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Brest


Definition:

  • (n.) Alt. of Breast
  • (3d sing.pr.) for Bursteth.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Orthopedic départment of Centre hospitalo-universitaire de Brest use one upon another two procedures: from 1974 to 1984, for 1287 cases the prevention of thromboembolic complications is done with the help of subcutaneous heparin at standard dose during 12 days; the clinical diagnosis in confirmed by an isotopic phlebography and isotopic lung scan.
  • (2) These results have led our cardiologist in Brest to naturally prefer a surgical approach than percutaneous angioplasty when LDA and DA are involved.
  • (3) The family-owned Télégramme de Brest, which covers western Brittany, boasts a total readership of 900,000.
  • (4) Local foci of opisthorchiasis have been established on the territory of 3 Belorussian districts (Brest, Gomel and Grodno provinces).
  • (5) Five different apolipoproteins (apo) and lipid profiles were studied in breast-fed mature (BM), brest-fed premature (BP), formula-fed mature (FM) and formula-fed premature (FP) infants in the first year of life.
  • (6) This Finistère peninsula, midway between Brest and Quimper, is blessed with 11 miles of undulating coastal walks, dotted with secluded rocky coves that you'll probably have to yourself.
  • (7) In Stage IV brest cancer, 88% of those with local recurrence and 15% of those with disseminated cancer were positive.
  • (8) Anthracycline derivative adriamycin (ADR) is one of the most important anticancer drugs with major clinical application in carcinomas of the brest, endometrium, ovary, testicle, thyroid, lung and in treatment of many sarcomas.
  • (9) The management of fetal heterotopic tachycardias is reviewed from a cooperative study involving 23 cases treated by French Pediatric Cardiology Centers at Angers, Brest, Nantes, Rennes and Tours.
  • (10) I loved James Morton ’s bicycle made from Paris Brest,” says Mel.
  • (11) The cases presented provide an overview of the use of the nail at the Brest Center, where the nail was invented and developed, and at the Rizzoli Institute.
  • (12) From 1981 to 1990, 96 confirmed hospital cases of imported malaria occurred in Brest.
  • (13) The study of six cases of MacLeod-Donovan chancre, 2 in Paris, 4 in Brest, in young men coming from the West Indies, showed after 15 days incubation, a balano-preputial lesion consisting of an oval-shaped granuloma, 1 to 4 cm diameter, raised, indurated, ulcerated, reddish-yellow, spontaneously painful, bleeding easily, accompanied in 50 p. 100 of cases by inguinal adenitis, due to secondary infection.
  • (14) Virus isolations were attempted at the virus laboratory in Brest (Pr Chastel) using human diploid fibroblastic cells, MRC 5 strain (Bio-Mérieux, France) and virus isolates were identified by neutralisation tests.
  • (15) After attempting to explain these aberrant variations on the basis of anatomical and embryological considerations, we describe one case encountered in the ENT department of Brest University Hospital, then discuss it according to the data provided by the literature.
  • (16) During a preliminary study, from October 1975 until June 1976, we tried to find free-living limax amoebae in the waters proceeding from 6 systems which partly cover the wants of Brest and its bay (Finistère).
  • (17) A drug may reach the newborn indirectly from the mother via the umbilical cord or brest milk and by direct application.
  • (18) 50 of January 14, 1980, has been made on the basis of the results obtained in the Brest region of the Byelorussian SSR and in the Turkmen SSR.
  • (19) A six months' follow-up study was carried out in the nursery of the University Hospital of Brest where neonates were systematically evaluated for dermatological abnormalities.
  • (20) Beckham announced on May 16 that he would retire, and featured in his last professional game as Paris St Germain beat Brest two days later at the Parc des Princes.

