What's the difference between bullet and obturation?

Bullet


Definition:

  • (n.) A small ball.
  • (n.) A missile, usually of lead, and round or elongated in form, to be discharged from a rifle, musket, pistol, or other small firearm.
  • (n.) A cannon ball.
  • (n.) The fetlock of a horse.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The severity of injury in a gunshot wound is dependent on many factors, including the type of firearm; the velocity, mass, and construction of the bullet; and the structural properties of the tissues that are wounded.
  • (2) Half the bullet got me and the other half went into a shop window across the road.
  • (3) It became fully operational in 1975, replacing its predecessor the rubber bullet.
  • (4) "Every bullet that killed those people was a bullet in the heart of all of us," she said.
  • (5) Sadly, the bullet will not only kill off Greece’s future in Europe.
  • (6) In the case presented, this aided investigators in determining how many bullets actually struck the victim.
  • (7) He joined the Coldstream Guards, while Debo and her mother went to Berne to collect Unity, who had put a bullet through her brain but survived, severely damaged; they coped with Unity's resultant moodiness and incontinence through the first year of war.
  • (8) When the Washington Post reports a boom in bullet-proof backpacks for children, it is not a good time to be a resident of a place colloquially known as The Arms.
  • (9) "Only one bullet that we're aware of hit, the second Australian returned fire and critically injured and possibly killed the Afghani," said Lieutenant General Rhys Jones, chief of the New Zealand Defence Force, who identified his injured soldier as an instructor from the officer academy.
  • (10) Fielding said: "He [Stewart] mentioned that on the day before the execution, when Allen was visited by his wife for the last time, they were separated by a piece of what was supposed to be bullet-proofed glass.
  • (11) He fired four bullets through a lavatory door, killing Steenkamp, who was in the cubicle inside the athlete's house in an upmarket housing complex in the capital Pretoria.
  • (12) Early bullet removal did not appear to be a significant factor in the prevention of infection.
  • (13) Another man who is not moving fast enough is shot with a rubber bullet.
  • (14) "There is no debate over the conclusion that Abir was injured by a rubber bullet shot by border guards, which in turn leads to the conclusion that the shooting of Abir occurred out of negligence, or in violation of the rules of engagement," said Judge Orit Efal-Gabai.
  • (15) The case of a patient with a hepatic vein bullet embolus complicating a left ventricular gunshot injury is described.
  • (16) He said the bullet passed through the right-hand upper part of his chest and exited through his shoulder.
  • (17) Since 2010, he has worked for the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (Darpa), the wing of the US defense department devoted to funding and developing new technologies, from a self-steering bullet called Exacto to the packet-switching system, Arpanet, that became the internet.
  • (18) The location of the bullet and the type of pain that subsequently developed were not correlated with the initial decision to surgically remove the bullet.
  • (19) The rough spot where protesters say shots were fired from Rice recalled in a telephone interview that he “heard gunshots go off and felt a bullet whizz by my head,” prompting him to take cover from the direction of the shots by hiding behind a car, while facing the police line.
  • (20) The study showed surprising results: in the majority of cases, the helmet does not protect the wearer, but instead intensifies the damage caused by the bullet.

Obturation


Definition:

  • (n.) The act of stopping up, or closing, an opening.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) In this study, a technique is described by which large obturators can be retained with an acrylic resin head plate.
  • (2) (a) unaltered tooth, (b) access preparation, (c) instrumentation, (d) obturation, and (e) MOD cavity preparation; or 2.
  • (3) Results revealed there was no statistically significant difference among the four obturation techniques.
  • (4) The percentage of metastasis to the external iliac, internal iliac and obturator lymph nodes was 55%, 83% and 82%, respectively.
  • (5) To produce a chronic moderate hydronephrosis in dog, a method of partial ureteral occlusion using a specially designed polypropylene obturator was developed.
  • (6) These are related to the insertions and fascial investments of the iliopsoas, pyriformis, and obturator internus muscles and the ensheathed penetrations of the superior gluteal arteries.
  • (7) The ease and rapidity of the technique saves time for both the patient and the maxillofacial prosthodontist by introducing the open obturator prosthesis at the earliest opportunity.
  • (8) The close anatomical relation between the posterior portion of the muscle and the obturator internus suggests that the latter may play a role in supporting the weak posterior portion of the levator ani, especially during straining positions associated with lateral rotation at both hips.
  • (9) They are determined primarily by (a) the pulpal response of an immature tooth to trauma, and (b) the mechanical difficulties encountered when attempts are made to obturate the root canal of a tooth with a widely patent apical foramen.
  • (10) We modified the second stage (mouthpiece) of a standard scuba regulator to permit intermittent positive pressure ventilation using either a mask or an esophageal obturator airway.
  • (11) This can now be achieved by using a mechanical stapler to obturate temporarily the distal end of the colonic segment bearing a conventional lateral colostomy, then performing an extra-mucosal anastomosis to re-establish continuity.
  • (12) A dye penetration study was done to compare apical leakage among three groups of extracted teeth obturated with a lateral condensation technique.
  • (13) Forty-five extracted anterior teeth were obturated with gutta-percha, the apical 3 mm of the roots were resected, and 2-mm-deep retrograde preparations were prepared.
  • (14) The position of the arthroscope and blunt obturator are then reversed so that the arthroscope views the posterolateral compartment.
  • (15) Obturator bypass grafts were used in 10 patients, iliac-femoral grafts in three, axillopopliteal in one, and right external iliac crossover to left popliteal in one patient.
  • (16) Two obturation techniques were used with each sealer; the single gutta-percha point technique, and lateral condensation with multiple gutta-percha points.
  • (17) To compare, in vitro, the seal of Ti-Flex and GP cone obturations, to verify the adaptation of the Ti-Flex cone inside the obturated canal and to evaluate the density of the sealer material, eighty-two canals of freshly extracted teeth were manually prepared and obturated with corresponding Ti-Flex cones and with single GP cones.
  • (18) The given approach permitted maximum use of the preserved muscular elements of the obturator apparatus.
  • (19) The short gracilis myocutaneous flap derives its blood supply from terminal branches of the obturator artery, and the vascular pedicle derived from the medial femoral circumflex artery is sacrificed.
  • (20) The absence of diastolic murmur and prevailing symptoms of right ventricular insufficiency are distinctive features of obturator thrombosis rather than atrial thrombosis of the prosthesis.

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