(n.) A thick, heavy knife with a hooked point, used in pruning hedges, etc. When it has a short handle, it is sometimes called a hand bill; when the handle is long, a hedge bill or scimiter.
Example Sentences:
(1) Resembling a billhook, with Foule Crag its wickedly curved tip, this final flourish looks daunting but can be skirted to one side, up awkward slabs.
(2) The Walter’s Tools library in Cumbria loans out a heritage collection of billhooks and scythes; modern share shops have shelves of useful stuff you only need occasionally, as do your neighbours .
(3) Foule Crag may sound Chaucerian, and indeed can prompt the kind of Anglo-Saxon language found in The Miller's Tale; it is as inextricably linked with Sharp Edge as is the wickedly curved tip on a Staffordshire billhook.
Scimitar
Definition:
(n.) A saber with a much curved blade having the edge on the convex side, -- in use among Mohammedans, esp., the Arabs and persians.
(n.) A long-handled billhook. See Billhook.
Example Sentences:
(1) Eight other additional cases of horseshoe lung without scimitar syndrome are mentioned here.
(2) The scimitar syndrome may be indistinguishable from BPS with this technique.
(3) Both patients had intact interatrial septum with partial anomalous pulmonary venous drainage, one to the inferior vena cava (The Scimitar Syndrome) and the other to the superior vena cava.
(5) A case of the scimitar sign due to an anomaly of the right sided pulmonary vein with normal drainage into the left atrium was associated with an azygos continuation of the inferior vena cava.
(6) The scimitar sign, characterised by a vertical opacity crossing the medial part of the right diaphragm, is generally attributed to abnormal pulmonary venous return draining into the inferior vena cava.
(7) A review of the roentgenograms and clinical records of 33 children with primary congenital underdevelopment of one lung showed that 9 patients had simple pulmonary hypoplasia, 8 had anomalous venous return to the right atrium or the inferior vena cava (scimitar syndrome), 7 had an absence of the ipsilateral pulmonary artery, 7 had an accessory diaphragm, and 2 had a pulmonary sequestration adjacent to a small diaphragmatic hernia.
(8) Most patients with such pulmonary fusion share many of those cardiovascular anomalies typical of the "scimitar" or hypogenetic right lung syndrome.
(9) A 26-year-old woman with partial anomalous pulmonary venous drainage into the right atrium (Scimitar syndrome) was successfully operated upon by incorporating an intra-atrial conduit.
(10) A pulmonary angiogram revealed an anomalous pulmonary vein, having the appearance of a scimitar sign draining normally into the left atrium.
(11) The authors describe three new cases in children of abnormal right pulmonary venous drainage into the inferior vena cava, associated with sequestration of the right lower lobe and dextrocardia caused by right pulmonary hypoplasia with a scimitar sign.
(12) The scimitar syndrome, first described by Chassinat in 1836, consists aessentially of an anomalous pulmonary vein draining whole or part of the right lung into the inferior vena cava.
(13) Analysis of regional pulmonary function distribution using radioactive 133xenon gas and eight scintillation detectors was performed in a patient with scimitar syndrome.
(14) A rare case of scimitar syndrome associated with diaphragmatic herniation of the liver is reported.
(15) To our knowledge, this is the first successful surgical case of Scimitar syndrome with pulmonary hypertension in childhood reported in literature.
(16) However, a computed tomography of the chest showed this abnormal vascular shadow draining into the left atrium (pseudo-scimitar sign).
(17) The finding of a "scimitar sacrum" makes it essential to perform a contrast enema of the anorectum and a CT of the pelvic structures in the patient and his family.
(18) During repair, creation of an atrial septal defect in the distorted septal-left atrial junction of scimitar syndrome is facilitated by first incising the anteromedial aspect of the fossa ovalis to better delineate the optimal posterolateral margin.
(19) The term scimitar syndrome used in the literature is to some extent inaccurate as it is neither constant nor pathognomonic.
(20) Four new cases of scimitar syndrome illustrate the complex derangement of the right lung architecture.