(1) Then the esophagogastric variceal network was thrombosed by means of a catheter introduced during laparotomy, which created a portoazygos disconnection.
(2) It helped pay the bills and caused me to ponder on the disconnection between theory and reality.
(3) A pre-operative diagnosis of otosclerosis was made but at tympanotomy, the stapes crura in each ear was found to be disconnected from the footplate, the ossicular chain being otherwise normal.
(4) Two years later, the Guardian could point to reforms that owed much to what Ashley called his "bloody-mindedness" in five areas: non-disclosure of victims' names in rape cases; the rights of battered wives; the ending of fuel disconnections for elderly people; a royal commission on the legal profession; and civil liability for damages such as those due to thalidomide victims.
(5) In an emergency, the devices use multiple mechanisms – including clamps and shears – to try to choke off the oil flowing up from a pipe and disconnect the rig from the well.
(6) Nearly three quarters (73%) said if they were disconnected, they would find their ability to use vital commercial services, such as shopping and banking, completely disrupted or fairly harmed.
(7) Keep asking questions like that and you’re going to get hung up on, like right now,” he said, then disconnected the line.
(8) Frontal hypothalamic deafferentation (FHD), which disconnects the anterior hypothalamus from the preoptic area, stops the twice daily surges of prolactin secretion of pregnancy or pseudopregnancy in the rat, and causes rapid luteolysis.
(9) The results of these studies support the contention that anterolateral MBH neural connections may constitute a dynamic neural substrate contributing to a gradual improvement in neuroendocrine function observed after early surgical disconnections.
(10) O2 has warned that it will disconnect anyone it discovers doing that, though it would not say how it would identify them.
(11) For me, the simple reason is I tried a three-day week and found I struggled to keep on top of work, felt disconnected from my colleagues' rhythm, felt guilty about so much time off, and was so bad at freelancing I ended up working many more hours for less money.
(12) The stages of recognition are analysed through this case of visual verbal disconnection and the importance of memory in perception is highlighted.
(13) Similarities were increased number of lipid droplets in the cumulus cells, widened peri-vitelline space, peripheral displacement or breakdown of the oocyte nucleus and disconnection of the junctions between cumulus cell projections and the oolemma.
(14) Attempts to estimate mean skin temperature for subjects during prolonged experiments in field conditions are often made difficult because probes become disconnected or cease to function.
(15) Where are Cisco and other companies whose equipment is used to connect the net and by some governments to disconnect it?
(16) The emergency operation which has effectively achieved the stopping of the esophageal bleeding has been the porto-azygos disconnection, which allows later a portosystemic shunt with a greater probability of success.
(17) Surgery, performed under cardio-pulmonary bypass after epicardial mapping, consisted in atrioventricular disconnection using no special physical agent.
(18) Hypoemotionality was found only for visual stimuli, since auditory and tactile modalities were totally spared, suggesting a visual-limbic disconnection mechanism.
(19) In the first case the exhaust system intentionally had been disconnected.
(20) Forced removals and dumping of millions of people into small, disconnected, barren, poor reserve areas, bereft of adequate medical, psychiatric and public health services (the 'final solution' of the 'native problem') causes widespread malnutrition, infectious and other diseases, and high mortality and mental-illness rates.
Fragmentary
Definition:
(a.) Composed of fragments, or broken pieces; disconnected; not complete or entire.
(a.) Composed of the fragments of other rocks.
Example Sentences:
(1) He's finding solace, fleeting and fragmentary, and every springy guitar lick is its own benediction," Chinen wrote.
(2) This approximately 40-Myr-old specimen is the first fossil primate found in Burma since the fragmentary remains of the controversial earliest anthropoids Pondaungia cotteri Pilgrim and Amphipithecus mogaungensis Colbert were recovered more than 50 yr ago.
(3) "Divergence estimates for pantherines have been based in large part on very fragmentary material, so having a beautifully preserved specimen to accurately place in the big cat family tree means that we can have a lot more confidence in the result.
(4) The exceptional cases of homozygous enzyme deficiency being excluded, fragmentary data give reason to believe that a risk of cataract secondary to lactose and galactose ingestion is present in certain subpopulations.
(5) The data in the literature concerning the capacity for phagocytosis and of anti-tumour cytotoxicity are still fragmentary.
(6) The SP cell is 10-20 mum in diameter and has sparse cytoplasm with numerous intensely reactive SP granules 100-300 nm across, large clear vacuoles, elaborate smooth endoplasmic reticulum, fragmentary rough endoplasmic reticulum, dispersed ribosomes, few mitochondria, and a modest Glogi apparatus.
(7) Hence, the presence of strong transverse sinus impressions in a fragmentary specimen may not be interpreted as an indication that an enlarged occipital-marginal sinus system was not present in the original specimen.
(8) Notwithstanding important advances in the treatment of epilepsy basic knowledge about the epilepsies and about the mechanism of action of antiepileptic drugs is still fragmentary.
(9) As ratings were affected by only a few of the stimulus sequence, conscious access to sequence-based expectancy or attention appears to be fragmentary.
(10) The study of the effects of corticoids on the immunological response is on the contrary very fragmentary; it comes up against numerous difficulties, especially against the differences in susceptibility from one species to another.
(11) Information on germ line antibody genes in lower vertebrates is still fragmentary and it would be fruitful to gain insight into this question.
(12) It was assessed semi-quantitatively according to its staining characteristics, and expressed as: thick, with or without minimal discontinuity; thin, with or without moderate discontinuity; fragmentary or absent.
(13) In addition to numerous collagen bundles in the Disse space, electron microscopy also revealed the presence of hemopoietic cells, the transformation of perisinusoidal cells into fibroblasticlike or myofibroblasticlike cells, or both, and fragmentary deposits of basement membrane-like material.
(14) It is confused and fragmentary, pulled in every direction by the shifting winds of impressionism.
(15) The fragmentary and, at times conflicting evidence for phase effects for low energy heavy charged particles is summarised.
(16) Few practitioners, including those who fit other types of hydrophilic lenses and hard lenses, have had any experience with this lens, and considerable interest has been generated by fragmentary reports of good results.
(17) It was concluded from this survey of the literature that our knowledge of the age-related effects of diuretics in the treatment of essential hypertension is fragmentary and far from complete.
(18) The known fragmentary data suggest a more protective value.
(19) Electron microscopically, many unexpanded lamellar bodies were seen floating in the edema fluid in these damaged lungs, and fragmentary lipid membranes were found in the electron dense material around these lamellar bodies, suggesting disintegration of these structures.
(20) Although the data are as yet fragmentary, they do suggest that there is an age-associated decline in the capacity of cells to perform at least certain types of repair.