exacerbation

Examples of exacerbating

exacerbating

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

The involvement of family doctors in administrative tasks takes them away from clinical services exacerbating problems.
Part of the reason for this is that such organisations are quite prone to reproducing and exacerbating local inequalities and conflicts within their structures.
Some groups append rural matters to their existing specialisms, exacerbating compartmentalisation.
Exacerbating this position, many of the drama's protagonists understand themselves as profoundly isolated by their exceptional situations (whether ennobled or degraded) and attendant emotions.
There appears to be a mutual intolerance of each other's professional groups, further exacerbating an already unsatisfactory situation in our study group.
Consistently, industrial profit-markup inflation increases, in general, during recessions, exacerbating output contraction despite the reduction in workers' real standard of living.
Frequently there were contributory disorders, exacerbating underlying long-term diseases, not normally fatal.
Moreover, its flight and approach tendencies, both vital to survival, are mutually exacerbating.
A biopsychosocial perspective might view chronic illness and associated physical symptoms as major stressors capable of inducing or exacerbating symptoms of depression.
Further research is warranted, if only to ascertain the best way to deliver in order to avoid exacerbating the condition.
Medically unexplained symptoms : exacerbating factors in the doctor-patient encounter.
Not applying multipliers to compute population totals would, at least, avoid exacerbating inaccuracies in the tax records.
This may be explained by the faster feeders exacerbating host responses on detachment that are then directed against the slower feeders.
In addition, high levels of family stress tend to co-occur with child and parenting problems, further exacerbating difficulties in the family system.
The plasticity of bacterial genomes also permits the easy transfer of resistance genes between bacterial strains, exacerbating the problem of antibiotic resistance.
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