Wrest


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To turn; to twist; esp., to twist or extort by violence; to pull of force away by, or as if by, violent wringing or twisting.
  • (v. t.) To turn from truth; to twist from its natural or proper use or meaning by violence; to pervert; to distort.
  • (v. t.) To tune with a wrest, or key.
  • (n.) The act of wresting; a wrench; a violent twist; hence, distortion; perversion.
  • (n.) Active or moving power.
  • (n.) A key to tune a stringed instrument of music.
  • (n.) A partition in a water wheel, by which the form of the buckets is determined.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Security forces have also tried to wrest back the Sunni stronghold of Tikrit from a loose alliance of Isis fighters, other jihadist groups and former Saddam Hussein loyalists.
  • (2) Residents of five blocks in Nottingham, called City Heights, set off fireworks to celebrate wresting control of their development from Peverel after a long legal battle.
  • (3) A long campaign to wrest control of the parliamentary agenda from government triumphed today when MPs voted overwhelmingly to establish an elected backbench committee to take responsibility for tracts of Commons business.
  • (4) The truce was short-lived, and by the following February, hundreds of Taliban fighters had recaptured the area, prompting the British, aided by the US Army's 82nd airborne division, to conduct a massive operation in late 2007 to wrest back control of the district centre.
  • (5) Their composure was shattered from the moment Alex McCarthy gifted the visitors an equaliser, all authority wrested away in the blink of an eye and Liverpool , suddenly focused where previously they had been limp and ineffective, the more persuasive threat in what time that remained.
  • (6) They must have thought they had wrested control of this contest having started the second half with such urgency, the excellent Sergio Agüero – "a powerful tank," according to Mourinho – darting behind Gary Cahill to collect Samir Nasri's pass and thump a glorious finish high beyond Petr Cech at his near post.
  • (7) 8 March 2008: Anwar leads an opposition coalition to wrest a third of parliament's seats and five states from the incumbent National Front coalition, which has ruled Malaysia since it became independent from Britain in 1957.
  • (8) Iraqi units, described by commanding general Lloyd Austin as the centerpiece of the war for the moment , are not ready to wrest Mosul or other significant territory from Isis .
  • (9) Iraq’s armed forces, backed by Shia militia, have begun a fresh campaign to wrest control and “liberate” Saddam Hussein’s hometown of Tikrit, now a stronghold of Islamic State (Isis), the country’s prime minister has said.
  • (10) The terminals were wrested from the control of Field Marshal Khalid Haftar, the head of the so-called Libyan National Army (LNA), a force that dominates in eastern Libya and enjoys Russian and Egyptian support.
  • (11) The forward bustled in, stealing the ball and holding off the centre-half as he attempted to wrest it back, before ripping a glorious shot from a horribly tight angle into the far top corner as Ben Foster edged out to smother.
  • (12) Najib's coalition hopes to win back a large number of parliamentary seats and several states that Anwar's opposition alliance wrested from it in 2008 elections.
  • (13) Take Tarlair Lido in Aberdeen, recently granted £300,000 for immediate repairs which makes its swimming future imaginable, or Brighton 's art deco Saltdean Lido , wrested by campaigners from a developer who was not, shall we say, "swimming friendly".
  • (14) Cameron and Gove are against this, because if London wrested more control of schools back to local government level, then other local authorities would clamour for the same thing.
  • (15) This is what the revolution is about: Ukrainians trying to wrest control of their country from the oligarchs of Donetsk, Dnepropetrovsk and elsewhere who – with help from east and west – have robbed them for 23 years.
  • (16) The raid represented an attempt by Macierewicz to wrest immediate control of the centre from Dusza, who had been appointed to run it by Poland’s former centre-right government ousted in October elections by the radical Law and Justice party.
  • (17) Good docs appear to wrest a degree of coherence from the contingent mess of life My life has been spoiled by docs.
  • (18) In front of a record crowd for a women’s final of 32,912 at Wembley, Carter’s 18th-minute goal was enough to wrest the trophy back from Chelsea Ladies, last year’s league and cup winners, who could have no complaints after coming up second best in almost every area of the pitch.
  • (19) The problem is not believed to be the paucity of sports rights that afflicted the programme during the 1990s as Sky attempted to wrest control of every big event from the BBC, but that viewers now see Grandstand as old-fashioned.
  • (20) It won't help the cause one jot to say this, but for those of us who came of age in the 1960s, here comes our final right to wrest from the old moral and religious orthodoxy: the right to die as we please.

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