(n.) Defensive arms for the body; any clothing or covering worn to protect one's person in battle.
(n.) Steel or iron covering, whether of ships or forts, protecting them from the fire of artillery.
Example Sentences:
(1) As part of Return of Forces to Germany 1990, a number of Second Armored Division soldiers participated in the heroic rescue of German and American civilians injured in a 32-vehicle crash on an autobahn in West Germany.
(2) The method used was the Lazare-Klerman-Armor personality test.
(3) 5.06pm GMT Associated Press journalists in Crimea have spotted a convoy of nine Russian armored personnel carriers and a truck on a road between the port city of Sevastopol and the regional capital, Sinferopol, the news agency reports: The Russian tricolor flags were painted on the vehicles, which were parked on the side of the road near the town of Bakhchisarai, apparently because one of them had mechanical problems.
(4) Officials charged with overseeing the programs say it is difficult to directly trace back to the DHS programs the purchase of Bearcat armored vehicles, sound cannons, and other tactical gear used by Ferguson law enforcemen t and similar police departments.
(5) The method consists in using for the plasty a band or graft of autologous skin armored with a monophilic thread.
(6) Fifteen healthy young males, nine at rest and six at exercise, were exposed to high transient levels of carbon monoxide (CO) to simulate the breathing environment measured in an armored vehicle during weapons firing.
(7) Robert Doggart, 63, and a former candidate for Congress, said he wanted to take his “battle-tested M-4” military-style assault rifle, “with 500 rounds of ammunition, light-armor piercing”, a pistol with three extra magazines and a machete to burn down “the kitchen, the mosque and their school” in the hamlet of Islamberg, according to a criminal complaint against him.
(8) The finances of the NBA are like a battalion of armored vehicles: the money’s inside, but it’s impossible to tell who’s it is, and even harder to get at it.
(9) It is expedient for school children or moviegoers or women’s healthcare providers to be victims of their own choices: they elected the wrong leader, they hired the wrong personnel, they didn’t up-armor to see a Batman movie, they chose jobs that some people don’t like.
(10) In the second study, 64 undergraduate subjects (30 males and 34 females) completed the DMI and the Lazare-Klerman Trait Scale (Lazare, Klerman & Armor, 1966, 1970).
(11) The mere fact that many of the standoff defendants entered into plea deals rather than go to trial suggests that they and their attorneys also felt the government had a very strong case.” There was similar incredulity at the not guilty verdicts in Fort Smith in 1988, as analysts pondered how the government could possibly lose a case against leaders and foot soldiers of the Ku Klux Klan and Aryan Nations, among other organizations, some of whom had previously been proven to have robbed banks and armored trucks, killed people, and openly called for the violent overthrow of the government.
(12) The instruments used were the Eysenck Personality Questionnaire (EPQ), the Lazare-Klerman-Armor Trait Scale (LKAS), the Narcissistic Personality Inventory (NPI) and the Own Memories of Child-Rearing Experiences (EMBU).
(13) Injuries to armored vehicle crewmembers are characterized by a large number of burn casualties, a larger percentage of fractures and traumatic amputations with extremity wounds, and a higher mortality when compared with infantry footsoldier combat casualty statistics.
(14) A geographic targeting order was issued earlier this year for cash couriers and armored cars at two Mexican border crossing points in California.
(15) One of the vehicles, the aptly named Sentinel – 21ft long, 17,500lbs in weight, and costing $250,000 and up – was developed by a Florida-based company called International Armored Group that began supplying the US army in Iraq and Afghanistan.
(16) That armor is exterior and it’s more about the outside feeding in, and I was very excited that inside that armor was a woman.” Domhnall Gleeson, who plays villain General Hux, began answering a question about his character with, “He was on Starkiller Base, which … whoops.
(17) I said dawn, because none of our people had experience driving the armored vehicles .
(18) The need for armor as defense against eurypterid enemies appears to have initiated the development of bony skeletal structures, without which the higher vertebrates could never have developed.
