(v. t.) To tear limb from limb; to dilacerate; to disjoin member from member; to tear or cut in pieces; to break up.
(v. t.) To deprive of membership.
Example Sentences:
(1) Five different surgical procedures were done: internal urethrotomy, Johanson-Leadbetter, patch-graft, Turner-Warwich, and dismembered technics.
(2) The Cali cartel was dismembered by mid-1995, but when members of Samper's own campaign, who were under investigation, implicated him in the drugs scandal, the US administration imposed sanctions, undermining confidence in what had been South America's most stable economy.
(3) One corpse was dismembered by means of an explosive.
(4) That was a good deal less true of the previous year's Munich agreement, in which British and French politicians dismembered Czechoslovakia at the Nazi dictator's pleasure.
(5) A 9-year-old child was admitted to the hospital with congenital left ureteropelvic junction obstruction with massive left pyelocaliectasis and underwent dismembered pyeloplasty of the left kidney under general anesthesia without complications.
(6) Representative Steve King, a Republican from Iowa, pressed her: “You would not assert that it’s inhumane to dismember an unborn baby?” Smith attempted to explain that she would not describe it in the same terms, but he too cut her off.
(7) Tam Fry of the National Obesity Forum, said it was "crazy" to dismember the FSA.
(8) All patients had had dismembered pyeloplasty performed at the age of 9 months to 15 years 2 months.
(9) Some Europeans arrived here with millennial history of chopping off enemies' heads and mounting them on stakes, and of scalping, skinning, dismembering, and other tortures and trophy-hunting.
(10) "I am not in favour of the takeover of excellent and strategically important British companies by failing foreign companies whose actions are fuelled by tax avoidance, and who want to asset-strip the intellectual property of the British company and then dismember it," said Sainsbury, writing in the Guardian.
(11) If the Tories choose to swerve to the right, I don't see how that could possibly be worse than the direction they have already chosen, in which they cut immigration in the wrong places, like student visas, attack the unemployed, scam the disabled, dismember education and outsource or flog anything valuable they can see – to the inevitable profit of someone they were probably at school with.
(12) I’d be surprised if he wants to go down as the PM who dismembered the BBC.” Hall was spotted having a cup of tea in the House of Lords last week with fellow peer Lord Inglewood, a former chair of the House of Lords select committee on communications.
(13) Local taxi driver Philippe told Belgium website DH.be that he walked into the terminal and faced a “pond of blood” and “dismembered bodies”.
(14) We presently prefer a dismembered, nonintubated technique performed through a dorsal lumbotomy approach.
(15) The Culp-DeWeerd vertical flap pyeloplasty and the dismembered Anderson-Hynes technique were modified by means of microsurgical instruments, optical magnification and fine absorbable polyglactine sutures, described in detail and used in 11 and 8 cases, respectively.
(16) The apparent strategy of Pfizer is to take over AstraZeneca, dismember it and put the different parts of it into its three new divisions, with the ultimate aim of selling off one or more.
(17) He blames others for failures and allows them insufficient credit for successes, as the current dismembering of Alistair Darling's reputation shows.
(18) Burrows is already working on dismembering his trust.
(19) EU attempting to unsettle Syriza government in Greece | Letters Read more With the young premier clearly at odds over how to deal with the hardliners, there is growing speculation, not least among eurozone officials, that a new bailout accord to keep the country afloat can only be achieved if Tsipras agrees to dismember his own party and join up with centrist forces to form a new coalition.
(20) The operative technique and drainage procedure varied according to the nature and severity of the abnormality but the dismembered pyeloplasty with extrarenal drainage is favored.
Piecemeal
Definition:
(adv.) In pieces; in parts or fragments.
(adv.) Piece by piece; by little and little in succession.
(a.) Made up of parts or pieces; single; separate.
(n.) A fragment; a scrap.
Example Sentences:
(1) Although the debate in the US has led to some piecemeal reforms – including the USA Freedom Act and modest policy changes – many of the most intrusive government surveillance programs remain largely intact.
(2) Would it best best to risk a Great Reform Bill (shades of 1832) - or would piecemeal reform be best, some wonder?
(3) A piecemeal approach simply won't deliver the right balance of affordability and quality."
(4) The scores for portal inflammation, piecemeal necrosis and fibrosis were essentially unchanged in all treated patients between biopsies taken at the end of treatment and 1 year later.
(5) He has since disavowed that approach and, for nearly two years, has advocated for a piecemeal approach to immigration reform that begins with enforcement at the border.
(6) Patients with PH showed significantly higher portal inflammation and piecemeal necrosis than patients without PH.
(7) Control of bleeding from the remaining gallbladder edge is greatly facilitated by the use of a running suture after each stage of piecemeal excision of the gallbladder.
(8) If the tumor has been removed in a piecemeal fashion, the radiation portals should be extended to include the thecal sac.
(9) In my book, the Handi approach to innovation, although piecemeal and informal, is more likely to change the culture of the NHS than Sir David's stately institutions for innovation.
(10) They guard their cashflow increasingly jealously, and one particular sticking point that led to the collapse of Phones 4u is understood to have been the chain's insistence that if it signed a customer up to a network, it should get the entire commission upfront, rather than piecemeal over the life of a 24-month contract.
(11) Cell-mediated immune attack induces apoptosis, not classical necrosis, and the occurrence of apoptosis in piecemeal necrosis links the observed morphological changes in chronic active hepatitis with the other evidence for an autoimmune pathogenesis.
(12) The terms acute and chronic should retain their clinical significance, the term aggressive should retain a histological significance and, insofar as the piecemeal necrosis which characterises it is seen in both types of hepatitis, it should be dissociated, in terms of classification, from chronic hepatitis.
(13) The managers' efforts to identify unmet need were often piecemeal and unco-ordinated, and this may have been, in part, because managers were facing difficulties in meeting existing demands for services.
(14) "The Dream Act was piecemeal; it was sort of saying: here's a little bit of the population that can go ahead, but we know that there are so many families that need this.
(15) In view of the similarity of values for p1 in chronic hepatitis and portal cirrhosis, the former is considered to give rise to the latter by continuous change in structure or through "piecemeal" progression of the periportal lesion.
(16) These data indicate that (1) serologic response is associated with a reduction in hepatic HBV replication and an improvement in hepatic histology, and (2) patients with severe periportal piecemeal necrosis respond more favorably to IFN alpha therapy.
(17) It was agreed by all involved that piecemeal publications of results during the period of the research would be inappropriate, but with other attempts to evaluate fund-holding now being reported elsewhere in the UK, it has been agreed that an outline of issues being explored and the methods being used would be in the general interest.
(18) So one religious group could opt out of this and another religious group could opt out of that, and everything would be piecemeal, and nothing would be uniform,” Kagan said.
(19) Instead, the government will put forward a white paper in the Queen's speech to bring together the "piecemeal and labyrinthine" social care system run by councils highlighted last year by a landmark Law Commission report , which would confer upon local authorities a duty – rather than, as at present, a power – to meet carers' eligible needs.
(20) The type of cirrhosis associated with hepatocellular carcinoma was classified into 4 groups according to the degree of inflammation and the piecemeal necrosis.