(n.) A concussion or shock produced by a blow or other injury, in a part or region opposite to that at which the blow is received, often causing rupture or disorganisation of the parts affected.
Example Sentences:
(1) The tightly encased raptor eye, with its anteriorly placed scleral ossicles, may have rendered the eye more susceptible to contrecoup damage.
(2) Three cases are presented which document the finding that 10-0 monofilament nylon suture may cut through corneal tissue after a coup or contrecoup injury to a recently operated eye.
(3) During impact if the head is on a solid stand, such as the metal table, a contrecoup lesion is seen at the opposite end from the impact site.
(4) In investigation of living persons, it may be difficult to decide whether haemorrhages in the region of the orbit and its vicinity result from a direct blunt force or derive from fractures of the base of the skull, especially contrecoup fractures.
(5) Basal contusions of the frontal and temporal lobes of the brain, occurring as a contrecoup as a rule, are particularly severe and are marked by a high mortality.
(6) Only in cases with latero-lateral direction of traumatizing force (control group) coup-contrecoup lesions were found more frequently.
(7) The results are interpreted as reflecting left hemisphere damage due to contrecoup injury.
(8) Those with traumatic palsy may be due to "contrecoup" trauma at the decussation of the nerves or by decompensation of the cerebral fusional mechanism, with dissociation of the images of the two eyes and subsequent vertical deviation.
(9) Associated CT findings of the supratentorial region were noted in 18 cases (82%), and most of them showed contrecoup injuries in the frontal region.
(10) CT can promptly not only a posterior fossa hematoma, but also accompanied supratentorial lesions (concrecoup injury etc) simultaneously, therefore one can expect that there are not errors any more with CT to overlook the supratentorial contrecoup injury.
(11) Another point proved was that in blows dealt in these directions the highest incidence of subdural haemorrhage was due to significantly more frequent development of bleeding in the group of middle-aged persons over 50, and that at the site of contrecoup.
(12) We report an unusual type of a bilateral extradural hematoma: one due to direct injury and another due to the contrecoup effect.
(13) Contrecoup fractures become of forensic medical significance when symptoms of a frontobasal injury occur for the first time after trauma which has occurred some time in the past and when the question arises as to the causal connection with the original trauma.
(14) The necrosis results from the direct force of the injury striking the globe although a contrecoup mechanism may explain cases of nasal necrosis.
(15) In our material (n = 171 falls on the same level and on or from stairs), the overall frequency of contrecoup fractures of the anterior cranial fossa in fatal cranio-cerebral trauma due to falls was 12%, as compared to 24% with occipital point of impact of the head.
(16) The ophthalmoscopic and fluorescein angiographic appearance of this contrecoup lesion is identical to the acute traumatic retinal opacity in humans.
(17) Contrecoup fractures of the base of the skull are regarded as rare in the clinical literature.
(18) The authors describe the frequency, pathological features, and significance of contrecoup fractures of the anterior cranial fossae, which occur commonly when falls with occipital or temporal impacts cause fatal head injuries.
(19) Contrecoup contusiions result from injury to the brain surface in the frontotemporal area as the moving brain impacts the rough and irregular bony interior.
(20) Aphasic signs could thus be due to the left lesion, which was the result of a contrecoup mechanism.
Struck
Definition:
(imp.) of Strike
(p. p.) of Strike
() imp. & p. p. of Strike.
Example Sentences:
(1) "And in my judgment, when the balance is struck, the factors for granting relief in this case easily outweigh the factors against.
(2) Here's Dominic's full story: US unemployment rate drops to lowest level in six years as 288,000 jobs added Michael McKee (@mckonomy) BNP economists say jobless rate would have been 6.8% if not for drop in participation rate May 2, 2014 2.20pm BST ING's Rob Carnell is also struck by the "extraordinary weakness" of US wage growth .
(3) HTC needs to move from being star struck fan to star of its own ads.
(4) A federal judge struck down Utah's same-sex marriage ban Friday in a decision that brings a nationwide shift toward allowing gay marriage to a conservative state where the Mormon church has long been against it.
(5) A balance must be struck between meeting the hospital's needs for additional physicians and meeting the needs of the existing medical staff.
(6) As the US and the European Union adopted tougher economic sanctions against Russia over the conflict in eastern Ukraine and downing of Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 , Russian officials struck a defiant note, promising that Russia would localise production and emerge stronger than before.
(7) In the case presented, this aided investigators in determining how many bullets actually struck the victim.
(8) Nobody knows how often it happens but judging just from my inbox, it’s certainly not a rare occurrence and what struck me as I started to learn about the issue of health privacy is that employees are defenseless against things like this happening to them.” Fei said that she also received her fair share of emails saying: “What makes you think your baby was entitled to million dollars worth of care?
(9) Masood’s car struck her, throwing her into the river.
(10) Hazard, nominated for the Ballon d’Or earlier in the day, broke away from his industrious defensive running to curl a shot on to the base of the far post early on while Willian struck the crossbar with a free-kick just after the interval.
(11) It is what struck me, too, about Gordon Aikman , a 29-year-old Scot with a terminal diagnosis of motor neurone disease.
(12) A s I watched Camila Batmanghelidjh being mobbed by the small crowd demonstrating about the closure of Kids Company outside Downing Street last week, it struck me that she was more like a character out of children’s book than a real person.
(13) He’s struck a few chords with the immigration stuff, and he’s managed to capture the most valuable asset in a campaign, which is the attention of the press.
(14) It struck the full back's hand, but there was no intent, and the players were very close together.
(15) April 2009 Newspaper seller Ian Tomlinson dies during G20 protests in London after being struck by police.
(16) What always struck me even then as slightly odd was that, regardless of the political complexion of a sect, the behavioural patterns of its leaders were not so different.
(17) London aided Ankara by closing down the Kurdish TV station, MED-TV, in the same month that BAE Systems, Britain's largest arms company, struck an arms deal with Turkey.
(18) Natasha Walter, the feminist author, was struck by the supportive atmosphere of Mumsnet when she was writing Living Dolls: the Return of Sexism , a few years ago.
(19) Hair ignited in room air only when struck repeatedly at high energy, but easily ignited in 100% oxygen.
(20) That's how many times Tony Gwynn struck out during his long career, a total that some players today seem to tally on a ten-game road trip.