(n.) The act of abducing or abducting; a drawing apart; a carrying away.
(n.) The movement which separates a limb or other part from the axis, or middle line, of the body.
(n.) The wrongful, and usually the forcible, carrying off of a human being; as, the abduction of a child, the abduction of an heiress.
(n.) A syllogism or form of argument in which the major is evident, but the minor is only probable.
Example Sentences:
(1) In a debate in the House of Commons, I will ask Britain, the US and other allies to convert generalised offers of help into more practical support with greater air cover, military surveillance and helicopter back-up, to hunt down the terrorists who abducted the girls.
(2) Dislocation of the endoprosthesis was found in the 15 hands with unimproved abduction.
(3) Five cases of bilateral abduction contracture of the shoulder in adults including the first case of bilateral abduction contractures of shoulder and hip plus bilateral flexion contracture of elbow and extension contracture of a knee are reported.
(4) Abducting saccades, which were slightly hypometric, displayed a marked postsaccadic centripetal drift.
(5) Global 'abnormality', hunching (rigid arching of back), hindlimb abduction, forepaw myoclonus, stereotyped lateral head movements, backing, and immobility occurred significantly only in drug-treated rats.
(6) Duane's retraction syndrome is a congenital eye movement disorder characterized by a deficiency of abduction, mild limitation of adduction, with retraction and narrowing of the palpebral fissure on attempted adduction.
(7) The purpose of this study was to test for differences in the maximal isometric hip abduction torque produced between hip sides across multiple hip abduction angles.
(8) After training, this abduction-adduction asymmetry was preserved in the light and dark with monocular or dichoptic viewing, indicating again that all adaptive changes were conjugate.
(9) Between 1972 and 1985, 17 people were abducted, sometimes tortured, then killed and buried.
(10) The recommended position is 25 degrees to 40 degrees abduction, 20 degrees to 30 degrees flexion, and 25 degrees to 30 degrees of internal rotation.
(11) Data are also presented that indicate a mediation program may be effective in preventing some cases of parental child abduction.
(12) It is characterized by a nonprogressive bilateral facial paralysis, the inability of the eyes to abduct beyond the midline, orofacial anomalies, limb deficiencies, and an absence or hypoplasia of the pectoral muscles.
(13) Mz' was greatest in magnitude during the first half of support, when it acted in a direction resisting foot abduction, a component of pronation.
(14) This reinforces our initial findings that it is indeed feasible to pace vocal cord abduction in bilateral recurrent laryngeal nerve paralysis with resultant return of physiologic normality to the glottis.
(15) The abduction early Thursday comes amid anger among Libya's powerful Islamic militant groups over the US special forces raid on Saturday that seized a Libyan al-Qaida suspect known as Abu Anas al-Libi.
(16) I do still believe he was abducted,” Angela Gui said by phone from the UK.
(17) Among the secret papers about their abduction that were discovered during the Libyan revolution was a signed letter from the then head of counter-terrorism at MI6, Mark Allen , in which he boasted of his agency's role in one of the operations.
(18) Optic atrophy was present in six patients, nystagmus in three, blepharoptosis in one, cataract in one, and limitation on abduction in one.
(19) The US said it had removed North Korea – once a member of George Bush's axis of evil – from the terror list to breathe life into the stalled nuclear negotiations and would continue to pressure Pyongyang to resolve the abduction issue.
(20) Dislocation of the talonavicular joint is rare, caused by severe abduction or adduction of the forefoot.
Evident
Definition:
(a.) Clear to the vision; especially, clear to the understanding, and satisfactory to the judgment; as, the figure or color of a body is evident to the senses; the guilt of an offender can not always be made evident.
Example Sentences:
(1) The evidence suggests a multifactorial etiology for this problem.
(2) The only other evidence of Kopachi's existence is the primary school near the memorial.
(3) Patient plasma samples demonstrated evidence of marked complement activation, with 3-fold elevations of C3a desArg concentrations by the 8th day of therapy.
(4) Unfortunately, due to confidentiality clauses that have been imposed on us by the Department of Immigration and Border Protection, we are unable to provide our full names and … titles … However, we believe the evidence that will be submitted will validate the statements that we are making in this submission.” The submission detailed specific allegations – including names and dates – of sexual abuse of child detainees, violence and bullying of children, suicide attempts by children and medical neglect.
(5) Thirteen patients with bipolar affective illness who had received lithium therapy for 1-5 years were tested retrospectively for evidence of cortical dysfunction.
(6) Disseminated CMV infection with multiorgan involvement was evident in 7 of 9 at postmortem examination.
(7) Urinary ANF immunoreactivity was significantly enhanced by candoxatril in both groups (P less than 0.05 and P less than 0.01 in groups 1 and 2, respectively), with a more pronounced effect evident at the higher dose (P less than 0.01).
(8) We sought additional evidence for an inverse relationship between functional CTL-target cell affinity on the one hand, and susceptibility of the CTL-mediated killing to inhibition by alpha LFA-1 and alpha Lyt-2,3 monoclonal antibodies on the other hand.
(9) Immunocompetence was also evident when the cells from thymectomized donors were first incubated with thymus extract for 1 hr and subsequently tested for reactivity.
(10) The mothers of these babies do not show any evidence of alpha-thalassaemia.
(11) There is no evidence that health-maintenance organizations reduce admissions in discretionary or "unnecessary" categories; instead, the data suggest lower admission rates across the board.
(12) Minimal levels were evident 16 weeks after irradiation; Hct then increased, but remained below preirradiation values.
(13) Evidence of fetal alcohol effects may be found for each outcome category.
(14) The present results provide no evidence for a clear morphological substrate for electrotonic transmission in the somatic efferent portion of the primate oculomotor nucleus.
(15) One patient with a large fistula angiographically had no oximetric evidence of shunt at cardiac catheterization.
(16) Past imaging techniques shown in the courtroom have made the conventional rules of evidence more difficult because of the different informational content and format required for presentation of these data.
(17) We have previously shown that intratracheally instilled silica (quartz) produces both morphologic evidence of emphysema and small-airway changes, and functional evidence of airflow obstruction.
(18) Evidence is presented in support of the hypothesis that fresh bat guano serves as a means of pathogenic fungi dissemination in caves.
(19) A triphasic pattern was evident for the neck moments including a small phase which represented a seating of the headform on the nodding blocks of the uppermost ATD neck segment, and two larger phases of opposite polarity which represented the motion of the head relative to the trunk during the first 350 ms after impact.
(20) The condition is compared to extrahepatic and intrahepatic biliary atresia of man and evidence is presented for regarding this case to be one of extrahepatic origin.