Definition of Contraindicates

1. Verb. (third-person singular of contraindicate) ¹

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Definition of Contraindicates

1. contraindicate [v] - See also: contraindicate

Lexicographical Neighbors of Contraindicates

contraflow
contraflows
contragestion
contragestive
contragestives
contragredient
contragrediently
contraharmonic mean
contraharmonic means
contrail
contrails
contraindicant
contraindicants
contraindicate
contraindicated
contraindicates (current term)
contraindicating
contraindication
contraindications
contraindicative
contraindicatory
contrair
contralateral
contralateral partner
contralateral reflex
contralateral sign
contralaterally
contralesional
contralti
contralto

Literary usage of Contraindicates

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. On Intermittent Fever and Other Malarious Diseases by Israel Shipman Pelton Lord (1871)
"the liver; though the good appetite rather contraindicates that. Perhaps this may be owing to some remaining hyperaesthesia of the ..."

2. Focal Infection: The Lane Medical Lectures by Frank Billings (1916)
"... dition of the patient contraindicates it. In bacteriemia due to puerperal sepsis, or to an infectious thrombophlebitis of the deep veins, surgery cannot ..."

3. Journal of Cutaneous and Genito-urinary Diseases (1902)
"... this would be apt to convert a mild into an acute and relatively dangerous inflammation. Encysted calculus also contraindicates the crushing operation. ..."

4. Diseases of the Nervous System by Julius Lincoln Salinger (1910)
"If, in the examination, a motor condition of debility appears to depend upon the psychical element, this circumstance, in all probability, contraindicates ..."

5. The Principles of Therapeutics by Oliver Thomas Osborne (1921)
"... unless the condition contraindicates such treatment; (2) abstention from all food from twelve to twenty-four hours, unless the condition contraindicates ..."

6. Therapeutics of Infancy and Childhood by Abraham Jacobi (1903)
"The complication of gastritis with enteritis contraindicates the introduction of food ... Its rapid fermentation contraindicates the smallest quantities, ..."

7. Monographic Medicine by William Robie Patten Emerson, Guido Guerrini, William Brown, Wendell Christopher Phillips, John Whitridge Williams, John Appleton Swett, Hans Günther, Mario Mariotti, Hugh Grant Rowell (1916)
"With both, weakening diarrhea contraindicates surgical interference and influences the case unfavorably. Often the symptom improves with the other ..."

8. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease by Philadelphia Neurological Society, American Neurological Association, Chicago Neurological Society, New York Neurological Association (1915)
"... and the distribution of the degenerations in the spinal cord contraindicates such a possibility. It should be remembered that in the majority of the ..."

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