(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.
Obduction
Definition:
(n.) The act of drawing or laying over, as a covering.
Example Sentences:
(1) In cases of death which occur in a foreign country, the official post mortem diagnosis does often not correspond with our findings at obduction.
(2) Eight hundred and eighty-six cases of rectal cancer diagnosed and reported to the National Cancer Registry in 1980 were submitted to obduction.
(3) With regard to the hairy cell leukaemia, the patient was free of symptoms and the obduction confirmed the complete remission: the histological examination of bone marrow, spleen, liver and lymph nodes showed no more signs of hairy cell leukaemia.
(4) It is concluded that that the heme present in the insoluble iron fraction is caused by degradation of hemoglobin in the obduction material, and that heme is not a constituent of the insoluble depot iron.
(5) From 3497 obductions during the ten years between 1979 and 1988 100 homicides and 18 suicides were caused by sharp trauma.
(6) During the period from 1971 to 1988 there were 212 fatalities out of 24,822 obductions because of gastrointestinal bleeding.
(7) Obduction of a woman aged 52 years, showed a diffuse primary leptomeningeal melanoblastosis with development of a malignant melanoma in adjacent region of brain parenchyma.
(8) Affected were the liver in 38.7%, the lung in 16.1%, and the skeleton in 3.5% of the obducted cases.
(9) The tracheas of 37 tracheostomized patients (31 men and 6 women) were studied in connection with obduction.
(10) Therefore an obduction should be performed in dubious cases at arrival in the native country.
(11) This was the only such case of 16,580 obductions of women in the period from 1961 to 1976.
(12) 90% of these became known because of death caused by obduction.
(13) Case report about a carcinoma of the appendix, recognized by obduction of an 58-years old man.
(14) The authors report on serial chest radiographs during the courses after 71 unilateral orthotopic allogenic pulmonary transplantations in dogs with regard to the findings at obduction.
(15) From the rectum carcinoma cases diagnosed and reported to the National Cancer Registry in 1980, 886 were submitted to obduction.
(16) Planimetry, point-counting-technique and gravimetry were tested for their suitability for determining the degree of stenosis on the same material, the arteria femoralis dextra out of 103 unselected obduction cases.
(17) Venous air embolism was diagnosed only during obduction and was most probably the consequence of air aspiration through the split uterine veins.
(18) The 12,000 obductions at the Institute for Forensic Medicine of the University of Hamburg from 1981 to 1990 included 30 cases of strangulation in children up to the age of 14 years (16 females, 14 males).
(19) 26 muscles with one or more ringed fibres, corresponding to 2,83%, have been found in 939 muscles out of 313 unselected obductions.