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Examples of emptying

emptying

In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use.

Generally most healthy people view bladder and bowel emptying as private.
The caeca seem to be periodic in their filling and emptying activities.
There is a long interval between ingestion and bowel emptying which may therefore be unpredictable.
With spinal cord pathology, incomplete bladder emptying may occur due to a combination of detrusor-sphincter dyssynergia and poor detrusor contraction during attempts at voiding.
Although the rate of emptying of the gallbladder was equal in both groups, those of older people showed an earlier initiation of contraction.
Angiography showed dilation and slow emptying of the right atrium, but no anatomic obstruction of the connection between the atrium and the pulmonary arteries.
With filling or emptying of the balloons, five nonpregnant cats demonstrated only trivial changes in blood pressure.
By this time they were dealing with ashpails (ashes from the hearth covering other contents) and emptying them every week.
Our teleomeres are shortening, the hourglass is emptying of sand.
Until recently, political drama was a sure way of emptying theatres.
Ironically, the final emptying out of local meaning coincided with the introduction of the typewriter.
Many histories speak of the streets 'emptying', but there is little evidence of this from contemporary reports.
Emptying the nest and parental well-being : an analysis of national panel data.
The emptying of the rural regions is still a sore point, but a quarter of a century ago the situation was acute.
Domperidone is less likely to cause this problem as it does not cross the blood-brain barrier but does not aid gastric emptying.
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