pitiful

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to a pitiful degree; "wages were pitifully low, particularly the wages of women"

The prognostic factors of stage IV colorectal cancer and assessment of proper treatment according to the patient's status.

Yun HR, Lee WY, Lee WS, Cho YB, Yun SH, Chun HK.SourceDepartment of Surgery, Samsung Medical Center, Sungkyunkwan [corrected] University School of Medicine, Seoul, South Korea.
International journal of colorectal disease.Int J Colorectal Dis.2007 Nov;22(11):1301-10. Epub 2007 May 8.
BACKGROUND AND AIMS: Approximately 20% of patients with colorectal cancer are initially diagnosed with stage IV. The majority has non-curative metastases, and their chances of survival are pitiful. This study evaluated the prognostic factors of survival and the access to the effective treatment in a
PMID 17486358

Global plagues and the Global Fund: Challenges in the fight against HIV, TB and malaria.

Tan DH, Upshur RE, Ford N.SourceDepartment of Medicine, University of Toronto, University Health Network, Toronto General Hospital Site, R, Fraser Elliott Building 3-Suite 805, 190 Elizabeth St, Toronto, Ontario, M5G 2C4, Canada. darrell.tan@utoronto.ca
BMC international health and human rights.BMC Int Health Hum Rights.2003 Apr 1;3(1):2.
BACKGROUND: Although a grossly disproportionate burden of disease from HIV/AIDS, TB and malaria remains in the Global South, these infectious diseases have finally risen to the top of the international agenda in recent years. Ideal strategies for combating these diseases must balance the advantages
PMID 12667262

The pitiful (Liberal) and woeful (Labor) responses to the rural vets crisis issues.

高木信
物語研究 (14), 71-91, 2014-03-31
… It was said that as a result of having rejected the masculine, Komachi had lived a pitiful in her old age in the Japanese tales of the Middle Ages (11c-16c). …
NAID 110009857381

張愚
日本語の研究 10(1), 32-47, 2014-01-01
本稿では,漢語「むざん(無慙)」という一語を取り上げ,その語義変化と文中での統語的機能の変化との関わり合いに注目し,日本語史におけるその受容と変容の過程について考察した。初期の文献に見られる「むざん」は,形容(動)詞の連体修飾用法として多用されており,「心に恥じない」の意で用いられていたが,平安後期以降になると,述語文の位置に現れることによって,本来含まれている感情的意味がより強調されるようになり …
NAID 110009818195