Depletive

And that's the difference between problems that are additive, like CO2, which we go slowly up and then we tip, and problems that are depletive, which we lose what we have, which oscillate, and they oscillate until we lose everything we've got. ❋ Unknown (2009)

The prevailing emphasis on the significance of inflammation as a sign of disease, for example, led to the widespread use of depletive or antiphlogistic i.e., antiinflammatory measures such as general bloodletting. ❋ Gerald N. Grob (1994)

By the 1830s most alienists believed that heroic* depletive measures were harmful, but they continued to employ local bleeding. ❋ Gerald N. Grob (1994)

Sydenham, Hoffman, Cullen, and our own good Dr. Rush, whose depletive and mercurial systems have formed a school, or perhaps revived that which arose on Harvey's discovery of the circulation of the blood. ❋ Unknown (1954)

This simple arrangement for health was considered enough in those primitive times, when the human system had not been worn out and exhausted by depletive medicines. ❋ Various (N/A)

Coupled with the new method of physical diagnosis in the effort to substitute knowledge for guess-work came the studies of the experimental physiologists -- in particular, Marshall Hall in England and François Magendie in France; and the joint efforts of these various workers led presently to the abandonment of those severe and often irrational depletive methods -- blood-letting and the like -- that had previously dominated medical practice. ❋ Unknown (1904)

There is in this disease no acute congestion of a particular organ to draw off by depletive measures, nor any violent blood current to be retarded, for fear of hypernutrition of any special part. ❋ Charles B. Michener (1877)

"To carry on the medical figure," he replied, "I fear that I am to you the embodiment of the depletive system." ❋ Edward Payson Roe (1863)

And was that just the result of eliminating depletive costs or was that inclusive of efficiency gains as well? ❋ Unknown (2010)

Four new Phase I / II clinical trials are in progress: in metastatic breast cancer combining IMP321 with paclitaxel in a chemo-immunotherapy protocol, a disease-free melanoma study with IMP321 as a therapeutic vaccine adjuvant to peptide antigens, a lympho-depletive / adoptive transfer metastatic melanoma study and in pancreatic cancer combining IMP321 with gemcitabine in a chemo-immunotherapy protocol. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Nfld has been the brunt of Canada's mismanagement of the fish stock (rsulting in utter decimation) and hydro electric power grabs (quebec got that) .. now when they are finally gaining something again, (via another depletive resource) Canada starts to find ways to give them the short shaft .. again. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Since then, investors have feared the cable company would make a similarly large and possibly value-depletive deal. ❋ Unknown (2009)

My tits are [depleted] thanks to my kids. They are [thriving] and my boobs have been [drained] ❋ VeryVisionary (2023)

[Brenda] owns so many cats that she is going to deplete [the pet] stores supply of [cat food]. ❋ Victoria Johns (2018)

This group of people are so depletic — they said [that the] [sun] can [switch off]. ❋ Kristinapurrr (2023)

"I so set this dude on fire last year at school, then kicked the shit [out him] while he was on fire. It was well funny, but it means that I'm [grounded] and I have to sit in my room [in the dark] all day" "Hahaha Really? He got totally Depleted! And you're so gunna get arrested" ❋ BinFairy (2007)

"We went to a hospital in Southern Iraq, and a woman was there with a very deformed child and her husband had been in the Iraqi Army and had been in the battles in Southern Iraq and came home and they produced a baby with very severe malformations... Both the [Leukemia] rates in children and malformations at birth had increased by 600% and it was clearly an epidemic where all this [Depleted uranium] had been dumped... It becomes a dust that can be inhaled and infect the blood stream and the rest of the body and it was the opinion of the doctors there that this was caused by [depleted uranium]... They simply saw this as being a direct result of the war by United States." [-U].S. Representative, Jim [McDermott] ❋ The Dark Wanderer (2007)

That homeless person is a"DepletedMan"he has exhausted all of his resources to [regain] employment. He lost his job last month and is behind on his [mortgage] he is starting to feel that of a [Depleted Man]!!! ❋ TheRealMarcusGerard (2014)

Go buy [your own] [Cigarettes] you [fag depleter]!! ❋ Jasen (2007)

"What do you mean you're not coming over on Saturday night? What else do you have to do? We always watch basketball or hockey or football or (worse yet) golf, and you bring [the pizza] and beer, and we hang." "[Not this] Saturday night or any other night after that, Fred, you [deplete] me. Mind, wallet, and soul. Buh-bye." ❋ Getaclue2007 (2010)

Man, [Greg] [Davis] has some hardcore [DWS]. ❋ Angry Liberal (2005)

[MY MENTAL HEALTH] IS [GREATLY] DEPLETING ! ! ! SOMEONE HELP IM GONNA [DIE ALONE] AND AFRAID ❋ Fruity_bxtch (2022)