adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
jaundice
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Since then these stents have been used in bile ducts for malignant obstructive jaundice and are placed either percutaneously or endoscopically.
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Elevated alkaline phosphatase is associated with liver disease and with both obstructive jaundice and intrahepatic jaundice.
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Patients presenting with obstructive jaundice caused by bile duct stricture may be managed by either surgery or stenting.
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In most cases, the alkaline phosphatase value in obstructive jaundice is higher than in intrahepatic jaundice.
symptom
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The duration of obstructive symptoms varied widely with a range from a few weeks to several years.
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Thirteen had an acute or subacute self limiting condition, but the remaining three had several years history of recurrent obstructive symptoms .
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Eleven of the 17 patients with malignant strictures presented with obstructive symptoms .
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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The socialists were accused of being obstructive and delaying the decision-making process.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Along with others, Gassendi obviously felt that this whole elaborate conceptual structure was obstructive to, rather than productive of, knowledge.
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Apparently he has a history of COADs - chronic obstructive airways disease.
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But snoring loudly and habitually can be an indication of a potentially life-threatening breathing disturbance known as obstructive sleep apnea syndrome.
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Elevated alkaline phosphatase is associated with liver disease and with both obstructive jaundice and intrahepatic jaundice.
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It was ludicrously swollen, unnecessarily big and wholly obstructive to anything that looked like a new idea.
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Local councillors can be quite obstructive to new ventures by farmers.
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The duration of obstructive symptoms varied widely with a range from a few weeks to several years.
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The pace of ideation is for the most part so great that a more formal procedure of idea-handling would be obstructive and pointless.