(a.) Coming from, being on, or directed toward, the side; as, collateral pressure.
(a.) Acting in an indirect way.
(a.) Related to, but not strictly a part of, the main thing or matter under consideration; hence, subordinate; not chief or principal; as, collateral interest; collateral issues.
(a.) Tending toward the same conclusion or result as something else; additional; as, collateral evidence.
(a.) Descending from the same stock or ancestor, but not in the same line or branch or one from the other; -- opposed to lineal.
(n.) A collateral relative.
(n.) Collateral security; that which is pledged or deposited as collateral security.
Example Sentences:
(1) It also provides mechanical support for the collateral ligaments during valgus or varus stress of the knee.
(2) Furthermore echography revealed a collateral subperiosteal edema and a moderate thickening of extraocular muscles and bone periostitis, a massive swelling of muscles and bone defects in subperiosteal abscesses as well as encapsulated abscesses of the orbit and a concomitant retrobulbar neuritis in orbital cellulitis.
(3) In the caudal spinal trigeminal nucleus (Vc), the collaterals of one half of the periodontium afferent fibers terminated mainly in lamina V at the rostral and middle levels of Vc.
(4) In addition to terminating at the brachial segments, they had one to three collaterals to the upper cervical cord (C3-C4), where the propriospinal neurons projecting to forelimb motoneurons are located.
(5) The relationship between pressure at the functional site of origin of intracranial collateral channels (Pstem) and systemic pressure allows an estimation of the size of vascular channels from which collateral vessels originate.
(6) The diagnosis of an arterial injury may be readily apparent, but the excellent upper-extremity collateral circulation may create palpable distal pulses despite a significant proximal arterial injury.
(7) When collateral marginal vessels were eliminated, adjacent arterial blood flow decreased to control levels and venous flow virtually stopped.
(8) Systemic collateral arteries were present in all 38 patients.
(9) The data reported here, in combination with the published literature, suggest that the collaterals of roughly 300 G hair fibers overlap at any given point at middle levels of the cuneate nucleus.
(10) This effect was related to a decrease in collateral flow because animals exhibiting the highest increase in perfusion deficit presented the greatest increase in infarct size (r = -0.92, p = 0.003).
(11) The constrictor may be used for studies on the development of collaterals as well as on therapeutic measures in chronic ischemia of the myocardium.
(12) The extent of coronary artery disease and collateral blood supply in Groups I and II were directly related (p = 0.012).
(13) Other angiographic procedures also revealed marked hepatopetal collaterals (cavernous transformation) entering the liver through the hilum.
(14) Tissue necrosis was evaluated using tetrazolium staining and was normalized to the principal baseline predictors of infarct size including anatomic risk zone (microsphere autoradiography) and coronary collateral flow.
(15) Many factors can influence the severity and evolution of ischemic injury, perhaps the most important being the extent of residual (or collateral) flow to the affected tissue.
(16) However, at angles of flexion of 30 degrees or less, the amount of posterior translation after section of only the lateral collateral ligament and the deep structures was similar to that noted after isolated section of the posterior cruciate ligament.
(17) Coronary collateral blood flow was measured with tracer microspheres in 3 different experimental conditons in the dog heart: 1. after occlusion of a large coronary artery in the in situ beating heart, 2. after occlusion of a small coronary artery in the in situ beating heart and 3. after occlusion of a large coronary artery in the isolated, empty beating, blood-perfused heart.
(18) Two of them, the radiocapitate and deep radioscapholunate, insert on the scaphoid, whereas the collateral ligament courses to the distal pole of the scaphoid.
(19) EF was correlated with the degree of collateral supply and one of them (22%) ended in sudden death.
(20) Labeled axons were first detected in the segment of optic nerve lying distal to the crush site 1 week after injury and had extended as far as 2.3 mm beyond the crush site by 60 days postinjury, growing at a rate similar to that at which the collateral branches of developing ganglion cell axons extend into their targets.
Foreclosure
Definition:
(n.) The act or process of foreclosing; a proceeding which bars or extinguishes a mortgager's right of redeeming a mortgaged estate.
Example Sentences:
(1) There had been speculation in congress that Obama might announce an agreement with the US's largest mortgage brokers over the so-called "robo-signing" scandal, in which bank officials signed foreclosure documents without properly reviewing them.
(2) Picture Detroit today and the images that probably come to mind are of " ruin porn " (the now infamous term for beautifully shot photos of dilapidated buildings); urban exploring (the new craze of creeping around abandoned complexes as seen in Jim Jarmusch's new film Only Lovers Left Alive ) and foreclosure frenzy (there are now nearly 80,000 empty homes to be torn down or fixed up in Motor City).
(3) They conceptualized attitudes toward AIDS, developed items reflecting diffusion, foreclosure, moratorium, and achievement statuses in development, and assessed their relationships to identity and intimacy, while predicting overall that general maturity, as measured by high identity and intimacy, would relate positively to precautionary attitudes toward AIDS.
(4) About 18% of May home sales were foreclosures or short sales, and were sold cheaply: at about a 15% discount.
(5) Discriminant analyses of substance use, across the achievement, moratorium, foreclosure, and diffusion identity statuses, yielded significant functions for each grade comparison (7th to 12th).
(6) Correlations among family dimensions and the identity status scales indicate family factors were related to identity status in the following ways: Little conflict predicted the foreclosure identity status for both sexes.
(7) What matters for competition is, increasingly, “effects” – whether business practices lead to the foreclosure or flight from the market of equally efficient competitors.
(8) As Jonathan Zittrain points out : A document called “Jonathan Zittrain foreclosure of 123 Main St” might be (if I were an EU citizen) ripe for removal as a result under “Jonathan Zittrain”, but not under “123 Main St foreclosure”.
(9) These are people who came of age during difficult economic times, who have watched debt eat holes in their economy and in the US at least have seen waves of foreclosures.
(10) Still, Americans continue to be plagued by massive unemployment, foreclosures, the threat of austerity and economic insecurity while those who caused those problems have more power and profit than ever.
(11) What, how?” Between 2005 and 2007, 67,000 houses went into mortgage foreclosure in Detroit.
(12) It doesn't exactly stretch credulity, however, to recognize that banks provide bonuses to the best producers – whether they produce derivatives, mortgages or foreclosures.
(13) Banks, who hold the great stock of housing because of housing-bust dump of foreclosures, are limiting the supply of foreclosed homes for sale so that there isn't a glut on the market.
(14) I’m just thoroughly disgusted.” ‘It’s elder financial abuse’ Mnuchin, who is also a Hollywood movie producer , earned the nickname “ foreclosure king ” after he purchased distressed mortgages during the financial crisis and evicted thousands of homeowners.
(15) Foreclosure prevention: 75,000 fewer people would receive foreclosure prevention, rental, and homeless counseling services.
(16) Many Hispanic families have been forced to move home because of foreclosures since the collapse of 2008, which in turn would have caused many of them to lose their electoral registration.
(17) Florida has one of the highest rates of foreclosures on its homes, and though Celebration has been less pummelled than many of the state's towns, it is still hurting.
(18) It maintains and even expands all of the worst qualities of the foreclosure crisis – the distance between the owners of mortgages and the servicing companies; the fees that encourage servicers to foreclose; the inability to get far-flung investors to work together to fix mortgages.
(19) The sample was composed of 31 Achievers, 31 Moratoriums, 30 Foreclosures, and 26 Diffusions.
(20) It was found that both genders used the identity statuses (process) comparably, except for foreclosure which characterized males significantly more than females.