(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.
Performance
Definition:
(n.) The act of performing; the carrying into execution or action; execution; achievement; accomplishment; representation by action; as, the performance of an undertaking of a duty.
(n.) That which is performed or accomplished; a thing done or carried through; an achievement; a deed; an act; a feat; esp., an action of an elaborate or public character.
Example Sentences:
(1) From 1982 to 1989, bronchoplasty or segmental bronchoplasty and pulmonary arterioplasty in combination with lobectomy and segmentectomy were performed for 9 patients with central type lung carcinoma.
(2) All transplants were performed using standard techniques, the operation for the two groups differing only as described above.
(3) These data indicate a steady improvement in laboratory performance over the last 10 years.
(4) In conclusion, the efficacy of free tissue transfer in the treatment of osteomyelitis is geared mainly at enabling the surgeon to perform a wide radical debridement of infected and nonviable soft tissue and bone.
(5) This paper discusses the typical echocardiographic patterns of a variety of important conditions concerning the mitral valve, the left ventricle, the interatrial and interventricular septum as well as the influence of respiration on the performance of echocardiograms.
(6) After two weeks all animals were killed and autopsies of the animals were performed.
(7) The 1989 results were compared with those of a similar survey performed in 1986.
(8) During the performance of propulsive waves of the oesophagus the implanted vagus nerve caused clonic to tetanic contractions of the sternohyoid muscle, thus proving the oesophagomotor genesis of the reinnervating nerve fibres.
(9) Theoretical computations are performed of the intercalative binding of the neocarzinostatin chromophore (NCS) with the double-stranded oligonucleotides d(CGCG)2, d(GCGC)2, d(TATA)2 and d(ATAT)2.
(10) In addition autoradiography was performed to localize labelled cells in the inner ear.
(11) Surgical repair of the rheumatologic should however, is performed rarely, and should be reserved for the infrequent cases that do not respond to medical therapy.
(12) Six hours later, bronchoalveolar lavage was performed.
(13) Basing the prediction of student performance in medical school on intellective-cognitive abilities alone has proved to be more pertinent to academic achievement than to clinical practice.
(14) It has also been used to measure the amount of excision repair performed by non-replicating cells damaged by carcinogens.
(15) The performance characteristics of the CCD are well documented and understood, having been quantified by many experimenters, especially in the physical sciences.
(16) 2.35pm: West Ham co-owner David Sullivan has admitted that a deal to land Miroslav Klose is unlikely to go through following the striker's star performances in South Africa.
(17) Just after blood sampling, FEV1 measurements were performed.
(18) Effects of habitual variations in napping on psychomotor performance, short-term memory and subjective states were investigated.
(19) The study examined the sustained effects of methylphenidate on reading performance in a sample of 42 boys, aged 8 to 11, with attention deficit-hyperactivity disorder (ADHD).
(20) In addition, control experiments with naloxone, ethanol, or cigarette smoking alone were performed.