(n.) A human body in general, whether living or dead; -- sometimes contemptuously.
(n.) The dead body of a human being; -- used also Fig.
Example Sentences:
(1) Thom Yorke described the company as “the last desperate fart of a dying corpse” last year – the dying corpse being the music industry – while David Byrne suggested that "if artists have to rely almost exclusively on the income from these services, they'll be out of work within a year".
(2) Experimental blows with a saw like the used on the leg of a corpse showed an unexpected result: it was possible to produce wounds of the soft-tissues and the bone similar to those by hatchets.
(3) He made his way to a spot on the cobblestones not far from the marble mausoleum housing the waxy corpse of Vladimir Lenin , and began to undress.
(4) The corpse was then “put into a sealed biosecurity device and transferred for incineration at an authorized disposal facility”.
(5) Speaking from his church residence beside the Congo river, where he says corpses now frequently wash up, Nzapalaing added: "We hope we are going to get the attention of the international community.
(6) Like domestic animals, the latter died of hunger probably, any corpse or carcass being considered as plague victims.
(7) Practicability and efficiency of the cricothyreotomy set Nu-Trake was investigated in corpses (n = 10) in the institute of Pathology and clinically in laryngectomy patients (n = 5) including endoscopical controls.
(8) The follow samples were taken from 399 corpses: cerebrospinal fluid (CSF; n = 376, suboccipital), blood (n = 158, femoral vein), and urine (n = 101, at autopsy).
(9) In January, a video surfaced showing US marines apparently urinating on the corpses of three insurgents, and in February anger flared over the burning of the Qur'an.
(10) The idea excited both Charles de Gaulle and Winston Churchill, but was crushed by Marshal Philippe Pétain , who described the plan as a “marriage to a corpse”, since France was about to surrender.
(11) Photograph: Fairfax Media via Getty Images Monis waged a campaign for years, writing letters to the families of Australian soldiers who had died in Afghanistan , labelling them child killers and their corpses unclean.
(12) Say whatever else you like, but at least it's a sign of life in a party that many have written off as a corpse.
(13) The vertebrae with deformation of the arcus parts are only from the lower vertebral column; on account of the weight of this body region, this suggests that the corpse lay in the dorsal position at the place of cremation.
(14) Jimmy Savile told hospital staff he interfered with patients' corpses, taking grotesque photographs and stealing glass eyes for jewellery, over two decades at the mortuary of Leeds general infirmary.
(15) The study of large arteries carried out in 30 corpses and the comparison of the parameters and outlines of these vessels with those recommended in applied hydraulics have shown correspondence between the arteries structure and the principles used for criation of optimal conditions of the liquid current in hydraulics.
(16) We have a saying in Yemen: ‘It’s forbidden to stab a corpse of the dead.’ We were already dead with poverty and this war is stabbing us again and again.
(17) The authors had collected two cochleas from human corpses died of brain injuries in order to know if the method of specimen preparation conventionally used was adequate for the preservation of ultrastructures and to study the ultrastructural characteristics of the human Corti's organ.
(18) The images, of corpses pulled out from beneath collapsed masonry, to a bloodied underground emergency room floor, are simply appalling.
(19) It is reported on early and late complications on the efferent urinary system by 667 transplantations of allogenic kidneys of corpses.
(20) In a galvanising moment similar to when the corpse of 13-year-old Hamza al-Khateeb was returned to his parents bearing marks of severe torture in May, Syrians have been expressing outrage.
Lich
Definition:
(a.) Like.
(a.) A dead body; a corpse.
Example Sentences:
(1) With exact diagnosis and correct surgical technique, the Lich-Grégoir anti-reflux plasty is safe and complications are few--reflux recurrences are rare.
(2) We report on 111 kidney transplants performed at the San Juan Veterans Administration Hospital in 85 of whom urinary continuity was restored with a Politano-Lead-better ureteroneocystostomy, 23 with the Lich-Grégoir operation, and 3 with extravesical urinary, diversions.
(3) As performed by us, it is a modification of the technique of Witzel, Sampson, and Lich.
(4) The frequency of urological complications was lower with the Lich-Gregoire technique (4.1%) which we have currently adopted.
(5) They constituted about 8% of all LICH cases (n = 37) operated upon in our institute (DUSM) during the past 3 years.
(6) The efficiency of the Lich-Gregoir antireflux procedure has to be judged by its results.
(7) VUR occurred in 36% of patients; highest in LICH-1 (79%), intermediate in L-P (22%), and lowest in LICH-2 (9%).
(8) It combined the principles of the Wallace conjoined ureterointestinal conduit with the Lich extravesical ureteroneocystostomy.
(9) She had been a student in Lich primary school, in Unity state, when the war began.
(10) We present our experience in 149 antireflux repair operations with a technique first described by Lich and Gregoir in 1961.
(11) On the other hand, in the late postoperative stage, ureteral stenosis requiring further surgery occurred in 1 ureter in the transitional region to the urinary bladder in 1 patient 2 months after surgery by the Lich-Gregoir method.
(12) The rate of success was all 87 ureters (100%) for the Politano-Leadbetter method and 6 out of 7 ureters (85.7%) for the Lich-Gregoir method.
(13) The mean age of the recipients was 34.6 years (16.8 to 67.6 years) Ureteric reimplantation was initially performed by uretero-ureteric anastomosis (19%), then into the bladder according to the Leadbetter-Politano technique (69%) and subsequently according to the Lich-Gregoire extra-vesical technique (10%).
(14) Other methods were the combined method in 2 patients (three ureters), the Glenn-Anderson method in 1 (2 ureters), the Cohen method in 1 (1 ureter) and the Lich-Gregoir method in 5 patients (7 ureters).
(15) A tabulated comparison between the intravesical procedure (Politano-Leadbetter) and the extravesical procedure (Lich-Grégoir) reveals an overall success rate of 80%.
(16) In a ten years period 186 extravesical antireflux operations (Lich-Gregoir) were performed in 145 children.
(17) Three operated cases of lobar intracerebral hemorrhage (LICH) related to cerebral amyloid angiopathy (CAA) were studied clinicopathologically.
(18) The operative technique used was generally that of Cohen (335 cases), more rarely that of Leadbetter-Politano (118 cases) and very exceptionally that of Lich-Gregoir (7 cases).
(19) Discussion and evaluation of other repair methods are reviewed but, in our opinion the Lich-Gregoir technique, because of its simplicity, should be the method of choice and should be used more by urologists.
(20) An anterior extravesical technique modified from Witzel, Sampson, and Lich was used to reimplant the ureter.