Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Difficult; hard; arduous; perplexing.
- Reluctant; scrupulous.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective obsolete Difficult; hard to manage; stubborn.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective obsolete
Hard to work with;stubborn . - adjective obsolete
Difficult .
Etymologies
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Examples
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And there's actually a very specific experiment I'd like you to discuss, if you could, and that had to do with a patient who had a C. difficile, which is a bacterial infection that causes such extreme diarrhea that some elderly people die as a result.
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And there's actually a very specific experiment I'd like you to discuss, if you could, and that had to do with a patient who had a C. difficile, which is a bacterial infection that causes such extreme diarrhea that some elderly people die as a result.
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And there's actually a very specific experiment I'd like you to discuss, if you could, and that had to do with a patient who had a C. difficile, which is a bacterial infection that causes such extreme diarrhea that some elderly people die as a result.
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And there's actually a very specific experiment I'd like you to discuss, if you could, and that had to do with a patient who had a C. difficile, which is a bacterial infection that causes such extreme diarrhea that some elderly people die as a result.
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And there's actually a very specific experiment I'd like you to discuss, if you could, and that had to do with a patient who had a C. difficile, which is a bacterial infection that causes such extreme diarrhea that some elderly people die as a result.
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And there's actually a very specific experiment I'd like you to discuss, if you could, and that had to do with a patient who had a C. difficile, which is a bacterial infection that causes such extreme diarrhea that some elderly people die as a result.
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Clostridium difficile, which is especially lethal to the elderly, suggest it prevents recurrence far better than currently used medications.
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The study examined hospital patients infected with the drug-resistant bacteria Clostridium difficile, which is infamous for causing diarrhea in hospitalized patients and responsible for more deaths in the United States than all other intestinal infections combined.
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Food and Drug Administration next week for a clearance to market its Illumigene molecular test for C. difficile, which is currently undergoing a clinical trial.
Los Angeles Business News - Local Los Angeles News | Los Angeles Business from bizjournals 2010
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"The BSM-2000's detection method for detecting anthrax can also be used for detecting C. difficile, which is also a spore forming bacteria," said Mr. Amir Ettehadieh, UNDT's Director of Research and Development.
News 2009
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