(n.) In Greek grammar, a sign ['] sometimes placed over a contracted syllable.
(n.) The curved line or flourish at the end of a book or chapter; hence, the end.
Example Sentences:
(1) A coronial inquiry will be undertaken into the circumstances surrounding the death of Haider.
(2) He lived by the premise that he was always right,” Phillips told the coronial inquest into the siege which took place over two days in December 2014.
(3) A coronial inquest into the death in custody of a 22-year-old Yamitji woman in a South Hedland police cell will begin in two months time, the Western Australian premier, Colin Barnett, told her family this week.
(4) Police can now act on the spot to protect victims whenever and wherever family violence occurs.” A coronial inquest is under way into the murder of Luke Batty by his father in February on a cricket field in Tyabb, Victoria.
(5) The coronial inquest into Dhu’s death, which resumes next month, heard that police at the Port Hedland lock-up did not believe she was seriously ill and told the triage nurse she was “faking it” when she may have already slipped into cardiac arrest.
(6) Ms Dhu, an Aboriginal woman who died in police custody in Western Australia last year, was “treated like a dog” by police and hospital staff, a coronial inquest has heard.
(7) A coronial inquest is supposed to be non-adversarial.
(8) The coronial inquest, which was established because of the deaths of two hostages , held a short hearing in January and is to reopen on Monday to examine every aspect of the siege and the way it was handled by authorities.
(9) The coronial inquests had provided “valuable information”.
(10) For me, the coronial inquest and the horrifying victim blaming that it brought to the fore really enabled me to see victim blaming for what it was: a misguided and damaging narrative that ultimately lets perpetrators off the hook,” Batty will tell reporters.
(11) On Wednesday, the coronial inquest into Anderson’s death will begin, and is expected to conclude the same day.
(12) The work was put to tender in 2009 as part of a statewide program based on coronial recommendations after a death in custody at Roebourne prison in 2007, and was supposed to be completed in 2012.
(13) But Glenda Lindsay, the nurse who performed the triage assessment on 2 August, told the coronial inquest in Perth on Wednesday that Ms Dhu was calm, compliant and alert when she saw her, minutes before she was seen by a second nurse and a doctor.
(14) Coronial autopsy data were obtained from the Brisbane Laboratory of Pathology and Microbiology.
(15) All deaths in custody are subject to a coronial inquest, although most on this list have not yet been assigned an inquest date.
(16) The attorney-general, John Elferink said he believed the man had pre-existing medical conditions but the government would wait for the coronial inquest findings.
(17) Hours later Langdon died of heart failure , alone in the concrete cell, and a coronial inquiry last week ruled he should have been a free man.
(18) The Auckland coronial district experience of 65 childhood pedestrian deaths over a seven year period is presented.
(19) The coronial inquest related to the deaths of Matthew Fuller, 25, Rueben Barnes, 16, and Mitchell Sweeney, 22, who were all killed between October 2009 and February 2010 while fitting insulation in Queensland homes as part of a federal government scheme under the Rudd government.
(20) Any follow up questions are referred to the coronial office within WA police, which does not comment.
Stroke
Definition:
(imp.) Struck.
(v. t.) The act of striking; a blow; a hit; a knock; esp., a violent or hostile attack made with the arm or hand, or with an instrument or weapon.
(v. t.) The result of effect of a striking; injury or affliction; soreness.
(v. t.) The striking of the clock to tell the hour.
(v. t.) A gentle, caressing touch or movement upon something; a stroking.
(v. t.) A mark or dash in writing or printing; a line; the touch of a pen or pencil; as, an up stroke; a firm stroke.
(v. t.) Hence, by extension, an addition or amandment to a written composition; a touch; as, to give some finishing strokes to an essay.
(v. t.) A sudden attack of disease; especially, a fatal attack; a severe disaster; any affliction or calamity, especially a sudden one; as, a stroke of apoplexy; the stroke of death.
(v. t.) A throb or beat, as of the heart.
(v. t.) One of a series of beats or movements against a resisting medium, by means of which movement through or upon it is accomplished; as, the stroke of a bird's wing in flying, or an oar in rowing, of a skater, swimmer, etc.
