emergent

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But emergency departments nationwide are being overwhelmed by the non-emergent, and doctors in general are asked to treat what doesn't need treatment.

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  1. adjective Coming into view, existence, or notice: emergent spring shoots; an emergent political leader.
  2. adjective Emerging: emergent nations.
  3. adjective Rising above a surrounding medium, especially a fluid.
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  • Neurocritic explores the possibility predicting the likelihood of treatment-emergent suicidal ideation in depressed patients on SSRIs - so called "suicide genes." —  Brain Blogger
  • Wheat drilling started last week and where blackgrass is expected to be a problem a robust rate of a pre-emergent herbicide has been applied. —  FWi - All News
  • The majority of fields will be sprayed pre-emergent of the crop with a mix of trifluralin + metazachlor or trifluralin and then followed with metazachlor post-emergence. —  FWi - All News
  • As noted, the most common treatment-emergent adverse event was peripheral edema, which was reported in 17\%, 32\%, 36\%, and 29\% of patients in the placebo, darusentan 50-mg, 100-mg, and —  theHeart.org
  • God is what we call an emergent -- God is in the process of emerging and changing with us. —  Tikkun Magazine - Current Thinking
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  1. = French émergent = Spanish Portuguese Italian emergente; from Latin emergen(t-)s, present participle of emergere, rise out, rise up: see emerge.
 

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