(v. t.) To force (a person) to do something, or give up something, by intimidation; to coerce.
Example Sentences:
(1) Eight other children (20%) had normal or borderline elevation of CPK-MB fraction and EKG abnormalities combined with abnormal echocardiograms or radionuclide angiograms, and were considered to have sustained cardiac concussion.
(2) Movies such as Concussion , about the dissatisfactions of a bourgeois lesbian marriage, are already starting to ask these questions.
(3) Leukotrienes may play a role in the early inflammatory response following concussive ocular injuries.
(4) Fifteen injuries resulted from direct penetration of a vessel and three were concussion or blast injuries.
(5) In American football, however, more than 4,500 former NFL players sued their league for downplaying the dangers of concussion, and last year there was an out-of-court settlement for around £500m.
(6) Fifty per cent of the patients involved suffered a blunt head or brain injury, the others a brain concussion or space-occupying haemorrhage.
(7) 55 patients had an RT test performed 1-5 days after concussion.
(8) This study presents a new device for producing experimental, concussive head injury together with a detailed description of biomechanical features of fluid percussion brain injury in the cat.
(9) The value of the P300 evoked potential as a measure of cerebral concussion was studied in 20 patients with minor head injury and compared with the data from 20 normal subjects.
(10) Analysis of the response curves over time suggested two processes: an improvement in the concussed group and a slowing in the control group.
(11) For a guy that played linebacker for 20 years, somewhere in there he would've had a concussion."
(12) The Chiefs lost key running back Jamaal Charles to a suspected concussion early but it did not appear to affect KC as Alex Smith threw four touchdown passes and Knile Davis ran for a score to help the Chiefs to a 38-10 lead early in the third quarter of the wild card game.
(13) Spinal cord injuries were classified as concussions if they met three criteria: 1) spinal trauma immediately preceded the onset of neurological deficits; 2) neurological deficits were consistent with spinal cord involvement at the level of injury; and 3) complete neurological recovery occurred within 72 hours after injury.
(14) These concomitant lesions comprise the perilymph fistula syndrome (PLFS) with a unique profile of neurological, perceptual, and cognitive deficits resembling a post-concussion injury.
(15) • Parts two and three to follow online on Saturday and in Sunday's Observer The reminder card now handed out by Peter Robinson, about recognising concussion in rugby union.
(16) Post-concussion symptoms were more frequent in women, in those injured by falls, and in those who blamed their employers or large impersonal organisations for their accidents.
(17) In general, sprains and strains account for 40% of injuries, contusions 25%, fractures 10%, concussions 5% and dislocations 15%.
(18) Our method of testing detects no lingering or permanent change after a single concussion.
(19) Forty-four consecutive patients with concussion for whom a medico-legal report had been written were followed up for 3-4 years after their accidents.
(20) Using slow motion filmstrips of boxing ring knockouts, we established a grading system for concussion and duplicated these grades in nonanesthetized rats.
Injure
Definition:
(v. t.) To do harm to; to impair the excellence and value of; to hurt; to damage; -- used in a variety of senses; as: (a) To hurt or wound, as the person; to impair soundness, as of health. (b) To damage or lessen the value of, as goods or estate. (c) To slander, tarnish, or impair, as reputation or character. (d) To impair or diminish, as happiness or virtue. (e) To give pain to, as the sensibilities or the feelings; to grieve; to annoy. (f) To impair, as the intellect or mind.
Example Sentences:
(1) Schneiderlin, valued at an improbable £27m, and the currently injured Jay Rodriguez are wanted by their former manager Mauricio Pochettino at Spurs, but the chairman Ralph Krueger has apparently called a halt to any more outgoings, saying: “They are part of the core that we have decided to keep at Southampton.” He added: “Jay Rodriguez and Morgan Schneiderlin are not for sale and they will be a part of our club as we enter the new season.” The new manager Ronald Koeman has begun rebuilding by bringing in Dusan Tadic and Graziano Pellè from the Dutch league and Krueger said: “We will have players coming in, we will make transfers to strengthen the squad.
(2) Head-injured patients had a low thyroxine (T4), low triiodothyronine (T3), and high reverse T3.
(3) This article reviews the care of the chest-injured patient during the intensive care unit phase of his or her recovery.
(4) At 24 or 48 hours after ischemia, 63Ni, 99TcO4, and 22Na were preferentially concentrated in the damaged striatum and hippocampus, whereas 65Zn, 59Fe, 32PO4, and 147Pm did not accumulate in irreversibly injured tissue.
(5) Hanley Ramirez was hitting behind Michael Young and now he's injured.
(6) My thoughts are with all those who have lost loved ones or been injured in this barbaric attack.
(7) All the wounded Britons have been repatriated , including four severely injured people who were brought back by an RAF C-17 transport plane.
(8) Paul Doyle Kick-off Sunday midday Venue St Mary’s Stadium Last season Southampton 2 Leicester City 2 Live Sky Sports 1 Referee Michael Oliver This season G 18, Y 60, R 1, 3.44 cards per game Odds H 5-6 A 4-1 D 5-2 Southampton Subs from Taylor, Martina, Stephens, Davis, Rodriguez, Sims, Ward-Prowse Doubtful Bertrand, Davis, Van Dijk (all match fitness) Injured Boufal (knee, Jan), Hesketh (ankle, Feb), Targett (hamstring, Feb), Austin (shoulder, Mar), Pied (knee, Jun), Gardos (knee, unknown) Suspended None Form DWLLLL Discipline Y37 R2 Leading scorer Austin 6 Leicester City Subs from Zieler, Hamer, Wasilewski, Gray, Fuchs, James, Okazaki, Hernández, Kapustka, King Doubtful None Injured None Suspended None Unavailable Amartey, Mahrez, Slimani (Africa Cup of Nations) Form LDLWDL Discipline Y44 R1 Leading scorers Slimani, Vardy 5
(9) Considerations on costs and benefits demonstrate that the treatment of severely injured patients, who otherwise would die, results in a considerable social and economic saving (approximately 90 million Swiss francs for the 316 trauma patients analyzed).
(10) No names of the dead or injured have been published.
(11) At least 12 people were killed and dozens injured by a car bomb at a funeral in Jaramana at the end of August.
(12) A principal function of GPIb is its attachment to von Willebrand Factor (vWF) on injured blood vessels which leads to the adhesion of platelets to these vessels.
(13) Two people were injured and taken to hospital, but it is still unclear who was responsible.
(14) The hearts were significantly injured by 40 min global ischemia followed by 20 min reperfusion.
(15) The maximum functional response of catecholamine injured hearts to stimulation of alpha- and beta-adrenoceptors reduced in both age groups, while the sensitivity of the myocardium to beta-adrenoceptor agonists in mature rats increased.
(16) The diagnostic criterion was a difference in talar tilt of 6 or more degrees between the injured and uninjured foot on inversion stress radiographs.
(17) Smooth muscle cells (SMCs) in balloon-injured rat carotid artery express tissue-type plasminogen activator (t-PA) at a time when they are migrating from the media to the intima.
(18) The soma of the injured neutron has a dense perinuclear ring of RNA.
(19) Dairy pipeline cleaners were the single most common causative substance, injuring ten toddlers (mean age 1.6 years), perforating the esophagus in two.
(20) These observations provide biochemical support for the hypothesis that the reparative process of injured tissue in the fetal rabbit proceeds in an attempt to reconstitute normality, i.e.