(v. t.) To form into a body; to invest with a body; to collect into a body, a united mass, or a whole; to incorporate; as, to embody one's ideas in a treatise.
(v. i.) To unite in a body, a mass, or a collection; to coalesce.
Example Sentences:
(1) The various evocational changes appear to form sets of interconnected systems and this complex network seems to embody some plasticity since it has been possible to suppress experimentally some of the most universal evocational events or alter their temporal order without impairing evocation itself.
(2) The stages of mourning involve cognitive learning of the reality of the loss; behaviours associated with mourning, such as searching, embody unlearning by extinction; finally, physiological concomitants of grief may influence unlearning by direct effects on neurotransmitters or neurohormones, such as cortisol, ACTH, or norepinephrine.
(3) Originally, it was to be named Le Reve, after one of the Picassos that Wynn and his wife own; but, as of last month, it is to be called Wynn Las Vegas, embodying a dream of a different kind.
(4) "The disrespect embodied in these apparent mass violations of the law is part of a larger pattern of seeming indifference to the constitution that is deeply troubling to millions of Americans in both political parties," he said.
(5) "It looks as if the noxious mix of rightwing Australian populism, as represented by Crosby and his lobbying firm, and English saloon bar reactionaries, as embodied by [Nigel] Farage and Ukip, may succeed in preventing this government from proceeding with standardised cigarette packs, despite their popularity with the public," said Deborah Arnott, chief executive of the health charity Action on Smoking and Health.
(6) The menace we’re facing – and I say we, because no one is spared – is embodied by the hooded men who are ravaging the cradle of civilization.
(7) More problematic for Brown is that he has come to embody a government sufficiently unconvinced of its own case as to risk short-changing the armed forces at the front.
(8) So, at the end of her life, Williams, with other Hillsborough families, was recognised not as part of some Liverpool rabble but as a shining example: an everyday person embodying the extraordinary power and depth of human love.
(9) Patrick Vieira, captain and on-pitch embodiment of Wenger’s reign, won the trophy with the last kick of his career at the club in the season when the Arsenal-United axis was finally broken by Chelsea at the top of the Premier League.
(10) He is the embodiment of the belief that money and power provide a licence to impose one’s will on others, whether that entitlement is expressed by grabbing women or grabbing the finite resources from a planet on the verge of catastrophic warming.
(11) During extension, lateral flexion, and rotation of the neck, the cervical transverse process engages to the top of the upper articular process of the subjacent vertebra, thus embodying the locking mechanism which plays an important role in the stabilization of the cervical spine and the protection of the integrity of vertebral arteries, spinal cord, and nerve roots.
(12) Though his life was to be the embodiment of a secularised form of dissent, his high moral seriousness and egalitarianism surely had roots in this radical Protestant background.
(13) "These results," said Ban Ki-moon, the UN secretary-general, "represent a tremendous reduction in human suffering and are a clear validation of the approach embodied in the MDGs.
(14) This flexibility supports the hypothesis that the principles embodied are rather universal and can account for the development of various nervous system structures.
(15) Every question asked by a therapist may be seen to embody some intent and to arise from certain assumptions.
(16) When you're elected, you become the person that embodies France .
(17) It has become the agricultural embodiment of his beliefs about everything from the natural world to the globalised economy.
(18) This paper describes and discusses a strategy for the design of an expressive communication aid for the non-vocal which is highly flexible and which embodies the principle of user-specifiable function.
(19) These criteria, embodying clinical reappraisal of the patient, skin retesting and definitive RAST profile results, are offered as a new approach for consideration by the clinical allergist in the care of his patients.
(20) Furthermore, feminism requires new forms of social interaction that embody the esthetical space women need to experience life as full-fledged citizens.
Emboly
Definition:
(n.) Embolic invagination. See under Invagination.
Example Sentences:
(1) Early postoperative problems following aorto-ilio-femoral thrombendarterectomy include occlusion, bleeding and emboli.
(2) Immunohistochemical staining of the emboli with monoclonal mouse anti-human neurofilament protein (Dako Corp., Carpinteria, California) confirmed the cerebral nature of the emboli.
(3) The CT scan findings in 50 patients with cardiogenic cerebral emboli are reviewed.
(4) This report describes three patients who developed emboli to the upper extremity at nine, 15, and 34 months following occlusion of their axillary femoral graft.
(5) The fibrinolytic inhibitor tranexamic acid was given orally to canines before, and for intervals after, pulmonary emboli were released from venous thrombi formed in vivo in femoral veins or the inferior vena cava.
(6) A hot spot in the lung emboli was visualized in two cases.
(7) One of these four patients survived, and two patients with thrombi but no emboli survived.
(8) Although commonly subacute in presentation, complications of endocarditis were frequent: arterial emboli in five patients, new electrocardiographic conduction system abnormalities in nine, congestive heart failure in eight, annular or myocardial abscesses in five, and disruption of valve leaflets in three.
(9) Of the detected DVT, 60 per cent were subclinical, and 7 per cent of the patients had minor pulmonary emboli, all of which were symptomless.
(10) All patients with emboli were in atrial fibrillation.
(11) To induce air emboli, the descending aorta of rats was chronically cannulated.
(12) At autopsy, white-gray emboli were found in several subsegmental pulmonary arteries.
(13) All three prophylactic methods reduce the incidence of pulmonary emboli to the same degree.
(14) Lymphatic tumor emboli were observed in quadrants in 18 or 2.0% of the cases.
(15) A relatively mild oral anticoagulant treatment (INR 2-3) is sufficient to prevent recurrences of venous thrombosis and pulmonary emboli.
(16) Two patients died of cardiovascular disease and 1 of failure of union of an ileal-ureterostomy in which cholesterol emboli were found in small submucosal arteries of the ileum.
(17) Tumour emboli were detected in 89 cases, and no respiratory symptoms were recorded in 39.
(18) Previously, we reported that the sensitivity of plasma DNA for patients with pulmonary emboli was 83 to 88 percent.
(19) Embolization of the bronchial arteries by hydrogel emboli also promotes regression of the inflammatory process in the lung and reduces the time needed for treatment.
(20) In five clinically unsuspected cases, CT first suggested the correct diagnosis of septic emboli.