major complication

collocation in English

meaningsofmajorandcomplication

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major
adjective
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/ˈmeɪ.dʒər/us
/ˈmeɪ.dʒɚ/
more important, bigger, or more serious than others of the ...
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complication
noun
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/ˌkɒm.plɪˈkeɪ.ʃən/us
/ˌkɑːm.pləˈkeɪ.ʃən/
something that makes a situation more difficult, or the act of ...
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There was nomajorcomplicationand one surgical death.
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Migration along the target vessel is themajorcomplication.
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There was onemajorcomplicationof embolization of the device to the left pulmonary artery.
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Amajorcomplicationof this model was the representation of the nozzle flow.
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In this setting, the coil can safely be left in place without risk ofmajorcomplication.
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Renal side effects were not amajorcomplication; 4 (23.5%) patients developed grade 1 nephrotoxicity.
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There was amajorcomplicationin 17% (1 of 6) patients receiving radiation before reconstruction, compared to 2% (1 of 44) patients receiving radiation to the tissue expander.
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Amajorcomplicationin assessing the role of mycoplasmas in disease processes is the difficulty in detecting fastidious mycoplasmas that fail to grow in current culture systems.
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There is no doubt that that is themajorcomplicationof the existing system.
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It has been amajorcomplicationof the implementation of the board's strategy in the short term.
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Again, post-operative infection was amajorcomplication.
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There was at least onemajorcomplicationin 6% of patients.
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Majorcomplicationassociated with a transradial interventions include early and late radial artery occlusion.
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Depletion of this material would be amajorcomplicationfor the fertilizer production sector.
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Although the basic technical and economic principles of construction have been largely established the provision of adequate access to city centres could be amajorcomplication.
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Amajorcomplicationof bed rest was pulmonary embolism, which accounted for a significant part of the mortality.
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Sometimes, an agent is unstable, and this is amajorcomplication; perhaps even requiring the evacuation of the agent.
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Onemajorcomplicationwas that the design for the turrets and their magazines was not completed when construction began so their weights and dimensions had to be estimated.
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This is not always the case, as in some diseases including diabetic nephropathy, amajorcomplicationof uncontrolled diabetes in which proteins can cross the glomerulus.
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