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Synonyms for obstructive
ob·struc·tive
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Princeton's WordNet
clogging, hindering, impeding, obstructiveadjective
preventing movement
"the clogging crowds of revelers overflowing into the street"
Synonyms:
clogging, impeding, hinderingAntonyms:
permissive
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List of paraphrases for "obstructive":
Words popularity by usage frequency
ranking | word | |
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#18633 | obstruction | |
#29689 | obstructive | |
#45592 | clogging | |
#52310 | hindering | |
#58140 | impeding |
How to use obstructive in a sentence?
Patients with sleep apnea, who are often at increased cardiovascular risk, need rigorous management with other indicated therapies, such as blood pressure lowering, statins, and antithrombotic drugs, i think the most interesting finding of the meta-analysis is that the best estimate of the effect of obstructive sleep apnea treatment on risk of major adverse cardiovascular events is very similar to the reduction in risk seen with aspirin, beta-blockers, or statin medications.
Most doctors still consider CPAP as first-line treatment for patients with obstructive sleep apnea, if a patient can not really use CPAP adequately e.g. only two to three hours per night, but does fine with a MAD which he can tolerate for seven hours a night, then he should be treated with a MAD.
Women with obstructive sleep apnea often get underdiagnosed or misdiagnosed because they may not present with the classic symptoms that we see when we’re evaluating men, maybe we need to ask different questions or look at different parameters, or is there something we’re missing here?
If the coalition partner then takes an obstructive approach for these new tasks then you have to make a decision that it cannot continue.
Every week a lung cancer patient walks in; earlier we would get one in three months, problems from air pollution are on the rise and leading to multiple diseases such as bronchial asthma, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and pneumonia.
Translations for obstructive
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- obstructiuCatalan, Valencian
- ostruttivoItalian
- obstructiuOccitan
- obstrutivoPortuguese
- 阻碍Chinese
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