(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.
Staccato
Definition:
(a.) Disconnected; separated; distinct; -- a direction to perform the notes of a passage in a short, distinct, and pointed manner. It is opposed to legato, and often indicated by heavy accents written over or under the notes, or by dots when the performance is to be less distinct and emphatic.
(a.) Expressed in a brief, pointed manner.
Example Sentences:
(1) However, as we watch Blade Runner , Deckard doesn’t feel like a replicant; he is dour and unengaged, but lacks his victims’ detached innocence, their staccato puzzlement at their own untrained feelings.
(2) Although staccato LAD occlusion represents a minority of patients hospitalized with unstable angina, it includes most who suffer cardiac complications.
(3) No conductor telling me when to come in, no legato or staccato to follow.
(4) Sanders, who is not a registered Democrat and self-identifies as a democratic socialist, gave a familiar stump speech on progressive themes such as single-payer healthcare, rapped out in his trademark staccato delivery.
(5) Speech of deaf talkers has often been characterized as staccato, leading to the perception of improper grouping of syllables.
(6) Julia Gichuki was fast asleep when she heard the staccato sound of gunfire drawing ever closer to the women’s hostel at her university in the town of Garissa, about 90 miles from the Kenyan border with Somalia.
(7) Instructed beforehand that excessive noise between points could cost the team points, the crowd behaved with admirable discipline, which only made their loudness more effective, coming in staccato bursts.
(8) René Brunel, who wrote about the Aissawa in the 1920s, described his experience of 'the furious tempest of drums and oboes', saying the spectators were 'in the grip of the terrifying staccato music seized by this contagious madness and ecstatic frenzy which none can resist'.
(9) Speakers with TE voices using pulmonary air were able to preserve the rythm and the syntactico-semantic structure of their speeches, as opposed to speakers with EV who often had to insufflate air into the esophagus and therefore had a staccato-like speech.
(10) His voice is urgently staccato, and he has a habit of gruffly referring to his music industry peers by surname: Spector, Orbison, Bacharach.
(11) Both presented with a characteristic staccato cough and tachypnea but little evidence of peripheral airway obstruction.
(12) Perhaps Gianni De Biasi’s players had been expecting a little more edge from the expectant 12,800 who had arrived in this provincial city from places as diverse as Tirana and Toronto, but the atmosphere never hit fever pitch – a situation perhaps unaided by the succession of downpours that lent the pre-match choreography a somewhat staccato feel.
(13) Spasmodic dysphonia is a focal dystonia that causes a loss of the fine control of intrinsic laryngeal muscles and produces a strained staccato voice.
(14) This may have been a staccato performance, one that frustrated far more than it excited, but it means the side have broken a winless streak in these finals that had stretched back to 2009.
(15) No ringing refrain emerged from a staccato seven-way conversation.
(16) The notated interpretations correlated with the presence of the 3 methods: The notated melody preceded other events in chords (chord asynchrony); events notated as phase boundaries showed greatest tempo changes (rubato); and the notated melody showed most consistent amount of overlap between adjacent events (staccato and legato).
(17) Joe clip was fast-paced, staccato, colorful, and full of verbal and action violence.
(18) Over a cacophony of piano, percussion and brass, Bush’s voice veers from oddly clipped staccato to hysterical screaming as she waxes existential about frustration and the endless search for knowledge.
(19) Each performance contained 3 expressive timing patterns: chord asynchronies, rubato patterns, and overlaps (staccato and legato).
(20) I've been infected by James's ominous, staccato delivery.