primary failure

Tears represent approximately 25% and calcification 75% of primary failure.

Its substantial false positive ratio is its primary failure of effectiveness.

The primary failure condition in adventure games, inherited from more action-oriented games, is player death.

After some expensive primary failures, Bush now turned his entire attention to the quest for his "birthright," the vice-presidency.

This infuriated the Grand Duke, who considered the primary failure to have been Jilinsky's.

His staff remains somewhat optimistic about his chances in Connecticut, despite his spate of recent primary failures.

The primary failure is the absence of growth of the brain, rendering the sutures of the cranial vault useless.

Two missiles were readied for launch, one as primary launcher and the other as a hot back-up in case of primary failure.

The primary failure of Reconstruction Era penitentiaries, according to historian David Rothman, was administrative.

Cardiogenic shock is based upon an inadequate circulation of blood due to primary failure of the ventricles of the heart to function effectively.

Its primary failure on this front was its inability to convince the leaders of Manitoba's Independent Labour Party to affiliate.

It is the primary failure mode for AlGaInP/AlGaAs red lasers.

Mr. LaRock cited West Side Community's mediocre performance on the citywide third- and fourth-grade reading tests last spring as one of the school's primary failures.

For instance, in respiratory arrest by a primary failure in respiratory muscles the patient, if conscious, may experience dyspnea, yet without having any labored breathing or tachypnea.

Vagueness or lack of information may indicate that the primary failure rests at supervisory level and negative answers may reflect inadequacies in methods or lack of supervision.

The Mets' primary failure on the road trip was an absence of hitting with runners in scoring position - they stranded 21 in scoring position during the six games on the road.

Defects in this receptor are known to be the cause of Jansen's metaphyseal chondrodysplasia (JMC), chondrodysplasia Blomstrand type (BOCD), as well as enchondromatosis and primary failure of tooth eruption.

In rare circumstances, a low TSH indicates primary failure of the pituitary, or temporary inhibition of the pituitary due to another illness (euthyroid sick syndrome) and so checking the T and T is still clinically useful.

The primary failure mode for Glen Canyon dam will undoubtedly be an overtopping one spring caused by insufficient storage capacity (either a huge inflow, bigger than 1983, or insufficient storage capacity because the lake was too full of either water or sediment).