(19) The report offered four milquetoast recommendations that included giving local police more money for body cameras and sensitivity training, while leaving every program – including the controversial Defense Department initiative known as 1033 that has sent assault rifles and armored mine-resistant vehicles to local cops – almost completely intact.
(20) Experiments were conducted on 48 dogs to study the terms and degree of resolution of various plastic materials--areas of fascia lata of the animal's thigh, as well as explants (medical glue compositions, biological absorbable lavsan-armored Soviet medical films) in the pararectal tissues and in artificial formation of rectal fistulas.
Pectoral
Definition:
(a.) Of or pertaining to the breast, or chest; as, the pectoral muscles.
(a.) Relating to, or good for, diseases of the chest or lungs; as, a pectoral remedy.
(a.) Having the breast conspicuously colored; as, the pectoral sandpiper.
(n.) A covering or protecting for the breast.
(n.) A breastplate, esp. that worn by the Jewish high person.
(n.) A clasp or a cross worn on the breast.
(n.) A medicine for diseases of the chest organs, especially the lungs.
Example Sentences:
(1) The participation of neural crest cells in development of the dermal skeleton is discussed by way of the repartition of the odontods within the pectoral fin.
(2) the medial pectoral and the thoracodorsal nerves, and a shorter time span for nerve regeneration.
(3) Multiple transforming growth factors (TGFs) capable of conferring the neoplastic phenotype on NRK-49F cells without the addition of any other exogenous growth factor in the soft agar assay, were purified from two human solid malignant neoplasms: a squamous lung carcinoma and a pectoral rhabdomyosarcoma.
(4) The ventral subclavius, which was observed for the first time, was discovered to issue, together with the pectoral and the accessory phrenic nerves, from the superior and middle trunks of the brachial plexus.
(5) 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.
(6) It was established that the vein was most often compressed by a long stump of the small pectoral muscle.
(7) With the exception of pectoral muscle weight, dystrophic hybrids exhibited symptoms of dystrophy: high serum CK and high muscle AChE and low LDH levels.
(8) Other important factors include implant position (improved visualization with implant beneath pectoral muscle) and type of mammography performed (slightly more tissue seen with displacement technique).
(9) In 5 of these cases there was also involvement of the underlying pectoral muscles, raising the possibility that some of these may have been of pectoral musculoaponeurotic origin.
(10) The development of the vasculature of the pectoral fin in the Australian lungfish, Neoceratodus forsteri, was studied by the dye-injection method.
(11) In 38 patients undergoing femoral artery profundaplasty and in 18 having simple mastectomy with pectoral node biopsy, a 6.2 per cent solution of sodium sulphan blue was injected peripherally to outline the lymph nodes in the groin or axilla.
(12) In 1841 A. POLAND described a rare complex of malformations in the male, characterized a unilateral pectoral muscle defect combined with ipsilateral symbrachydaktyly.
(13) The pulse generator was placed in a subcutaneous pocket in the left pectoral area.
(14) The interaction (SKF x Age) was significant (p < .05) for pectoral and biceps delta ODs.
(15) In order to study the arrangement of the myosin and non-myosin components, A segments which are aggregations of thick filaments held together at the M line were prepared from glycerinated chicken pectoral and rabbit psoas muscles and examined by electron microscopy.
(16) Major pectoral muscle could be used as local flap to obliterate empyema cavity associated with tracheal fistula.
(17) Image standardization based on fat and pectoral muscle signals was necessary for intercase comparisons.
(18) The results of this study therefore indicate that lymphatic cancer cell emboli in the pectoral fascia and muscle are an important risk factor for patients who undergo a modified radical mastectomy.
(19) Feather follicle movement control was studied on feathers of the pectoral tract in the anaesthetized chicken.
(20) As proponents of lesser procedures have called into question the necessity of removing the pectoral muscles in surgery for cancer of the breast, there has been a need to establish accurately the relationship of the lymphatics to the pectoral muscles and their fascia.