(n.) The act of abrading, wearing, or rubbing off; the wearing away by friction; as, the abrasion of coins.
(n.) The substance rubbed off.
(n.) A superficial excoriation, with loss of substance under the form of small shreds.
Example Sentences:
(1) This resulted in greater uniformity of abrasion over the enamel surface within the biopsy window area and better operator handling characteristics.
(2) Shaping and fine working of restorations necessitated by cervical lesions, abrasions at the necks of teeth, or root surface caries can often be arduous to complete.
(3) The row between two of the media industry's most colourful and abrasive figures took place in the YouView boardroom, located at Desmond's Northern & Shell Thameside skyscraper.
(4) Abrasive brushing techniques wear down the already damaged tooth surfaces.
(5) Orthopedic new approaches to therapy of OA include removal of abnormal tissue to stimulate repair (e.g., burring, abrasion) and grafting (e.g., osteochondral grafts, perichondrium, periosteum) to the subchondral bone.
(6) Before we meet, I have to have a stern talk with myself about not mentioning the game last August in which all Arsenal fans will contend that Barton got new signing Gervinho sent off on his debut; he's had similarly abrasive encounters since with fellow midfielders, Karl Henry from Wolves and Norwich's Bradley Johnson, the latter earning him a three-match ban.
(7) Elevated risks for stomach cancer among carpenters and machinists may reflect exposure to dusts, abrasives, and cutting oils.
(8) The testing was based on The British Standards Institution's specification for toothpastes, using a profilometer technique to evaluate the abrasion.
(9) Creation of smear layers with abrasive paper or dental burs reduced permeability by 80-85%.
(10) Since prosthetic meniscal replacement may be performed in the setting of normal articular cartilage, a prosthesis will be required to match the exact joint configuration, induce the same lubricity, produce the same coefficient of friction, and absorb and dampen the same joint forces (without incurring significant creep or abrasion) as does the normal meniscus.
(11) The titanium alloy strips were treated with citric acid, stannous fluoride, tetracycline HCl, chlorhexidine gluconate, hydrogen peroxide, chloramine T, sterile water, a plastic sonic scaler tip, and an air-powder abrasive unit.
(12) Perhaps grime and dubstep were simply too abrasive and strange to be successfully watered down for mainstream tastes.
(13) Relief from pain occurred in all patients soon after abrasion was performed.
(14) After mechanical denudation of the endothelium with a specially designed abrasive micropipette, spontaneous tone and myogenic responses were preserved.
(15) An abrasively Thatcherite style would be poison to their Lib Dem partners.
(16) Current management of hand injuries includes debridement by abrasive scrubbing with anti-bacterial detergents, surgical excision, or pressure irrigation.
(17) Plaque accumulations were also frequently located in abrasion grooves and surface pits in the enamel, and prolific plaque areas were consistently surrounded by a monolayer of bacterial cells.
(18) Corneal abrasion occurred in two babies and corneal oedema in one baby after forceps delivery but in none of the control group.
(19) However, person-to-person variation can have a great influence on the abrasion process; moreover, only two persons were involved in this pilot study, and no definitive statement can be made about the effect of the toothpastes.
(20) Recently a redesigned air-powder abrasive system was introduced to remove dental plaque and stain from tooth surfaces.
Laceration
Definition:
(n.) The act of lacerating.
(n.) A breach or wound made by lacerating.
Example Sentences:
(1) The affected bowel was replaced through the laceration, and the vaginal defects were sutured with the mares standing, utilizing epidural anesthesia.
(2) The tetracaine component of TAC is superfluous for obtaining topical anesthesia of minor dermal lacerations of the face in children.
(3) A compilation of injuires sustained in an amateur ice hockey program over a tw0-year period revealed that the majority of those injuires were facial lacerations.
(4) After resuscitation a laparotomy disclosed an anterior paramedian laceration of the uterus.
(5) It is pointed to the stiching up of skin over the prominent parts of bones after dividing the newborns sub partu to avoid a laceration of the mother womb and vagina.
(6) The incidence of tibial fractures, ankle injuries and lacerations also declined.
(7) Mares may suffer from a variety of genital injuries including vulval separations, vaginal lacerations and, less commonly, vaginal rupture.
(8) One other patient who had a satisfactory response underwent surgery for a pancreatic laceration.
(9) Two cases of uterine injury complicating midtrimester abortion induced by hypertonic saline are described, one with an extensive laceration of the cervix and the other with a rupture of the lower uterine segment extending into the vault of the vagina.
(10) The authors present a rare case of closed abdominal trauma in a five year old girl resulting from a washtub fall on her causing three lacerations in the middle third of the esophagus, identified 48 hours after the trauma.
(11) The use of intravenous lignocaine is thus recommended for children at risk, such as those needing an urgent operation because of lacerated eye injury under rapid sequence induction of anaesthesia.
(12) Placental laceration as a result of blunt maternal trauma has rarely been reported.
(13) We produce lung lacerations in 18 dogs ventilated with air containing charcoal powder.
(14) A case report of traumatic hemobilia following suture of superficial laceration of the liver is presented.
(15) The incidence of instrument-assisted deliveries (BC = 7, DT = 6), episiotomies (BC = 27, DT = 20), lacerations (BC = 17, DT = 5), and hemorrhoids (BC = 14, DT = 4) was similar between groups.
(16) The stitcher surgical treatment of the lacerations associated with gastrostomy and lengthy parenteral nutrition did not prevent the recurrence of the esophagus-pleural fistula, and an esophagectomy plus cervical esophagostomy was required.
(17) But the character – compounded of piercing sanity and existential despair, infinite hesitation and impulsive action, self-laceration and observant irony – is so multi-faceted, it is bound to coincide at some point with an actor’s particular gifts.
(18) The case of a patient with an extensive vertical laceration of the right cheek involving Stensen's duct is reported.
(19) Complications that were managed conservatively included splenic puncture, false aneurysm, laceration of the renal artery, arteriovenous fistula, hemorrhage requiring transfusion, pneumothorax-empyema, urinoma, septic shock and the hemolysis-hyponatremia-renal shutdown syndrome.
(20) Common signs and symptoms include forehead laceration and deformity, and fracture of the frontal sinus.