failure

Related to failure: failure to thrive

abysmal failure

Failure that is total and extreme in measure or implication. The business was an abysmal failure, and everyone was out of a job within a month.
See also: failure

failure teaches success

proverb Failure gives one the opportunity to learn and improve in a positive way. I know you're bummed that the experiment didn't work, but let's try again. Failure teaches success after all, and now we know what not to do. I'm a big believer that failure teaches success, so we can't give up now!
See also: failure, success, teach

failure to thrive

A medical term used to describe an infant or young child who has experienced delays in physical growth, for a variety of possible reasons. I'm a bit concerned about little Howie's failure to thrive, so I want you to bring him back the office next week for further examination.
See also: failure, thrive

give (one) heart failure

To shock, frighten, or upset someone suddenly and to an extreme degree. Often used with "nearly," "almost," or some similar modifier. Adrian almost gave his parents heart failure when he told them he was dropping out of college. You about gave me heart failure, sneaking up on me like that!
See also: failure, give, heart

have heart failure

To be shocked, frightened, or upset suddenly and to an extreme degree. Often used with "nearly," "almost," or some similar modifier. Adrian's parents almost had heart failure when he told them he was dropping out of college. I just about had heart failure when you snuck up on me like that!
See also: failure, have, heart

success has many fathers, failure is an orphan

People are quick to associate themselves with successful ventures and distance themselves from failures. A: "All the people who were so excited about this project in the beginning now act like they've never even heard of it." B: "Well, success has many fathers, failure is an orphan."
See also: failure, many, success
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

give someone heart failure

Frighten or startle someone very much, as in You nearly gave me heart failure when you told me you were quitting. It is also put as have heart failure, meaning "be frightened or startled," as in I just about had heart failure when I heard about her accident. These hyperbolic terms allude to the life-threatening physical condition in which the heart fails to pump blood at an adequate rate or stops altogether. Also see heart misses a beat.
See also: failure, give, heart, someone
The American Heritage® Dictionary of Idioms by Christine Ammer.
See also:
  • abysmal failure
  • all duck or no dinner
  • into the shitter
  • the bigger they are, the harder they fall
  • the bigger they come, the harder they fall
  • the bigger they come/are, the harder they fall
  • bigger they are, the harder they fall
  • bigger they come, the harder they fall, the
  • bring (something) (down) about (one's) ears
  • bring something about your ears
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Novel research on many heart failure topics will be presented during the event in 1,700 abstracts, including in-vitro fertilisation: linked to heart failure?, you are what you eat: diet, gut microbes, and heart failure outcomes, how yogic breathing is being used in chronic heart failure, what determines who follows heart failure treatment advice, and who doesn't?, how machine learning could help select patients for cardiac resynchronisation therapy, predicting recovery of ejection fraction in heart failure patients, do women and men need different doses of heart failure drugs?
We only see them brandishing and enjoying the paraphernalia of success and in our bid to emulate them we get knocked down mercilessly by failure. If only men and women who have made a success of life can show us where they failed and how they overcame them, then people will learn valuable lessons in their journey to success.
PDE-9 activity is abnormally elevated in heart failure which can impede activation of the heart's normal responses to stress and make the heart more vulnerable to damage.
However, the suggested heart failure risk model [Table 1] is yet to be validated in large clinical trials in its prediction of heart failure related patient mortality.
A special word about obesity: A Framingham Heart Study analysis concluded that, after controlling for other cardiovascular risk factors, obese individuals had double the risk of new-onset heart failure, compared with healthy-weight subjects, during a mean follow-up of 14 years.
But in HYVET (Hypertension in the Very Elderly Trial) conducted in that age group, the use of diuretics and/ or ACE inhibitors to lower systolic blood pressure from roughly 155 mm Hg to 145 mm Hg resulted in a dramatic 64% reduction in the rate of new-onset heart failure (N Engl J Med.
Conclusion: There was strong positive correlation between competition anxiety and fear of failure. Male athletes have higher competition anxiety and fear of failure as compared to their female counterparts.
[8] found that the use of remote pulmonary artery pressure monitoring was also associated with lower heart failure hospitalizations and decreased total heart failure costs in a real-world setting.
Conclusion: Hypertension, valvular heart disease and a trial fibrillation is more commonly present in acute heart failure patients with preserved EF.
Define a method for handling special case combinations of failure causes.
Heart failure is among the most frequent causes of hospitalization for Americans over age 65.
It should be noted that the current approaches for reliability analysis of structures with cracks are only based on fracture failure. However, as the crack grows, the residue cross section is getting smaller, which will reduce static strength.
TEHRAN (FNA)- Higher education is associated with a reduced risk of developing heart failure after a heart attack, reports a study in more than 70,000 patients.
Heart Failure (HF) puts a heavy burden on patients and their families.