIFE
  • I call Occupy my Xanax, my anti-depressant, my ability to sit with peers over dinner or coffee and not become morbid. Donna Schaper: You Can't Evict The Human Spirit
  • Dr. Brady [205] believes that the so-called harmfulness of coffee is mainly psychological, as evidenced by his expression, "Most of the prejudice which exists against coffee as a beverage is based upon nothing more than morbid fancy. All About Coffee
  • Everyone in my family recognised my morbid interest in drama. Times, Sunday Times
  • When our receptacles are in this condition, why do we add more material for the generation of poisons of the ptomain and leucomain classes, and morbid gaseous elements? Intestinal Ills Chronic Constipation, Indigestion, Autogenetic Poisons, Diarrhea, Piles, Etc. Also Auto-Infection, Auto-Intoxication, Anemia, Emaciation, Etc. Due to Proctitis and Colitis
  • Earthquakes have a rapid onset, broad impact, and produce many factors that work synergistically to increase the risk of morbidity and mortality caused by communicable diseases.
  • This study aimed to review the clinical utility of performing a diverting loop ileostomy in patients undergoing colorectal surgery and associated morbidity and mortality.
  • Of course she had a death or two to report with the appropriately morbid funereal details but she absolutely waxed rhapsodic about the church renovation and expansion project for which she was the principal fundraiser and organizer.
  • Influenza epidemics and pandemics spread rapidly causing a high degree of morbidity and mortality.
  • It challenges the seemingly benign interest we have in criminology and forces us to question our morbid fascination with terrible deeds. Times, Sunday Times
  • Also, crash testing with ballasted dummies to represent obese and morbidly obese occupants may lead to refined safety systems for this growing segment of the population. Dr. Sharma’s Obesity Notes » Blog Archive » Weighing in on In-Car Traffic Injuries
  • These factors result in substantial morbidity and a sevenfold increase in mortality from the disease, although absolute death rates are low.
  • The presence of PVL carries a high risk of neurologic morbidity (most often spastic diplegia).
  • This may be induced by many and various predisposing causes, such as feebleness of constitution of the variety planted, rendering them an easy prey to the disease; by planting on low, moist land, or on land highly enriched by nitrogenous manures, causing a morbid growth which invites the disease; also by insects or their larvæ puncturing or eating off the leaves or vines. The $100 Prize Essay on the Cultivation of the Potato. Prize offered by W. T. Wylie and awarded to D. H. Compton. How to Cook the Potato, Furnished by Prof. Blot.
  • The term congestion, however, usually indicates a morbid condition, with more or less lasting effects. Special Report on Diseases of the Horse
  • I'm morbidly compelled by stuff filmed on a mobile phone such as the tsunami.
  • Shut the morbid state that disease is psychology oneself optionally?
  • His wacky personality seems anything but morbid in the film, where he mugs for the camera and tells funny stories about his life.
  • Low birth weight and preterm birth are powerful determinants of morbidity and mortality in newborn babies and infants.
  • a morbid growth
  • Comorbid clients also were more likely to have used alcohol or drugs as an eye-opener and to have been annoyed by others who criticized their use of alcohol and/or drugs.
  • This spectacular piece of research and empirical discovery was brought to us in a rather mundane and morbid way, because the results had to prove a negative. Times, Sunday Times
  • There's a morbid fascination with knowing celebrities are just like us. Times, Sunday Times
  • I don't think this is about exciting a weird, morbid curiosity. Times, Sunday Times
  • According to a report at a conference on homeoprophylaxis was held in Cuba in late 2008, sponsored by the Finlay Institute, the Cuban manufacturer of the nosode, the levels of subsequent morbidity were below those expected given the rainfall and season. Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en]
  • However, only one prognostic study of cardiovascular morbidity and mortality comparing home and office blood pressure measurements measurements has been conducted.
  • Yo! city of port lavaca child minstrel duckbill check valves MSA READING burdines dept store morbid angel tab strapless gel bra City hall haverhill pvif table countertop kitchen sink Reid To Bush: If You Come After Us, We'll Hit Back Every Bit As Aggressively
  • Her morbid obesity wasn't her fault, you see. The Sun
  • I am becoming morbid, and my old indigestion is hinting and muttering. THE ETERNITY OF FORMS
  • A casual view of some of our articles might suggest a morbid fascination with the dead.
  • The really evil libidinous people, that is to say the spiteful, the mean, the base and inhuman, fly from his presence, and for the obvious reason that he makes sex-pleasure so generous, so gay, so natural, so legitimate, that their dark morbid perverted natures can get no more joy out of it. Visions and Revisions A Book of Literary Devotions
  • To limit both the need for transfusions and co-morbidities associated with blood loss, the use of anti-fibrinolytic agents has been proposed. BioMed Central - Latest articles
  • Neonatal morbidity rates were similar except for an abnormal umbilical artery pH that was more common in infants born after delayed pushing.
