(n.) An ornament, in various forms, with a tongue, pin, or loop for attaching it to a garment; now worn at the breast by women; a breastpin. Formerly worn by men on the hat.
(n.) A painting all of one color, as a sepia painting, or an India painting.
(imp. & p. p.) To adorn as with a brooch.
Example Sentences:
(1) For a while yesterday, Hazel Blears's selfishly-timed resignation with her rude "rock the boat" brooch send shudders of revulsion through some in the party.
(2) A new surgical technique is described for the osteosynthesis of the supra-condylar transversal fracture of the humerus in children with an unique central transolecranian and transcondylar brooch.
(3) Now seven veterans, with a collective age of 639, wearing the gold and blue brooches – not medals – they were finally awarded in 2009, have returned for the launch of a book about their lives there, The Debs of Bletchley Park by Michael Smith.
(4) From a sapphire and diamond brooch to a humble bag of salt, the Queen picked up an eclectic haul of official gifts during the year she became Britain’s longest-reigning monarch.
(5) On the cover of Testament is an image of a Luckenbooth brooch, a traditional Scottish love token comprised of linked hearts and a crown.
(6) "Hazel Blears wore a brooch saying, 'Rocking the boat'.
(7) A pound-sign brooch on a member's lapel glints in the setting sun.
(8) He was generous to his Duchess, too, over the years commissioning a collection of bejewelled insect brooches, which she wore pinned to ribbons as they left quite dreadful holes in frocks.
(9) Elephant pendants were a theme, I noticed, and elephant brooches and elephant rings and elephant T-shirts.
(10) The ballerina-length hem was elegant – dressier than knee-length, more fashion-forward than a gown – while a diamond maple leaf brooch, leant by the Queen, added a diplomatic twinkle.
(11) Due to a difficult synthesis of the tibial bone synthesis of the peroneum with a thick rod or with a brooch was performed, recovering the length of the lever and allowing to de-telescope the tibial focus, to recover the normal length and a corresponding axis.
(12) Not wildly encouraging, granted, but delve deeper and you'll also find an array of pottery, wall hangings, scarves and brooches.
(13) Kate wore a blue Jenny Packham dress, the Queen’s diamond maple leaf brooch and a hat by Lock & Co. As William chatted to Trudeau, Kate tended to a somewhat shy George, asking “Are you OK?” Facebook Twitter Pinterest Prince William, Prince George, Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge and Princess Charlotte arrive at 443 Maritime Helicopter Squadron base on Saturday in Victoria, British Columbia.
(14) People were a bit uncomfortable with it at first, but it looked so good.I remember Johnny got a brooch, and then I got one on my leather jacket.
(15) All three have shared an air of borderline farce: to fully tick all the boxes, all the Hewitt-Hoon putsch needs is a prop to match Blears's infamous brooch and the elder Miliband's banana.
(16) Wearing a blue coat and brooch, she was placed between the foreign secretary William Hague and David Cameron – who gave up the seat he normally occupies as prime minister – with the Liberal Democrat deputy prime minister Nick Clegg sat opposite.
(17) The sapphire and diamond brooch, in the shape of a fern, was a present from Sri Lanka’s president Maithripala Sirisena , and not the only addition to the royal jewellery box.
(18) They have even become fashionable, with celebrities wearing them in the form of bejewelled brooches, cufflinks and rings.
(19) It was joined by a sapphire and silver brooch given by HMS Ocean, a navy helicopter carrier, and a diamante brooch from the Queen’s Royal Lancers.
(20) She wore a pale yellow Irene Sharaff gown, and a $150,000 emerald and diamond brooch that Burton had bought her at Bulgari in Rome.
Fibula
Definition:
(n.) A brooch, clasp, or buckle.
(n.) The outer and usually the smaller of the two bones of the leg, or hind limb, below the knee.
(n.) A needle for sewing up wounds.
Example Sentences:
(1) In the other, the proximal fibula was excised and the epiphysis placed across the saphenous artery and vein in the groin.
(2) Limb abnormalities included lumbar scoliosis, short malformed tibias and fibulas, and polydactyly.
(3) Nine patients who had undergone free fibula transfer were reviewed to determine the incidence of donor site complications.
(4) We assessed the function of the posterior malleolus, the anterior tibiofibular ligament, and the fibula with regard to posterior stability of the talus in ten ankles of cadavera.
(5) Both lower limbs were abnormal: the left had a single slender long bone articulating with the foot, which was markedly dorsiflexed and had only 2 toes; on the right the femur was angulated, the fibula was absent, and only 4 metatarsals were present with 4 toes.
(6) In 8 no subsequent procedure was necessary; 2 patients required additional bone grafts to augment the osseous reconstruction; viable fibulas were seen at reoperation.
(7) The biological and biomechanical properties of normal fibulae, fibulae that had had a sham operation, and both vascularized and non-vascularized autogenous grafts were studied in dogs at three months after the operation.
(8) The autogeneic fibula dove-tailed strut graft is favored over an iliac crest bone graft because with multilevel decompression in the cervical spine, it provided structural stability and a high union rate.
(9) In these cases the reposition and the osteosynthesis of the fibula neutralize fairly well also the motive forces acting on the tibial fracture.
(10) A case of acute plastic bowing fractures of both the fibula and tibia in a child is presented.
(11) Also examined were the vertebral column; femur, knee joint, tibia and fibula of the right hindlimb; and the tracheal cartilages.
(12) Cystic fibrosis was noted in the metatarsals on day 14 and in the tibia, fibula and tarsals on day 21 and progressed to become the dominant abnormality by day 35.
(13) Five years after completing adjuvant chemotherapy for osteosarcoma of the fibula, a 20-year-old woman developed an esophageal carcinoma.
(14) We report four patients with unilateral bowing of the lower leg, affecting only the fibula.
(15) We consider them to be bony origins of ligaments: at the sciatic tuber--the bony origin of the sacrotuberal ligament, at the distal fibula--the bony origin of the peroneal compartment of the retinaculum mm extensorum inferius.
(16) Large defects of the tibia can be bridged with autologous cancellous grafts between the remaining fibula and a contralateral tibial cortical graft.
(17) The area of proprioceptive nerve receptors around the distal part of the rat fibula was stripped surgically, and a standard fracture of the fibular shaft was produced.
(18) The usual application of one-third tubular plates to the lateral surface of the distal fibula has certain disadvantages.
(19) We report on 2 male propositi, their mothers, and a maternal aunt with a new skeletal dysplasia associated with a unique pattern of digital malformation, variable mild short stature, and mild bowleg with proximal overgrowth of the fibula.
(20) The method used most in the operative technique is the correction of valgus deviation at the head of the tibia after osteotomy of the fibula with stabilization with a fixateur externe.