(n.) A threat or threatening; a denunciation of punishment or vengeance.
(n.) An office in the liturgy of the Church of England, used on Ash Wednesday, containing a recital of God's anger and judgments against sinners.
Example Sentences:
(1) These were predominantly centered in the inferior disc and were more commin in white women.
(2) Measurement of COHb by this method in rats exposed to 525, 900, 1800 and 2400 ppm CO produces higher values than those obtained with the 1965 spectrophotometric method of Commins and Lawther.
(3) The Aquascutum overcoats were worn by the Prince of Wales, later King Edward VII, who granted Scantlebury & Commin Aquascutum's first royal warrant in 1897.
(4) Although it was determined that the development of IM during college years was statistically less commin in tonsillectomized students, the difference was not inordinately large and probably had no significant biologic meaning.
(5) Only the five wavelength method of Commins & Lawther (1965) Brit.
(6) In the late 1870s, Emary and his son left Regent Street and handed Aquascutum over to Scantlebury & Commin.
(7) The garage personnel replied to a questionnaire and underwent a brief clinical examination including taking of digital blood samples for measurement of hematocrit and carboxyhemoglobin level by the method of COMMINS and LAWTHER as modified by BUCHWALD.
(8) Dermal hypersensitivity, including erythema nodosum and erythema multiforme, was commin in patients whose clinical course was uncomplicated.
(9) The special comminication problems of deaf people may lead to serious misunderstandings, particularly during a medical evaluation.
(10) Variations on the method of Commins and Lawther, as well as COHb values available in the literature for animals exposed to CO, are reviewed briefly.
(11) Excessive weight loss and irritability are commin in these infants.
(12) The determination of the particulate acidity by the Commins method has been evaluated in order to examine the influence of sampling conditions on the results of the measurements.
(13) Aquascutum overcoats were worn by the Prince of Wales, later King Edward VII, who granted Scantlebury & Commin Aquascutum's first royal warrant in 1897.
Comminution
Definition:
(n.) The act of reducing to a fine powder or to small particles; pulverization; the state of being comminuted.
(n.) Fracture (of a bone) into a number of pieces.
(n.) Gradual diminution by the removal of small particles at a time; a lessening; a wearing away.
Example Sentences:
(1) The treatment of a Smith type-II fracture is a volar buttress plate unless extended comminution is present.
(2) Pure blow-out fracture or comminuted facial fracture, double vision and amnesia emerged as additional factors which yielded an efficient scoring system with a sensitivity of 89% and specificity of 90% for the population upon which it was based.
(3) The characteristic injuries were compression wedge-shaped fractures, multiple fractures of the vertebrae, comminuted and traumatic spondylolistheses and dislocation fractures.
(4) The following signs in the preoperative radiographs were predictive of unfavorable outcome: small head fragment, comminution of the calcar femorale, and varus angulation of the head.
(5) One hospital had a significantly higher proportion of patients wounded by bullets that disrupted after impact; these wounds were associated with comminuted fractures.
(6) Traumatic lesions of the anterior cranial fossa (ACF) with comminuted depressed fractures and with tears of dura require operative management.
(7) Shortening in severe comminution was the main complication and was not controlled by supplementary cast-bracing.
(8) Stable fractures treated in skin traction did well and extensively comminuted fractures appeared to be best treated with 90-90 skeletal traction.
(9) Comminuted body fractures are best treated with an anterior strut graft.
(10) Serious septal injuries may include comminuted caudal border fractures, septal crushes, and saddling with loss of septal height.
(11) In comminuted fractures, the axial deviation persists but can be compensated for by the adjacent segments of the spine.
(12) Special attention should be focused on injuries with comminution and bone loss in the medial wall and floor of the orbit, with loss of cartilaginous nasal support, and with orbital displacement and dystopia.
(13) A comminuted burst ("teardrop") fracture produced by axial loading of the vertebral bodies should be stabilized by an anterior cortical strut graft for early mobilization and realignment of the spinal column to prevent progressive deformity.
(14) A new technique is presented for the treatment of comminuted intraarticular fractures of the base of the thumb metacarpal.
(15) Forty-seven patients had unstable comminuted fractures, and 20 of these had medial displacement osteotomies performed.
(16) Errors in surgical judgment were attributed to inadequate preoperative analysis of the pattern of the fracture; undetected intraoperative comminution during reaming or insertion of the nail, or both; or postoperative failure to recognize an increase in comminution and instability of the fracture.
(17) Special attention must be paid to the Sarmiento type-II fracture with severe comminution of the dorsal cortex, severe radial shortening (greater than 10 mm) and dorsal tilt (greater than 25 degrees).
(18) Its treatment concurrent with the treatment of a severely comminuted fracture of the mandible has been reported.
(19) Preservation of the radial head with anatomic reduction and rigid internal fixation is preferred, but radial head replacement may be necessary in cases with extensive comminution.
(20) Forty comminuted or unstable fractures of the femoral shaft were treated by closed intramedullary reaming and locked nailing.