  • The motions of the shoulder upon the trunk do not influence the position of the female mammary gland, for the pectoral muscle acts freely beneath it; but when a scirrhus or other malignant growth involves the mammary organ, and this latter contracts, by the morbid mass, a close adhesion to the muscle, then these motions are performed with pain and difficulty. Surgical Anatomy
  • This morbid shot awakens some emotion within her and Jiney promptly proclaims this her ideal subject.
  • A cheerful site for those of us with morbid fascination.
  • Illicit drug use and medical comorbidities place patients at increased risk of heat-related illness.
  • Accurate nutritional targets are important as both overfeeding and underfeeding have led to increased morbidity.
  • Then did each page as I turned it over bring some fresh recollection of one's unspeakable sense of newness and desolation; the haunting fear of doing something ludicrous; the morbid dread of chaff and of being "greened," which even in my time had, happily, supplanted the old terrors of being tossed in a blanket or roasted at a fire. Collections and Recollections
  • The loafing or astatic mind will fall into morbid tendencies. Evening Round Up More Good Stuff Like Pep
  • Unfortunately, most of the diseases that cause morbidity and mortality in our country are chronic diseases with multi-factoral etiologies whose cures are as varied as their causes, aren't as much fun and don't make for exciting spreads in the Times. The Ovarian Teratoma that Caused a Coma
  • The general tone of the piece is cynical, morbid and unpleasantly other-worldly.
  • You know that there is a disease called giantism, caused by 'a certain morbid process in the sphenoid bone of the skull -- viz., an excessive development of the anterior lobe of the pituitary body '(this is from the nearest encyclopedia). Oscar Wilde, Volume 2 (of 2) His Life and Confessions
  • In this season of gift giving, who knows what to buy those harder-to-reach demographics - the morbidly obese, the neo-neo-cons or post-punk scenesters?
  • This so-called empiricist dogma of Sarpi, Galileo, Rene Descartes, Antonio Conti, et al., provided the basis for what John Maynard Keynes was to expose later as the morbid hoax of "black magic" speculator Isaac Newton. LaRouche's Latest
  • Malaria morbidity and mortality have been held in check by the widespread availability of cheap and effective antimalarial drugs.
  • It pays to keep a positive attitude on these things, not to dwell morbidly upon them, and to keep calm.
  • Side effects include damage to surrounding organs, which can lead to significant morbidity from esophagitis and pneumonitis.
  • I don't think these things should be morbid and full of snivels, so I'd choose something with a bit of energy.
  • Watching the best players in the world right now mostly failing to match up to the requirements has provided a morbid kind of fascination.
  • The statistics appear in the CDC's Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report: Sureillance Summaries.
  • The film is sometimes undeniably clever and its vision of the world is suitably askew, but often the tone wobbles unevenly between straight drama and morbid comedy.
  • Morbid states of passion, the hectic bloom of fever, heady perfumes of the Orient and the tropics; the bitter-sweet blossom of love; forced fruits of the hot-house (_serres chaudes_); the iridescence of standing pools; the fungoidal growths of decay; such are some of the hackneyed metaphors which render the impression of this neo-romantic poetry. A History of English Romanticism in the Nineteenth Century
  • There's something morbidly fascinating about the thought.
  • Nevertheless, uncertainties remain regarding several important aspects including impact on patient quality of life, impact of surgeon experience on outcome, late complications leading to reoperation, duration of comorbidity remission, and resource utilisation. Dr. Sharma’s Obesity Notes » Blog Archive » UK Report Confirms Cost-Effectiveness of Bariatric Surgery
  • We find out that Jared the Subway Guy was actually way cooler in college when he was better known as the morbidly obese dude with the sick porn collection. Best of the Best Week Ever! | Best Week Ever
  • This review summarized the morbidity, mortality, and clinical features of iron overload, and introduced the advantages of the new chelator deferasirox over traditional agents.
  • Joanna at the wonderful Morbid Anatomy blog posted this exquisite ivory anatomical manikin, circa 1500-1700. Boing Boing
  • Infectious complications in critically ill patients can cause increased morbidity and mortality.
  • It is envisioned that in those areas where there is significant morbidity due to fascioliasis and intense transmission is taking place, such as the Andean plateau, Egypt, northern Iran and Cuba, programmes will be undertaken in the near future with chemotherapy as a major operational component. Chapter 2
  • He does not allow the voice of the pessimist spirit to prevail, as a poeticule of the morbid school would have done.
  • The whole village is gathered in a noisy sports hall, sipping local wines, while listening to a morbid folk song played on a second-hand zither.
  • The results clearly showed that selenium, as sodium selenite, not only reduced the morbidity and mortality of Keshan disease, but also reduced cardiac damage.
  • The comorbidity in the sample, especially among depressed boys, may have also limited our power to identify factors associated with depression.

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