Sentence examples for be drained by a from inspiring English sources

The swelling can be drained by a simple surgical procedure, but, like Shabani, most sufferers are too poor to pay for the operation or cannot afford to take the time off work afterwards to recover from it.

Long-term antibiotics are usually adequate to treat a lung abscess, but sometimes the abscess must be drained by a surgeon or radiologist.

But ICTD is hampered by the presence of either thick pus, which tends to block the tube or the presence of multiple loculations that cannot be drained by a single chest tube.

A cyst is a benign tumor that can be drained by a needle.

The latrines were designed to be drained by an special system using the water from the moat, but the system does not appear to have worked well in practice.

The whole residential complex was drained by a sewer into which the drains from individual huts discharged.

Aside from these, the lakes and swamps that were left by the glaciers have been drained by a combination of natural erosion and tile drainage.

The economy's vital blood supply has been drained by a collapse in private investment, falling real wages and public spending cuts.

The rete is drained by a number of small ducts—usually fewer than ten called the vasa efferentia, which are modified kidney tubules.

The energy and hope of a new beginning that sustained the revolution have been drained by a war that has claimed 3,600 lives.

Friesland is drained by a vast system of canals, waterways, and lakes, particularly in the north and west; the principal lakes are Tjeukemeer, Slotermeer, Fluessen, and Sneekermeer.