(n.) Injury or harm to person, property, or reputation; an inflicted loss of value; detriment; hurt; mischief.
(n.) The estimated reparation in money for detriment or injury sustained; a compensation, recompense, or satisfaction to one party, for a wrong or injury actually done to him by another.
(n.) To ocassion damage to the soudness, goodness, or value of; to hurt; to injure; to impair.
(v. i.) To receive damage or harm; to be injured or impaired in soudness or value; as. some colors in /oth damage in sunlight.
Example Sentences:
(1) The variation in thickness of the LLFL may modulate the species causing damage to the cells below it.
(2) Using mini-pigs with an indwelling vascular catheter, the pharmacokinetics of chloramphenicol were investigated in healthy and liver-damaged animals.
(3) It has also been used to measure the amount of excision repair performed by non-replicating cells damaged by carcinogens.
(4) "Britain needs to be in the room when the euro countries meet," he said, "so that it can influence the argument and ensure that what the 17 do will not damage the market or British interests.
(5) Moreover, in DCVC-treated cells the mitochondria could not be stained with rhodamine-123, indicating severe mitochondrial damage and loss of membrane potential.
(6) Brain damage may be followed by a number of dynamic events including reactive synaptogenesis, rerouting of axons to unusual locations and altered axon retraction processes.
(7) The west Africa Ebola epidemic “Few global events match epidemics and pandemics in potential to disrupt human security and inflict loss of life and economic and social damage,” he said.
(8) We have not yet been honest about the implications, and some damaging myths have arisen.
(9) The authors conclude that H. pylori alone causes little or no effect on an intact gastric mucosa in the rat, that either intact organisms or bacteria-free filtrates cause similar prolongation and delayed healing of pre-existing ulcers with active chronic inflammation, and that the presence of predisposing factors leading to disruption of gastric mucosal integrity may be required for the H. pylori enhancement of inflammation and tissue damage in the stomach.
(10) At 24 or 48 hours after ischemia, 63Ni, 99TcO4, and 22Na were preferentially concentrated in the damaged striatum and hippocampus, whereas 65Zn, 59Fe, 32PO4, and 147Pm did not accumulate in irreversibly injured tissue.
(11) After 2 weeks the rats were sacrificed and the brain damage evaluated by comparing the weight of the lesioned and unlesioned hemispheres.
(12) The results are consistent with our previous suggestion that lethality for virulent SFV infection results from a lethal threshold of damage to neurons in the CNS and that attenuating mutations may reduce neuronal damage below this threshold level.
(13) These findings suggest that aerosolization of ATP into the cystic fibrosis-affected bronchial tree might be hazardous in terms of enhancement of parenchymal damage, which would result from neutrophil elastase release, and in terms of impaired respiratory lung function.
(14) Damage to this innervation is often initiated by childbirth, but appears to progress during a period of many years so that the functional disorder usually presents in middle life.
(15) In case of isolated damage of deep flexor tendon of the II-V fingers at the level of the I zone there were made palliative operations of 12 fingers: tenodesis and arthrodesis of distal interphalangeal articulation in functionally advantageous position.
(16) To study these changes more thoroughly, specific monoclonal antibodies of the A and B subunits of calcineurin (protein phosphatase 2B) were raised, and regional alterations in the immunoreactivity of calcineurin in the rat hippocampus were investigated after a transient forebrain ischemic insult causing selective and delayed hippocampal CA1 pyramidal cell damage.
(17) Only group IV showed significant histological alterations such as glomerular sclerosis, interstitial damage, and increased glomerular area.
(18) In assessing damaged nets and curtains it must be recognised that anything less than the best vector control may have no appreciable impact on holoendemic malaria.
(19) Damage due to overstretching is probably the main cause.
(20) In open fractures especially in those with severe soft tissue damage, fracture stabilisation is best achieved by using external fixators.
Fireproof
Definition:
(a.) Proof against fire; incombustible.
Example Sentences:
(1) Testing conducted by the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) confirmed that the petroleum-like odor was due to the fireproofing.
(2) I improved my security, had my front door steel reinforced, a fireproof letterbox put in.
(3) Hotel robberies have become virtually uncontrollable, and there have been some spectacular recent cases in which thieves have broken into hotel vaults.” And oh, yes: visitors should try “to avoid buildings that are not completely fireproof” and “to obtain a room that is close by the fire stairs”.
(4) If your house was on fire would you want to be rescued (in anything other than a sexual fantasy) by a woman in nine-inch high silver platforms, sparkly blue trousers and a PVC skin-tight red jacket vaguely resembling something fireproof?
(5) John Belles built a concrete dome and turned it into a house 15 years ago because the manufacturers told him it was fireproof.
(6) After examining Marie Curie House, an identical block adjoining Lakanal – where similar rennovations took place and where the equivalent ceiling has now been removed – Webb believes the work compromised fireproofing between flats and the corridor.
(7) Video sales may be generally ailing, but in this sector, they're booming (Fireproof, produced by Nixon, racked up 90,000 DVD sales in Brazil alone; the accompanying book sold 120,000).
(8) Regarding non-occupational exposures to asbestos, 13 cases of mesothelioma were found in women who had washed the work clothes of their relatives at home; we also found other domestic uses of asbestos which were rarely or never discussed previously in the literature: six cases might be explained by the installation of fireproof or non-conductive materials in the domestic environment.
(9) The papers The Times has an exclusive on Grenfell Tower and claims leaked emails show that fireproof cladding was allegedly downgraded to save about £300,000 in refurbishment costs.
(10) A main concern is modifications to buildings, some by residents, for example right-to-buy flat owners who replace the original fireproof doors to their flats with combustible replacements.
(11) This paper focuses on the extensive use of asbestos as a fireproofing and insulating material in shipbuilding in the 1940s, when World War II industrial expansion brought about a hitherto unprecedented rise in the amount of asbestos utilized.
(12) FIREPROOF BOSSES "Paul Ince was sacked by Blackburn after failing to win for 11 matches," began Lars Ellensohn in 2009 .
(13) An investigation by the Occupational Safety and Health Branch (OSHA) of the Alaska Department of Labor found no major health problems and concluded that fireproofing at the school may have caused a petroleum-like odor.
(14) Hopefully fireproof, as Drogon has been known to get overexcited when the Targaryens get into the final third.
(15) Chloroform has the great advantage of being fireproof, but proper fume hoods should be used.
(16) Installing cable above a suspended ceiling in the presence of asbestos-containing fireproofing is an example of an activity that may disturb in-place asbestos and associated dust and debris.
(17) But once he'd been passed Cable's quasi-judicial duty to rule on the bid, Hunt had doggedly set prejudice aside to establish a fireproof process: all his experts' advice would be published and he'd have to explain whenever he didn't take it.
(18) FIREPROOF BOSSES “Paul Ince was sacked after failing to win for 11 matches,” begins Lars Ellensohn.
(19) In Fireproof, our hero saves his marriage by means of the 40-day programme recommended to him by his born-again father.
(20) What developed was Concrete Canvas, a fabric that hardens when sprayed with water, creating a waterproof and fireproof concrete layer.