(v. t.) To execute or put to death by electricity. -- E*lec`tro*cu"tion, n. [Recent; Newspaper words]
Example Sentences:
(1) Matthew Fuller, 25, Rueben Barnes, 16, and Mitchell Sweeney, 22, died from electrocution and Marcus Wilson, 19, died after installing insulation batts in extreme heat.
(2) Hospitals in Paris have been on emergency alert to treat serious injuries, including from electrocution.
(3) Every physician should be involved both in programs to prevent these accidents in medical settings and in efforts to educate the public concerning the risk of electrocution in and around the home.
(4) Results are compared after treating one half of the nose with biterminal electrocutting current and the other half with the beam of the CO2 laser.
(5) Under Oklahoma law, two alternative means of execution are available, but only if lethal injection is deemed unconstitutional: electrocution and firing squad.
(6) The significance of pathological findings in the forensic investigations of electrocution is discussed.
(7) In this report, we describe the aircraft, the circumstances of the accidents and the autopsy data in two powerline contact accidents involving three deaths, one from electrocution and two, from blunt trauma sustained in falls.
(8) An automatic electrocution unit was constructed with a conveyor (negative electrode) and 3 curtains of chains (positive electrodes).
(9) Bob Cooper’s interpretation comes as state lawmakers consider a bill that would allow condemned prisoners to be electrocuted if lethal injection can’t be used.
(10) A case of suicidal electrocution in a filled bathtub is presented with a discussion of the mechanism of electrocution in water.
(11) Facebook Twitter Pinterest For six weeks, Nor was kept underground and tortured: ‘I was electrocuted, hung upside down and beaten with a cable.’ Photograph: Christopher Thomond for The Guardian.
(12) One account from Mabhouh's brother suggested he had been strangled and electrocuted.
(13) In the last week alone, we’ve heard of a 16-year-old boy electrocuted trying to get on the Eurostar, another teenage boy found dead in a lorry and a young Eritrean woman who died on the road trying to reach Britain.
(14) "In 2008 my nan, in 2009 Gavin, my brother [who was attacked on the street in east London], 2011 my granddad, 2012 my dad [Jimmy Defoe, who lost his battle with throat cancer] and my cousin Hannah [tragically electrocuted in a pool on holiday].
(15) Three of the four men killed were electrocuted, two when they punctured live wires with metal staples.
(16) Our experiments showed that: (1) Electrocution hastens the onset of rigor mortis.
(17) We studied 10 patients, 9 of whom suffered high-voltage electrocution, and one of whom was struck by lightning.
(18) The two teenagers were electrocuted while hiding in a power substation in Clichy-sous-Bois, north of Paris, in October 2005.
(19) The largest category (30%) involved industrial vehicles and equipment, followed by electrocution (17%) and falls (11%).
(20) Most of the studies used animals, while postmortem examinations of electrocuted criminals provided some information, though of little practical value, concerning high-current shocks.
Shock
Definition:
(n.) A pile or assemblage of sheaves of grain, as wheat, rye, or the like, set up in a field, the sheaves varying in number from twelve to sixteen; a stook.
(n.) A lot consisting of sixty pieces; -- a term applied in some Baltic ports to loose goods.
(v. t.) To collect, or make up, into a shock or shocks; to stook; as, to shock rye.
(v. i.) To be occupied with making shocks.
(n.) A quivering or shaking which is the effect of a blow, collision, or violent impulse; a blow, impact, or collision; a concussion; a sudden violent impulse or onset.
(n.) A sudden agitation of the mind or feelings; a sensation of pleasure or pain caused by something unexpected or overpowering; also, a sudden agitating or overpowering event.
(n.) A sudden depression of the vital forces of the entire body, or of a port of it, marking some profound impression produced upon the nervous system, as by severe injury, overpowering emotion, or the like.
(n.) The sudden convulsion or contraction of the muscles, with the feeling of a concussion, caused by the discharge, through the animal system, of electricity from a charged body.
(v.) To give a shock to; to cause to shake or waver; hence, to strike against suddenly; to encounter with violence.
(v.) To strike with surprise, terror, horror, or disgust; to cause to recoil; as, his violence shocked his associates.
(v. i.) To meet with a shock; to meet in violent encounter.
(n.) A dog with long hair or shag; -- called also shockdog.
(n.) A thick mass of bushy hair; as, a head covered with a shock of sandy hair.
(a.) Bushy; shaggy; as, a shock hair.
Example Sentences:
(1) This suggested that the chemical effects produced by shock waves were either absent or attenuated in the cells, or were inherently less toxic than those of ionizing irradiation.
(2) beta-Endorphin blocked the development of fighting responses when a low footshock intensity was used, but facilitated it when a high shock intensity was delivered.
(3) Furthermore, all of the sera from seven other patients with shock reactions following the topical application of chlorhexidine preparation also showed high RAST counts.
(4) Using multiple regression, a linear correlation was established between the cardiac index and the arterial-venous pH and PCO2 differences throughout shock and resuscitation (r2 = .91).
(5) It was also shown that after a shock at 44 degrees C teratocarcinoma cells were able to accumulate anomalous amounts of hsp 70 despite hsp 70 synthesis inhibition.
(6) Six of 7 SAO shock rats treated with U74006F survived for 120 min following reperfusion, while none of 7 SAO shock rats given the vehicle survived for 120 min (P less than .01).
(7) The shock resulting from acute canine babesiosis is best viewed as anemic shock.
(8) Enzymatic activity per gram of urinary creatinine was consistently but not significantly higher before extracorporeal shock wave lithotripsy than in control subjects.
(9) The high incidence and severity of haemodynamic complications (pulmonary oedema, generalized heart failure, cardiogenic shock) were the main cause of the high death-rate.
(10) It is unclear if the changes in high-energy phosphates during endotoxin shock cause irreversibility.
(11) Some of what I was churned up about seemed only to do with me, and some of it was timeless, a classic midlife shock and recalibration.
(12) The first method used an accelerometer mounted between the teeth of one of the authors (PR) to record skeletal shock.
(13) Persons with clinical abdominal findings, shock, altered sensorium, and severe chest injuries after blunt trauma should undergo the procedure.
(14) Induction of both potential transcripts follows heat shock in vivo.
(15) Passive avoidance performance of HO-DIs was, indeed, influenced by the age of the subject at the time of testing; HO-DIs reentered the shock compartment sooner than HE at 35 days, but later than HE at 120 days.
(16) In positive patterning, elemental stimuli, A and B, were presented without an unconditioned stimulus while their compound, AB, was paired with electric shock.
(17) Instead, an antiarrhythmic drug should be administered and another shock of the same intensity that defibrillated the first time should be applied.
(18) Inhibitors of nitric oxide synthase (NOS) have been reported to increase mean arterial pressure in animal models of sepsis and recently have been given to patients in septic shock.
(19) The aim of the present study was to explore the possible role of heat shock proteins in the manifestation of this heat resistance.
(20) Frequency and localization of spontaneous and induced by high temperature (37 degrees C) recessive lethal mutations in X-chromosome of females belonging to the 1(1) ts 403 strain defective in synthesis of heat-shock proteins (HSP) were studied.