(v. t.) To injure, as by a blow or collision, without laceration; to contuse; as, to bruise one's finger with a hammer; to bruise the bark of a tree with a stone; to bruise an apple by letting it fall.
(v. t.) To break; as in a mortar; to bray, as minerals, roots, etc.; to crush.
(v. i.) To fight with the fists; to box.
(n.) An injury to the flesh of animals, or to plants, fruit, etc., with a blunt or heavy instrument, or by collision with some other body; a contusion; as, a bruise on the head; bruises on fruit.
Example Sentences:
(1) Most injuries due to accidents have been bruises, wounds and bone fractures of upper and lower limbs.
(2) Grosics did his best between the posts, but the team succumbed to Wales in a bruising play-off, thus failing to advance beyond the first stage.
(3) Ehlers-Danlos syndrome (EDS) type IV is a clinically and genetically heterogeneous disorder characterized by thin skin, prominent venous vascular markings, markedly increased bruising, and an increased likelihood of large bowel and large artery rupture.
(4) Television images of his body showed heavy bruising to his face.
(5) A comparison was made of the effect of providing or denying water to steers during the last 20 h before slaughter on carcase weight, bruising, muscle pH, and during the dressing process on the numbers of rumens from which ingesta was split and the number of heads and tongues condemned because of contamination with ingesta.
(6) The acquired platelet function defects, especially those resulting from drugs, are very common and should promptly be suspected in patients developing easy and spontaneous bruising, mild to moderate mucosal membrane hemorrhage, or unexplained bleeding associated with trauma or surgery.
(7) When she returned she had a large bruise on her forehead.
(8) Lowest content of ascorbic acid occurred in bruised beans cooked in copper-fortified water.
(9) The decision by Moody's deals a bruising blow to the embattled chancellor, George Osborne, who has repeatedly nailed his credibility to the AAA rating.
(10) Iran’s supreme leader has accused Saudi Arabia of committing genocide in Yemen and said air strikes against Houthi rebels are doomed to fail, in a sharp escalation of tensions between the two rivals over the outcome of yet another bruising conflict in the Middle East.
(11) When we were treating him, he was not screaming or crying, just in shock.” There was so much there in his face, the blood and the dust mixed, at that age Mustafa al-Sarout Hours after he and his family were rescued, Omran was discharged from hospital, having suffered a head injury and bruises in the attack, but nothing too serious.
(12) Sir David Nicholson's bruising tenure as chief executive of the NHS saw him take a further battering from MPs as the public accounts committee criticised him over big pay rises for consultants and a range of other issues, including his penchant for first class rail travel.
(13) Bruising was the most frequent injury and was most prevalent among boys under 3 years of age.
(14) 4) In case of the death caused by the bruise sustained on the occipital region, casualties on gyrus frontale were recognized by 97%, while the bruise located on other than the occipital region, injuries were recognized by 51% on the opposite region, and the remaining 49% of it showed injuries on the same region of the sustained.
(15) He required hospital treatment for a potentially life-changing eye injury, a fractured cheekbone and substantial bruising to his body.
(16) Jen Dunstan, of Sheffield Disabled People Against the Cuts, told the Star: “Dozens of elderly and disabled people have been left with bruising.
(17) After months of bruising negotiation and a threatened legal challenge from the EC, a compromise was negotiated in 2005 under which the Premier League promised to sell the rights to at least two broadcasters.
(18) Monti has faced a bruising time as prime minister: battling with unions at home to reform the labour laws, and tussling with Angela Merkel on the euro summit circus.
(19) It's a harsh tale of contemporary Russia, as beautiful as a bruise.
(20) The case of Bo Xilai , the former Communist party high-flyer brought down after the mysterious death of a British businessman, was a wild courtroom drama full of explosive confessions, unexpected revelations and bruising confrontations.
Wem
Definition:
(n.) The abdomen; the uterus; the womb.
(n.) Spot; blemish; harm; hurt.
(v. t.) To stain; to blemish; to harm; to corrupt.
(n.) An indolent, encysted tumor of the skin; especially, a sebaceous cyst.
Example Sentences:
(1) In the mature neutrophil, the number of binding sites for WEM-G11 were found to be about 20,000 per cell.
(2) Moreover, it is neither easier to understand nor easier to work with and, like WEM, it also requires a prior probability.
(3) By immunoblotting, it was demonstrated that the epitope recognized by WEM-G11 is in the chain of m.w.
(4) No correlation was seen, however, between stimulation of neutrophil function in vitro and total blood leukocyte counts, neutrophil counts, monocyte counts, or intensity of binding of MAb WEM-G1.
(5) Biochemical studies presented here show that WEM-G1 recognizes the sugar sequence 3-fucosyllactosamine, Gal beta 1-4[Fuc alpha 1-3]GlcNAc.
(6) Furthermore, a strong positive correlation in the ability of neutrophils to be stimulated by the MAb WEM-G1 and either CSF-alpha (r = .76) or MNC-SN (r = .68), as well as between CSF-alpha and MNC-SN (r = .79) was demonstrated.
(7) Knowledge of the biochemical structure of the WEM-G1 antigen suggested testing granulocyte function with other monoclonal antibodies of similar specificity.
(8) A positive correlation was found between the ability of neutrophils to kill in the "resting" state and their capacity to be stimulated by MAb WEM-G1, CSF-alpha, or MNC-SN.
(9) Our results also suggest a potential clinical use of WEM-G1 in measuring neutrophil functional capacity in vitro and predicting the capacity to respond to CSF-like cytokines.
(10) The immunized group treated with "control" mouse ascites, WEM-G11, was highly resistant (90% survival).
(11) WEM-G11 F(ab')2, and to a greater extent WEM-G11 IgG, induced degranulation, but only from cytochalasin B-treated neutrophils.
(12) "I grew up thinking the true lyrics to Que Sera Sera were, Tell me ma, me ma, I won't be home for tea - we're off to Wem-ber-lee," writes John Davis.
(13) MAb WEM-G11 F(ab')2 also stimulated the phagocytosis of antibody-coated sheep erythrocytes by neutrophils.
(14) Mouse monoclonal antibody WEM-G1 specifically binds to human neutrophils and eosinophils.
(15) Hope it's chips, it's chips, we hope it's chips, it's chips Que sera sera Whatever will be, will be We're going to Wem-ber-lee Que sera sera.
(16) Depletion of adherent cells, followed by simultaneous immunomagnetic bead depletion of Leu 4+, Leu 7+, Leu 11+, Leu M1+, Leu M3+, B1+, WEM-G11+, and Glycophorin A+ cells from normal bone marrow mononuclear cells, consistently led to recoveries of erythroid and nonerythroid colony-forming cells of greater than 100% and enrichment of 13- to 99-fold.
(17) Populations of normal human colony-forming cells (blast cells) and cluster-forming cells (promyelocytes-myelocytes) were obtained from bone marrow by using the monoclonal antibody WEM G11 and the fluorescence-activated cell sorter (FACS).
(18) There is no reason to expect WA and WEM to converge at the upper end of the scale.
(19) The agents used to stimulate cytotoxic capacity were the monoclonal antibody (MAb) WEM-G1, colony-stimulating factor (CSF-alpha), or mononuclear cell supernatant (MNC-SN).
(20) Enriched populations of either normal human promyelocytes and myelocytes or blast cells were obtained by fluorescence-activated cell sorting with the monoclonal antibody WEM-G11.