(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.
Tender
Definition:
(n.) One who tends; one who takes care of any person or thing; a nurse.
(n.) A vessel employed to attend other vessels, to supply them with provisions and other stores, to convey intelligence, or the like.
(n.) A car attached to a locomotive, for carrying a supply of fuel and water.
(v. t.) To offer in payment or satisfaction of a demand, in order to save a penalty or forfeiture; as, to tender the amount of rent or debt.
(v. t.) To offer in words; to present for acceptance.
(n.) An offer, either of money to pay a debt, or of service to be performed, in order to save a penalty or forfeiture, which would be incurred by nonpayment or nonperformance; as, the tender of rent due, or of the amount of a note, with interest.
(n.) Any offer or proposal made for acceptance; as, a tender of a loan, of service, or of friendship; a tender of a bid for a contract.
(n.) The thing offered; especially, money offered in payment of an obligation.
(superl.) Easily impressed, broken, bruised, or injured; not firm or hard; delicate; as, tender plants; tender flesh; tender fruit.
(superl.) Sensible to impression and pain; easily pained.
(superl.) Physically weak; not hardly or able to endure hardship; immature; effeminate.
(superl.) Susceptible of the softer passions, as love, compassion, kindness; compassionate; pitiful; anxious for another's good; easily excited to pity, forgiveness, or favor; sympathetic.
(superl.) Exciting kind concern; dear; precious.
(superl.) Careful to save inviolate, or not to injure; -- with of.
(superl.) Unwilling to cause pain; gentle; mild.
(superl.) Adapted to excite feeling or sympathy; expressive of the softer passions; pathetic; as, tender expressions; tender expostulations; a tender strain.
(superl.) Apt to give pain; causing grief or pain; delicate; as, a tender subject.
(superl.) Heeling over too easily when under sail; -- said of a vessel.
(n.) Regard; care; kind concern.
(v. t.) To have a care of; to be tender toward; hence, to regard; to esteem; to value.
Example Sentences:
(1) Gross deformity, point tenderness and decrease in supination and pronation movements of the forearm were the best predictors of bony injury.
(2) The degree of discomfort was slightly greater in women who complained of breast tenderness within three days prior to the mammogram but was not strongly related to age, menstrual status, or week of the menstrual cycle.
(3) Xu, the ABP chairman, disputed any claims of impropriety, and said his company went through a “robust and thorough” tender process.
(4) These data suggest that d 7 MFI could be used as a single predictor of d 14 longissimus muscle tenderness; however, CDP inhibitor d 1 activity (a biological event) also may be useful in predicting tenderness.
(5) Eight of 47 LSNs overlying the posterior superior iliac spines (PSIS) were tender.
(6) If LTP is to be effective, thorough coagulation with tender blanching effects is mandatory.
(7) The remaining patients had vague pains, tender abdomen, constitutional symptoms or a mass in the abdomen.
(8) Seventy-nine percent of all subjects were skin-test positive to inhalant allergens, but positive skin tests alone did not correlate with the number of tender points or criteria for fibromyalgia.
(9) Permanent relief of tenderness in the needled structure was obtained for 92 structures; relief for several months in 58; for several weeks in 63; and for several days in 32 out of 288 pain sites followed up.
(10) Three infants presented with acute scrotal swelling, erythema, and a tender irreducible firm mass within the scrotum.
(11) Before and one, two, three, and seven days after the experiment, the following measures were made: (1) superficial masseter and anterior temporalis muscle tenderness (pain threshold), (2) jaw movement (opening and lateral excursion), and (3) current pain level for the right and left sides of the jaw.
(12) Increasing slaughter weight from 60 to 90% was associated with an increase in panel tenderness scores for loin steaks.
(13) Pericranial muscle tenderness and elevated EMG activity may index different aspects of abnormal muscle function.
(14) The results showed significant relief of spontaneous pain, significant reduction in tenderness on pressure and in swelling on days 2, 4 and 6 of the trial, and a significant reduction in functional impairment on days 4 and 6, in the patients who had received the 3% benzydamine cream.
(15) They showed symmetric weakness and tenderness of the proximal muscles, peripheral hypoesthesia and hypo even areflexia.
(16) Lamb leg and rib roasts were more tender when cooked from the thawed state.
(17) In the sensitized state, nociceptors can be activated by low-intensity stimulation; this is probably one of the mechanisms producing deep tenderness.
(18) The abdomen was tender with guarding and a palpable globular mass in the same region.
(19) A 25-year-old man on hemodialysis developed arthritis of 2 right metacarpophalangeal joints and a 65-year-old man on chronic ambulatory peritoneal dialysis suffered from pain and tenderness in the left buttock.
(20) Among 23 patients with daily headache a correlation was found between headache intensity and Total Tenderness Score.