Sentence examples for thin patients from inspiring English sources

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.

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

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

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.

Comparison of THIN patient-demographic statistics with census data indicates that patients included are representative of the general population.

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

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.

And while the thinnest patients were most likely to die, the study found, their low weight might have been a sign not of health but of disease, the researchers said.