(n.) One who, or that which, makes an end of something; as, the ender of my life.
Example Sentences:
(1) Ender nails as well as three forms of interlocking nails, Brooker-Wills (B-W), Klenm-Schellman (K-S), and Grosse-Kempf (G-K), were implanted in cadaver femora.
(2) It constitutes an alternative to Ender nailing, screw-plate, and nail-plate.
(3) In basocervical and pertrochanteric fractures of younger patients a dynamic hip screw will be performed; in older patients we use elastic nails described by Simon-Weidner and Ender with good success.
(4) Between 1976 and 1987 at the Surgical Department of the University of Erlangen-Nürnberg, 671 fractures of the trochanteric region of the femur were treated by Ender nailing.
(5) "The problem is that, in the US and UK, most people who want to sign up for Facebook have already done it," said new media specialist Ian Maude at Enders Analysis.
(6) By now, those described, not entirely accurately, as “pro-Russian separatists” largely comprise desperate bitter-enders, who increasingly fear – with justification – that Moscow has hung them out to dry.
(7) One of the big difficulties, Enders said, is where to house the unquantifiable liabilities arising out of the phone-hacking scandal that led to the abrupt closure of the News of the World last summer.
(8) The Ender method has advantages over existing operative methods, in that in our series the infection rate was zero and we found that the operation produced less shock.
(9) The other member was fixed with either Ender rods or a Zickel nail.
(10) The authors report the clinical and radiographic results obtained in the treatment of 138 patients with pertrochanteric fractures of the neck of the femur by Ender's elastic nail.
(11) Douglas McCabe, a media analyst at Enders Analysis, said traditional media companies that initially dismissed BuzzFeed as just "cats on skateboards" were already concerned about its ability to generate huge amounts of traffic and move in on the serious news agenda.
(12) Last month, two companies - Enders and PwC - both revised down growth figures for 2008 for online advertising .
(13) But the East Ender will not compete over the one lap in Daegu, while the runner-up – Shana Cox – only qualifies for a British passport from November of this year and so all three British places are up for grabs as the selectors meet to decide who will travel to South Korea this summer.
(14) Enders, who has long battled against political interference at EADS, said: "We want to create a company that is even more successful internationally and attracts investors.
(15) Enders often becomes "a participant rather than just an observer" in big deals, says David Moody, director of strategy at BBC Worldwide.
(16) The Ender method consists of insertion of round, flexible, condylocephalic intramedullary nails.
(17) In particular, Enders is critical of newspaper companies - including the Guardian Media Group (which publishes this newspaper), News International and Trinity Mirror - that have collectively spent hundreds of millions replacing printing presses.
(18) Yeah, you 'eard: in true 'Enders style it turns out they're not brother and sister, but ma and son.
(19) Of 100 patients with a peritrochanteric fracture of the femur treated by the Ender technique, we reviewed the cases of seventy-nine after an average follow-up of 11.4 months in order to clarify the indications for the procedure and investigate variables that may affect the results.
(20) During the past decade, Enders has built up an enviable reputation for outspoken and contrarian analysis of the prospects for technology, telecoms and media across Europe.
Pressure
Definition:
(n.) The act of pressing, or the condition of being pressed; compression; a squeezing; a crushing; as, a pressure of the hand.
(n.) A contrasting force or impulse of any kind; as, the pressure of poverty; the pressure of taxes; the pressure of motives on the mind; the pressure of civilization.
(n.) Affliction; distress; grievance.
(n.) Urgency; as, the pressure of business.
(n.) Impression; stamp; character impressed.
(n.) The action of a force against some obstacle or opposing force; a force in the nature of a thrust, distributed over a surface, often estimated with reference to the upon a unit's area.
Example Sentences:
(1) Circuit weight training does not exacerbate resting or exercise blood pressure and may have beneficial effects.
(2) There was a weak relation between AER and both systolic and diastolic blood pressures.
(3) Such a signal must be due to a small ferromagnetic crystal formed when the nerve is subjected to pressure, such as that due to mechanical injury.
(4) Steady-state values of cell, glucose, and cellulase concentration oxygen tension, and outlet gas oxygen partial pressure were recorded.
(5) We conclude that chronic emphysema produced in dogs by aerosol administration of papain results in elevated pulmonary artery pressure, which is characterized pathologically by medial hypertrophy of small pulmonary arteries.
(6) It is concluded that acute renal denervation augments the pressure diuresis that follows carotid occlusion.
(7) Both lymph flow from cannulated pancreatico-duodenal lymphatics and intralymphatic pressure in the non-transected ones increased significantly.
(8) Calcium alginate dressings have been used in the treatment of pressure ulcers and leg ulcers.
(9) administration of the potent short-acting opioid, fentanyl, elicited inhibition of rhythmic spontaneous reflex increases in vesical pressure (VP) evoked by urinary bladder distension.
(10) On removal of selective pressure, the His+ phenotype was lost more readily than the Ura+ Trp+ markers, with a corresponding decrease in plasmid copy number.
(11) The intrauterine mean active pressure (MAP) in the nulliparous group was 1.51 kPa (SD 0.45) in the first stage and 2.71 kPa (SD 0.77) in the second stage.
(12) The main finding of this study is that diabetic adolescents with a high erythrocyte Na,Li countertransport rate have an arterial pressure significantly higher than patients with normal Na,Li countertransport fluxes.
(13) In patients with coronary artery disease, electrocardiographic signs of left atrial enlargement (LAE-negative P wave deflection greater than or equal to 1 mm2 in lead V1) are associated with increased left ventricular end diastolic pressure (LVEDP).
(14) These findings suggest that clonidine transdermal disks lower blood pressure in hypertensive patients, but produce local skin lesions and general side effects.
(15) Diltiazem monotherapy effectively lowered blood pressure in 60% of patients at 8 weeks.
(16) Completeness of isolation of the coronary and systemic circulations was shown by the marked difference in appearance times between the reflex hypotensive responses from catecholamine injections into the isolated coronary circulation and the direct hypertensive response from a similar injection when the circulations were connected as well as by the marked difference between the pressure pulses recorded simultaneously on both sides of the aortic balloon separating the two circulations.4.
(17) At the same time the duodenum can be isolated from the stomach and maintained under constant stimulus by a continual infusion at regulated pressure, volume and temperature into the distal cannula.
(18) The 40 degrees C heating induced an increase in systolic, diastolic, average and pulse pressure at rectal temperature raised to 40 degrees C. Further growth of the body temperature was accompanied by a decrease in the above parameters.
(19) Nicardipine lowered systolic and diastolic blood pressure to normal, plasma aldosterone was reduced and serum potassium levels were increased.
(20) Subjects then rested supine until 10.00 h when blood was again taken, and blood pressure recorded.