(v. t.) The rate of succession of stroke; as, a quick stroke.
(v. t.) The oar nearest the stern of a boat, by which the other oars are guided; -- called also stroke oar.
(v. t.) The rower who pulls the stroke oar; the strokesman.
(v. t.) A powerful or sudden effort by which something is done, produced, or accomplished; also, something done or accomplished by such an effort; as, a stroke of genius; a stroke of business; a master stroke of policy.
(v. t.) The movement, in either direction, of the piston plunger, piston rod, crosshead, etc., as of a steam engine or a pump, in which these parts have a reciprocating motion; as, the forward stroke of a piston; also, the entire distance passed through, as by a piston, in such a movement; as, the piston is at half stroke.
(v. t.) Power; influence.
(v. t.) Appetite.
(v. t.) To strike.
(v. t.) To rib gently in one direction; especially, to pass the hand gently over by way of expressing kindness or tenderness; to caress; to soothe.
(v. t.) To make smooth by rubbing.
(v. t.) To give a finely fluted surface to.
(v. t.) To row the stroke oar of; as, to stroke a boat.
Example Sentences:
(1) The major treatable risk factors in thromboembolic stroke are hypertension and transient ischemic attacks (TIA).
(2) In the stage 24 chick embryo, a paced increase in heart rate reduces stroke volume, presumably by rate-dependent decrease in passive filling.
(3) We studied the effects of the localisation and size of ischemic brain infarcts and the influence of potential covariates (gender, age, time since infarction, physical handicap, cognitive impairment, aphasia, cortical atrophy and ventricular size) on 'post-stroke depression'.
(4) Serum sialic acid concentration predicts both death from CHD and stroke in men and women independent of age.
(5) Cardiovascular disease event rates will be assessed through continuous community surveillance of fatal and nonfatal myocardial infarction and stroke.
(6) Five late strokes were ipsilateral (1.8%) and six were contralateral (2.1%) to the operated carotid artery.
(7) Diabetic retinopathy (an index of microangiopathy) and absence of peripheral pulses, amputation, or history of myocardial infarction, stroke, or transient ischemic attacks (as evidence of macroangiopathy) caused surprisingly little increase in relative risk for cardiovascular death.
(8) Urinary incontinence present between 7 and 10 days after stroke was the most important adverse prognostic factor both for survival and for recovery of function.
(9) Acetylsalicylic acid has been shown to reduce significantly stroke, death and stroke-related death in men, with no detectable benefit for women.
(10) Atrophy was present in 44% of TIA patients, 68% of PRIND patients and 82% of completed stroke patients.
(11) On the basis of clinical symptoms and CT scan findings, 66 patients were categorized as having sustained a RIND and 187 a stroke.
(12) Recognised risk factors for stroke were found equally in those patients with and without severe events before onset, except that hypertension was rather less common in the patients who had experienced a severe event.
(13) These are risk factors for diabetes, cardiovascular disease and stroke.
(14) Stroke was the cause of 2 and congestive heart failure the cause of 4 deaths.
(15) Combined clinical observations, stroke volume measured by impedance cardiography, and ejection fractions calculated from systolic time intervals, all showed significant improvement in parallel with CoQ10 administration.
(16) He won the Labour candidacy for the Scottish seat of Kilmarnock and Loudon in 1997, within weeks of polling day, after the sitting Labour MP, Willie McKelvey, decided to stand down when he suffered a stroke.
(17) During surgical stimulation cardiac index increased in group A due to an increase in heart rate but remained below control in group B, while stroke volume index was reduced in both groups throughout the whole procedure.
(18) In 2001 Sorensen suffered a stroke, which seriously damaged his eyesight, but he continued to be involved in a number of organisations, including the Council on Foreign Relations and other charitable and public bodies, until a second stroke in October 2010.
(19) Two hundred and forty-one residents were examined for carotid bruits and signs of previous stroke.
(20) One hundred ten atherosclerotic occlusions of the internal carotid artery (ICA) were found in 106 patients in group I. Fifty-one percent of these patients had a history of stroke before arteriography, 24% had transient ischemic attacks (TIAs) or amaurosis fugax (AF), and 12% had nonhemispheric symptoms.