Sentence examples for thin patient from inspiring English sources

Overseeing the city's water supply is a thin, patient man with the war-weary air of an old general: Ramón Aguirre Díaz, director of the Water System of Mexico City, is unusually frank about the perils ahead.

It is most commonly combined with a tissue expander or implant, or occasionally, for a thin patient with a small breast volume, can be used alone as the primary reconstruction without the need for an implant, restoring volumes of up to 1.5 l in large patients or with the use of modified techniques [2, 3], which is considered oncologically safe.

In a relatively thin patient, with no rectal distention, high field strength and gradient performance, and absence of motion, image quality without the endorectal coil may actually surpass that with one and its inherent signal variation.

For example, a thin patient's total small bowel volume is smaller than that of patients with normal body weight.

However, thin patients often have too little fat tissue to ensure adequate flap volume.

For this reason we developed a new flap design to compensate for insufficient flap volume in thin patients.

A provocative new study suggests that they are — that thin patients are treated with more warmth and empathy than those who are overweight or obese.

This complication, skin breakdown, was not present in any patients even though thin patients were involved in the clinical trial.

No trials that compare different entry techniques in pregnant patients or very thin patients or patients with morbid obesity have been described.

Exceptions to this rule are: patients with prior abdominal surgery, obese patients, very thin patients and pregnant patients (see key question 1.7).

In children and extremely thin patients (BMI <18 kg/m2), the aorta may lie less than 2.5 cm under the skin [47].