(a.) Having the leaves or petals arranged in the form of a cross; cruciform.
(v. t.) To torture; to torment. [Obs.] See Excruciate.
Example Sentences:
(1) (4) Despite the removal of the cruciate ligaments and capsulo-ligamentous slide, no significant residual instability was found in either plane.
(2) Eight adolescents were followed 3-8 years after primary suture of a substance rupture of the anterior cruciate ligament.
(3) In 1984 the press-fit condylar knee was first introduced and was intended to provide a condylar knee system primarily for posterior cruciate retention that addressed refinements in metallurgy, prosthetic geometry and sizing, cementless fixation, inventory management, and instrumentation.
(4) Ings twisted the knee during his first training session with Klopp in charge and tests have shown the former Burnley forward ruptured an anterior cruciate ligament, meaning that a player who has just broken into England’s senior team will be out for a minimum of six months.
(5) However, at angles of flexion of 30 degrees or less, the amount of posterior translation after section of only the lateral collateral ligament and the deep structures was similar to that noted after isolated section of the posterior cruciate ligament.
(6) 88% of the Norwegian surgeons prescribed a cast for six weeks after surgery, while only 15% of the surgeons in the Anterior Cruciate Ligament Study Group prescribe immobilization for more than four weeks.
(7) The MRI scan is a highly accurate, noninvasive modality for documentation of meniscal pathology as well as cruciate ligament tears in the knee.
(8) Lateral ligament tear is often associated with anterior cruciate ligament tear.
(9) A new portable model of the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA) instrumented clinical knee testing apparatus and the KT-1000 knee arthrometer were used to measure anterior laxity in normal and anterior cruciate absent knees.
(10) To determine whether the serum keratan sulfate (KS) concentration reflected the status of degenerating articular cartilage in a commonly used model of osteoarthritis (OA), serum KS levels were measured in 9 dogs prior to transection of the anterior cruciate ligament, 4 weeks later, and when the dogs were killed 8-14 weeks after surgery, at which time mild OA was present.
(11) The knee model is based upon a four-bar linkage comprising the femur, tibia and two cruciate ligaments.
(12) Meniscal injury is common in acute or chronic anterior cruciate ligament insufficiency.
(13) The purpose of the present investigation was to examine and describe the osteoarthritic changes that chronic, partial or complete anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) insufficiency causes to the knee joint.
(14) The populations of cells labelled following phrenic and thoracic injections overlapped, primarily at the lateral edge of the cruciate sulcus.
(15) All patients were treated by replacement of the anterior cruciate ligament with the medial third of the patellar tendon as a free graft, supplemented by an extra-articular MacIntosh lateral reconstruction.
(16) This technique, called selective magnetic resonance imaging, yielded excellent visualization of the posterior cruciate ligament, medial meniscus, and lateral meniscus in all patients.
(17) Gait of 11 patients with bilateral paired posterior cruciate-retaining and cruciate-sacrificing total knee arthroplasties (TKA) was studied preoperatively and two years postoperatively on walking and stair climbing.
(18) A high association of Segond fractures with tears of the anterior cruciate ligament was confirmed, and MR imaging signs of a Segond fracture may therefore be used as indirect evidence for tears of that ligament.
(19) It has become indispensable to proper assessment of injuries of the menisci, cartilage, synovial folds, and plicae and for suspicion of isolated cruciate knee ligament rupture.
(20) The postoperative function of anterior cruciate ligament deficient knees has been quite satisfactory.
Excruciating
Definition:
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Excruciate
() Torturing; racking.
Example Sentences:
(1) A 33-year old woman was admitted with high fever and excruciating pain in the lower right abdomen that had lasted on and off for months.
(2) However, after her diagnosis, it became my occupation to know everything about her ailment because I was her caregiver during her excruciating decline.
(3) It is an excruciating fly-on-the-wall witness to Allison's vainglory, Swales's self-regard for his own leadership qualities and the poor young players' overpromoted helplessness.
(4) Another great feature of the panda, at least as far as Chairman Mao Zedong and his followers were concerned, was that the rest of the world, particularly the west, had become obsessed by its excruciatingly cute looks and behaviour.
(5) Far from being relaxed, I feel excruciatingly uncomfortable and begin to wonder if my jaw is malfunctioning.
(6) (Mail Online goes into excruciating detail on the methods Williams used, but does so in the body copy of an article.)
(7) The film charts in excruciating detail the collapse of a political career and, ultimately, of a marriage.
(8) One more win now, one more good performance against the sort of team they have swatted aside all season, and the long, often excruciating wait will be over: City will be champions.
(9) In the very act of describing sex as an incidental, you create an excruciating sex scene.
(10) Our most excruciating agony is of not being noticed in the world.
(11) An effective piece of propaganda at the time, it makes pretty excruciating viewing now that we know what happens next.
(12) With Foord having lost his entire leg, including his hip, even getting him out of bed and sitting in his wheelchair was excruciating.
(13) "The timing is excruciating for whomever wins the next election."
(14) A women who has been infibulated suffers great difficulty and pain during sexual intercourse, which can be excruciating if a neuroma has formed at the point of section of the dorsal nerve of the clitoris.
(15) During the first postoperative week little pain was experienced by 60% of the patients, considerable pain by 35% and excruciating pain by 5% of the patients being interviewed.
(16) Yet if I tell you I’ve had a chronic illness since early childhood that is known for excruciating pain, for causing immobility and secondary – sometimes life-threatening – conditions, does that change your view of my suicide attempt?
(17) As well as being a pallid substitute for actual creativity – a device for making grey business wonks mistake themselves for David Bowie at his experimental peak – these books are the direct suit-and-tie office-dick equivalent of those embarrassing motivational self-help tomes that prey on the insecure, promising to turn their life around before dissolving into a blancmange of "strategies" and "systems" and above all excruciating metaphors.
(18) Perhaps it signifies an end to those media appearances in which politicians share the contents of their iPods or talk, excruciatingly, about their love of whatever indie band their aide has decided they should like, in an attempt to persuade voters they're young and fun.
(19) The real importance of Thomas Piketty's blockbuster, Capital in the 21st Century , is that it demonstrates, in excruciating detail (and this remains true despite some predictable petty squabbling) that, in the case of at least one core equation, the numbers simply don't add up .
(20) The disease is often serious and can cause excruciating pain in the joints and other parts of the body.